StatsCan

Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data

Editorial: Canada’s record on infant mortality is encouraging

Statistics Canada has revised three decades worth of data in its System of National Accounts, implementing new standards set out...

The crime rate is down but police forces are growing. We’re poorer as a result, but not necessarily any safer.

Thus spake the scientist and administrator G.B. Longstaff ( 1849-1921 ) in an address to the Royal Statistical Society on June...

While Tony Clement continues to try to defend his department’s census changes, Stephen Gordon tallies the potential damage done.

Stephen Gordon expands on his concerns about government changes to the census. Genealogists , economists , academics and Canada’s...

The government has announced, on the grounds of " personal privacy ," a rather important change to the census. Stephen Gordon, in...

CBC’s Power & Politics reported this evening—available at the 24:30 mark here —on a study of current and projected prison...

In the money: Or at least that’s what Fox is hoping for this fall with its new strategy of shrinking commercial break time on two...