Ottawa CSDS Consortia Lead have had their POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / STRATÉGIE POUR RÉDUIRE LA PAUVRETÉ approved by City of Ottawa Council.  The motions and the full report are av

David Eggen at Friends of Medicare in collaboration with local Edmonton CSDS members led a Save our Census Health Action that was featured on 630 C

CSDS Wayne Helgason of the Winnipeg Social Planning Council organized a local Save the Census health campaign that in collaboration with the

City of Toronto CSDS consortium member John Campey from the Social Planning Council of Toronto in partnership with the Canadian Council on Social Development led a national Save the Ce

CSDS member and the Lead of the CSDS Capacity Working Group is the author of the following Hamilton Spectator Article, Code Red for neighbourhood data.

This procedure describes the steps to populate the new catalog with CSDS data.

This is a test event to see how it displays in the calendar.

Toronto Star: Axing census questions adds up to trouble for Tories “Truly a stupid decision,’’ Liberal critic says The Province:

Canada.com: Privacy commissioner sees few complaints about census form Le Devoir Recensement -

CIQSS Centre de données de recherche, Recensement 2011. Canadian Press: Census discussion disappears from federal consultation site <

The Canadian Social Data Strategy submitted to the Tony Clement National Economy Consultation on July 6th, 2010. The CSDS submission was under the Canada's Digital Content Theme. Last week, shortly after it was posted, vote came in and our submission was in the top three.

The Canadian Social Data Strategy is closely monitoring the media on the announcements to cuts to the 2011 Long Form of the Census. The following is a list in no particular order of what we know so far. Should you know of others, please do not hesitate to forward them to us!

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