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• The Long Form Census is restored! The Recensement long est rétablis!

  November 5, 2015 in canada, Census

   

• Reinstatement of the Long-Form Census – Bill C-626

  November 6, 2014 in canada, Census, Uncategorized

  MPs will be debating Bill C-626 which proposes amending the Statistics Act this Friday November 7 to: Reinstate the long-form census and expand the authority of the Chief Statistician of Canada. The first reading of the text of An Act to Amend the Statistics Act / Projet de Loi C-626 Prèmiere Lecture was done on [...]

• Programmable City: Mapping Openess and Transparency

  June 4, 2014 in Access, canada, government, open access, Open Data, openmovement, policy

  Below is and excerpt from a blogpost on the Programmable City website.  I work there now, and post quite a bit of open data, big data, data infrastructure posts there.  Most do not include any CanCon so I do not always put them here.  The Open Government Partnership is big for the Federal Government in [...]

• 2014 Open Data Summit Top 10 Most Wanted Municipal Datasets

  May 20, 2014 in Open Data

  Participants at the 2014 Open Data Summit in Vancouver this year put their heads together to come up with a list of desired open data datasets.  The ever so wonderful Herb Lainchbury then: consulted with open data enthusiast on the Civicaccess.ca list to narrow it down and refine it; created an online survey; solicitied people [...]

• Canada Post report, data analytics & direct marketers win, and the public loses?

  December 17, 2013 in Uncategorized

  As discussed here, and here, the folks on the CivicAccess.ca list are doing some digging into the numbers behind this Canada post announcement to cancel home delivery of the mail.  In addition, Armine Yalnizyan’s Globe and Mail Article Canada Post’s vow to ‘protect taxpayers’ needs a reality check which questions the validy of reported losses [...]