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 Census health campaign last week that gathered local health practioners to ask for the reinstatement of the long form census. Fifteen top health officials and researchers spoke out Thursday against abandoning the mandatory long-form census, warning the federal government of the negative public health implications at coordinated news conferences in Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The Toronto Star published the following article: Health at risk if long-form census scrapped: experts September 3, 2010 by Health Reporter Megan Ogilvie. “Delivering appropriate and effective local health services requires accurate local information,” McKeown said at the Toronto news conference. “The long-form census is an essential source of information about local populations which we in Toronto Public Health use day to day.”