The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2011-12 Privacy Act annual report is expected to be tabled in Parliament. The report provides details on privacy trends and investigations involving federal departments over the course of the past fiscal year. As part of this year’s report, details of the office’s audit of the privacy practices … Read more
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page will release two new reports entitled “Monitoring Implementation of the Government’s Expense Plan” and “Expenditure Monitor: 2012-13 Q1” on the parliamentary budget officer's website. Call 613-992-8026.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page will release a new report entitled "Fiscal Sustainability Report 2012." The report presents estimates of recent policy changes (to the Canada Health Transfer, departmental spending and the Old Age Security program) on the fiscal sustainability of the federal and provincial-territorial-local government sectors. The report also includes a sensitivity analysis that … Read more
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page will release two new reports entitled, Federal Expenditure Restraint: Monitoring Framework and Federal User Charges, online. Call 613-992-8026.
Statistics Canada will release 2011 Census data on families, households and marital status for Canada, provinces, territories, all municipalities, and many more detailed levels of geography from coast to coast to coast. Data on structural types of dwellings and collectives will also be released. More information will be available online.
The Bank of Canada will announce its decision on the target for the overnight rate. More information will be available on the Bank of Canada website.
The summer issue of the Bank of Canada Review, a quarterly publication featuring articles related to the Canadian economy and to central banking, will be released. This issue of the review features the following articles: Measurement Bias in the Canadian Consumer Price Index: An Update, Global Risk Premiums and the Transmission of Monetary Policy and … Read more
The Canadian Medical Association will release its 12th Annual National Report Card on Health Care in Canada. The 2012 Report Card focuses on a series of questions about Canadians' health status, their knowledge and awareness of how to be healthy, and their lifestyle habits as they relate to their health. They were also asked an … Read more
The Centre for Science in the Public Interest, in association with a network of non-profit health partners, presents Writing on the Wall, a five-city series of symposia on putting nutrition information on restaurant menus. Speakers include Bill Jeffry, national coordinator of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Venues to be confirmed. More information … Read more
An audio and video Webcasts of a press conference by Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney and Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem following the release of the Monetary Policy Report will be available online.
