For a great example of how a consortia member can use Community Program data, check out Peel Counts - a results based accountability report from Peel Region.
01/04/2012
Community data users working in immigration services may be interested in the hot-off-the-press York Region Immigration Settlement Strategy; see below for details or visit http://www.yorkwelcome.ca.
12/22/2011
Thanks to Cheryl Hitchens for passing along the invitation to this upcoming webinar entitled 'Building an On-line Index of Population Health Databases to Facilitate and Expand Research into the Social Determinants of Health.'
12/19/2011
12/19/2011
12/19/2011
Thanks to Natalie Hui, Maria Leonis and Monica Bryce for sharing York Region's most recent publications using social data from the Community Data Program:
12/07/2011
See the link below for information on the Centre for the Study of Living Standards' Index of Economic Well-Being (thanks Tracey Lauriault!)
http://www.csls.ca/iwb.asp
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09/27/2011
The City of Regina has just posted a set of four reports with profiles and projections for the above four groups as part of our new Community Plan process.
09/23/2011
Below is the link to the OMMSA Presentation on the Community Data Consortium by Arfona Zwiers (Simcoe), Wendy Kowalski (Halton) and Federico Cartin-Arteaga (Peel)
09/15/2011
Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life, by Prof. Dennis Raphael
09/14/2011
From: Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca)
An email response regarding the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario:
09/14/2011
Presentation by TransUnion at the Community Data Roundtable, Toronto, March 2011
09/14/2011
Social Planning Toronto (2009). Toronto’s Social Landscape: 10-Year Trends, 1996-2006
09/14/2011
from Ted Hildebrandt:
The Economic Impact of Social Assistance in Hamilton - Econometric Research Limited
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09/14/2011
The Summer 2011 newsletter from Community Development Halton, Community Connection is available at the address provided below:
09/14/2011
From Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca) of Community Development Halton
09/14/2011
From Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca) of Community Development Halton:
09/14/2011
Toronto will soon launch a unique website that could change how residents decide where to live, how charities decide where to operate, and how politicians decide where to spend taxpayers’ money.
06/29/2011
Kudos to Toronto Consortia Lead Harvey Low for his paper in Policy Horizon Canada:
06/29/2011
Great Presentation about the changing nature of health surveillance in Canada. I quite like the deer and headlights representations!
Beyond the Long-Form Census: The Changing Face of Surveillance in Canada
06/29/2011
On April 15, 2010, there were 593 shelters offering services to abused women in Canada, up from 569 in 2008 when this information was last collected.2010 (
06/27/2011
At the beginning of June, Statistics Canada requested the participation of the Canadian Council on Social Development in its 2016 Census Strategy Project to better understand the highest priority census information needs and to effectively address how different approaches for population censuses
06/15/2011
Craig (Our web guy), has kindly shared the instructions on how to do RSS feeds from this site:
05/25/2011