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Aaron Wudrick
We frown on smiles! The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is unhappy to learn public-sector workers are happy
David J. Climenhaga | There is a price to our country of having more Canadians in public employment, and there is a price to having fewer so employed. Only one is worth paying.
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How the Harper government's census strategy keeps us in the dark
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.
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A number is never just a number: Pseudo census
Hennessy's Index | The federal government scrapped Canada's mandatory long-form census in 2010, replacing it with a voluntary survey.
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When good data goes bad: The 2011 National Household Survey
Armine Yalnizyan | Two findings stand out in the National Household Survey (NHS) data released Wednesday, both critical in this post-recession era of uncertainty.