Last summer Open Government invited the to comment on the draft commitments for Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. The Action Plan is now complete and offers ten commitments aimed at advancing progress on government accountability and citizen participation. It includes commitments and activities, such as upgrading digital government services, renewing relationships with Indigenous Peoples, and opening up more access to federal scientific research and data.

 YouthfulCities has launched their first-ever YouthfulCities in 13 Canadian cities, measuring 121 indicators spanning all 20 youthful infrastructure areas!

Read the report here: https://www.youthfulcities.com/canadian-urban-index

The Canadian Index of Child and Youth Well-Being is a framework to communicate to Canadians what Canada is like for kids from birth to age 18, track progress for their rights and well-being, and a guide action to address the greatest challenges. 

The Index contains:

Open Government needs your help!

This year the Government of Canada assumed the role of co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). As part of its role, Canada will be hosting the OGP Global Summit in May 2019.

CIHI’s Measuring Health Inequalities: A Toolkit NEW!

Why is information on health inequalities so important? Because it can help improve health and health care service delivery for all Canadians.

In collaboration with experts across the country, CIHI has developed standard definitions for equity stratifiers to support health organizations and analysts in measuring health inequalities. These definitions are featured in CIHI’s Measuring Health Inequalities: A Toolkit.

There is controversy over Statistics Canada’s plan to obtain personal banking records - exposing a growing concern over the reliability of the data currently produced by Canada’s statistics agency.

The NFHI (Neighbourhood Financial Health Index) has just released a new report called Cross Canada Check-up - a look at household financial health across Canada.

Take a look at it here!

Community Data Program (CDP) will deliver a webinar-based tutorial workshop on Census Target Group Profile tables and the new "Individual Target Group Profiles Data Investigation Template" that will be made available to CDP members.

Community Data Program (CDP) will deliver webinar-based orientation on navigating the CDP catalogue, and the software Beyond 20/20. The orientation will review example projects from that our members have been involved with as well.

When: Tuesday, October 23rd

When: 1:00pm Eastern time

Click here to sign up for the webinar.