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News Blog

This is where we post updates as they come in. Short entries, mostly. Sometimes just a line and a link. Sometimes longer. All of it about the census, Stats Canada, and the people pushing back.

Newest at the top.

  • 03 May 2021. Census materials going out to households again. Demand a paper form. Do not do it online. Same advice as always.
  • 11 March 2018. CBC reports that Stats Canada lost hundreds of completed census forms across twenty separate incidents. Most were never made public. Read more
  • 15 March 2017. Reports surface that Stats Canada servers were targeted in a cyber attack. Official response says no harm done. We've heard that before.
  • 09 May 2016. Readers report pushy census workers at the door. A few have told them that further visits will be treated as trespassing. That seems to work.
  • 07 May 2016. Tip from a reader. If you do answer online, you can skip a specific question by pressing next several times. Not ideal, but it works.
  • 03 April 2016. Chief Statistician Wayne Smith says one in four households will get the mandatory long form this year. Not one in five. Thanks for the heads up, Wayne.
  • 05 November 2015. The federal government brings back the mandatory long form census for May 2016. The voluntary experiment is over.
  • September 2015. Reports continue about Statscan pressure to answer the ongoing Labour Force Survey. Read more
  • 17 July 2014. A self-employed yoga instructor in Powell River, BC, is found guilty of refusing the census. Conditional discharge. 25 hours of community service.
  • 22 January 2014. A 79 year old woman is convicted of refusing the census. Sentenced to 50 hours of community service.
  • 09 October 2013. An 89 year old peace activist is found not guilty of refusing the census. Read more
  • September 2013. A Stanley Cup riot hero is charged for refusing the 2011 census. He says he welcomes the chance to wake people up about privacy.
  • September 2013. We learn that an 89 year old activist is heading to trial soon for refusing the census. Read more
  • July 2012 onwards. Reports keep coming in that Stats Canada is telling Labour Force Survey recipients that participation is compulsory. Read more
  • 04 July 2011. Stats Canada publishes wrong GDP numbers for several provinces. Computer problems blamed. Read more
  • 30 June 2011. Reports of census reps pressuring citizens to answer the voluntary National Household Survey. Read more
  • June 2011. Census workers tell us about internal problems at Statistics Canada. Read more
  • 27 May 2011. Reuters reports that hackers broke into Lockheed Martin. So much for the security assurances.
  • 4 May 2011. Time to promote CountMeOut.ca on social media. Share a link. That's all it takes.
  • 3 May 2011. Census forms arriving in the mail. You can ask the rep to leave it with you. No need to fill it out on the spot.
  • 28 March 2011. Canadians will receive Lockheed Martin-tainted census forms on election day. You can't make this stuff up.
  • March 2011. A strong anti-census movement is active in the UK, where Lockheed Martin also has a census contract.
  • February 2011. The Chief Statistician admits that 2 million Canadians didn't respond to the 2006 census and none were prosecuted.
  • 19 January 2011. We launch the revamped CountMeOut.ca. Feedback welcome through the contact page.
  • July 2010. The government announces the long form will no longer be mandatory. But the details are murky. Read more
  • October 2006. A census security breach comes to light. Stats Canada downplays it. Read more
  • 02 April 2006. Stats Canada plans to spend $13 million on census advertising. Read more
  • 02 March 2006. An American reader asks what the reaction would be if the US Census went to a Canadian company. Read more

Older Items

Before 2006, we didn't have much of an archive. The site started as a response to the Lockheed Martin contract, which was already in place by then. Everything older than that got lost in a hard drive crash years ago.

If you've got something from that era, send it in. We'd like to rebuild the history.

How To Use This Page

If you're new here, scan the headlines. Anything that catches your eye, click through. The longer pages go into detail. The shorter ones are just quick updates.

If you're a regular, check back every few weeks. We post when there's something worth saying. Not more often than that, because there's no point in padding the page with filler.

And if you've got a news item we missed, get in touch. That's the whole point of this page. It's built on what readers send us.