On the political issues facing them at the General Election, 43 per
cent of parents polled stated that education and school funding will be a key issue in deciding their vote in the 2017 General Election.
Not exact matches
TORONTO, January 27, 2015 - While a majority (72 per
cent)
of younger Canadians aged 18 to 34 say they owe it to their
parents to keep them comfortable in retirement, a higher majority (76 per
cent)
of their
parents» Boomer generation (aged 50 - 69) doesn't want this «IOU», according to the 2015 RBC Financial Independence in Retirement
Poll.
The children's charity also found that although eight out
of ten
parents in a YouGov
poll said that they knew what to say to their child to keep them safe online, only 28 per
cent had actually mentioned privacy settings to them and just 20 per
cent discussed location settings.
Many become quickly oversubscribed despite not having the usual track record and, in a
poll conducted for New Schools Network by Populus, 73 per
cent of parents said they would consider sending their child to a new school.
1,067
parents responded to a YouGov
poll, which was conducted on behalf
of Ofsted, with 70 per
cent saying they think inspections should take place every one or two years regardless
of the previous inspection grade.
Polling for the Trust suggests that 90 per
cent of parents think schools should adopt a stay - on - site policy at lunchtime, with 67 per
cent agreeing that children would eat more healthily if they weren't allowed to leave school at lunch.
A new
poll from CIBC (TSX: CM) has found that 51 per
cent of post-secondary students tapped their
parents for additional financial support last year because they ran out
of money.
The online
poll, conducted in July for CIBC, found that 67 per
cent of parents were willing to pay for two - thirds
of their children's post-secondary education while, on average, their kids believed their
parents were footing only a third
of the bill.
The
poll did find that 76 per
cent of parents saving for their child's post-secondary education had set up an RESP account, but many
of them lacked basic knowledge about how RESPs actually work.
The legal news outlet also cites a
poll, commissioned by the Canadian Association for Equality, that found: 35 per
cent of Canadians strongly support the creation
of a presumption
of equal
parenting in child custody cases in federal and provincial legislation, 35 per
cent somewhat support it, nine per
cent somewhat oppose it and four per
cent strongly oppose it.
The article reports that a new
poll commissioned by the Canadian Association for Equality found that 70 per
cent of Canadians support the creation
of a presumption
of equal
parenting in child custody cases, while 13 per
cent oppose it and 17 per
cent are unsure.
The
poll recorded 35 per
cent of respondents who strongly support the creation
of a presumption
of equal
parenting in child custody cases in federal and provincial legislation.
However, the
poll also shows that 81 per
cent of Ontarians believe it is more difficult to own a home now than it was for their
parents, and 89 per
cent of Ontarians in general are concerned that home ownership will become even more difficult in the future.