General Info
Below are links that will provide you with general information related to civic education and political participation. Here are the categories:
- Civic and Political Education
- Governments
- Political Organizations
- Political Analysis
- Social Action
- Forums for Political Discussions
- Media
- Community Organizations
For information regarding the specific administrative governments of Canada, please view the following sections:
Civic and Political Education
Canadian Politics on the Web
Here you will find annotated links to literally hundreds of sites on the Internet that can help you with your research on Canadian politics and government. Many connections are provided to full-text documents as well as to useful graphs and maps. Have a browse and see what resources are available.
Maple Leaf Web
Maple Leaf Web is a non-profit, non-partisan Canadian political education website that aims to provide educators, students and the attentive public with a credible source for political education and information.
Mondo Politico
Mondo Politico is a site dedicated to providing people in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland with a non-partisan political podium and audience.
CIVNET
CIVNET is an online resource and service for civic education practitioners (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) promoting civic education all over the world.
Governments
Government of Canada
Government of British Columbia
CivicNet BC
Welcome to CivicNet BC – the cooperative resource for local government in British Columbia. CivicNet BC is brought to you by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities – serving local government in BC since 1905.
Political Organizations
Liberal Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada
Canada’s New Democratic Party
Green Party of Canada
BC Liberals
New Democratic Party of BC
BC’s Green Party
Political Analysis
Policy.ca
Policy.ca is a non-partisan resource for the public analysis of Canadian policy issues. It consists of a constantly growing database of online public policy resources in sixteen different issue areas. These resources are selected to provide users with a balanced review of both documents and organizations in the key Canadian public policy issue areas.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers an alternative to the message that we have no choice about the policies that affect our lives. We undertake and promote research on issues of social and economic justice. We produce research reports, books, opinion pieces, fact sheets and other publications, including The Monitor, a monthly digest of progressive research and opinion.
Fraser Institute
As an independent public policy organization, The Fraser Institute focuses on the role competitive markets play in providing for the economic and social well-being of all Canadians.
Social Action
The Citizen’s Handbook
The Citizens Handbook is meant to encourage the emergence of more active citizens – people motivated by an interest in public issues, and a desire to make a difference beyond their own private lives. Active citizens are a great untapped resource, and citizenship is a quality to be nurtured.
CIVICUS
CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
Study Circles Resource Centre
The Study Circles Resource Center is dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues. SCRC helps communities by giving them the tools to organize productive dialogue, recruit diverse participants, find solutions, and work for action and change.
Forums for Political Discussions
Maple Leaf Web
The Maple Leaf Web has a very active online forum for political discussions. The most active section is Canadian Politics.
PoliticsForum.org
PoliticsForum.org is a very comprehensive forum for political discussions. There are discussions on global/regional/national politics, was well as political ideologies and specific issues.
Media
CBC News
Canada.com
Operated by CanWest Interactive, canada.com is Canada’s most comprehensive Internet network and portal. The Global Television Network and over thirty CanWest Newspaper Publications support the canada.com network by supplying Canadians with the most relevant and up-to-date news and information.
Media Magazine
MEDIA magazine is the premier trade publication for Canadian journalists.
World Press Review Online
For more than 30 years, World Press Review has been the only English-language magazine giving readers a first-hand look at the issues and debates that occupy the world’s newspapers and magazines. Drawing upon publications around the globe, and a network of correspondents in dozens of countries, World Press Review illuminates the issues that barely see the light of day in the mainstream U.S. press, translating, reprinting, analyzing, and contextualizing the best of the international press from more than 20 languages.
Community Organizations
Vancouver Community Network
The Vancouver Community Network owns and operates a free, publicly accessible, non-commercial computer utility in the Lower Mainland of B.C. which provides a public space on the internet.
