data
On energy and climate, politics is the problem
Nik Nanos and Brendan Frank: Climate disasters are piling up, and the public discourse around climate is getting more ambitious
Eight charts to watch on climate and energy in 2022
Chart Week 2022: Electric car sales are supercharged, climate change is scorching crop production, and women are underrepresented in Alberta’s energy sector
Five charts that will define Canadian real estate and housing in 2022
Chart Week 2022: The price of housing is ballooning; and demand is up but construction is down
These happy data warriors do a better job charting the pandemic than your government
Vaxx Populi: A friendly competition between economists is generating the graphs and information Canadians really care about
Canada’s dire need for better race-based data
Denise Balkissoon: It’s clear that COVID-19 and racism are a dangerous combination. We need better information about how Indigenous, Black and other racialized people interact with Canadian health-care systems.
The USMCA locks Canada in on digital trade—and at a worrying time
Opinion: There are notable differences in Canada’s approach to data between the ‘new NAFTA’ and the TPP, and they may have troubling consequences
Canada has shown leadership on data—but it’s silent when trade deals arise
Opinion: Canada’s trade talk doesn’t match its data-regulation walk, and if policymakers fail to coordinate those two, there could be trouble ahead
How well does Facebook think it knows you?
In light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, users talk about how their feelings towards sharing their data online have shifted, or not.
The barren wasteland of Canadian statistics
The government uses Kijiji postings for labour data. Statistics in Canada are a disgrace.
The Internet should be fair—not free—to everyone
The heaviest users comprise just two per cent of the total
Adding it up
Bruce Cheadle takes apart a recent study that questioned Statistics Canada’s crime data.