Invited to attend this meeting to discuss access to homelessness data.

Release of User needs assessment survey.

Testing the User survey.  The How to will be sent to the Data Purchase and Access WG by email.  The survey is scheduled to be distributed by Nov. 10.

StatsCan is undertaking a strategic review to determine whether to make changes to the census geographic units – the census agglomerations and census metropolitan areas – for the 2016 Census. It is not clear what type of changes are being considered.

All; Michael has been super busy getting the catalogue up to date and lots of new data have been loaded:

Derek Cook, Consortia Lead from Calgary forwarded the following report with the following comments: Here is an interesting new  report on open data from the Martin Prosperity Institute.

This video was created by: Poverty Free Halton, in partnership with Community Development Halton, has developed a video that illustrates the realities of living in low-income in the Halton community. The video was produced by local filmmaker Graham Wood.

Ted from Halton has forwarded this very thoughtful Editorial by Ed Broadbent in the Toronto Star - Equality or barbarism? 

Community Development Halton has produced fantastic information products to inform voters during municipal elections!

May 12-13 Roundtable Follow-up Meeting

Meeting Items a) Questionnaire has been translated, I have loaded it here - /PurchaseAccessAchatAccess

Dear Friends, We hope you are all well. We wanted to provide you with an update on  the “Save the Census” Campaign AND we Still Need YOUR Help!!!

All CSDS data users please note the following issues with the SAAD data received to date:

Debra Thompson: The Politics of the Census: Lessons from Abroad, pp. 377-382.

Quaterly Leads Meeting

Thanks Ted from Halton CSDS for sharing the following:

The City of Toronto has a large and active CSDS consortium.  The City has also been very active on the campaign to reinstate the long-form census.

The Hamilton Social Planning and Research Council, CSDS member, led a Save the Census campaign event yesterday. 

The Social Planning Network of Ontario’s (SPNO) latest report, Ontario’s Social Landscape: Socio-demographic trends and condi

The Capacity WG will meet to discuss work on the Catalog.  Sara Mayo from SPC Hamilton, the Lead of this WG will host the call.

Conference call meeting of the Sharing Results WG.  Ted Hilderbrandt from Community Development Halton, the lead of this WG, will host the call.

Social Planning Council of Hamilton, CSDS members are organizing CODE RED for Neighbourhood Data: Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

See the blog for media release, articles and videos.