Last week Environics Institute President Michael Adams spoke at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. His speech, thoughtful, poignant, and at times witty, lamented the federal government's decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census. By contrast, Adams applauded the "brave Canadian nerds" who have "championed good data". Nerds like top brass at the Community Data Program:
Topic: ENVISION with CCSD
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time: 1:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 714 974 917
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On June 20th, community data users and providers from across Canada came together for the third annual Community Data Canada Roundtable. A free, fully-bilingual event, the 2012 Roundtable was the first to be held as both a face-to-face meeting and a virtual event.
A story in today's Globe and Mail offers highlights from the 2012 Wealthscapes Report from Environics Analytics. This is the fifth year for Environics' annual report on neighbourhood-level wealth. To view maps of neighbourhood wealth in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary, click here.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) will give $50,000 to 5-6 projects for the Social Innovation Partnership Grant in Poverty Alleviation. Read more about how this partnership works here. The deadline for applications is July 24th at noon EST; to download the Expressions of Interest form, click here.