What's been added to this site and to the What's New page since January 22?
(newer additions appear at the top of the list below...)

* [Ontario] Social Assistance Review Progress Report + feedback on first discussion paper (Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario) - February 3
* Research shows Old Age Security system keeps seniors out of poverty (Canadian Business Magazine) - February 1
* Why raising OAS to 67 doesn't make sense (Ellen Roseman in Moneyville.ca ) - February 1
* [Ontario] SPAR Monitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change (City of Toronto) - February 1
* British Columbia MLA Welfare Challenge Update and Fact Sheet (Raise the Rates) - January 2012
* B.C. poverty reduction plan could reduce costs, advocates argue (The Straight.com) - January 30
* B.C. welfare payments are adequate, says the Fraser Institute (Vancouver Sun) - January 26
* So There's Income Inequality. Now What? (Rob Rainer in Huffington Post Canada) - January 31
* Can microcredit work in Canada? (Globe and Mail ) - January 30
* Crown - First Nations Gathering Outcome Statements (Prime Minister's Office and Assembly of First Nations National Chief) - January 24
* The Manitoba Mincome Experiment (M. L'Heureux in Legal Checkpoint Blog) - November 2007
* UNdata (United Nations)
* [Brain Drain] Evidence from the 2000 Cohort of Canadian University Graduates (Canadian Public Policy Journal) - 2008
* Harper drops hints about Canadian Old Age pension reform at the World Economic Forum (CBC News) - January 27
* Economic Inequality.ca Bulletin No. 1 - January 27
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives : National Update - January 27
* Canada Child Benefits, July 2011 to June 2012 (Canada Revenue Agency)
* Social Security Statistics, Canada and Provinces, 1978-79 to 2002-2003 (links updated) - January 27
* 2011 Canadian Housing Observer (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) - January 24
* Manitoba Department responsible for welfare --- name change [Correction]
* The Employment Insurance Program in Canada: How it Works (Library of Parliament Research Publications) - October 2010
* From Mothers' Allowance to Mothers Need Not Apply: Canadian Welfare Laws as Liberal and Neo-Liberal Reforms (Osgoode Law Journal) - April 2008
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, November 2011 - January 26
--- Study: Criminal victimization in the territories, 2009 - January 26
--- Study: Firm entry and exit in Canada, 2000 to 2008 - January 25
--- Job vacancies, three-month average ending in September 2011 - January 24
--- Profile of seniors’ transportation habits - January 23
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 (Davos-Klosters, Switzerland) --- 25-29 January, 2012
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

-------------------------

What was new before that?
- This is a link to the online version of the January 22 (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
Prorogation (97)
Federal government - general (202)
Gouvernement fédéral (84) - présentation des sites en français
---
Common Look and Feel Standards for the Internet (CLF 2.0)
*How the federal government changed the roadmap to its websites (Feb. 9/09)
---
Federal government - departments
--- Agriculture to Finance (541)
--- Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs (626)
--- Statistics Canada Link Archive (500+ 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)

---

Provincial/territorial (P/T)

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

---

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
--- Drug testing people who apply for or receive welfare
--- Spouse-in-the-house (51) (welfare cohabitation rules for 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)

---

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)

---

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)

---

Municipal Links
Municipalities (380)

---

Govt. information and accountability links (from DemocracyWatch) - this link takes you to an external site.

---

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:
--- 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 (176)
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)
--- International resources(831)
--- Children's rights (458) - incl. the National Plan of Action for Children + kids & UN
--- 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) - incl. elections in Ontario and six other provinces/territories in Oct./Nov. 2011
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)
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)
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 (97)
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)
Socialist sites (62)
Spouse-in-the-house (41) - Ontario
Tobin tax and Robin Hood tax (55) 
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
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)

---

Need a break?  The Political Compass Read the blurb on the main page of this site, then take the (entirely anonymous) five-minute test. It will tell you where YOU are on the political compass. - includes a list of influential thinkers* who think like you, based on your test results... [*not including Homer Simpson] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Canadian Social Research Links Word Cloud (image only, no links) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bev and Roy: Separated at birth? (with apologies to the Lonely Boy...) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gotcha! Things I've found on websites that make me wanna go "Gotcha!" Rants - 'cause everybody needs to vent from time to time, eh... (website design and speling and stuff) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Try the Stroop Effect... Very funny perception game that I found on the Ontario Science Centre website. --------------------- The Color Test (fancy version of the Stroop Effect - requires Macromedia Flash plug-in) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gilles' CLOSETCAM  Hit your Reload button to get the most recent ClosetCam shot! - Then visit the ClosetCam Archives... [According to my site stats, during October 2011, the ClosetCam page was viewed 29 times and the ClosetCam Archives page was viewed 10 times. Interesting sociological experiment...] Canajun, eh? You know you're Canadian... The Perfect Retirement Plan! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Infectious laughter: I'll give you a dollar if you can listen to either of the two audio tracks below without cracking a smile. * Four old gals beat up bully driver (audio with transcript) * Contagious laughter sweeps through an entire subway car (video, duration 3:00 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- OK, now chill out for three minutes... - beautiful HD video : time-lapse film of the Arctic Light, peaceful seascapes and mesmerizing piano. Best viewed full-screen (click the bottom right-hand corner of the video screen). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Need more silliness in your day/life? This is a whole page of links to some of the sillier sites I've enjoyed visiting in the past...

 

!! PLEASE SIGN MY INTERNET PETITION !! [not.]