What's been added to this site and to the What's New page since May 6?
(newer additions appear at the top of the list below...)

* [Ontario] Five questions with John Stapleton (Hamilton Spectator) - May 16
* United Nations food envoy blasts inequality, poverty in Canada (Toronto Star) - May 16
* “There is no bad job — the only bad job is not having a job.” (Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty) - May 14
* [Ontario] Report on Youth Leaving Care Hearings Team Delivered to Ontario Legislature (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth) - May 14
* From The Tyee (Vancouver):
--- What About Just Guaranteeing Everyone a Basic Income? (May 15)
--- Is the 'Living Wage' Enough?(May 14)
* [Ontario] Hamilton covering $1.8m in provincial cuts to welfare recipients - May 14
(Hamilton Spectator)
* Rethinking the food bank : It’s no longer just about handing out food to the hungry (Toronto Star) - May 11
* Alberta:
--- Alberta's social programs face sweeping review - May 11
--- Super ministry responsible for all Alberta social programs - May 10
* [City of Toronto] SPAR Monitor : May 9, 2012 (Social Policy, Analysis and Research - City of Toronto)
* Federal budget 2012: Systemic underfunding for Aboriginal peoples (Canadian Union of Public Employees) - May 8
* Federal Budget 2012: Women’s rights suffer significant setbacks under Harper majority (Canadian Union of Public Employees) - May 8
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, April 2012 - May 11
--- 2011 Census of Agriculture - May 10
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [U.S.] The tattered safety net for the disabled (Washington Post) - May 12
* [U.S.] Poverty’s Poster Child [the plight of American Indians in the American West] (New York Times) - May 9
* [U.S.] Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012
* [U.S.] Human Services and Housing Supports to Address Family Homelessness : Promising Practices in the Field (Department of Health and Human Services) - November 2011
* [U.K.] Beyond the bottom line: the role of the living wage in raising living standards (Institute for Public Policy Research) - May 10
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

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What was new before that?
- This is a link to the online version of the May 6 (2012) issue of the
Canadian Social Research Newsletter.

- See the table of contents and links to earlier issues of the newsletter (back to January 2005)

Federal/National

All Canadian federal, provincial and territorial government home pages on one page (14) 
Top-level home page for each Canadian government - Canada, the provinces and the territories
Federal government - general (202)
Prorogation (97)
Gouvernement fédéral (84) - présentation des sites en français
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Common Look and Feel Standards for the Internet (CLF 2.0)
*How the federal government changed the roadmap to its websites (Feb. 9/09)
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The Harper Government™ Record [Lest We Forget]
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Federal government - departments
--- Agriculture to Finance (541)
--- Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs (626)
--- Statistics Canada Link Archive (3,000+ links to selected StatCan social studies going back to 2008)
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (452) - incl. Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Employment Insurance, Social Insurance Number, etc.
Employment Insurance (272) (incl. historical UI/EI reports)
Federal [social spending] Caps and Cuts, 1972-1995
Health - Canadian and international (683)
The unofficial [national] Social Union / NCB page (351)
The government debate about the cost of Medicare (383)
The Federal Government's Role in Poverty Reduction in Canada (20)
(part of the national antipoverty links page of this site)

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Provincial/territorial (P/T)

Departments responsible for welfare (13)
Welfare policy manuals (107)
Social Union - P/T pages (241)
Council of the Federation (98)

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Newfoundland and Labrador (224) 
Prince Edward Island (171)
Nova Scotia (387)
New Brunswick (389)  [version française (30)]
Quebec(598)  [version française (473)]
Ontario:
--- Guide to welfare in Ontario (145)
--- Provincial government (822)
--- NGO/Municipal govt. [A-C] (687) 
--- NGO/Municipal govt. [D-W] (1466)
--- Review of social assistance in Ontario
--- The Ontario Special Diet Allowance (45)
--- The Drummond Commission report
--- Drug testing people who apply for or receive welfare
--- Spouse-in-the-house (54) (welfare cohabitation rules for single people & single parents) 
--- Gouvernement de l'Ontario - page d'accueil (version française) (31)
Manitoba(389) 
Saskatchewan(305)
Alberta(518) 
British Columbia
--- Provincial government (631) 
--- NGO [A-C] (442)
--- NGO [D-W] (511)
--- Welfare Time Limits (94)
--- 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Poverty Olympics (73)
Yukon(143) 
Northwest Territories (148)
Nunavut(82)

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American links
U.S. government social research (847)
U.S. non-governmental social research [A-J] (873)
U.S. non-governmental social research [M-Z] (625)
Pension reforms (254) - incl. retirement pension reforms in Canada, the U.S. and Chile
Poverty measures - U.S. and other international resources (744)

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Social research elsewhere in the world
Government (1278)
--- CERC Bulletin links archive (229)
Non-government (1021)
 Children and Families - International - incl. U.S. (831)
Women's sites - International (430)

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Municipal Links
Municipalities (380)

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Both links in this box will take you to external websites. Govt. information and accountability links (from DemocracyWatch) --- openparliament.ca - Keeping tabs on Canada's Parliament

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Aboriginal people / First Nations (498)
Anti-poverty strategies and poverty reduction:
--- Provincial and territorial information (1196)
--- National/federal & international information (707)
Asset-based social policies (368)
Banks and business (253)
Brain drain (56)
Budgets - federal and provincial/territorial:
--- 2012 budgets (202)
--- 2011 budgets (424)
--- 2010 budgets (356)
--- 2009 budgets (396)
--- 2008 budgets(298)
--- 2007 budgets (245)
--- 2006 budgets (188)
--- 2005 budgets (243)
--- 2004 budgets (204)
Canada Assistance Plan / Canada Health and Social Transfer / Canada Health Transfer / Canada Social Transfer (312)
Canada Pension Plan (see "Human Resources and Skills Development Canada" in the left column)
Canada’s Economic Action Plan (156)
Canadiana (132) - incl. Canada country reports, history links, U.S.-Canada studies, etc.
Canadian history links (24) [NOTE: this is part of the Canadiana Links page]
Case law / Court decisions / Inquests (201)
Census - see "Social statistics" further down in this column
Census : the 2011 long-form questionnaire (443)
--- mandatory long form vs voluntary survey
Children, Families and Youth:
--- National/federal government sites (220)
--- Canadian non-governmental organizations (921)
--- Childcare Resource and Research Unit Archives (1500+)
--- International resources(831)
--- Children's rights (458)
--- CRINMAIL Archives [children's rights newsletter] (150+)
--- Early learning and child care - govt. links [aka early childhood development] (415)
--- Early learning and child care - NGO links (719)
Chilean pension model - see Pension Reforms (below)
Conferences and events (498) + special designated days/weeks/months/years + past conferences
Conservative omnibus crime bill (2011)
Council of the Federation (98)
Disability(642)
Education(208)
Elections:
--- 2011 federal election (574)
--- 2008 federal election (393)
--- 2006 federal election (303)
--- 2004 federal election (316)
--- Provincial-territorial elections (273)
Employment (finding) (part of HRSDC Links page)
Employment Insurance (272) (incl. historical UI/EI reports)
Federal [social spending] Caps and Cuts, 1972-1995
Federal government's role in poverty reduction in Canada (20)
Flat tax(37) 
Food banks and hunger (589)
G8 / G20- Globalization (744)
Gambling - social costs (42)
Guaranteed annual income (261)
The Harper Government™ Record [Lest We Forget]
Health - Canada and international (683)
Homelessness and housing(1501) 
Human rights(631)
Inequality (income/wealth) (182)
- incl. Occupation Movement links
Labour market info (part of HRSDC Links page)
Legislation and law (15)
Media (124)
Medicare - the future of health care (383)
Minimum wage / living wage links (368)
Municipalities (380)
National Child Benefit - see "Social Union", below
Non-governmental organizations:
--- Canada (522)
--- U.S. [A-J (873)]
--- U.S.[M-Z (625)]
--- International (1021)
--- Provincial/territorial NGOs ==> select a jurisdiction in the left column of this page
Old Age Security - see "Human Resources and Skills Development Canada" in the left column
Pension reforms (254) - incl. retirement pension reforms in Canada, the U.S. and Chile
Political parties - see "Elections" (above)
Polls(11)
Pooled Registered Pension Plans
Poverty measures:
- Canadian resources (429)
- U.S. and other international resources (744)
Self-sufficiency project (35) 
Poverty reduction initiatives - see Anti-Poverty Strategies and Campaigns
Prorogation - 2010 (107)
Seniors(652) 
Social Insurance Number (part of the HRSDC Links page)
Social research organizations I (600)
Social research organizations II (418)
Social statistics (687) - (incl. Census, poverty, income, welfare, population, crime & justice, social security, health, etc.)
Social Union / National Child Benefit (NCB):
--- The unofficial [national] Social Union / NCB page (351)
--- The unofficial [provincial/territorial] Social Union / NCB page  (241)
Socioweb [external site : Sociology]
Socialist sites (62)
Spouse-in-the-house (41) - (Ontario welfare)
Tobin tax and Robin Hood tax (55)
Taxes and Tax Freedom Day (28)
Unions(92)
United Nations links (774) 
Universities/colleges(324) 
Voluntary sector (165) 
Welfare:
--- Depts. responsible for welfare (13)
--- key provincial/territorial links (721) - incl. welfare stats and benefit levels
--- policy manuals (107)
--- fraud (10)
--- welfare reforms in Canada (289)
--- selected historical texts about welfare in Canada
--- welfare leavers (7)
--- welfare statistics
--- review of social assistance in Ontario
-- Drug testing people who apply for or receive welfare
--- welfare time limits - British Columbia (94) 
--- Canada Assistance Plan / Canada Health and Social Transfer / Canada Social Transfer (312)
--- Wikipedia articles on poverty and welfare (24)
--- Review of social assistance in Ontario
--- "Working Joe" vs "Welfare Joe"--- reality check
- welfare in Canada vs the U.S. - NOT the same thing!
Women's social issues:
--- Canadian government women's sites (257)
--- Canadian non-governmental women's organization sites (502)
--- International women's sites (350)
Work-Life Balance (245)

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