April 13, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
As significant as what’s in Canada’s hate crime statistics is what they don’t include.
Trans people still aren’t counted in Canada’s hate crimes data
Data
Why you can’t trust Canada’s jobs numbers
April 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Either Peterborough had a truly incredible March, or something’s wrong with the way Canada tracks unemployment.
Chequed out: Inside the payday loan cycle
Feb. 11, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Patrick Cain, Global News
Jillane Mignon just needed cash to pay for day care.
Her job with the City of Winnipeg’s 311 program covered the bills, but not the $1,000 a month it cost to care for her son while she was at work.
“When there are [child care] subsidies, there are no spaces. When there are spaces, there’s no subsidy.”
So it started with a small loan from a payday lender. That took care of that month.
‘As Canadians we should have good data’: Why Ted Hsu tilts at census windmills
Feb. 4, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Ted Hsu knows he doesn’t stand a chance.
Data deficit: How are Canadians coping sans long-form census?
January 30, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canada’s long-dead long-form census is in the news again.
Liberal MP Ted Hsu’s private members bill, which proposes to bring it back but eliminate the threat of jail time for those who don’t fill out the mandatory long-form census, has brought the issue back to the fore – even though the bill has scant chance of passing when it’s put to a vote in a majority Conservative House of Commons next week.
But if Canada’s gold standard of population data’s gone for good, what does that mean for the individuals, governments, businesses, planners, health authorities (essentially, everyone) who depended on it?
Health officials starved of census data pay for local info of their own
August 27, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Public health bodies across Canada, starved of census data, are paying for pricey surveys to collect their own local info but say they’re still flying blind on decisions that affect public health and taxpayer dollars.
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