Statistics Canada released its 2016 census data on housing, Aboriginal peoples, immigration and ethnocultural diversity today.
UBC experts are available to comment:
John Paul Catungal
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Tel: 604-822-9148
Email: catungal@mail.ubc.ca
- Migration, immigration, diversity, multiculturalism
Penny Gurstein
School of Community and Regional Planning
Tel: 604-822-6065
Email: penny.gurstein@ubc.ca
- Affordable housing, public housing, community planning and development
*Limited availability today
Craig E. Jones
Department of Geography
Tel: 604-818-0493
Email: craig.e.jones@geog.ubc.ca
- Rental housing, recent immigration, refugee housing
*Available from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. PT
Nathanael Lauster
Department of Sociology
Tel: 604-731-4792
Email: nathan.lauster@ubc.ca
- Population, housing, urban and community planning, crowding, immigration
Charles Menzies
Department of Anthropology
Email: charles.menzies@ubc.ca
- Aboriginal issues
Tsur Somerville
UBC Sauder School of Business
Cell: 604-329-4585
Email: tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
- Housing policy, markets and affordability; economics of cities; real estate finance
Rima Wilkes
Department of Sociology
Email: rima.wilkes@ubc.ca
- Aboriginal peoples, immigration and ethnocultural diversity
*Available for phone interviews only
Henry Yu
Department of History
Email: henry.yu@ubc.ca
- Asian migration to Canada, multiculturalism, racism, immigration