Political Studies - MPA: Course-Specific Guide

• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) - Daily Update
  • Search Example #1:  polls OR "public opinion." 
    1. Select [Include] "Wire Feeds" or "Newspapers" under Source Type.
    2. Enter a Data Range.
    3. Select "polls & surveys" under Subject.
    4. Further filter by Publication Title (which wire feed?), or Company/Organization
  • Search Example #2: By a particular topic/issue, for example, "universal basic income." 
    • Filter the results similarly to Example #1.
  • Search Example #3: Maclean's Magazine articles including the terms, "public opinion" or "polls."
    1. Filter by Magazines under Source Type.
    2. Then by Publication Title
• Canadian Major Dailies - Daily Update
  • Search and browse a specific newspaper.
• Search Twitter feeds by a topic or source, and browse. (Refer to the search help.)
• Search Google News by a topic/subject and set an alert.
• Download relevant news apps for your ios or use already existing apps on your devices.

Federal Government

• Public Opinion Research in the Federal Government
  • The 19th Annual Public Opinion Research Activities
  • Search - Public Opinion Research Reports
• Statistics Canada Surveys
  • Use the search box on the main page and type in keywords, such as "public opinions," to locate public-opinion-research-related items at Statistics Canada.  The page will return a long list of pages to browse.
  • odesi: a data exploration, extraction and analysis tool provided by a consortium of Canadian university libraries.

Commercial Polling Firms

• List of Pollsters
• Angus Reid Institute

Tips for Writing Policy Briefs

• Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre, University of Toronto

• The Writing Center - the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Citation Style

• The Chicago Manual of Style
• A quick sheet with examples of documenting your sources with the Chicago Style

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