On June 20th, community data users and providers from across Canada came together for the third annual Community Data Canada Roundtable. A free, fully-bilingual event, the 2012 Roundtable was the first to be held as both a face-to-face meeting and a virtual event.
 

A story in today's Globe and Mail offers highlights from the 2012 Wealthscapes Report from Environics Analytics. This is the fifth year for Environics' annual report on neighbourhood-level wealth. To view maps of neighbourhood wealth in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary, click here.

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) will give $50,000 to 5-6 projects for the Social Innovation Partnership Grant in Poverty Alleviation. Read more about how this partnership works here. The deadline for applications is July 24th at noon EST; to download the Expressions of Interest form, click here.

Thanks to Sara Mayo for pointing us to a recent article by University of Ottawa professor Miles Corak (formally of StatsCan) on the cancellation of the longitudinal data series from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, a valuable resource at the larger geographic level.

For those of you who missed the announcement, it can be found at the bottom of this page.