In light of recent developments relating to COVID-19, we want to let all Community Data Program users know that the program's operations will be continuing as usual.

Statistics Canada is holding a series of digital conferences, titled Canada 4.0 - society, the economy and the digital transformation. The next conference in this series is:

Connected: The digital revolution and the well-being of Canadians

When:Tuesday, March 26, 2020 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, followed by a 30-minute question and answer discussion

Community Development Halton have released a new issue in their Community Lens series, examining home energy poverty in the Halton Region. The report looks at Halton households spending more than twice the Canadian average on home energy needs, using 2016 Census data.

From the report:

"In 2016, over 22% of Ontario’s 5.1 million households were home energy poor. The average for Halton Region was 15.5%, representing almost 30,000 households. Almost one in five (18.3% or 3,800) households in Halton Hills spent more than 6% of their after-tax income on home energy"

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:

Thank you for being part of the Community Data Program. In order to continue to serve our members through access to data, delivery of program resources and tools, and improving our network, we ask that you complete a short survey based on your experience with the program. The survey should only take 5 minutes of your time. We made an effort to only ask questions that help us deliver the program, so we are not wasting your time. We will actually read the responses and use them to make decisions for the program.

Statistics Canada have sent out a newsletter on their new Canadian Centre for Energy Information. Read the contents below:

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:

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 (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.