Remind me to not go away during a censusless time!  Shesh catching is brutal.  But alas, I think I may have captured most of the media clips in the last few days.  There are quite a few, so get some tea and cookies!

• The Progressive Economics Forum: Can the provinces fix the Census Fiasco?
• The Progressive Economics Forum: An Exit Strategy for the Conservatives
• Warren Kinsella: Census senselessness: from today’s Hill Times
• Toronto Star: McQuaig: Making it easier to ignore the poor
• Peninsula News Review: Cutting census is some nonsense
• Rabble.ca: Fraser Institute supports scrapping long-form census
• VicNews: OUR VIEW: Census data is valuable
• Saanich News: Essential details
• Gold Stream Gazette: Long and short, census is valuable
  
  Oak Bay News: EDITORIAL: Census data valuable
• Globe and Mail: Premiers seek difficult census compromise
  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Quebec’s Jean Charest preside over a special joint cabinet meeting on June 16, 2010 at the Quebec National Assembly.
• Winnipeg Free Press: Roman Catholic bishops ask Tories to back off on planned census change
• Cyberpresse: Le Barreau canadien souhaite le maintien du formulaire long
• Mcleans: How the census went from a quinquennial chore to a national crisis
• Globe and Mail: Economists decry census move
• le Devoir: Formulaire long du recensement – Claude Béchard veut que Stephen Harper revienne sur sa décision Le premier ministre est «manquant» dans ce «fiasco», selon Jack Layton
• Globe and Mail: The incredible shrinking Tory tent
• CBC news: Layton calls for census compromise
• Montreal Gazette: No consensus on census debate: Poll
• Montreal Gazette: Statistics council suggests compromise to end census battle
• Globe and Mail: Spector Vision Norman Spector blogs on politics, government and the mass media.
• Globe and Mail: Time running out on census compromise Statistics Canada says new questionnaire set to go to print August 9
• Winnipeg Free Press: Roman Catholic bishops ask Tories to back off on planned census change
• Calgary Herald: Changes to census may harm records
• Globe and Mail: Number-crunchers’ Vancouver convention set to hail Statscan’s ex-chief Former Statistics Canada chief Munir Sheikh waits for the start of testimony at a Commons industry committee hearing into changes to the census on July 27, 2010. Reuters Peers express admiration for Munir Sheikh’s stand on census controversy
• Thompson Citizen: Ideology again trumps commonsense in Conservative long-form census foolishness
• 680 News All News Radio: Industry Minister and former Stats czar among witnesses at Commons committee
• JewishGen: More on Canadian Government Abondoning the Long Census Form
• Telegraph Journal: Clamour over census wakes a sleeping nation
• Toronto Star: Time almost up for census compromise
• Burnaby Now: Burnaby group blasts changes to census
• Telegraph Journal: why the Census Matters
• Montreal Gazette: Political price for changing census
• The Winkler Times: Census 2011: Count yourself in Accurate numbers mean big bucks for city
• Statistical Society of Canada Statement on the Long Form Census, INDU Committee
• Yahoo News: Census on the Podium at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver
• Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC Canada’s Census Debate: The Long and Short of It
• The Pen Machine: The new census plan is a disservice to all Canadians
• Progressive Economics Forum: Calgary Stampede – Census related, of course
• Calgary Herald: Consensus on the census
• Progressive Economics Forum: Census, homelessness and gated communities
• Toronto Star: Who Are you?
• Progressive Economics Forum: Privacy and the Census: It’s Really Not All About You
• Toronto Star: Voluntary census ‘intrinsically biased’
• Le Devoir: Consensus persistant
• Le Devoir: 2014: le chaos
• Le Droit: Recensement: le temps presse pour les détracteurs du questionnaire volontaire
• Toronto Star: Who are you? The census helps demographers know
  A demographic tool defines all of us by our postal codes, via core data from the imperiled long-form census
• The Tyee: Why Attack the Long Census? Check off another box on the Fraser Institute’s libertarian to-do list
• CBC The National: The Mounties, and Counting Canadians Part 1: Part 2:
• Ottawa Citizen: Blame government, not stats chief, for this mess
• Western Standard: Bullshit, and the Ironic Invalidity of the Census Debate
• Ottawa Citizen: Top science journal attacks Conservatives’ census plans
• Weekly MP Report from Jay Hill: “There is (Con) Census”
• New Democrats online: An Exit Strategy for the Conservatives
• Producer.com: Census changes spurred by politics, say critics
• The Spec: Multimedia module on the Census
• Canadian Business Online: The CEO Poll: No census consensus
• Miner & News: Census dispute raises the question: Do we even need one anymore?
• CPAC: The NDP leader speaks about the long-form census controversy and takes questions from journalists.
• Northern Life: Scrapping of mandatory long-form census an ‘ideological decision’
• Edmonton Sun: Stelmach says surveys are valuable
• Winnipeg Free Press: Committee calls for census documents Government given 5 days to produce emails, other papers
• Straight Talk: SFU statistician and economist criticize decision to scrap census long form
• 24 hours: Long-form census controversy to take over convention centre
• Ottawa Citizen: Why you can trust the census, but not polls
• Star Phoenix: Long-form census data key for schools: official
• Globe and Mail: Toronto mayoral candidates weigh in on fate of long-form census Ford spokeswoman references Trudeau quip: ‘The federal government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation’
• CBC News: Illuminating the enumerating
• Globe and Mail: Census call is part of data-collection trend We should think seriously before making changes that will affect governments’ capacity to deliver good public policy
• Nunatsiaq online: ITK dumps on Ottawa over census changes Sheutiapik says Inuit need long-form data
• CBC news: Where’s Harper? Where’s Ignatieff? Where are my car keys?
• The Province: Preventing exposure
• Macleans: Scott Reid Maverick Watch
• Western Standard: Filibuster on the Census
• North Shore News: Tory census choice recalls comic opera
• National Post: Full Pundit Opinion Polls are generally trash
• Straight Goods: Stephen Harper is polishing his resumé for future work PM playing to future employers, likely American, not his base.
  
• Embassy: The black marks are adding up
• Barry’s Bay This Week: A baffling decision on so many levels
• Standard Freeholder: Why democracy still matters
• Winnipeg Free Press: Have Your Say
• Leader Post: MANDRYK: Sask. Premier Brad Wall is slipping on issues of trust
• The Calgary Beacon: MAKING IT EASIER TO IGNORE THE POOR
• The North Bay Nugget: Tories “put ideology before facts” in census decision, Rota says
• Chronicle Telegraph: Elimination of census long form prompts QCGN complaint
• Hill Times: Opposition strategists say mandatory long-form census data ‘vital’ They need the data to build demographic profiles of voters they hope to target.
• Radio Canada: (Video) 24/60
• Times Colonist: Stubborn stance on census foolish
• Ottawa Citizen: Harper fosters public dialogue
• National Post: Barbara Kay on Statistics Canada: Seek disgruntlement and ye shall find
• CBC: Orders of the Day: It may not have the alliterative ring of “Where’s Waldo?”
• Cyberpresse: Recensement: une manifestation aura lieu mardi à Ottawa
• Post Media News: Tories agree to release documents on census decision
• Radio Canada: Le ministre Clement persiste et signe
• Toronto Star: PM told to ‘rethink’ census McGuinty joins others urging Harper to change decision to make mandatory long form voluntary
• Cyberpresse: L’écart se resserre entre libéraux et conservateurs
• CBC: What about ‘intrusive’ census answers?
• Canada.com: Tories agree to release documents on census decision
• Canadian Press: Census cynicism? Worries raised over response rates for 2011 census and survey
• Cyberpresse: Crise du recensement
• Cyberpresse: Recensement: Munir Sheikh explique sa démission