EconoUs2018 builds on the long history of successful national conferences organized by the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and partners across the country since 2001. More than 4,000 people have attended this event over the past 17 years. This year, we expect to welcome 350 attendees from across the country and connect with over 15,000 people online.
The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada, a learning resournce on Indigenous lands, languange and culture in Canada was finally lauched after 2 years of community input and research. It was produced in partnership with the Assembly of First Nation, Inuit and the Métis Nation, and includes a 4 volume set of books and an online altas. This altas will be available late summer of 2018!
Notes from the last Data Purchase and Access Working Group meeting is now up!
The agenda from this meeting:
Statistics Canada continues to make its data more accessible and dynamic with the launch of Food Stats, a comprehensive one-stop shop for statistical information on food.
On behalf of Statistics Canada’s Agriculture Division:
OECD released this report called Divided Cities, Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities, providing an "assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods."
Last week was the Community Data Program’s Annual Meeting, hosted by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health in Guelph, Ontario.
A new study looks at measurements of happiness in Canadian communities and finds that the old saying is true: money isn’t everything.
Researchers are increasingly using data to gauge qualitative factors like quality of life. While important aspects like affordable housing and short commutes can be easily put into numbers, the most important factor- sense of community belonging- remains somewhat more abstract.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a CDP Member Organization, is carrying out the Fort McMurray region’s first official population count since the mass evacuation during the May 2016 wildfire.
Socio-economic supervisor Kodjo Efu is leading the effort to figure out how many of the 80,000+ evacuees have since returned.
Montreal-based Powered by Data is sharing their new project on administrative data sharing. In this blog post, they show how this type of data-sharing can offer innovative solutions to problems facing nonprofits.