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The CIR provides a Masters and PhD level degree that covers all aspects of the employment relation in an impartial atmosphere. The Library section of the website provides useful links to help anyone with research.
Working out of York University in Toronto, Ontario the Centre for Research on Work and Society addresses the many issues facing labour that arise from the current political and volatile transformation of the Canadian world of work.
The Centre for Social Justice conducts original research, produces training programs, and publishes reports and educational materials on social and economic issues. The Foundation conforms to Revenue Canada’s guidelines for charitable activity. Its current program involves research on the growing gap between rich and poor, investigating the corporate influence on public policy, and the search for policy alternatives.
Founded in 1985, The Council of Canadians is Canada’s pre-eminent citizens’ watchdog organization, comprised of over 100,000 members and more than 70 Chapters across the country. Strictly non-partisan, the Council lobbies Members of Parliament, conducts research, and runs national campaigns aimed at putting some of the country’s most important issues into the spotlight: safeguarding our social programs, promoting economic justice, renewing our democracy, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving our environment.
Created in 1995, First Ontario Fund was created so working people in Ontario could save their hard earned money in a way that is tax effective, has growth potential and contributes to job creation right here in Ontario.
The Institute for Work and Health is an independent not-for-profit organization whose mission is to research and promote new ways to prevent workplace disability, improve treatment, and optimize recovery and safe return to work. It has been providing evidence-based research and practical tools for clinicians, policy-makers, employees and managers since 1990.
The National Library of Canada is a federal institution located in Ottawa, established by Parliament in 1953, whose main role is to acquire, preserve and promote the published heritage of Canada for all Canadians, both now and in the years to come.
The Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre offers training in human resources management and industrial relations. Cutting edge research that business, labour and government can trust. For more than 60 years, Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) has been the leader in analyzing, interpreting, and teaching others about the world of people at work.
Statistics Canada is the country’s national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject area: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic.
Workfare Watch is a joint project of the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork. It was established in 1996 to monitor and report on the implementation of workfare policies in Ontario and their impact. Workfare Watch provides a research-based analysis of provincial workfare policy proposals, program plans and implementation. The purpose of the project is to ensure that any welfare-to-work measures undertaken by the provincial government respect the rights and dignity of workers and social assistance recipients.
WAHC preserves and celebrates the arts, culture and heritage of working people in Canada. It is located in the historic Custom House in Hamilton, Ontario, but its activities reach across the country through traveling exhibitions and research projects.
