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CSLS Releases Reports on Happiness and Inequality and Redistribution in Canada Print E-mail

cslslogoThe 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.

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Turn Up The Volume Print E-mail

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.

 
Return of long-form census backed by one of Canada’s leading demographics experts Print E-mail

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.

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Aboriginal health programming under siege, critics charge Print E-mail

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.

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2013 Immigration Levels Planning: Public and Stakeholder Consultation Print E-mail

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

 

 

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) would like to invite you to participate in an online consultation on immigration levels planning.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek your feedback on immigration to Canada, specifically on the total number of new permanent residents Canada should welcome and how this overall total should be distributed among immigration categories.

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