Canadian Civics

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada's online 'zine, Citzine

www.citzine.ca (now offline)

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Sleeping Children Around the World

www.scaw.org

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Hansard

www.hansard.ca

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How to Locate Information
• Virtual Reference Library
• Government of Canada
• Ontario Justice Education Network
• Elections Canada

www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca
www.canada.gc.ca
www.ojen.ca
www.elections.ca

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Aboriginal youth suicide
• Aboriginal Youth Network
• Turtle Island (BC) Native Network
• CBC North report on NWT youth suicide
• Report of the Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention in First Nations

www.nechi.com
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/
www.turtleisland.org
north.cbc.ca
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/pubs/promotion/_suicide/

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Levies introduced because of Internet downloading

neil.eton.ca
www.cb-cda.gc.ca

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Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Ontario Human Rights Commission

www.ohrc.on.ca

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Community efforts to improve air quality and environmental protection
• Ontario municipal clean air case studies
• Organic waste recycling in Hamilton
• Municipal solid waste in Ontario

www.mah.gov.on.ca
www.hamilton.ca
www.cielap.org

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National Citizens Coalition (NCC)

www.nationalcitizens.ca

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)

www.policyalternatives.ca

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People for Education (P4E)

www.peopleforeducation.com

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How to bring down a minority government

www.cbc.ca

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Federal bills

www.parl.gc.ca

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Federal and provincial contact information

www.dwatch.ca
www.parl.gc.ca
www.gov.on.ca

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Youth wings of major parties
• Conservatives
• Green Party
• Liberals
• NDP

www.cpcenergy.ca
www.youth.greenparty.ca
www.youngliberals.ca
www.ndp.ca

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Pollsters and polling

info.wlu.ca

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British Columbia's Citizens' Assembly

www.citizensassembly.bc.ca

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The preamble to the Clarity Act

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts

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Confrontations between Aboriginal activists
and police
• at Oka, Quebec
• at Ipperwash, Ontario
• at Gustafsen Lake, BC

archives.cbc.ca
archives.cbc.ca
archives.cbc.ca

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"Big Mountie Is Watching You,"
warns the CCLA

ccla.org

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Ombudsman Ontario's "How to Complain Effectively"

www.ombudsman.on.ca

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Links to hundreds of volunteer sites

www.charityvillage.com

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Organizations and their logos
• Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
• Leaders Today
• Free the Children
• Centre for Social Justice
• Habitat for Humanity
• Rotary Club
• Empowered Student Partnerships

www.ccla.org
www.ocap.ca
http://www.metowe.com/
www.freethechildren.com
www.socialjustice.org
www.habitat.org
www.rotary.org
www.esponline.ca (link no longer available)

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Links to Canadian Union of Public Employees,
the Canadian Auto Workers, and many other unions

www.canadianlabour.ca

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Links on assisted suicide
• Sue Rodriguez

• Marcel Tremblay

www.cbc.ca
archives.cbc.ca
www.cbc.ca

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

www.unicef.org

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Canadian citizenship practice test

www.yourlibrary.ca

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Projects for contributing to the global community

www.cbc.ca (link no longer available)

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Righteous Among the Nations

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous

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Canadian Race Relations Foundation

www.crr.ca

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International Criminal Court (ICC)

www.icc-cpi.int

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Amnesty International (AI)

www.amnesty.org

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Winner of the Canadian International Development Agency's Butterfly 2008 contest (Group Visual Art and Multimedia category)

www.acdi-cida.gc.ca (link no longer available)

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Zahra Kazemi
• Background
• Foreign Affairs Canada
  July 10, 2006 news release
• Foreign Affairs Canada
  June 15, 2005 news release
• CIDA's Global Classroom Initiative

www.cbc.ca
(link no longer available)

(link no longer available)

www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/

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Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC), plus links to hundreds of NGOs and campaigns on global issues

www.ccic.ca

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Stephen Lewis Foundation

www.stephenlewisfoundation.org

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One-Tonne Challenge

www.seedsfoundation.ca

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Millennium Development Goals

www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

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Global citizen links
• Foreign Affairs Canada
• UN's CyberSchoolBus
• CBC Archives
• Internet Public Library
• CBC News InDEpth

www.international.gc.ca
www.cyberschoolbus.un.org
archives.cbc.ca
www.ipl.org
www.cbc.ca/archives/

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Canadian Council for International
Co-operation

www.ccic.ca

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Volunteer activities

www.metowe.com/leadership