News Home / News Stats Can Webinar - Measuring and analyzing the economy Statistics Canada is delighted that James Tebrake, Director General, from the Macroeconomic Accounts Branch will be presenting a free online learning session on: 09/12/2018 Modernizing Labour Laws The current federal labour standards were established in the 1960s and have not been changed since. Now that there is significant economic and techonological changes affecting work today, these standards need to be updated! 09/10/2018 Register for EconoUs2018 From the EconoUs website: What is EconoUs? 09/07/2018 Learning Resource - Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada, a learning resournce on Indigenous lands, languange and culture in Canada was finally lauched after 2 years of community input and research. 08/29/2018 DPAWG Meeting Notes - July 24 Notes from the last Data Purchase and Access Working Group meeting is now up! The agenda from this meeting: 08/23/2018 Poverty Reduction Strategy to reduce poverty by 50 percent by 2030 From the Backgrounder: Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy 08/22/2018 New from Stats Can: Food Stats Statistics Canada continues to make its data more accessible and dynamic with the launch of Food Stats, a comprehensive one-stop shop for statistical information on food. 08/15/2018 Divided Cities - Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities OECD released this report called Divided Cities, Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities, providing an "assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. 07/24/2018 Congratulations to the winner of the first CDP Award Last week was the Community Data Program’s Annual Meeting, hosted by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health in Guelph, Ontario. 05/29/2018 How Happy are Your Neighbours? A New Study of Canadian Communities A new study looks at measurements of happiness in Canadian communities and finds that the old saying is true: money isn’t everything. 05/23/2018 Wood Buffalo Conducting First Census Since Fort McMurray Wildfire The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a CDP Member Organization, is carrying out the Fort McMurray region’s first official population count since the mass evacuation during the May 2016 wildfire. 05/15/2018 Administrative Data: A Primer from Powered by Data Montreal-based Powered by Data is sharing their new project on administrative data sharing. 05/10/2018 2017-2018 Annual Report Now Available The Community Data Project's Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2018 is now available. 05/02/2018 Chat with an Expert: Gross domestic product by industry Statistics Canada is hosting a “Chat with an Expert” session- Gross domestic product by industry: Provinces and territories, 2017. From Statistics Canada: 05/01/2018 Webinar May 8 2018: Taxfiler (T1FF) Data The next T1FF webinar will be held on May 8. This webinar series is intended to help you understand basic (standard) taxfiler tables and learn how to better use them. 04/18/2018 Early bird tickets for Leveraging Our Strengths Conference 2018 Are you in the Ottawa area and want to learn more about how community data is used in the non-profit sector? Take advantage of a special discount for the 7th annual Leveraging Our Strengths Conference. 04/18/2018 Statistics Canada releases two papers on the Low Income Measure used in the T1 Family File In 2018, Statistics Canada changed how the Census Family Low Income Measure was calculated. Two new papers explain the use of the Low Income Measure from the T1 Family File. 04/05/2018 Policy Options: Values-based AI and the new smart cities Many were excited when Sidewalk Labs (the urban innovation branch of Google’s Alphabet) won a competition to develop Toronto’s Quayside neighbourhood, promising to integrate data and urban design. 03/21/2018 Accessibility Ontario Webinars: Are Your Excel and PowerPoint Files Accessible? Accessibility Ontario has a great initiative with two webinars next month: 03/12/2018 We Need You! CDP User Survey for the 2017-18 Program Year We are keeping the CDP User Survey open a bit longer. 03/09/2018 Open Government - Why Get Involved in Canada's Action Plan Why get involved? Action plans help set commitments and define how we will make progress for a two-year period. Examples of commitments from previous plans: 02/28/2018 Community Indicators Webinar Friday March 2 2018 From the Community Indicators Consortium in the US, an interesting webinar on how Essex County (Massachusetts) tracks their quality of life indicators. 02/27/2018 Toronto and Ottawa: Stat Can Workshop in March From Statistics Canada: Statistics Canada is offering a new workshop based on the 2016 Census in Toronto and Ottawa this March! How to Use Census Data (1 Day) 02/23/2018 SPAR Social Research Bulletin CDP members will want to check out the latest SPAR Monitor, newsletter sent out by the Social Policy Analysis & Research unit of the Social Development, Finance and Administration division at the City of Toronto. 02/22/2018 Schedule B, 2017-2018, now available Want to keep track of CDP’s latest acquisitions? 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Stats Can Webinar - Measuring and analyzing the economy Statistics Canada is delighted that James Tebrake, Director General, from the Macroeconomic Accounts Branch will be presenting a free online learning session on: 09/12/2018
Modernizing Labour Laws The current federal labour standards were established in the 1960s and have not been changed since. Now that there is significant economic and techonological changes affecting work today, these standards need to be updated! 09/10/2018
Learning Resource - Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada, a learning resournce on Indigenous lands, languange and culture in Canada was finally lauched after 2 years of community input and research. 08/29/2018
DPAWG Meeting Notes - July 24 Notes from the last Data Purchase and Access Working Group meeting is now up! The agenda from this meeting: 08/23/2018
Poverty Reduction Strategy to reduce poverty by 50 percent by 2030 From the Backgrounder: Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy 08/22/2018
New from Stats Can: Food Stats Statistics Canada continues to make its data more accessible and dynamic with the launch of Food Stats, a comprehensive one-stop shop for statistical information on food. 08/15/2018
Divided Cities - Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities OECD released this report called Divided Cities, Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities, providing an "assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. 07/24/2018
Congratulations to the winner of the first CDP Award Last week was the Community Data Program’s Annual Meeting, hosted by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health in Guelph, Ontario. 05/29/2018
How Happy are Your Neighbours? A New Study of Canadian Communities A new study looks at measurements of happiness in Canadian communities and finds that the old saying is true: money isn’t everything. 05/23/2018
Wood Buffalo Conducting First Census Since Fort McMurray Wildfire The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a CDP Member Organization, is carrying out the Fort McMurray region’s first official population count since the mass evacuation during the May 2016 wildfire. 05/15/2018
Administrative Data: A Primer from Powered by Data Montreal-based Powered by Data is sharing their new project on administrative data sharing. 05/10/2018
2017-2018 Annual Report Now Available The Community Data Project's Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2018 is now available. 05/02/2018
Chat with an Expert: Gross domestic product by industry Statistics Canada is hosting a “Chat with an Expert” session- Gross domestic product by industry: Provinces and territories, 2017. From Statistics Canada: 05/01/2018
Webinar May 8 2018: Taxfiler (T1FF) Data The next T1FF webinar will be held on May 8. This webinar series is intended to help you understand basic (standard) taxfiler tables and learn how to better use them. 04/18/2018
Early bird tickets for Leveraging Our Strengths Conference 2018 Are you in the Ottawa area and want to learn more about how community data is used in the non-profit sector? Take advantage of a special discount for the 7th annual Leveraging Our Strengths Conference. 04/18/2018
Statistics Canada releases two papers on the Low Income Measure used in the T1 Family File In 2018, Statistics Canada changed how the Census Family Low Income Measure was calculated. Two new papers explain the use of the Low Income Measure from the T1 Family File. 04/05/2018
Policy Options: Values-based AI and the new smart cities Many were excited when Sidewalk Labs (the urban innovation branch of Google’s Alphabet) won a competition to develop Toronto’s Quayside neighbourhood, promising to integrate data and urban design. 03/21/2018
Accessibility Ontario Webinars: Are Your Excel and PowerPoint Files Accessible? Accessibility Ontario has a great initiative with two webinars next month: 03/12/2018
We Need You! CDP User Survey for the 2017-18 Program Year We are keeping the CDP User Survey open a bit longer. 03/09/2018
Open Government - Why Get Involved in Canada's Action Plan Why get involved? Action plans help set commitments and define how we will make progress for a two-year period. Examples of commitments from previous plans: 02/28/2018
Community Indicators Webinar Friday March 2 2018 From the Community Indicators Consortium in the US, an interesting webinar on how Essex County (Massachusetts) tracks their quality of life indicators. 02/27/2018
Toronto and Ottawa: Stat Can Workshop in March From Statistics Canada: Statistics Canada is offering a new workshop based on the 2016 Census in Toronto and Ottawa this March! How to Use Census Data (1 Day) 02/23/2018
SPAR Social Research Bulletin CDP members will want to check out the latest SPAR Monitor, newsletter sent out by the Social Policy Analysis & Research unit of the Social Development, Finance and Administration division at the City of Toronto. 02/22/2018
Schedule B, 2017-2018, now available Want to keep track of CDP’s latest acquisitions? Schedule B lists data products that the CCSD Community Data Program intends to acquire during the 2017-2018 program year (running from April 1 to March 31). 02/16/2018