General Information

· Alberta’s Online Encyclopedia

A resource devoted to Alberta information and events of significance.

· Canadian Parliament

Links to Senate, House of Commons, Bills, and more.

· City of Edmonton

· E-stat (link)

User ID and Password available in the library

· E-stat Information (how to)

· Elections Canada

· Government of Alberta

· Government of Canada

· Legislative Assembly of Alberta

· Political Parties of Canada

· http://www.altstuff.com/parties.htm
· http://www.thecanadapage.org/Parties.htm

· Political Parties of the World

· Trial to SIRS Researcher and CultureGrams

SIRS Researcher offers thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. This resource offers Pro/Con analysis for topical issues.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable and up to date country reports on 182 cultures of the world, U.S. states and Canadian provinces (2006), including maps, recipes, religions, etc.

Canada

· Canada Atlas

Natural Resources Canada comprehensive collection of maps and related information about Canada.

· Canada e-Book

Uses sound, images, tables, graphs and both analytical and descriptive text to look at Canada—The Land, The People, The Economy and The State.

· E-stat (link)

User ID and Password available in the library

· Elections Canada

· Government of Canada

· Parliament of Canada

Links to Senate, House of Commons, Bills, and more

· Physiographic Regions of Canada Map

Follow the link to “Read more about this map” for more links to information on the regions (scroll to ‘The Borderlands’).

· Political Parties of Canada

· http://www.altstuff.com/parties.htm
· http://www.thecanadapage.org/Parties.htm

Country Profiles

· CIA World Factbook

· Countries and Their Cultures

· Country Profiles

· Gazeteer

· Population Reference Bureau

"DataFinder" provides data on 95 demographic variables for each of the regions, sub regions, and countries of the world and for the world as a whole.

· UN Country at a Glance

· World Cultures

Follow links to world cultures – and American sub-cultures. Virtually every culture and subculture in existence.

Newspapers & Current Events

· Ed Journal

(user and pw available in the library)

· Today’s Front Pages

More than 400 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet

· Online Reference Centre

Follow the link to e-Library Canada. For a specific newspaper or magazine, select Browse Publications’. Or, search for magazine or newspaper articles by putting in your topic and selecting the boxes for the type of material that you want returned.

Maps

· Atlapedia

· Atlas of Canada

Links to topical maps e.g. climate change, history, economy, environment

· ORC

· Outline and blank maps

· UN cartographic section