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Census 2016: Stand up and be counted The Mandatory Long-Form Census is back; StatsCan looking for enumerators BARRY COULTER
We’ve been 10 years without it, but the mandatory long-form census is back, and it’s coming to a household near you — perhaps even yours.
And Statistics Canada, which runs the census, is also seeking enumerators to help out in the region. The last census, in 2011, was conducted as a voluntary survey
— the National Household Survey, as it was known. Kwong Wong, of Statistics Canada, told the Townsman this year’s census is seeking to collect the same quality of data as the last time the
long-form census was conducted 10 years ago. “The goal of the 2016 census program is to restore the quality of data for special populations, and for all levels of geography,
including the coverage of small municipalities, to the level of the 2006 census,” Wong said. “What we’re trying to achieve, through the ever-growing information needs of Canadians, is that we want to publish high quality data at the local level. This will provide communities such as Cranbrook the information they need to make decisions on services such as schools, roads, health care, policing, transit, and social services. “There’s really no other source for social service organizations in your community to understand what’s happening in neighbourhoods — to understand poverty, to plan for education, to plan for long-term health care, etc. “That’s what the long-form census is really trying to achieve. It’s getting reliable sources of information.”
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Distraught person taken into custody FOR THE TOWNSMAN TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTO
Chris Jenkins watches as Dr. Richard Hebda takes a hammer to a rock at a site near Cranbrook, in search of fossil trilobites. Dr. Hebda was in Cranbrook to deliver a lecture at the Royal Alexandra Hall on the importance of the fossil history in the region.
Understanding the story beneath our feet TRE VOR CR AWLEY
While Cranbrook and the surrounding area are known for extracting valuable resources out of the ground with the mines in the Elk Valley, it’s a different sort of material found underground that has the
scientific community abuzz. That material would be fossils. Whether it be trilobites pulled out of the ground around Cranbrook or dinosaur tracks found in Elk Valley mines or mastodon
remains discovered in the Flathead, the local geology has a lot of hidden gems for palaeontologists. Dr. Richard Hebda, a curator of Botany and Earth History at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, is currently in Cranbrook to
give a lecture at the Royal Alexandra Hall on Wednesday evening. Hebda, along with local fossil hunters, visited a site in the region — the location of which is being kept deliberately vague to protect any specimens that
could be discovered. Specimens such as trilobites — a fossil group of extinct marine arthropods, date back to the early Cambrian period roughly 521 million years ago.
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On March 28, around 9 p.m, Cranbrook RCMP received a call about a suicidal person. The RCMP were advised that this person was in possession of knives and was threatening to harm herself and police if they attended. Police officers arrived at the residence and spent a considerable amount of time speaking with the woman. The woman was eventually taken into custody without incident and brought to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Although she had been in possession of several knives when she was apprehended, no one was injured.
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