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C-SPAN Video Library

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Interested in hearing Maher Arar’s testimony to the US House Committees on Torture?  Or watching Toyota executives testify before Senate?  Or perhaps you’d like to watch bank executives being grilled over the recent financial crisis?  Well you can watch all this and more on the C-Span Video Library website. “Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, […]

Canadian Tobacco Industry Documents

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The site for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, hosted by the University of California San Francisco, has just added over 3700 documents from the  Canadian Tobacco Trials:  “The Canadian Tobacco Trials collection consists of court records (transcripts, depositions, exhibits) from two major national Canadian trials – the 1989 Tobacco Products Control Act (TPCA) Trial and […]

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples – hearing transcripts available online

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was appointed in 1991 and submitted its final, 5000 page report in 1996.  During its five year inquiry, the Commission “held 178 days of public hearings, visited 96 communities, consulted dozens of experts, commissioned scores of research studies, reviewed numerous past inquiries and reports” (Highlights. “A Word From Commissioners”).  […]

Government & Government-related films

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

We owe another shoutout to Christina at Lam for telling us how much she likes FedFlix!  We agree – it’s terrific! FedFlix is a collection of US government public information and training films hosted over at the Internet Archive:  FedFlix is a “Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we […]

Aid Data & Google Maps: New Free Resources

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Thanks to Christina from David Lam library whose eagle-eye spotted these two new resources! 1) AidData is a database of data and information on foreign aid finance.  It just went live this week, and while still in Beta, contains over 1 million records.   “AidData attempts to capture the universe of development finance, increase the […]

New ways to look for Canadian Government Data & Documents

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Have you ever had a difficult time gathering government data together on a single topic in a single place?  This can sometimes be challenging.  For example, mandatory disclosure documents: each government department is required to disclose  information such as travel & hospitality expenses; contracts; position reclassifications; grant & contribution awards; and proven workplace wrong-doing.  Until […]

Canadian Parliamentary Information and Research Service

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Ever wondered how MPs and Senators research issues?  Did you know that the Library of Parliament has a research service for parliamentarians – the Parliamentary Information & Research Service (PIRS)?  Or that  PIRS provides free public access to its publications?  Click here to view the list of available research publications. “PIRS (responds) to questions that […]

Pricing water for efficiency and responsibility: OECD Reports

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

The OECD announced today that three separate studies support that conclusion that “putting the right price on water will encourage people to waste less, pollute less, and invest more in water infrastructure.”  In the view of the OECD, the “right price” is one that reflects the true cost of the water they consume  – both […]

OECD: Going for Growth 2010

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The OECD released one of its flagship economic policy publications today: Going for Growth 2010 “First published in 2005, this annual report provides an overview of structural policy developments in OECD countries from a comparative perspective.” Not surprisingly, given the title, this year’s report focuses on the “modest, uneasy, yet much-welcome recovery” that most OECD […]

Update: Google Public Data Explorer

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

We noted Google’s public data search feature in a November 2009 post and today we have an update for you.  Google Labs has just launched “an experimental visualization tool” called Google Public Data Explorer – designed to “help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations.  With the Data Explorer, you can mash up data […]

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