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The Liberals are trying to resuscitate the governent’s decision on the long form census  by introducing a private member’s bill to bring back the mandatory long form census.

• You can read the complete Globe and Mail story here.

• Interested to see what questions are asked on the long census form? You can take a look at the questions here :

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/instrument/3901_Q2_V3-eng.pdf

• Also take a look at types of data that are based on the long form census – available to UBC  staff, students and faculty.

Census of Canada – Topic Based Tabulations

Data.gov. uk – “Launched in 2010 this official UK government site seeks to increase greater transparency and accountability by providing free open access to many government datasets and official statistics. These cover all areas of government policy ranging from health, to the economy, crime rates and education. Users can search by theme or keyword or browse the latest additions. There is also a section with new apps and widgets. The site also includes a blog, twitter feed and forum where users can share ideas on new applications, mash ups and uses of government data. Copyright and technical information is on the website.”-Intute

http://data.gov.uk/

Guardian’s DataBlog

“The Guardian’s DataBlog contains links to a range of data via their datastore ( a directory of all the statistics that they post and publish pertaining to current affairs) which can be downloaded in various formats incl. MS Excel. This site (which compliments the Guardina’s ‘free-our-data’ campaign) has links to Environmental data, US data, in addition to a range of -easy-to-use visualisation and sharing Web 2.0 tools and APIs. The Blog also acts as a discussion forum for data in the public domain.” – Intute

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog

“Global life expectancy could be increased by nearly five years by

addressing five factors affecting health – childhood underweight, unsafe sex,

alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood

pressure, according to a report published by WHO today.”

Read the story from the Vancouver Sun here

WHO news release

Link to index page – GLOBAL HEALTH RISKS: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks

Read the Tyee story about the slashed cuts in Arts funding. Actress Kim Cattrall also spoke out about cuts to arts funding –  read the story from the Vancouver Sun.

Read the story from the Globe and Mail here.   Also Carole James meets with business leaders about the HST from Globe and Mail.

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