REPORTING METHODS
Carleton University: Journalism 5206

Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
Phone: (O) 613-231-8653 (C) 613-859-3752 (fax) 613-238-4452

David McKie, CBC News Investigations
Phone: (O) 613-288-6523 (C) 613-290-7380 (fax) 613-288-6490

Graduate Course 2009/2010 - Winter term
Mondays: 8:35 to 11:25 a.m.
Room 347 St. Patrick's Bldg.

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1) Obtain a thorough grounding in journalistic research methods.

2) Acquire skills, such as computer-assisted reporting techniques, needed to make sense of the information gathered.

3) Develop the ability to shape the information into accurate and compelling stories.

Many of these objectives are outlined in a speech delivered by the late Canadian journalist, author and activist June Callwood.

Course outline (TOP)

This outline, though a fairly comprehensive guide, is subject to change:

Jan. 4: a. Course introduction b. Access-to-information laws (part one: introduction to federal / provincial / municipal laws)
c. Introduction to Internet resources (Search engines, news archives, discussion groups, journalism resource sites, specialty sites, government resources, directories, signing on to journalism listservs and Google News alerts)
Reading: Digging Deeper, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 10

Jan. 11: a. Access to information laws (part two: preparation of access requests) / PowerPoint Two / Making a request b. Assignment: Access to information story c. Introduction to Internet resources: Advanced Google searches / Strategic use of keywords / Use of operators such as "site:" / News archives / Listservs / Alerts / Mining websites for records such as data and reports / Finding people using resources such as Canada 411
 
Jan. 18: a. Corporate / Business resources (Researching companies, corporate filings, securities exchanges) b. Access-to-information troubleshooting, hints, tips c. Newswriting tips / style
|| Reading: Digger Deeper, Chapter 9 and Appendix C

Jan. 25: a. Corporate / Business resources (part two) b. Assignment: Business story c. Interviewing techniques / Sources d. Deadline for submitting access-to-information requests
|| Reading: Digging Deeper, Chapter 8

Stephen Harper interview on The National

Transcript of Harper interview

Feb. 1: a. Business story due b. Overlooked access-to-information records c. Interviewing / Sources (part two) d. Assignment: Whatever-happened-to? story

Feb. 8: a. Business story feedback b. Databases (part one) c. Access-to-information request updates due by end of day Feb. 12
|| Reading: Chapter 11 and Appendix A

Feb. 15: Reading week. No class scheduled.

Feb. 22: a. Whatever-happened-to? story due b. Databases (part two) c. Assignment: Database story d. Access-to-information tips (part one: negotiating fees, partial releases) e. Introduction to Library and Archives

March 1: a. Visit to Library and Archives Canada: Historical research and archival records, 395 Wellington St. at Bay, 8:35 a.m.
|| Reading: Digging Deeper, Chapter 6

March 8: a. Whatever-happened-to? story feedback b. Access-to-information tips (part two: complaints, previously disclosed material)

March 15: a. Database story due b. Journalistic ethics c. Courts / Legal Affairs
|| Reading: Digging Deeper, Chapters 4, 5, 7

March 22: a. Database story feedback b. Courts / Legal Affairs (part two) c. Pulling records together (How to organize and use various pieces of information)
|| Reading: Digging Deeper, Chapter 12

March 29: a. Access-to-information story due b. Strategies for enterprise reporting c. Reporting in a digital world

Special needs / Accommodation (TOP)

Learning Accommodation: Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodations in this course must register with Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities for a formal evaluation of disability- related needs. Registered Centre students are required to contact the centre, 613-520-6608, every term to ensure they have a letter of accommodation for instructors. After registering with the Centre, make an appointment to meet and discuss your needs with one of us in order to make the necessary arrangements as early in the term as possible.

Other Academic Accommodation: You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term because of disability, pregnancy or religious obligations. Please review the course outline promptly and write to me 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. It takes time to review and consider each request individually, and to arrange for accommodations where appropriate. Please make sure you respect these timelines, particularly for in-class tests and due dates. You can visit the Equity Services website to view the policies and to obtain more detailed information on academic accommodation at http://carleton.ca/equity/accommodation

Assignments and Evaluation(TOP)

Assignments in this course are governed by the provisions of the document Ethics and Standards in the School of Journalism and Communication. There are four assignments, each with a deadline. Lateness will be penalized, though exceptional circumstances will be taken into account. There is no final examination. Each assignment has three components, all of which will figure in the grade:
A. Copies of the actual documents compiled / gathered (in paper or electronic form).
B. A description of how the documents were obtained, and why they were useful.
C. The resulting story.

Each of the four assignments is worth 20 per cent of the overall course grade. The remaining 20 per cent of the grade will be determined based on attendance, punctuality, participation and knowledge of material taught in class.

Final standing in this course is determined by the course instructors subject to the approval of the Dean of Public Affairs. This means that final grades submitted by the instructors may be subject to revision. No grade is final until it has been approved by the Dean.

1) Business story

A news story about a business prepared with the assistance of a financial statement. 600 words, double-spaced (Word format), to be submitted by email before the Feb. 1class. NO PAPER, PLEASE! And please respect the word length.

A story on a publicly-traded company based on one of the forms described in Digging Deeper. The story is to contain at least one interview with someone such as a company official, an analyst, or someone who has a stake in the company's decision.

Checklist:
1.A Word document containing the story.
2. A background document in Word with the links used for information such as news releases, news stories, posts in discussion groups, and a link to the form such as a 10-Q or interim fiancial statement (unaudited financial statement), 10-K (audited, year-end financial statement) or 8-K (material change report) that was used to get the information for your story. Please indicate where on the company's form you obtained the number(s) for your story, and a brief explanation why you determined that number to be newsworthy. You must also provide the sources you contacted, or attempted to contact, along with their phone number and email address.

Note: It is crucial that you indicate the number(s) in the form upon which the story is based. That way I don't have to waste time hunting for the information..

2) Whatever-happened-to? story

A piece that updates the reader on a memorable person or event from 1990. If you choose to write about a person, select someone who hasn't attracted much, or any, public attention in the last 20 years. 600 words, double-spaced on paper (Word format), due at beginning of the Feb. 22 class.

Checklist:
a. Story must include comments from your interview with the person in
question or participant(s) in the original event.
b. Copies of two pieces of documentation gathered during research for your story.
c. For EACH of the two pieces of documentation, full-sentence answers to
these questions:
(*) What is the documentation?
(*) How did you find/obtain it?
(*) Why was the documentation helpful?

3) Database story

Using the skills -- cracking pdfs and Excel -- we've learned in class, use the Ottawa police force's crime statistics to find a story. Once you have identified a trend, write a story with at least one interview from someone who has either been affected by the crime or who has knowledge of the category of the kind of crime you're researching. The interview should be in person. You're to exercise your interviewing skills, powers of observation, attention to detail and context. Please DO NOT interview the police, as I don't want the force inundated with calls. Instead, I just need a nutgraph that puts the crime you're researching into context. For instance, is it on the rise? How does your ward compare to other wards? How does it stack up to the national or provincial average? In short, there has to be something about the trend that makes it newsworthy. You are to submit a 600-word story. You'll be deducted half a mark for exceeding the word count. In addition to the Word document, you are also to submit an Excel file with the pivot table that illustrates your trend. As was the case with the business assignment, you are to email the material. Due date: March 15, 08:30

NOTE: Anticipating that some people may still have questions, I have prepared a Q and A which you can locate by clicking here

You can find my database by clicking here. Use the worksheets entitled "Pivottable_2" and "Master".

Don Gibb's writing columns for Media magazine: part one; part two

4) Access-to-information story

A news story based on documents obtained through access-to-information/freedom-of-information laws.
Length: 600 words, double-spaced on paper.

Requests must be submitted to agencies no later than Jan. 25.
Updates on your progress are due by end of day Feb. 12 (details to follow).
Story due at the beginning of the March 29 class.

Checklist:
a. Copies of at least one request to EACH of the three levels of government (municipal, provincial, federal).
Note: Federal requests to any of the following agencies will result in the loss of one full letter grade on this assignment:
Canada Border Services Agency, Canada Revenue Agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Environment Canada, Foreign Affairs, Health Canada, Industry Canada, Justice Canada, National Defence, Privy Council Office, Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Safety, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Transport Canada
b. Copies of correspondence received/sent by you during the course of each of the requests.
c. Copies of at least two particularly relevant pages of information obtained under the access laws that assisted your story.
d. For the pages in (c) above, full-sentence answers to these questions:
(*) What is the information?
(*) From which department and level of government did you obtain these pages?
(*) Why was this information helpful?

For EACH request you have filed, please send me the following by end of
day Fri., Feb. 12:

a) Request topic in a few words: _____________

b) Request made to: _______________

c) Steps taken to follow up on request (eg. dates of call(s), email(s)):
______________

d) Status of request in a few words (eg. being processed without
problem, rewording required, extension taken or expected, no response
from agency): ________________

Access-to-information story FAQ

Q: How should I select which pages to hand in?
A: Choose records that contain passages you quoted or information that underpinned your story. You can hand in more than two pages, but please try to highlight relevant passages and do not hand in entire documents or huge volumes of paper.

Q: Do you want to see all the access requests I did?
A: No, just one from each of the three levels of government, but please be sure to include the one(s) you based your story on.

Q: Do you want every piece of correspondence related to the three requests?
A: I want to see all relevant correspondence to help me understand how things proceeded.

Q: I dealt with agencies largely on the phone. What should I do?
A: Please give me dates and summaries of these calls wherever possible.

Q: I forgot to make copies of my requests. What should I do?
A: Please try to recreate the wording and date of your original requests as best you can.

Q: Do I have to use the documents in my story?
A: Yes, there should be a substantial connection between the records you have obtained and your story. A good test of this is to ask, 'Could I really have done this story without the documents?'

Q: Can I use more than one set of records in my story?
A: Yes, if they fit into your piece. But one set of records from any of the levels of government is fine.

Q: My classmate has a set of documents they're not using. Can I use them?
A: No.

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. 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.

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. HINT: Public Works and Government Services administers many contracts. 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 agency or government.

6. Keep a photocopy of each request and attach all return correspondence.

7. Negotiate with agencies.

8. Be persistent. If necessary, complain.

9. Read the records you receive carefully.

Biographies (TOP)

Jim Bronskill

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 information laws to uncover stories. Before joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (now 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. In each of the last two years 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. Three years ago 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.

David McKie

David McKie is an Ottawa-based, award-winning journalist and an author who has been radio with the CBC for 19 years. In researching topics such as health and safety, he has become increasingly dependent on computer-assisted investigative reporting techniques, using the Internet to find sources, background material, and using spreadsheets and database managers to organize information and produce story ideas. He is now with the CBC's investigative unit.

To get an idea of the stories he has researched, written and broadcast, please go to the following links: A Matter of Trust, Faint Warning , Prescribed to Death , Dying for a Job and Out of Synch, Beaten Down: Fear and Violence in Canada's Nursing Homes and Off-Limits. For a story in the series, A Matter of Trust, on a botched clinical trial and its effect on two families, David and CBC documentary maker, Bob Carty, won the 2003 Science in Society Journalism Award in the radio category. Faint Warning was a finalist for the 2004 Michener award, winner of the 2004 RTNDA award for best investigative report, and winner the Canadian Association of Journalists' 2004 computer-assisted reporting (CAR) award and the overall CAJ award for best investigative series. Faint Warning won the Service Journalism category for the 2004 Online News Association. The follow-up series, Prescribed to Death, that ran in 2005 was also a big award winner. The series won the CAJ's 2006 CAR award, the Open Radio News Award and, for the second year in a row, the overall award. The series also won the 2006 CNA ( Canadian Nurses Association ) & CMA ( Canadian Medical Association ) Media Awards for Excellence in Health Reporting and the American-based IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) award in the radio category. Dying for a Job won the 2007 Excellence in Health Reporting from the Canadian Medical Associationa and the Canadian Nurses' Association. His latest project, Beaten Down: Fear and violence in Canada's Nursing Homes, examines the national problem of violence in Canadian long-term care facilities. And he recently followed that up with Off-Limits, an investigation into doctors who continue to prescribe atypical anti-psychotics to seniors despite Health Canada warnings about increased risk of heart attack, stroke -- and death. He's working with The Canadian Press and The Toronto Star on Tasers and food safety , respectively. And for the taser series, David and Jim were part of the large team that earned the 2008 Michener Award.

David edits a magazine for the Canadian Association of Journalists called Media, which you can find at: Media magazine And he maintains a website that keeps track of access-to-information requests that are made to federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations. The CAIRS site, which used to be maintained by professor Alasdair Roberts, has become a valuable tool for journalists.

David obtained a Master of Journalism degree from Carleton University in the summer of 2001. One of the areas he researched was the evolution of computer-assisted, investigative reporting in Canada and the United States. And he was also one of four journalists/journalism instructors who wrote Digging Deeper, a Canadian textbook on investigative research techniques. You can order it by visiting Amazon.ca. And has helped write a second textbook, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer.

ACCESS-TO-INFORMATION-LINKS (Top)

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 database (Department of National Defence)
http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/aip/cr-dc-eng.asp

Access to Information archives (Department of Foreign Affairs)
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/privacy/processed-en.asp

The Canadian Access to Information Manual (courtesy of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa)
http://idtrail.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=284&Itemid=88

David McKie's CAIRs page
CAIRS

CAIRS.Info (maintained by University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist)
http://www.cairs.info/

Federal Enquiry points
http://www.infosource.gc.ca/enq-ctr/2008/enq-ctr/enq-ctr00-eng.asp

InfoSource (directory of holdings):
http://www.infosource.gc.ca/fed/fed07-eng.asp

Information Commissioner of Canada (complaints, resources):
http://www.infocom.gc.ca/menu-e.asp

BLOGS

Visible Government
http://visiblegovernment.ca/

The art of access (The blog serves as a companion to an American book by the same name)
http://theartofaccess.com/

BOOKS

The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records
http://www.cqpress.com/product/Art-of-Access-Strategies.html

Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2004 by Colonel Michel W. Drapeau & Marc-Aurèle Racicot
http://www.pubgouv.com/legislation/fed_access.htm

CITIES

City of Ottawa
http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/city_hall/mfippa/index_en.html

PROVINCES

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

British Columbia
http://www.cio.gov.bc.ca/services/privacy/Public_Sector/contacts/dmip_list.asp

Manitoba
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/public_bodies/public_bodies_under_fippa.html
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/fippa/public_bodies/forms.html

New Brunswick
Main:http://app.infoaa.7700.gnb.ca/gnb/Pub/EServices/ListServiceDetails.asp?ServiceID1=547&ReportType1=All
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/atipp_request.shtml

Nova Scotia
Main: http://www.foipop.ns.ca/rep_prov.html
List of departments: http://www.foipop.ns.ca/about_request.html
Review: http://www.foipop.ns.ca/

The Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia
http://www.nsrighttoknow.ca/

Nunavut
http://www.gov.nu.ca/eia/atip/

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
Decisions on complaints to the province's privacy commissioner: Decisions and resolutions

Prince Edward Island
http://www.gov.pe.ca/foipp/index.php3

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

Quebec access-to-information coordinators
http://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/09_listes_des_responsables/01_pdf/minister.pdf

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

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

INTERNATIONAL

Access to information around the globe
http://foi.missouri.edu/international.html

Historically Significant FBI Files
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex.htm

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

U.S. FOI requests
http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/index.html

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

The FOI Advocate (U.S. news of developments in the area of freedom of information)
http://foiadvocate.blogspot.com/

U.K. FOI requests
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/list/successful

The Sunshine Government Initiative (a coalition of U.S. media groups that advocates opening up access to government records)
http://www.sunshineingovernment.org/

ACCESS TO INFORMATION - POLICE[Top]

Calgary Police Services
http://www.calgarypolice.ca/privacyPop.html

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

Edmonton Police Services
http://www.edmontonpolice.ca/AboutEPS/HowToRequestInformation.aspx

Fredericton Police Services
http://www.fredericton.ca/en/publicsafety/ContactPoliceMain.asp

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

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

Niagara Regional Police
http://www.nrps.com/foi/default.asp

Regina Police Service
http://www.reginapolice.ca/contact.htm

York Region Polic Service
http://www.police.york.on.ca/foi.aspx

Vancouver Police Department
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/police/Support/info/InfoPrivacy.htm

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

BLOGS[Top]

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/?p=705

CANADIAN BUSINESS [Top]

Google Finance
http://finance.google.com/finance
http://finance.google.ca/finance

FPinfomart.ca (Canada's largest provider of news & broadcast media monitoring, financial and corporate data)
http://www.fpinfomart.ca/

Canadian Economy Online
http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/

The Glossarist
http://www.glossarist.com/about.asp

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

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html

http://www.investorwords.com/

Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm

Investopedia
http://www.investopedia.com/

Corporations database online
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_se

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html

FAQs for Business Reporters
http://www2.sabew.org/sabewweb.nsf/LinksView/BF535B1E4F81347786256B8200774549

The Globe and Mail Public Policy Wiki
http://policywiki.theglobeandmail.com/tiki-index.php

Resources for Journalists (Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc.)
http://www.sabew.org/resources/index.php

Canada NewsWire
http://www.newswire.ca/htmindex/etoday.html

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

PR Newswire (U.S.)
http://www.prnewswire.com/

CBC Business News
http://www.cbc.ca/business/

CBC (Venture)
http://cbc.ca/venture/

CBC Marketplace
http://cbc.ca/consumers/market/

Canadian Business Resource Centre
http://www.cbr.ca/Default.aspx

SEDAR (Canada)
http://www.sedar.com/search/search_en.htm

Cyberbahn (fee-for-service)
http://www.cyberbahn.ca/cyberbahn/default.aspx

Advice for Investors
http://www.adviceforinvestors.com/

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/Regulation/Rulemaking/Current/Part5/rule_20040402_51-102-cont-disc-ob.pdf

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/

Search for information about private businesses
http://www.cyberbahn.ca/

Search for information about private corporations
http://www.oncorp.com/

Registre des entreprises du Québec
http://www.registreentreprises.gouv.qc.ca/fr/default.aspx

Canadian Insider
http://www.canadianinsider.com/

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

Intellectual property (patents, trade-marks, copyrights)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/new/new-e.html#dec30

Government contract tendering
http://www.merx.com/Services/AboutMERX/English/MK_SiteMap.asp?FLASH=Yes

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (a federal agency that educates and protects consumers)
http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/eng/default.asp

Charities
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/advancedsearchresult-eng.action?n=&b=&q=&s=+&d=&e=+&c=&v=+&o=&z=&g=+&t=+&y=+&p=1

Business Edge ( Bi-weekly business news magazine)
http://www.businessedge.ca

Businessjournalism.org
http://www.businessjournalism.org/

Daily Business Buzz (Atlantic Canada's Source for business news)
http://www.dailybusinessbuzz.ca/

Canada Revenue probe focuses on some RBC DS clients (CBC and Globe and Mail investigation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/12/13/cra-probe-rbc.html?ref=rss

CANADIAN BUSINESS STATISTICS[Top]

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

The Canadian Economy Online
http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/

Economic and Market Research/Statistics (Industry Canada)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/h_00072.html?OpenDocument&

Stockwatch
http://www.stockwatch.com/

CNW Group
http://www.newswire.ca/en/extras/snapshot.cgi

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2007 (Statistics Canada)
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/standard-norme/naics-scian/2007/index-indexe-eng.htm
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/standard-norme/naics-scian/2007/list-liste-eng.htm

Insolvency Statistics and Economic Analysis (Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/h_br01011.html

Foreclosurelist.ca (lists of registered foreclosures throughout British Columbia)
http://foreclosurelist.ca/

Manpower Employment Outlook Survey
http://www.manpower.com/press/meos.cfm

Catalyst Canada, Inc.
http://www.catalyst.org/page/Canada/canada

CAR STORIES[Top]

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

FATAL FLIGHTS A Perilous Rush to Profit (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004500.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

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

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

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

Collision Course ( The Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator and The Record)
http://blogs.ukings.ca/carincanada/2006/06/14/collision-course/

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

Faint Warning ( CBC National Radio News)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/adr/

Fixing D.C.'s Schools (A Washington Post investigation)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/dcschools/

Fluctuations in refugee rulings trouble critics (CBC News investigation)
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/12/17/f-refugee-claims.html

Harvesting Cash (A Washington Post investigation into farm subsidies)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/interactives/farmaid/

Hosed at the Pumps (The Ottawa Citizen)
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/hosedatthepumps/index.html

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

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

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.html

GIVE AND TAKE: Charitable empire has high costs
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/273350

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

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

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

Prescribed to death
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/seniorsdrugs/

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/british-columbia/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/canada/story/2009/04/08/taser-2008.html

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

Secret Skies (CBC News investigation into air safety on the 10th anniversary of the Swissair crash)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/secretskies/

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

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 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/

Time's Up (Winnipeg Free Press)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/parking_tickets/

Tory ridings the winners from stimulus

Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering (The New York Times)
http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters

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/

CHILDREN'S SAFETY[Top]

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

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/

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
http://www.ire.org/

Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/default.aspx

CARinCanada
http://carincanada.ca/

Percentage Calculator
http://www.infoseek.com.au/percentage.htm

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

COMPUTER-ASSSISTED 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/

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

Reporters' Cookbook!
http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Main_Page

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

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://www.gov.ns.ca/just/cme.htm

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]

RCMP Detachments - Telephone Numbers
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/detach/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

Juristat (Statistics Canada)
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-002-XIE/85-002-XIE.html

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

The University of Ottawa
http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/statistics.html

Queen's University
http://www.queensu.ca/security/

DATABASES [Top]

Arms

Hospital infections

Daycare

Vancouver Sun article

Workplace safety data

Ottawa Citizen article on domestic violence

Negotiating for data

Exporting data from pdfs ( a tutorial )

Latest Statscan samesex data

Statscan2006 detailed samesex data

Statscan 2001 detailed samesex data

Proactive Disclosure

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

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

Inside cbc.com
http://www.insidethecbc.com/

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

Immigration.ca
http://www.immigration.ca/discussion/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19725

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/

EDUCATION[Top]

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

ELECTIONS[Top]

Elections Canada
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/select_search_option.aspx

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://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/asp/WomenElect.asp?Language=E&source=hoc

Pundits' Guide to Canadian Federal Elections
http://punditsguide.ca/index.php

British Columbia
http://contributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/Decision.aspx

Alberta
http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/efpublic/index.cfm?MID=O1

Manitoba
http://www.elections.mb.ca/main/home_1.htm

Elections Ontario
http://www.elections.on.ca/en-CA/Tools/FinancialStatementsandContributions/RealTimeDisclosure.htm

Quebec political contributions
http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/fr/recherche_donateurs_app.asp

Nova Scotia
http://electionsnovascotia.ns.ca/politicalcontributions.asp

ENVIRONMENT[Top]

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

Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fcsi-rscf/home-accueil.aspx?Language=EN&sid=wu825155318360

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/ and http://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.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT[Top]

Public Opinion Research Reports
http://www.porr-rrop.gc.ca/index-e.html

Visible Government (government transparency in Canada)
http://visiblegovernment.ca/

Government of Canada official website
http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

Members of Parliament
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/membersofparliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

Senators
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator.asp?Language=E

Governor in Council Appointments
http://www.appointments-nominations.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&Page=index

Federal government departments
http://canada.gc.ca/depts/major/depind-eng.html

Federal government search engines
http://www.canada.gc.ca/search-recherche/srcind-eng.html

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

Parliament
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=2

Parliamentary Committees
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeList.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2

The complete list of questions on the Order Paper (Parliament)
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=4194197&File=10

Status of House Business (Parliament)
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Pub=status&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&File=12

Debates (Hansard)
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberSittings.aspx?View=H&Key=2009&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2

Journals (this is where you check to find out if the written responses have been tabled)
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=4222446

House of Commons Procedure and Practice (About House of Commons Procedure and Practice Online)
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/MarleauMontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?DocId=1001&Sec=Ch001&Seq=1&Lang=E
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/MarleauMontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?DocId=1001&Sec=Ch11&Seq=3&Lang=E

Hansard
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberPublicationIndexSearch.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1

History of electoral ridings
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=R&Source=AboutParl_Process

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

Committees
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/committee.asp?Language=E&Parl=38&Ses=1

Federal bugets
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

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

Contract search
http://csi.contractscanada.gc.ca/csi/prod/EN/applctrl.cfm?Language=EN&cmd=start&init=1&f=

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
http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/txt/index-eng.html

Contracts Canada
http://contractscanada.gc.ca/en/index.html

FOOD SAFETY[Top]

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

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

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.fsis.usda.gov/

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

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/

GOVERNMENT SPENDING[Top]

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
http://actionplan.gc.ca/eng/map.asp

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Alberta)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/ab/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (British Columbia)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/bc/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Manitoba)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/mb/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Newfoundland)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/nl/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (New Brunswick)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/nb/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Nova Scotia)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/ns/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Nunavut)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/nu/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Ontario)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/on/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (PEI)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/pe/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Quebec)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/qc/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Saskatchewan)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/sk/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (Yukon)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/yt/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Canada's Economic Action Plan (NWT)
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.gc.ca/regions/nt/isf-fsi-proj-eng.php

Stimuluswatch ( Algonquin College's federal stimulus tracking website)
http://stimuluswatch.webcitybeat.com/index.php

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]

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/

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org/

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/english/

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://205.193.93.51/CADRMP/index_e.jsp
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/branch-dirgen/hpfb-dgpsa/mhpd-dpsc/vigilance_databasedon_anno-eng.php

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

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

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

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

HOUSING[Top]

Housing Again (a site dedicated to putting affordable housing back on the public agenda)
http://housingagain.web.ca/index.html

Immigration[Top]

Regional Lists of Occupations under Pressure
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/occunderpres.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for British Columbia
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/bcoup200709.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for Alberta
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/abouplist.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for Manitoba
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/mbouplist.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for Ontario
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/onouplist.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure for Quebec
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/qcouplist.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for Nova Scotia
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/nsouplist.shtml

Regional Occupations under Pressure List for Prince Edward Island
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/oup/peiouplist.shtml

National databases of regional occupations under pressure

Human Resources and Social Development Canada (Looking-Ahead: A 10-Year Outlook for the Canadian Labour Market [2006-2015])
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/publications_resources/research/categories/labour_market_e/sp_615_10_06/page00.shtml

Facts and figures 2007 – Immigration overview: Permanent and temporary residents (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2007/permanent/10.asp

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=

Immigration to Ottawa (A snapshot of immigrant labour market integration)
http://www.ottawa.ca/city_services/statistics/immigration/index_en.html

The Monitor (An online newsletter posted quarterly by Citizenship and Immigration Canada)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/resources/statistics/monitor/index.asp

Recent immigrants in metropolitan areas (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2008/index.asp

Lost Canadians (CBC investigative series on people who lost their Canadian Citizenship)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/lostcanadians/index.html

2008 Refugee Claim Data & IRB Member Grant Rates (Compiled by Sean Rehaag, Assistant Professor Osgoode Hall Law School York University)
http://www.ccrweb.ca/documents/rehaagdatamarch09.htm

Immipedia (The free Canadian Immigration guide that anyone can edit)
http://immipedia.ca/Main_Page
http://immipedia.ca/Special:Recentchanges

Quarterly Administrative Data Release
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2009-Q3/index.asp

INNOVATIVE TOOLS [Top]

The Word on Wikis
http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Wiki_Panel_Handout_and_Notes

Free PDF Text Reader 1.1
http://www.ctdeveloping.com/ctdeveloping/products/pdftextreader_info.asp

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

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/

INTERNET RESEARCH[Top]

Julian Sher's Internet research tips
http://www.journalismnet.com/tips/index.htm

INVISIBLE WEB[Top]

Resource Shelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/

Price's List of Lists
http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

Freepint.com
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

Complete Planet (The Deep Web Directory)
http://aip.completeplanet.com

Librarians' Internet Index
http://search.lii.org

Invisible Web tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/

JOB HUNTING [Top]
http://jeffgaulin.com/

JOURNALISM RESOURCE SITES[Top]

Media magazine
http://www.caj.ca/mediamag/spring2006/

The Canadian Journalism Project
http://www.j-source.ca/

The Canadian Association of Journalists
http://www.eagle.ca/caj/

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
http://www.cjfe.org/

Committee to Protect Journalists (Defending Journalists Worldwide)
http://www.cpj.org/

Investigative Reporters and Editors
http://www.ire.org/

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)Quick Hits
http://www.ire.org/quickhits/08_June27.html#b1

IRE story search
http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/search.php

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

CNet (a well-respected technology website)
http://news.cnet.com/

The scoop (A blog maintained by computer-assisted reporting specialist Derek Willis)
http://blog.thescoop.org/

The Center for Investigative Reporting
http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/

Investigate This! With Alex Roslin
http://albloggedup.blogspot.com/

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

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 indepth 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/

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

The Hill Times
http://www.hilltimes.com/information_pages/about.php

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/

Canwest News reporter David Akin's blog
http://davidakin.blogware.com/

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/

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/syllabi.html

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

Neil Reisner's page on NICAR
http://nicar08.wetpaint.com/

Paul Myer's Internet site
http://www.bbctraining.com/trainer.asp?tID=1789&cat=5
http://www.researchclinic.co.uk/

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/

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

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

LABOUR[Top]

Temporary Foreign Worker Program Labour Market Opinion (LMO) Statistics (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/stats_annual2008/annual_stats_list.shtml

LEGAL SYSTEM/ COURTS [Top]

Martindale.com
http://www.martindale.com/

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

Browse Statutes by Title (The Department of Justice Canada)
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/StatutesByTitle

Canadian legal resources
http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/ref_desk.htm

The Canadian Legal Information Institute
http://www.canlii.org/

The scope of CANLII's databases
http://canlii.org/en/databases.html

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/information/index_e.asp

Federal Court of Canada
http://www.fct-cf.gc.ca/index_e.html

Tax Court of Canada
http://www.tcc-cci.gc.ca/main_e.htm

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

LESSON PLANS[Top]

Jan. 4_Jim's PPT

Jan. 11 Jim's PPT

Jan. 18 Jim's PPT

Feb. 1 Jim's PPT

Feb. 8, PPT

Feb. 22, PPT

Feb. 22, PPT_archives

March 5, 2010 PPT

LIBRARIES/ARCHIVES [Top]

Library of Parliament
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/library_prb.asp?Language=E

Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html

The Internet Public Library
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/subject/

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]

Lobbyist Registration System
http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/site/lobbyist-lobbyiste1.nsf/eng/home

Federal Public Registry of Lobbyists
http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/site/lobbyist-lobbyiste1.nsf/eng/home

Federal lobbyists search
http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/site/lobbyist-lobbyiste1.nsf/eng/h_nx00274.html

Lobbyists ( British Columbia)
http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/lra/

Lobbyists (Nova Scotia)
http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/lobbyist/

Lobbyists (Ontario)
http://lobbyist.oico.on.ca/Integrity/RegistrationGeneral.nsf

Lobbyists (Quebec)
http://si1.lobby.gouv.qc.ca/internet/documentation.asp

Lobbyists search
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/lobbyist/bin/lrs.e/view_search.phtml?

Elections Canada (contributions and expenses)
http://www.elections.ca/intro.asp?section=fin&document=index&lang=e&textonly=false

Open Secrets (a nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy)
http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

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/

Sphere
http://www.sphere.com

Feedster
http://www.feedster.com/

Day-of-the-week calculator
http://www.swinarski.net/dev/day_of_wk.html

Weather (Environment Canada)
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Bank of Canada exchange rate converter
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/exchform.htm

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

MULTI-MEDIA [Top]

Liveleak
http://liveleak.com/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.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

NUMERACY SKILLS [Top]

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

OTTAWA [Top]

Ottawa city council
http://ottawa.ca/index_en.html

City of Ottawa Ward profiles
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/health/publications/ward_profiles/index_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/census/wards/index_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/pop_hhld/2008_ph_ward_en.html

Previous City Budgets (City of Ottawa)
http://www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/budget/previous_budgets/index_en.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

PEOPLE FINDERS[Top]

FAIR ( Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform)
http://fairwhistleblower.ca/

Ixquick International Phone Books
http://us.ixquick.com/

Canada 411
http://canada411.sympatico.ca/

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/

AnyWho directory
http://www.anywho.com/international.html

Searchsystems.net
http://www.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/

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/

POPULATION STATISTICS[Top]

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=

Population by year, by province and territory (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm?sdi=population

Statistics Canada (population and dwelling counts)
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Tables.cfm

City of Ottawa (population stats)
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/data_handbook/index_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/data_handbook/population/table_2_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/pop_hhld/index_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/pop_hhld/2008_ph_ward_en.html

Ottawa neighborhood information (The University of Ottawa)
http://www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/movies/naborhoods/mapindex.html

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

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

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

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 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/residents/health/statistics/reportable_en.html

PUBLICATION FINDERS[Top]

bNet
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/an_1/?tag=wrapper;width

PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATIONS[Top]

Canadian Policy Research Networks
http://www.cprn.org/en/

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/

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 Polaris Institute
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

The Parkland Institute
http://www.ualberta.ca/~parkland/

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/

SEARCHABLE ONLINE WEBSITES [Top]

SearchSystems.net
http://www.searchsystems.net/

Arms Exports
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrkti/tdst/tdo/tdo.php#tag

Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/index_e.cfm

Charities (Note: click on the "Download results" tab on the left-hand side inorder to save the database)
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/advancedsearchresult-eng.action?n=&b=&q=&s=+&d=&e=+&c=&v=+&o=&z=&g=+&t=+&y=+&p=1

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/sec/SrchInput01Validate-e#pageControl

Elections Canada
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/select_search_option.aspx

Health Canada's Adverse Drug Reaction Database
http://205.193.93.51/CADRMP/index_e.jsp

Health Canada's Drug Product Database
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/databasdon/index_e.html

Lobbyists ( registered with the federal government )
https://ocl-cal.gc.ca/app/secure/orl/lrrs/do/_ls63_ls6f_ls6d_ls6d_ls4c_ls6f_ls67_ls50_ls75_ls62_ls6c_ls69_ls63_ls53_ls65_ls61_ls72_ls63_ls68?_STRTG3=tr

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

Transport Canada (Air safety)
http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/cadors-screaq/qs.aspx?lang=eng

Vehicle recalls on-line database ( Transport Canada )
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/recalls/search_e.asp

Vehicle recalls on-line database (Department of Transportation)
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/recalls/recallsearch.cfm
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/index.cfm

DineSafe (the city of Toronto's Food Premises Inspection and Disclosure System)
http://app.toronto.ca/food2/index.jsp

Data Planet (The Data Planet is a resource for searchable databases or interactive maps from the Pioneer Press, government agencies and non-profit organizations.)
http://www.twincities.com/dataplanet

SEARCH ENGINE RESEARCH[Top]

Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog. William B. Badke. 2d ed. iUniverse, 2004.
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/preface.htm

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/

DegreeTutor
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/research-tools/librarian-searchguide

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/info/search-engines-list.html

SENIOR'S CARE[Top]

Offlimits (CBC News investigation into the continued use of atypical antipsychotics in seniors)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/seniorsdrugs/off-limits.html
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/09/anti-psychotic-risks.html?ref=rss

Beaten Down: Fear and Violence in Canada's Nursing Homes (CBC News investigation into nursing homes)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/nursing-homes/index.html

Advocates call for inquiry into nursing home chain collapse
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/23/ontario-royal-crest-nursing-home.html

Care and Attention (Vancouver Sun investigation into nursing homes)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/care/index.html

Long-Term Care Medical Directors Association of Canada
http://www.cmda.ca/

Reports on Long-Term Care Homes ( Ontario )
http://publicreporting.ltchomes.net/en-ca/default.aspx

Quebec long-term care inspections
http://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/sujets/organisation/visites_appreciation/visites.php

The Ministère de la Famille et des Aînés (Quebec)
http://www.mfa.gouv.qc.ca/

Residential care facilities ( B.C. )
http://www2.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/DBs/RedBook/orgPgs/3/3248.html

The Care Guide (calls itself "Canada's most comprehensive guide to seniors' housing and care services")
http://www.thecareguide.com/Search.aspx

Aging and Seniors (Public Health Agency of Canada)
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/index_pages/aboutus_e.htm

Elder Advocates Of Alberta Society
http://www.elderadvocates.ca/index.php

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (nursing home study)
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=PG_1170_E&cw_topic=1170&cw_rel=AR_2129_E

MEDICARE, The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (nursing home study)
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=PG_1170_E&cw_topic=1170&cw_rel=AR_2129_E

The Senior Brigade (A Michigan Seniors' website)
http://www.seniorbrigade.com/

SPORTS [Top]

Canadian Interuniversity Sport
http://english.cis-sic.ca/information/members_info/research_stats

SPREADSHEET TUTORIALS [Top]

Making a chart

Basics about math

Microsoft Support
http://support.microsoft.com/

Spreadsheet tutorial from CARinCanada
http://www.carincanada.ca/CARCANtips.htm

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

Technology training for journalists
http://canyonwolfephoto.com/

ExcelTips!
http://exceltips.vitalnews.com/

Experiments in Finance (Excel Function Tutorials)
http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/11/how-to-use-nested-if-statements-in-excel-with-and-or-not/

Math for Journalists
http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=nu_math05

InflationData.com
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/

Ozgrid.com
http://www.ozgrid.com/

CARstat
http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/carstat/index.html

Spreadsheet tutorial from Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Pratical Guide, 3rd edition, by Brant Houston
http://www.ire.org/carbook/chapter3/referredData/crony.xls

Nilesonline (a simple guide to understanding statistics)
http://nilesonline.com/stats/

Spreadsheet tutorial
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/

Introduction to spreadsheets
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/education/excel/Excel2003/index.htm

Daily Dose of Excel
http://dailydoseofexcel.com

Jon Peltier's Excel Page
http://peltiertech.com/Excel

Pearson Software Consulting
http://www.cpearson.com/excel.htm

Stephen Bullen's Excel Page
www.bmsltd.co.uk/excel.htm

David McRitchie's Excel Pages
www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm

Mr. Excel
www.mrexcel.com/

About.com:Spreadsheets
http://spreadsheets.about.com

Microsoft.public.excel
http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.excel/topics?lnk=sg&hl=en

The City of Ottawa budget in Excel format
Ottawa Budget

TRADE PUBLICATIONS[Top]

Drug Rep Chronicle
http://www.drugrep.tk/

TRANSPORTATION[Top]

Air

Secret Skies (A CBC News investigation into air safety)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/secretskies/

Aviation safety investigations database (CBC News extract of helicopter misshaps from CADORS)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/helicopter-database/index.html

Top-secret measures taken over possible explosives at Pearson (CBC News Investigation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/12/airport-security-pearson.html?ref=rss

Transport Canada: Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS)
http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/cadors-screaq/qs.aspx?lang=eng

Transport Canada: Bird Strike Summary Reports
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/AerodromeAirNav/Standards/WildlifeControl/summaries/menu.htm

National Wildlife Strike Database ON-LINE (The United States)
http://wildlife.pr.erau.edu/public/index.html

Bird Strike Committee Canada
http://www.birdstrikecanada.com/

Safeskies.ca
http://safeskies.ca/

Links to Canadian Airport Authorities
http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/airports/caa.htm

Canadian list of airports ( Transport Canada)
http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/airports/status/menu.htm

Transport Canada: Corporate Offenders Enforcement Action Summaries
http://www.tc.gc.ca/CivilAviation/standards/Enforcement/Publications/Corporate/summary.htm

Transport Canada Overview Reports
http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/anre/menu.htm

Transport Canada (service difficulty reports)
http://www.tc.gc.ca/wsdrs/

Transport Canada (continuing airworthiness reports)
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/applications/cawis-swimn/awd-lv-cs1401.asp?rcnt=true&rand=

Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilAviation/regserv/Appeals/Juris/amend/amend19/menu.htm

Transport Canada Flight Training Units
https://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/activepages/ftae/index.aspx

Federal Aviation Administration (Canadian service diffciulty reports can be downloaded from this site thanks to an agreement between the FAA and Transport Canada)
http://av-info.faa.gov/dd_sublevel.asp?Folder=%5CSDRS

The Canadian Civil aircraft register
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/activepages/ccarcs/aspscripts/en/notice.asp

The Canadian Transportation Agency (Air Carrier Licence Search)
http://forms.cta-otc.gc.ca/AirLicences/Search_e.cfm

The Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC)
http://www.atac.ca/

Aviation service bulletin (Statistics Canada's trends, including air carrier statistics, including number of passengers carried and kilometres travelled)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/51-004-XIE/51-004-XIE2008001.htm

Aircraft Movement Statistics (NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations )
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/51-007-XIE/51-007-XIE2008001.htm

Transportation Safety Board of Canada
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/stats/index.asp

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)
http://www.catsa.gc.ca/english/index.shtml

The Canadian Transportation Research Forum
http://www.ctrf.ca/index.html

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA)
http://alpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=139

Aviation Safety & Security Digest
http://www.aviation-safety-security.com/homepage/about-us/index.php

Bill C-26 Home Page
http://www.parl.gc.ca/LEGISINFO/index.asp?Language=E&Chamber=N&StartList=A&EndList=Z&Session=14&Type=0&Scope=I&query=4675&List=stat
http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteeWitnesses.aspx?Lang=1&PARLSES=391&JNT=0&SELID=e23_&COM=10462

Transport 2000
http://www.transport2000.ca/

AVCANADA (a discussion forum on aviation in Canada)
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=40787&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=0

Flight Global
http://www.flightglobal.com

British Columbia Safety Council
http://www.safetycouncil.bc.ca/

Aviation Alberta
http://www.aviationalberta.com/

The Saskatchewan Aviaton Council
http://www.saskaviationcouncil.ca/

Manitoba Aviation Council
http://www.manitobaaviationcouncil.ca/

Ontario Region ( Transport Canada)
http://www.tc.gc.ca/OntarioRegion/civilaviation/system/seminars.htm

Quebec Air Transport Association
http://www.aqta.ca/en/default.asp?

Aviation Safety (Atlantic Region)
http://www.tc.gc.ca/atl/en/air/aviation_safety/menu.htm

North American Transportation Statistics Database
http://nats.sct.gob.mx/sys/index.jsp?i=3

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
http://www.faa.gov/

FAA airworthiness directives
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/MainFrame?OpenFrameSet&CFID=5636626&CFTOKEN=65167113

U.S. aircraft register
http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/aircraft_registry/

U.S. Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (Aircrart Inquiries)
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_inquiry.asp

The Family Assistance Foundation
http://www.fafonline.org/index.php

Pilot Getaways (U.S.)
http://www.landings.com/

The UK Civil Aviation Authority
http://www.caa.co.uk/

Aviation Safety Network
http://aviation-safety.net/index.php

The International Air Transport Association (IATA)
http://www.iata.org/index.htm

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
http://www.icao.int/

International Aviation Safety Association (started by a relative of a victim of the Swissair disaster)
http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/menu/index.htm

Flight Safety Foundation
http://www.flightsafety.org/home.html

Flight Aware
http://flightaware.com/

Floweb.com
http://fboweb.com/

FareCompare.com
http://www.farecompare.com/

Ground

Transport Canada Collision and Road Safety Statistics
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/resources/researchstats/menu.htm#collisionstats

Road collision statistics (B.C.)
http://www.icbc.com/road-safety/safety-research/collision-statistics

Road collision statistics ( Saskatchewan )
http://www.sgi.sk.ca/sgi_pub/road_safety/trafficcollisionstats/index.htm

Road collision statistics (Newfoundland and Labrador)
http://www.tw.gov.nl.ca/CollisionStats/pamphlet.stm

Road collision statistics (Nova Scotia)
http://www.gov.ns.ca/tran/highwayops/stats.asp

Transport Canada:Vehicle Recalls On-Line Database
http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/7/vrdb-bdrv/search/Search.aspx?lang=eng

Vessel registry
http://www.tc.gc.ca/ShipRegistry/menu.asp?lang=e

Autoglass search ( vehicle recall database )
http://www.autoglasssearch.com/articles/vehicle-recalls.htm

Ontario driver, vehicle information
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/catalogue.htm

Ontario Road Safety Annual Report
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/orsar/

La Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)
http://www.saaq.gouv.qc.ca/

Driving Statistics for Nova Scotia's department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal
http://www.gov.ns.ca/tran/highwayops/stats.asp

Annual Road Safety Reports (the city of Ottawa)
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/index_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/report_2003_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/report_2004_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/report_2005_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/report_2006_en.html
http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_safety/integrated/annual_reports/report_2007_en.html

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS[Top]

Centretown News (Online)
http://www.carleton.ca//ctown/home/homeNew.htm

Off Centre
http://ottawaoffcentre.wordpress.com/

Hartwells (Living well in Ottawa)
http://hartwellsottawa.wordpress.com/

Convergence magazine (Humber College)
http://magazines.humber.ca/convergence2008/

The Canadian Journal of Media Studies (Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario)
http://cjms.fims.uwo.ca/default.htm

U.S. GOVERNMENT[Top]

The Whitehouse President Barak Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

GPO Access (The Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection (FDLP/EC) is a comprehensive digital library of U.S. Government information)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ec/

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/alpha

Federal Audit Clearinghouse
http://harvester.census.gov/

Data.gov (datasets from top U.S. executive departments)
http://www.data.gov/

Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group (U.S. non-profit group that tracks federal spending)
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/ogd/

U.S. Business [Top]

National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org

Business Wire (U.S.)
http://www.businesswire.com/

EDGAR (U.S.)
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar

SEC Filing Alerts
http://secfilings.com/

Morningstar Document Research (formerly 10-K Wizard)
http://www.10kwizard.com/

Descriptions of 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 6-Ks and other forms companies are required to file with the SEC
http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms/edgform.pdf

New York Stock Exchange
http://www.nyse.com

The National Association of Securities Dealers
http://www.nasd.com/web/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=6

The North American Securities Administrators Association
http://www.nasaa.org/home/index.cfm

Equilar (a firm that tracks executive and director compensation)
http://equilar.com/

Standard & Poor's
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=sp/Page/HomePg&r=1&l=EN&b=10

Moody's Investors Service
http://www.moodys.com/cust/default.asp

Dun & Bradstreet
http://www.dnb.com/us/

Hoover's Online
http://www.hoovers.com/free/

Financial Directory
http://investorlinks.com/

Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/index.html

Newslink
http://newslink.org/biznews.html

Business magazines
http://allyoucanread.com/index.asp?idCat=7

Facsnet
http://www.facsnet.org

The McKinsey Quarterly
http://mckinseyquarterly.com

Sources and Experts
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/experts.html

American Experts
http://www.journalismnet.com/experts/us.htm

The National Bureau of Economic Research
http://nber.org

Searchable database for bills in Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/

U.S. Government Printing Office
http://www.access.gpo.gov

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's archive of warning letters
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/wlcfm/searchwl_new.cfm

FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html

FDA Enforcement Report Index
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/Enforce.html

Securities lawsuits
http://securities.stanford.edu/companies.html

Lawyers
http://www.yourlawyer.com

Confined Space ( A U.S. site on workplace safety)
http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/

U.S. Department of LABOUR (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)
http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.html

Power Reporting (resources for business journalists)
http://powerreporting.com/category/Beat_by_beat/Economics/

Reynolds Centre
http://businessjournalism.org/

Workforce Explorer Washington (state)
http://workforceexplorer.com/
http://www.workforceexplorer.com/cgi/dataanalysis/?PAGEID=14

BNET Industries (A site for managers and executives)
http://www.bnet.com/2405-13071_23-41875.html

CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/index.php

Left Business Observer
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/

LBO News from Doug Henwood
http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/

Inequality.org
http://www.demos.org/inequality/

AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/

U.S. COURT FILINGS AND LEGAL ACTION[Top]

Pacer
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov

The Public Library of Law (U.S.)
http://www.plol.org/Pages/Search.aspx

Lexis
http://www.lexis.com/

United States Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/index.html

United States Bankruptcy Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/bankruptcycourts.html

Banktruptcy Data.com
http://bankruptcydata.com/

CLB Media Inc. (A publisher of many trade magazines and other media services)
http://www.clbmedia.ca/

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse ( TRAC is a data-gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University)
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/

VANCOUVER[Top]

Public records PPT

Computer-Assisted Reporting PPT

Stories about Entegrity Systems

Insolvency information about Entegrity

Sample foreclosurelist for Greater Vancouver

IRB decisions database

VITAL STATISTICS/CERTIFICATES[Top]

Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/

Canadian vital statistics offices
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/4UBMCE.htm

Ontario births, deaths, marriages
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/4ULUQT.htm

Ontario historical births, deaths, marriages
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsfaq.htm

Ontario coroner's reports
http://www.mpss.jus.gov.on.ca/english/pub_safety/office_coroner/coroner_how.html

Ontario wills
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/virtualrr/info15.htm

Ontario divorce files
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/guides/rg_210_divorce_ont.htm

Ontario land registration
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/4UBSJK.htm

Ontario personal property registry
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/269a_3ea2.htm

Ontario liens
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/2502_3ea2.htm

Ontario fire deaths
http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/publications/Statistics/deathrate/default.asp

WEBSITES WITH TABLES FOR DOWNLOAD[Top]

Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2008/

Community Acquired Infections Division (The Public Health Agency of Canada)
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/sti-its_tab/index-eng.php

Elections Canada
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/select_search_option.aspx

Women Candidates in General Elections (1921 to Date)
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/asp/WomenElect.asp?Language=E&source=hoc

Quebec political contributions
http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/fr/recherche_donateurs_app.asp

Elections Ontario
http://www.elections.on.ca/en-CA/Tools/FinancialStatementsandContributions/RealTimeDisclosure.htm

Elections BC (Political Contributions System)
http://contributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/SA1ASearch.aspx

Canadian charities ( Canada Revenue Agency )
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/chrts/menu-eng.html

Federal lobbyists
https://ocl-cal.gc.ca/app/secure/orl/lrrs/do/_ls70_ls75_ls62_ls6c_ls69_ls63_ls53_ls65_ls61_ls72_ls63_ls68?_ls73_ls65_ls61_ls72_ls63_ls68_ls54_ls79_ls70_ls65=Search&_ls73_ls65_ls61_ls72_ls63_ls68_ls43_ls6f_ls6d_ls6d_ls61_ls6e_ls64=navigate&_ls74_ls6f_ls6b_ls65_ls6e=1223927200019&_ls64_ls6f_ls63_ls73_ls53_ls74_ls61_ls72_ls74=1&_STRTG3=tr

Canada Foundation for Innovation ( all the grants awarded )
http://www.innovation.ca/projects/index.cfm

Transport Canada
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/tp/tp3322/2004/menu.htm

Environment Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/websol/querysite/query_e.cfm
http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/Default.asp?lang=En&n=0EC58C98-1

Canada's Greenhouse Gas Inventory ( Environment Canada )
http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/onlinedata/DataAndReports_e.cfm

Greenhouse Gas Reporting Site ( glossary of terms )
http://www.ghgreporting.gc.ca/GHGInfo/Pages/page15.aspx

Contaminated sites in Quebec
http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/sol/residus_ind/resultats.asp

Health Canada's Adverse Drug Reaction Database
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/databasdon/extract_extrait_e.html

Notice of compliance ( drugs Health Canada has approved )
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/notices-avis/list/index_e.html#Weekly%20Updates

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

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 recalled consumer products
http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/home-accueil-eng.jsp

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

CARinCanada
http://www.carincanada.ca/DATABASES.htm

Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html

Census (Statistics Canada)
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census/index.cfm

Annual wage adjustments (Human Resources and Social Development Canada)
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/asp/gateway.asp?hr=/en/lp/wid/aawa/yearly_index.shtml&hs=axe

Income statistics
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/agency/stats/gb04/pst/final/downloadf-e.html#tables1to12

Exploring Data (a tutorial for examining statistics)
http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/

Fatality Reports Database ( The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
http://www.ccohs.ca/products/databases/fatalityreports.html

Arms Exports
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrkti/tdst/tdo/tdo.php#tag

Complaint Statistics (Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services for the years 2001 to 2005)
http://www.occps.ca/

Canadian National Defence Contracts over $10,000
http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/pd/contracts/reports_e.asp

RCMP Detachments - Telephone Numbers
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/generalcont_e.htm

City of Ottawa paramedic serives
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/ambulance/structure_contact/operations/daily/stats_en.html

Office of Pipeline Safety (U.S.)
http://ops.dot.gov/rinfo.htm

Environmental Journalism Tipsheet
http://www.rtnda.org/resources/tipsheet/september26.shtml

Data Handbook ( city of Ottawa )
http://www.ottawa.ca/city_services/statistics/data_handbook/index_en.shtml

National Wildlife Strike Database ON-LINE
http://wildlife.pr.erau.edu/public/index.html

Health Inspection Orders (Alberta Health Services)
http://www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/publichealth/envhealth/inspection_orders/food_establishments.htm#2009

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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
http://www.ccohs.ca/

Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada
http://www.awcbc.org/en/

Links to Workers' Compensation Boards/Commissions
http://www.awcbc.org/en/linkstoworkerscompensationboardscommissions.asp

Enforcement Activities: Prosecution and Conviction Statistics (Ontario Ministry of Labour)
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/report_card/rc_2.html

Workplace Safety Fines: Ontario Ministry of Labour (courtesy of CNW Group)
http://ogov.newswire.ca/getorg_e.html?okey=16716
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/news/court_news.html

Workplace Safety Fines: Ontario Ministry of Labour (courtesy of the Occupational Safety Group)
http://67.69.16.62/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=OSGCA&-loadframes

OHS CANADA Magazine
http://www.ohscanada.com

Farm Association (of Ontario)
http://www.farmsafety.ca/pages/annual_report.html