Depending on their previous skills, students can be asked to do additional work on their article. If the students know a presentations application, the class could prepare a PowerPoint type presentation on the findings of their research. These are skills that will be necessary for their post-secondary education. Students can search the Internet for newspapers in affected regions. If a certain press release identifies a region as being affected more than the rest of the country, students can find a regional newspaper and evaluate the coverage for bias or lean.
Students can use their research as a topic for a letter to the editor.
After reviewing the release and the article, students can summarize their research in the letter to the editor. Students can approach a smaller regional paper and offer to submit a series of articles on other Statistics Canada releases, like the Consumer Price Index, Labour Force Survey or the Census. These articles could be written on a monthly basis as an independent study or a co-op program.