Legislative Assembly of Alberta
This site provides information on the members of the legislative assembly, bills and amendments, assembly documents and records, and other information pertaining to Alberta’s Legislative Assembly.
CIA World Factbook 2009
This is the first stop on the Web for information about countries of the world.
Country Comparison Tool
Select up to four world countries or regions and compare demographic, geographic and economic data at the press of a button.
Country Reports.org
Profiles of hundreds of countries which include economy, government, background, and statistics. There are separate links for flags, national anthems, reference maps, history of countries, and weather.
Nationmaster
This site contains an encyclopedia of nations of the world, contains country profiles, and a graph producer which can produce charts, scatterplots, and pie charts.
UN Security Council – Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, with consultative status at the UN. Founded in 1993 by an international group of concerned citizens, GPF works to strengthen international law and create a more equitable and sustainable global society.
United Nations CyberSchoolBus
Includes data on each of the countries of the world, profiles of 20 of the world’s largest cities, and information about the United Nations.
Your Nation
This site allows you to rank and compare the nations of the world using data from the C.I.A. World Factbook. In addition, you can examine the statistics of individual countries by selecting the summary category. This site requires Macromedia Flash.
1st Headlines: Top Breaking News Headlines
This is an index of worldwide news headlines. Each entry includes a link to the story, the publisher of the information, and the date the information was posted.
The Canada Globe
This site provides a good resource for Canadian and North American news. Links to various teaching resources are included in the Useful Links index.
CBC
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website.
Find Articles
FindArticles.com is an archive of published articles which are searchable for free dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
MacLean’s Online
MacLean’s website provides a Canadian perspective from Rogers Media Corporation.
Today’s Front Pages
This site includes front page images of 126 newspapers from 22 countries. The links provide access to the front page housed at each newspaper’s Internet site.
Twitter Search
Find out what twitter traffic is currently on the web in real time.
Twitscoop This page uses word clouds to monitor tweets on the web. Very cool!
Canadian Environmental Law Association
The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms.
Greenpeace
The group “Greenpeace” provides information on global environmental problems.
United Nations Environment Programme
This site contains information on the organization, the state of the global environment, environmental issues, products and services, environmental legal instruments, and environmental events and awards.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names contains nearly 1 million place names. This searchable database gives for each place name: type of place (examples are: inhabited place, ridge, reservoir, valley, stream), latitude and longitude, variant names, and heirarchical position in the thesaurus.
Globalization
Global Policy Forum – Globalization
Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations,
promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.
The Globalization Website
This site from Emory University examines the political, economic, cultural, and individual dimensions of globalization.
United Nations Cyberschoolbus – Globalization
“The greatest challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world’s people, instead of leaving billions of them behind in squalor. Inclusive globalization must be built on the great enabling force of the market, but market forces alone will not achieve it. It requires a broader effort to create a shared future, based upon our common humanity in all its diversity.” (UN)
Human Rights
Amnesty International
The Amnesty International website presents information about Amnesty International, its campaigns and activitities, its policy positions, its history, and its organization. Included are annual reports of human rights abuses in the countries of the world as well as news releases and special reports. You may search for publications by country, by region, or by keyword.
Human Rights Watch
The Human Rights Watch web site offers:recent annual Human Rights Watch World Reports, with country-by-country reports on human rights conditions, press releases and reports on human rights issues and violations. Sections focus on arms control, children’s rights, women’s rights, refugees, prisons, academic freedom, corporations and human rights, drugs and human rights, prison conditions, free expression, and more.
Maps
The Atlas of Canada
The Atlas of Canada is the place for Canadian maps and information.
MapQuest: World Atlas
MapQuest provides you with maps showing locations of places in many countries of the world.
Maps of War
Extensive use of Flash animation for the study of world history.
National Geographic – Xpeditions Atlas
This atlas contains over 600 National Geographic maps that can be formatted for standard paper, printed, and reproduced for educational projects.
Outline Maps
Outline maps of countries, continents, and regions of the world.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The articles in this database are from three sources: (1) adaptations from public domain sources, (2) adaptations from student papers, and (3) original contributions by professional philosophers. The first two type of articles are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials IEP at the foot of the article. By contrast, original articles are identifiable by the author’s name at the close. Presently, most articles in the history of philosophy prior to 1900, such as “Aristotle”, are compiled from at least three public domain sources and have been heavily edited.
The History of Economic Thought
Several hundred historic and working economists as well as economic and social philosophers and theorists are available at this site. Most are accompanied by references to representative works, photographs and brief descriptions of their work. Essays contain information regarding the various schools of thought in economic theory.
History of Economic Thought
A database of economic theorists. This site contains links to sites which study the economist in further detail.
Guide To Philosophy on the Internet
A comprehensive guide maintained by Peter Suber at Earlham College. The Guide is particularly strong in links to electronic journals and sources of texts. Carefully done with commendable additional information about e-journals (whether text, abstracts or only table of contents are includes), and notes on whether other sites include complete citations to works or quotations.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Lengthy entries usually include links to other web resources, bibliographies, and lists of related essays in the encyclopedia. Use the table of contents to locate your information.
Bjorn’s Guide To Philosophy: Philosophers
This guide to philosophy has over 20 links to short biographies of the well-known philosophers such as Aristotle, Descartes, Aquinas, Hobbes, Sartre,and Kant. Though brief, the biographies give a concise overview of each philosopher’s life and times. At the end of each biography there is a list of links to the philospher’s works and sites that have additional information about the philosopher.
Politics
Canada’s Parliament
This site provides users with quick and easy access to the official publications of Parliament as well as to general, non-partisan information about the role, history, proceedings and activities of the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.
PsychCrawler
PsychCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology.
Statistics
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the official source for Canadian social and economic statistics.
Statistical Resources on the Web
This comprehensive annotated guide from the University of Michigan links to statistics (demographic, economic, educational, political, and sociological, etc.) on the web.
Population Reference Bureau
The Population Reference Bureau presents statistical data and produces reports on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
City Population
This page provides statistics and maps about the population of the major agglomerations of the world.
Official City Sites
This is a directory of official city sites in the world.
Patterns of World Urbanization
This Population Reference Bureau site is one of many excellent sites to assist you in learning about urbanization.
United Nations Population Information Network
This UN site strives to make international, regional and national population information, particularly information available from United Nations sources, easily available to the international community.
World Armed Conflicts
Ploughshares – World Armed Conflicts Report
Project Ploughshares provides expertise and analysis to the Canadian Council of Churches on peace and security issues. They will provide information and analysis based on factual, carefully researched information.
Political Resources on the Net
Political Resources on the Net lists Internet sites covering politics. Connections are to sites of political parties and federations as well as to sites about elections and politics. Choose to view international sites, sites sorted by continent, or sites sorted by country.