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Child and Family Canada
is all about child care, child development, parenting, health, safety, literacy,
media influences, nutrition, physical activities, play, family life, adolescence, learning activities, social issues and special needs.
Child & Family Canada is a web site initiated by the Canadian Child Care Federation with the support of Human Resources Development Canada, and Industry Canada.
www.cfc-efc.ca
Facts For Families
provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children,
teenagers, and their families. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry provides this important information as a public service
and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free
of charge as long as the AACAP is properly credited and no profit is gained from their use.
www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam
The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (NCFV)
is a national resource centre for all Canadians seeking information about violence within the family and new resources being used to address it. Professionals, other front-line workers, researchers and community groups need to know what their colleagues and counterparts are doing across the country. By sharing the latest research findings and information on all aspects of prevention, protection and treatment, the Clearinghouse helps Canadian communities work toward the eventual elimination of all forms of family violence.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence
The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
helps to ensure that estates in bankruptcy, commercial re-organizations, consumer proposals and receiverships are administered in a fair and orderly manner. This site describes programs and services as well as providing bankruptcy statistics and links to related government legislation.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inbsf-osb.nsf/en/h_br00000e.html
Ontario Student Assistance Program
web page including online application and frequently asked questions.
http://osap.gov.on.ca
Dealing with Debt: A Consumer's Guide
may help you decide whether or not you have a serious debt problem. It also gives some suggestions for solving your difficulties and avoiding them in the future. The information in this booklet is meant for individuals only and does not apply to corporations that are in financial difficulty.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inbsf-osb.nsf/en/br01035e.html
Canadian Firearms Centre
(CFC) operates within the Department of Justice and includes
an online version of the Canadian Firearms Manual along with a great deal
of further information on firearms in Canada: registration, safety, training and goverment legislation.
www.cfc-ccaf.gc.ca
Gunfree Home: Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) was founded in 1974 to combat the growing gun violence problem in the United States. CSGV is a unique coalition of more than forty religious, professional, labor, medical, educational and civic organizations. The Coalition counts more than 100,000 individual supporters nationwide.
www.gunfree.org
New Brunswick Firearms Alliance
is a Canadian organization promoting firearms and rejecting gun control.
www.geocities.com/Colosseum/6223
Flags of the World
is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini, and devoted to vexillology (the study of flag history and symbolism). Here you can read more than 2000 pages and view more than 3800 images about flags. The site is fed with news and images posted to the FOTW mailing list and with other contributions.
www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags
Folklore, Myth and Legend
provides a collection of links (mostly to online folktale texts) compiled by David K. Brown, University of Calgary.
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
The Robin Hood Project
is designed to make available in electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. The project is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library, a branch of Rush Rhees Library.
www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/RH/rhhome.stm
The Camelot Project
is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information. The project, begun in 1995, is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library, a branch of Rush Rhees Library.
www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Guide to Urban Legends and Folklore
provides examples of urban legends and related folklore. What is an urban legend? Above all, it's a great story – hilarious, horrifying, sad, eery, instructive, or some combination of these qualities. One common sign that a story or belief is an urban legend is that it seems too good to be true.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/mbody.htm
The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's Urban Legends Reference Pages
provide urban legends grouped by subject area.
www.snopes.com
The Urban Legend Archive
is another collection of urban legends arranged by subject area.
www.urbanlegends.com
Canadian Food Safety Sites:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Home Page provides information on food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, tobacco, toxicology. The FDA also provides the Bad Bug Book (Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook) which provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health.
www.fda.gov
U.S. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
(CFSAN), regulates $240 billion worth of domestic food, $15 billion worth of imported foods, and $15 billion worth of cosmetics sold across state lines. This regulation takes place from the products' point of U.S. entry or processing to their point of sale.
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Canadian Forests
is the foremost website on forests and forestry in Canada. It provides quick access to all the Internet sites of the federal and provincial governments, the forest industries, service and supply companies, associations and NGOs, consultants, education and research, forestry news, employment opportunities, and much more.
www.canadian-forests.com
Ecozones of Canada:
information pages presented by Environment Canada, including maps.
www.ec.gc.ca/soer-ree/English/Framework/NarDesc
Introduction to Biomes
presented by California State University. A biome is an area with a specific climate together with the animals and plants that live there. This web page includes detailed descriptions of DECIDUOUS and CONIFEROUS forest biomes, as well as grasslands, tundra, deserts, rain forests and aquatic communities.
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/introbiomes.html
A Guide to Deciduous Tree Knowledge
presented by North Dakota State University. This page describes the characteristics of deciduous trees, including leaf identification.
www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/trees/f436-1.htm
Rainforest Action Network
has been working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. From the beginning, the Network has played a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest conservation movement through supporting activists in tropical countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States.
www.ran.org
Amazon Interactive
explores the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.
www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Animals in the Tropical Rainforest
is an excellent site for researching the different animals of the rainforest, there are pictures and information on at least 14 animals, as well as links to more sites on each animal.
www.geocities.com/RainForest/5798/ani.html
Terry Fox Foundation
provides extensive information on Terry Fox including a chronology and a photo gallery, as well as information on the yearly Terry Fox Run.
www.terryfoxrun.org
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