AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Contractual rights as reported in the Public Accounts of Canada

At the end of each fiscal year, government-wide financial
information is published in the Public Accounts. This dataset,
based on Volume 1, Section 11, of the Public Accounts, provides
details of contractual rights (in millions of dollars) classified into
four categories: sales of goods and services, leases of property,
royalties and revenue/profit-sharing arrangements and others.
Contractual rights are rights to economic resources arising from
contracts or agreements that will result in both an asset and
revenue in the future. All contractual rights of $10 million or more,
per contract or per portfolio of agreements that are similar in
nature, outstanding at year-end are reported. This dataset is from
the Public Accounts of Canada and is not the official record of
information. The official version of record can be found on the
Receiver General website for the most recent fiscal year and the
Library and Archives website for historical years.

Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Federal-Provincial Shared-Cost Programs as per the Public Accounts of Canada

At the end of each fiscal year, government-wide financial
information is published in the Public Accounts. This dataset
presents, by province and territory, and for each
federal-provincial shared-cost program, the current year and
previous year expenditures and the expenditures from inception
of the program. Programs are reported year after year until
completion, even if there is no expenditure in a given year.

Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Accountable Advances as per the Public Accounts of Canada 

At the end of each fiscal year, the Receiver general of Canada publishes financial information in the Public Accounts. This dataset presents accountable advances which is required by section 38(3) of the <em>Financial Administration Act</em>. The data is provided for each department and includes advances outstanding at the end of the fiscal year, advances settled and advances outstanding as at April 30.

Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Non-Lapsing Authorities Granted/Repealed In the Current Year as per the Public Accounts of Canada

At the end of each fiscal year, financial information is published in the Public Accounts. This dataset provides the full wording of most non-lapsing authorities (budgetary and non-budgetary) granted/repealed in the current year, by ministry.

Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Supplementary retirement benefits account as per the Public Accounts of Canada

At the end of each fiscal year, the Receiver general of Canada publishes financial information in the Public Accounts. This dataset, a non-official record of information based on its Volume 1, Section 6—Pensions and Other Future Benefits, provides a financial information comparative (in dollars) related to public sector pensions. It includes data from the Supplementary Retirement Benefits Account which continues to provide for pension benefit increases resulting from indexation for pensions of federally appointed judges, and recipients of pensions under various continuation acts and other related acts. The official version of record can be found on the Receiver General website for the most recent fiscal year and the Library and Archives website for historical years.

Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
2024-2025 Departmental Results Framework

The Policy on Results sets out the fundamental requirements for Canadian federal departmental accountability for performance information and evaluation, while highlighting the importance of results in management and expenditure decision making, as well as public reporting. The objectives are to improve the achievement of results across government and to enhance the understanding of the results government seeks to achieve, does achieve, and the resources used to achieve them. The Departmental Results Framework (DRF) consists of the department’s Core Responsibilities, Departmental Results and Departmental Result Indicators.

This module shows IRCC’s 2024-2025 Departmental Results Report, as well as supplementary data for select indicators.  

Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada
Species at Risk, Rare and Difficult Species Monitoring, Oil Sands Region

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s monitoring program for species at risk, rare and difficult-to-monitor species uses targeted sampling designs to assess the population status and trend of species that are not readily sampled by other programs.


 A formal analysis was used to prioritize landbird species for monitoring under this program. Old-forest songbirds were determined to be the highest priority for monitoring because they can be vulnerable to habitat disturbance, and their habitats are less common overall and difficult to restore once disturbed. An old-forest landbird monitoring program was initiated in 2014.


 A separate focused study is assessing the potential impacts of oil sands mining on Whooping Cranes, which migrate through the oil sands region twice annually and sometimes stop over during migration. Data from this study are not currently available.


Supplemental Information


Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Cause-Effect Monitoring, Oil Sands Region

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s cause-effect monitoring is focused on understanding how boreal songbirds, including several Species at Risk, are affected by human activity in the oil sands area, particularly the impact of the physical disturbance of forested habitats from exploration, development and construction of oil sands. Determining the abundance of songbird species associated with various habitat type(s) and understanding how the type and number of birds varies with type and amount of habitat, are important components of assessing the effect of habitat disturbance.


 Regional-scale monitoring focuses on understanding how and why boreal songbirds, including several Species at Risk, are affected by human activity across the Peace, Athabasca and Cold Lake oil sands area. Local-scale projects focus on addressing gaps in our understanding of complex response patterns at regional scales by targeting specific habitats or development features of interest.


 These data contribute to:

 a. improving the design of monitoring programs;

 b. explaining observed trends in populations (why bird populations are increasing or decreasing);

 c. predicting population sizes within the oil sands area; and

 d. assessing the individual, additive and cumulative effects of oil sands and other resource development on boreal birds.


 Data are used by ECCC and our partners to develop new models and increase the robustness of existing models of bird responses to habitat and disturbance. Because models can be used to predict outcomes of future land management scenarios, these models can assist decision-making by helping evaluate land-use choices before impacts are directly observed.


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Conduct monitoring to attribute mechanisms for population change for key species and to understand the response by biodiversity to habitat disturbance from oil sands and other human activity through time.


 Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Cause-Effect Monitoring Migratory Landbirds at Local Scales, Oil Sands Region

Local-scale projects focus on gaps in our understanding of complex response patterns at regional scales by targeting specific habitats or development features of interest. Environment and Climate Change Canada is monitoring how and why boreal birds respond to oil sands development features using 25-hectare survey sites selected to represent a range of disturbance intensities from low to high. Sites are visited multiple times during the breeding season, from early May through early July, to count the number of individual birds within the study site. The monitoring design targets habitat and disturbance types that have limited information.


 Dataset 1 (2014-2015) focused on songbird response to Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) activity in peatland habitats within the Athabasca oil sands area. Peatland habitats comprise approximately 40% of the total Athabasca oil sands area, but little was known about bird response to oil sands features in this habitat type. Data comprise the number of individual birds of each species detected in each of 11 sites. In 2014, 62 species were detected within the sites, with 38 species detected on at least 3 visits. In 2015, 71 species were detected within the sites, with 39 species showing detected on at least 3 visits. Habitat disturbance features associated with SAGD activity include high-density exploratory seismic lines, winter roads, well pads, pipelines, permanent roads and industrial facilities.


 Dataset 2 (2016) focused on songbird response to conventional oil and gas disturbance in upland regenerating habitats within the Peace River oil sands area. Regenerating deciduous habitat (20-40 years old) was selected to address a habitat gap in knowledge of avian response to oil sands features. Data comprise the number of individual birds of each species detected in each of nine sites. 85 species were detected within the survey girds, with 42 species detected on at least 3 visits. Habitat disturbance features associated with conventional oil and gas include seismic lines, pipelines, powerlines, well sites and gravel roads.


 Dataset 3 (2017) focused on songbird response to SAGD oil sands disturbance in upland regenerating habitats within the Athabasca oil sands area. Regenerating deciduous habitat (10-20 years old) was selected to address a habitat gap in knowledge of avian response to oil sands features. Data comprise the number of individual birds of each species detected in each of 12 sites. 71 species were detected within the survey girds, with 51 species detected on at least 3 visits. Habitat disturbance features associated with SAGD development include seismic lines, pipelines, powerlines, well sites, winter roads and gravel roads.


Supplemental Information


Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Cause-Effect Monitoring Migratory Landbirds at Regional Scales, Oil Sands Region

Regional-scale monitoring focuses on understanding how and why boreal songbirds, including several Species at Risk, are affected by human activity across the Peace, Athabasca and Cold Lake oil sands area. Data are collected across multiple habitat types and across a range of disturbance intensities from low to high. Bird data were collected in various habitats, including some previously unsurveyed habitats, to fill information gaps in bird-habitat associations.


 Dataset 1 (2011–2013) comprises bird surveys in 41 representative habitat types within the Athabasca, Peace River and Cold Lake oil sands areas. Data are available for 44 873 individual birds representing 142 species from 3 685 independent sites sampled using point count surveys. Uncommon and rare habitat types were surveyed at higher sampling intensity.


 Dataset 2 (2014) comprises bird surveys across a gradient of oil sands development-related disturbance (low to very high) within the Athabasca oil sands area. Data are available for 12 062 individual birds representing 141 species from 884 sample sites. Sample sites include both survey grids of nine point count sites and matched pairs of point count sites (one point count in pipeline, seismic line, wellsite or road, and one point count in adjacent undisturbed habitat).


Supplemental Information


Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Species at Risk Migratory Landbirds, Oil Sands Region

The old-forest landbird monitoring program was initiated in 2014. Old-forest songbirds are a priority for monitoring because they can be vulnerable to habitat disturbance, and their habitats are less common overall and difficult to restore once disturbed. This augmented program employs a stratified sampling design of point count surveys to improve monitoring of rarer songbirds of conservation concern. These data will also be used to validate models that predict bird population changes in response to oil sands activity and to further refine bird monitoring design.


 2014 data includes records for 29938 individuals representing 137 species from 2490 sample points located among 123 survey areas.


 2017 data includes records for 3014 individuals representing 88 species from 271 sample points located among 25 survey areas.


Supplemental Information


Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Administration of the Access to Information Act - Annual Report to Parliament 2024-2025

The Access to Information Act (the Act) gives Canadian citizens, permanent residents and all individuals and corporations present in Canada the right of access to records under the control of a government institution subject to the Act. The Act complements, but does not replace, other means of obtaining government information. This report has been prepared and tabled in Parliament in accordance with section 72 of the Act. It covers the period from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, for the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC). The annual report is intended to ensure accountability for the actions and decisions of the institution in their administration of the Act.


Organization: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | Agence d'évaluation d'impact du Canada
Administration of the Privacy Act - Annual Report to Parliament 2024-2025

The Privacy Act (the Act) provides Canadian citizens and permanent residents with the right of access to and correction of personal information about themselves that is under the control of a government institution. The Act also provides the legal framework for the collection, retention, use, disclosure, disposition and validation of the accuracy of personal information in the administration of programs and activities by government institutions subject to the Act. This report has been prepared and tabled in Parliament in accordance with section 72 of the Act. It covers the period from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, for the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC). The annual report is intended to ensure accountability for the actions and decisions of the institution in their administration of the Act.


Organization: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | Agence d'évaluation d'impact du Canada
Algorithmic Impact Assessment – Internal Activity and Access Monitoring

The Internal Activity and Access Monitoring (IAAM) initiative aims to strengthen the integrity and oversight of information access within Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). This project involves the acquisition and implementation of an enterprise-wide monitoring solution designed to address audit recommendations and enhance investigative capabilities related to employee access and use of information in core departmental applications.

The solution will help reduce the time required to gather evidence, improve workload management through automated alert dissemination, and enable near real-time detection of potential misuse or wrongdoing. It is specifically configured to monitor application logs for predefined use cases involving inappropriate access or use of information.

Importantly, the system is designed to ingest log data only from specific departmental applications that fall within the scope of the project. It does not make autonomous decisions. Instead, it flags potential cases of concern based on indicators of wrongdoing or misuse. These flagged cases are then reviewed by integrity officers, who conduct thorough investigations in accordance with established program procedures.

This approach ensures that human oversight remains central to decision-making, while leveraging automation to enhance efficiency and responsiveness in monitoring activities.


Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada | Emploi et Développement social Canada
Annual Crop Inventory

Understanding the state and trends in agriculture production is essential to combat both short-term and long-term threats to stable and reliable access to food for all, and to ensure a profitable agricultural sector. Starting in 2009, the Earth Observation Team of the Science and Technology Branch (STB) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) began the process of generating annual crop type digital maps. Focusing on the Prairie Provinces in 2009 and 2010, a Decision Tree (DT) based methodology was applied using optical (Landsat-5, AWiFS, DMC) and radar (Radarsat-2) based satellite images. Beginning with the 2011 growing season, this activity has been extended to other provinces in support of a national crop inventory. To date this approach can consistently deliver a crop inventory that meets the overall target accuracy of at least 85% at a final spatial resolution of 30m (56m in 2009 and 2010).

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
[ARCHIVED] Nova Scotia Current Data: Deployment Information

[Archived] Deployment locations and configuration details of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) included in the Centre for Marine Applied Research’s (CMAR) “Current Data” county datasets. This data has not been maintained or updated. Users looking for the latest information should refer to Nova Scotia Current and Wave Data: Deployment Information https://data.novascotia.ca/d/uban-q9i2.

Organization: Government of Nova Scotia | Gouvernment de la Nouvelle-Écosse
Charter Statement Bill C-2: An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures

Section 4.2 of the Department of Justice Act requires the Minister of Justice to prepare a Charter Statement for every government bill to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on government bills. One of the Minister of Justice’s most important responsibilities is to examine legislation for inconsistency with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms [“the Charter”]. By tabling a Charter Statement, the Minister is sharing some of the key considerations that informed the review of a bill for inconsistency with the Charter. A Statement identifies Charter rights and freedoms that may potentially be engaged by a bill and provides a brief explanation of the nature of any engagement, in light of the measures being proposed.

A Charter Statement also identifies potential justifications for any limits a bill may impose on Charter rights and freedoms. Section 1 of the Charter provides that rights and freedoms may be subject to reasonable limits if those limits are prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. This means that Parliament may enact laws that limit Charter rights and freedoms. The Charter will be violated only where a limit is not demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society.

A Charter Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public and Parliament on a bill’s potential effects on rights and freedoms that are neither trivial nor too speculative. It is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of all conceivable Charter considerations. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of a bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study and amendment of a bill. A Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a bill.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Charter Statement Bill C-3: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025)

Section 4.2 of the Department of Justice Act requires the Minister of Justice to prepare a Charter Statement for every government bill to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on government bills. One of the Minister of Justice’s most important responsibilities is to examine legislation for inconsistency with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms [“the Charter”]. By tabling a Charter Statement, the Minister is sharing some of the key considerations that informed the review of a bill for inconsistency with the Charter. A Statement identifies Charter rights and freedoms that may potentially be engaged by a bill and provides a brief explanation of the nature of any engagement, in light of the measures being proposed.

A Charter Statement also identifies potential justifications for any limits a bill may impose on Charter rights and freedoms. Section 1 of the Charter provides that rights and freedoms may be subject to reasonable limits if those limits are prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. This means that Parliament may enact laws that limit Charter rights and freedoms. The Charter will be violated only where a limit is not demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society.

A Charter Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public and Parliament on a bill’s potential effects on rights and freedoms that are neither trivial nor too speculative. It is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of all conceivable Charter considerations. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of a bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study and amendment of a bill. A Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a bill.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Combatting Hate Act: Proposed legislation to protect communities against hate

Rising antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia have left too many people feeling unsafe in their own communities. The Government of Canada has introduced the Combatting Hate Act to better protect access to places of worship, as well as schools, community centres and other specified places, and to more clearly address and denounce hate-motivated crime.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada