Acorn's comments on the Housing Strategy: Ontario misses the mark with housing plan.
11/29/2010
This Globe and Mail article by Stephen Hwang provides some numbers on the state of homelessness in Canada.
11/27/2010
Meeting to discuss: Survey, New Data, Campaingn 2000, geography for next census, etc.
11/25/2010
Dear Friend,
Yep, we’re still fighting for the Census! And we still need your help!
11/23/2010
New initiative will extend resources and support to help Ontario's charities and nonprofits meet their legal requirements for accessible customer service.
11/23/2010
Research in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa over a two-year period suggests that for every person sleeping on the street, there are 23 more who are at risk of becoming homeless — living in unaffordable, crowded and unsafe conditions.
11/21/2010
Lead face to face meeting in Toronto. Details TBD.
11/21/2010
Abstract: Ms. Tracey P. Lauriault discusses neighbourhood scale research using Census data.
10/28/2010
Share your thoughts on what you would like to see this site called and choose or create a tagline you think reflects what we all do. Email your ideas to tracey@acaciaconsulting.ca by Nov. 15, 2010:
10/28/2010
Every 2nd Wed of each month 13:30 to 14:30 EST
10/28/2010
Every 2nd Wednesday 13:30 - 14:30 EST.
10/28/2010
Invited to attend this meeting to discuss access to homelessness data.
10/27/2010
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.
10/27/2010
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.
10/19/2010
All;
Michael has been super busy getting the catalogue up to date and lots of new data have been loaded:
10/18/2010
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.
10/18/2010
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.
10/18/2010
Ted from Halton has forwarded this very thoughtful Editorial by Ed Broadbent in the Toronto Star - Equality or barbarism?
10/18/2010