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The Hamilton Social Planning and Research Council, CSDS member, led a Save the Census campaign event yesterday. 

About one third of the 50+ participants were city staff and told me they were really heartened to see so many people cared about the data and planning work they do. There was a lot of motivation at the meeting  to do more to push this issue with the government. HSPRC will be also be meeting with Conservative MP David Sweet next week.

The event was also covered in the Hamilton Spectator:You can't set good policy without good census data, say local leaders.  Tom Cooper of the Hamilton Roundtable on Poverty Reduction could not have said it better:

The Social Planning Network of Ontario’s (SPNO) latest report, Ontario’s Social Landscape: Socio-demographic trends and condi

The Capacity WG will meet to discuss work on the Catalog.  Sara Mayo from SPC Hamilton, the Lead of this WG will host the call.

Conference call meeting of the Sharing Results WG.  Ted Hilderbrandt from Community Development Halton, the lead of this WG, will host the call.

See the blog for media release, articles and videos.

Executive Committee Meeting.  Lead is Peggy Taillon CCSD.  Call.

1st meeting of the Sharing Results WG.  The lead TBD.  Call.

To test adding data into the catalog.  WG Lead, Sara Mayo.

The Toronto Star reports that Census changes concern health community quoting John Campey, the lead on the Save

Janet Gaspirini, Social Planning Council of Sudbury and member of the CSDS in collaboration with Save the Census also or

Social Planning Council of Hamilton, CSDS members are organizing CODE RED for Neighbourhood Data:

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

David Eggen at Friends of Medicare in collaboration with local Edmonton CSDS members led a Save our Census Health Action that was featured on 630 C

CSDS Wayne Helgason of the Winnipeg Social Planning Council organized a local Save the Census health campaign that in collaboration with the

City of Toronto CSDS consortium member John Campey from the Social Planning Council of Toronto in partnership with the Canadian Council on Social Development led a national Save the Ce

CSDS member and the Lead of the CSDS Capacity Working Group is the author of the following Hamilton Spectator Article, Code Red for neighbourhood data.

• Ottawa Citizen: Statisticians go wild
• MaClean's: Tony Clement needs you (II)

• Toronto Star: Axing census questions adds up to trouble for Tories “Truly a stupid decision,’’ Liberal critic says

• Canada.com: Privacy commissioner sees few complaints about census form

• CIQSS Centre de données de recherche, Recensement 2011.
• Canadian Press: Census discussion disappears from federal consultation site
• Canadian Press: Languages watchdog launches census probe

The Canadian Social Data Strategy submitted to the Tony Clement National Economy Consultation on July 6th, 2010. The CSDS submission was under the Canada's Digital Content Theme. Last week, shortly after it was posted, vote came in and our submission was in the top three. This weekend it disappeared from the site. Here is the direct link to Reinstate our Census Long Form aka Questionnaire 2B, at 337 votes (late in the afternoon today). You can only see if if you link directly.

The Canadian Social Data Strategy is closely monitoring the media on the announcements to cuts to the 2011 Long Form of the Census. The following is a list in no particular order of what we know so far. Should you know of others, please do not hesitate to forward them to us!

• Global News: Federal report ignores census questionnaire privacy concerns