CrimeRisk Canada

The highly requested CrimeRisk Canada database is finally here. Much like CrimeRisk that covers the United States, CrimeRisk Canada assigns an index score on various crime types at all geographic levels across Canada. Let’s break down the similarities and differences...

Canada Release Highlights

In the coming weeks, we will be releasing new data for Canada, and updating existing databases. AGS now boasts more than 2,800 variables for Canada data in partnership with Exceed Analysis in Canada. Below is a summary of what you can expect for this update. Overall,...

A Linguistic Study of Montreal

Montreal is the second largest metropolitan area in Canada, with just over 4.3 million people. Most of us, especially here in the United States, tend to think of Montreal as being a French speaking city. To a large extent it is just that, but perhaps surprisingly,...

Sister Cities?

Over the years, we have become accustomed to seeing signs indicating that a city is twinned with a list of cities around the globe. The above signs are in San Francisco, pointing to the cities around the world which are “twinned”. None are in Canada. Since these are...

Race and the Census

The recent publication of the redistricting release of the 2020 census has resulted in some discussion about some of its more surprising results. The white population declined from 223.5 to 204.7 million between 2010 and 2020, by all accounts an unprecedented change....