I was busy with this thing called a job and was delayed in my census work. But here you have it, a round up for the week. I have not searched my #census yet, but will do so tomorrow.
Also, it ain’t too late to save the census! They just need to put a sticky note on the envelope or insert a new cover page that says : this is a CENSUS and it is MANDATORY.
- Senior’s Daily Online: CARP opposes plans to scrap long form census
- Globe and Mail: Government study reveals significant errors in voluntary census
- Inside Halton: Long-form census is a valuable tool
- The Hamilton Spectator: You can’t set good policy without good census data, say local leaders
- Cape Breton Post: Clarke’s declaration has stirred the pot
- National Post: Liberals plan to take census issue to Commons
- The Mark: The StatsCan study was conducted before the government announced its plan to scrap the mandatory census.
- Toronto Star: Time to remove Clement
- Globe and Mail: Digital age mapping delivers productivity gains
- CBC Podcast: 09/09/10: Pt 3 – Munir Sheikh spent almost 40 years as a civil servant in Ottawa. It’s hardly the kind of work that makes you a household name … unless you end your career by resigning from Statistics Canada at the height of the controversy over the mandatory long-form census. We talk to Munir Sheikh about the importance of good data and why he felt he had to resign his post.
- Audio: Spaces, Places and Faces: Ernie Boyko and Wendy Watkins: The 2011 Canadian
- Guelph Mercury: Voluntary long census form will bias data says doctor Census
- Ottawa Citizen: Letter to PM: Let chief statistician decide the census Former top bureaucrats launch unusual appeal to Harper
- CAUT Bulletin: Harper Told: ‘Restore Long-Form Census’
- Globe and Mail: Let top statistician resolve census issue, former civil servants urge PM
- The Hamilton Spectator: Removing threat, not the census
- Durham Region: Durham opposed to change in census form
- MapleRidge News: Council supports long form census
- Toronto Sun: We’re about to find out how smart Stephen Harper is: Den Tandt
- The Hamilton Spectator: You can’t set good policy without good census data, say local leaders
- The Montreal Gazette; The challenge: Getting Canadians to fill out the voluntary census
- The China Daily: Roundup: Canada debates removal of compulsory fill-out in 2011 census
- The Sudbury Star: Census yields less reliable data
- The Mark: This fall, the Liberal Party will fight to make the census reputable and statistically reliable.
- The Cranbrook Daily Townsman: The new voluntary census
- The Briefing Note: GSA Census
- HQ Prince George: CFS AGAINST SCRAPPING THE LONG FORM CENSUS
- Media Daily News: A Census-ational Summer
- Evening Telegraph: 2011 census so important for Peterborough
- Globe and Mail: Why does the Harper government do what it does? Beats us
- The Haliburton County Echo: Scrapping census will hinder funding opportunities, service organizations say
The Western Standard: The Long Census Goodbye - University of Lethbridge: SACPA September 9 — Is Scrapping the Mandatory Census Long Form Short Sighted?
- Medicine Hat News: Residents talking census, gun registry
- Brandon Sun: Switch to voluntary census puts vulnerable at risk, coalition charges
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