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Low-income rates could rise as StatsCan moves to redraw poverty line

This article from CBC looks at planned changes to Canada's federally adopted low-income measure and how they could lead to a poverty rate increase. 

From the article:

The national statistics office is looking at changes to the federally adopted poverty line which, if approved, could increase the number of Canadians regarded as living below the low-income threshold.

The last time the made-in-Canada measure was updated was in 2008; poverty rates increased by 2.2 per cent because the financial cut-off used to define low-income was raised.

CUSP Newsletter: Uncovering Canada’s Hidden Energy Inequities

The Canadian Urban Sustainability Practitioners (CUSP) have sent out their November newsletter, which focuses on their newly-launched Energy Poverty and Equity Explorer. From the newsletter:

Uncovering Canada’s Hidden Energy Inequities

Today, the Canadian Urban Sustainability Practitioners (CUSP) network launched the Energy Poverty and Equity Explorer, a powerful new online mapping tool, and a pair of associated primer documents.

Waterloo Global Science Initiative's Voluntary Local Review Pilot Project

Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) is a non-profit focused on catalyzing collective action to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Canada. Working with partners, WGSI is beginning a pilot project that supports Canadian communities in piloting Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) on SDG progress that use localized indicators. VLRs, area regional parallel to the Voluntary National Review (VNR), are an emerging process by which sub-national governments can report on their progress on Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.

Canadian Climate Data from ClimateData.ca

ClimateData.ca provides free access to climate-related data for a variety of variables at locations all across Canada. From the website:

"ClimateData.ca is a climate data portal produced collaboratively by the country’s leading climate organizations and supported, in part, by the Government of Canada. The goal of this portal is to support decision makers across a broad spectrum of sectors and locations by providing the most up to date climate data in easy to use formats and visualizations.