Below, a quote from our very own Ted Hildebrandt! Click here for the whole article!

We're all curious as to what the next few months holds for Statistics Canada, perhaps no one more so than those at the Department.

The Community Data Program now has a toll-free number where members can call and leave a message. Program staff will attempt to return every phone call within 24-48 hours. The new toll-free number is 1-888.717.2919.

For those who missed the December 15th webinar presentation of the Community Data Program at the Homelessness Partnering Secretariat teleforum, you can now download the powerpoint or listen to the presentation by following the links below. Enjoy!

Hanna Wagner invites you to attend this online meeting. Topic: ENVISION Demo Date: Monday, January 16, 2012 Time: 1:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Meeting Number: 719 288 520 Meeting Password: (This meeting does not require a password.)

Steering Committee Meeting Teleconference  1-877-727-8553 code: 108111962 January 17, 2012 1:00-2:00pmEST Proposed Agenda   1.      SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION: welcome to new representative of the CCSD Board

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.  

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.

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.'

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:  

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  

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.

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)  

Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life, by Prof. Dennis Raphael  

From: Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca)   An email response regarding the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario:  

Presentation by TransUnion at the Community Data Roundtable, Toronto, March 2011  

Social Planning Toronto (2009).  Toronto’s Social Landscape: 10-Year Trends, 1996-2006  

from Ted Hildebrandt:   The Economic Impact of Social Assistance in Hamilton - Econometric Research Limited   This content is also p

The Summer 2011 newsletter from Community Development Halton, Community Connection is available at the address provided below:  

From Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca) of Community Development Halton  

From Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca) of Community Development Halton:  

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.

Kudos to Toronto Consortia Lead Harvey Low for his paper in Policy Horizon Canada: