David McKie David McKie, CBC News Investigations Phone: (O) 613-288-6523 (C) 613-290-7380 (fax) 613-288-6490 Jim Bronskill Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press Phone: (O) 613-231-8653 (C) 613-859-3752 (fax) 613-238-4452         Graduate Course 2018 – Winter term Wednesdays: 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Room 2311 Ritchcraft Hall Course outline |Biographies | Access to information links | Access to Information_Police| Access to information stories in the news| Business Analysis|Business Reporting|Canadian Business |Canadian Business Statistics |Canadian Business Publications |CAR and ATI-related Stories | Catalogue Search Engines | Census|Children’s safety|Consumer issues and Consumer-related issues|Computer-Assisted Reporting |Computer-Assisted Reporting tutorials|Contracts |Coroners’offices|Crime | Databases | Data|Data Journalism Education|Data Journalism Stories|Data Visualization|Defence|Digital news websites|Directories/Reference Works|Disciplinary bodies| Discussions |DocumentCloud|Economy|Education|Economists |Elections |Environment |Ethnic Newspapers|Evaluating Web Pages |Federal Government| Federal Politics|Federal Public Service|Federal Spending|Food safety|Foreign Affairs |Fusion Tables |Government spending | Health | Health (Provincial)|Health (International)|Health Policy| Housing|Immigration | Innovative Tools | Internet research | Interactive stories |Interviewing| Investigative Journalism Websites| Invisible Web | Journalists’ Blogs |Journalism Education|Journalism Jobs Sites |Journalism Research|Journalism Resource Sites |Key Word Search Engines | Land-title and property assessment offices | Legal System/Courts |Libraries/Archives |Lien Records|Lobbyists | Mapping |Mapping Stories|Mapping Tutorials|Medical devices|Miscellaneous Tools | Money |Multi-media| Municipal governments |MySQL |News Blogs|Numeracy skills|Online News Sites|Open Data government-institutional websites|Open Data Research|Open Data Stories|Open Refine |Ottawa |People Finders |Photojournalism | Politics| Polling |Population statistics |Preparing Stories|Provincial Audits |Privacy | Provincial Contracts | Provincial Governments|Public Accounts|Public health| Publication finders|Public Policy Organizations | Readings | Researching Companies – Powerpoint presentation | Research tecnhiques Powerpoint presentation |Science | Search and Rescue | Searchable Online Websites |Search Engine Research|Security |Senior’s Care| Shopping list of key records | Social Media | Sports |Spreadsheet tutorials |Statistics Canada employment and unemployment tables|Stories about access to information| Spreadsheets | Stories about investigative journalism| Stories using data from open-data websites |Student investigations|Tableau|Tableau — Stories|Ten ways to improve your searches|Trade|Trade publications| Transportation | Training resources|University Publications |U.S. Government|U.S. Business |U.S. Court Filings and Legal Action|Vancouver|Vital Statistics/Certificates| Websites with tables to download| Webscraping | Workplace safety |Writing

Course objectives 1) Obtain a thorough grounding in journalistic research methods. 2) Acquire skills, such as access-to-information and data-journalism reporting techniques, needed to make sense of the information gathered. 3) Develop the ability to shape the information into accurate and compelling stories. Course outline (TOP) Special needs / Accommodation (TOP) You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term. For an accommodation request the processes are as follows: Pregnancy obligation: write to us with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist. For more details visit the Equity Services website: http://www2.carleton.ca/equity/ Religious obligation: write to us with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist. For more details visit the Equity Services website: http://www2.carleton.ca/equity/ Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: The Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) provides services to students with Learning Disabilities (LD), psychiatric/mental health disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), chronic medical conditions, and impairments in mobility, hearing, and vision. If you have a disability requiring academic accommodations in this course, please contact PMC at 613-520-6608 or pmc@carleton.ca for a formal evaluation. If you are already registered with the PMC, contact your PMC coordinator to send us your Letter of Accommodation at the beginning of the term, and no later than two weeks before the first in-class scheduled test or exam requiring accommodation (if applicable). After requesting accommodation from PMC, meet with one of us to ensure accommodation arrangements are made. Please consult the PMC website for the deadline to request accommodations for the formally-scheduled exam (if applicable) at http://www2.carleton.ca/pmc/new-and-current-students/dates-and-deadlines/  You can visit the Equity Services website to view the policies and to obtain more detailed information on academic accommodation at http://www2.carleton.ca/equity/ School ethics policy: http://www1.carleton.ca/journalism/ccms/wp-content/ccms-files/EthicsPolicy.pdf School publishing policy: http://www1.carleton.ca/journalism/ccms/wp-content/ccms-files/PublishingPolicy.pdf School electronic media usage policy: http://www1.carleton.ca/journalism/ccms/wp-content/ccms-files/media-usage-policy-2010.pdf A shopping list of key records(TOP) 20 records you can get using the federal Access to Information Act 1. RECORD: Ministerial briefing notes. DEPARTMENT: All departments. ASK FOR: All briefing notes prepared specifically to help the new minister become acquainted with his/her new portfolio. HINT: Make this request a week or two after a new cabinet is named. RESULT: Yields wide range of information about a department’s plans/activities. 2. RECORD: Expense claims. DEPARTMENT: All departments/agencies. ASK FOR: Receipts, invoices and guest lists detailing travel and hospitality expenses claimed by a deputy minister or other senior bureaucrat that are more detailed than the ones you’ll find in the information federal institutions are obliged to file on line. HINT: Limit request to no more than one year’s worth of claims.RESULT: Can reveal spending habits and establish dates of key meetings, dealings. Remember former federal heritage minister Bev Oda’s $16-dollar glass of orange juice! 3. RECORD: Correspondence. DEPARTMENT: All departments/agencies. ASK FOR: Correspondence with a minister or agency head on a topic of interest. HINT: Frame request narrowly. For instance, exclude letters from the public if you do not require them. RESULT: Can uncover letters from provincial premiers, lobby groups. 4. RECORD: House cards. DEPARTMENT: All departments. ASK FOR: All cards prepared for the minister in the House of Commons on a specific issue. HINT: Watch headlines, Commons debates for ideas. RESULT: Often contain much more detail, background than revealed in Question Period. 5. RECORD: Material on possible legislation. DEPARTMENT: All departments. ASK FOR: Records concerning possible legislation or other initiatives on a given issue. HINT: Limit request to cover the last year to ensure currency of material. RESULT: Provides insight into initiatives that might be in pipeline, and reasons why the initiatives might (or might not) proceed. 6. RECORD: Meeting minutes. DEPARTMENT: All departments/agencies. ASK FOR: Minutes from the two most recent meetings of a specific committee. HINT: Make calls to find out meeting schedules and whether minutes are kept. RESULT: Can aid in understanding internal policy debates and decisions. 7. RECORD: Audits. DEPARTMENT: All departments, most agencies. ASK FOR: Audits and evaluations completed by or for the department/agency on specific subjects in the last year. HINT: Ask department informally for list of audits conducted in the last year. RESULT: Audits often reveal shortcomings in programs, policies. 8. RECORD: Polls. DEPARTMENT: All departments, but especially Privy Council Office. ASK FOR: Polls conducted for the department on a given subject. HINT: Some (but not all) polls are released informally. RESULT: Can reveal public attitudes towards government policies. 9. RECORD: Contract information. DEPARTMENT: All departments. ASK FOR: A copy of the contract for a specific project such as the federal government’s beleaguered Phoenix pay system. HINT: Public Services and Procurement Canada administers many contracts, including Phoenix. RESULT: Reveals details of financial arrangements with private companies. 10. RECORD: Responses to discussion papers. DEPARTMENT: Any department that publishes consultation/discussion paper. ASK FOR:Copies of all submissions in response to the department’s paper. HINT: Put in request just after cut-off date for submissions. Only narrow request if certain submissions are required. RESULT: Reveals views of wide cross-section of groups on pressing issues. 11. RECORD: Contracted studies. DEPARTMENT: Privy Council Office. ASK FOR: Specific studies, research conducted for PCO. HINT: Ask informally for list of studies, which is updated regularly. RESULT: Yields advice prepared for government on unity, security, parliamentary affairs and other key issues. 12. RECORD: 20-year-old cabinet documents. DEPARTMENT: Privy Council Office. ASK FOR: Cabinet records on a specific issue. HINT:Check almanac for noteworthy past events. RESULT: Meeting minutes reveal thinking of ministers on issues. (Cabinet documents routinely become public only after 30 years). 13. RECORD: Prime Minister’s email. DEPARTMENT: Privy Council Office. ASK FOR: E-mail sent to the Prime Minister by visitors to his website. HINT: Limit request to a one-week period. RESULT: Names of correspondents are deleted, but letters yield an interesting mix of feedback, including light-hearted, angry and thoughtful correspondence. 14. RECORD: Criminal intelligence briefs. AGENCY: RCMP. ASK FOR: Criminal intelligence briefs prepared during the last six months. HINT:Make time-frame the last couple of years if you are seeking a brief on a specific subject. RESULT: Briefs cover issues such as aboriginal militancy, drug trade and smuggling. 15. RECORD: Incident reports. AGENCY: RCMP. ASK FOR: Incident report on a specific event. HINT: Broaden request to include other records if incident is a prolonged one, such as a standoff. RESULT: Can help explain police decision-making. 16. RECORD: Lessons learned. DEPARTMENT: National Defence. ASK FOR: “Lessons learned” from major military missions. HINT: Wait a month or two after mission is complete. RESULT: Provides evaluation of peacekeeping tours and other assignments. 17. RECORD: UFO reports. DEPARTMENT: Transport. ASK FOR: Reports of unidentified flying objects filed by the public. HINT: UFO reports are also often filed with Defence and RCMP. RESULT: Names of people who make reports are deleted, but other details can be released. 18. RECORD: Observer reports. DEPARTMENT: Fisheries. ASK FOR: Observer reports prepared for the department. HINTS: Limit request to specific geographic area and time frame. RESULTS: Can provide details about operations of foreign vessels. 19. RECORD: SIRC reports. AGENCY: Security Intelligence Review Committee. ASK FOR: Specific reports prepared by committee on CSIS activities. HINT: Reports are listed in back of committee’s annual report. RESULT: Reports, though heavily edited, provide check on spy agency CSIS. 20. RECORD: CRTC debriefing notes. AGENCY: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. ASK FOR: Debriefing notes prepared in connection with a specific licensing hearing. HINT: Make request shortly after licence decision is made. RESULT: Can provide behind-the-scenes reasoning on why TV, radio licences are granted or denied. Ten ways to improve your searches(TOP) 1. Look to the headlines for ideas. 2. Check the relevant federal websites for forms, contacts, info on departmental holdings. 3. Call the access co-ordinator before making your request. 4. Call the co-ordinator after submitting your request. 5. Make similar requests to more than one department, agency or government. 6. Keep a photocopy or scan of each request and attach all return correspondence. 7. Negotiate with departments, agencies or governments. 8. Be persistent. If necessary, complain. 9. Read and re-read the records you receive carefully. 10. Don’t get discouraged.

Biographies(TOP)

Jim Bronskill is a reporter in the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press news agency, specializing in security and intelligence, the RCMP and justice-related issues. He has considerable experience using access-to-information laws to uncover stories. Before joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (which became CanWest News Service). He previously held various positions at CP and has also worked for the Ottawa Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times and TVOntario. Jim holds a master’s degree in journalism from Carleton University. He and colleague Sue Bailey were National Newspaper Award finalists for investigative stories on Taser stun guns. In 2002, Jim received two Canadian Association of Journalists awards, including one for best overall investigative report, for a series he co-wrote with David Pugliese of the Citizen about the crackdown by security agencies on public dissent. He and Bailey won the national Justicia Award for a series on how the justice system often fails the mentally ill. Jim was part of a team that collaborated with the CBC/Radio-Canada to earn the 2008 Michener Award for their series on Taser use by the RCMP.

Jim has contributed to a textbook on Canada’s Access to Information Act entitled Brokering Access. And he has co-authored an access-to-information research guide with David McKie called Your Right to Know, copies of which available on-line at Indigo Books or Self-Counsel Press, the publisher.

David McKie is an Ottawa-based, award-winning author and producer who works out of the CBC News Parliamentary bureau. David’s work has focused on public policy issues such as Health Canada’s drug approval process, violence in nursing homes, workplace safety and the RCMP’s  use of Tasers. For the Taser series, David and Jim were part of the large team that earned the 2008 Michener Award. Working  with data and the use of access-to-information laws were key in telling these stories.

Lately, he has used federal Access To Information to tell stories about the Indigenous families not applying for the Canada Child Benefit, and the problems veterans have accessing jobs in the federal civil service.

David has co-authored three journalism-related books, including Digging Deeper, now in its third edition, The Data Journalist; as well as two research guides with Jim,  Your Right To Know and Your Right To Privacy.

ACCESS-TO-INFORMATION(TOP)

CANADA

Access to Information Act

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/

Interim Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act
https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=18310

Access To Information: Federal Liberal Campaign Promise
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/access-to-information/

E-1090 (ACCESS TO INFORMATION)
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1090

Privacy Act

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-21/

Federal Departments and Agencies

http://canada.ca/en/gov/dept/index.html

Info Source (directory of holdings)

http://www.infosource.gc.ca/emp/emp05-eng.asp

Open Data Portal

http://data.gc.ca/

List of briefing notes prepared for the federal Minister of finance, the Deputy Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary 
http://www.fin.gc.ca/disclose-divulgation/bn-nb/2016-08-eng.asp

Search Summaries of Completed ATI Requests

http://data.gc.ca/eng/search/ati?

Summary of briefing document titles prepared for the Treasury Board President and the Secretary
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/corporate/transparency/summary-briefing-note-titles.html

List of briefing notes prepared for the Minister of Finance, the Deputy Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary
http://www.fin.gc.ca/disclose-divulgation/bn-nb/index-eng.asp

Summary of briefing note titles addressed to the President and the Minister responsible for Shared Services Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/transparency.html#a2

David McKie’s CAIRs page

CAIRS

Access to Information and Privacy Coordinators

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/atip-aiprp/apps/coords/index-eng.asp

Access to Information request forms

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbsf-fsct/350-57_e.asp

 Access to Information fillable request form

Specific Exemptions under the Access to Information Act (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?section=text&id=13784

Office of the Information Commissioner

http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/

Office of the Privacy Commissioner

http://www.priv.gc.ca

PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES

Alberta

http://foip.alberta.ca/pbdirectory/index.cfm

British Columbia

http://www.gov.bc.ca/citz/iao/foi/

http://www.gov.bc.ca/citz/iao/foi/contacts/index.html

http://www.oipc.bc.ca/

http://www.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/ibc/index.page?

Completed Freedom of Information requests at BCFerries

http://www.bcferries.com/about/foi/tracker.html

Access in the Academy: Bringing FOI and ATI to Academic Research (BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association)

https://www.gifttool.com/donations/Donate?ID=1552&AID=2700:

Manitoba

http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/

http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/disclosure.html

Manitoba (Access to information requests — weekly listing)

http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/disclosure.html

New Brunswick

Main:http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/services/services_renderer.200949.html

Law: http://www.gnb.ca/acts/acts/r-10-3.htm

Newfoundland and Labrador

http://www.justice.gov.nl.ca/just/info/index.html

Northwest Territories

http://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/ATIPP/index.shtml

Nova Scotia

Main: http://www.foipop.ns.ca/

List of departments: http://foipop.ns.ca/PB_Contact

Review: http://www.foipop.ns.ca/

The Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia

http://www.nsrighttoknow.ca/

Nunavut

http://www.gov.nu.ca/access-information-and-protection-privacy-atipp

Ontario

Main: http://www.accessandprivacy.gov.on.ca/english/doi/index.html

Forms: http://www.accessandprivacy.gov.on.ca/english/download/index.html

FAQ: http://www.cfipo.gov.on.ca/mbs/dor/dirrec.nsf/webpages/FAQ

Information and Privacy Commissioner decisions and resolutions

Prince Edward Island

http://www.gov.pe.ca/jps/FOIPPfaqs

http://www.gov.pe.ca/forms/pdf/641.pdf

http://www.gov.pe.ca/jps/index.php3?number=1024337&lang=E

Quebec

http://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/index-en.html

Quebec access-to-information coordinators

http://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/documents/CAI_liste_resp_acces_eng.pdf

Saskatchewan

http://www.justice.gov.sk.ca/Contacts-by-Institutio

Yukon

http://www.atipp.gov.yk.ca/

CITIES

Calgary

http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Pages/Freedom-of-Information-and-Protection-of-Privacy/Freedom-of-Information-and-Protection-of-Privacy.aspx

Edmonton

http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_organization/freedom-of-information-and-privacy.aspx

Fredericton

http://www.fredericton.ca/en/citygovernment/rtipp2013.asp

Ottawa

http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/your-city-government/access-information-and-privacy

Halifax Regional Municipality

http://www.halifax.ca/AccessPrivacy/index.php

Hamilton

http://www.hamilton.ca/CityDepartments/CorporateServices/Clerks/MFIPPA_adn_PHIPA.htm

Moncton

http://www.moncton.ca/Government/Right_to_Information_and_Protection_of_Privacy_Act__RTIPPA_.htm

Montreal

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5798,39687582&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Regina

http://www.regina.ca/residents/council-committees/learn-city-clerk/access_to_information_and_protection_of_privacy/

Saskatoon

http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/City%20Clerks%20Office/Pages/FreedomofInformation.aspx

Toronto

http://www.toronto.ca/cap/form_foi.htm

Waterloo

http://www.waterloo.ca/en/government/freedomofinformation.asp

Winnipeg

http://winnipeg.ca/clerks/fippa/fippa.stm

Vancouver

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/foi/index.htm

INTERNATIONAL

governmentattic.org (U.S.)

http://www.governmentattic.org/

The FOI Advocate (U.S. news of developments in the area of freedom of information)

http://foiadvocate.blogspot.com/

The Freedom of Information Act ( The U.S. Department of Justice)

http://www.foia.gov/

FOIS Update (1996)

http://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-freedom-information-act-5-usc-sect-552-amended-public-law-no-104-231-110-stat

FOIOnline (FOI requests and previously released records for selected agencies)

foiaonline.regulations.gov

Historically Significant FBI Files

http://vault.fbi.gov/

National Freedom of Information Coalition: Protecting Your Right to Open Government (U.S.)

http://www.nfoic.org/

The National Archives and Records Administration

http://www.archives.gov/

Open Government: a journal on freedom of information

http://www.opengovjournal.org/index

Overview of FOIA Countries Worldwide – February 1 2006

http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/feb/foia-feb-2006.pdf

Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (U.S. FOI requests)

http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/index.html

The Sunshine Government Initiative (a coalition of U.S. media groups that advocates opening up access to government records)

http://www.sunshineingovernment.org/

U.S. FOI requests for electronic data by state

http://www.rcfp.org/elecaccess/

U.S. Coalition of Journalists for Open Government

http://www.cjog.net/

U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Electronic Reading Room

http://www.fda.gov/foi/electrr.htm

U.K. FOI requests

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/list/successful

The World Bank

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTWDS/0,,detailPagemenuPK:64187510~menuPK:64187513~pagePK:64187848~piPK:64187934~searchPagemenuPK:64187283~siteName:WDS~theSitePK:523679,00.html

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/06/03/000112742_20100603084843/Rendered/PDF/548730Access0I1y0Statement01Final1.pdf

The World’s First Freedom of Information Act | Right To Information

https://rtieng.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/the-worlds-first-freedom-of-information-act/

FURTHER READING

Access Info

www.access-info.org/

All About Information http://allaboutinformation.ca

Digging deeper: A Canadian reporter’s research guide, 3rd Edition

http://www.oupcanada.com/higher_education/companion/comm_studies/9780199008490.html

Freedominfo.org

www.freedominfo.org

Right2Info

www.right2info.org/

Your Right to Know: How to Use the Law to Get Government Secrets

http://www.self-counsel.com/your-right-to-know.html

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/your-right-to-know-how/9781770402119-item.html?ikwid=Your+Right+to+Know&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0

http://www.amazon.ca/Your-Right-Know-Government-Secrets/dp/177040211X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420237998&sr=8-1&keywords=Your+right+to+know

ACCESS TO INFORMATION_POLICE(Top)

Calgary Police Service

http://www.calgarypolice.ca/privacyPop.html

Canadian Newspaper Association freedom-of-information audit of police forces (CBC story)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/09/access-to-information.html?ref=rss

Durham Regional Police Service

http://www.drps.ca/internet_explorer/over_the_counter/index.asp?Do_What=fetch&Page=1&ID=10&Category_ID=3

Edmonton Police Service

http://www.edmontonpolice.ca/AboutEPS/HowToRequestInformation.aspx

Fredericton Police Force

http://www.fredericton.ca/en/publicsafety/ContactPoliceMain.asp

Halifax Regional Municipality

http://www.halifax.ca/irm/pdf/form1.pdf

Halton Regional Police

http://www.hrps.on.ca/RecordsCourts/FOI/Pages/default.aspx

Hamilton Police Services

http://www.hamiltonpolice.on.ca/HPS/Services/Records/PoliceOccurrenceReports.htm

London Police Service

http://www.police.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Services/FOI/default.htm

Niagara Regional Police

http://www.nrps.com/foi/default.asp

Peel Regional Police

http://www.peelpolice.on.ca/Police%20Records/Freedom%20Of%20Information%20Requests.aspx

Regina Police Service

http://www.reginapolice.ca/contact.htm

Vancouver Police Department

http://vancouver.ca/police/organization/support-services/information-privacy.html

Vancouver Police Department (Published Freedom of Information requests)

http://vancouver.ca/police/organization/public-affairs/freedom-of-information.html

Waterloo Regional Police Service

http://www.wrps.on.ca/job/access-information-analyst

York Region Police

http://www.police.york.on.ca/foi.aspx

ACCESS TO INFORMATION STORIES IN THE NEWS(TOP)

53 First Nations reserves lack adequate fire protection: audit
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/audit-reserves-inadequate-fire-protection-1.4124616

Access to Information Act Reforms Would Still Put Canada Behind Peru: Democracy Centre
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/23/access-to-information-act-reforms-would-still-put-canada-behind_a_22806686/

Access to Information law changes won’t open up PMO, cabinet offices
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/access-information-government-secrecy-1.4167681

Access to information in Alberta nearing ‘crisis situation,’ FOIP commissioner says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/information-foip-privacy-commissioner-clayton-alberta-notley-1.3864204

Access to Information Act – Revitalizing access to information consultation (The Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/docs/ATI_Revitalization_Submission_June2016.pdf

The 2011 National Freedom of Information Audit (The Canadian Newspaper Association and The Canadian Community Newspapers Association)

http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/public-affairs/FOI2011

Access to Information Act Failure: Watchdog Suzanne Legault Finds Big Problems With Delays, Denials (Huffington Post Canada)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/06/17/access-to-information-act_n_878865.html

Access to information denied: Interview with Dean Beeby

http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2011/05/best-net/access-information-denied-interview-dean-beeby

Another Blow to Access to Information: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Access to Political Documents in Ministers’ Offices (Inforrm’s Blog: The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog)

http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/another-blow-to-access-to-information-supreme-court-of-canada-denies-access-to-political-documents-in-ministers%E2%80%99-offices/

Braid: Bizarre case reveals NDP death grip on freedom of information
http://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/braid-bizarre-case-reveals-ndp-death-grip-on-freedom-of-information

Budget cuts undermine federal access-to-information system: watchdog (The Canadian Press)

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/budget-cuts-undermine-federal-access-to-information-system-watchdog-1.1227794

Budget Cover Cost $212,234
https://www.blacklocks.ca/budget-cover-cost-212234/

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-200000-on-a-budget-cover-thats-exclusively-liberal-tomfoolery

Canada’s access-to-information system has worsened under Trudeau government: report
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-access-to-information-system-has-worsened-under-trudeau-government-report/article36407309/?service=amp

Canada’s Access to Information Act has ‘never been in worse shape,’ CBC’s Dean Beeby says
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4146446/canada-s-access-to-information-act-has-never-been-in-worse-shape-cbc-s-dean-beeby-says-1.4146447

Canada (Information Commissioner) v. Canada (Minister of National Defence): Democratic Governance, Transparency and Accountability or Exective Priviledge?

http://www.thecourt.ca/2011/05/19/canada-information-commissioner-v-canada-minister-of-national-defence-democratic-governance-transparency-and-accountability-or-executive-privilege

BC Ferries to alter controversial policy on FOI disclosure

Canada suffering from chronic access-to-information obfuscation
https://www.biv.com/article/2017/10/canada-suffering-chronic-access-information-obfusc/

CBC document dispute continues at Access committee: Kady O’Malley liveblogs the House of Commons Access to Information committee hearings on the CBC (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/01/pol-kady-stub.html

CBC head defends broadcaster on access to info (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/11/24/pol-cbc-ethics-committee-lacroix.html

CBC must hand over files to information watchdog (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/23/pol-cbc-information-commissioner-appeal.html

CBC still refusing to release info (Toronto Sun)

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/19/cbc-still-refusing-to-release-info

CBC one in long list of federal agencies to go up against info czar in court (The Canadian Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/cbc-one-in-long-list-of-federal-agencies-to-go-up-against-info-czar-in-court-131944473.html

Canada mediocre in access to information rankings (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1062154–canada-mediocre-in-access-to-information-rankings

Committee calls for sweeping changes to Access to Information Act
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/commons-committee-calls-for-sweeping-changes-to-access-to-information-act/article30488132/

Bid to see Champlain Bridge report denied: Gazette to appeal federal body’s ruling (The Gazette)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/bridge+report+denied+Gazette+appeal+federal+body+ruling/5330765/story.html

Canada to probe alleged ‘muzzling’ of government scientists (The Japan Times)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/04/environment/canada-to-probe-alleged-muzzling-of-government-scientists/#.UWBgT5Osh8E

Chilly White North? Canadian government secrecy on the rise (The Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0405/Chilly-White-North-Canadian-government-secrecy-on-the-rise

CommitteeWatch: Hey, remember formerly alleged Access to Information interferent Sebastien Togneri? (CBCnews_Inside Politics Blog)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/08/committeewatch-hey-remember-formerly-alleged-access-to-information-interferent-sebastien-togneri.html

Conflicting answers on whether complete Mercier Bridge reports will be released (The Gazette)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Conflicting+answers+whether+complete+reports+will+released/5281505/story.html

Court rejects CBC appeal in access-to-information feud (The Canadian Press)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/court-rejects-cbc-appeal-in-access-to-information-feud/article2246240/

CBC’s David McKie on investigative reporting: Your Community Blog

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/04/cbcs-david-mckie-on-investigative-reporting.html

Demand more’ from government, outgoing information watchdog tells Canadians in parting note
https://ipolitics.ca/2018/02/28/demand-government-outgoing-information-watchdog-tells-canadians-parting-note/

Dermod Travis: How B.C. Liberal outsourcing made government more opaque
http://www.straight.com/news/942036/dermod-travis-how-bc-liberal-outsourcing-made-government-more-opaque

Even Montreal’s executive committee agenda is shielded (The Gazette)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Even+exec+committee+agenda+shielded/5238086/story.html

F” as in ‘forget about it’: Liberals blame Harper for their failing grade on Access to Information audit
http://ipolitics.ca/2017/09/28/liberals-blame-harper-for-their-failing-grade-on-access-to-info-disclosure/

Feds, several provinces get low marks for information transparency (Postmedia News)

http://www.vancouversun.com/Feds+several+provinces+marks+information+transparency/5461784/story.html

Feds appeal judge’s order to open up RCMP security file on Tommy Douglas (The Canadian Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/feds-appeal-judges-order-to-open-up-rcmp-security-file-on-tommy-douglas–130807383.html

Federal Court judge orders government to release pages of docs on Senate scandal
http://www.timescolonist.com/federal-court-judge-orders-government-to-release-pages-of-docs-on-senate-scandal-1.22736342

From the bench, a boost for government secrecy (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/from-the-bench-a-boost-for-government-secrecy/article2022108/

Full review of Access to Information law 2 years away, Scott Brison says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/access-information-law-review-brison-1.3514800

Government institutions don’t respect access to information laws (The Hill Timesonline)

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/printpage/-08-22-2011

Government veto would undermine push for openness: Editorial
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/23/government-veto-would-undermine-push-for-openness-editorial.html

Groups demand inquiry after RCMP drops access to info case (The Gazette)

http://ipolitics.ca/2011/08/30/groups-demand-commons-probe-of-rcmp-decision-to-drop-access-to-info-case/

Notable Canadian print news stories based on ATIA requests

How Freedom of Information requests led to a Parliamentary scandal: Read an excerpt from Heather Brooke’s book (Ted Blog)

http://blog.ted.com/2012/10/18/how-freedom-of-information-requests-led-to-a-parliamentary-scandal-read-an-excerpt-from-heather-brookes-book/

Information and Privacy Commissioner Cautions Against Using Personal Email and Instant Messaging When Doing Public Business
https://www.ipc.on.ca/english/Resources/News-Releases/News-Releases-Summary/?id=1665

Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault declines to reapply for her job
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/information-liberal-suzanne-legault-access-appointments-parliament-courts-brison-wilson-raybould-1.4059338

Info commish slams Foreign Affairs bureaucrats (Toronto Sun)

http://m.torontosun.com/2012/02/19/info-commish-slams-foreign-affairs-bureaucrats

Info commissioner nominee aims to tackle government culture that suppresses information, creates delays
https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/02/28/access-appointee-tackle-government-culture-suppresses-information-creates-delays/135914

Interim Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act
https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=18310

Liberals redefine key transparency promise in new bill
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/20/liberals-redefine-key-transparency-promise-in-new-bill.html

Liberals end access to information fees, more reforms coming

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/05/liberals-end-access-to-information-fees-more-reforms-coming.html

Liberal government postpones initial Access to Information reforms
http://globalnews.ca/news/3323656/ottawa-postpone-initial-access-to-information-reforms/

Liberals’ slow movement on Access to Information reform concerns commissioner
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/suzanne-legault-access-to-information-timeline-liberals-1.3812208

Liberals won’t commit to meeting platform promises on transparency by next election
https://www.hilltimes.com/2017/03/29/liberals-wont-commit-election-deadline-access-information-reform/101111

Military cops struggle to enforce mental health laws
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-police-provinces-1.4223219

New access law is needed for a digital age: Editorial-An all-party Commons committee is on the right track with a series of overdue reforms to fix the broken Access to Information Act
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/06/20/new-access-law-is-needed-for-a-digital-age-editorial.html

New bill would boost information watchdog’s powers, reshape Access to Information Act
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/19/new-bill-would-boost-information-watchdogs-powers-reshape-access-to-information-act.html

Perils of BC’s New Freedom of Info Policy (The Tyee)

http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2011/08/31/New-BC-FOI-Policy/

Many Indigenous families not applying for Canada child benefit: documents
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-child-benefit-indigenous-1.4211545

On access to information, Canada is a developing country (The Globe and Mail editorial)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/on-access-to-information-canada-is-a-developing-country/article2242001/

Open CBC’s records, Quebecor owner says (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/20/pol-cbc-access-hearings-parliament.html

Opinion: Federal Access to Information Act reform is overdue
http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-federal-access-to-information-act-reform-is-overdue

Overhaul of Canada’s Access to Information Act taking too long, critic says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/access-to-information-act-changes-overhaul-promised-liberals-federal-government-1.4056886

Ottawa to release long-sought St. Anne’s residential school documents
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/04/07/ottawa-to-release-long-sought-st-annes-residential-school-documents.html

Possible changes to federal Access to Information Act would be two steps forward and one giant step back
http://www.hamiltonnews.com/opinion-story/6705871-possible-changes-to-federal-access-to-information-act-would-be-two-steps-forward-and-one-giant-step/

RCMP admit fabricating backdated response to gun registry access to info request
http://cfjctoday.com/article/551043/rcmp-admit-fabricating-backdated-response-gun-registry-access-info-request

RCMP locks access to information gun registry release to protect data
https://ipolitics.ca/2018/02/21/rcmp-locks-access-information-gun-registry-release-protect-data/

Restaurant inspection reports may go online (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/10/24/nl-reconsidering-making-resto-inspections-available-1024.html

http://www.servicenl.gov.nl.ca/inspections/index.html

Rethink secrecy over Tommy Douglas files, Ottawa told (The Canadian Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/11/pol-court-douglas-rcmp-archives.html

Rubin: Open government promise rings hollow

http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/rubin-open-government-promise-rings-hollow

Rules are no substitute for cultivating a culture of open government (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/05/rules_are_no_substitute_for_cultivating_a_culture_of_open_government.html

Scott Brison listen up, Canada’s information commissioner has some advice for you
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/suzanne-legault-leadership-atip-1.4039890

Scott Brison explains delay in promised transparency reforms
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/26/scott-brison-explains-delay-in-promised-transparency-reforms.html

Solicitor-client privilege can hinder access to information
http://www.calgarysun.com/2017/05/28/solicitor-client-privilege-can-hinder-access-to-information

The strange cases of travelling cats, chihuahuas, and top-secret goats
http://www.ottawasun.com/2017/08/02/the-strange-cases-of-travelling-cats-chihuahuas-and-top-secret-goats

Sunshine list case goes to court
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-11-14/article-4685743/Sunshine-list-case-goes-to-court/1

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-11-16/article-4687507/Sunshine-list-court-case-ends,-ruling-to-come-later/1

Sunshine List to shed light on civil service salaries, names to be released Friday
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sunshine-list-shed-light-civil-005224926.html

The Gazette’s View: Inspection reports: the stonewalling must stop

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Gazette+View+Inspection+reports+stonewalling+must+stop/5336621/story.html

Roadblocks:Five ways Ottawa stymies Access to Information requests (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/five-ways-ottawa-stymies-access-to-information-requests/article1871729/

SCC Establishes Scope of Access to Information Act (A legal blog about the law of information)

http://allaboutinformation.ca/2011/05/15/scc-establishes-scope-of-access-to-information-act/

SCOC says no: ministerial agendas off-limits (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/05/scoc-says-no-ministerial-agendas-off-limits.html

SECURING THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW (Canadian Journalists for Free Expression)
http://www.cjfe.org/securing_the_public_s_right_to_know

Stephen Harper could relax now, but will he? (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/stephen-harper-could-relax-now-but-will-he/article2025515/

Supreme Court Of Canada Affirms Protections For Privilege In The Face Of Statutory Production Demands
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/549322/trials+appeals+compensation/Supreme+Court+Of+Canada+Affirms+Protections+For+Privilege+In+The+Face+Of+Statutory+Production+Demands

Tasha Kheiriddin: Supreme Court: PM entitled to a hidden agenda (National Post)

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/13/tasha-kheiriddin-supreme-court-pm-entitled-to-a-hidden-agenda/

The push for Open Government – up to a point (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/01/the-push-for-open-government-up-to-a-point.html

The Internet Archive gears up for the Trump era by creating a backup in Canada
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/internet-archive-backup-donations-canada-donald-trump/

Top court says PM, ministers not subject to info law (CBCNews)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/05/13/supreme-court.html

Truce called in CBC dispute at Commons committee on Access to Information (The Canadian Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/truce-called-in-cbc-dispute-at-commons-committee-on-access-to-information-134458068.html

Transparent Censorship: An In-Depth Look at FOIA in 2015

https://foiamapper.com/annual-foia-reports-2015/

UPEI introduces new access to information policy
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/2017/3/20/upei-introduces-new-access-to-information-policy-.html

‘We want to be transparent’: UPEI creates new access to information policy
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-upei-foipp-access-to-information-1.4033268

Canada: Unproven Complaints Against Employers Could Soon Be Released To The Public
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/569834/employee+rights+labour+relations/Unproven+Complaints+Against+Employers+Could+Soon+be+Released+to+the+Public

Watchdog recommends blanket ban on personal emails for government business
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/information-commissioner-personal-emails-government-ban-1.3793832

What makes a good FOIA request? We studied 33,000 to find out.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/foia-request-how-to-study.php

Why are the Liberals stalling on their promise to reform access to information?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/why-are-the-liberals-stalling-on-their-promise-to-reform-access-to-information/article29496212/

BLOGS[Top]

David McKie

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/syndication/blog-author-david-mckie.xml

Glen McGregor (A few tasteful snaps: Mostly about Canadian data journalism and politics)

http://afewtastefulsnaps.wordpress.com/

Justin Piche (Tracking the Politics of ‘Crime’ and Punishment in Canada)

http://tpcp-canada.blogspot.com/

Fagstein (Maintained by Montreal Gazette copy editor Steve Faguy and self-described “twenty-something geek freelance journalist who lives in Montreal”)

http://blog.fagstein.com/

The SPJ International Journalism Committee Blog

http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/ijc/

Now The Details

http://nowthedetails.blogspot.com/

The Senate Tackles B(5) FOIA Reform (the U.S.)

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/the-senate-tackles-b5-foia-reform/

BUSINESS ANALYSIS(TOP)

CIBC Economics Research
https://economics.cibccm.com/economicsweb/EconomicsHome#!WORKSPACE_ID=ECO_HOME

RBC Economic Research
http://www.rbc.com/economics/#

TD Economics
https://www.td.com/economics/analysis/economics-index.jsp

BMO Capital Markets
http://economics.bmocapitalmarkets.com/

BMO Financial Group
https://newsroom.bmo.com/index.php?s=2429

Scotia Bank Economics
http://www.gbm.scotiabank.com/ResearchCapabilities/RE_Scotia_Economics.htm

Bank of Canada
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/

Big Five Canadian Banks
http://www.canadabanks.net/default.aspx?article=Big+Five+Canadian+Banks

InvestD

https://invesd.com/home

Hoovers

http://www.hoovers.com/#megamenu_0.html

Summary table — Debt to equity ratio by industries (Statistics Canada)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/61-219-x/2010000/t007-eng.htm

Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/

Financial glossary (Reuters)

http://glossary.reuters.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Society of American Business Writers and Editors

http://sabew.org/resources/resources/

“Best Business Writing” anthologies compiled by Columbia University

For the most recent edition, click here 

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

http://worthwhile.typepad.com/

BUSINESS REPORTING (TOP)

Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

http://businessjournalism.org/

Beginners’ Guide to Financial Statements (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/begfinstmtguide.htm

CANADIAN BUSINESS (TOP)

Catalyst Canada, Inc.

http://www.catalyst.org/

Business Terminology

http://www.powerhomebiz.com/Glossary/glossary-A.htm

http://www.investorwords.com/

Business Dictionary

http://www.businessdictionary.com/

Canada NewsWire

http://www.new.ca

CCN Matthews

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/home.jsp

Campbell R. Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary

http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm

Corporations database online

https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpSrch.html?locale=en_CA

Google Finance

http://finance.google.com/finance

FPinfomart.ca (Canada’s largest provider of news & broadcast media monitoring, financial and corporate data)

http://www.fpinfomart.ca/

MarketWatch

http://www.marketwatch.com/?link=MW_Nav_FP

Nasdaq

http://www.nasdaq.com/

SEDAR (Canada)

http://www.sedar.com/search/search_en.htm

Securities commissions

British Columbia Securities Commission

http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/

Alberta Securities Commission

http://www.albertasecurities.com/Pages/Default.aspx

Manitoba Securities Commission

http://www.msc.gov.mb.ca/index_en.html

Ontario Securities Commission

http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/home.htm

http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/Proceedings_before-commission_index.htm

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)

http://www.lautorite.qc.ca/index.en.html

Nova Scotia Securities Commission

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nssc/

The Securities Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador

http://www.gs.gov.nl.ca/cca/fsr/rulemaking/

CANADIAN BUSINESS STATISTICS(TOP)

Bankruptcy (Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada)

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inbsf-osb.nsf/en/home

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/h_br01011.html

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ica-lic.nsf/eng/h_lk00015.html

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2007 (Statistics Canada)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/standard-norme/naics-scian/2007/list-liste-eng.htm

Manpower Employment Outlook Survey

http://www.manpowergroup.com/wps/wcm/connect/manpowergroup-en/home/thought-leadership/meos/

Statistics Canada

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dai-quo/index-eng.htm

Stockwatch

http://www.stockwatch.com/

Tradingview

https://www.tradingview.com/e/MSuvXQsL/

CANADIAN BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS(TOP)

Alberta Oil: The Business of Energy

http://www.albertaoilmagazine.com

http://www.albertaoilmagazine.com/2011/06/the-top-100-canadian-publicly-traded-oil-gas-companies-2011/

Canadian Business

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/

Northern Business Ontario

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/

Report on Business Magazine (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/

CAR AND ATI-related STORIES(TOP)

Access to airline safety reports held up by court action (CBCNews)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/22/pol-airline-safety-sms-porter-lawsuit-transport-canada.html

Ambrose got earful on definition-of-life vote (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/05/pol-ambrose-woodworth-motion-correspondence.html

Access to Information Act turns 30 amid calls for reform (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/06/pol-access-to-information-30th-anniversary.html

Access to Info Watch: In search of … documents that never were (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/11/access-to-info-watch-in-search-of-documents-that-never-were.html

As fundraising gap grows, Toronto’s wealthy schools leaving poor schools behind (Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/04/11/as-fundraising-gap-grows-torontos-wealthy-schools-leaving-poor-schools-behind.html

Advocates demand inquiry into Ontario’s costly handling of Royal Crest nursing-home failure: Bankruptcy of nursing-home chain cost feds, province, unions tens of millions of dollars (CBC News)|

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/03/23/ontario-royal-crest-nursing-home.html

ANALYSIS | Health Canada drug approval policy lacks key power (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/30/pol-drug-approvals-health-canada.html

Another OC Transpo crash: Passenger suggests “refresher course” for bus drivers (The Ottawa Citizen)

A Twitter memorial to Canada’s war dead (Glen McGregor’s blog for the Ottawa Citizen)

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/09/a-twitter-memorial-to-canadas-war-dead/

A CBC News investigation into the increasing use of atypical anti-psychotics among the elderly (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/seniorsdrugs/off-limits.html

1 in 1,000: How often Tories break ranks (The Ottawa Citizen analysis of House of Commons votes)

Air force warned about backlash over MacKay’s chopper flight (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1095436–air-force-warned-about-backlash-over-mackay-s-chopper-flight?bn=1

Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee (The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/22/data-analysis-tim-berners-lee

An ugly campaign against the CBC (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1086826–an-ugly-campaign-against-the-cbc

Arthritis claims up in bid to speed applications: Advocates say it’s easier to get a doctor to sign a prescription for pot intended to treat sore joints (PostMedia News)

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Arthritis+claims+speed+applications/5841518/story.html

Border agency policy spells out surveillance rules (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/06/22/pol-mckie-cbsa-border-agency-surveillance-policy.html

Border officer fired for association with convicted criminal (CBCNews)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-officer-fired-for-association-with-convicted-criminal-1.2598723

Documents show ‘harperization’ of government communications (The Canadian Press)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/documents-show-harperization-of-government-communications/article2253080/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2253080

Don’t shoot the messenger

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/16/dont-shoot-the-messenger

Drug seizure stories (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/27/pol-busted-at-the-border-drug-seizures-cbsa.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/27/pol-border-drug-seizures-china-gbh.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/03/27/montreal-hot-spot-for-canada-drug-seizures.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/27/bc-cbsa-drugs-ketamine.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/03/28/wdr-cocaine-seizures-ambassador-bridge.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/03/27/ns-border-halifax-smuggle.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/03/27/mb-khat-manitoba-border-smuggling.html

http://www.radio-canada.ca/grands-titres/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/03/post-15.html

Canada’s arms sales to the Middle East (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/03/canadas-arms-sales-to-the-middle-east.html

CBC’s David McKie on investigative reporting

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/04/cbcs-david-mckie-on-investigative-reporting.html

CBC releases some records to House committee (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-releases-some-records-to-house-committee-1.1008924

Citizenship backlog stark contrast to fast-tracked Olympic skater (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/citizenship-backlog-stark-contrast-to-fast-tracked-olympic-skater-1.2470634

Would-be Olympic ice dancer fast-tracked to Canadian citizenship (Global News)

http://ht.ly/tXpM4

Censors must not arbitrarily black out public documents, panel rules (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/censors-must-not-arbitrarily-black-out-public-documents-panel-rules/article2045552/

Complaints against OC Transpo drivers pile up

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Complaints+against+Transpo+drivers+pile/5201883/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

Clement seeks ‘culture change’ on government transparency (The Globe and Mail)

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/clement-seeks-culture-change-on-government-transparency/article2237807/?service=mobile

Code Red (The Hamilton Spectator)

http://www.thespec.com/topic/codered

Party discipline: Conservative MPs break ranks more often than opposition (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservative-mps-break-ranks-more-often-than-opposition/article8156279/?cs

Contaminated sites across Canada require clean up (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/07/pol-mckie-contaminated-sites-treasury-board-environment.html

Drunk driving tops list of pardoned offences (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/02/09/parole-board-numbers.html?ref=rss

FATAL FLIGHTS A Perilous Rush to Profit (The Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004500.html

Federal agency ACOA writes off millions in bad loans (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/12/pol-mckie-power-politics-acoa-loan-defaults.html

$1.4B tax scams nail donors:Taxman going after 106,000 who submitted inflated charity claims (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/Investigation/article/261820

Absent Liberals under fire for giving Tories de facto majority (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=0cf2b9a0-663c-4a30-8a8e-ef30cec3e7ed&k=37011&p=1

Arming the world (CBC National Radio News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arming-the-world/

Beaten Down: Fear and violence in Canada’s nursing homes (CBC National Radio News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/nursing-homes/

Behind the kitchen door (The Edmonton Journal)

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/features/restaurants/story.html?id=b1c81f34-f532-423e-b1e9-3ebfa40ab6e6

Beauty and the Breast: The Controversy Continues (CBC News)

Click here to download the documentary

Bird strikes increasing at Canadian airports, data shows (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/13/bird-strikes-airports.html?ref=rss

Bruce Carson not alone in bankruptcy

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/03/bruce-carson-not-alone-in-bankruptcy.html

Buying Influence? Which lobbyists gave money to councillors durring the last election? (Toronto Media Co-op)

http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/buying-influence/4843

Canada’s air marshals cost $40 million a year, documents show

http://www.canada.com/business/Canada+marshals+cost+million+year+documents+show/5254081/story.html

Canada OK’s most Sri Lankan refugee claims (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/09/27/f-migrant-refugee-numbers.html?ref=rss

Canadian military grapples with drug convictions (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/09/17/f-military-conviction-drug.html

Canadian Newspaper Association freedom-of-information audit of police forces (CBC story)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/09/access-to-information.html?ref=rss

Canadian arms sales 2007-09 top $1.4B

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/03/11/pol-arms-sales.html

Care and attention: Daycares lost track of children 230 times over five years (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/care/index.html

CBSA urged to act on marriage fraud complaints: Immigration minister wants border agents to build credible cases (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/29/pol-marriage-fraud.html

Close call for Labrador-bound flight (CBC News Newfoundland)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2011/03/29/labrador-flight-close-call-329.html

Collision Course ( The Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator and The Record)

http://blogs.ukings.ca/carincanada/2006/06/14/collision-course/

Dangling the Dollars ( The Ottawa Citizen and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald)

Database: G8/G20 spending numbers (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2010/09/behind-the-numbers-the-g8g20-expenses-debate-is-it-really-about-transparency.html

Database: Accessing MPs’ expenses

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/10/29/f-database-mp-expenses.html

Deadly Mistkes: Critical Errors by City’s Network Found in 40 Fatalities; Confidential Files Show Wide Pattern of Official Neglect (The Washington Post)

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2002,Investigative+Reporting

Dirty little secrets: Abuse in daycares (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/218357

Dishing the Dirt (Winnipeg Free Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Dishing-the-dirt-49338292.html

Driving the 401 a risky business (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/article/236480

Dying for Job (CBC National Radio New)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/workplace-safety/dyingforajob.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/workplace-safety/media.html

Explore the Data

The New York Times spent 10 months investigating business incentives awarded by hundreds of cities, counties and states

Europe’s Hidden Billions – tracking EU structural funds (The Financial Times)

http://www.ft.com/eu-funds

Facts & Figures (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

http://chronicle.com/section/Facts-Figures/58/

Faint Warning ( CBC National Radio News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/adr/

Federal workers lead pack in rising absenteeism (The Ottawa Citizen)

Please read the story by clicking here.

Federal cuts threaten program hiring medically discharged vets (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/08/03/pol-the-house-federal-cuts-threaten-program-hiring-vets.html

http://www.cbc.ca/thehouse/2012/08/04/program-to-help-veterans-find-work-delivering-mixed-results/

Feds open up access to government data (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/16/pol-clement-open-government.html

Fewer prisoners escaping federal custody (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/story/2012/10/30/pol-prison-escapes.html

Fixing D.C.’s Schools (A Washington Post investigation)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/dcschools/

Flaherty looked to Liberals for lessons on spending cuts (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/03/pol-budget-cuts.html

Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law (Tampa Bay Times)

http://tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/

Fluctuations in refugee rulings trouble critics (CBC News investigation)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2009/12/17/f-refugee-claims.html

Forces introduce new fitness test requirement for troops being deployed abroad
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/troops-fitness-deployed-test-1.4402024

Elusive access pushing patients to B.C (Calgary Herald)

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Elusive+access+pushing+patients/5841217/story.html

Government bolsters staff dealing with Phoenix ATIPs
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-phoenix-frustration-privacy-1.4573685

Government’s online information access plan falls short (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/11/pol-mckie-atip-online-summaries-opengov.html

Government warned before loss of student loan, CPP data (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/10/pol-mckie-pnp-hrsdc-data-security-breaches.html

‘Guantanamo North’: Inside Secretive U.S. Prisons (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134168714/guantanamo-north-inside-u-s-secretive-prisons

Harvesting Cash (A Washington Post investigation into farm subsidies)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/interactives/farmaid/

Health Canada planned to target binge, pregnant smokers (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/12/08/tobacco-warnings-health-canada.html

Hosed at the Pumps (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/hosedatthepumps/index.html

Immigration programs still poorly tracked: Volpe

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/01/28/mckie-cic-volpe-012911.html

Increase in STDs in region alarming: officials: Health departments link rise to reduced condom use (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Increase+STDs+region+alarming+officials/3618141/story.html

Stemming the spread of STDs: Sexual health clinic expanded to handle the rising number of cases of infection (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Sexual+health+clinic+expanded+handle+rising+number+cases/4228762/story.html

Industry Canada queried Bernier census claims

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/10/04/census-bernier-complaints-documents.html

Information czar gives Canada Post, CBC low marks (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/03/10/pol-info-czar-post-cbc.html

Inmate programs fall short of capital spending (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/01/13/inmate-spending-mckie.html?ref=rss

IMPACT (The Record series on road safety)

http://news.therecord.com/specialsections/section/impact

Inspectors averaged 2 hours a day inside listeria-infected plant (The CBC and Toronto Star)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/10/listeria-inspectors-maple-leaf.html?ref=rss

Female appointments dip under Tories (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/01/07/mckie-gender-equity.html

Firms with worker deaths to lose rebates: Star investigation prompts WSIB change (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/504076

Food for thought (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Special+Report+Critical+deficiencies+found+shawarma+eateries/2532974/Special+report+Food+thought/2531317/story.html

Food agency database shows rise in serious product recalls (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/07/pol-cfia-food-product-recalls.html

Forced Out (A Washington Post Investigation Into the Casualties of the District’s Real Estate Boom)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/forcedout/index.htm

Gas-pedal problems plagued several carmakers (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/gas-pedal-problems-plagued-several-carmakers-1.941619

GIVE AND TAKE: Charitable empire has high costs

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/273350

Gun seizures up but fears of porous border remain (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/01/pol-cbsa-weapons-seized-border-guns.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/06/14/wdr-gun-smuggling-windsor-detroit-border-union-resources.html

Lebanon crisis sparked consular staff concerns (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/02/05/lebanon-evacuation-report.html?ref=rss

Listeriosis victims, families still waiting for compensation (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/08/pol-listeriosis-claim-payments.html

Lobbyists mount full-court press (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lobbyists+mount+full+court+press/3792127/story.html

Looking for art? You can get a real steal at government buildings (The Canadian Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/looking-for-art-you-can-get-a-real-steal-at-government-buildings-130490643.html

MacKay helicopter airlift ‘under guise’ of training (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/01/pol-mackay-helicopter-fishing-flight.html

MacKay took taxpayer-funded helicopter after officials advised against media event (Postmedia News)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/MacKay%2Btook%2Btaxpayer%2Bfunded%2Bhelicopter%2Bafter%2Bofficials%2Badvised%2Bagainst%2Bmedia%2Bevent/7880658/story.html

Marriages of convenience problems persist (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/11/07/david-mckie-marriages-of-convenience.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/29/pol-marriage-fraud.html

Medical marijuana blurb (PostMedia News)

http://www.canada.com/Medical+marijuana+blurb/5841886/story.html

Medical marijuana requests spike, with severe arthritis most common claim (Edmonton Journal.com)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/mobile/news/top-stories/Medical+marijuana+requests+spike+with+severe+arthritis+most+common/5838887/story.html

Memo warned Toews of risks in dropping gun show rules: Elimination of long-gun registry raises concern over gun show sales (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/11/13/pol-gun-show-briefing-notes-power-politics.html

More people failing revamped citizenship tests (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/14/pol-citizenship-immigration-test-failure-rate.html

Government signals crackdown on marriage fraud

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/03/29/pol-marriage-fraud.html

Medical marijuana law changes under microscope (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/28/pol-mckie-medical-marijuana-talks.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/09/court-ruling-found-fault-with-medical-marijuana-law.html

More CAR-related stories ( CARinCanada)

http://blogs.ukings.ca/carincanada/category/stories-done-with-car/

More home sellers taking a loss (The Baltimore Sun)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-te.bz.loss11oct11,0,3496598,full.story

More than $1M spent on VIP flights for Natynczyk since 2008 (CTV News)

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110915/million-spent-on-vip-flights-for-natynczyk-since-110915/

Most medical marijuana users middle-aged men (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.canada.com/health/Most+medical+marijuana+users+middle+aged/5837757/story.html

Muslim panelists ‘not available,’ unredacted document says (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/09/07/pol-elliott-sidebar-office-religious-freedom.html?cmp=rss

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said he didn’t ‘know very much’ about energy projects, emails reveal (Post Media)

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/Natural+Resources+Minister+Oliver+said+didn+know+very+much/7478134/story.html

Navigation Protection Act: Government braces for court battles over waterways (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/navigation-protection-act-government-braces-for-court-battles-over-waterways-1.2703042

News stories produced by ATI Act requests, 2006-2010

http://www3.telus.net/index100/atiastories1

No Running Water (The Winnipeg Free Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/no-running-water/

Nova Scotia government gave $2.3 million in merit pay to civil servants (The Chronicle Herald)

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9021696.html

50 Alberta news stories made possible by FOIP Act requests

http://www3.telus.net/index100/albertafoistories

OC Transpo’s waiting game (It’s not your imagination. According to a Citizen study, fewer than half of OC Transpo buses run on time. Glen McGregor crunches the numbers.)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Transpo+waiting+game/4190821/story.html

PDF version of Glen’s entire OC Transpo series, including the methodology

Oda’s staff silent on travel expense changes (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/30/pol-oda-expenses.html

Ontario public servants’ $100,00 Club growing; 24% Rise In Year (National Post)

Ontario runway problems cause rise in plane accidents (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/09/07/ottawa-airport-landing-problems.html

OpenGov Watch: 48 ATI-governed entities down, 100+ to go! (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/01/opengov-watch-48-ati-governed-entities-down-150-to-go.html

Ottawa high schools’ police presence shows results (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-high-schools-police-presence-shows-results-1.2619602

Out of Synch (CBC National Radio News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/workplace-safety/outofsync.html

Overserved (Ottawa Citizen series on bar inspections)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Controversy+straight/1965956/story.html

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/search/search.html?q=overserved

Pardons allow new start, applicants say (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/02/20/pol-mckie-pardon-story.html

Pardon applications expected to tumble (The Canadian Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/03/pardons-canada-prison.html

Parking Secrets: Where you’re most likely to be ticketed (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/Parking+Secrets+Where+most+likely+ticketed/1323988/story.html

Police dip into victims’ cash (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/702444

Political contributions: What the numbers say

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2010/05/political-contributions-what-the-numbers-say.html

Political donations in Alberta – 2004 to 2010 (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/donations/database.html

http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a4ddf170-bd63-4ff0-b7d9-9ae55199e92c&p=2

Prescribed to death

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/seniorsdrugs/

Prison ‘double-bunking’ risks violence, ombudsman says (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/17/pol-prisons-double-bunking.html

Payment plea for Tamil protest costs ignored (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/07/29/ottawa-tamil-protest-costs-public-safety.html

Private sector must help keep lid on drug costs, report argues (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/11/pol-mckie-drug-costs-report.html

PS balloons on Conservatives’ watch (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Conservatives+watch/4234048/story.html

Public service absenteeism jumps by 40%; ‘Alarming’ spike over past decade draws ire, sympathy from experts (The Ottawa Citizen)

Please read the story by clicking here

Race Matters (The Toronto Star)

http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/raceandcrime

Rapid Fire (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/rapidfire/index.html

RCMP fire Tasers multiple times despite health hazards: probe (CBC-Radio-Canada, The Canadan Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/11/taser-rcmp.html

RCMP softened Taser-use restrictions (CBC-Radio-Canada, The Canadian Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/britishcolumbia/story/2009/03/25/taser.html

RCMP shocked 16 people five times or more last year (CBC and The Canadian Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rcmp-shocked-16-people-five-times-or-more-last-year-1.812794

RCMP spied on scholar Northrop Frye, records show (The Canadian Press)

To read article, please click here

RCMP spied on Tommy Douglas as early as 1936 (The Canadian Press)

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20111111/tommy-douglas-rcmp-files-111111/

RCMP halts use of older model Tasers after B.C. decision (The CBC)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/01/bc-government-pulls-tasers.html?ref=rss

Report details encounters with rude, accusatory border employees (The Canadian Press)

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/report-details-encounters-with-rude-accusatory-border-employees-1.940384

Ring of Fire mining may not benefit First Nations as hoped (The CBC)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/26/pol-ring-of-fire-first-nations-economic-benefit-doubts.html

Rise in prison gangs fuelling violence, drug trade (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/24/pol-gangs-prisons.html

Roadside breath tests not always accurate: documents (CTV News, British Columbia)

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111209/bc_road_side_breath_tests_inaccurate_111209/20111209/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

Several news stories by Stanley Tromp, based upon Freedom of Information requests

http://www3.telus.net/index100/trompfoistories

Secret Skies (CBC News investigation into air safety on the 10th anniversary of the Swissair crash)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/secretskies/

Security video of Robert Dziekanski: Select footage from 6 hours in Vancouver International Airport (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tasers/video.html

Some airport screeners have sticky fingers, documents show (QMI Agency)

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/12/some-airport-screeners-have-sticky-fingers-documents-show

Some childcare facilities fall short of government standards (Martha Troian, CBC News North)

http://www.cbc.ca/anewday/episodes/2011/08/22/some-childcare-facilities-fall-short-of-government-standards/

Some tested Tasers fire stronger current than company says: CBC/Radio-Canada probe

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/taser-tests.html

Taser this: RCMP increases its use of stun guns ( CBC National Radio News/The Canadian Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tasers/taser-use.html

Tax breaks for volunteer firefighters – less than meets the eye (CBC News, Election 2011 reality check)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/realitycheck/2011/04/tax-breaks-for-volunteer-firefighters—less-than-meets-the-eye.html

Temporary foreign workers hired in areas with EI claimants (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/06/temporary-foreign-worker-program.html

Temporary Foreign Worker Program complaints began in 2006 (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-foreign-worker-program-complaints-began-in-2006-1.2685056

Temporary Foreign Worker Program queries came mostly from Tory MPs (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-foreign-worker-program-queries-came-mostly-from-tory-mps-1.2687159

Harper says foreign worker program is being fixed (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/07/pol-cp-temporary-foreign-workers.html

The Hornet’s Sting (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/hornet/index.html#

The Joy of Parking (CBC Radio Halifax)

http://www.cbc.ca/ns/features/the-joy-of-parking/

The long, hot summer (The Winnipeg Free Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/the-long-hot-summer-128867333.html

The school nurse is in … for now (Pioneer Press)

http://www.twincities.com/ci_13874895?nclick_check=1

The Washington Post (artricles by former database editor Sarah Cohen)

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/sarah+cohen/

Times launching database that maps, analyzes crime reports across L.A. County

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crime-data-20100930,0,4503455.story

Time’s Up (Winnipeg Free Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/parking_tickets/

Tory ridings the winners from stimulus (The Ottawa Citizen)

Tory MP who flirted with Chinese reporter passed security check (The Canadian Press)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-mp-who-flirted-with-chinese-reporter-passed-security-check/article2162968/singlepage/#articlecontent

Toxic spills put Arctic under threat, report finds

Too many drugs allowed on market: MP (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/01/19/health-canada-drugs.html

Top-paid Ont. civil servants list jumps 11% (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/03/31/ontario-sunshine-list.html

Tory crime plan fails victims, inmates: critics (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2011/02/15/pol-mckie-inmate-programs.html

Toyota floor-mat problems arose in 2003 (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/toyota-floor-mat-problems-arose-in-2003-1.974720

Toyota should have revealed ’05 lawsuit: critics (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/04/12/toyota-lawsuit-critics.html

Toyota problems seen months before recall (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/toyota-problems-seen-months-before-recall-1.896283

Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering (The New York Times)

http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters

U.S. worries about Canadian meat flagged in memo: Coalition wants plug pulled on meat pre-clearance pilot project in wake of XL Foods recall

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/14/pol-foreign-affairs-cfia-us-meat-inspection-xl-foods.html

XL Foods warned 6 times over lapses before E. coli outbreak (CBC News): Correction Action Requests issued at Alberta plant for sanitation, contamination

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/08/pol-cfia-xl-foods-atip-corrective-action.html

Vehicle safety bill moves ahead (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/06/transport-canada-recall-vehicles.html?ref=rss

Visits to food banks in Toronto’s suburbs up almost 20% since 2008 (CTV News)

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/visits-to-food-banks-in-toronto-s-suburbs-up-almost-20-since-2008-1.1782655

Who are Saskatchewan’s medicinal marijuana users? ( The Leader-Post)

http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Saskatchewan+medicinal+marijuana+users/5838807/story.html

Who wins, loses from mass immigration to California? (The Orange County Register)

http://www.ocregister.com/news/-267327–.html

WORKING WOUNDED: Hiding injuries rewards companies

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/451322

CATALOGUE SEARCH ENGINES (TOP)

Yahoo

http://ca.yahoo.com/

LookSmart

http://search.looksmart.com/

Open Directory Project

http://dmoz.org/

Cluster searches

http://clusty.com/

Reporter’s desktop

http://www.reporter.org/desktop/

Verbatim tool: Search using the exact words you typed

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1734130?hl=en\

Incognito mode (browse in private)

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en

DuckDuckGo (anonymous searches)

https://duckduckgo.com/

Firefox Private Browsing

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-browse-web-without-saving-info

CENSUS (TOP)

2016 Census Program release schedule
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/release-dates-diffusion-eng.cfm

2016 Census of Population: Age and sex release
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/98-501/98-501-x2016002-eng.cfm#a1

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170503/dq170503a-eng.htm?HPA=1

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E

2016 Census of Population: Type of dwelling release 
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/98-501/98-501-x2016003-eng.cfm

Dictionary, Census of Population, 2016
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/index-eng.cfm

2016 Geographic boundaries
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/geo/index-eng.cfm

Census Mapper
https://censusmapper.ca/maps/584

Population and Dwelling Count Highlight Tables, 2016 Census
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/comprehensive.cfm

Hierarchy of standard geographic areas for dissemination, 2016 Census
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/figures/f1_1-eng.cfm

Current population and household estimates
http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/get-know-your-city/statistics-and-economic-profile/statistics/current-population-and

Canadian Census Analyser from the University of Toronto

https://login.proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?url=http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/census/

Canadian Immigration Stats (for Canada and all regions from the 2001 and 2006 censuses)

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=ottawa&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=Immigration%20and%20citizenship&Custom=

Boundary files (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-eng.cfm

City of Ottawa 2011 Census Backgrounder

http://barrhavenbia.ca/files%20to%20add%20to%20website/A%20-%20Census%20Report_Planning%20Committee%20final.pdf

Geogrpahic levels for 2011 census (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/download-telecharger/comprehensive/comp-ivt-xml-dwnld-tlchrgr.cfm?Lang=E

2006 Census Population (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/index-eng.cfm

2006 Census Income and Earnings

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/St-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

2006 Census Household Income

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Lp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=814&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

2011 Census – Province and Territory Cargographic Boundary Files (Statistics Canada)

http://www.data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/bab06e04-e6d0-41f1-a595-6cff4d71bedf

NHS Profile, 2011 

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E

National Household Survey User Guide

http://www12.statcan.ca/nhs-enm/2011/ref/nhs-enm_guide/index-eng.cfm

HS Profile – Download NHS data for a complete geographic level: CSV or TAB

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/download-telecharger/comprehensive/comp-csv-tab-nhs-enm.cfm?Lang=E

Census tract (CT) suppression list
http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/ref/sup_CT-SR-eng.cfm

Ottawa ward boundary file
http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/wards-2010/resource/6abe3aa1-4ad8-4061-bb18-dad5054b85fb

Toronto Has Over 99,000 Unoccupied Homes, Here’s Where They Are [Interactive]
https://betterdwelling.com/city/toronto/toronto-has-over-99000-unoccupied-homes-heres-where-they-are-interactive/#_

The house is sold, but nobody’s home
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/vancouvers-vacant-home-surge-comes-to-thegta/article34639829

CHILDREN’S SAFETY (TOP)

Child Care Lookup (Government of Alberta)

http://www.child.alberta.ca/home/ChildCareLookup.cfm

Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services (Find Licenced Childcare)

http://www.ontario.ca/ONT/portal51/licensedchildcare/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd443cQ4ESYGZlr76kTCxIH1vfV-P_NxU_QD9gtyIckdHRUUAjt9wJQ!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUMvNElVRS82X0NfNENQ

Toronto’s Children’s Services

http://www.toronto.ca/children

Nova Scotia Directory of Licensed Child Care Facilities

http://www.gov.ns.ca/coms/families/childcare/directories/FacilitySearch.aspx

Care and Attention (The Vancouver Sun’s investigation into daycares)

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/care/index.html

Child and Spousal Support: Maintenance Enforcement Survey Statistics (Statistics Canada)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-228-x/85-228-x2011000-eng.htm

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-228-x/2011000/tablesectlist-listetableauxsect-eng.htm

CONSUMER ISSUES AND CONSUMER-RELATED STORIES(TOP)

InjuryBoard Blog Network

http://www.injuryboard.com/

Chemical companies, Big Tobacco and the toxic products in your home (Chicago Tribune.com)

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html

Joe Debtor:Who Is The Average “Joe Debtor” And Why Does He File Insolvency?
http://www.hoyes.com/press/joe-debtor/

COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING(Top)

CBC’s adverse drug reaction database series

http://www.cbc.ca/news/adr

Rapid Fire ( the Ottawa Citizen’s searchable online gun registry database http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/rapidfire/form.html

National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting

http://www.nicar.org/

http://data.nicar.org/

http://www.ire.org/resource-center/listservs/subscribe-nicar-l/

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

http://www.ire.org/

Example syllabi

http://ire.org/resource-center/educators-center/syllabi/

Syllabi – Curriculum Outlines and Ideas (IRE)

http://www.ire.org/education/syllabi.html

Center for Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/default.aspx

CARinCanada

http://carincanada.ca/

Calculator Soup

http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/algebra/percent-change-calculator.php

NewsEngin’s Percent Change Calculator

http://newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/PercentChange/formPercentChange

Stephen Lamble’s computer-assisted reporting home page (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~slamble/index.html

SearchEngineWatch.com

http://searchenginewatch.com/

Jakob Nielsen’s Website (Expert advice on Internet trends and usage)

http://www.useit.com/

Domain name registries around the world

http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html

Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculation

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html

NGA Range Bearing Computation (the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)

http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rangbear.html

SQL Server Express

http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/InstallOptions.aspx

University of Maryland Computer Science (the history of spreadsheets and other applications)

http://www.cs.umd.edu//class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/index.html

COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING TUTORIALS(Top)

Text editing with spreadsheets

http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Text_editing_with_spreadsheets

‘Microsoft Excel Tips’ (CARinCanada)

http://blogs.ukings.ca/carincanada/category/data-you-can-use/

Excel Tips

http://excel.tips.net/questions.html?awt_l=9wwNF&awt_m=1aE6X1z3C1sx4X

http://excel.tips.net/

My Favorite (Excel) Things (Excellent tutorial from MaryJo (Sylwester) of the St. Paul Pioneer Press)

http://extra.twincities.com/CAR/MJ/ExcelClasshandout.pdf

http://extra.twincities.com/CAR/MJ/DataStateofMind.pdf

http://extra.twincities.com/CAR/MJ/ManagingJuggling.pdf

Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer

http://www.oupcanada.com/higher_education/companion/comm_studies/9780195424577.html

ProPublica News Apps Style Guide

https://github.com/propublica/guides/blob/master/news-apps.md#data-singular-or-plural

Reporters’ Cookbook!

http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Main_Page

Computer Tutorials

http://599cd.com/tips/excel/?key=

HelpbyHacks

http://help.hackshackers.com/questions

Miracle Solutions

http://www.auditexcel.co.za/GoTo%20Special%20Project.html#eighth

Internet Relay Chat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

Google Refine (ClusteringInDepth)

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/ClusteringInDepth

How to Scrape Websites for Data without Programming Skills (The Poynter Institute)

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/e-media-tidbits/102589/how-to-scrape-websites-for-data-without-programming-skills/

Scraping for Journalists: How to grab data from hundreds of sources, put it in a form you can interrogate – and still hit deadlines By Paul Bradshaw

https://leanpub.com/scrapingforjournalists

For Journalism: Data journalism for all (@forjournalism)

https://twitter.com/forjournalism

101 Ready-to-Use Excel Formulas

http://books.google.ca/books?id=HnwJBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Excel DATEDIF Function – Calculate the difference between two dates

http://www.exceltrick.com/formulas_macros/excel-datedif-function/

The Elements of Data Analytic Style

https://leanpub.com/datastyle

23 things you should know about Excel pivot tables

https://exceljet.net/things-to-know-about-excel-pivot-tables

CONTRACTS(Top)

Buyandsell.gc.ca

https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tenders

Government-Wide Reporting — Proactive Disclosure (Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp

http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/455d4d0a-5d5f-4f60-aa8a-9e36540d21d3

Alberta

http://vendor.purchasingconnection.ca/

British Columbia

http://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/open.dll/welcome

Quebec

https://www.seao.ca/index.aspx

Saskatchewan

http://www.sasktenders.ca/index.html

CORONERS’/CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINERS’ OFFICES(Top)

Directory of chief coroners (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)

http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/help/fatality/coroners.html

B.C.

http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/coroners/

Alberta

http://www.justice.gov.ab.ca/ocme/

Saskatchewan

http://www.saskjustice.gov.sk.ca/coronersoffice/

Manitoba

http://www.gov.mb.ca/justice/about/chief.html#2

Ontario

http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/English/pub_safety/office_coroner/about_coroner.html

Québec

http://www.msp.gouv.qc.ca/coroner/coroner.asp?txtSection=bureau_coroner

New Brunswick

http://www.gnb.ca/0276/Coroner/index-e.asp

Nova Scotia

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/

Prince Edward Island

http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/index.php3?number=52651

Nunavut

http://www.justice.gov.nu.ca/english/courtserv.html

NWT

http://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/Coroner/coroner.htm

Yukon

http://www.justice.gov.yk.ca/prog/cjps/crnr/

CRIME (Top)

Canada Border Services Agency code of conduct statistics

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/agency-agence/reports-rapports/acc-resp/codeconduct-normeethique-eng.html

Documenting Hate Crimes in Alberta
https://stophateab.ca/

RCMP Detachments – Telephone Numbers

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/detach/index-eng.htm

Criminal Intelligence Service Canada

http://www.cisc.gc.ca/products_services/products_services_e.html

Canadian Firearms Program (RCMP – facts and figures)

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/facts-faits/index-eng.htm

Edmonton Police Service Dashboard 
https://dashboard.edmonton.ca/eps

Marihuana Grow Initiative (RCMP)

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/drugs-drogues/mgi-ircm/index-eng.htm

Call for Backup (RCMP site)

http://www.callforbackup.ca/en/

Police reported crime statistics (Statcan summary table that compares “most serious crimes” from 2007 to 2008)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/090721/dq090721a-eng.htm

Crimes and offences (Statcan summary tables that break crimes down by province and territories)

http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm?Lang=E&SP_Action=Result&SP_ID=2102&SP_TYP=5&SP_Sort=1&SP_Portal=2

Crimes by type of violation, and by province and territory (Statcan summary tables)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/legal50a-eng.htm

Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations (Statcan summary tables)

http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=2520051&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=37&tabMode=dataTable&csid=

Juristat (Statistics Canada)

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-002-XIE/85-002-XIE.html

Public Safety Canada terrorist list

http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-eng.aspx

Ottawa Police

http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/CrimeFiles/CrimeMaps_Reports/crimestats.aspx

http://web.archive.org/web/20070205094752/ottawapolice.ca/en/resources/crime_analysis_statistics/index.cfm

Crime Reports (Ottawa police)

http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/crime/crime-stats.asp

Canadian Association of Police Boards

http://capb.cms10.tomahawk.ca/Home

Crime Reports (crime mapping company for police forces in North America)

http://www.crimereports.com/map?search=Ottawa+Ontario

The University of Ottawa

http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/statistics.html

Queen’s University

http://www.queensu.ca/security/

Security in the Community (Hintonburg Community Association)

http://hintonburg.com/SC_start.html

Tracking the Politics of ‘Crime’ and Punishment in Canada

http://tpcp-canada.blogspot.com/

Adult Correctional Services Survey (Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics)

http://library.queensu.ca/webdoc/ssdc/b2020/ccjs_guide.htm

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime — Global Study on Homicide

http://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/data.html

DATABASES(Top)

Carleton Library Data

Charities

Recalled Medical Devices

Vehicle Defect Complaints (Transport Canada)

Arms

Hospital infections

Vancouver Sun article

Ottawa Citizen article on domestic violence

Statscan2006 detailed samesex data

Statscan 2001 detailed samesex data

Proactive Disclosure

Ottawa CMA, all violation, 1998-2010

Food recall stats

Contaminated sites

AidData

http://aiddata.org/content/index/AidData-Raw

Data & Research (The World Bank)

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/0,,contentMDK:22547097~pagePK:50016803~piPK:50016805~theSitePK:13,00.html

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,menuPK:476823~pagePK:64165236~piPK:64165141~theSitePK:469372,00.html

Datacatalogs.org (a comprehensive list of open data catalogs currated by experts from around the world)

http://datacatalogs.org/

DATA JOURNALISM EDUCATION(Top)

10 principles for data journalism in its second decade
https://medium.com/thoughts-on-journalism/10-principles-for-data-journalism-in-its-second-decade-3b45e08a4793

Data Journalism or Computer Assisted Reporting
https://tcij.org/resources/handbooks/data-journalism

Census Reporter
https://censusreporter.org/

Crime Data Explorer
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/

Understanding the needs of people in journalism tech
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/news_and_analysis/understanding_the_needs_of_people_in_journalism_tech

Introducing Our Data Journalism Advisers
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/introducing-our-data-journalism-advisers

Murder Accountability Project
http://murderdata.org/

Strategies and Best Practices for Data Literacy Education
https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/64578/Strategies%20and%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Data%20Literacy%20Education.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

OpenUp
https://openup.org.za/

Teaching Open Data
http://open.canada.ca/en/blog/teaching-open-data

Two fundamentals that define good data journalism
https://medium.com/@digidickinson/two-fundamentals-that-define-good-data-journalism-fe79170f8566

DATA JOURNALISM (Top)

A crucial skill that most J-schools aren’t teaching

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/data.php?utm_content=bufferf0be0

A Primer on Machine Readability for Online Documents and Data

https://www.data.gov/developers/blog/primer-machine-readability-online-documents-and-data

Data empowers journalism independence in Trump’s era
https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/data-journalism-independence-trump.php

50 ideas in 60  minutes #NICAR15//ATL

/50ideas.html#/

Bad water: ‘Third World’ conditions on First Nations in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bad-water-third-world-conditions-on-first-nations-in-canada-1.3269500prez

CUNY J+: Data Journalism Bootcamp: Excel, Open Refine, Tableau and More
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/cuny-j-data-journalism-bootcamp-excel-open-refine-tableau/2017-09-23/

Data Desk (The Los Angeles Times)

http://datadesk.latimes.com/

Data Driven Journalism: Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools
http://learno.net/courses/doing-journalism-with-data-first-steps-skills-and-tools

Data Driven Journalism: Where Journalism Meets Data
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/news_and_analysis

Data Driven Journalism
http://www.rightrelevance.com/search/influencers?query=Data%20Driven%20Journalism&taccount=ddj_rr

DATA JOURNALISM: AN EXPLICATION

https://isojjournal.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/data-journalism-an-explication/

Data Journalism Tools Part 1: Extracting and Scraping Data
http://blog.silk.co/post/142737643047/data-journalism-tools-part-1-extracting-and

Diving into Data Journalism: Strategies for getting started or going deeper
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/strategy-studies/data-journalism/

Exposing The Invisable
https://exposingtheinvisible.org/guides/decoding-data/

Tools for Data Visualization Part 2: Cleaning Data
http://blog.silk.co/post/143527419532/tools-for-data-visualization-part-2-cleaning-data

Tools for Data Visualization part 3: Enhancing Data
http://blog.silk.co/post/144293633212/tools-for-data-visualization-part-3-enhancing

Data storytelling

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/data-storytelling?utm_medium=EM&asrc=EM_ERU_57212605&utm_campaign=20160516_ERU%20Transmission%20for%2005/16/2016%20(UserUniverse:%202068144)_myka-reports@techtarget.com&utm_source=ERU&src=5510046

DataProf (Fred Vallance-Jones)

http://dataprof.ca/

Chad Skelton (Telling stories with data)

http://www.chadskelton.com/

The “coxcomb” or “rose diagram”: Florence Nightingale’s most famous statistical diagram (1858)

http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk/Coxcomb.htm

The Guardian’s data blog

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog

Dan Bricklin’s Web Site

http://www.bricklin.com/

Data Journalism Blog

http://www.datajournalismblog.com

Data Journalism Handbook (1.0 Beta)

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

Chicago Crime (Chicago Tribune)

http://crime.chicagotribune.com/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/

http://schools.chicagotribune.com/

CodeAcademy

https://www.codecademy.com/

Collaboration, computer help, and coding: A new book looks at data journalism in the newsroom

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/collaboration-computer-help-and-coding-a-new-book-looks-at-data-journalism-in-the-newsroom/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=e1cb6f04fc-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-e1cb6f04fc-395868801

Global Investigative Journalism Network

http://gijn.org/resources/data-journalism/

FlowingData
http://flowingdata.com/

How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works

http://www.datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/in_the_newsroom_2.html

Intro Into Web Apps
https://introwebapps.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/history-data-story/

I’m @mtdukes

http://mtduk.es/

Inayat Singh

http://inayatsingh.com/

Journalism++

http://www.jplusplus.org/en/

lenagroeger/datajournalism
https://github.com/lenagroeger/datajournalism

Nael Shiab

http://naelshiab.com/language/en/

News Apps Blog ( The Chicago Tribune)

http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/

Open Source vs. Proprietary Software

http://www.gn.apc.org/support/open-source-vs-proprietary-software

Ontario political donations surge, plunge around key policy decisions, Radio-Canada finds

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-political-donations-1.3588320

Ontario unions behind 94 per cent of third-party ad spending in past three elections
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-unions-behind-94-per-cent-of-third-party-ad-spending-in-past-three-elections/article31326097/

10 ans et 100 millions en dons pour influencer les partis ontariens

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2016/05/18/001-exclusif-dons-politiques-elections-ontario.shtml

The next wave of data journalism?https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/08/01/future-of-data-journalism-book-chapter/

Nouvelles règles du financement politique en Ontario : quel parti sortira gagnant?

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2016/05/19/001-changement-dons-politique-impact-partis.shtml

The New Precision Journalism (Chapter 10)

http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/book/Chapter10.htm

NICAR Courses

http://ire.org/coursepacks/

Open (The New York Times)

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/

opencorporates

https://opencorporates.com/

OpenSecrets Open Data (A U.S. Google group for open-date and data-journalism enthsiasts)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opensecrets-open-data

Paper.li
http://paper.li/flpires/1336026968#/

School of Communication to host SPJ-Google News Lab training
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2017/08/school-communication-host-spj-google-news-lab-training/

The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism
http://towcenter.org/the-art-and-science-of-data-driven-journalism/

http://towcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Tow-Center-Data-Driven-Journalism.pdf

The future of news: A conversation with Google
https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-09-the-future-of-news-a-conversation-with-google

The Overview Project

https://github.com/overview

The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data

https://www.gitbook.com/book/towcenter/curious-journalist-s-guide-to-data/details?utm_source=API+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=e6e01ef704-Need_to_Know_March_25_20163_25_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-e6e01ef704-45820049

The Datajournalist
http://thedatajournalist.ca/

O’Reilly Media

http://www.oreilly.com/

The ProPublica Nerd Blog

http://www.propublica.org/nerds

The Ythat Blog

http://blog.yhathq.com/

The 10 and 3

http://www.the10and3.com/

Sarah Slobin

http://www.sarahslobin.com/

TEACHING DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISM

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/system/documents/1001/original/teachingdata16.pdf

The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/11/the-dirty-little-secret-that-data-journalists-arent-telling-you/?postshare=2411460437459910&tid=ss_tw

Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? Here are 8 steps

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/want-to-start-a-small-data-journalism-team-in-your-newsroom-here-are-8-steps/

W3schools

http://www.w3schools.com/

Winny De Jong
https://feedly.com/datajournalism

Data Journalism Newsletter

DATA JOURNALISM Stories(Top)

4 examples of computational thinking in journalism
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/10/06/4-examples-of-computational-thinking-in-journalism/

1 in 10 rapes reported at Auburn occur in student athlete dorms
https://thetab.com/us/auburn/2017/09/06/1-every-10-rapes-auburn-happens-student-athlete-dorms-1205

Adult Obesity in the United States
https://stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/

BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What We Found
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/hidden-spy-planes?utm_term=.vaBpvJG65#.feWo91q7g

Giving data soul: Best practices for ethical data journalism
https://gijn.org/2017/09/06/data-journalisms-top-ten-6/

L’Assemblée nationale est sexiste et en voici la preuve
http://www.lactualite.com/politique/deputees/

The Associated Press adds new data journalism chapter to their Stylebook
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Storytelling-Discussion/The-Associated-Press-adds-new-data-journalism-chapter-to-their/m-p/216860

ICAR2017: CAR Conference Blog
http://ire.org/blog/car-conference-blog/

http://ire.org/blog/transparency-watch/

Chemical Breakdown
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/texas/chemical-breakdown/

Conservative ridings got most of Canada 150 cash
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/10/15/conservative-ridings-got-most-of-canada-150-cash.html

Data-Driven Journalism: Global Investigative Journalism Network
http://gijn.org/category/data-driven-journalism/

Distrust Your Data:Jacob Harris on Six Ways to Make Mistakes with Data
https://source.opennews.org/articles/distrust-your-data/

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html

Questions about the NY Times story comparing the economic success of black and white boys 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/reader-questions-about-race-gender-and-mobility.html

How the Doctors & Sex Abuse project came about
http://doctors.ajc.com/about_this_investigation/

How Trump’s Budget Would Affect Every Part of Government
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/23/us/politics/trump-budget-details.html?_r=0

Journalists and editorial analyst – Urbs Media RADAR project
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/job/journalists-and-editorial-analyst-urbs-media-radar-project/

8 fantastic examples of data journalism
https://www.import.io/post/8-fantastic-examples-of-data-journalism/?ref=quuu&utm_content=buffer85490&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

MARKETPLACE:‘It’s a horror movie’: Nursing home security footage provides raw picture of resident violence problem
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/long-term-care-marketplace-1.4501795

More than 30,000 parking tickets worth over $1.4 million issued at UTSG, UTSC
http://thevarsity.ca/2016/07/17/more-than-30000-parking-tickets-worth-over-1-4-million-issued-at-utsg-utsc/

Muckrock: Original reporting, commentary, and analysis of public records by MuckRock’s staff and affiliates, with new articles every weekday
https://www.muckrock.com/news/

NSA Files: Decoded
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1

Ontario unions behind 94 per cent of third-party ad spending in past three elections
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-unions-behind-94-per-cent-of-third-party-ad-spending-in-past-three-elections/article31326097/

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html

Plastic Fibers Are Found in 83% of the World’s Tap Water, a New Study Reveals
http://time.com/4928759/plastic-fiber-tap-water-study/

http://www.ajc.com/news/national/plastic-contaminates-tap-water-research-finds-the-most-any-country-studied/6mspwQplH0mEfGWmOb3kLN/

Research Matters
https://researchmatters.in/

The Deadliest Jobs in America
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

Teacher vacancy rate double in poor areas
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40936182

Ten principles for data journalism in its second decade
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/08/07/10-principles-for-data-journalism-in-its-second-decade/

The invisible hazard afflicting thousands of schools
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/02/17/20716/invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-schools

Half of complaints against RCMP lead to discipline, data suggests
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-disciplinary-database-1.3854365

Top 10 Data Journalism Links
http://gijn.org/series/top-10-data-journalism-links/

What are the worst places to park in Canada? Here’s the data on that
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-parking-tickets-canada-nov-17-1.3854094

DATA VISUALIZATION (Top)

31 Free Data Visualization Tools
https://www.springboard.com/blog/31-free-data-visualization-tools/

Code out loud

http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/

Collision-prone: When are you statistically most likely to get in an accident?

http://www.wheels.ca/news/49355/

Canada’s deficits and surpluses, 1963-2014 (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/canada-deficit/

Chart types and data formats

https://support.google.com/docs/topic/30240

City Expands Open Data To Include 311 Service Requests
http://windsorite.ca/2017/01/city-expands-open-data-to-include-311-service-requests/

Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay
https://yourhealthsystem.cihi.ca/hsp/inbrief?lang=en#!/indicators/015/cost-of-a-standard-hospital-stay/;mapC1;mapLevel2;provinceC9001;trend(C1,C9001);/

Data Visualization For All: Tell Your Story with Free and Easy Tools
https://www.gitbook.com/book/jackdougherty/datavizforall/details

Day of Mourning for workers focuses on asbestos ban

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/day-of-mourning-ottawa-1.3555869

Documenting Hate Crimes in Alberta
https://stophateab.ca/

Big Data Visualization: Review of the 20 Best Tools

http://inspire.blufra.me/big-data-visualization-review-of-the-20-best-tools/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/multimedia/check-out-this-national-inventory-of-federal-buildings-containing-asbestos-1.3555956

Data visualization resources and ideas

http://www.mulinblog.com/data-visualization-resources-and-ideas/

THE DATAVIZ DESIGN PROCESS: 7 STEPS FOR BEGINNERS

http://annkemery.com/dataviz-design-process/

The Data Visualization Catalogue

http://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html

Dadaviz.com

http://dadaviz.com/

Data Visualization for Human Perception (By Stephen Few, chapter 35 in Interaction Design Foundation: Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction)

https://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/data_visualization_for_human_perception.html

Data Visualization

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/definition/data-visualization

Edmonton police data posted online paints a picture of rising crime
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/edmonton-police-data-posted-online-paints-a-picture-of-rising-crime

EPS Dashboard
https://dashboard.edmonton.ca/eps

FiveThirtyEight

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/our-33-weirdest-charts-from-2014/

FlowingData

http://flowingdata.com/

For about $100,000, Columbia Journalism School will train you to be ready for the next massive leak
http://www.poynter.org/2017/for-about-100000-columbia-journalism-school-will-train-you-to-be-ready-for-the-next-massive-leak-update3/469364/

How the counting of points, not votes, could determine Conservative leadership race
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-conservative-leadership-ridings-1.4118356

How to: use maps effectively to explain stories
http://www.carlapedret.cat/maps-stories-cartodb-mapbox-fusion-tables/

How we used satellite data to track California wildfires
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-we-used-satellite-data-to-track-california-wildfires/

How Fire Feeds
http://fire.revealnews.org/

Innovation in America (Peter Aldous)

http://www.peteraldhous.com/innovation.html

Introduction to Data Visualization – top ten do’s and don’ts

http://guides.library.duke.edu/topten

Jonathan Gray
http://jonathangray.org/

Journalism in the Age of Data

http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/#

Junk Charts

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/

Lena Groeger
http://lenagroeger.com/

Michelle Minkoff

http://michelleminkoff.com/teaching/

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography,

Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/

http://datavis.ca/milestones/

http://overview.ap.org/

Part 1: Working with Data
https://pudding.cool/process/how-to-make-dope-shit-part-1/

Public Data (Google)

http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Pay vs. performance: How do Canada’s CEOs stack up?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/executive-compensation/how-does-canadian-ceo-pay-compare-to-their-performance/article30171589/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/executive-compensation/table-canadas-top-100-highest-paid-ceos/article30131636/?from=30171589

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/executive-compensation/the-ceos-who-cashed-in-as-their-companies-cut-back/article30277680/

Roberto Rocha

http://robertorocha.info/

7 Data Visualization Types You Should be Using More (and How to Start)

https://medium.com/@EvanSinar/7-data-visualization-types-you-should-be-using-more-and-how-to-start-4015b5d4adf2#.vov8kujc5

Shielded By The Badge: Convicted, But Still Policing
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-police-officers-convicted-of-serious-crimes-still-on-the-job/437687453/

Silk Blog (Picking The Right Visualization For Your Data)

http://blog.silk.co/post/120086012962/picking-the-right-visualization-for-your-data

Sixteen useless infographics

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01/16-useless-infographics?CMP=twt_gu

The fundraising race: Search our map to see where Tory leadership candidates are getting donations
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/winners-and-losers-in-the-pc-leadership-race-sorted-by-postal-codes

Video: All Your Pot Are Belong to Us (The Center for Investigative Reporting)

http://cironline.org/reports/video-all-your-pot-are-belong-us-4771

Which tool should I use?http://ire.org/files/static_files/video/toolvideos.html

W3Schools.com

http://www.w3schools.com/

What’s Your Pay Gap? (The Wall Street Journal)
http://graphics.wsj.com/gender-pay-gap/

Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap (The Wall Street Journal)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/women-in-elite-jobs-face-stubborn-pay-gap-1463502938

Wooing America:Sixty-four cities, 44 states and 300 contacts. Inside Canada’s six-month mission to one-up the White House in the next NAFTA negotiations, one handshake at a time. 
http://www.macleans.ca/wooing-america/

World Development Indicators (The World Bank)

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators?cid=GPD_WDI

DEFENCE(Top)

CRS Evaluation Reports

http://www.crs-csex.forces.gc.ca/reports-rapports/rp-ev-eng.aspx

Discovery recalls Justin Trudeau’s 1st visit to High Arctic — as a 3-year-old
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arctic-cairn-ward-hunt-island-trudeau-1.4055558

To see the video  of the plaque’s presentation to the Prime Minister, please click here.

Today @HarjitSajjan presented @JustinTrudeau with a piece of his past the Canadian Forces discovered on an exercise in the Arctic #pnpcbc

Office of the Judge Advocate General (National Defence)

http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/about-org-structure/judge-advocate-general-office.page?

Decisions of convictions resulting from courts martial

http://www.jmc-cmj.forces.gc.ca/en/2013/res.page

THE MONEY PAGE:Government gets poor grade for military spending (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-gets-poor-grade-for-military-spending-1.3030862

The Canadian Veterans Advocacy

http://canadianveteransadvocacy.com/

Summary Proceedings (National Defence)

http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/qro-orf/vol-02/doc/chapter-chapitre-108.pdf

David Pugliese (Ottawa Citizen defence blog)

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/author/davidpugliese2/

University of British Columbia’s Veterans Transition Program

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/10/26/ubc%E2%80%99s-veterans-transition-program-receives-1-37-million-from-the-bcyukon-command-of-the-royal-canadian-legion/

Army Suicide Prevention Program (The U.S.)

http://www.armyg1.army.mil/hr/suicide/references.asp

DIRECTORIES/REFERENCE WORKS (Top)

Repositories of Primary Sources

http://uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

WorldCat (WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide)

http://www.worldcat.org/

Webopedia

http://www.webopedia.com/

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikiscanner

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Globe and Mail article about political staff making changes to Wikipedias, please click here

Canadian Historical Association Booklets

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/002/013/index-e.html?PHPSESSID=3f3137912b9f2b1722e11155b6401860

Sources Directory

http://www.sources.com/

Acronym Finder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA): Queen’s University Library

http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/guides/databases/cbca.htm

Electronic Collection: A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/

Various Canadian sources

http://www.gdsourcing.ca/indexa.htm

Maps

http://www.multimap.com

Atlas of Canada

http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Books

http://www.bookfinder.com/

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Canadian Encyclopedia

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?TCE_Version=A

Columbia University Libraries

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

AskOxford.com (Oxford Dictionaries)

http://www.askoxford.com/

The Canadian Illustrated News (1869 to 1883)

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

http://www.biographi.ca/EN/

Bilingual Dictionaries

http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s16&authstatuscode=200

History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867

http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?

Historical statistics of Canada

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-516-XIE/sectiona/toc.htm

The Early Alberta Newspaper collection

http://136.159.239.228/newspapr/

Saskatchewan News Index 1884-2000

http://library.usask.ca/sni/

Acadiensis: The Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Acadiensis/

Proquest

http://www.proquest.com/

World News Digest

http://www.2facts.com/stories/digest-home-feature.asp

Europa World

http://www.europaworld.com/welcome?authstatuscode=200

Nationmaster.com

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

DIGITAL NEWS WEBSITES(Top)

Engaged Journalism: Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/engaged-journalism/9780231168342

Why your phone is suddenly full of explainer journalism (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/why-your-phone-is-suddenly-full-of-explainer-journalism/article20294501/#dashboard/follows/

The Upshot

http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/?_r=0

Vox Media

http://www.voxmedia.com/#cover

Ricochet

https://ricochetmedia.ca/en

Newsonomics

http://newsonomics.com/

Online Journalism Blog
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/

Quartz

http://qz.com/

The Intercept

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/

The Information

https://www.theinformation.com/

FiveThirtyEight

http://fivethirtyeight.com/

The ProPublica Nerd Blog:Secrets for Data Journalists and Newsroom Developers
https://www.propublica.org/nerds

Open: All the Code That’s Fit to printf() (The New York Times)
https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/

Tow Centre For Digital Journalism
http://towcenter.org/blog/

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism
http://cjrarchive.org/img/posts/report/The_Story_So_Far.pdf

DISCIPLINARY BODIES(Top)

Chartered Accountants of Ontario

https://ebusiness.icao.on.ca/discipline/d/Alphaindex.cfm

DISCUSSIONS(Top)

Google Groups

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir

Yahoo! Groups

http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/

National Archives (listserv discussion and references)

http://www.archivescanada.ca/car/car_e.asp?l=e&a=listserv

Journalism Listservs

http://reporter.asu.edu/listserv.htm

CataList (the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists)

http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?XC=CA&C=Canada

Listserv search on journalismnet

http://www.journalismnet.com/people/listserv.htm

Canada FOI listserv

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canada-foi

The Slyck’s Guide to newsgroups

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Tile.Net/Newsgroups (The Reference to Usenet Newsgroups)

http://tile.net/

Cyberfiber Newsgroups

http://www.cyberfiber.com/

Women’s Health

http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_hlth.html

Road to Canada ( immigration discussion group)

http://www.roadtocanada.com/forums/

Workscape ( a workplace discussion group hosted by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)

http://www.workscape.ca/

Health-related listservs ( The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)

http://www.ccohs.ca/resources/listserv.html

The Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN)

http://www.cwhn.ca/about.html

AvCanada (a discussion forum about aviation issues)

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/

Canadian Gunnutz

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/

Ottawa South History Project (Canadian Heritage)

http://www.chin.gc.ca/PM.cgi?pmLANG=English&pmAP=return_full_record&pmLM=News&pmPR=FORUM_DISCUSSION&pmSource=canned&chinKey=16273

About Surrogacy.com

http://www.allaboutsurrogacy.com/forums/

SMO Message Boards

http://www.surromomsonline.com/support/

DOCUMENTCLOUD(Top)]

DocumentCloud

http://www.documentcloud.org/help/public

http://www.documentcloud.org/help/notes

Overview: Visual Document Mining for Journalists (beta)

https://www.overviewproject.org/

Annotated documents: Highlights of key excerpts and findings from Freeh report on Penn State (ydr.com)

http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_21055552

U.S. cables dissect Canada’s leaders: WikiLeaks (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/01/wikileaks-canada-leaders.html

Chemical companies, Big Tobacco and the toxic products in your home (chicagogtribune.com)

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html

Videographer Who Took Aim at NPR Gets IRS Approval for New Charity (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

http://philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/127637/

A key witness’ changing stories (chicagogtribune.com)

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/facts-vs-testimony.html

Big pension payouts set in motion years ago (chicagotribune.com)

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/pensions/document_narrative.html

Colorado bill tracker

http://tekhne.co/colorado-bill-tracker/

Interactive: Inside The Health Care Ruling (National Public Radio)

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/28/155907705/interactive-inside-the-health-care-ruling#document/p38/a61902

How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare (ProPublica)

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare

Legal Experts Decode the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling (The Daily Beast)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/28/legal-experts-decode-the-supreme-court-s-obamacare-ruling.html

Ex-Tyco CEO says “CEO-type bubble” made him feel entitled to steal millions (njcom)

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/04/ex-tyco_ceo_says_ceo-type_bubb.html

Read selected e-mails from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s communication team (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/article4423207.ece

Search the Afghan detainee documents (cbcnews)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/22/pol-afghan-detainee-docs-embed.html

The Sarah Palin emails (The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/sarah-palin-emails

Read the Afghan detainee files and flag important passages (The Globe and Mail)

http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/facts-vs-testimony.html

The Education of Dasmine Cathey (Chronicle.com)

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Education-of-Dasmine-Cathey/132065/

Safety Flaws Found At Western State Hospital (KUOW News)

http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=27190

Some of Christie’s biggest bills match model legislation from D.C. group called ALEC (nj.com)

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/alec_model_bills_used_in_nj_la.html

EXCLUSIVE: Detective is NYPD’s most-sued cop, with 28 lawsuits filed against him since 2006 (SEE INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC) Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lawsuits-nypd-double-decade-costing-taxpayers-1b-article-1.1615919

THE ECONOMY(Top)

The Bank of Canada

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/

Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Department of Commerce)

http://bea.gov/

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/

The Conference Board of Canada

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

http://www.chamber.ca/

C.D. Howe Institute

http://www.cdhowe.org/

CPI Inflation Calculator (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

Talking Biz News (Information about business journalism, from the Carolina Business News Initiative)

http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/

BMO Capital Markets

http://www.bmonesbittburns.com/Economics/

Business Blog (The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog

Faser Institute

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/

Kevin Milligan (Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia)

https://blogs.ubc.ca/kevinmilligan/about-kevin-milligan/

The Laurier Institution

http://thelaurier.ca/

OECD

http://www.oecd.org

OECD Quarterly GDP

https://data.oecd.org/gdp/quarterly-gdp.htm#indicator-chart

RBC Economic Research

http://www.rbc.com/economics/index.html

Statistics  Canada

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html

EDUCATION

Statistics Canada (Salaries of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities and colleges)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-595-m/2009073/tbl-eng.htm

Statistics Canada (Education Statistics Program)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/edu03_0001-eng.htm

Media Research Methods by Arizona State University 

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewiTunesUCollection?id=387507218

An Open Letter to America’s University Presidents (Knight Foundation)

http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/other/open-letter-americas-university-presidents/

Mercer, GPB and Telegraph form novel partnership

http://www.macon.com/2011/12/15/1824961/mercer-gpb-and-telegraph-form.html#storylink=misearch

ECONOMISTS(Top)

Tammy Schirle (Associate Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University)

http://www.tammyschirle.org/

Lindsay Tedds (Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria)

http://about.me/teddslindsay

Mikal Skuterud (Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Waterloo)

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skuterud/Mikal_Skuterud/Welcome.html

The School of Public Police (University of Calgary)

http://www.policyschool.ucalgary.ca/

Kevin Milligan
http://blogs.ubc.ca/kevinmilligan/2017/09/10/taxation-of-private-corporations-an-explainer-compendium/

ELECTIONS(Top)

Elections Canada: Contribution to all political entities, as filed
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/6495ea57-3824-48f0-a2b2-88477122a286

Elections Canada: Contribution to all political entities, as reviewed by Elections Canada
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ef1e3528-b570-4a42-92ef-18a9749af8f2

VotingCounts.ca

http://www.votingcounts.ca/announcing-votingcountsca

Elections Canada: Electoral Districts: Maps Corner 

http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=cir&dir=maps&document=index&lang=e&textonly=false#canada

Women Candidates in General Elections (1921 to Date)

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/lists/PartyStandings.aspx?Language=E&Section=03d93c58-f843-49b3-9653-84275c23f3fb&Gender=F

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/compilations/parliament/WomenRepresentation.aspx

History of Federal Ridings since 1867

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/HFER.asp

Pundits’ Guide to Canadian Federal Elections

http://punditsguide.ca/index.php

British Columbia

Alberta 

http://efpublic.elections.ab.ca/

Political donations in Alberta – 2004 to 2010 (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/donations/database.html

http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a4ddf170-bd63-4ff0-b7d9-9ae55199e92c&p=2

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/donations/top_donors.html

Manitoba

http://www.elections.mb.ca/main/home_1.htm

Elections Ontario

https://www3.elections.on.ca/internetapp/efsearch.aspx?lang=en

https://www3.elections.on.ca/internetapp/EFSearch.aspx?SearchType=5&Contributor=&QueryType=0&Party=5&C2F3=113&Contestant=&IsContestantSearch=False&EventType=&Year=0&Greater=1&IsOverResultLimit=False&lang=en-ca

Quebec political contributions

http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/francais/provincial/financement-et-depenses-electorales/recherche-sur-les-donateurs.php#

Nova Scotia

http://electionsnovascotia.ns.ca/politicalcontributions.asp

Nova Scotia (electorial district boundaries)

http://electionsnovascotia.ca/geoginfo.asp

Political Contributions Regime Annual Report (Nova Scotia)

http://contrarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/CEO/NS%20Political%20Donations%202010-open%20format.pdf

ENVIRONMENT(Top)

A data journalist’s microguide to environmental data
https://medium.com/data-journalism-awards/a-data-journalists-microguide-to-environmental-data-b56e750abd74

Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory ( Environment Canada )

http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/onlinedata/DataAndReports_e.cfm

Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry 

http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/index_e.cfm

Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Fisheries Act (prosecutions)

http://www.ec.gc.ca/ele-ale/prosecutions/prosecutions_e.asp

DeSmog Canada

http://www.desmog.ca/

Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fcsi-rscf/home-accueil.aspx?Language=EN&sid=wu825155318360

Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory (Find Sites by Classification)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fcsi-rscf/classification-eng.aspx

Future Asset Restoration Liability (Treasury Board) 

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?section=text&id=20885

Managing Contaminated Sites (Environment Canada)

http://www.ec.gc.ca/pollution/default.asp?lang=En&n=D0F5D8DC-1

Parks Canada orders tests on Rideau Canal after contaminants found
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rideau-canal-toxins-parks-fish-mckenna-industrial-waste-1.4056815

Who to Call in an Emergency

http://www.ec.gc.ca/ee-ue/default.asp?lang=En&n=EED2E58C-

Table of Inactive Lighthouses Declared Surplus (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/infocus-alaune/2010/02/lighthouse-phare-inactive-eng.htm

Table of Active Lighthouses Declared Surplus (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/infocus-alaune/2010/02/lighthouse-phare-active-eng.htm

Northern Contaminated Sites Program (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/eng/1100100035301

Contaminated Site Registry (PEI)

http://www.gov.pe.ca/Contaminated_sites/

Environmental Communication Options’ Media Releases

http://huffstrategy.com/MediaManager/all_releases.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Exposure Research – databases)

http://www.epa.gov/nerl/topics/databases.html

Keystone XL Pipeline stories (The New York Times)

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/k/keystone_pipeline/index.html?scp=9&sq=keystone%20keystone%20pipeline%20maps&st=cse

Imperial Oil’s role in museum’s energy exhibit questioned: Foundation contributed $600,000 over 6 years to exhibit (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/01/23/ottawa-science-energy-exhibit-imperial-oil.html

DesmogCanada

http://www.desmog.ca/

International Energy Agency

http://www.iea.org/

ETHNIC NEWSPAPERS(Top)

The Link (Leading Indo-Canadian Newspaper)

http://thelinkpaper.ca/

EVALUATING WEB PAGES(Top)

We will place a lot of emphasis on ensuring that the website you use when researching a story is trustworthy. In order to determine credibility, it’s necessary to have a checklist of key criteria that the site must meet. Here are some sites that will help reinforce and add to what you’ve already learned: http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/;
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html;
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm;
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html;
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~slamble/links.htm#VERIFYING%20ONLINE%20INFORMATION.

What also helps is to know who is behind the Web page in question. The following links will help you determine who set up the commercial site that has attracted your interest: http://whois.cira.ca/public (For Canadian websites); http://www.alexa.com/ (deals with domains from all countries, and analyzes the website’s reach; that is, the number and identity of visitors to the page) http://www.domaintools.com/ and http://www.geektools.com/ andhttp://www.betterwhois.com/ and http://www.register.com/ , http://www.networksolutions.com/en US/whois/index.jhtml, http://www.domaintools.com/ and http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html and http://www.nominet.org.uk/ for “UK” domain names. When plugging in the website you’re researching, be sure to exclude the “www.” The first site on the list, “geektools,” contains the easiest interface of the three. The choice is yours.

ReverseWhoIs
http://viewdns.info/reversewhois/

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT(Top)

Canada News Centre

http://news.gc.ca

Open Data Pilot Project

http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=638049

Public Opinion Research Reports

http://www.porr-rrop.gc.ca/index-e.html

Public Opinion Research Reports

http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/porr-rrop-bin/Main/BasicSearch?coll=28&l=0&v=1

Visible Government (government transparency in Canada)

http://visiblegovernment.ca/

Government-Wide Reporting (Treasury Board’s listing of proactive disclosures by department)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp

Openparliament.ca

http://openparliament.ca/about/

Government of Canada official website

http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

All Websites Administered by the Government of Canada

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001420363236126974246:mu2eiq-tbzw&hl=en

Years of Service in Parliament

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/parliament/YearsOfService.aspx?Language=E&Menu=HOC-Politic&Section=03d93c58-f843-49b3-9653-84275c23f3fb&Current=True

Governor in Council Appointments

http://www.appointments-nominations.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&Page=index

Orders in Council Appointments

http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/oic-ddc.asp?lang=eng&Page=secretariats

Orders in Council Glossary

http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=secretariats&sub=oic-ddc&doc=gloss-eng.htm

Federal government departments

http://canada.gc.ca/depts/major/depind-eng.html

Federal government search engines

http://recherche-search.gc.ca/s_r?S_08D4T.1ct57n=form&S_08D4T.s3rv5c3=basic&s5t34d=canada&t3mpl1t34d=1&l7c1l3=eng

How Did They Vote

http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/

Canada Gazette

http://www.gazette.gc.ca/

Federal government selected disclosure of travel and hospitality expenses and contracts

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index_e.asp

Federal government phone book

http://sage-geds.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500/eng/TE?FN=index.htm

Mandate letters, please click here to open in a new browser

Polling (click on the “continue to the document” link to get to the departmental polls)

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-ef/index.html

Public Opinion Research Reports

http://www.porr-rrop.gc.ca/index-e.html

Federal budgets

http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/budinfo-eng.asp

Reviews, Audits and Evaluations

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rma/database/aeve_e.asp

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/2009-2010/info/ia-vi-eng.asp

Tools and Resources for Parliamentarians (Treasury Board gate to reports including Departmental Quarterly Financial Reports)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbs-sct/audience-auditoire/parliamentarian-parlementaire-eng.asp

The Fiscal Monitor 2008 (the Finance department)

http://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/fm-rf-index-eng.asp

Auditor General of Canada

http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/admin_e_41.html

Proactive Disclosure

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/index_e.asp

http://github.com/nurey/disclosed/tree/2b91216860fdc85b1231a28aa05a907c43f5b9be/data

Travel and Hospitality Expenses Reports (Government of Canada: Privy Council Office)

http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/di/category_list.asp?id=1&Language=E

Public Office Holders Search (Office of the Ethics Commissioner)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/oec/PublicSearch/PublicSearch.aspx

Plans and Priorities / Performance Reports

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.asp#OSD

Public Accounts (Government-wide)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp

FEDERAL POLITICS(Top)

Members’ Expenditures Report

http://www.parl.gc.ca/PublicDisclosure/MemberExpenditures.aspx?Id=MER2013FY&Language=E

The Federal Cabinet

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/cabinet.asp

MEMBERS OF THE CABINET, PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES AND OPPOSITION PARTY CRITICS
http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/ParlInfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MinistryMembers.aspx

Minotaur (website monitors the federal government telephone directory for changes in staff listings in ministerial offices)

http://lobbywatcher.ca/minotaur/minotaur.php

Committees

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/committee.asp?Language=E&Parl=38&Ses=1

Conservative Research Bureau

http://sage-geds.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500/eng/XEou=CON-BUR,ou=CON-PAR,ou=HOU-AGE,ou=HoC-CdC,o=GC,c=CA

NDP Research Bureau

http://sage-geds.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500/eng/XEou=NDP-BUR,ou=NEW-NOU,ou=HOU-AGE,ou=HoC-CdC,o=GC,c=CA

Members of Parliament

http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Lists/Members.aspx?Language=E&SortColumn=PartyName&SortDirection=ASC&Parliament=1924d334-6bd0-4cb3-8793-cee640025ff6&Riding=&Name=&Party=0c0ef0db-d14a-4438-8818-784c924f06ae&Province=&Gender=&New=False&Current=False&First=True&Picture=True&Section=False&ElectionDate

http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/membersofparliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

Liberal critics

http://www.liberal.ca/mp/

NDP critics

http://www.ndp.ca/shadow-cabinet

Parliamentary Secretaries

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=39&featureId=8

Cabinet ministers

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/cabinet.asp?featureId=8&pageId=38

Guide to Canadian Ministries Since Confederation
http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/mgm/dtail.asp?lang=eng&mbtpid=1&mstyid=32

Senators

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator.asp?Language=E

Parliament

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=2

Parliamentary publications

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/compendium/web-content/c_g_parliamentarypublications-e.htm#3

openparliament.ca

http://openparliament.ca/

House Government Bills ( Parliament )

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HouseBills/BillsGovernment.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/LEGISINFO/index.asp?Language=E&List=list&Type=0&Chamber=C&StartList=2&EndList=200&Session=23

Parliamentary Committees

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeList.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3

House of Commons Procedure and Practice

http://www.parl.gc.ca/procedure-book-livre/Document.aspx?sbdid=3F818022-AD6E-411C-B495-EC000CF32935&sbpid=DB76738A-3FD4-4B95-B803-E2F44E31AE59&Language=E&Mode=1

Order paper questions
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Pub=status&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=42&Ses=1&File=12

Written Questions (Senate)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Chamber/411/OrderPaper/ord-e.htm#QUESTIONS

House of Commons List of Reports and Returns brings (this is a generic description of documents that ministers are obliged to table in the House)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/40/2/parlbus/chambus/house/reports/02-toc-e.htm

Debates (Hansard)

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberSittings.aspx?View=H&Key=2009&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2

Hansard

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberPublicationIndexSearch.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1

Current and Emerging Issues (Library of Parliament)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/ResearchPublications/cei-foreword-e.htm

History of electoral ridings

http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=R&Source=AboutParl_Process

Women in the House of Commons

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/lists/Members.aspx?Language=E&Parliament=8714654b-cdbf-48a2-b1ad-57a3c8ece839&Riding=&Name=&Party=&Province=&Gender=F&New=False&Current=True&First=False&Picture=False&Section=False

Women in the Senate

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/lists/senators.aspx?Language=E&Parliament=&Name=&Party=&Province=&Gender=M&Current=True&PrimeMinister=0218bf67-ef3a-4a8d-8ab4-0229e4fcaa54&TermEnd=&Ministry=&Picture=False

Women in Parliament (Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Library of Parliament)

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/prb0562-e.htm

Women candidates in federal elections since 1921

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=WomenElection

PoliTwitter (Track what federal politicians are saying on social media)

http://politwitter.ca/

Votes in the House of Commons

http://www.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberVoteList.aspx?Language=E

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE(Top)

Canada School of Public Service

http://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/index-eng.asp

Chief Human Resources Officer

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/chro-dprh/index-eng.asp

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal

http://www.psdpt-tpfd.gc.ca/Information/WrongdoingsReprisals-eng.html

FAIR ( Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform)

http://fairwhistleblower.ca/

Public service absenteeism jumps by 40%; ‘Alarming’ spike over past decade draws ire, sympathy from experts

(The Ottawa Citizen)

Please read the story by clicking here

Federal workers lead pack in rising absenteeism (The Ottawa Citizen)

Please read the story by clicking here.

Ethics boss found morale mess in office (The Ottawa Citizen)

Pleae read the story by clicking here.

Minotaur (website monitors the federal government telephone directory for changes in staff listings in ministerial offices)

http://lobbywatcher.ca/minotaur/minotaur.php

FEDERAL SPENDING(Top)

Parliamentary Budget Officer federal spending watch

http://pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/imd/index/#view_departments

Parliamentary Budget Officer’s Integrated Monitoring Database that tracks public money

http://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/imd/index/#search-department_outcomes

Transfer payments to provinces ( Department of finance)

http://www.fin.gc.ca/fedprov/mtp-eng.asp#Ontario

FOOD SAFETY(Top)

Ottawa restaurant inspections

http://app06.ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/search/inspections/q.pl?ss=results_en&qt=fsi_s&sq_app_id=fsi&sq_keywords=&sq_field=all&sq_fs_ftcd=&sq_fs_fwcd=&sort=fs_insp_sort+asc%2Cscore+desc

Food Recall Report (Downloadable food recalls from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

http://active.inspection.gc.ca/eng/corp/recarapp_dbe.asp

Health Safety Watch (real-time health and safety information)

http://www.healthandsafetywatch.com/Dashboard.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/recarapp/recaltoce.shtml

Audits, Reviews and Evaluations – Executive Summaries (The Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/agen/eval/evale.shtml

Audio Clips for Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts (The Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/relations/audio/recarappaude.shtml

Food Safety Assessment Reports (Health Canada)

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/eval/reports-rapports/index-eng.php

Reports on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (By the Auditor General of Canada)

http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_lpf_e_1228.html

CBC-Toronto Star food-safety investigation

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/09/23/f-cfia.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/05/listeria-inspections.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/09/listeria-tests.html

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/09/mccain.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/10/21/lawsuit-mapleleaf.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/27/listeria-nursinghome.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/06/listeria-regulations.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/11/07/mccain-memos.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/19/listeria-cfia.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/20/listeriosis-investigator.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/23/listeria-investigation.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/05/poultryvets-cfia.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/25/listeria-cfia.html

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/21/listeriosis-probe-cfia021.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/23/listeriosis-probe.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/30/listeria-cfia-reports043009.html?ref=rss

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/10/listeria-inspectors-maple-leaf.html?ref=rss

Food safety at risk with budget cuts expected, union says (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/16/pol-food-safety-inspection-funding.html

Federal food safety surveillance program stalled (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/03/pol-mckie-thehouse-disease-centres.html

Listeriosis victims receive reduced compensation (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/04/pol-listeriosis-victims-receive-compensation.html

XL Foods warned 6 times over lapses before E. coli outbreak (CBC News)

Correction Action Requests issued at Alberta plant for sanitation, contamination

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/08/pol-cfia-xl-foods-atip-corrective-action.html

U.S. worries about Canadian meat flagged in memo (CBC News)

Coalition wants plug pulled on meat pre-clearance pilot project in wake of XL Foods recall

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/14/pol-foreign-affairs-cfia-us-meat-inspection-xl-foods.html

BC investigation into faulty juice boxes

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/11/19/iunit-drinkboxes.html

Nova Scotia Food Establishment Inspection Reports

http://www.gov.ns.ca/agri/foodsafety/reports/Request.aspx

Newfoundland &Labrador Inspection Reports

http://www.servicenl.gov.nl.ca/inspections/index.html

The National Agricultural Library (the U.S. Department of Agriculture)

http://www.nal.usda.gov/

Gateway to Government Food Safety Information (U.S.)

http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fsgprobs.html

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture)

http://www.foodsafety.gov/

Foreign Audit Reports (United States Department of Agriculture – Food Safety Inspection Service)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/international-affairs/importing-products/eligible-countries-products-foreign-establishments/foreign-audit-reports

Search for Peanut Butter Product Recalls (The U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm

Foreign Audit Reports (the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_policies/Foreign_Audit_Reports/index.asp

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_policies/Foreign_Audit_Reports_Past/index.asp

United States Departrment of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Service

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Recalls/Open_Federal_Cases/index.asp

Canadian food companies cerfitifed to export to the United States

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Search/Search_Results/Index.asp?q=%22Food+Safety+and+Inspection+Service+Canada%22&mode=simple&num=10&as_occt=any&site=FSIS&sort=rel

Food safety reports from Thomas Hargrove of the Scripps Howard Service

ftp://shnsclients.scripps.com/data/FatalFood/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention_ cached Outbreak Surveillance Data (Department of Health and Human Services)

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/outbreak_data.htm

The Traceability Institute

http://www.traceability-institute.com/

Eat Safe ( the city of Ottawa’s website for restaurant inspections)

http://www.ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/search/inspections/q.pl?ss=home_en&qt=fsi_en

Food Safety News

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/

GlobalMeatnews.com

http://www.globalmeatnews.com/

BarfBlog (safe food from farm to fork)

http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/barfblog

News for Shoppers

http://www.newsforshoppers.com/

People’s Food Policy Project

http://www.peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/

Caffeine Content of Drinks (A complete guide to caffeine)

http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database

Bites and barflog (safe food from farm to fork)

http://bites.ksu.edu/

dicentra

http://dicentra.com/

The Poultry Site

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/

PerishableNews.com

http://www.perishablenews.com/

fishnews.com

http://www.fishnewseu.com/

Current World Production, Markets, and Trade Reports (United States Department of Agriculture)

http://www.fas.usda.gov/report.asp

FOREIGN AFFAIRS(Top)

Canada’s International Gateway

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/ci-ci/index.aspx?lang=eng

Canada’s bilateral relations with countries around the world (Canada’s International Gateway)

http://www.international.gc.ca/cip-pic/geo.aspx?view=d

FUSION TABLES(Top)

Google Fusion Tables

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=fusiontables&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home&followup=http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home

Googe Fusion Tables discussion group

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fusion-tables-users-group/4SVxAew5P78

Google Fusion Table (shape file to KML conversion)

http://www.shpescape.com/

Google fusion tables beta (data sets you can use)

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/search

FusionTablesLayer Builder

https://www.google.ca/search?q=definition%3A+%22yall&oq=definition%3A+%22yall&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.5081j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Google Sites (allows you to see what your Fusion Table maps or charts look like before publishing them)

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

ColorBrewer (for doing fancier colour schemes in Fusion Tables)

http://colorbrewer2.org/

Fusion Table Icon Markers

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=1BDnT5U1Spyaes0Nj3DXciJKa_tuu7CzNRXWdVA#map:id=3

A map to help voters find their polling places using Fusion Tables as a data source (Google fusion tables)

https://docs.google.com/a/baycitizen.org/document/d/1hgRO3DMvppG9zySelxTT787YsdKWNzFHu_g5Rbex2nU/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#

Shape to Fusion ( A website that allow users to import shape files into fusion tables)

http://www.shpescape.com/

GOVERNMENT SPENDING(Top)

Advertising Annual Reports (Public Works and Government Services Canada)

http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/pub-adv/annuel-annual-eng.html

Budget 2009: Canada’s Economic Action Plan

http://www.fin.gc.ca/n08/09-011-eng.asp

http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/eng/index.asp

Transactions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

http://subsidyscope.com/projects/bailout/tarp/

Many Eyes (a website that helps visualize U.S. government spending)

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

Economic Stimulus: Transportation Infrastructure Projects by County (Associated Press)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/stimulus_counties/index.html?SITE=NYPLA

Canada’s Economic Action Plan

http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/eng/index.asp

Economic Stimulus: Distressed bridges often overlooked for repairs ( American Press)

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/wdc/stimulus_bridges/index.html?SITE=AP

ProPublica’s FAQ for Recovery.gov

http://www.propublica.org/ion/stimulus/item/propublicas-faq-for-recovery.gov-1109

Recovery.org (the official U.S. government website that tracks stimulus spending)

http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx

HEALTH(Top)

Chronic Disease Infobase (the Public Health Agency of Canada)

http://204.187.39.30/surveillance/Index.aspx?L=eng

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/English/Pages/default.aspx

FluWatch (The Public Health Agency of Canada’s national surveillance system that monitors the spread of flu and flu-like illnesses)

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fluwatch/index-eng.php

Deaths Associated with H1N1 flu virus in Canada

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/surveillance-eng.php

Canadian Institute for Health Information (statistics)

http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=reqdata_e

Statistics Canada (deaths from infectious diseases)

http://cansim2.statcan.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.exe?Lang=E&RootDir=CII/&ResultTemplate=CII/CII___&Array_Pick=1&ArrayId=1020521

Statistics Canada (abortion rates)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-223-x/2008000/5202136-eng.htm

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-223-x/2008000/5202008-eng.htm

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-223-x/2008000/5202017-eng.htm

Food recalls (Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada)

http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/pr-rp/index_e.php

Food recall archives (The Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/recarapp/recal2e.shtml

Medication Guides ( the U.S. Food and Drug Administration )

http://www.fda.gov/cder/Offices/ODS/medication_guides.htm

MedlinePlus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

E-CPS (Canadian Pharmacists Association)

https://www.e-therapeutics.ca/wps/portal/!ut/p/.scr/Login

Psychotropics

http://www.psychotropics.dk/monographies/index.asp?Catalogtype=A

Pharmalot

http://www.pharmalot.com/

PharmaWatch Canaada

http://pharmawatchcanada.wordpress.com/

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs

http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org/

Consumer Reports Health.org

http://www.consumerreports.org/health/home.htm

Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin)

http://www.tga.gov.au/adr/aadrb.htm

Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

http://www.ccohs.ca/

Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada

http://www.awcbc.org/en/index.asp

Health Canada

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index_e.html

Health Canada (Dear Health Care Professional Letters and public advisories)

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/_2007/index_e.html

Health Canada, drug and medical device recalls

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli-conform/recall-retrait/_list/index-eng.php

Health Canada Advisories, Warnings and Recalls by Subject

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/alpha_e.html

Health Canada, Consumer Product Safety Recalls

http://209.217.71.106/PR/home-accueil-e.jsp

Index of Published Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletters

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/bulletin/carn-bcei_index_e.html

Health Canada’s Adverse Drug Reaction Database

http://webprod3.hc-sc.gc.ca/arquery-rechercheei/index-eng.jsp

Health Canada list of expert advisory committees

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/activit/sci-consult/index_e.html

Notice of compliance ( drugs Health Canada has approved )\

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/notices-avis/index_e.html

http://webprod5.hc-sc.gc.ca/noc-ac/index-eng.jsp

http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/9cbaef00-b52c-4a70-9fed-d9aa8263ab74

http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/52bb749a-4006-4253-a4a5-63e51d2f880f

http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/fa5ad2aa-ab59-4421-8491-4c004d94d0bc

Drug Products Database ( all of the drugs Health Canada has approved for marketing)

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/databasdon/dpd_bdpp_data_extract_e.html

Food and Drug Administration advisory committees

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/acwhatsnew.htm

FDA advisory committees (search)

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/default.htm

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (The U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/data/

BlackBoxRX.com

http://blackboxrx.com/index.php

Controversial drug marketing

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/0103_pharm/resources.html

Recently approved medical devices ( FDA )

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTopic/MDA/mda-list.cfm?list=1

HealthImaging.com

http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&division=hiit

Health Space (contains online inspection information for provinces such as B.C.)

http://www.healthspace.ca/Websites/HealthSpace/Website_CA.nsf/index.html

Patient Safety (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care)

http://www.health.gov.on.ca/patient_safety/index.html

Health Inspection Orders (Alberta Health Services)

http://www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/publichealth/envhealth/inspection_orders/food_establishments.htm#2009

RateMDs.com

http://www.ratemds.com/

Patient Drug News

http://www.patientdrugnews.com/about-patient-drug-news/

Public Health Inspections (city of Ottawa)
http://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-services/public-health-inspections.aspx#Food-Premises

HEALTH (PROVINCIAL)(TOP)

Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program

http://www.nspmp.ca/

HEALTH (INTERNATIONAL)(TOP)

International Society For Infectious Diseases

http://www.isid.org/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/az/c.html

Medicaid: Pharmacy Pricing (All National Average Drug Acquisition Cost data)
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/pharmacy-pricing/index.html

http://media.cq.com/pub/table/index.php?id=326

HEALTH POLICY (Top)

CONSULTATION ON LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS FOR ASSISTED DYING

http://ep-ce.ca/en/faqs/#q1

Healthy Debate (Healthydebate.ca is led by a core team of physicians, policy advisors and researchers based at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto)

http://www.healthydebate.ca/

HealthNewsReview.org

http://www.healthnewsreview.org/

EvidenceNetwork.ca (Non-partisan health policy experts and evidence)

http://www.evidencenetwork.ca/

Cutting Edge Information

http://www.cuttingedgeinfo.com/

HOUSING(Top)

Housing Again (a site dedicated to putting affordable housing back on the public agenda)

http://housingagain.web.ca/index.html

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, average rents for areas with a population of 10,000 and over (Statistics Canada)

http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=0270040&pattern=Canada+Mortgage+and+Housing&tabMode=dataTable&srchLan=-1&p1=1&p2=-1

Forecasts and Analysis (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)

http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/hoficlincl/homain/foan/index.cfm

Housing Market Information (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)

http://www.cmhc.ca/housingmarketinformation/

National Average Price Map: Canadian Real Estate Association
http://www.crea.ca/housing-market-stats/national-average-price-map/

Rental Report
http://rentalreport.ca/

IMMIGRATION(Top)

Canadian Immigration Statistics (Canada Immigrant Job Issues)

http://www.canadaimmigrants.com/statistics.asp

Canadian Immigration Stats (for Canada and all regions from the 2001 and 2006 censuses)

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=ottawa&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=Immigration%20and%20citizenship&Custom=

Recent immigrants in metropolitan areas (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2008/index.asp

2006-09 Refugee Claim Data & IRB Member Grant Rates (Compiled by Sean Rehaag, Assistant Professor Osgoode Hall Law School York University)

http://www.ccrweb.ca/documents/rehaagdatamarch10.htm

2010 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Grant Rates

http://ccrweb.ca/en/2010-refugee-claim-data

2011 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Grant Rates

http://ccrweb.ca/en/2011-refugee-claim-data

2012 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Grant Rates

http://ccrweb.ca/en/2012-refugee-claim-data

2013 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Grant Rates

https://ccrweb.ca/en/2013-refugee-claim-data

2014 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Recognition Rates

http://ccrweb.ca/en/2014-refugee-claim-data

2015 Refugee Claim Data and IRB Member Recognition Rates
http://ccrweb.ca/en/2015-refugee-claim-data

Quarterly Administrative Data Release

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2009-Q3/index.asp

Human Rights Research and Education Centre

http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/eng/project/refugee-forum/index.php

Responses to Information Requests
http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/ResRec/RirRdi/Pages/index.aspx

Revoked immigration consultants (The Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants)

https://www.csic-scci.ca/find/revoked.html

Centre for Immigration Policy Reform

http://immigrationreform.ca/english/view.asp?x=1

Innovative Tools (Top)

ABBYY FineReader 14
https://www.abbyy.com/en-ca/finereader/

Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/

TurboScan: quickly scan multipage documents into high-quality PDFs

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/turboscan-quickly-scan-multipage/id342548956?mt=8

Convert JSON to CSV
https://konklone.io/json/

Reporters’ Lab Reviews

timeanddata.com

http://www.timeanddate.com/

Freeware Hex Editor XVI32

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

DocumentCloud

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2011/06/new-home-at-ire/

The Overview Project

https://www.overviewproject.org/

Tabula
http://tabula.technology/

Mikogo (Free web conferencing and desktop sharing software)

http://www.mikogo.com/product/features/

Join.me.com

https://join.me/

GoToMeeting

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/894058849

TeamViewer

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx

Docudesk (converts pdfs to spreadsheets for PCs and Macs)

http://www.docudesk.com/index.shtml

ScraperWiki

http://scraperwiki.com/

Free PDF Text Reader 1.1

http://www.ctdeveloping.com/

Chapter 3: Turning PDFs to Text (ProPublica)

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/turning-pdfs-to-text-doc-dollars-guide

Nitro PDF Professional

http://www.nitropdf.com/

Guaranteed PDF Decrypter

http://www.guapdf.com/

PDFUnlock

http://www.pdfunlock.com/

PDFPirate

http://pdfpirate.net/

ABBYY FineReader

http://finereader.abbyy.com/

Awsome Screenshot (Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text…..)

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/alelhddbbhepgpmgidjdcjakblofbmce?hl=en

Xpdf (An open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files)

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html

PDFill PDF Editor 5.0

http://www.pdfill.com/

PDFCreator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

PDFtoExcel (online converter)

http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/default.aspx

Zamzar (Free online file conversion)

http://zamzar.com/

Cometdocs( Free online file conversion)

http://www.cometdocs.com/

Able2Extract (Standalone conversion to Excel, Word etc. Probably the best overall choice. Reliable and accurate results)

http://www.investintech.com/prod_a2e.htm

Cogniview

http://www.cogniview.com/

Irfanview (A Windows graphic viewer)

http://www.irfanview.com/

Yousendit

http://www.yousendit.com/

Googlenewstime

http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

Beta Office 1010

http://officebeta.microsoft.com/en-us

Docsplit (a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart documents into their component parts)

http://documentcloud.github.com/docsplit/

Chrome Extensions

http://www.chromeextensions.org/music-videos-photos/youtube-downloader/

Plug in for Firefox MP3 converter

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-to-mp3/

YouTube Video Downloader 1.5 (can download videos in FLVand MP4 formats)

http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html

Audio Hijack Pro (audio recorder for Macs)

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

NodeXL for Social Network Analysis

http://www.peteraldhous.com/CAR/Aldhous_CAR2011_NodeXL.pdf

Googe Motion

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

ASAP Utilities (add-ins for Excel)

http://www.asap-utilities.com/

TimelineSetter: Easy Timelines From Spreadsheets, Now Open to All (Propublica)

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/timelinesetter-easy-timelines-from-spreadsheets-now-open-to-all

dtSearch (searches files on your desktop)

http://www.dtsearch.com/PLF_desktop_2.html

Online Dictionary (Translation, definition, synonyms, English, French, Spanish, etc)

http://dictionary.reverso.net/

Zoocasa (estimated Canadian home prices)

http://www.zoocasa.com/en/

Regular-Expressions.info

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

Wordhippo.com

http://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/survey.html

Online-Stopwatch

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

Measuring Worth

http://measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/

CAA Distracted Driving Simulator

http://distracteddriving.caa.ca/simulator/environment.php

WeTransfer
https://wetransfer.com/

Workbench (data journalism platform)
https://medium.com/@Workbench/monitoring-data-sources-to-find-stories-with-workbench-7f1b0dd9870c

INTERNET RESEARCH(Top)

ChangeDetecion.com

https://www.changedetection.com/index.html

People Search Pro (Julian Sher)

http://tips.peoplesearchpro.com/

Google News Timeline

http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

SearchSystems.net (Search Free Public Records in the United States)

http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/

Q&A With Storyzy Founder Stan Motte on the Fight Against Fake News
http://mediashift.org/2017/07/qa-storyzy-founder-stan-motte-fight-fake-news/

INTERVIEWING(Top)

TRANSCRIPT | Peter Mansbridge talks with Stephen Harper (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/17/pol-mansbridge-interview-harper-transcript.html

To download Peter Mansbridge’s 2014 year-end interview with Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, please click here.

Stephen Harper’s 2014 year-end interview

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/full-text-of-peter-mansbridge-s-interview-with-stephen-harper-1.2876934

Paul McLaughlin: Asking Questions The Art of the Media Interview

http://paulmclaughlin.ca/

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM WEBSITES(Top)

Open Channel

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/

Neimanwatchdog

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=showcase.welcome

Center for Investigative Reporting to curate investigative reporting on new YouTube channel (Poynter)

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/183816/center-for-investigative-reporting-to-curate-investigative-reporting-on-new-youtube-channel/

Jesse Brown’s Canadaland

http://canadalandshow.com/

InvestigativePost
http://www.investigativepost.org/

Rocky Mountain PBS iNews

http://inewsnetwork.org/

Tarbell

http://www.tarbell.io/

http://tarbell.readthedocs.org/en/1.0/

https://github.com/tarbell-project

INVISIBLE WEB(Top)

Resource Shelf

http://www.resourceshelf.com/

BrightPlanet

http://brightplanet.com/

Price’s List of Lists

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

Complete Planet (The Deep Web Directory)

http://aip.completeplanet.com

Invisible Web tutorial

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

Search Engine Watch

http://searchenginewatch.com/

Infomine

http://www.infomine.com/

Repositories of Primary Resources ( The University of Idaho)

http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Directory of Open Access Journals (This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals)

http://www.doaj.org/

WorldCat (Finds items in libraries near you)

http://www.worldcat.org/

Academic Search Engines (JournalismNet)

http://www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism/search/academic.htm

INTERACTIVE STORIES(Top)

A global guide to the first world war – interactive documentary (The Guardian)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/jul/23/a-global-guide-to-the-first-world-war-interactive-documentary

JOURNALISTS’ BLOGS(TOP)

Andrea Woo

http://andreawoo.com/

Allison Martell

http://allisonmartell.com/

Brittny Goodsell

http://brittnygoodsell.com/home.html

Brad Cabana

http://www.blogger.com/profile/08957343946915171802

Blacklock’s Reporter

http://www.blacklocks.ca/

David Eaves

http://eaves.ca/

David Pugliese Defence Watch

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/category/news/defence-watch/

Claudine Brule
http://www.claudinebrule.com/

Glen McGregor

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/author/glenmcgregor/

Paul Krugman

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

Heather Scoffield

http://www.blogscanada.ca/author/heather-scoffield-the-canadian-press/?feedsort=comment_count

Jen Skerritt

http://muckrack.com/jenskerritt

Katelyn Verstraten

http://katelynverstraten.com/

Kate Crawford: Thinking about data

http://www.katecrawford.net/

Kim Bolan: The Real Scoop ( The Vancouver Sun)

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/category/staff/crime-and-justice/the-real-scoop/

Lysanne Loouter
http://www.lysannelouter.com/

Michelle Minkoff

http://michelleminkoff.com/teaching/

MediaPowerMonitor
http://mediapowermonitor.com/

BloombergView

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/

Canada.com

http://www.canada.com/opinion/blogs/index.html

David Gehring (Google)

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=DYP2&authType=name&goback=%2Enpv_7898109_*1_*1_name_DYP2_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&locale=en_US&id=7898109

Eric Newton (The Nieman Journalism Lab)

http://www.niemanlab.org/author/enewton/

http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-mention/eric-newton-journalism-schools-arent-changing-quic/

Jay Rosen’s Press Think

http://pressthink.org/2013/02/look-youre-right-okay-but-youre-also-wrong/

Karen Kleiss (The Edmonton Journal)

http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/author/ablegreporter/

Karl Idsvoog
http://www.whenjournalismfails.com/

Mark Coddington

http://markcoddington.com/

Meg Wilcox

http://www.megwilcox.com/

Nicole S. Cohen

http://nicolescohen.com/

Lisa Johnson (CBC Vancouver)

http://lisa-johnson.ca/

Lisa Roberts

http://lisaroberts.ca/?page_id=12

Melanie Coulson (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://journomel.com/about/

Sam Wang (Princeton Election Consortium)

http://election.princeton.edu/

Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

SARAH L. RYLEY  Investigative & Data Journalist
https://www.sarahryley.com/

Tamsin McMahon

http://www2.macleans.ca/author/tmcmahon/

Tara Carman

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/author/taracarman/

The Media Business (Robert G. Picard)

http://themediabusiness.blogspot.ca/

The Filter Buble (Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley)

http://www.thefilterbubble.com/

Taylor Owen

http://taylorowen.com/

The Ottawa Citizen

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/blogs/index.html

The Bulldog (A blog by Ken Gray)

http://bulldogottawa.com/

The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/

WSJ blogs

http://blogs.wsj.com/

Ben Mook

http://ben-mook.com/

Lauren Shepard (Newseum)

http://laurenshepherdwritingon.tumblr.com

Alexandra Posadzki

http://alexandraposadzki.com/

JOURNALISM EDUCATION(Top)

A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

http://niemanreports.org/articles/a-blueprint-for-how-to-make-j-school-matter-again/

Can new models of public interest journalism survive?https://theconversation.com/can-new-models-of-public-interest-journalism-survive-85604

Carleton University (Office of Institutional Research and Planning

http://oirp.carleton.ca/newsite/

Carleton Library

https://blogs.library.carleton.ca/roller/themadgicalweb/

Columbia Journalism School

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/home

Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Columbia Journalism School)

http://towcenter.org/

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/

UBC Graduate School of Journalism

http://journalism.ubc.ca/

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

http://www.merrill.umd.edu/

“Toward 2020” makes the case for better journalism education
http://www.j-source.ca/article/%E2%80%9Ctoward-2020%E2%80%9D-makes-case-better-journalism-education

Toward 2020 : New Directions In Journalism Education
http://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A3830

Universities’ media teachings evolve toward entrepreneurial angle
http://ijnet.org/en/blog/universities-media-teachings-evolve-toward-entrepreneurial-angle

JOURNALISM JOBS SITES(TOP)

Code out loud

http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/

NewsAppsJobs

https://twitter.com/newsapps_jobs

Google Journalism Fellowship

http://www.google.com/get/journalismfellowship/

JOURNALISM RESEARCH(TOP)

The Coral Project
https://coralproject.net/

Data Journalism Handbook

http://www.datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

Every J-School Should Teach Data, and Here’s How
http://mediashift.org/2017/08/make-data-part-of-a-basic-journalism-curriculum/

JEFF SONDERMAN

http://jeffsonderman.com/

Journalist’s Resource (Harvard Kennedy School, Joan Shorenstein Center)

http://journalistsresource.org/

Newspapers Turning Ideas into Dollars (Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism)

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/newspapers_turning_ideas_dollars

Thinking about the Future of Informed Communities and Journalism

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamthierer/2011/12/04/thinking-about-the-future-of-informed-communities-and-journalism/

Survey Research, Its New Frontiers and Democracy (Pew Research Center)

http://www.pewresearch.org/2012/05/24/survey-research-its-new-frontiers-and-democracy/

Math for Journalists:Help With Numbers (Poynter.news university)

https://www.newsu.org/courses/math-for-journalists

Newseum

http://www.newseum.org/

Society of Profesional Journalists eCampus

https://www.spj.org/trainingondemand.asp

JOURNALISM RESOURCE SITES(TOP)

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism

http://newsle.com/article/0/135646330/

CNet (a well-respected technology website)

http://news.cnet.com/

The Canadian Journalism Project

http://www.j-source.ca/

The Canadian Association of Journalists

http://www.caj.ca/

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

http://www.cjfe.org/

The Center for Investigative Reporting

http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/

The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism

http://www.stonybrook.edu/journalism/newsliteracy/index.html

Google expands fact checking in news searches
http://ipolitics.ca/2017/04/07/google-expands-fact-checking-in-news-searches/

Journalist’s Toolbox

http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/

Journalist’s Resource
https://journalistsresource.org/syllabi/data-journalism-visualization-mapping-ethics-syllabus

PowerReportering (resource for journalists)

http://www.powerreporting.com/category/Alerts_for_journalists

http://powerreporting.com/

Committee to Protect Journalists (Defending Journalists Worldwide)

http://www.cpj.org/

ChangeDetection.com

http://www.changedetection.com/

blinkx

http://www.blinkx.com/

Online Education Database

http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google

Investigative Reporters and Editors

http://www.ire.org/

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)Quick Hits

http://www.ire.org/quickhits/08_June27.html#b1

Investigate This! With Alex Roslin

http://albloggedup.blogspot.com/

Institute for Justice and Journalism

http://justicejournalism.org/curriculum/data-animation-webinar-part-1/

IRE story search

http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/search.php

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Media magazine

http://www.caj.ca/?cat=4

Logan Symposium

http://investigativereportingprogram.com/logan-symposium/

The scoop (A blog maintained by computer-assisted reporting specialist Derek Willis)

http://blog.thescoop.org/

FINAL REPORT ON THE CANADIAN NEWS MEDIA (Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com-e/TRAN-E/rep-e/repfinjun06vol1-e.htm#TABLE_OF_CONTENTS

Nieman Lab (The Donald, documented: The Washington Post open-sources much of its Trump reporting
http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/08/the-donald-documented-the-washington-post-open-sources-much-of-its-trump-reporting/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=107c14838f-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-107c14838f-395868801

ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest

http://www.propublica.org/

The Investigative Reporting Workshop (a project of the School of Communication at American University)

http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/

The Toronto Star in-depth stories

http://www.thestar.com/investigations

Enquete ( Radio-Canada’s investigative program)

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/enquete/2008-2009/

Daylife

http://www.daylife.com/topstories

Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/

The Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC)

http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=46&lang=e

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Media in BC. (a report of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities)

http://www.bcethnicmedia.ca/research.html

The Canadian Military in the news

http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/spotnews_e.html

Online News Association

http://journalists.org/

Adrian Holovaty (web developer and Chicago-based journalist)

http://www.holovaty.com/

Online Journalism Review

http://www.ojr.org/

NowPublic (crowd powered media)

http://www.nowpublic.com/

Orato ( True stories from real people)

http://www.orato.com/

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

http://www.publicintegrity.org/icij/

International Journalists’ Network

http://ijnet.org/

JNet’s Picks of the Week (a random selection of websites of use to journalists)

http://www.journalismnet.com/picks

Radio-Canada (archives)

http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/tj22h/archive50_200408.shtml

Kirk LaPointe’s J-home

http://www.kirklapointe.com/

Infomart

http://www.infomart.ca/

Canada.com

http://www.canada.com/

The Canadian Press

http://www.thecanadianpress.com/default.aspx

http://www.cpimages.com/fotoweb/index.fwx

National Post photos

http://news.nationalpost.com/category/photos/

The Hill Times

http://www.hilltimes.com/information_pages/about.php

iPolitics

http://ipolitics.ca/

World news

http://wn.com/

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

http://www.aejmc.org/

Independent media

http://www.indymedia.org/

Independent Media TV

http://www.independent-media.tv/about.cfm

DiversityWatch

http://www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca/media/

ABYZ News Links

http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

Newspaper archives

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/

http://www.paperofrecord.com/

AllYouCanRead

http://www.allyoucanread.com/

Sept.11 Archives

http://www.september11archive.com/

Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA)

http://www.ccna.ca/

Community Press Online (Ontario)

http://www.communitypress-online.com

Online Newspapers

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Google News Advanced Archive Search

http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search

LexisNexis AlaCarte! (advanced search)

http://alacarte.lexisnexis.com/partners/int/lexisnews/srchNW.asp

LexisNexis AlaCarte! (free short-term news searches on hot stories)

http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

Hospital News

http://www.hospitalnews.com

Medical Doctor (a Canadian website that tracks medical coverage)

http://www.mediadoctor.ca/

Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/

The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation’s Greatest Magazine

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400064740/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/702-6007597-6128034

Counterpunch (left-wing American political newsletter)

http://www.counterpunch.org/

Cyberjournalist.net ( The Online News Association )

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/supersearch.php/

Expert sources — ProfNet

http://www2.profnet.com/login_prn.jsp

Carleton’s journalism in Rwanda effort

http://www.rwandainitiative.ca/index2.html

Snopes.com (Rumour Has It)

http://snopes.com

Regret The Error ( it reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media)

http://www.regrettheerror.com/

Wikileaks

http://www.wikileaks.org/index.html

OhmyNews International

http://english.ohmynews.com/

Canadian Association of Internet Providers

http://www.cata.ca/

Public Eye Online

http://www.publiceyeonline.com/

Public Editor ( The site of the New York Times public editor )

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index.html

Project for Excellence In Journalism (The State of the News Media 2008)

http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2008/

Legacy.com (obituary searches)

http://www.legacy.com/NS/

American Press Institute

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/

Inside the Queensway: Maclean’s blogger Kady O’Malley

http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/19/liveblogging-the-layover-of-the-century/

Jacqui Banaszynski tips on finding stories

Famous quotes & quotations

http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/

The Future of Journalism

http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69

Investigative Reporting Workshop (The American University)

http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/staff/openings/

“American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone” (DemocracyNow)

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/18/american_radical_the_life_and_times

Alternate News Sources

http://www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism/alternate/

Narrative Matters (A peer-reviewed, personal-essay section of the policy journal Health Affairs)

http://www.healthaffairs.org/NM.php

VND (Algonquin College’s Virtual News Desk)

http://webcitybeat.com/

Scribd.com

http://www.scribd.com/

Marion Warnica

http://marionwarnica.com/

The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/

OWNI.EU Digital Journalism (Technology, Politics and Culture)

http://owni.eu/

Charlie Brooker – How To Report The News (on Youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YtGSXMuWMR4

National News Watch

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/

The Huffington Post (Canada)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/

TRAINING RESOURCES(TOP)

Access 2000 tutorial (Florida Gulf Coast University)

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/access/index.html

Allen Browne’s Database and Training

http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html

College syllabi on computer-assisted reporting, precision journalism and news research

http://powerreporting.com/

Gannett Newsroom Resources

http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/nwwebtips/webresmain.html

Institute for Analytic Journalism

http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog

Journalism Education in Canada (Carleton professor, Mary McGuire)

http://http-server.carleton.ca/~mmcguire/J-Ed/

JournalismNet (Julian Sher’s Internet site)

http://www.journalismnet.com/

MVP Web Sites (tutorials for Microsoft Access)

http://mvps.org/links.html#Access

PewResearchCenter Publications

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1220/home-ownership-trends-blacks-hispanics

Newscollege ( Practical Journalism Tips )

http://www.newscollege.ca/

News University (A project of The Poynter Institute for Media Studies funded)

http://www.newsu.org/

No Train, No Gain

http://www.notrain-nogain.com/

Online tutorials from Brown University

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/labels/viewlabel.action?id=59&key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($spaceKey)&startIndex=0

Poynter Institutue

http://www.poynter.org/

Knowledgewebb (Baltimore-based online training for people working in the digital media)

http://www.knowledgewebb.net/

Writing About Business (The New Columbia Knight – Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism)

http://books.google.ca/books?id=JAiiSqgFIFMC&dq=Writing+about+Business:+The+New+Columbia+Knight-Bagehot+Guide+to+Economics+%26+Business+Journalism&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=TdyOGM4Dyx&sig=0Uo7lZDbqr70u60fpzY4KibE8b0&hl=en&ei=2Z4kSq6PH5vMMtHw-IEF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

Society of Professional Journalists

http://www.spj.org/

Citizen Journalism course at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

http://beyourownjournalist.com/

What the unemployment rate does – and doesn’t – say about the economy
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/07/employment-vs-unemployment-different-stories-from-the-jobs-numbers/

KEY WORD SEARCH ENGINES(TOP)

Google

http://www.google.ca/

Google Keyword Selector

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

The Official Google Reader Blog (Follow changes to any websites)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html

SearchEngineWatch.com

http://searchenginewatch.com/

Yahoo Search

http://search.yahoo.com/

Windows Live (MSN Search)

http://www.live.com/?searchonly=true&mkt=en-ca

AlltheWeb

http://www.alltheweb.com/

Wisenut

http://wisenut.com/

Vivisimo

http://vivisimo.com/

Killer Info

http://www.killerinfo.com/

Search Engine Showdown (The User’s Guide To Searching the Web)

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/others/archive.shtml

Wayback machine (Internet archives)

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Finding Old Web Pages

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/others/archive.shtml

baidu (a large Chinese search engine that has a cache link)

http://www.baidu.com/

Cyberjournalists.net

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.php

Search Engine Showdown (The Users’ Guide to Web Searching)

http://searchengineshowdown.com/

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/others/archive.shtml

LABOUR [Top]

Occupation – Standard Occupational Classification 1991 (Historical) (707) (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=6&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=3&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=01&GID=837928&GK=1&GRP=1&PID=92105&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=74&VID=15743&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0

Enforcement Statistics (Ontario Ministry of Labour)

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/pubs/enforcement/index.php

LAND-TITLE AND PROPERTY ASSESSMENT OFFICES(TOP)

The TitleSearchers.ca ( is a website of title searches / registry agents across Canada

http://www.titlesearchers.ca/

Alberta Land Titles

http://www.servicealberta.ca/LandTitles.cfm

British Columbia Land Titles

https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/

Manitoba Property Registry

http://www.gov.mb.ca/tpr/land_titles/lto_offices/offices.html

New Brunswick Land Titles and Assessments

http://www.snb.ca/e/4000/4106e.asp

NewFoundland and Labrador Deeds

http://www.gs.gov.nl.ca/registries/deeds.html

Northwest Territories Land Titles

http://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/LandTitles/index.shtml

Nova Scotia’s Property Online

http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/property/default.asp?mn=282.46.1064

Nunavut

http://www.justice.gov.nu.ca/i18n/french/legreg/lt_index.shtm

Ontario Land Registration Information

http://www.ontario.ca/en/information_bundle/land_registration/STEL01_130081.html

Prince Edward Island Registry of Deeds

http://www.gov.pe.ca/finance/index.php3?number=1007538&lang=E

Quebec Land Titles

https://www.registrefoncier.gouv.qc.ca/Sirf/Script/14_06_01-02/pf_14_06_01_reglr.asp

Saskatchewan Land Registry

http://www.isc.ca/LandTitles/Pages/default.aspx

Yukon Land Titles

http://www.justice.gov.yk.ca/prog/cs/index.html

LEGAL SYSTEM/COURTS (TOP)

National Class Action Database (The Canadian Bar Association)

http://www.cba.org/classactions/main/gate/index/

Martindale.com

http://www.martindale.com/

Multilingual Legal Glossary

http://legalglossary.ca/dictionary/getRecord2.asp?3325,1,0

Legal terminology

http://www.duhaime.org/dictionary/diction.htm

Canada’s justice system

http://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/sch-rch/sch-rch.asp

The Criminal Code

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-46/index.html

Justice Laws Website Title (The Department of Justice Canada)

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/index.html

The Association of Justice Counsel (The bargaining agent for Justice lawyers and notaries for which Treasury Board is the employer)

http://www.ajc-ajj.org/eng/default.aspx

Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers (The Department of Justice Canada)

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/TablePublicStatutes/index.html

Federal Accountability Act (S.C. 2006, c. 9 – The Department of Justice Canada)

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-5.5/index.html

Canadian legal resources

http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/ref_desk.htm

The Canadian Legal Information Institute

http://canlii.org/en/index.php

The scope of CANLII’s databases

http://canlii.org/en/databases.html

Law Society of Upper Canada ( list of disbarred lawyer )

http://www.lsuc.on.ca/with.aspx?id=689

The National Class Action Database (a voluntary initiative and is not a comprehensive listing of all class action lawsuits currently underway in Canada)

http://www.cba.org/ClassActions/main/gate/index/default.aspx

Canadian Media Lawyers Association (Ad IDEM)

http://adidem.org/Main_Page

WestlawECarswell (site to be used by Carleton student ID number)

http://www.library.carleton.ca/eresources/db_titles_W.html

Supreme Court of Canada

http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/home-accueil/index-eng.asp

Judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada

http://csc.lexum.org/en/index.html

Federal Court of Canada

http://www.fct-cf.gc.ca/index_e.html

Federal Court watch (This site monitors the most recent files on the Federal Court of Canada trial division docket)

http://sushiboy.org/fedcourt.php

Tax Court of Canada

http://www.tcc-cci.gc.ca/main_e.htm

Manitoba Courts

http://www.jus.gov.mb.ca/

Ontario Courts

http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/english.htm

Quebec Courts

http://www.jugements.qc.ca/generalites/contenu.php

Provincial Offences Court – Ottawa

http://ottawa.ca/city_hall/prov_crt/index_en.html

Canadian Bar Association

http://www.cba.org/CBA/Home.asp

Canadian Law List

http://www.canadianlawlist.com/

Law Commission of Canada

http://www.lcc.gc.ca/default-en.asp?lang_update=1

ipblog.ca (intellectual property, trade-mark & Internet law)

http://www.ipblog.ca/

Bankruptcydata.com

http://www.bankruptcydata.com/default.asp

Findlaw

http://www.findlaw.com/index.html?srchfindlaw

Smoking Gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

http://www.bailii.org/

Ottawa Law Review

http://www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/ottawa-law-review/full-page-content/ottawa-law-review.html

HG.org (Worldwide legal directories)

http://www.hg.org/law-firms/Personal-Injury/Canada.html

LIBRARIES/ARCHIVES (TOP)

Library of Parliament

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/library_prb.asp?Language=E

Library of Parliament Publications
http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/About/Library/VirtualLibrary/ResearchPublications-e.asp

Provincial and Territorial Archives

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-802-e.html

Library and Archives Canada

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html

The Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

The Canadian Council of Archives

http://www.archivescanada.ca/index2.html

Theses Canada Portal (Library and Archives Canada)

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

ArchiviaNet Online Research Tool

http://www.archives.ca/02/0201_e.html

Ottawa Public Library

http://www.library.ottawa.on.ca/english/index.htm

Proquest

http://www.proquest.com/

Bartleby.com (a complete reference guide)

http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

Gumshoe Librarian ( A bibliography of Recommended Websites for Global Research Issues )

http://www.llrx.com/features/gumshoe.htm

U.S. News Archives on the Web

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html

LOBBYISTS(TOP)

Federal Public Registry of Lobbyists

http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/site/lobbyist-lobbyiste1.nsf/eng/home

Federal lobbyists search

https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/eic/site/012.nsf/eng/h_00872.html

Lobbyists (Alberta)

http://www.lobbyistsact.ab.ca/LRS/Search.nsf/$$Search

Lobbyists ( British Columbia)

http://www.lobbyistsregistrar.bc.ca/

Lobbyists (Nova Scotia)

http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/lobbyist/

Lobbying (New Brunswick)

http://www.lobbycomply.com/wordpress/?p=4003

Lobbyists (Ontario)

https://lobbyist.oico.on.ca/LRO/GeneralSettings.nsf/vwEnHTML/Home.htm

Lobbyists (Quebec)

https://www.lobby.gouv.qc.ca/servicespublic/consultation/ConsultationCitoyen.aspx

http://www.si2.commissairelobby.qc.ca/en/commissioner/access_information

Lobbyists (Newfoundland and Labrador)

http://www.gs.gov.nl.ca/registries/lobbyists.html

Lobbyists (City of Toronto)

http://www.toronto.ca/lobbying/

The Lobby Monitor

http://www.arcpub.com/lm.htm

Lobby Watcher

http://www.lobbywatcher.ca/index.php

Elections Canada (contributions and expenses)

http://www.elections.ca/intro.asp?section=fin&document=index&lang=e&textonly=false

http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/welcome.aspx?lang=e

Open Secrets (a nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy)

http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

Project On Government Oversight (U.S. non-profit watch-dog group)

http://pogo.org/

Corporate and union campaign donations still loom large at city hall

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/04/09/corporate-and-union-campaign-donations-still-loom-large-at-city-hall.html

Query the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database (U.S. Senate)
https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=selectfields

Lobbying Disclosure (U.S. House of Representatives)
http://lobbyingdisclosure.house.gov/

MAPPING(TOP)

Aboriginal Lands – CANADA
http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/815dd99d-4fbd-47cc-be02-7ad4b03a23ec.html

http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/-/(urn:gc:subject)aboriginal-lands

Convert SHP to KML Online
https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/shp-to-kml

Convert SHP to KML
https://www.safe.com/convert/arcgis-shp/kml/

Convert SHP to KML Online
https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/shp-to-kml

Convert SHP to KML
https://www.safe.com/convert/arcgis-shp/kml/

http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/b6567c5c-8339-4055-99fa-63f92114d9e4 (the First Nations Location csv file is the 6th option “Pre-packaged csv file”)

Geobase – Federal Electoral Districts – Canada 2013
http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/-/(urn:iso:series)geobase-federal-electoral-districts?sort-field=relevance

Geographic Information Systems (Algonquin College)

http://www3.algonquincollege.com/sat/program/geographic-information-systems/

Geographic Information System (Q&A)

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/45005/why-are-some-columns-not-recognized-as-numeric-even-though-i-have-a-csvt

GPS Coordinates Finder
http://www.gps-coordinates.org/

For Fusion Table tutorial, click here

Simple Polylines (Google Maps JavaScript API v3)

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/polyline-simple

Oil and Gas Rights Digital Files (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada)

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100036298/1100100036301

Leaflet
http://leafletjs.com/

Qgis (on windows)

http://www.qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-1.5.0-14109-Setup.exe

Qgis (for Mac users)

http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/qgis/Qgis(standalone)-1.5.0-3-Snow.dmg (for Snow Leopard 10.6)

http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/qgis/Qgis(standalone)-1.5.0-4-Leopard.dmg (for Leopard 10.5)

Qgis basics for journalists

http://www.qgis.org/en/site/

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/qgis-basics-journalists/install/

QGIS Cloud

http://qgiscloud.com/pages/quickstart

QGIS Cloud (test)

http://qgiscloud.com/jrivard5/test

Making maps with QGIS (Peter Aldhous)

http://paldhous.github.io/NICAR/2015/qgis.html

Manipulating and editing geographic data with QGIS (Michael Corey)

http://mikejcorey.github.io/qgis_advanced_2015/

Knight Digital Media Center’s data visualization tutorials

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/cat/data

Knight Digital Media Center’s digital media tutorials

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/

FalconView

http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView

Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections, Second Edition

http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=231&moduleID=0

Natural Resources Canada’s collection of maps

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/11042

Maps Corner ( Elections Canada)

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=cir/maps&document=index&lang=e

Federal Electoral Districts

http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=258D0E88-4C19-7DB1-41C2-0D0CF1CAF49C

Geospatial Database (Queen’s University Library)

http://db.library.queensu.ca/geospatial_data/

Data Catalogue (City of Ottawa)

http://ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/info/index_en.html

GIS Data Classifications in Cartographica
http://blog.cartographica.com/blog/2010/8/16/gis-data-classifications-in-cartographica.html

GeoCoder (converts addresses into longitude and latitude for use in mapping)

http://www.batchgeo.com/

Geocoder.ca

http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1

Get Latitude and Longitude
http://www.latlong.net/

GeoBase

http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html

GeoCoder.ca

http://geocoder.ca/

Geocommons

http://geocommons.com/

Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions (Federal Communications Commission)

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

Understanding Latitude and Longitude:The Global Grid

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/LongitudeIntro.html

MapShaper

http://mapshaper.com/test/demo.html

ESRI

http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm

GIS for Stimulus Reporting

http://www.esri.com/industries/stategov/business/stimulus.html

Shape2Earth (Shape file to kml file converter)
http://shape2earth.com/

Tableau Public ( a free application that helps to visualize data )

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery

http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/press-releases/2014/tableau-82-brings-data-mac-and-data-storytelling-everyone

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ire

Tableau tutorials

http://www.jewelloree.com/

Google Fusion Tables

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=fusiontables&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home&followup=http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home

Googe Fusion Tables discussion group

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fusion-tables-users-group/4SVxAew5P78

Google Fusion Table (shape file to KML conversion)

http://www.shpescape.com/

Google fusion tables beta (data sets you can use)

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/search

FusionTablesLayer Builder

http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fusiontables/fusiontableslayer_builder.html

Google Sites (allows you to see what your Fusion Table maps or charts look like before publishing them)

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

ColorBrewer (for doing fancier colour schemes in Fusion Tables)

http://colorbrewer2.org/

A map to help voters find their polling places using Fusion Tables as a data source (Google fusion tables)

https://docs.google.com/a/baycitizen.org/document/d/1hgRO3DMvppG9zySelxTT787YsdKWNzFHu_g5Rbex2nU/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#

Google earth

http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

How to make your own data map of Montreal

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/10/07/how-to-make-your-own-data-map-of-montreal/

Zonum Solutions (Converts shape file files to KML files)

http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html

Gut Those Shapefiles (shape file converter)

http://gut.sfgeo.org/

Google Geo Developers Blog

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/11/search-your-geo-data-using-spatial.html

Google’s Chart Tool

http://imagecharteditor.appspot.com/

Shape to Fusion ( A website that allow users to import shape files into fusion tables)

http://www.shpescape.com/

Patrickcain.ca (A journalist who makes maps for the Web)

http://www.patrickcain.ca/

All things spatial (a good mapping blog)

http://all-things-spatial.blogspot.com/

Google public data explorer

http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

http://www.google.com/support/publicdata/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&feature=related

GPS Visualizer

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

Infinite Gravity Data Services (The Canadian Postal Code)

http://www.infinitegravity.ca/postalcodeformat.htm

Think Data

http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/

Fusion Table URL for the Ottawa bike thefts

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S290201DOQI

Patrickcain.ca: A journalist who makes maps for the web

http://www.patrickcain.ca/?p=1

111031_afghan_dead_for_Google

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S308680sRHu

Boundary files (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-eng.cfm

Geogrpahic levels for 2011 census (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/download-telecharger/comprehensive/comp-ivt-xml-dwnld-tlchrgr.cfm?Lang=E

2006 Census Population (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/index-eng.cfm

2006 Census Income and Earnings

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/St-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

2006 Census Household Income

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Lp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=814&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

2011 Census – Province and Territory Cargographic Boundary Files (Statistics Canada)

http://www.data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/bab06e04-e6d0-41f1-a595-6cff4d71bedf

Geography (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/index-eng.cfm

OpenStreetMap

http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet/planet-latest.osm.bz2

Fusion Table Test

ArcGIS Resources

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//006z00000009000000

Importing csv data tutorial

https://www.trentu.ca/library/data/addingXYdata_V10.pdf

Mapbox: Tips for using colors

https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/tips-for-color/

Welcome to the First Nation Profiles Interactive Map
http://fnpim-cippn.aandc-aadnc.gc.ca/index-eng.html

MAPPING STORIES(TOP)

Airbnb renters hope to score big cash during Pan Am games (CBC-Radio-Canada)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/multimedia/airbnb-renters-hope-to-score-big-cash-during-pan-am-games-1.3133581

Follow the Money: Federal spending announcements in 2013(CBC News and Carleton J-school)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-funding

EXCLUSIVE: Search and rescue for false alarms costs millions (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/search-and-rescue-for-false-alarms-costs-millions-1.2594306

Contaminated sites cleanup to cost billions more, budget office says (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/contaminated-sites-cleanup-to-cost-billions-more-budget-office-says-1.2604939

2011 Census Population Data by Ward (Raise the Hammer)

http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/1541/2011_census_population_data_by_ward

Crime in St. Paul

http://stpaulcrime.twincities.com/#trends

2011 Wisconsin Senate Recalls

http://host.madison.com/data/maps/politics/2011-senate-recalls/

After federal changes to waterways rules, 90 per cent of protected lakes lap on Conservative shores (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://aware-simcoe.ca/issues/water/3237-water.html

Conservatives defend new waterways rules against accusations of favouritism (The Ottawa Citizen)

A new view of Edmonton (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/living-on-the-edge/index.html

Battleground B.C.: Election Trends (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/electiontrends.html

Canada’s climbing tuition fees (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/map-tuition-fees/

City’s Information Technology Master Plan – Enabling an Engaged & Connected City

http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/cityhall/pressreleases;.node2-4?paf_gear_id=9700020&itemId=5300808q&returnUrl=%2Fportal%2Fcityhall%2Fpressreleases%3Bjsessionid%3D8F25AE5F5A8F02933AC6DBE5C555B93E.node2-4

Mapping info: More city data within reach online

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/mapping-info-more-city-data-within-reach-online

Median home prices in 2010 remained below 2007 levels across Cuyahoga County

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2011/02/median_home_prices_in_2010_rem.html

Midterm byelections to test Liberal government and leaderless opposition parties
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-byelection-tests-1.4047721

MONTREAL: CITY OF CONTRASTS (The Gazette, Montreal)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/interactives/household-survey/index.html

More discarded needles being found in Ottawa’s suburbs (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/more-discarded-needles-being-found-in-ottawa-s-suburbs-1.2572573

New Westminster launches open data website

http://www.burnabynow.com/news/new-westminster-launches-open-data-website-1.2114670

Lying with Maps: How Enbridge is Misleading the Public in its Ads

http://eaves.ca/2012/08/15/lying-with-maps-how-enbridge-is-misleading-the-public-in-its-ads/

New federal electoral boundaries (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/electoral-district-search/

Current Events Maps

http://www.esri.com/news/maps/index.html

Crime rates continue to fall in Canada: Declines recorded across country, for most offences (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/crime-severity/

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/resources.html

Census 2010 Interactive Map: Texas Population By Race, Hispanic Origin (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/census-2010/

Census 2010 Interactive Map: Texas Population By House, Senate District (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/census-2010/

Family, church important to Filipinos: Many call the central neighbourhood around Fraser Street home, and Tagalog signs abound (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Vancouver+ethnic+enclave+series+Family+church+important+Filipinos/5559392/story.html

Federal Parolees Per Capita (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/parolees-capita.html

Fare evasion on SkyTrain and Canada Line (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/transit-system-crime/fare-evasion.html

Election Prediction 2011 (Hill and Knowlton)

http://predictor.hillandknowlton.ca/predictor/index.php?o=sp&j=6:0.398,4:0.302,3:0.165,2:0.04,5:0.083,1:0.012&r=0

Enbridge affiliates have had 175 leaks, spills over 10 years in U.S. (The Ottawa Citizen)

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Enbridge+affiliates+have+leaks+spills+over+years/5987092/story.html

Explore the data: Toronto bicycle collisions mapped over 25 years (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/explore-the-data-toronto-bicycle-collisions-mapped-over-25-years/article543684/

50 ridings to watch in the 2011 election (The Globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com:80/news/politics/50-ridings-to-watch-in-the-2011-election/article1957425/?from=1957526

2008 Federal election: GTA ridings (The Toronto Star)

http://www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/electionmaps.html?xml=2008_federal.xml

Highway 63 features map (The Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/highway63/map/index.html

Homicides mapped: 1999 to 2011 (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/homicide/map/index.html

How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? (Slate)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

INTERACTIVE: Census Explorer (The Canadian Press)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/INTERACTIVE-Census-Explorer-138930999.html

Interactive map: Data links low income to poor school test results (Global News)

http://www.globaltoronto.com/interactive+map+data+links+low+income+to+poor+eqao+test+results/6442705166/story.html

Interactive Map: Nov. 8 Amendment Vote by County (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/nov-8-amendment-vote-map/

Interactive: What’s My District Now? (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/whats-my-district-now/

Interactive: Perry Tracker (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/perrytracker/

Interactive: Exploring Presidential Donors by ZIP Code (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/exploring-presidential-donor-zip-code/

Interactive: Census: Where you live (The Telegraph)

http://www.macon.com/2011/03/22/1497153/census-where-you-live.html#storylink=misearch

Interactive map: Bibb County’s congressional redistricting (The Telegraph)

http://www.macon.com/2011/09/25/1717493/interactive-map-bibb-countys-congressional.html#storylink=misearch

Interactive: Making the WNYC Census Map (JohnKeefe.net)

http://johnkeefe.net/47474697

Interactive: SNAPSHOT: Motorcycles per 1,000 residents, 2010 (boston.com)

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/specials/snapshot/snapshot_massachusetts_motorcycles_per_1000_residents_2010/

Interactive Map: Explore the data behind Toronto’s working poor (The globe and Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/interactive-map-explore-the-data-behind-torontos-working-poor/article2332885/

Interactive: City of Toronto homicides and gang activity, 2008 to present

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/interactive-city-of-toronto-homicides-and-gang-activity-2008-to-present/article4240673/

Investigate with us (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/living-on-the-edge/index.html

Grand Falls-Windsor growing without paper mill (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/02/11/nl-gfw-census-211.html

Living on the Edge (Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/livingontheedge/index.html

Map: See Dallas-area holiday light displays (Dallas Morning News)

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/headlines/20111206-map-see-dallas-area-holiday-light-displays.ece

Metro Vancouver Daycare Ratings Map (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/daycare-map.html

New Ramsey County sheriff approves a higher percentage of gun applications than Fletcher (Pioneer Press)

http://www.twincities.com/ci_19512257

NYC Evacuation Zones

http://project.wnyc.org/news-maps/hurricane-zones/hurricane-zones.html

Minnesota’s public pensins: 40-year financial snapshot

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Pensions2/Dashboard1?:embed=y

Pioneer Press Family Outings Find fun things to do with your kids in the Twin Cities

http://www.twincities.com/family

Riding Profile — Edmonton – Strathcona (The Edmonton Journal)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/election/edmontonstrathcona.html

BC Liberal leadership vote by the numbers — exclusive maps, graphics and analysis (The Vancouver Sun)

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/papertrail/archive/2011/02/26/bc-liberal-leadership-vote-by-the-numbers-exclusive-maps-graphs-and-analysis.aspx

(902)-9-1-1 (A King’s College Investigation)

http://902911.kingsjournalism.com/

Comment vos voisins ont-ils voté en 2008? (Cyberpresse.ca)

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/elections-federales/resultats-des-elections-federales-2008/?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B2_carte-interactive_1474045_section_POS1

Canada Votes 2011 ( Interactive map: CBCNews.ca)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/#/171

Canadian federal election results for 2004, 2008 and 2011 (ERSI Press)

http://50.16.208.225/CompareWebMaps/

Canada’s 41st Election Explained ( Flickr )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_hicks/5683761559/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Find Your Polling Place (baycitizen.org)

http://www.baycitizen.org/data/mayors-race-2011/poll-locations/

Global News Exclusive: Maritimers leading the way in organ donor registration (globalnewsmaritimes)

http://www.globalmaritimes.com/global+news+exclusive+maritimers+leading+the+way+in+organ+donor+registration/6442494330/story.html

Gogama : la hausse du transport de pétrole par train en partie responsable des accidents, croient des experts (Radio-Canada)

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2015/03/10/007-lien-petrole-deraillements.shtml

Interactive map shows breakdown of HST vote (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Interactive+shows+breakdown+vote/5313564/story.html

Interactive: Direct your own exploration of Minnesota Census data (Pioneer Press)

http://www.twincities.com/1000/ci_17627259?source=pkg

Interactive: Get to know your candidates (The Gazette)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/learn-about-candidates.html

Interactive graphics and databases (The Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/specialreports/interactives.html?from=stnv2

Interactive: Texas Presidential Contributions by ZIP Code (The Texas Tribune)

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/presidential-contributions-zip-code-2011/

METHADONE AND THE POLITICS OF PAIN (The Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/specialreports/methadone/methadoneandthepoliticsofpain.html

Proposed Keystone Pipeline road map (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/map-pipeline/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/10/keyston-pipeline-route.html

How WNYC Used Texts from Citizens To Map Snowstorm (Mobile Phone Blog)

http://mobilephone.firstblogfirst.com/2011/01/28/how-wnyc-used-texts-from-citizens-to-map-snowstorm/

Map of the Week: Grow operations (The Toronto Star)

http://thestar.blogs.com/maps/2009/02/map-2008-marijuana-grow-operations——marijuana-grow-op-busts-in-toronto-were-down-in-2008-at-145-compared-t.html

Mapping our ethnicity Parts 1,2,3,5 (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Mapping+ethnicity+Part+South+Asia+Surrey/5547648/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/ethnicity/index.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Mapping+ethnicity+Part+Family+church+important+Filipinos/5559392/story.html

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/10/19/ethnic-mapping-5-find-metros-dutch-blacks-germans-and-iranians/

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Metro+ethnic+enclaves+expand+will+residents+trust+hold/5578612/story.html

Mapping the Nation’s Well-Being (The New York Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/06/weekinreview/20110306-happiness.html?ref=multimedia

Maps: Who are the dogs in your Toronto neighbourhood? (Global News)

http://www.globalnews.ca/Pages/Story.aspx?id=6442522298

Map: Where the tornadoes hit

http://news.cincinnati.com/interactive/article/20130227/CINCI/130227014?nclick_check=1

Medical marijuana use in Canada by postal code, 2001 to 2007 (Postmedia News)

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/medical-marijuana/map/index.html

Metro Vancouver Mapped: If you’re living in sin, you’re most likely living in Kitsilano (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro-mapped/index.html

Metro buses involved in hundreds of crashes a year (CBC News Nova Scotia)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/01/29/ns-metro-transit-collisions.html

Mississippi floods: how does 2011 compare? (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/mississippi-floods-how-does-20.html

Oilsands website (Alberta government)

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Oilsands+details+available+through+single+government+website/5690817/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Oilsands+details+available+through+single+government+website/5690817/story.html

Ontario voter turnout lowest since 1867 (globalnews.ca)

http://www.globalnews.ca/interactive/6442496991/story.html

Rains come to Texas but drought could last for years (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/texas-rains-too-little-too-lat.html

Spence residents complaining about bedbugs (globalwinnipeg)

http://www.globalwinnipeg.com/spence+residents+complaining+about+bedbugs/6442512625/story.html

Spinal-cord injuries hit teen athletes hardest (Pioneer Press)

http://www.twincities.com/ci_19750035

‘Sputnik moment’? A report card for US cities (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/01/-innovation-in-america-dashboa.html

Storm warning: prepare for a busy hurricane season (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/prepare-for-hurricane-season.html

St. Paul gun incident reports up 65 percent so far in 2012 (w/ searchable map) (St. Paul Pioneer Press)

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_20953465/pioneer-press-investigation-st-paul-gun-incident-reports

The Census: Canada’s Changing Society (The Canadian Press)

http://thecanadianpress-census.ca/?graphics=communities-interactive-map

http://thecanadianpress-census.ca/

TransLink bus routes with the most passups (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/passuproutes.html

Travelling memorial: Canadians in Afghanistan (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/mural-cdnsinafghanistan/

U.S. tech workers by the numbers (Computer World)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231501/U.S._tech_workers_by_the_numbers#map

Unemployment rates in Canada (CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/unemployment-stats/

Vancouver Photos from Flickr (The Vancouver Sun)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/flickr.html

Vancouver Crime 2006-2011

http://marcellison.com/fusion/fusion_index.html

Welcome to The Bay Citizen’s Bike Accident Tracker! (baycitizen.org)

http://www.baycitizen.org/data/bike-accidents/

When Maps shouldn’t be Maps (Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director for The New York Times)

http://www.ericson.net/content/2011/10/when-maps-shouldnt-be-maps/

Where are the world’s nuclear reactors? (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/embedded/nuclear-reactor-map

Where are the mayoral candidates raising their money? (NPR)

http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/07/where-are-the-mayoral-candidates-raising-their-money/

The deadly mixture of guns and class in Toronto

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/03/03/the_deadly_mixture_of_guns_and_class_in_toronto.html

Why Taxpayers Will Bail Out the Rich When the Next Storm Hits (NBC News)

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/why-taxpayers-will-bail-out-rich-when-next-storm-hits-n25901

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/meet-flood-insurance-robin-hood-who-saves-condo-owners-millions-n26711

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/average-joes-fighting-fema-flood-maps-isnt-easy-or-cheap-n23871

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/fbi-investigates-fema-flood-map-changes-after-nbc-news-report-n62906

MAPPING TUTORIALS(TOP)

Bringing Google spreadsheets and Fusion Tables closer together

http://chrislkeller.blogspot.ca/

Fusion Table tutorial (MaryJo Webster, St. Paul Pioneer Press)

http://extra.twincities.com/car/mj/fusiontableswebinar.wmv

Quickly visualize and map a data set using Google Fusion Tables

http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/03/04/quickly-visualize-and-map-a-data-set-using-google-fusion-tables/

How to make a map in Google Fusion Tables

http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/68971#slide1

Spatial Analysis Tip Sheet — Spatial Joins and Overlays, Density, and Proximity Analysis (Barbara Parmenter, Tufts University)

http://ocw.tufts.edu/data/54/616425.pdf

HTML Tutorial – (HTML5 Compliant)

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

City of Ottawa building inspections (practice data)

Mapping Tutorial for 2010 Ottawa bike thefts

Mapping Tutorial for the distribution of baseball diamond in Ottawa wards

Mapping Tutorial for matching specific bike thefts in each wards using Qgis

Geocoding

Cracking PDS

Tableau Public

Tutorial on visualing data separated into groups and creating a legend

Quantum GIS (QGIS) Tutorials

http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/03/using-tabular-data-in-qgis.html

http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/06/making-maps-for-print-using-qgis.html

http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/user_manual/print_composer/print_composer.html

Expressions, Filtering and Calculating Values in Qgis

http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/expressions.html

Quantum GIS (QGIS) Tutorials

http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2010/10/working-with-attribute-table-basic.html

To obtain the first Qgis tutorial, please click here.

Here’s the second Qgis mapping tutorial.

Data for the third Qgis tutorial

2006 Census – Boundary files

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2006-eng.cfm

TotalIncome_PH_2005.xlsx

After obtaining the census boundary file in the link above and downloading the “TotalIncome” file, you are ready for the third Qgis tutorial.

Telling your story with maps: ArcGIS Online Tutorial

ArcGIS Video Tutorials

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/916/arcgis-online-overview

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/916/arcgis-online-overview

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/916/arcgis-online-overview

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/1341/sharing-and-collaborating-within-an-organization

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/2457/map-your-excel-data

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/1340/managing-the-resources-of-an-organization

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/249/embedding-a-map-in-your-website

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/248/editing-feature-layers-on-a-map

http://video.arcgis.com/series/18/arcgis-online

A Mac user tutorial for downloading and creating your own base map layer (Lucus Timmons)

https://vimeo.com/92914327

Tutorial: QGIS Basics For Journalists

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/qgis-basics-journalists/

Data journalism resources (Peter Aldhous, science journalist)

http://peteraldhous.com/resources.html

http://paldhous.github.io/NICAR/2015/qgis.html

Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections, Second Edition

http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=231&moduleID=0

MEDICAL DEVICES(TOP)

Health Canada’s list of recalled drugs and medical devices

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli-conform/recall-retrait/_list/index-eng.php

Health Canada’s list of warnings, advisories and recalls (on marketed health products, including Natural Health Products and medical devices)

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/advisories-avis/index-eng.php

Food and Drug Administration’s list of device recalls

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/RecallsCorrectionsRemovals/ListofRecalls/default.htm

Food and Drug Administration’s Medical & Radiation Emitting Device Recalls

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRES/res.cfm

Food and Drug Administration’s Medical Device Databases

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/Databases/default.htm

Food and Drug Administration’s MAUDE – Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE data contains reports of adverse events involving medical devices)

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfMAUDE/search.CFM

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/PostmarketRequirements/ReportingAdverseEvents/ucm127891.htm

Medical Device Reports (MAUDE) (NICAR)

https://ire.org/nicar/database-library/databases/medical-device-reports-maude/

Medical Devices Active Licence Listing (MDALL)
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medical-devices/licences/medical-devices-active-licence-listing.html

Panel says medical device review system ‘flawed’ (The Associated Pres and CBC News)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/07/29/health-medical-devices.html

Medical device changes to come in U.S. (The Associated Press)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/01/20/medical-devices-fda.html

Medical device licence pulled, but still on the market (Marketplace)

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/blog/2010/06/investigation-medical-device-licence-pulled-but-still-on-the-market.html

Recalled Medical Devices

Recently approved medical devices ( FDA )

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTopic/MDA/mda-list.cfm?list=1

MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS(TOP)

Listservs

http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html

Blogs

http://www.bloglines.com/

Blog search (blog search)

http://www.technorati.com/

Google’s BlogSearch

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Ghostery

https://www.ghostery.com/en-GB/

Sphere

http://www.sphere.com

Feedster

http://www.feedster.com/

All Calculators

http://calculator-converter.com/

Day-of-the-week calculator

http://www.calculatorcat.com/free_calculators/day_of_week.phtml

Calculate distance between two locations

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distance.html

The World Clock — Time Zones

http://www.timeanddate.com/

Weather (Environment Canada)

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Bank of Canada exchange rate converter

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/exchform.htm

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/

Bank of Canada Inflation Calculator

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html

Translation sites

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=en

Timeanddate.com

http://www.timeanddate.com/

MONEY(TOP)

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick you with the bill)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/62818741/David-Cay-Johnston-Free-Lunch-How-the-Wealthiest-Americans-Enrich-Themselves-at-Government-Expense-and-Stick-You-With-the-Bill-2007

GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca

http://www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca/en/Pages/default.aspx

3Dpolicy.ca

http://3dpolicy.ca/

Multi-media(TOP)

Liveleak

http://liveleak.com/

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/

Blinkx (Over 35 million hours of video. Search it all.)

http://www.blinkx.com/

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/

The Tyee

http://thetyee.ca/

The Printed Blog

http://www.theprintedblog.com/

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS(TOP)

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)

http://www.fcm.ca/english/main.html

Munimall (general information and news stories about municipalities)

http://www.munimall.net

Quebec municipalities

http://www.quebecmunicipal.qc.ca/liens/index.asp?LienID=47

Property assessments (Quebec municipalities)

http://www.quebecmunicipal.qc.ca/liens/index.asp?lienid=47

NEWS BLOGS(TOP)

Medium Close Up ( a blog by former CBC TV producer, Howard Bernstein)

http://hlbtoo.wordpress.com/

How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse (The Guardian)

http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/09/canada-open-data?cat=news&type=article

MYSQL(TOP)

MySQL DATE_FORMAT() Function
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_mysql_date_format.asp

Server SQL modes

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/index.html

MySQL Documentation

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

MySQL Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/MySQLChannel?cmid=NAMK15048361MPP057C009&elq_mid=43019&sh=

Oracle’s MySQL Blog

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/?elq_mid=43019&sh=&cmid=NAMK15048361MPP057C009

Planet MySQL

http://planet.mysql.com/?elq_mid=43019&sh=&cmid=NAMK15048361MPP057C009

NUMERACY SKILLS(TOP)

Addressing journalistic innumeracy and math phobia: A sequence of resources to sharpen your mind
http://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/journalistic-innumeracy-math-phobia-sequence-resources-to-sharpen-your-mind

Percentage Change Calculator

http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/algebra/percent-change-calculator.php

Bank of Canada Statistics

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/

A tipsheet on dealing with numbers

Dealing with numbers

Don Gibb’s numeracy column for Media magazine

Math Quiz (the numbers are contained in Excel worksheets)

Math cribsheet courtesy of Steve Doig

http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Math_cribsheet

Robert Niles.com

www.robertniles.com/stats

John Allen Paulos

www.math.temple.edu/~paulos

No Train No Gain

www.notrain-nogain.org

http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Train/Res/Num/NUM.asp

The Poynter Institute

www.poynter.org

Math for Journalists (Debbie Wolfe)

http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=nu_math05

Capping Credit Card Rates ( The NDP)

http://www.ndp.ca/credit-card-caps

Tips for journalists working with math, statistics: A list of key resources
http://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/math-journalist-numbers-statistics-research

OTTAWA [Top]

Ottawa city council

http://ottawa.ca/index_en.html

City Council & Committee Agendas & Minutes

http://ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/docs.pl?lang=en

http://ottawa.primegov.com/portal/#/

Budget 2018
https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/budget-and-taxes/budget/budget-2018

Ottawa Police Board minutes

City of Ottawa data catalogue

http://ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/info/index_en.html

 

2016 Census
https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/get-know-your-city/statistics-and-economic-profile/statistics/2016-census

Previous City Budgets (City of Ottawa)

http://www.ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/budgettaxes/budget/index.html

Information

http://www.ottawaplus.ca/

The Municipal Performance Measurement Program

http://www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/ottawa_performance/mpmp/index_en.html

Community Information Centre of Ottawa

http://www.cominfo-ottawa.org/main_eng.html

Community Case Study: City of Ottawa (Natural Resources Canada)

http://canmetenergy-canmetenergie.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/eng/buildings_communities/communities/publications/ottawa.html

ONLINE NEWS SITES(TOP)

The Huffington Post (Canada)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/

The Canadian Journalism Project

http://www.j-source.ca/

Open File (Community-powered news in several Canadian cities)

http://toronto.openfile.ca/

bclocalnews.com

http://www.bclocalnews.com/

OPEN DATA GOVERNMENT-INSTITUTION WEBSITES(Top)

2016 OPEN CITIES INDEX – TOP 20 RESULTS
https://publicsectordigest.com/2016-open-cities-index-top-20-results

Alberta

http://data.alberta.ca/

General Revenue Fund Details of Supplies, Services, Tangible Capital Assets and Other Payments
http://open.alberta.ca/dataset/general-revenue-fund-details-of-supplies-services-tangible-capital-assets-and-other-payments

BC

http://www.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/ibc/search/search.page#cateloguehttp://www.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/ibc/index.page?http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/

Canada Revenue Agency Tax-Free Savings Account 2014 Statistics (2012 contributions)

http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/10531a5e-b500-4842-a1b0-305802a1da28

Canadian Open Data Institute

http://opendatainstitute.ca/

Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2014-16

http://open.canada.ca/en/content/canadas-action-plan-open-government-2014-16

Campaign Donations (City of Ottawa)

http://ottwatch.ca/election/listDonations

Chicago Crime Data

https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2

City of Kamloops
http://www.kamloops.ca/downloads/maps/launch.htm

Data Inventory Project (DIP) (Statistics Canada)

http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5190&Item_Id=122357&lang=en

datalibre.ca

http://datalibre.ca/

Directive on Open Government

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=28108

CANSIM – Table directory – All Section
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a29?lang=eng&groupid=All&p2=17#n376

Edmonton

http://data.edmonton.ca/

Education Equality and Accountability Office
http://www.eqao.com/en

GeoNOVA

http://geonova.novascotia.ca/

Government-Wide Reporting — Proactive Disclosure

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp

Halifax’s Open Data Catalogue

http://www.halifax.ca/opendata/

Healthdoc (find local doctors and health care providers near you)

https://www.healthdoc.ca/

Kamloops
http://www.kamloops.ca/downloads/maps/launch.htm

Newfoundland and Labrador

http://open.gov.nl.ca/

Missing Migrants Project (International Organization for Migration)
http://missingmigrants.iom.int/

Mississauga

http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/mississaugadata

Nova Scotia

https://data.novascotia.ca/

Nova Scotia: Public Sector Compensation Disclosure
http://www.novascotia.ca/finance/en/home/publications/PSCD/default.aspx

Oakville

http://oakville.ca/data/

Online Journalism Blog
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/

Ontario

http://www.ontario.ca/government/open-data-ontario

http://www.ontario.ca/government/open-government

Ontario to allow public to vote on open data priorities

http://o.canada.com/technology/internet/ontario-to-allow-public-to-vote-on-open-data-priorities/

Ontario Trillium Foundation

http://otf.ca/our-impact/open-data

Open Government Declaration

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/about/open-government-declaration 

OpenDataSites

http://opendatasites.com/

Open Government Partnership 

http://www.maryfrancoli.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:open-government-partnership&catid=38:home&Itemid=115

Open Data Pilot Project (federal government)

http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En

Open Data Pilot Project – csv files (federal government)

http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset?res_format=kml+%2F+kmz&_res_format_limit=0

Ottawa

http://data.ottawa.ca/en/?page=1

Routine Disclosure and Active Dissemination Plans
https://ottawa.ca/en/routine-disclosure-and-active-dissemination-plans#

Ottawa restaurant inspections

http://app06.ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/search/inspections/q.pl?ss=results_en&qt=fsi_s&sq_app_id=fsi&sq_keywords=&sq_field=all&sq_fs_ftcd=&sq_fs_fwcd=&sort=fs_insp_sort+asc%2Cscore+desc

Québec Ouvert (les données ouvertes pour le Québec)

http://quebecouvert.org/

Safe Schools: Statistics on Suspension and Expulsion
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/safeschools/statistics.html

Strathcona County

http://www.strathcona.ca/departments/information-technology-services/open-data/

Sudbury

http://www.greatersudbury.ca/inside-city-hall/open-data/

Squamish Open Data
http://data.squamish.ca/

Surrey

https://data.surrey.ca/dataset

Toronto

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=1a66e03bb8d1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

Toronto (parking tickets)

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=ca20256c54ea4310VgnVCM1000003dd60f89RCRD

Transripts of Canadian parliamentary debates since 1901
http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/08/31/the-transcripts-of-canadian-parliamentary-debates-since-1901-are-now-online/

Transparency and Open Government ( Barack Obama’s first memorandum)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment

TSB InfoBase (a searchable online database providing financial and human resources information on government operations.)

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ems-sgd/edb-bdd/ennojs-home.html

UNHCR migrant data and visualizations
http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php

Vancouver

http://data.vancouver.ca/

World Development Indicators (The World Bank)

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators?cid=GPD_WDI

WJP OPEN GOVERNMENT INDEX (World Justice Project)

http://worldjusticeproject.org/open-government-index

World Council on City Data

http://open.dataforcities.org/

The United States

The Department of Transportation

http://www.dot.gov/mission/open/open-government

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-13.pdf

The UK

http://data.gov.uk/

Data.police.uk

http://data.police.uk/

Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/contents/enacted

Information Commissioner’s Office (a discussion of the datasets identified in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) 

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1151/datasets-foi-guidance.pdf

U.K. Prime Minister’s first open letter on open data

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101007205029/number10.gov.uk/news/statements-and-articles/2010/05/letter-to-government-departments-on-opening-up-data-51204

U.K. Prime Minsiter’s second open letter on open data

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/letter-to-cabinet-ministers-on-transparency-and-open-data

U.K. Open Data Strategies ( by department)

http://data.gov.uk/open-data-strategies

Secretary of State’s Code  of Practice (datasets) on the discharge of public authorities’ functions under Part 1 of the Freedom of Information Act

http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/information-access-rights/foi/code-of-practice-datasets.pdf

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

http://www.w3.org/

OPEN DATA RESEARCH(Top)

An open data platform for improving Toronto transportation

http://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/an-open-data-platform-for-improving-toronto-transportation/

The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism (Tow Center for Digital Journalism)

http://towcenter.org/research/the-art-and-science-of-data-driven-journalism/

The Benefits of a Big Tent: Opening Up Government in Developing Countries

http://www.uclalawreview.org/the-benefits-of-a-big-tent-opening-up-government-in-developing-countries/

Big Data & Society

http://bds.sagepub.com/

Canadian Open Data Summit
http://opendatasummit.ca/2016/

Chicago Tribune news apps blog

http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/

Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society

http://bdes.datasociety.net/

Datalibre

http://datalibre.ca/

David Eaves

http://eaves.ca/

Defining Open Government (by Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government)

http://cairns.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/whats-in-a-name-open-gov-we-gov-gov-20-collaborative-government.html

Election Issues 2015: A Maclean’s primer on vanishing data

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/election-issues-2015-a-macleans-primer-on-vanishing-data/

Federal Open Government Guide

http://www.rcfp.org/rcfp/orders/docs/FOGG.pdf

How not to screw up your data (Noah Veltman)

http://veltman.tumblr.com/post/44638298912/how-to-not-screw-up-your-data

3rd International Open Data Conference 2015

http://opendatacon.org/

Kate Crawford: Thinking about data

http://www.katecrawford.net/

Nick Diakopoulos
http://www.nickdiakopoulos.com/

Open Government Analytics

http://open.canada.ca/en/content/open-government-analytics

Open Data Policy Comparison: Best Practices https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap0CEAgs-R_odFc0Qk1WNHdIUDE3bUNVd1U3WUlnblE&usp=drive_web#gid=8

Open Data Institute (U.K)

http://opendatainstitute.org/

Open Data Research Symposium: Shaw Centre, Ottawa, May 27th 2015

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1zvtp2wF9kqrvzXpoUIgq1aYLUcbESJ0WWpShobrXr_A/pubhtml?gid=1456665193&single=true

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2563300

Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice

http://www.amazon.ca/Open-Government-Collaboration-Transparency-Participation/dp/0596804350

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/open-government-files-released.html

Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/open_data_unlocking_innovation_and_performance_with_liquid_information

Open Data User Group (the U.K.)

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/open-data-user-group

Oxford Internet Institute

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/

Predicting Fire Risk: From New Orleans to a Nationwide Tool
http://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/predicting-fire-risk-from-new-orleans-to-a-nationwide-tool-846

“Raw Data Is An Oxymoron”

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262518287

Research project: Open Data Barometer (World-wide)

http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2013/odb

Speaking notes for the Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, to the International Open Data Conference

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=advSrch&crtr.page=1&crtr.dpt1D=6694&nid=981299

The New Ambiguity of ‘Open Government’ (Social Science Research Network)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2012489

The Rhetoric of Data (Nicholas Diakopoulos, Tow Center for Digital Journalism)

http://towcenter.org/the-rhetoric-of-data/

SELKIRK COLLEGE SHEDS LIGHT ON OPEN DATA AT GIS DAY
http://boundarysentinel.com/news/selkirk-college-sheds-light-open-data-gis-day-43118#.WCm5-S0rInk

UK open government data: the results of the official audit

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/apr/18/uk-open-government-data-national-audit-office

Welcome to the Big Data and Social Research Roundup
http://info.sagepub.com/q/1f4FAZ5J0wZXduOm5SdGJ02/wv

Wikibon Blog

http://wikibon.org/blog/big-data-statistics/

Why the wealthiest countries are also the most open with their data (The Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/14/why-the-wealthiest-countries-are-also-the-most-open-with-their-data/

OPEN DATA STORIES(Top)

A big win for open government: Sunlight gets U.S. to release indexes of federal data

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/02/09/a-big-win-for-open-government-sunlight-gets-us-to-release-indexes-of-federal-data/

Alberta government offering prize for app design

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/07/17/alberta-government-offering-prize-for-app-design

Alberta’s open data catalogue rapidly expands, spawning dozens of new apps

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1425479/albertas-open-data-catalogue-rapidly-expands-spawning-dozens-of-new-apps/

Alberta parents show a love of the land when naming their kids. Say hello to Mountain and Prairie.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Alberta+parents+show+love+land+when+naming+their+kids+hello+Mountain+Prairie/11215773/story.html

Bike theft: Toronto’s worst streets to lock up your wheels

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2016/04/25/bike-theft-here-are-the-worst-streets-for-locking-up-your-bike-in-toronto.html

Bringing Canada’s access to information back from the brink

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/11/bringing-canadas-access-to-information-back-from-the-brink.html

CANADA RANKS NO. 2 IN GLOBAL OPEN DATA INDEX
http://www.canadait.com/index.php/c-level-insight/2163-canada-ranks-no-2-in-global-open-data-index

Chrétien’s nemesis is back – and that’s good for access to information

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/chretiens-nemesis-is-back-and-thats-good-for-access-to-information/article28004606/

City hoping to use open data to appeal to province for cash
http://www.inews880.com/syn/110/139585/139585

City data opens up; machine-readable documents available on Open Data site

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/09/16/city-data-opens-up-machine-readable-documents-available-on-open-data-site

City of Calgary officials eye tailoring services to better suit taxpayers’ needs

http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/04/03/city-of-calgary-officials-eye-tailoring-services-to-better-suit-taxpayers-needs

City of Lethbridge launches innovative Open Data Catalogue online

http://globalnews.ca/news/2364381/city-of-lethbridge-launches-innovative-open-data-catalogue-online/

City of Windsor Recognized As Open Data Trailblazer

http://windsorite.ca/2016/01/city-of-windsor-recognized-as-open-data-trailblazer/

https://www.publicsectordigest.com/articles/view/1547

David Alston eyes province as leader in digital society

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/open-data-summit-david-alston-1.3555640

DriveBC data now online and open for business

http://www.voiceonline.com/drivebc-data-now-online-and-open-for-business/

Government to implement sunshine list this fallhttp://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-06-07/article-4552635/Government-to-implement-sunshine-list-this-fall/1

Government of Canada shows global leadership on open government
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/government-canada-shows-global-leadership-193508517.html

Greater Sudbury: City debuts open data

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/07/15/city-debuts-open-data

City’s 311 hotline faces a new challenge: suicide calls

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/07/05/citys-311-hotline-faces-a-new-challenge-suicide-calls.html

Communitech to launch Open Data Exchange in Waterloo

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5633195-communitech-to-launch-open-data-exchange-in-waterloo/

Grey County opens up with new Open Data initiative

http://www.simcoe.com/news-story/5633152-grey-county-opens-up-with-new-open-data-initiative/

Calgary-based app maps out sports fields and courts

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1372887/calgary-based-app-maps-out-sports-fields-and-courts/

Edmonton launches 311 explore website

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/02/19/edmonton-launches-311-explore-website

Edmonton’s open data initiatives rank #1 among 34 Canadian cities

http://globalnews.ca/news/2456703/edmontons-open-data-initiatives-rank-1-among-34-canadian-cities/

Foodspect app puts the restaurant health inspector in the palm of your hand
http://www.cjob.com/syn/112/184422/foodspect-app-warns-of-bad-restaurants

ESRI SUPPORTS WHITE HOUSE POLICE DATA INITIATIVE

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2826243

GRT buses miss the mark 20 per cent of the time

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5812751-grt-buses-miss-the-mark-20-per-cent-of-the-time/

City’s new portal makes accessing data sets easier

http://guelph.ca/2016/03/citys-new-portal-makes-accessing-data-sets-easier/

Federal prison death details so sparse that family grief deepens: study
http://www.680news.com/2016/07/28/federal-prison-death-details-so-sparse-that-family-grief-deepens-study/

Government data ‘not usable, not used or not acted upon’: auditor general

http://globalnews.ca/news/2685827/government-data-not-usable-not-used-or-not-acted-upon-auditor-general/

Halifax Transit rolls out test version of real-time bus location data
http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2017/02/01/halifax-transit-test-version-of-real-time-bus-location-data.html

How open data can improve medicine

http://www.macleans.ca/society/how-open-data-can-improve-medicine/

How the quest for a bike collision map opened up city data in Edmonton

http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1374445/how-the-quest-for-a-bike-collision-map-opened-up-city-data-in-edmonton/

How to avoid Toronto’s parking ticket hot spots

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/15/how-to-avoid-torontos-parking-ticket-hot-splots.html

New portal eases access to city’s open data
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6858379-new-portal-eases-access-to-city-s-open-data/

New Brunswick’s promised open data portal to launch next year
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-open-data-app-1.4266972

Mayor’s committee votes ‘yes’ to more open employee disclosure
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2016/09/14/winnipeg-committee-votes-yes-to-more-open-employee-disclosure.html

This Is How Visualizing Open Data Can Help Save Lives

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-is-how-visualizing-open-data-can-help-save-lives_56781c17e4b014efe0d5fd59?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology&section=technology

Interactive map tracks rainfall in the Edmonton area in real time

http://globalnews.ca/news/2108542/interactive-map-tracks-rainfall-in-the-edmonton-area-in-real-time/

http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/news/gauge-the-storm-with-rainfall-data.aspx

Harper Government Announces Funding to Establish the Open Data Exchange

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/open-data-exchange-2015-05-20

How the quest for a bike collision map opened up city data in Edmonton

http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1374445/how-the-quest-for-a-bike-collision-map-opened-up-city-data-in-edmonton/

How Unique is the New U.S. Open Data Policy?https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/13/how-unique-is-the-new-u-s-open-data-policy/

Laval starts Open Data policy

http://www.thesuburban.com/news/laval_news/laval-starts-open-data-policy/article_cc565677-66dd-58cb-9d4e-6b2af5616bdf.html

Let’s get serious about open government 
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/lets-get-serious-about-open-government/Content?oid=5442719

EDITORIAL: Let the sun shine on government information

http://thechronicleherald.ca/editorials/1329328-editorial-let-the-sun-shine-on-government-information

Local real estate group creates open data map showing how Edmonton has grown in size

http://www.edmontonexaminer.com/2016/04/06/local-real-estate-group-creates-open-data-map-showing-how-edmonton-has-grown-in-size

http://www.hometribe.ca/city-of-edmonton-building-age-map

London among top five cities for providing data

http://www.lfpress.com/2016/01/15/london-among-top-five-cities-for-providing-data

Lowertown group pushes for neighbourhood crime data

http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/5769235-lowertown-group-pushes-for-neighbourhood-crime-data/

Local schools open to data

http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/2015/05/28/local-schools-open-to-data

National open data summit to be held in Saint John Thursday

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/open-data-summit-saint-john-1.3553229

New online portal opens city data
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2016/10/21/new-online-portal-opens-city-data

New study finds HRM still lagging behind in public transparency

http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2016/02/16/new-study-finds-hrm-still-lagging-behind-in-public-transparency

New York City Transit Authority Takes a Ride with OpenText

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/new-york-city-transit-authority-takes-a-ride-with-opentext-518024001.html

New Vancouver website will help renters find good landlords

http://globalnews.ca/news/2010721/new-vancouver-website-will-help-renters-find-good-landlords/

News from the Office of Statistics and Information (OSI)

http://www.finance.alberta.ca/aboutalberta/osi/index.html

Make Ottawa crime data more open, says U of O professor
http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2016/08/03/law-professor-says-ottawa-crime-data-should-be-open.html

Making government information more accessible

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rudny-mckinney-making-government-information-more-accessible

Missed garbage pickup complaints rise in east, fall in west

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/07/09/missed-garbage-pickup-complaints-rise-in-east-fall-in-west.html

Montreal embraces new ‘open by default’ data policy

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-embraces-new-open-data-policy

Montreal police to release more crime data

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-open-data-1.3555343

Montréal, Smart and Digital City – Reform of the Open Data Policy: Montréal adopts an “open by default” approach

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/montreal-smart-and-digital-city—reform-of-the-open-data-policy-montreal-adopts-an-open-by-default-approach-538028351.html

Montreal spent $120K on employees’ travel expenses in 2 years

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-spent-120k-on-employees-travel-expenses-in-2-years-1.3409467

More than 30,000 parking tickets worth over $1.4 million issued at UTSG, UTSC
http://thevarsity.ca/2016/07/17/more-than-30000-parking-tickets-worth-over-1-4-million-issued-at-utsg-utsc/

NCC looking to ‘push the envelope’ on openness, CEO says

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/mark-kristmanson-shares-thoughts-on-ncc

Nova Scotia launches open data portal

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/raw-data-open-nova-scotia-government-internet-portal-1.3435693

New map explores the mysteries of Edmonton’s tax assessments

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/new-map-explores-the-mysteries-of-edmontons-tax-assessments

Obama promotes online search tool with college-specific data to aid families in school choice

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/business-news/scrapping-plan-for-a-system-to-rate-colleges-obama-unveils-a-redesigned-higher-ed-search-tool/

‘One size fits all’ an outdated approach to city services, says top Calgary bureaucrat

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/one-size-fits-all-an-outdated-approach-to-city-services-says-top-calgary-bureaucrat

Online Parry Sound business directory officially launched

http://www.parrysound.com/news-story/5818992-online-parry-sound-business-directory-officially-launched/

Open data — Canada’s ‘new natural resource’ — proves harder to mine than expected
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/open-data-canadas-new-natural-resource-proves-harder-to-mine-than-expected

Open data on P.E.I. ‘a great start’
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-open-data-1.3634672

‘Open data’: Why it’s making waves across Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/open-data-movement-canada-1.3557562

Ontario Deficit $2.2 Billion Lower Than Projected

http://news.ontario.ca/tbs/en/2015/09/ontario-deficit-22-billion-lower-than-projected.html

Ontario unions behind 94 per cent of third-party ad spending in past three election
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-unions-behind-94-per-cent-of-third-party-ad-spending-in-past-three-elections/article31326097/

Open Data Exchange aimed at helping firms commercialize public sector data sets

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/07/09/missed-garbage-pickup-complaints-rise-in-east-fall-in-west.html

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/open-data-exchange-aimed-at-helping-firms-commercialize-public-sector-data-sets/374878

Open government at a crossroad: Canada needs better funding and access to information reform

http://www.hilltimes.com/opinion/2016/02/08/open-government-at-a-crossroad-canada-needs-better-funding-and-access-to-information/45138

Open Data Portal Launched

http://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20160205001

Ontario Making Data Open by Default:New Open Data Directive Drafted with Feedback from Ontarians

http://news.ontario.ca/tbs/en/2015/11/ontario-making-data-open-by-default.html

Open government manager puts his Best face forward

http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/5816017-open-government-manager-puts-his-best-face-forward/

Ottawa flush with new toilet-finder apps

http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2016/03/28/ottawa-city-flush-with-new-toilet-locator-apps.html

P.E.I. landmarks project looking for public input

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/landmarks-open-data-map-1.3332428

Police open data site lets citizens track crimes

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/police-open-data-site-lets-citizens-track-crimes

Premier issues order to save emails after blistering report 

http://www.timescolonist.com/premier-issues-order-to-save-emails-after-blistering-report-1.2093960

Premier launches New Brunswick’s open data policy

http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2016.04.0334.html

Prime Minister Releases Guide for Ministers

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/prime-minister-releases-guide-for-ministers-2077429.htm

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2015/11/27/open-and-accountable-government

Promises of transparency easily eroded

http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/columnists/les-leyne-promises-of-transparency-easily-eroded-1.2095913

Province Making Advances in Open Data

http://novascotia.ca/News/Release/?id=20150619004

Publish salaries, but no names say N.L. teachers as union prepares court challenge

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/siobhan-coady-public-salary-information-1.3523356

Pulling apart Pallister’s ‘open government’

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/pulling-apart-pallisters-open-government-379608981.html

Saint John launches open data pilot program for the public

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-open-data-program-1.3299609

Science and Tech museums’ documents to be ‘open by default’ by fall, CEO pledges
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/science-and-tech-museums-documents-to-be-open-by-default-by-fall-ceo-pledges

Set the data free, Mr. Trudeau

https://ipolitics.ca/2015/12/08/set-the-data-free-mr-trudeau/

Small startup seizes opportunity with big data

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5652398-small-startup-seizes-opportunity-with-big-data/

Stephen Gordon: There’s more to evidence-based policymaking than fixing the census

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/stephen-gordon-theres-more-to-evidence-based-policymaking-than-fixing-the-census

‘Sunshine List’ law introduced to the House of Assembly
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sunshine-list-law-introduced-1.3894380

Sunlight Foundation Open Data Site
https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/

Tenants will be able to see how their buildings did on fire inspections by end of year
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/10/13/tenants-will-be-able-to-see-how-their-buildings-did-on-fire-inspections-by-end-of-year.html

The 100 WORST landlords in Toronto

http://www.landlordwatch.com/

Tax burden getting heavier by the year

http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columnists/2016-02-15/article-4434724/Tax-burden-getting-heavier-by-the-year/1

The way media and police report Edmonton’s pedestrian collisions a problem, says advocate

http://www.metronews.ca/news/edmonton/2016/03/28/pedestrian-collision-reporting-a-problem-says-advocate.html

This online tool lets you check your city’s air quality in real time

http://www.cantechletter.com/2015/12/check-your-citys-air-quality-using-plume-labs-free-app/

Toronto joins cities around the world in celebrating Open Data Day 2016

http://www.yongestreetmedia.ca/civicimpact/Toronto%20joins%20cities%20around%20the%20world%20in%20celebrating%20the%20potential%20of%20Open%20Data.aspx

Toronto’s Burgeoning Civic Tech Community

http://torontoist.com/2016/03/torontos-burgeoning-civic-tech-community/

Toronto at the Centre of the Race To Save Climate Change Data from Trump
http://torontoist.com/2017/04/toronto-centre-race-save-climate-change-data-trump/

Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump

Trudeau must do a better job of connecting with Canadians online: memos

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-must-do-a-better-job-of-connecting-with-canadians-online-memos-1.2724293

UWindsor research team working to predict border delays

http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story/5788960-uwindsor-research-team-working-to-predict-border-delays/

Vancouver makes Council voting records public

http://www.voiceonline.com/vancouver-makes-council-voting-records-public/

Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/

Visualization, analysis, interactive maps and real-time graphics: HUFFPOST DATA

http://data.huffingtonpost.com/

Weird and wonderful ways Open Data is unearthing Edmonton information
http://globalnews.ca/news/3649702/weird-and-wonderful-ways-open-data-is-unearthing-edmonton-information/

We Mapped the City’s 311 Requests
http://torontoist.com/2016/11/388770/

What are the worst places to park in Canada? Here’s the data on that
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-parking-tickets-canada-nov-17-1.3854094

Why I Co-Created an App to Better Understand Toronto’s Budget
http://torontoist.com/2016/11/budgetpedia/

Website coming to Vancouver will help renters find good landlords

http://globalnews.ca/news/2010721/new-vancouver-website-will-help-renters-find-good-landlords/

Waning Calgary pedestrian collision stats show potentially costly hysteria overblown

http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/04/03/waning-calgary-pedestrian-collision-stats-show-potentially-costly-hysteria-overblown

What does a Liberal government mean for Canada’s technology policy?

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/what-does-a-liberal-government-mean-for-canadas-technology-policy/377808

Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/what-does-a-liberal-government-mean-for-canadas-technology-policy/377808#ixzz3preCVrlV

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Why do downtown councillors get all the online attention?http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/07/17/why-do-downtown-councillors-get-all-the-online-attention.html

Winning apps make government data more accessible

http://www.stonyplainreporter.com/2015/08/21/winning-apps-make-government-data-more-accessible

OPEN REFINE(Top)

OpenRefine
http://openrefine.org/

OpenRefine – Recipes
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Recipes

OpenRefine – Stripping HTML
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/StrippingHTML

RefinePro Knowledge Base for OpenRefine
http://kb.refinepro.com/2015/02/parsing-and-extracting-html-tag-and.html

PEOPLE FINDERS(TOP)

IntelTechniques
https://inteltechniques.com/

Accurint (LexisNexis)

http://www.accurint.com/

Spokeo

http://www.spokeo.com/

Facebook Graph Search is a “journalist’s rolodex”

http://socialtimes.com/facebooks-vadim-lavrusik-on-why-facebook-is-a-journalists-rolodex_b125949

LinkedIn for Journalists

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/LinkedIn-Journalists-3753151

FAIR ( Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform)

http://fairwhistleblower.ca/

Blue Book (University of Toronto)

http://www.bluebook.utoronto.ca/

Exerpts on Call (University of Ottawa)

http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/experts.html

Experts on Call (Carleton University)

http://newsroom.carleton.ca/experts/

Experts on Call (Dalhousie University)

http://experts.dal.ca/

Search Engine for Journalists to Find Experts
http://expertisefinder.com/

Ixquick International Phone Books

http://us.ixquick.com/

Canada 411

http://canada411.sympatico.ca/

411.ca

http://411.ca/person

Find a Postal Code (Canada Post)

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/fpc/personal/findByCity?execution=e1s1

YellowPages.ca

http://www.yellowpages.ca

VitalCheck (a source for U.S. government-certified vital records)

http://www.vitalchek.com/

Area Code Listing, by Number

http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html

PeopleSearch.net

http://peoplesearch.net/

Legacy.com (obituary searches)

http://www.legacy.com/NS/

Omgili forum search engine

http://omgili.com/

Icerocket

http://www.icerocket.com/

Thoora

http://thoora.com/

AnyWho directory

http://www.anywho.com/international.html

Free Public Records (access to more than 5,000 U.S. public record databases)

http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net

Obituaries

http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkinnon/obit_links2.htm

http://obits.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi

Usenet archives

http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/

Bar-eX ( property searches in Ontario )

https://www.bar-ex.com/barex/appmanager/bx/on?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=services

IPAddressGuide.com

http://www.ipaddressguide.com/

IP Address Lookup

http://www.ipgp.net/

What is my IP address

http://www.whatismyip.com/

Flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com/

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/

Xanga

http://www.xanga.com/

Friendster

http://www.friendster.com/

Twitter tools

http://friendorfollow.com/

http://tweetake.com/

http://www.topifybeta.com/

Yoname

http://www.yoname.com/

Canada Background Checks

http://www.infocheckusa.com/canada-background-check.htm

eFindOutTheTruth.com (A Canadian site described as a “do-it-yourself “net-detective” software or unlimited “membership” type of company”)

http://www.efindoutthetruth.com/canada.htm

BackCheck (A Canadian site described as specializes in pre-employment background checks, including Criminal Record Checks, Credit Bureau Inquiries)

http://www.backcheck.net/

Lifenews.ca

http://www.lifenews.ca/waterloorecord/home

PHOTOJOURNALISM(TOP)

Canadian Association of Journalists’ 2003 photojournalism award

http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/awards2004/cajAwards/theAwards/08_photoJ/index.html

Canadian Association of Journalists’ 2004 photojournalism award

http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/awards2005/Pages/Photojournalism.htm

Canadian Association of Journalists’ 2005 photojournalism award

http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/awards2006/pages/Photojournalism.htm

Canadian Association of Journalists’ 2006 photojournalism award

http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/Summer%202007%20awards%20edition%20files%20to%20beuploaded/Photojournalism%20.htm

Louie Palu

http://www.louiepalu.com/

Sports Shooter

http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=965

The best photographs of 2008

http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=3134

Sarah Moffat Imagery

http://www.sarahmoffatimagery.com/

World Press Photo

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/?bandwidth=high

World Press Photo

http://www.enterworldpressphoto.org/

Mundo Sport Images

http://www.mundosportimages.com/

POLITICS(TOP)

The Hill ( a blog on U.S. politics )

http://thehill.com/

PolitiFact.com

http://www.politifact.com/

POLLING(TOP)

Evaluating the Polls: an Open Letter to Ontario’s Journalists (an article on the Ipsos website)

http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5336

Fundamentals of Polling-Glossary of Terminology

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/education/polling_fundamentals_glossary.html

POPULATION STATISTICS(TOP)

Census profile (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E

City Population
http://www.citypopulation.de/Canada.html

Registered Indian Population by Sex and Residence 2012
https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1373985023065/1373985196078

Selected trend data for Canada, 2006, 2001 and 1996 censuses (Statistics Canada)

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/trends/Table_1.cfm?TID=0&T=PR&GEOCODE=01&PRCODE=35&geosubCSD=Submit&GEOLVL=PR

Statistics Canada census data ( from 2001 and 2006 censuses)

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=ottawa&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=

2011 Census topics and release dates

http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/rt-td/rt-td-eng.cfm

Population by year, by province and territory (Statistics Canada)

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm?sdi=population

Population of census metropolitan areas (Statistics Canada)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710007801

Statistics Canada (population and dwelling counts)

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Tables.cfm

City of Ottawa (population stats)

http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/official-and-master-plans/ward-boundary-review/appendix-ward-population-and-area

Ottawa neighborhood information (The University of Ottawa)

http://www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/movies/naborhoods/mapindex.html

Nova Scotia Community Counts

http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/communitycounts/default.asp

Census.IRE.ORG (Download bulk U.S. census data)

http://census.ire.org/data/bulkdata.html

UNHCR population statistics

http://popstats.unhcr.org/PSQ_POC.aspx

PREPARING STORIES(TOP)

Interviewing Tips

http://www.concernedjournalists.org/node/94

Interviewing

http://www.journalism.org/resources/tools/reporting/interviewing/tips.asp?from=print

Revelations from the Rocket on ’60 Minutes?’ Not likely (A John Swatsky analysis)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=3181572

Writing

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/weblines/4.html

Carleton University Style Guide

http://newsroom.carleton.ca/wp-content/files/writing-style-guide.pdf

George Orwell’s Six Rules

To find Orwell’s rules, please click here.

The story process

http://www.journalism.org/resources/tools/writing/lessons/blackbox.asp?from=print

We are storytellers

PowerPoint presentation on getting away from numbers in order to tell great stories

Accuracy checklist

http://www.journalism.org/resources/tools/reporting/accuracy/mercury.asp?from=print

Grammar and punctuation

http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/style/

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/snnstyleguide.html

Journalism ethics

http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=32

Journalism Ethics Morals and the Media, 2nd edition, by Nick Russell (sample chapter)

http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/russell.pdf

Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen (UBC School of Journalism)

http://www.journalismethics.ca/about_us/index.htm

The Canadian Press’s Copy Talk

http://www.thecanadianpress.com/books.aspx?id=186&terms=&searchtype=1&fragment=False

Don Gibb’s writing columns for Media magazine

Winter 2009

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

PROVINCIAL AUDITS(TOP)

Alberta

http://www.oag.ab.ca/

British Columbia

http://www.bcauditor.com/auditorgeneral.htm

Manitoba

http://www.oag.mb.ca/

New Brunswick

http://www.gnb.ca/oag%2Dbvg/

Newfoundland and Labrador

http://www.ag.gov.nl.ca/ag/

Northwest Territories

http://www.gov.nt.ca/FMBS/

Nova Scotia

http://www.gov.ns.ca/audg/

Nunavut

http://www.gov.nu.ca/finance/public.shtml

Ontario

http://www.auditor.on.ca/

Prince Edward Island

http://www.assembly.pe.ca/auditorgeneral/

Quebec

http://www.vgq.gouv.qc.ca/

Saskatchewan

http://www.auditor.sk.ca/

Yukon

http://www.yukonenergy.ca/about/business/auditor_reports

PRIVACY(TOP)

Amendments to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act 

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-1.6/page-1.html#docCont

Access Now

https://www.accessnow.org/

The best defense: How to improve your digital security
http://passcode.csmonitor.com/theweb#chapter-2005113

B.C. Civil Liberties Association: Privacy Handbook

http://bccla.org/privacy-handbook/index.html

Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation

http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home

Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic

https://cippic.ca/

Consumer Sentinel Network

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/consumer-sentinel-network

Canadian Privacy Law Blog

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/

Center for Democracy & Technology

https://cdt.org/

Cornel Unversity Law School

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/state_anti-spam_laws

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Defendening Your Rights In The Digital World

https://www.eff.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center

https://epic.org/

Ghostery

https://www.ghostery.com/

Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN)

https://www.privacyenforcement.net/

Federal privacy watchdog joins U.K. and B.C. counterparts in probe of possible Brexit tampering
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aggregateiq-therrien-privacy-investigation-1.4607206

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: PHOTOGRAPHERS – WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE STOPPED OR DETAINED FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/photographers-what-do-if-you-are-stopped-or-detained-taking-photographs?redirect=free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers

IOT Agenda (Intenet of Things)

http://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-of-Things-IoT

Online Privacy

https://www.priv.gc.ca/resource/op-vpel/index_e.asp

Privacy Badger
chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/skin/firstRun.html

Privacy and Social Media in the Age of Big Data: Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2697380-PRIVACY-and-SOCIAL-MEDIA.html

List of Witnesses for Standing Committee hearings

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=2891060&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&File=24

The Photographer’s Right

http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

Public Interest Advocacy Centre

http://www.piac.ca/

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015_Full Report.pdf

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Reuters%20Institute%20Digital%20News%20Report%202015_Full%20Report.pdf

RuinMyHistory
https://github.com/FascinatedBox/RuinMyHistory

Technology, Thoughts & Trinkets

https://www.christopher-parsons.com/

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

https://www.priv.gc.ca/leg_c/leg_c_p_e.asp

Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites | April 2016

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites

Your Right To Privacy: Minimize Your Digital Footprint

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/your-right-to-privacy-minimize/9781770402638-item.html

United States Department of Justice

http://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/making-foia-request/foia-frequently-asked-questions

PROVINCIAL CONTRACTS(TOP)

Alberta

http://vendor.purchasingconnection.ca/

British Columbia

http://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/open.dll/welcome

Quebec

https://www.seao.ca/index.aspx

Saskatchewan

http://www.sasktenders.ca/index.html

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS(TOP)

http://www.canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.htm

Government of Alberta (International Travel Expenses)|

http://alberta.ca/expenditure/expenditure.cfm?id=0

Links to provincial government directories

http://canadaonline.about.com/od/govtdirectories/Canadian_Government_Directories.htm

B.C. Online

https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/

Alberta Legislative Assembly

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=adr_home

British Columbia Legislative Assembly

http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/

Manitoba Legislative Assembly

http://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/hansard/

Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/business/

New Brunswick Legislative Assembly

http://www.gnb.ca/legis/business/currentsession/currentsession-e.asp

Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly

http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/house_business/hansard.html

Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly

http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/hansard/

Nunavut Legislative Assembly

http://www.assembly.nu.ca/english/index.html

Ontario Legislative Assembly

http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_current.do

Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly

http://www.assembly.pe.ca/hansard/

Quebec National Assembly

http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/

Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly

http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/hansard/

Yukon Legislative Assembly

http://www.hansard.gov.yk.ca/

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS(TOP)

Public Accounts ( Federal )

http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2014/index-eng.html

http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset?q=public+accounts

Public Accounts ( Ontario )

https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-accounts-ontario

Public Accounts (Nova Scotia)
https://www.novascotia.ca/finance/en/home/publications/publicaccounts/default.aspx

Lapsed federal spending $2B higher than expected last year

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lapsed-federal-spending-2b-higher-than-expected-last-year-1.3359378

Tories left $9.5 billion in approved funds untouched to avoid deficit during election year

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tories-left-9-5-billion-in-approved-funds-untouched-to-avoid-deficit-during-election-year

Military lost $1.5 million in uniforms last year

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/12/military-lost-15-million-in-uniforms-last-year-documents.html

PUBLIC HEALTH(TOP)

DineSafe (the city of Toronto’s Food Premises Inspection and Disclosure System)

http://app.toronto.ca/food2/index.jsp

Community Acquired Infections Division (The Public Health Agency of Canada)

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/sti-its_tab/index-eng.php

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/sti-its_tab/chlamydia1991-07-eng.php

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/sti-its_tab/gonorrhea1980-07-eng.php

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/sti-its_tab/syphilis1993-07-eng.php

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/stdcases-casmts/cases-cas-08-eng.php

Reportable Diseases by Year for Ottawa Residents (The city of Ottawa)

http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/public-health/health-statistics-and-reports/reportable-diseases-year-ottawa-residents

http://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents.ottawa.ca/files/documents/reportable_disease_counts_en.pdf

PUBLICATION FINDERS(TOP)

bNet

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/an_1/?tag=wrapper;width

PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATIONS(TOP)

Atlantic Institute for Market Studies

http://www.aims.ca/en/home/default.aspx

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
http://www.asiapacific.ca/

Balsillie School of International Affairs
https://www.balsillieschool.ca/

Bennett Jones 

http://www.bennettjones.com/

Canadians for Tax Fairness

http://www.taxfairness.ca/front

Canadian Policy Research Networks

http://www.cprn.org/en/

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

http://www.cifar.ca/home

Canada Institute
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/canada-institute

Centre for International Policy Studies ( Universit of Ottawa)

http://cips.uottawa.ca/

Institute for Research on Public Policy

http://www.irpp.org/index_en.php

International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org/

Institute For Security Studies
https://www.issafrica.org/

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

http://www.taxpayer.com/main/index.php

The Fraser Institute

http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/

The C.D. Howe Institute

http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy

http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/about/who-we-are/

Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/US

The Polaris Institute

http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

The Parkland Institute

http://www.ualberta.ca/~parkland/

Policy Monitor Canada

http://policymonitor.ca

Public Policy Options

http://policyoptions.irpp.org/author/emacfarlane/

OpenMedia.ca

http://openmedia.ca/

Congressional Research Service (The “Congress’s think tank” is the public policy research arm of the United States)

http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/

Congressional Budget Office (Provides economic data to the U.S. Congress)

http://www.cbo.gov/

Government Accountability Office (the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of the U.S. Congress)

http://www.gao.gov/

The British Psychological Society

http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/journals

Urban  Worker Project
http://www.urbanworker.ca/

The Wilson Center
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/

READINGS(TOP)

Working the fringes

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/6/cunningham.asp

Journalism trends in Canada

Public journalism in a Canadian context

The elements of journalism

http://www.journalism.org/resources/publications/books/elements_intro.asp

The quest for context

http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/winter2002/tools.html

Inspiration

Tips for rediscovering your passion for story telling

`Right to Know’ Series — Toronto Star

Please click here to read the articles

Report Card on Canadian News Media

http://www.cmrcccrm.ca/english/reportcard2004/01.html

2005 Report on state of the media

http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2005/index.asp

2008 List of Banished Words

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/discuss/?p=20

Banishment Word List Archive

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archived_lists.php

Election Coverage

http://www.ompp.mcgill.ca/pages/2006election.htm

SCIENCE(TOP)

Science Media Centre of Canada (SMCC)

http://www.sciencemediacentre.ca/smc/index.php?lang=en

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

http://www.sshrc.ca/web/home_e.asp

The Canadian Research Information System

http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/cris/Search?p_language=E&p_version=CRIS

Science-related search engines ( in French and English )

http://sdis.inrs.uquebec.ca/index.jsp?page=5_3#statistiques

The National Academies Press (U.S)

http://www.nap.edu/

SEARCH AND RESCUE(TOP)

Civil Air Search and Rescue Association

http://www.casara.ca/

Canadian Beacon Registry

https://www.cbr-rcb.ca/cbr/presentation/other_autre/index.php?lang=en

Canadian Owners and Pilots Association

http://www.copanational.org/

International Cospas-Sarsat Programme

https://www.cospas-sarsat.org/

International Cospas-Sarsat Programme Beacon Regulations

http://www.cospas-sarsat.org/en/cospas-sarsat-documentation/sdocs