Canadiana Links checked December 30, 2009 Liens vérifiés le 30 décembre 2009 [ Go to Canadian Social Research Links Home Page ]

Links to Canadian Government and Other Government Information and Accountability Sites on the Internet
* General Canadian Government and Parliament Websites
* Finding Canadian Constitution, Laws, Bills, Budgets and Policies
* Canadian Police and Prosecutors
* Canadian Courts, Tribunals and Commissions
* Laws from Countries Around the World
* Canadian Governments' General Democratic Reform / Accountability Websites
* Canadian Government Public Consultation Websites
* Canadian Election Laws and Election System Reform
* Donations to Canadian and U.S. Political Parties / Candidates
* Government Ethics Laws, Rules and Enforcement Systems
* Canadian Government Whistleblower Protection Laws and Enforcement Systems
* Canadian Federal Government Cabinet Appointments
* Canadian and U.S. Lobbying Laws and Registries
* Canadian Government Access to Information Websites
* Canadian Federal Government Spending Websites
* Canadian Federal Political Parties
* Other General Websites for Canadian Governments and Politics
Source:
Democracy Watch

About Canada
- incl. maps of Canada, images, the flag, Canadian symbols and the national anthem, as well as links to hundreds of sites under the following categories: Arts, Culture, Recreation and Sports - Canada and the World - Climate, Geography and Weather - Economy - Educational and Fun Stuff - Environment, Natural Resources, Fisheries and Agriculture - Facts, History and People - Museums and Libraries - Science and Technology - Statistics about Canada - Travel at Home and Abroad
Source:
The Canada Site (Govt. of Canada Home Page)

The Federation at a Glance:
* About Canada
* Provinces and Territories
* Canadian Federalism
* History
Source:
Privy Council Office (PCO)

The Virtual Museum of Canada
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/index-eng.jsp
A collection of collections, the Virtual Museum of Canada has items from many different museums across Canada. It can also help those who want to visit offline, as the site also includes museum news and details for those who want to visit Canada's museums. The "Virtual Exhibits", "Image Gallery", and "Teachers' Centre" tabs near the top of the homepage should not be missed. The "Virtual Exhibits" have a variety of different offerings, including exhibits on war orphans from the Holocaust, a Cariboo civilization, and a history of Olympic bids. In the "Image Gallery", a thumbnail of each image or object is provided along with its title and clickable link to the museum where it came from. Visitors should click on "More" or just on the image, to read details about the item and see an enlarged version of it. There are over 780,000 images to view, so visitors might want to bookmark the site for subsequent visits. The "Teachers' Centre" contains "Lesson Plans", "Featured Museum Learning Resources", and the ability to browse all the learning resources for grades one through university levels, and even adult learners.
Reviewed by:
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

From Academic Info:

* Canadian Studies Links & General Resources
* Canadian Studies - Directory of Online Resources on Canada
* Canadian Organizations, Associations, Centres & Societies
Source:
AcademicInfo: Subject Guides & Online Degrees
"Educational resources and subject guides since 1998"
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers). AcademicInfo was founded in 1998 by Mike Madin, a librarian coordinator, and is now maintained by multiple contributors. We currently feature over 25,000+ hand-picked resources and update the website on a daily basis.
* Subject Guides
* Educational Resources
* Education Blogs
* Online Degrees
* About & Help

The World Factbook : Canada
- incl. entries under the following headings:
* Geography * People * Government * Economy * Communications * Transportation - Military * Transnational Issues
Source:
CIA: The World Factbook
[ Central Intelligence Agency ]

Canada - from The World Bank Group
- incl. Canada and the World Bank Group - News & Events - Students and Youth - Academics and Researchers - Business Community - Civil Society - Media - Parliamentarians - Development Assistance from Canada - Contacts and Data

Canada Country Report - from The Project on Human Development (Boston University)
[select Canada from the list of countries]

Canada - from the University of California Atlas of Global Inequality
HINT : click on topics in the left margin of the country page (Economics - Poverty and Income Inequality - Health - Gender - Education - Population and Migration - Communications - Environment) for detailed stats. You can even compare indicators for two countries

Canada Country Analysis Brief - from the U.S. Dept. of Energy
- incl. Background | Oil | Natural Gas Coal | Electricity | Environment | Profile | Links

Canada Country Information - from CountryReports.org

Canada e-Book* - from Statistics Canada
The Canada e-Book is an online version of the Canada Year Book with texts, tables, charts and audio clips that present the country's economic and social trends. The Canada e-Book illustrates Canada and Canadians under four broad headings: The Land, The People, The Economy, and The State. You will find a wealth of information on topics including the human imprint on the environment, population and demography, health, education, household and family life, labour force, arts and leisure, industries, finance, government and justice.
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NOTE: On the Canada e-Book page, click "View" to access the latest edition of the e-Book;
click "Chronological index" for links to earlier editions of the e-Book.

GeoSearch - from Statistics Canada
"GeoSearch makes it easy to find any place in Canada, see it on a map, and get basic Census data for that place."

Canada Year Book Historical Collection (1867 to 1967) - from Statistics Canada
The Canada Year Book Historical Collection is a wealth of historical data in digitized format compiled from 100 years of the Agency's annual Canada Year Book (CYB).This new module, available free of charge on our website, covers the first century of Canadian history following Confederation in 1867, through to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps. It is supplemented by interconnected learning resources for students and teachers.
- contains 100+ photos and nearly 50 maps dating back to 1868, as well as over 75 charts and 1,200 tables. Completing the picture are multimedia extras, such as newspaper clippings, video clips and posters. There are details on the lives and work of politicians, industrialists, scientists, agriculturalists and others who shaped the land, economy and society of Canada.

Browse the collection by year
- 1867 to 1967

Browse the collection by topic
*Changing families and households * Lives of men and women * Occupations * Economic gains * The Great Depression * Communications * Ethnocultural diversity * Provinces and manufacturing * Immigration and emigration * Canada at war

Population & dwelling counts (2001 Census) - from Statistics Canada
- available for a wide range of standard geographic areas

Vive le Canada
"The mission of Vive le Canada is to involve Canadians in grassroots efforts to protect and improve Canadian sovereignties and democracy in the era of corporate globalization and U.S. empire, especially using existing and emerging communications tools. (...) Our goal is to focus on creating and running grassroots campaigns aimed at protecting and improving Canadian democracy (rather than the interests of corporations), and informing Canadians about popular sovereignty issues and globalisation."
- incl. links to the following topic areas: Action Items - Canadian Dimension - Canadian News - Culture - David Orchard - Democracy - Duncan Cameron - Election - Environment - Eye on Uncle Sam - First Nations - Foreign Ownership - General News - Globalisation - Immigration - Labour - Mel Hurtig - Our Civil Liberties - Paul Harris - Petitions - Politics - Posters etc. - Press - Privatisation - Reading - Robin Mathews - Ron Dart - Site News - Sovereignty Watch - Spin Remedy - Suggestion Box - The Border - The Pulpit - Volunteer - War and Peace - Women - Zero for Conduct

CanadianContent - "...an Informative passage to the world and to Canada's Internet"

Francophonies canadiennes, identités culturelles
[this site is available in French only]
- Ontario, Acadie, Ouest-Nord-Ouest, Québec (à venir)

Canadian Constitutional Documents
Unlike the majority of countries whose basic law derives from one document, Canada's basic law derives not only from a set of documents known as Constitution Acts, but also a set of unwritten laws and conventions. This comprises of all the acts passed since 1867 up to and including 2001. As a result, all constitutional documents during that time period have the force of law. This is analogous to laying a foundation (Constitution Act, 1867) and then building upon it and modifying it as the need arises (the successive Acts and Orders). This site provides free access to these documents.

National Atlas of Canada Online

Canadian Heritage Gallery

Directory of Web resources relevant to Canadian Studies

Canada Online - from about.com

Canada.com - News From Across Canada

Google.ca Canada Directory

Yahoo Canada's Directory of Canadian Sites and search engine for Canadian sites
Yahoo's Canadian Listings
Alta Vista Canada

Association for Canadian Studies (ACS)
The Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) is a learned society which initiates and supports activities in the eh-reas of research, teaching, communications, and the training of students in the field of Canadian Studies, especially in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. The ACS also strives to raise public awareness of Canadian issues, and provides the Canadian Studies community, principally within Canada, with a wide range of activities and programmes.

Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian
- incl. links to info about Canadians who are : Actors - Actresses - Artists - Astronauts - Athletes - Authors - Business People - Comedians - Directors/Producers - Entertainers - Journalists - Miscellaneous - Musicians - Scientists

Scholarly Societies Project - University of Waterloo

Oh Canada - The All Canadian Web Site

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
McGill University

Canadian Studies Program
Department of Canadian Heritage

Institute of Intergovernmental Relations [IIR] (Queen's University)
"The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University is Canada's premier university-based centre for research on all aspects of federalism and intergovernmental relations, both in Canada and in countries around the world."

Publications

International Council for Canadian Studies
The International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) is a federation of twenty national and multi-national Canadian Studies associations, governed by an Executive Council and an elected four-member Executive Committee. Its mandate is to promote and support research, education and publications in all fields of Canadian Studies and in all countries.

National Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada collects and preserves Canada's documentary heritage, and makes it accessible to all Canadians. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites.

Canadian Studies Research Guide - from Yale University

Images Canada
Images Canada provides central search access to the over 65,000 images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that collectively are our heritage.

Canajun, eh?

Bryan Adams.Com

The Rick Mercer Report

Canada, the United States and Mexico

Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - Canada
"The Centre for the Study of Living Standards is a non-profit, national, independent organization that seeks to contribute to a better understanding of trends in and determinants of productivity, living standards and economic and
social well-being through research."

Sample reports:

International Productivity Monitor - Spring 2008
[ version française ]
On May 12, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS), a national, independent, not-for-profit, economic research organization, released the Spring 2008 issue of the International Productivity Monitor. The issue contains five articles : two on the productivity performance of the Canadian economy and three in a symposium on data needs for better productivity measurement.
* Editor’s Overview
* Business Sector Productivity in Canada: What Do We Know? By Paul Boothe and Richard Roy
* An Analysis of the Causes of Weak Labour Productivity Growth in Canada since 2000 - By Jean-François Arsenault and Andrew Sharpe
* Symposium on Data Needs for Better Productivity Measurement
--- What Is To Be Done for Better Productivity Measurement - By Erwin Diewert
--- The State of Data for Services Productivity Measurement in the United States - By Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth
--- Data for Productivity Measurement in Market Services: An International Comparison - By Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark

Earlier Issues of the Monitor (16 issues , back to Fall 2000)

Index of Economic Well-being
Has economic well-being increased or decreased in recent years, and is it higher or lower in one country compared to others? Traditionally these questions have been answered by looking at trends in and comparisons of GDP per capita, but this is a poor measure of economic well-being. It measures consumption incompletely, ignoring the value of leisure and longer life spans, and it also ignores the value of accumulation for future generations. Furthermore, since it is an average, GDP per capita gives no indication of the likelihood that an individual will share in prosperity nor of the degree of anxiety with which individuals contemplate their futures."
- incl. links to:
Introduction and Methodology - The Index for Canada -The Index for Canada and the United States - The Index for Canada and the Provinces - The Index for OECD Countries - An Index of Labour Market Well-being - Weighting tool for Canada and OECD Countries

The Prospects for Deeper North American Economic Integration:
A U.S. Perspective (PDF file - 127K, 26 pages)
January 2004
"On its tenth anniversary, NAFTA stands as a commercial success. Dramatic increases in trade and investment have increased the efficiency of North American companies. Still, while NAFTA paved over many commercial potholes, several were left untended. Non-tariff barriers, energy, migration, labor, and environmental issues all need further attention. In addition, the tragedy of September 11, 2001, created new security challenges."
Source:
C.D. Howe Institute

Income Security Programs for Workers in North America
A Reference Manual for Workers and Employers
"...summarizes the main income support programs for workers in the private sector under the laws of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The manual's objective is to provide
employees and employers with basic information regarding the main income security programs for workers provided in their respective countries."
- incl. info about : Temporary Income Support for Unemployed Workers - Injuries at Work and Job-related Illness - Maternity Leave and Sickness Unrelated to the Job - Wages and Salaries - Income Support Programs for Low-income Groups or Disabled Workers - Income Tax Credits and Other Tax Deductions
NOTE: don't bother looking here for a comparison of North American welfare systems --- Canadian social assistance and the National Child Benefit are described in section 5 ("Income Support Programs for Low-income Groups or Disabled Workers"), but Temporary Assistance for Families with Dependent Children (TANF), the U.S. welfare system is only mentioned in terms of eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid and the Mexican section covers only some emergency food and health programs.

NAALC AND NAFTA LINKS
200+ links to Canadian, American and Mexican sites about the
North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and the North American Free Trade Agreement
- links incl. NAALC Members [Labor Departments] - National Administrative Offices - Labor Legislation - Official Statistical Resources - Federal Government Resources - NAFTA Institutions - NAFTA Resources - Statistical Sources - Trade and Treaty Resources - Multilateral Organizations [Americas / International] - Non-Governmental Organizations - Research Centers and Institutes - Labor Relations Boards - Labor Federations - Employers' Associations

Source:
Commission for Labor Cooperation (Washington)
"The Commission for Labor Cooperation is an international organization created under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). The NAALC is the first agreement, and the Commission is the first organization, linking labor rights and labor standards to an international trade agreement."

Public Policy Forum - "Striving for Excellence in Government"
Founded in 1987, the Public Policy Forum provides a neutral venue where the public sector can meet and exchange ideas with representatives from all sectors of society - business, labour, academe, government, the voluntary sector, and the media. (150 participating organizations).
- incl. links to : About the Forum - Strategic themes - Events - Publications - Speeches - Testimonial Dinner - E-Forum

North-South Institute - "Research For A Fairer World" (Canada)
"For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before the Canadian public and decision makers. Established in 1976, it is the only independent, non-governmental research institute in Canada focused on international development."

Canadian Foundation for the Americas
"The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-governmental organization dedicated to deepening and strengthening Canada’s relations with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through policy discussion and analysis. FOCAL’s mission is to develop a greater understanding of important hemispheric issues and to help build a stronger community of the Americas."

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