Chapter 1: Why Civics? Why Democracy?
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada's online 'zine, Citzine, www.citzine.ca (now offline) |
Chapter 2: What Is Government?
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Sleeping Children Around the World, www.scaw.org
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Hansard, www.hansard.ca
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How to Locate Information |
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Virtual Reference Library, www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca |
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Government of Canada, www.canada.gc.ca |
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Ontario Justice Education Network, www.ojen.ca |
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Elections Canada, www.elections.ca |
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Aboriginal youth suicide |
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Aboriginal Youth Network, www.nechi.com
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ |
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Turtle Island (BC) Native Network, www.turtleisland.org |
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CBC North report on NWT youth suicide, north.cbc.ca |
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Report of the Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention in First Nations, www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/pubs/promotion/_suicide/ |
Chapter 3: How Do Laws and Regulations Affect You?
Chapter 4: How Do Governments Make Policy?
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National Citizens Coalition (NCC), www.nationalcitizens.ca
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), www.policyalternatives.ca
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People for Education (P4E), www.peopleforeducation.com
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How to bring down a minority government, www.cbc.ca
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Federal bills, www.parl.gc.ca
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Federal and provincial contact information, www.dwatch.ca
www.parl.gc.ca
www.gov.on.ca
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Youth wings of major parties |
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Conservatives, www.cpcenergy.ca |
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Green Party, www.youth.greenparty.ca |
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Liberals, www.youngliberals.ca |
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NDP, www.ndp.ca |
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Pollsters and polling, info.wlu.ca
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Chapter 5: How Do Citizens Choose Governments?
Chapter 8: Government and the People: Issues and Solutions
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The preamble to the Clarity Act, http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts
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Confrontations between Aboriginal activists and police |
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at Oka, Quebec, archives.cbc.ca |
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at Ipperwash, Ontario, archives.cbc.ca |
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at Gustafsen Lake, BC, archives.cbc.ca |
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"Big Mountie Is Watching You," warns the CCLA, ccla.org
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Ombudsman Ontario's "How to Complain Effectively", www.ombudsman.on.ca
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Links to hundreds of volunteer sites, www.charityvillage.com
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Organizations and their logos |
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association, www.ccla.org |
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Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, www.ocap.ca |
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Leaders Today, http://www.metowe.com/ |
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Free the Children, www.freethechildren.com |
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Centre for Social Justice, www.socialjustice.org |
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Habitat for Humanity, www.habitat.org |
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Rotary Club, www.rotary.org |
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Links to Canadian Union of Public Employees,
the Canadian Auto Workers, and many other unions, www.canadianlabour.ca
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Links on assisted suicide
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Sue Rodriguez, archives.cbc.ca |
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Marcel Tremblay, www.cbc.ca
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Chapter 9: How Do You Define Citizenship?
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), www.unicef.org
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Canadian citizenship practice test, www.yourlibrary.ca
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Projects for contributing to the global community, www.cbc.ca (link no longer available)
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Chapter 10: Human Rights in the Global Village
Chapter 11: Are We All Global Citizen?
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Winner of the Canadian International Development Agency's Butterfly 2008 contest (Group Visual Art and Multimedia category), www.acdi-cida.gc.ca (link no longer available)
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Zahra Kazemi, Background, www.cbc.ca
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Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC), plus links to hundreds of NGOs and campaigns on global issues, www.ccic.ca
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Stephen Lewis Foundation, www.stephenlewisfoundation.org
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One-Tonne Challenge, www.seedsfoundation.ca
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Millennium Development Goals, www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
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Global citizen links |
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UN's CyberSchoolBus, www.international.gc.ca
www.cyberschoolbus.un.org |
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CBC Archives, archives.cbc.ca |
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Internet Public Library, www.ipl.org |
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CBC News InDEpth, www.cbc.ca/archives/ |
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Canadian Council for International
Co-operation, www.ccic.ca
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Culminating Activity
Page 204, Volunteer activities, www.metowe.com/leadership
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