News
Kate McInturff
| The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative mourns the loss of feminist researcher and scholar Kate McInturff. |
Blog
Armine Yalnizyan
| The Harper government's strategy is leaving us more and more in the dark about ourselves, by reducing the amounts of official information we have and weakening its reliability. |
Blog
Armine Yalnizyan
| The line between truth and truthiness in economic statistics is getting easier to miss. That's a problem because it helps evidence-based decision-making become decision-based evidence-making. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| This series of articles will be addressing the issue of sexual assault. The material might be upsetting to some readers. Please take necessary precautions and have a plan of self-care in place shoul |
Podcast
Redeye Collective
| A private member's bill to bring back the long-form census has reinvigorated discussion about the importance of statistics for effective government. |
Blog
Armine Yalnizyan
| Two findings stand out in the National Household Survey (NHS) data released Wednesday, both critical in this post-recession era of uncertainty. |
Podcast
David Peck
| Ian speaks to development issues of all kinds, sustainability, how to lie with statistics and the future of development. |
Blog
Marc Lee
| Some colleagues at the U.S. NGO Global Exchange tipped me off to some sneaky data doctoring done by the Fraser Institute on climate change. |
Blog
Marc Lee
| Last week, BC Stats put out a release with the headline "Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty." |
Columnists
Hennessy's Index
| The Hennessy Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This month -- the federal election. |
Columnists
Hennessy's Index
| The Hennessy Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. |
Podcast
Jane Williams
| Richard Wilkinson's work has shaped research on the social determinants of health for over thirty years. He co-authored the international best-seller The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett. |