The Public Health Agency of Canada provides a limited range of data on cancer incidence in Canada, by province, age group and type of cancer. It’s a bit clunky because you have to access and download each piece of data separately, but you can build fairly comprehensive tables to look at cancer incidence across the [...]
Search about 80,000 charities registered with the Canada Revenue Agency. In many cases, you can also download the charity’s annual information return. Returns are available for several years back and allow you to compare how much a charity raises with how much it spends to raise the money. Indispensible whenever you are investigating a single charity, [...]
Elections Canada. Searchable and downloadable databases of election contributions to federal political parties and candidates in federal elections. You first use the searchable database, then download the results as a text file. Handy for seeing who paid for the last election. A somewhat clunky interface, but the information can be extracted.
As a result of the sponsorship scandal and similar embarrassments, federal departments and agencies now publish, on their websites, details of travel and hospitality expenses of senior officials,
This handout from the IRE/NICAR CAR conference in Houston talks about how you can obtain aviation and other transportation data in Canada, despite the penchant of regulators here to keep data out of public hands.