Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
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Canada’s population is more diverse than ever, with many different languages represented. Government policy must reflect that diversity and offer meaningful support to minority languages.
Inflation is driving up food prices and could have a severe impact on the health of Canadians. When the cost of food increases, it restricts the availability of nutritious foods for low-income people.
An economist provides insight into how inflation is measured, where it comes from and how it is impacting Canadians and the economy at large.
As the conversation about race and diversity becomes more common, why haven’t we updated our census to reflect that?
The difficulty governments have had in meeting the needs of Canadian workers impacted by the coronavirus crisis has exposed holes in our social safety net and the inadequacy of existing labour laws.
Statistics Canada has been tone-deaf in its push for the financial data of Canadians from banks, but that data is essential to forming good public policy.
New census data sheds light on the country’s Indigenous population. In Eastern Canada, the rise in people claiming to be “Métis” is a controversial case of “settler self-indigenization.”
New census data provides a chance to understand why immigrants earn lower wages than Canadians who have been here for many generations. Whether immigrants speak English at home may be a clue.
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Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Justice and Community Studies, Saint Mary’s University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Native Studies and Department of Political Science , University of Alberta
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Professor of Economics, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba
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Post-Doctoral Visitor, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
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Dalla Lana Fellow, University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science, MacEwan University
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Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
