- Le Devoir: Recensement: Nature sermonne Ottawa Harper a pris une décision à «courte vue», dit le prestigieux magazine américain
- Le Devoir: Ignorance mensongère
- CBC News: Liberals to table census bill
- Orangeville Citizen: Harper, McGuinty: contrasting leadership styles
- Macleans: The census: power, knowledge, and role-reversal
- Macleans: Conservatives slammed by science journal over census scrapping
- CBC News: MPs get earful on long-form census
- PostMedia News: Census the least of Canadians’ privacy concerns: Civil liberties group
- National Post: Census the least of Canadians’ privacy concerns: civil liberties group
- The Globe and Mail: Census burden ‘colossally inflated,’ MPs told
- Troy Media News: Why use coercion to collect census data?
- The Toronto Star: Census changes a ‘disservice’ to Canadians, MPs told
- The Globe and Mail: Canada goes off the statistical standard The leading science journal Nature is right to criticize Canada’s abandonment of the mandatory long-form census
- The Globe and Mail: Science journal attacks Harper’s ban on long census Provides essential information for planning the future, professors say in Nature
- The Vancouver Sun: Census changes impact statistical integrity, hearing told
- Global News: Census changes impact statistical integrity, hearing told
- The Mark: In a knowledge-based economy, we need more, not less, evidence-based policy design.
- Rabble.ca: The census and civil liberties: Interview with Micheal Vonn
- Abbotsford Mission Times: Long-running beef with census
- CFRA Radio: Liberals Slam Feds Over Census
- Inside Toronto.com: Mandatory long-form census paints picture of youth suicide
- Toronto Sun: Grits pushing census law
- Edmonton Journal: Alternatives to census long form road to privacy ‘disaster,’ expert says
Critics line up to attack Harper government’s elimination of traditional survey - The Telegraph Journal: A litany of mistakes
- The Toronto Sun: Committee tries to make sense of census
- Financial Post: Survey will ‘never be comparable’ to census
- The Calgary Beacon: WHY USE COERCION TO COLLECT CENSUS DATA?
- National Post: Liberals plan to take census issue to Commons
- Vancouver Sun: Long-form census ‘a public good,’ committee hears
- Western Catholic Reporter: Keep mandatory long form census: Catholic Bishops
- CBC news: Committee wants long-form census reinstated
- The Chronicle Herald: It’s time to hold Harper to account
- The Montreal Gazette: Census ‘least of privacy concerns’ Creating more risk. Civil liberties group fears fallout if changes made
- Macleans: The census show trials
- Radio Canada: Nature dénonce Ottawa
- Sudburry Star: Census debate rages
- CBC: Committee wants long-form census reinstated
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I was taking snack break and while doing so perused the #census in twitter and found this little gem. It is a bit long, but I like the idea nonetheless. This is simply animating a power point with images if how many’s in a 100 in Ottawa. We can do so much with data, and why not this type of reporting of the findings, and some engaging visualizations like they do in the NY Times while we are at it! Looks like the Peel Region did something similar with their data!
Ottawa as a 100 person village
Lots of great map examples of how to use and share open data in the UK.
The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
Great Video’s on How to visualize and creatively think about data. I can watch these over and over.
I am taking a Census holiday until Wed. Sept. 2.
Today is the last day I have with my son before he goes to Afghanistan as part of the Canadian Military and I have a dissertation that sorely needs attention.
If you have media stuff, or items to add to the list do send them to tlauriau at gmail doc com and I will address them all on Sept. 2.
The Liberals announce An Act to amend the Statistics Act (mandatory long-form census) today.
The Bill – which will be tabled upon the September 20th return of Parliament – clarifies that 20% of the Canadian population will receive a mandatory long-form questionnaire during the period in which the Government of Canada conducts a census. It will also remove the controversial threat of jail time for not completing the census. (1)
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology Meeting No. 32, Friday, August 27, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
It is important to keep up with Local Actions and the Canadian Council on Social Development ToolKit is very useful for doing that. There are 20+ days left to get your MP on side.
- Le Devoir: Ignorance mensongère
- Jewsish Gen Blog: Canadian Parliament Committee to Meet On Census Long-Form
- Vancouver Sun: Wayne Smith on the census, staff morale and StatsCan independence
- The Telegram: Matters of fact – A little information is a dangerous thing. Less information is even more dangerous: with changes to Canada’s census system and cuts to federal science programs, that seems to be a message that the federal government is keen on ignoring.
- Amherst Daily News: This many voices can’t be wrong
- The Chronicle Journal: Counting on Canadians
- Le Québécois Libre: I Love to Count – The Census and State Coercion
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: The census, evidence-based policy analysis and a reversal of roles
- National Post: Survey will ‘never be comparable’ to census
More Cuts - Aislin, Montreal Gazette
- The Sun Times: Change questions, not methodology
- National Post: Stephen Gordon: Why the right should love the census
- The Montreal Gazette: Morale is fine, says acting StatsCan chief Furor over long-form census. But interim boss acknowledges voluntary survey won’t be comparable to census data
- The Globe and Mail: Science journal laments census ‘assault’ Canada’s decision to scrap mandatory long form part of international attack on vital statistical tool, experts write in Nature
Blackout - Aislin, Montreal Gazette
Nough said!
Hamilton Spec: Code Red for neighbourhood data
The images is from the Hamilton Spec article written by Sara Mayo, Social Planner, Geographic Information Service,
Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton. Sara is also very active in the work of the Community Social Data Strategy which is a national consortium of 17 regional data user networks that facilitates community access to over $1 million worth of data from Statistics Canada and other sources. There is a regional CSDS network in most big Canadian cities. Members include more than 50 municipalities, as well as local police, social planning councils, health and family service agencies, school boards United Ways and other organizations working on the ground for social development.
- The Montreal Gazette: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
- The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada: Statement
- Medicine Hat News: Spotty data gives Statistics Canada cloudy forecast on environment: report
- Canada East: Spotty data gives Statistics Canada cloudy forecast on environment: report
- Canadian Press: Environmental data only so-so: StatsCan
- Macleans: And now, algebra
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Time Spent on the Long Form Census
- NJN News: Scrapped mandatory census cuts even deeper for disability advocacy group
- Calgary Herald: Commons committee deadlocked over census talks
- CBC NewsL Economists pan census change: poll
- The News: This many voices can’t be wrong
- Langley Advance: Conservatives don’t need accuracy
- Xtra: Why the census matters to queers
- The Spec: Tories want to keep us ignorant
- CNW: Media Advisory – Canadian Association of Police Boards
- Opinion 250: City Calls for Return to Long Census
- Post Media News: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
- Post Media News: Interim Chief Statisticians Views @StatCan
- Ottawa Citizen: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
Montréal Ouvert is making itself known. Montreal Tech Watch has a great article that included the following video which explains the ideas and inspiration behind Montréal Ouvert.
The Montreal Gazette also published an article today: Group calls on Montreal to join open-data movement Everything from crime stats to garbage-collection times should be available to public, Montréal ouverte says.
Each city has gone about Open Data in a different way. Montréal Ouvert is a grassroots citizen led approach that is quite unique. The Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Nanaimo and London approaches were inspired by city officials who were collaborating with citizens in a variety of ways. I hope the City of Montréal will work with these citizens toward mutually beneficial ends for both citizens and city officials.
Shesh! Even the cops want the long form back! Along with doctors, nurses, business economists, political scientists, sociologists, social planning councils, cities, provinces…
- Globe and Mail: Police take on Harper over census
- Le Devoir: Recensement – Le Comité de l’industrie entendra de nouveaux témoins
- Winnipeg Free Press: The long, and short of census
- The Chronicle Herald Science: No sense in Tories’ approach to census http://thechronicleherald.ca/Science/1197855.html
- Annex to the 2011 Census Short Form Questionnaire: Order in Council
- Winnipeg CTV: Business economists oppose census change: survey
- Le Devoir: Recensement: forte grogne au Québec
- Hill Times: Tory committees will help ministers avoid missteps ‘This would probably lead to making better and more palatable decisions,’ says Solberg
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Time Spent on the Long Form Census
- CB Online: Biz economists overwhelmingly oppose census change: Survey
- Toronto Star: MPP wants census restored
- Cyberpresse: Les économistes s’opposent au recensement volontaire
- Hill Times: Conservatives’ census decision could affect party’s outreach to ethnic Canadians ‘Any rationalization to say this is a vote winner is a stretch, for any group of Conservatives,’ says Nanos
- The Hill Times: Grits call for Mayrand to investigate Tory fundraising practices
- The Hill Times: Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change? Using it to justify the abolishing of a mandatory form reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Worse, the proposed changes to the government census do not diminish but rather increase privacy concerns.
- Globe and Mail: Canada’s customs inquisition
- Opinion 250: City of Prince George
- Cranbrook Daily Townsman: Voluntary long-form census will be more accurate than mandatory, says Abbott
- Digital Journal: Media Advisory – Canadian Association of Police Boards
- The Progressive Economics Forum: Flanagan on the Census
- Globe and Mail: Should we just shut up and do what Statistics Canada tells us to do? (Do read this which corrects the errors in Flanagan’s article)
- rabble.ca: The long shadow of the long census cancellation: A politician’s nightmare
- The Grove Examiner: Federal census a concern for Spruce Grove city council
- Seaway News: Get ready for a possible fall federal election!
- National Post: Tories tweak census after language protest
- The Barrie Examiner: Voluntary census almost pointless
- The Star Phoenix: Red herrings and bogeymen
- Standard Freeholder: Census fallout
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