Mario Canseco

About Mario Canseco

Mario Canseco is the President of Research Co. Mario has analyzed and conducted public opinion research since 2003, designing and managing research projects for clients across the private and public sectors, as well as non-profit organizations and associations. From 2013 to 2017, Mario established Insights West’s electoral forecasting program, issuing 23 correct predictions of democratic processes in Canada and the United States, including the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, the 2015 Alberta provincial election, the 2016 United States presidential election, and the 2017 British Columbia provincial election. Throughout his career, Mario coordinated research teams for a global public opinion firm that operated in Canada, the United States and Britain, worked as an editorial researcher for Peter C. Newman’s books “The Secret Mulroney Tapes” and “Here Be Dragons”; as a research and communications specialist for the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC; and in various journalistic roles around the world. Mario holds a Masters of Journalism from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelors in Communications.

14 Articles

Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne, Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford, NDP leader Andrea Horwath, Green leader Mike Schreiner

Ontario: Who Won and Why?

Exit polls suggest that Patrick Brown, even after the allegations that forced him to quit as leader, would have had a similar result as Ford.

ONTARIO 2018

How do Canadians feel about the justice system?

Four months before the not-guilty verdict in the killing of Colten Boushie ignited concern across Canada, a poll by Insights West indicated that half of Canadians believe the justice system has not done enough to address bias against Aboriginal Canadians.

Poll reveals Canadians' view of residential schools

“Instead of the isolation and neglect of the past, a free and equal chance with children in urban centres.” This is the voice of a male narrator in a March 1955 CBC television piece about Canada’s residential schools. Since that piece aired more than six decades ago, the way Canadians look at residential schools has changed.