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Poll: Indefinite curtailment at Catalyst Paper Tis’kwat affects 37 per cent of qathet region respondents

Paper Excellence announced the indefinite curtailment of operations at its mill on December 1
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The Peak polled 576 readers and asked the question: Does the indefinite curtailment at Catalyst Paper Tis'kwat affect your family?

The poll ran from 12/3/2021 to 12/9/2021. Of the 576 votes, we can determine that 260 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 36.92 % local, 38.72 % total    
No 63.08 % local, 61.28 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of readers who are located in the qathet region. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.99%, 19 times out of 20.

The Peak uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.