Social issues

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Statistics on alcohol, drinking & driving, fatalities from Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada

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The Murray Research Archive is a multi-disciplinary research data archive focusing on the study of lives over time. It is a national repository for social science data on human development and social change, especially data that illuminates women's… Read more.

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Includes demographic information about children, policy choices (early childhood, adolescents, families) and various data tools, which include calculators, simulators, and a 50-state policy tracker. 

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Topics included: Environment and Energy, Arts and Culture, Rural and North, Driving and Roads, Health and Wellness, Business and Economy Ministries included: Environment, Tourism, Culture and Sport ,Northern Development and Mines, Transportation,… Read more.

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Hunger in the GTA by the numbers. The information is based on Daily Bread’s annual survey of food bank clients across the GTA and includes downloadable annual Who's Hungry reports.

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A comprehensive report on hunger and food bank use in Canada, and recommendations for change. Previous years available.

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A compilation (links and reports) from various data sources on major global social, demographic, economic and political trends in the last several decades, about topics such as aging, poverty, globalization, democracy, terrorism, literacy, quality… Read more.

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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an alliance of 64… Read more.

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Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

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Designed to encourage the use of measures of residential segregation in Canadian urban history. City Stats provides access to several measures of segregation by ethnic group, providing decennial results from 1961 to 2001 for all areas in Canada with… Read more.