May 12, 2025
Statistics Canada Preconference Workshops – May 12
Our partner Statistics Canada is hosting FREE preconference workshops ahead of CRDCN 2025!
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May 13, 2025
Registration 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Plenary: National Research Infrastructures – Building capacity and sustaining research excellence for Canada 9:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
The first plenary of the conference will assemble a panel of key figures in the research ecosystem in Canada to discuss recent movement toward a new paradigm for a federal research support system that addresses issues of sustainability for “major” research infrastructures. The panel chair and discussants will explore questions such as:
- an understanding of “major” research infrastructures that values and supports researchers and expertise as much as research equipment;
- the lifecycle and portfolio approach to funding national research infrastructures;
- the false dichotomy between investigator-driven research and mission-driven research; and
- the importance of a national research data strategy.

Frédéric Bouchard
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences/Doyen de la Faculté des arts et des sciences
L'Université de Montréal

Alison Bourgon
Acting Associate Vice-President, Research - Strategy/Vice-présidente associée par intérim, Recherche - Stratégie
CIHR/IRSC

Janet Halliwell
President/Présidente
J.E. Halliwell Associates Inc.

Sylvie Lamoureux
Vice President, Research/Vice-présidente, Recherche
SSHRC/CRSH

Mohamad Nasser-Eddine
Vice President of Programs and Planning/Vice-président des programmes et de la planification
CFI/FCl

Mona Nemer
Chief Science Advisor of Canada/Conseillère scientifique en chef du Canada
Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
John Baker, CMHC (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation), From coast to coast: How Canada’s housing market shapes residential mobility
Moloud Hajimoradi, University of Waterloo, Evaluating machine learning techniques for national travel mode choice in Canada
Béatrice Morselli, Université de Montréal, Residential proximity of Canadian siblings in adulthood
Ryan Kelly, Government of Canada, Productivity growth and innovation support
Amirali Karimi, Polytechnique Montréal, Collaboration strategies and partners: The impact of international connections on firms’ innovation performance – Can artificial intelligence act as a moderator?
Samson Aklobo, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Shaping research direction: The interplay of R&D incentives and firm size
Iris Wang, McMaster University, The cultural origin of gender gaps in pay and mobility: Evidence from Canada
Gabriel John Dusing, York University, Gender-based violence and labor force participation: Evidence from the 2018 Canadian Survey on Safety in Private and Public Spaces
Flavia Alves, Carleton University, Labour market and technological constraints: An investigation of gender gap in Canada
11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Ebenezer Narh, University of Western Ontario, Does it pay to relocate for higher education? Modelling the effects of student migration on labour earnings in Canada
Oyu-Erdene Buyandelger, Concordia University, Understanding the mechanisms of the Future to Discover project
Xavier St-Denis, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), The influence of grand-parents on access to postsecondary education in Canada
Chika Agbo, Toronto Metropolitan University, Evaluating the economic welfare of Provincial Nominee Program immigrants
Kiarash Hosseini, Simon Fraser University, Immigrants’ pathways to success: Student permits vs permanent residencies
Audrey Appiah, Social Research & Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), Pathways and outcomes of study permit holders in Ontario
Alireza Baghbanferdows, Toronto Metropolitan University, Measuring health shocks in Canada: New Evidence from linked administrative data on socioeconomic inequalities and future income
Levi Frehlich, University of Calgary, A mediation analysis using neighbourhood built characteristics, physical activity, and health-related fitness in urban dwelling Canadian Adults.
Angelina Baric, McMaster University, Ultra-processed food consumption and cardiometabolic risk in Canada: A cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Health Measures Survey
1:40 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Min Hu, University of British Columbia, Socioeconomic inequality and COVID-19 mortality across Canada throughout the entire pandemic
Ryan Miller, McMaster University, Receipt of the Canada Recovery Benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with parental mental health
Adebiyi Boco, University of Lethbridge, Loneliness and income disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic
Yaya Diallo, McGill University, Dynamic Labour concentration of migrants: Evidence from Canada
Mohammad Azizur Rahman, Toronto Metropolitan University, Factors influencing refugee entrepreneurship in Canada
2:50 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Tomoko McGaughey, Carleton University, Characterizing the socio-demographics and health behaviours of high system inpatient healthcare users in a rural-inclusive way
James Clay, University of Victoria / Dalhousie University, Alcohol consumption and mortality among Canadian drinkers: A national population-based survival analysis (2000-2017)
Ana Collares, Carleton University, Aging in place or moving away? Health as a driver of older adults’ migration in rural Canada
Timea Molnár, Central European University, Mothers’ return to work after childbirth, and the role of spousal involvement in mothers’ mental health, mothers’ careers and their children’s development
Kourtney Koebel, University of Toronto, and Daisy Pollenne, INSEAD, Daddy Issues: The Differential Impact of Childbirth on the Well-Being of Mothers and Fathers in the UK
Farouk Awal, University of Calgary, Closing or widening? Parental leave and the gender gap in childcare
Kenneth Fyie, University of Calgary, Economic outcomes for Canadians with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Kristine Ienciu, York University, Gender identity and disability: A national study on transgender and non-binary Canadians
Firouz Fallahi, Employment and Social Development Canada, Digital inclusion: understanding e-vulnerability across Canada
Poster Session 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
CRDCN’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Event 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
The reception will celebrate the CRDCN’s 25th anniversary. We have a lot to celebrate – our collaboration with Statistics Canada and 46 Canadian universities and research institutes supports more than 2500 researchers per year across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines to advance research and inform evidence-based policy. We hope that you will join us in Ottawa for this celebration, as we look back at 25 years of accomplishment and look ahead to the next 25 years of research.
May 14, 2025
Plenary: Data management and supporting FAIRly restricted data 9:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
The second plenary of the conference will launch the nation-wide outreach campaign for the CRDCN’s SSHRC Connection Grant project. The panel members will discuss the challenges and best practices related to the data life cycle for restricted data, and opportunities for growth and improvement, both for researchers and research infrastructures (including data providers, repositories, and search tools).
The panel is intended to inspire and motivate the research community to improve and champion FAIRification and research data management with restricted data, and to provide a pathway for research infrastructures to improve their own practices and processes related to restricted data.

Alexandra Cooper
Data Services Coordinator/Coordinatrice des services de données
Queen's University/Université Queen's

James Doiron
Research Data Management Strategies Director/Directeur des stratégies de gestion des données de recherche
University of Alberta Library/Bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta

Natalie Harrower
Executive Director/Directrice générale
CRDCN/RCCDR

Ted McDonald
Director/Directeur
New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT)/Institut de recherche, de données et de formation du Nouveau-Brunswick

Kevin Read
Research Data Management and Open Science Associate Librarian/Bibliothécaire associé de gestion des données de recherche et science ouverte
University of Saskatchewan/Université de Saskatchewan
10:30 a.m to 11:30 a.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Emmanuelle Arpin, Université de Montréal, Income-based inequalities in household spending on health services in Canada: Descriptive trends and underlying mechanisms for households with children
Md. Aslam Hossein, University of Manitoba, Care-related out-of-pocket expenditures of family caregivers in low income
Yuzhi Yang, University of New Brunswick, Scant protection: Rent regulation and health impact of precarious housing
Steven Ryan, University of Toronto, Riding out the downturn: The re-employment effects of an unemployment insurance extension
Vincent Chandler, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Sophistication fiscale des ménages ontariens
Laura Jimenez, Dalhousie University, The impact of the Canadian emergency response benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of household food insecurity in Canada
Jacob Loree, Finance Canada, The persistence, determinants, and wage effects of labour market overqualification for bachelor’s degree holders
Neeru Gupta, University of New Brunswick, Ethnic diversity and earnings differentials in the Canadian chiropractic workforce
Himavanth Vempati, Government of Canada, Evaluation methodology of the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness for Family Doctors and Nurses Benefit (DNLF)
11:40 a.m to 12:40 p.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Mohamed Ouardi, Gouvernement du Canada, Heterogeneous treatment effect of Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS) programs: A causal machine learning approach
Ian O’Donnell, University of Western Ontario, Timing and tenure: Evidence on worker earnings and firm employment growth
Mohammad Sazzad Hasan, Carleton University, Occupational radiation exposure and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of Canadian medical workers
Suvadra Datta Gupta, University of Saskatchewan, Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) for lung cancer among Canadian uranium workers
Paul Peters, Carleton University, Socioeconomic variation in cause-related mortality incorporating a multiple-cause weighting approach
Amy Alberton, Texas State University, The main predictive and intersecting effects of neighbourhood income, ethnicity, and gender on arrest in Canada
Ann-Marie Helou, McGill University, Formalism vs. realism: Exploring non-legal determinants of sentencing outcomes in Canada twenty years after Bill C-41
Abdie Kazemipur, University of Calgary, The pitfalls of aggregated racial categories: Rethinking the “”visible minority”” classification in research on socio-economic outcomes
1:40 p.m to 2:40 p.m. Concurrent Adjudicated Paper Sessions
Sophia Wan, University of Alberta, International parental leave policies and their association with preterm birth
Lisa Milloy, Talk Therapy Canada, The main predictive and intersecting effects of out-of-home child welfare placement, ethnicity, and gender on arrest in Canada
Peiya Cao, York University, Disparities in emergency department visits among children from same-sex versus opposite-sex couples: A study using linked Canadian Census data
Boris Laurence Vinbamba, Université de Sherbrooke, Mental health, productivity, and job leave intentions in the Canadian government
Frank Elgar, McGill University, Food insecurity and youth suicidal behaviours: Evidence from the Canadian Health Survey of Children and Youth
Emily Earle, University of New Brunswick, The role of community belonging in the association between childhood abuse and cyberbullying victimization in Canada
Abdel-Hamid Bello, Université de Montréal, Intergenerational transmission of inequalities: Are health inequalities at birth the missing link?
Sencer Karademir, University of Calgary, The long-run distributional impacts of lowering the pension eligibility age
Zhen Huang, Simon Fraser University, Intergenerational income mobility among immigrants in Canada
Plenary: Retrospective Session 2:50 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
As the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) turns 25 in 2025, the strength of the Network reflects tremendous strides in advancing access to data and the excellent work of researchers and partners past and present. As a national research infrastructure, it also prepares us for the role that we can play in the next 25 years, in a world where data are increasingly valuable. This session brings together invited speakers to discuss CRDCN’s key role in connecting researchers and government. It highlights how shared efforts to support the reuse of Statistics Canada microdata enable us to better understand and address increasingly complex issues that have direct impacts on Canadians.

Ümit Kiziltan
Former Director General of Research, Head of Evaluation, and Chief Data Officer/Anciennement directeur général de la recherche, chef de l’évaluation, et dirigeant principal des données
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada/Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada

Céline Le Bourdais
Emeritus Distinguished James McGill Professor/Professeure émérite distinguée James McGill
Université McGill University

Martin Taylor
Former Executive Director/Anciennement directeur général
CRDCN/RCCDR
Closing Remarks 4:20 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at info@crdcn.ca.
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