Government
Information
Provincial & Regional Information
Education
Ontario
Ministry of Education
The
official government site. Here are some of the more useful
features:
Public
and Secondary Schools
District
School Board Profiles:
Get
your facts straight on how much is being spent, how many students
it's being spent on, average class sizes and numerous other
aspects of public education in your region.
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Ministers'
and Deputy Ministers' Official Biographies:
Don't go looking for revelations of past misdemeanors,
but at least you can find out when Janet Ecker was appointed
Minister of Education (June 17, 1999) and where Kevin Costante
got his degrees (Queen's University in Kingston).
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Agencies,
Boards, and Commissions:
You can't keep track without a scorecard — so
here's your scorecard.
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Frequently
Asked Questions:
They may not be exactly the questions you're burning
to ask, but you can find out which legislation governs elementary
and secondary education or how to obtain a particular document,
such as a curriculum guideline or news release. If you can't
find your answer here, use their form to Send
a comment or inquiry.
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News
Releases and Statements:
Speaking of news releases, get your latest here.
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Ontario
Universities & Colleges
Ontario
University Addresses & Websites:
This
list includes the Ontario College of Art & Design and
the Royal Military College.
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Ontario
Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology:
Just
what it says.
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Government
Regional
Community
Profiles
Information
provided by ONTARIO INVESTMENT SERVICE (part of Doing
Business In Canada). Find information by Community or
Region. Very simple lookup procedure and the information is
very exhaustive. After choosing a city, town or Region (with
over 150 villages, towns and cities, and all 7 regions), you
can then select information (drawn from Statistics Canada)
on: Population by Age and Education, Wage Rates by Occupation,
Major Employers (Private and Public), Real Estate information,
Water Rates, Gas prices, Community Services and way loads
more. If you need to know about your own or another community,
this is the place to start. And each has a link to that community's
official Website.
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Home
Pages of Towns, Cities & Municipalities
Produced
by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, this bills
itself as the most complete list of Ontario municipal sites
on the Internet. I don't know if it's true, but it sure as
hell is big. If you can't find it in the Community Profiles
above, it's bound to be here.
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Provincial
Government
of Ontario Site
This,
of course, is the official government site, but that doesn't
mean it's completely worthless. In fact, it has a few nifty
features:
- News:
Find out what the Ontario government wants you to know (to
find out what it doesn't want you to know, go here.)
- Forms:
Well really, isn't this what government does best? Here's
where you can get forms for Agricultural Land Use, Application
Form for Counsel to the Public Guardian & Trustee, and
Audit Form for use with Guideline For Use at Contaminated
Sites in Ontario. No, dammit — I'm not kidding.
- Freedom
of Information Requests: Actually,
this is just one of the forms (see directly above), but
its use for information seekers is important enough that
I've given it a special place.
- Access
Your Government: How to find
which part of the government deals with what, and who's
in charge.
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Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
This
site is surprisingly good for something done by the government.
Among other things, it offers information on:
- Agriculture:
Including Business Development, Normal Farm Practices, and
the latest on the proposed Nutrient Management Act.
- Food:
Including Trade Shows, Meat Inspection Hotline, and What's
New in Food (I'm afraid to look).
- Rural
Affairs:
Not as exciting as it sounds. But it does have a good Stats
& Facts area.
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Ontario
Health Codes, Laws Etc.
A
resource from WHO, this is a quick way to find out exactly
what our health laws are. Information is available for every
province and every country. Very thorough and useful site.
(For Ontario, go to site, choose "Country" at the
bottom, then choose "Canada (Ontario)."
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Ontario
Provincial Information
One
Big List of Links! From Air Quality Ontario to Workplace Safety
and Insurance Board. Even the Red Tape Commission can be found
here (they have their own commission?) Short explanation of
each.
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Ontario
Government Sites
Same
thing as above, but with a search capability. A comprehensive
list of government sites along with minister in charge, resources
and other information.
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Ontario
Government Directory
Similar
again, but this time searching the Government telephone directory.
A good place to start when looking for the Minister of Such
and Such. Clunky site doesn't explain search protocol. Use
This Search Protocol: type the last name first, followed
by a comma and then the first name (ie.
Stockwell, Chris). You can also browse the directory by category
(Citizenship, Agriculture, etc.)
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Parliament
& Party Politics: Provincial & Federal
Parliamentary
Names & Numbers
A feature of Sources.com, it lists all MPs and MPPs by province.
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Legislative
Assembly, Queen's Park
- Members:
including members
by name,
constituency,
party.
Links to members Web
sites, members biographies.and
more
- Bills:
Bill Archives,
how a bill becomes law, alpha/numeric list of bills, link
to e-laws
- House
Business: Votes
& proceedings, orders
& notices, parliamentary
calendar and more.
- Hansard:
House
debates, committee
debates, Hansard
search and more.
- Committees:
Meeting
schedule, composition,
committee
staff, list of committees, and more.
- Library:
Ontario
Legislative Library,
bills before the house, library
catalogue, how
a bill becomes law.
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Progressive
Conservative: Ontario
Good for the official line. The Tory Tuck Shop offers sweat
shirts, ceramic mugs, Cross pens and (if you can imagine)
golf stuff.
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Progressive
Conservative: Canada
Standard official. Their merchandise includes sports bags,
flashlights, watches and a chef's hat.
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New
Democratic Party: Ontario
Standard. Kind of orange around the edges.
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New
Democratic Party: Canada
(Pop-up, small.) Standard. No merchandise, but they're announcing
"Mouseland," a private e-mail forum for exchanging
ideas and discussing party politics. (No word on whether Disney
is thinking of suing for copyright infringement.)
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Liberal
Party: Ontario
Standard. They have videos of McGuinty speaking.
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Liberal
Party: Canada
Standard. Merchandise includes knapsack, infant sleeper and
vest
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Listing
of Ontario Political Parties
Probably more of these than you knew about.
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Federal
Government Sites
Government
of Canada
The
Government of Canada has a big, sprawling, but relatively
manageable Web site.
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Legal
Information
(Meaning information about legal stuff; not information that's
legal)
Duhaime.org
Run
by Lloyd Duhaime of Duhaime & Company, this is an uncharacteristically
clear and good-humoured legal site offering concise explanations
of numerous fields in Canadian law.
Government
of Ontario E-laws Site
A
decent site giving you access to the consolidate laws of Ontario.
You can:
Legislative
Assembly of Ontario
The
official Web site of the Ontario LA. Among its features are:
Members
by -
Complete
Summary of Ontario Law
As
summaries go, it's pretty long, but it does cover the whole
spectrum, and it's official legalize (unfortunately).
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Ontario
Provincial Police
Official
Web site. More PR than real info. But it has contact information
and news releases.
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Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (Ontario)
Official
Web site, but it has some information. This, of course, is
a branch of the RCMP
(Canada).
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Here
are a few for quick reference: