The Scandinavian modelGustave Goldmann, formerly a senior official at Statistics Canada, considers (scroll down) the periodically cited European model...
’Seeking solutions’The National Statistics Council, the government-appointed group that advises the chief statistician has stepped forward this...
Scary hypotheticalsAs our John Geddes points out , one of the questions that most disturbs Tony Clement about the census has never actually been...
The collection of numbers by the numbers (II)The Industry Minister has claimed that 160,000 Canadians "refused" to complete the long-form census in 2006. Statistics Canada now...
He said, he saidWhatever Tony Clement has already said Statistics Canada officials said to him, he really can’t say what they said, except to say...
’An impossible position’Alex Himelfarb, formerly the highest ranking civil servant in Ottawa, reflects on the resignation of Munir Sheikh.
Reality and perceptionThe Globe and Star survey the reach and impact of the census. CP considers the political calculation.