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Weekend Census Media Roundup

September 7, 2010 by Tracey | No comments

  • Toronto Star: Health at risk if long-form census scrapped: experts
  • AM630 CHED Radio: Support grows for the long form census
  • Montreal Gazette: PM’s top aide expected step aside
  • Radio Canada: Levée de boucliers des professionnels de la santé
  • Digital Journal: Losing the census will impact Canadian’s health
  • CBC News: EKOS Extra: Who <3s you, mandatory long form census?
  • Northern Life: Mandatory long form census influences health policy, research
  • Winnipeg Free Press: Switch to voluntary census puts vulnerable at risk, coalition charges
  • Cranbrook Daily Townsman: Voluntary long-form census will be more accurate than mandatory, says Abbott (just because there are more does not mean it is more accurate!)
  • Digital Journal: Census Canada 2011 : Short Form Instructions
  • The Sudbury Star: Census yields less reliable data
  • The Daily Herald: Census changes concern health community
  • The Hill Times: Summer Census crisis of 2010 was bizarre, unnecessary, overblown, says Powers
  • Canadian School Board Association: The Census Debate: How Will the Elimination of the Long-Form Census Affect Education in Canada?
  • Toronto Star: Tories are clever tacticians
  • Edmonton Journal: Poll showing Grits even with Tories deceiving
  • Rabble.ca: Not Rex: The long and the short – census, guns and more
  • The McGill Daily: Student government opposes census changes

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