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Income inequality in Canada

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance announced that it will study this question in April 2013. Those who wish to submit a brief to the Committee on this topic should do so no later than noon on Friday, April 5, 2013. Briefs, which should not exceed five pages in length, may be published by the House of Commons on the Committee’s Web site. Read the news release for more details or contact Christine Lafrance, Clerk of the Standing Committee on Finance at  613-992-9753 or FINA@parl.gc.ca.

2 April, 2013 |

International Women’s Day at the CRDCN

Gender is probably one of the key variables considered in social statistics research. To mark the International Women’s Day, we’d like to point out the work of a few researchers that more specifically examined the situation of Canadian women and who recently presented their results at our Annual conference: Carole Vincent examined income inequality between gender, Tammy Schirle the participation of mothers to the labour market and Lori Curtis the feminization of poverty, while Richard Mueller addressed the situation of same sex couples. You can watch their presentations on our Youtube page or download their PPt presentations in our KT Corner. Happy Women’s day!

7 March, 2013 |

Manitoba Will Hold Publication Consultations on Poverty Reduction Strategy

Manitobans from across the province are invited to participate in the consultation on the All Aboard strategy on poverty reduction and social inclusion adopted last year. Meetings will be held in March in Winnipeg, Brandon, Gimli, Dauphin, The Pas and Thompson. All details available here. (source: PolicyMonitor.ca)

1 March, 2013 |

Marriage or common law union?

Last Friday, Canada’s Supreme Court released its decision regarding the constitutionality of Quebec’s civil law regime for common law couples. Several researchers have used Statistics Canada’s microdata to examine related issues. We’d like to point out Tahany Gadalla’s studies on the impact of divorce and separation on men and women’s poverty rates and income, France-Pascale Ménard’s analysis of the stability of unions in Canada, and Céline LeBourdais et Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcik’s examination of the evolution of family composition in Quebec.

28 January, 2013 |

Presentations from the 2012 CRDCN conference

The videos and PowerPoint presentations from the last annual conference are now available: you can notably listen to Byron Spencer on the use of administrative data for research purposes, Phil Oreopoulos on behavioral economics, and Andrew Heisz on LISA, the next generation of longitudinal surveys. See all presentations by clicking here.

16 January, 2013 |

Debating pension reform in Canada

In light of the on-going debate on pension reform in Canada, we wish to point out two recent pieces by researchers using RDC confidential microdata that can help inform the discussion. One by Frank Denton and Byron Spencer on age of pension eligibility in relation with gains in life expectancy and the other by Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud on recent retirement patterns.

17 December, 2012 |

Public consultation in Ontario

Ontario has released a draft cycling strategy and is looking for public input on how to encourage and improve cycling safety across the province, until Jan. 29, 2013. (Details here) In connection with this news, we invite you to read related articles by CRDCN researchers about active transportation amongst Canadian youth and walking to work.

10 December, 2012 |

Have your say on Nova Scotia's Housing Strategy: Province Seeks Your Input

Through a consultation launched on November 7th, the province of Nova Scotia will gather input from public meetings and online to help create the province's first housing strategy. To know more about the process, read the discussion paper and submit your recommendations, visit http://housing.novascotia.ca.

4 December, 2012 |

Introduction to Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Public Policies: Online Course

An introductory course on HIA of public policies will be offered online from May 1, 2013 to June 12 (in English). It has been developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec in collaboration with Dr. Richard Massé, associate professor at the Department of social and preventive medicine at the University of Montreal Registration deadline is March 20, 2013. Find more details on the NCCHPP website.

26 November, 2012 |

Income Inequality in Canada

Thanks to Liberal MP Scott Brison, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance will examine income inequality in Canada. For those of you working on this important question, this is a great opportunity to contribute to the adoption of evidence-based public policy. 

27 July, 2012 |

Consultation on Quebec’s research and innovation strategy

The Acfas has been mandated by the Quebec Department of Economic Development, Innovation and Exportation to consult the research community about Quebec’s research and innovation policy. All are invited to take part in this consultation. To learn more about it, click here.

10 July, 2012 |

Census long form update

December 8:  Dr. Bennett's Private Member’s Bill to enshrine the mandatory long-form census in law passed at its second reading in the House of Commons. Read more...

9 December, 2010 |

Census long-form questionnaire: debate

For the first time in 35 years, the Canadian census will not have a long-form questionnaire.  The government decided to replace it with a voluntary survey, the National Household Survey. This decision has important repercussions for Canadian society and for our network. Click here for further information about the debate.

12 July, 2010 |