Check out the 2011 Census Bulletin from Peel Region...a great example of community data in action!

(La version française suit)

Subject: 2011 Census data are now available online.

The 2011 Census data on population and dwelling counts are now available for Canada, provinces and territories, and for your municipality.

To view these data online, please visit http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E and follow the appropriate links.

Another Globe and Mail featuring quotes from Community Development Halton...and our very own Tracey Lauriault!

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As Stephen Gordon points out, "Now that Statistics Canada has made its Cansim database publicly available, Canadians who are interested in public policy can look up the relevant data on their own. But it’s not always clear just what the relevant data are, nor how we should interpret them when they contradict each other."

Thanks to Cheryl in Kingston for letting us know about the 2012 International Making Cities Livable Conference, to be held May 20-24 in Portland, Oregon. Click here for the conference website...it looks to be an exciting event!

Citing concerns over the internal dynamics of the Federal Government, Philip Cross, Statistics Canada’s chief economic analyst has quit his job to take a post at the public policy thinktank the C.D. Howe Institute. Cross will also run an independent consulting business and write a newsletter on the economy called Inside the Numbers.

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Below, a quote from our very own Ted Hildebrandt!

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OTTAWA Statistics Canada is making much of its data available for free, starting Wednesday.

Officials say many census details and economic reports long hidden behind an online pay wall will now be available to anyone — as long as users don’t make special requests.

We're all curious as to what the next few months holds for Statistics Canada, perhaps no one more so than those at the Department. For the full article on the above from Monday's Globe and Mail, click here.