United Way Toronto: Federal Government

Ontario Council Of Agencies Serving Immigrants OCASI Dept: The federal government will not renew its $9 million, five-year funding to the five Metropolis research centres in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Halifax when the grant runs out in 2013, according to The Star. If you want to make policies based on opinions instead of what the facts are, you get rid of the facts, said John Campey, of Social Planning Toronto, which founded the Ontario centre in 1996, along with United Way Toronto and the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants OCASI , in partnership with three Toronto universities and ottawa plans to stop funding a research network whose findings have helped improve Canada s immigration policies and settlement programs, the Star has learned. Critics say the cut is another blow to researchers and community groups who have already lost the reliable data gleaned from the mandatory long-form census, which the Conservatives ended in 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.