Links to research resources
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How to do research
Researching corporations
Research sources
- AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch Database: Find out which CEOs are making big bucks
- BC Budgets: Provincial budget reports
- BC Information & Privacy Commissioner: Apply for access to government or corporate records
- BC Office of the Comptroller General: Government payments to MLAs, cabinet ministers, senior public servants, and others
- BC Online: Colonial land titles and corporate registry; there is a fee for some info
- BC Stats: Government stats on social and economic trends
- Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use: Stats on drug use trends
- Canadian Consumer Information Gateway: Data on consumer trends; database of consumer research, advocacy, and policy; explanation of consumer initiatives
- Canadian Legal Information Institute: Searchable database of Provincial, Territorial and Federal statutes and regulations, and Provincial and Supreme court decisions
- Canada Trade Missions: What the federal government is pushing to sell
- Canadian Depositor for Securities: Information about publicly traded companies
- Cooperative Research: Wikipedia-style approach to documentation of events and corporate/government actions
- Department of Foreign Affairs: Canada's international environmental commitments
- Directory of TransNational Corporations
- Elections BC: Who gave what to who in BC political campaigns
- Elections Canada: Who gave what to who in federal campaigns
- Electronic Law Library: Info on law, courts, government, legislation, and regulations
- Environment Canada: Info on tanker spills, vehicle fuel efficiency, and air pollution
- Hansard: Search transcripts of provincial and federal colonial government debates
- Industry Canada: Data relating to the economy, industry, and trade
- Network Environments for Aboriginal Research BC: an Aboriginal Research Network to improve and enhance the health and well-being of Aboriginal Peoples in BC
- Online Corporate Data: Links from workshop on corporate research
- Port Import Export Reporting Service: Looking for a ship and its cargo? (costs $)
- Poverty and Human Rights Library: Searchable database of human rights treaties, Canadian laws, court decisions, legal briefs, research reports, and articles
- PovertyNet: World Bank data on poverty measurement, monitoring, and analysis
- ScoreCard: Geographic breakdown of pollution in US
- SourceWatch: Media, PR firms, think tanks, and industry-funded "experts" that work to influence the public on behalf of corporations, governments, and special interests
- Statistics Canada: Government data on Canadian social and economic trends
- Textile Trade: Enter the RN (US) or CA (Canadian) number from the tag on the clothes you wear to see where they were made
- They Rule: Animated map of relationships between corporate boards
- UVic Library: Access to online databases for anyone with a UVic library card
- Victoria Public Library: Access to online databases for anyone with a library card
Social/environmental justice researchers
Research Centres
Researcher Databases
- Progressive Researcher Portal: Database of Canadian social justice researchers, searchable by name and area of research, with links to abstracts and papers
Social Planning Councils
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