Chapter Links
Chapter 1: Community and the Common Good
Employability Skills:
Civic Support Service Organizations:
Other Resources:
- Amnesty International
- Ancient Democracy: Classical Athens
- Canadian Association of Food Banks
- Canadian Newspapers
- Country Reports
- Daily Bread Food Bank
- Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World
- Thomas Hobbes
- Hurricane Katrina: Disaster Relief
- John Locke: Concerning Civil Government
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter 2: How Do Governments in Canada Work?
The Organization of Canada's Government:
- Departments and Agencies – Government of Canada
- Diagram of the Federal Government
- First Among Equals (The Prime Ministers of Canada)
- The Governor General of Canada
Elections in Canada:
- Canadian Social Research Links: Political Parties and Elections in Canada
- Elections Canada
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
- Legislative Process
- Members of Parliament
- Parliament of Canada
- Prime Minister of Canada
- The Senate of Canada
- The Speaker of the House of Commons
- Student Vote
- Vote 16
Youth Services:
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Bullying and Violence
- Kids Help Phone
- Suicide Prevention
- Youth Services Bureau
Other Resources:
- Assembly of First Nations
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Canadian Newspaper Association
- CBC News Indepth: Roméo Dallaire
- Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, Department of Justice Canada
- Government of Canada
- Government of Ontario
- Intergovernmental Affairs
- Library and Archives Canada
- Ontario Legislature
- Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
- Page Program (House of Commons)
- Political Party Websites:
- Queen's Park: Making the Grade: "Can Ontario students write their own bill and have it passed into law?"
Chapter 3: Canada's Legal System
Bullying:
Structure and Function of the Supreme Court of Canada:
Youth Justice Issues:
- J4Y
- Myths and Realities About Youth Justice: Department of Justice Canada
- YCJA Explained: Department of Justice Canada
Other Resources:
- Canadian Bar Association
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- CBC Archives: "The Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard"
- Community Legal Education Ontario
- Criminal Code of Canada
- Department of Justice Canada
- Department of Justice Canada Online Quiz: "The Pursuit of Justice"
- The Fifth Estate: "The Steven Truscott Story"
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Osgoode Hall Courtrooms (Lady Justice)
- Canada’s System of Justice
- Canada’s Court System
- Try Judging
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
Chapter 4: Municipal Government and You
Municipal Government in Canada:
- Association of Municipalities of Ontario
- Canada’s Rural Partnership
- City Mayors
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities
- List of Ontario Municipalities (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing)
- Municipal Governments of Canada
- Your Local Government
Youth and Community Activism:
Other Resources:
- Canadian Social Research Links: Non-Governmental and Municipal Government Sites in Ontario
- Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
- Personalized Cause
- Wild Bill's Posters
Chapter 5: Hear My Voice: Public Issues and Civil Action
Montreal Massacre and White Ribbon Campaign:
Robert Latimer Case:
- Abilityinfo.com: Robert Latimer News and Web Links
- CBC News Indepth: Robert Latimer
- Council of Canadians With Disabilities Demand Retrial for Latimer
- Website in Support of Robert Latimer
Youth Achievement Awards:
- Canada Day Youth Award
- Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving Youth Contest and Bursary
- Top 20 Under 20 Awards
The Work of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King:
Gandhi:
- bbc.co.uk - Historic Figures
- The Biography Channel
- The Official Mahatma Gandhi eArchive and Reference Library
King:
Other Resources:
- Apathy is Boring
- Canadian Newspapers
- CBC Archives: "The Oka Conflict"
- CBC News Indepth: "Ipperwash"
- The Civics Channel
- Heather Crowe (Anti-smoking activist)
- Mohandas Gandhi (Time Magazine)
- Greenpeace Canada
- Groups Attempting to Influence Government:
- Youth Action Research Institute
- Ladybug Foundation
- The NGOs Network
- Our Kids Can Vote – Canada
- The Truth (about smoking)
- Turtle Island Native Network
- United Way
- Volunteer Centre of Toronto
- Vote 16
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- Youth in Motion
Chapter 6: The Global Citizen Today
HIV/AIDS in Africa:
Globalization:
- Global Research: Centre For Research on Globalization
- The Globalization Website
- Indigenous Peoples and Globalization Program
- Make Poverty History
- Wal-Mart Watch
United Nations:
- United Nations
- United Nations Association in Canada
- UN Volunteers For Peace and Development
- UNHCR The United Nations Refugee Agency
Holocaust Education:
- The Canadian Museum of Genocide
- The Holocaust History Project
- Holocaust Survivors
- Martin Niemoëller Poem
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre and Museum
- Simon Wiesenthal Centre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Other Resources:
- Amnesty International
- Louise Arbour
- Blood diamonds are for never
- The Canadian Red Cross
- Changing Minds.org: Bystander Effect
- A Developing World (CIDA map)
- Doctors Without Borders
- Genocide
- Greenpeace Canada
- Human Rights Watch
- The Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Ploughshares
- Save the Children
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- 2004 Tsunami Websites:
- UNICEF
- Warchild Canada