Over the year, CTV Ottawa's Kimothy Walker has been profiling some of the city's most Amazing People including our own Peggy Taillon.  Prior to CCSD, Peggy served as the Senior Vice-President at The Ottawa Hospital but walked away from her position and spent over a year in Kenya to adopt her son as a single parent. Her successful efforts resulted in change of Kenyan laws for her to do so. She has since founded the HERA Mission of Canada which undertakes many development projects empowering women and children in Western Kenya. On Saturday October 27th, Peggy, along with 50...

Michael Adams, President of the Environics Institute, presented his remarks of the cancellation of the mandatory long-form census at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy 20th anniversary celebration.  Here's an excerpt of his remarks: The short form, which I presume everyone in this room filled in, unless you wanted to test the government’s tough-on-crime agenda, asks about the number of residents in your home, their relationships to one another, their age and gender, whether they farm, and what languages they speak. Basic population data for the most...

The Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) has  released two reports of general interest. Today the CSLS released a report entitled “The Impact of Redistribution on Income Inequality in Canada and the Provinces, 1981-2010” (PDF). The objective of the study is to provide an overview of trends in income inequality, defined as the Gini coefficient, in Canada and the provinces over the 1981-2010 period and to investigate the impact of redistributive policies – namely, taxes and transfers – on these trends.

The Canadian Government is responsible for protecting the rights of 7 million children and youth. How is it doing its job? Find out by streaming a special live event between the Government and the UN. The Canadian Government will discuss its efforts to advance the well-being of children and youth at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on September 26-27. For additional information on the stream as well as activity on children's rights, visit UNICEF Canada's "Turn Up The Volume", the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, and the UN Treaty Body Webcast sites. ​

from Lethbridge News by Kim Siever One of Canada’s leading demographic experts is reinforcing a report by Statistics Canada (StatsCan) that recommends reintroducing in 2016 the long-form census.

from The First Perspective Paul Christopher Webster CMAJ The federal government is deliberately undermining capacity to generate accurate Aboriginal health data and circulating discredited health data so as to downplay the severity of the Aboriginal health crisis in Canada, critics charge.

OTTAWA—Following the release of Towards a More Equal Canada, a discussion paper on income inequality, the Broadbent Institute has published the first of a series of responses to the report from a number of academics and politicians.

April 15, 1996 Ottawa -- The Canadian Council on Social Development is proposing reforms to the Canada Pension Plan that would ensure its long-term financial security and equity between generations. In the CCSD Response to the Federal-Provincial Information Paper for Consultations on the Canada Pension Plan released today, the organization makes four recommendations to strengthen the CPP, including increasing contribution rates, adjusting the CPP credit to offset the hike for those under age 40, allowing early retirees to draw partial pensions, and maximizing CPP fund investments. "We...