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- Statistics Canada - national statistics office
- CIA World Factbook | country data - Canada
- Policy.ca (University of British Columbia) - non-partisan resource for the public analysis of Canadian policy issues, consisting of
a constantly growing database of online public policy resources in sixteen different issue areas
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- Caledon Institute on Social Policy (Toronto) - social policy think tank focusing on poverty and other social and economic
inequalities, as well as a broad range of social policy areas including income security, community capacity-building, taxation,
social spending, employment development services, social services and health
- C.D. Howe Institute (Toronto) - independent, nonprofit, economic and social policy research institution
- Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) (Ottawa) - private, non-partisan, non-profit organization, specializing in social and
economic policy research and public engagement, and organized into four Networks - Family, Work, Health and Public
Involvement
- Canada West Foundation (CWF) (Calgary) - independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy research institute dedicated to
introducing western perspectives into current Canadian policy debates through the production and dissemination of objective
research to serve as a catalyst for informed public debate and initiatives for active citizen education and engagement in the
Canadian public policy process
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) (Ottawa) - undertakes and promotes research on issues of social and economic
justice that offers an alternative to the message that we have no choice about the policies that affect our lives, and produces
research reports, books, opinion pieces, fact sheets and other publications, including The Monitor, a monthly digest of
progressive research and opinion
- Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) (Ottawa) - non-profit social policy and research organization focusing on
issues such as poverty, social inclusion, disability, cultural diversity, child well-being, employment and housing
- Centre for Refugee Studies (York University, Toronto) - engaged in research on refugee issues, informing public discussion as
well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy and service organizations, and
supporting teaching in refugee and migration studies
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute (Victoria, BC) - independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and
practical solutions to transportation problems by dentifying better solutions to transportation problems, identifying the full
benefits, costs and equity impacts of alternative transportation policies and programs, comparing and evaluating alternatives,
and creating a bridge between theory and practice
- Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development (ICRDR) (Université de Moncton, NB) - independent, non-profit
organization whose mandate is to promote informed public debate on regional development and disseminate objective analyses
and information on the subject by delivering research, publishing, conference and scholarship programs
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- Canadian Health Economics Research Association (CHERA) - national membership-based non-profit organization which
promotes Canadian health research, with members from a variety of backgrounds, including health economics, health services
research, health policy, health care administration, epidemiology, medicine, nursing and political science
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - federal agency framework of 13 "virtual" institutes, each dedicated to a specific
area of focus of health research, whose objective is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific
excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health
services and products and a strengthened health care system
- Institute of Health Economics (IHE) (Edmonton, AB) - independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to deliver
outstanding health economics, health outcomes and health policy research and related services
- Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) (Ottawa) - promotes and funds management and policy research in
health services and nursing to increase the quality, relevance and usefulness of this research for health-system policy makers
and managers
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - peak federal agency for health research whose objective is to excel, according
to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved
health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened health care system
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- Policy Research Initiative (PRI) - federal government program focused on deepening, collecting and integrating research on
emerging horizontal issues that are highly relevant to the government's medium-term policy agenda, and ensuring the effective
transfer of this knowledge to policy-makers
- Institute of Governance Studies (IGS) (Simon Fraser University, BC) - pursues multidisciplinary research into problems on
contemporary governance, with a special focus on British Columbia, at the municipal, regional/metropolitan, provincial and
federal levels, in comparative domestic and Aboriginal systems and in the emerging global order
- Institute On Governance (IOG) (Ottawa) - non-profit organization which concentrates its work on Aboriginal governance,
accountability and performance measurement, board governance, building policy capacity, technology and governance, and
youth and governance
- Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) (Montreal) - focusing on the strategic choices Canadians must make to promote
economic performance, social progress, and sound democratic governance, through thoughtful analyses and creative policy
proposals
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- International Development Research Centre (IRDC) (Ottawa) - public corporation created by the Canadian government to help
communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research
- Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) (Toronto) - aims to promote a deeper understanding of international affairs and of
Canada's role in a changing world by providing a non-partisan, nation-wide forum for informed discussion, analysis and debate
- North-South Institute (NSI) (Ottawa) - independent, non-profit and non-partisan research institute focused on international
development, conducting research on Canada's relations with developing countries and on a wide range of foreign policy issues
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- Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) (Halifax) - non-profit, non-partisan organization which initiates and conducts
research identifying current and emerging economic and public policy issues facing Atlantic Canadians and Canadians more
generally, and investigates and analyses the options for public and private sector responses to the issues identified, with a
particular focus on strategies for overcoming Atlantic Canada's economic challenges in terms of regional disparities
- Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) (Montréal) - independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars
and activists committed to curbing the tide of "globalisation" and "disarming" the New World Order
- Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) (University of Western Ontario) - fosters research on long-term economic policy in
five key areas, Canada's global economic environment, Canada in the New Economy, money and finance, political economy,
and human capital and labor markets
- Fraser Institute (Vancouver) - independent public policy organization that focuses on the role competitive markets play in
providing for the economic and social well-being of all Canadians
- Institute for Policy Analysis (IPA) (University of Toronto) - aims to further scholarly research in applied economics and related
disciplines with the goal of enhancing policy analysis, and to disseminate these findings to academics, policy-makers and
practitioners
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- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) (Toronto) - brings Canada's best researchers together with an international
network of their peers to undertake basic, rather than applied research, and works to transfer the knowledge generated by its
programs to both the public and private sectors, to other academic institutions and research entities, to governments, and to
society
- Canadian Light Source (CLSI) (University of Saskatchewan) - aims to advance Canadian scientific and industrial capabilities by
operating the Canadian Light Source facility as the national synchrotron research and development centre of excellence
- National Water Research Institute (NWRI) (Burlington, ON) - Canadian government agency and the country's largest freshwater
research facility, with over 300 staff including aquatic ecologists, hydrologists, toxicologists, physical geographers, modellers,
limnologists, environmental chemists, research technicians, and experts in linking water science to environmental policy
- National Research Council Canada (NRC) - agency of the Government of Canada, comprising 19 institutes and national
programs, spanning a wide variety of disciplines and offering a broad array of services in every province in Canada, and
organized into two key areas, Technology and Industry Support, and the Research and Technology Development Program
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