Statistics Canada's latest newsletter contain information on the Chat with an Expert they are holding tomorrow, as well as on a new report, titled Associations between parent and child sedentary behaviour and physical activity in early childhood. Read the full newsletter below for more information:
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Statistics Canada have sent out a newsletter on their new Canadian Centre for Energy Information. Read the contents below:
In response to growing stakeholder demand for better access to energy information, Statistics Canada and Natural Resources Canada, in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Canada Energy Regulator, are pleased to announce the initial launch of the Canadian Centre for Energy Information.
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.
Statistics Canada have sent out a newsletter with information on their recently released report, Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective, 2019, as well as their upcoming Chat with an Expert session. Read the content of the newsletter below:
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:
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 (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.
Powered by Data and the Data Policy Coalition have prepared a written submission, with the aim contributing to the Ontario Government's Data Strategy. The submission outlines several opportunities to bring further deliberation between government and the social sector. From the news release on poweredbydata.org:
Statistics Canada is holding a series of digital conferences, titled Canada 4.0 - society, the economy and the digital transformation. The next of these conferences is:
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.