2011 census: population by riding
February 10, 2012 - 5:19am
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http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/T...
So...what's the new map going to look like?
The Canadian Election Atlas has a proposal for Ottawa: http://canadianelectionatlas.blogspot.com/2012/02/census-results-release...
The 905 belt should get quite a few new ridings. Oak Ridges and Brampton West could basically be split in two. I'm thinking Vaughan can probably be cut down to a Woodbridge-Kleinburg riding and Concord could be transferred out of Thornhill riding into a Maple-Concord type riding. A new riding will certainly have to be created in Halton also given the growth of Milton; Mississauga-Erindale and Streetsville
In Toronto, the downtown core grew a lot - Trinity-Spadina is now at 144,000. The Bay Street corridor, which was transferred in from TC in 2003, will probably have to be taken out, and/or Davenport will have to be stretched a bit east to Christie/Grace, perhaps.
Population growth by census tract for Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs)
http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-310-x/2011003/m...
Thread drift: this story is making the rounds (including HuffPost as well as Yahoo!):
NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan's population math may need fine-tuningMore thread drift. To give credit where credit is due, at least the federal government links to .pdf readers other than Adobe Acrobat Reader...and at least one of the .pdf readers that they link to is free (as in freedom) software.
Most governments only link to Adobe's website when they post .pdf documents. This amounts to taxpayer funded advertising for the Adobe Corporation. For instance the Ontario government provides taxpayer funded advertising for Adobe telling citizens that they "must" download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print .pdf documents. This is a lie.
On a daily basis I use a programme called "Evince" for viewing .pdf documents. It loads .pdf documents faster than Adobe Acrobat Reader and is "free as in freedom".
The Free Software Foundation in Europe has a campaign against governments providing free advertising for Adobe.
They have a more up-to-date list of free (as in freedom) pdf readers here.