In the last 12 months of Angus Reid tracking, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has fallen from her highest approval (51% in June 2025) down to her lowest (39% in June 2026).
Among all premiers, she now also has the highest level of "strongly disapprove" (46%).
🔗: angusreid.org/premiers-per...
Robson Fletcher
I'm hosting another lunch & learn session!
And this time I'm bringing a friend: Curtis Brown with Probe Research.
We'll be talking all about polls.
How they work. How to make sense of the results. And the role public opinion research plays in our world today.
🧵
Had a chance to speak with Andrew Nichols on CBC News Network about this yesterday.
After the interview I heard from people — in Alberta & other parts of the country — who said they didn't realize:
a) There are going to be TEN questions in the referendum
b) Each question gets a separate ballot.
"With every other order of government working furiously to implement its vision for Alberta and Canada, the time is approaching quickly for Mayor Farkas and Calgary city council to start laying out their own..."
Via @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social:
Alberta's referendum in October will include at least 10 questions.
Each gets a **separate ballot**.
That means Elections Alberta will print 45 million (!!) ballots.
After polls close, by law, it has 48 hours to count all of them.
It's currently recruiting 60,000 workers to pull it all off.
If that sounds interesting, please join us on Tuesday, June 16 at noon (Mountain Time)!
Register here to receive the Google Meet link: forms.gle/iBMrC5Arhaj2...
(And if there are any specific topics you'd like us to address, leave a comment here and we'll do our best to add them to the session 🙂 )
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Mayor Farkas and Calgary city council have spent the bulk of this term building political capital and goodwill. Calgarians have repaid them with high marks in a spring survey by Probe Research. Farkas...
EDMONTON – Today, Elections Alberta is launching the largest electoral event worker recruitment campaign in Alberta’s history and one of the largest referendum recruitment efforts ever undertaken in C...
www.elections.ab.ca
A free 60-minute Lunch & Learn Session with Robson Fletcher, Data & Storytelling Strategist and Curtis Brown, Partner, Probe Research
Topics will include:
How polling methods have evolved — and how ...
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Robson Fletcher
This happens next week!
It's free!
You can register here: forms.gle/iBMrC5Arhaj2...
Robson Fletcher
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Alberta's referendum in October will include at least 10 questions.
Each gets a **separate ballot**.
That means Elections Alberta will print 45 million (!!) ballots.
After polls close, by law, it has 48 hours to count all of them.
It's currently recruiting 60,000 workers to pull it all off.
Robson Fletcher
Robson Fletcher
Robson Fletcher
EDMONTON – Today, Elections Alberta is launching the largest electoral event worker recruitment campaign in Alberta’s history and one of the largest referendum recruitment efforts ever undertaken in C...
I'm hosting another lunch & learn session!
And this time I'm bringing a friend: Curtis Brown with Probe Research.
We'll be talking all about polls.
How they work. How to make sense of the results. And the role public opinion research plays in our world today.
🧵
