Professor Carl James on breaking the cycle of violence in Toronto's Flemingdon Park neighbourhood

The slayings in Flemingdon Park this summer have brought a shadow of violence back to a community where, on the surface, it appeared to have lifted, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 3: Flemingdon Park is one of Toronto’s “priority” areas. Census data from 2001 showed that 71 per cent of the 22,000 residents were […]

Professor Valerie Preston says making the long-form census voluntary could hamper research on Canada's vulnerable

A growing chorus of Toronto voices, including the director of York’s Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration & Settlement (CERIS), is opposing Ottawa’s plans to change the national census, which gathers in-depth information from Canadians to form public policy, wrote InsideToronto.com and The Beach-Riverdale Mirror July 13: Beginning with the 2011 census, held every […]