Site Map

The Land

Geography

• Summit of the Americas
• Mountains and marvels
• The weather
• Life takes hold
• Sources

The Human imprint on the environment

• Ways of life
• The environment
• Sources

The People

The population

• Greatness in diversity
• Stork on the endangered list!
• Golden oldies
• On the road again
• Bring your families to Canada
• Changing faces
• Multilingual Canada
• Ecumenical Canada
• Aboriginal peoples
• Sources

Health

• A healthy people
• Longer life, better health
• Major causes of death
• Our youth
• The fight against disease
• Non-communicable chronic illness
• What makes us healthy or unhealthy?
• Health services
• Sources

Education

• Education costs
• Spending on Canadian students
• Schools predate confederation
• Responsibility for schools
• Elementary and secondary schools
• Community college
• University
• Teachers
• Lifelong learning
• Unfinished schoolwork
• The best days of our lives
• Sources

Household and family life

• Family arrangements
• Children
• The family budget
• Unpaid work
• Stress
• Sources

The labour force

• Labour market overview
• Employers
• Occupations
• Earnings
• Education
• Working hours
• Self-employment
• Workplace demographics
• Retirement
• Social safety net
• Labour unions
• Sources

Arts and leisure

• Making culture
• The audiences
• The performing arts
• Film—reel time
• Looking, listening and reading
• Libraries
• Heritage
• Tourism
• Sporting lives
• Funding
• Sources

The Economy

The economy

• Structure and trends
• Measuring Canada's economic health
• International trade
• Employment
• Money matters
• Sources

Primary industries

• Jobs and income
• Farming in Canada
• Canada's troubled fisheries
• The fur trade
• Mining in Canada: Hitting paydirt
• A nation of trees
• Managing our resources into the future
• Sources

Manufacturing and construction

• Interdependent sectors
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Sources

Communications, transport and trade

• Communications
• Transport
• Trade
• Sources

Finance and services

• The financial industry
• Business and personal services
• Sources

The State

The government

• The political structure of Canada
• Parliamentarians at work
• The judiciary
• Vox populi
• Aboriginal peoples
• Nunavut
• Government priorities
• Federal finances
• Provincial and municipal finances
• The public service
• Sources

The legal system

• To serve and protect
• Crime in Canada
• Sentencing
• Private law in CanadaCanada's legal system
• The Constitution
• The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Legal institutions
• Sources