Canadian Government Information
- Canada Info Desk This link opens in a new window
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Canada Info Desk, also known as Canada’s Information Resource Centre, integrates the content of 6 directories into a single online Canadian resource.
Canada Info Desk provides users with access to over 100,000 Canadian organizations, contacts, facts and figures in one easy-to-use online resource. The directories include Associations Canada, Major Canadian Cities, Canadian Almanac & Directory, Canadian Environmental Directory, Financial Services Canada, Governments Canada, and Careers and Employment Canada.
Maximum of 1 simultaneous user.
- Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS) - Directory of Public Servants"The Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS) provides a directory of public servants across Canada.
Information in this directory is supplied by individual federal government departments and agencies and updated by one or more data administrators within each department. Some departments do not list all their employees". - Government of Canada Web ArchiveThe Government of Canada began using the Web in the mid-1990s to share information about its institutions with Canadians. In 2004, the Library and Archives of Canada Act gave LAC the authority to collect and preserve a representative sample of Canadian Web content. LAC has been collecting federal and non-federal web content since 2005.
- Canadian LegislationThis chart lists online sources of legislation, all of which are free to the public through Canadian government sources.
- Secret CanadaSecret Canada is a freedom of information project from The Globe and Mail where you can search through a national database of FOI summaries and learn how to file your own.
- Statistics CanadaUnder the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is required to collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information relating to the commercial, industrial, financial, social, economic and general activities and condition of the people of Canada.
- Data Tables from Statistics CanadaStatistics Canada data from selected data from Census and socioeconomic surveys that can be displayed in simple tables or maps.
United States Government Information
- Federal Trade Commission"Our mission is to prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity".
- Statistical Abstracts of the United StatesFirst published in 1878, the Statistical Abstract serves as the official federal summary of statistics and provides over 1,400 tables of benchmark measures on the demographic, housing, social, political, and economic condition of the United States.