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Coastal Plants - Pukaskwa

Established in 2020, the coastal plants measure is composed of three sub-measures.

1) Rocky Coastal Plants
Since 2020, data has been collected on twenty (20) study sites for coastal plants along the shore of Lake Superior in Pukaskwa National Park.  Data are obtained from high and low impact areas to determine the frequency of each of the nine (9) abundant species of interest and to report on rare species. The goal is to monitor the success of these plant communities and the health of the coastal ecosystem which faces various threats from climate change, ecosystem change and human impacts.

2) Sparrow's-Egg Lady's-Slipper
Twenty-one (21) colonies of Sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper were mapped within Pukaskwa NP in 1979. Colonies are defined as clusters of Sparrow's-egg Lady's-slipper stalks found within one (1) meter of at least one additional stalk of Sparrow’s-egg Lady’s-slipper. Beginning in 1982 until 1990 all vegetative stalks, flowering stalks, and number of seed pods (capsules) persisting from the previous year were counted annually at each known colony. Additional surveys were performed once each year during 1992, 1993, 1999, 2001, 2016, and 2017. As of 2017 surveys have been performed once every two years. In 1983 colonies #50 and #51 were combined into colony #50-51 and colonies #45, #46, and #47 were combined into colony #45-46-47. Colonies #32, and #33 were not surveyed from 1985 to 1989 to mitigate the risk of trampling Northern Twayblade plants located in their vicinity. 

3) Pitcher's Thistle
Historically, Pukaskwa had two naturally occurring populations of Pitcher’s Thistle; Creek Beach and Crescent beach, both located in Oiseau Bay. On Sept. 22 & 23, 1985 there was a severe windstorm that severely affected the beach at Oiseau Bay and caused erosion at the colony site and then on June 26, 1986, there was a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain that caused the washout of a huge portion of the Crescent Beach colony. Both of the colonies have shown negative population trends to the point where the Crescent Beach colony is now considered extirpated. From 1982 to 2014, each location was divided into plots and within each plot, each plant was tagged with a unique identifier using dymo tape and a bicycle spoke. The life stage of the plant, the habitat it is in, the number of stems, the number of heads and flowering heads, whether it was affected by plume moth, and if the plant was missing, dead or if the tag was missing or removed were recorded. In 2015, the protocol changed so that only the number of seedlings, rosettes and flowering plants per plot is recorded. In 1991, Middle Beach was planted by seed and has been surveyed in the same way since 1992. This project aims to achieve the species' recovery strategy goals by maintaining and restoring 3 colonies in Pukaskwa, with a minimum of 800 plants total and that all have acceptable fluctuations (colonies show stable trends with no more than 30% decline in 1 year).

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Coastal Forest Productivity - Pukaskwa

Remote sensing techniques are used to monitor forest productivity in the park’s coastal ecodistricts: White River Plains and Coastal Hills.  Forest productivity is measured using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Landsat TM imagery (Landsat 5, 7 and 8) choosing dates of peak phenology for each image using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites.  Imagery is manipulated in PCI Geomatics Geomatica.  Productivity is assessed biennially using the NDVI and analyzed for a trend in the most recent 20 years of data.

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Forest Birds - Pukaskwa

Nine acoustic bird song meters are deployed to monitor boreal bird species in mixed wood forests during the peak breeding season (24 May to 10 July).  The song meters record morning (from 30 minutes before sunrise, for four hours) and evening (from 30 minutes before sunset, for one and a half hours). During each sample period (i.e. morning and evening) each song meter records every 30 minutes, for 10 minutes. Two recordings from each of the nine locations are selected randomly for interpretation and analysis, one from early (24 May to 17 June) and one from late (13 June to 10 July) in the breeding season. While selected randomly, the two recordings from each location must be a minimum of six days apart and the audio quality must be good (e.g. no wind and/or precipitation noise); otherwise, another recording is randomly selected. The data are analyzed to determine if the breeding bird communities of spruce-mixed wood forested ecosites and the functional richness and diversity of forest bird communities are being maintained over time. Species at Risk bird species are also monitored. 

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Peregrine Falcon - Pukaskwa

A peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum) survey of all known territories within Pukaskwa National Park is conducted annually during the breeding season (May 15 - July 15). Surveys are completed by trained observers most often by boat. The number of active territories is monitored as well as the proportion of these that are reproductively active. A protocol from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is used. Collected data are contributed to Environment and Climate Change Canada's national surveys and used to assess the overall status of peregrine falcons. 

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
2024-2025 Fees Report

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act, the Low‑Materiality Fees Regulations, and subsection 4.2.9 of the Treasury Board Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees the Department of Justice had the authority to charge in fiscal year 2024–25.

The report covers fees that are subject to the Service Fees Act.

For reporting purposes, fees are categorized by fee-setting mechanism. There are three mechanisms:

Act, regulation or fees notice
The authority to set these fees is delegated to a department, minister or Governor in Council pursuant to an act of Parliament.

Contract
Ministers have the inherent authority to enter into contracts, which are usually negotiated between the minister and an individual or organization, and which cover fees and other terms and conditions. In some cases, that authority may also be provided by an act of Parliament.

Market rate or auction
The authority to set these fees comes from an act of Parliament or a regulation, and the minister, department or Governor in Council has no control in determining the fee amount.

For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, the report provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee. For fees set by contract, the report provides totals only.

Fees charged by the Department of Justice under the Access to Information Act are not subject to the Service Fees Act and are not included in this report. Information on the Department of Justice’s access to information fees can be found in our annual report to Parliament on the administration of the Access to Information Act, the Department of Justice Access to Information and Privacy Reports.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Government Responses and Standing Committee Reports

Government Responses and Standing Committee Reports discuss reports tabled concerning justice-related issues. These responses are meant to provide greater insight into government decisions and the background that lead to these decisions.

Topics covered by these reports, dating back to 1998 include Corporate Liability, Mental Health in the Criminal Code, the appointment of Supreme Court Judges; Judicial Compensation among topics. 

The reports are structured to describe the background that led to the report, the response of the Government to the recommendations made and the recommendations themselves. Occasionally, annexes are included to provide context for readers or the data that drove decisions.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
GC HR and Pay - Quarterly Update Events

Senior leadership within Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) provide quarterly updates to stakeholders on the Government of Canada’s (GC) Human Resources (HR) and Pay. These updates, given to federal public servants and their unions, the media, and Parliamentarians, report on progress on the GC HR and Pay file with a focus on work to stabilize current operations and on transformation initiatives.

This ongoing series of events is a key component of PSPC’s Transparency by Design approach, launched on July 9, 2024.


Organization: Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Departmental Results Reports, Departmental Performance Reports

The Departmental Performance Reports and Departmental Results are similar, but different functions that serve to outline the strategic outcomes of the Department of Justice, but also the accomplishments that occurred over the fiscal year. The report describes to the purpose of the Department of Justice and the operating contexts that govern the department. 

The Departmental Performance Reports had been from 1999 to 2015, and the Departmental Results Reports have been published beginning in 2016. Starting in 2008, Financial Statements were included with the Reports as a supplement to the results. 

Please note that the Departmental Performance Reports from 1999 to 2010 have been archived and are accessible through the Library and Archives of Canada web archive and the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada respectively. Justice Canada no longer maintains these specific reports. 

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Interior Forest Productivity - Pukaskwa

Remote sensing techniques are used to monitor forest productivity in the park’s interior forest ecodistricts: Bremner Uplands, Widgeon Uplands and Pukaskwa River Plain.  Forest productivity is measured using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Landsat imagery (Landsat 5, 7 and 8) choosing dates of peak phenology for each image using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites.  Imagery is manipulated in PCI Geomatics Geomatica.  Productivity is assessed biennially using the NDVI and analyzed for a trend in the most recent 20 years of data.

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Human-wildlife coexistence incidents managed by Parks Canada

This Open Data Record is comprised of datasets that document human-wildlife coexistence incidents and response actions by Parks Canada Agency from 2010 to 2024. 

A human-wildlife coexistence (HWC) “incident” is any potential conflict situation between people and wildlife that was assigned to Parks Canada staff to manage to help ensure the safety and wellbeing of people and wildlife. The vast majority of HWC incidents are minor and staff are able to manage them safely with low risk to people, however, a small subset of the dataset is comprised of more hazardous incidents between people and wildlife that can potentially result in injury or death of either wildlife or people. 

HWC incident data inform Parks Canada Agency policies, programs, and operations, and enable evaluation of HWC patterns to help Parks Canada ensure safe and enjoyable visitor experiences while conserving wildlife and integrity of ecosystems across our national system of protected heritage areas.

For any single HWC incident, there may be multiple management actions taken or multiple animals involved, and therefore this Open Data Record includes separate datasets for incidents, responses, animals involved, and human activities. These four datasets include many shared fields, including a unique alphanumeric “Incident Number” that can be used to look-up records between the tables or to join the tables in a relational database. There are also thirteen derived datasets provided to summarize the total number of incidents, animal species involved, animals killed (by human causes), aggressive encounters, unnatural attractants, and response actions taken. Please note: these datasets include some incidents that Parks Canada staff were involved outside of park boundaries on surrounding lands or waters.

All HWC incident data remain subject to ongoing revisions as more information comes available or for quality control purposes. All protected, personal, private or confidential information has been removed from these datasets.

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs of October 2, 2025

Briefing package for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as witness before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (LCJC) on October 2, 2025 on the Bill S-209, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material.

Organization: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program (CPTC) - Certified Productions

These lists provide the following information on productions for which a Canadian film or video production (Part A) certificate (defined in subsection 125.4(1) of the Income Tax Act) was issued: the title of the production for which the certificate was issued, and the name of the taxpayer(s) to whom the certificate was issued. Where a production is a series, note it is possible that not all episodes were certified. Approximately every six months, the list of certified productions since 2010 will be withdrawn and replaced with a new update to report the addition of newly certified productions and the removal of revoked productions.

Organization: Canadian Heritage | Patrimoine canadien
Steamworks’ place at the European table proves that this Canadian company can hold its own in the international market

It was while sipping beer in the mid-1980s in a centuries-old brewhouse nestled in the shadow of the imposing 13th-century Heidelberg Castle that Eli Gershkovitch first tasted the possibility of his future as the owner of Steamworks Brewing Company.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Stories from the land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada

This interactive map is a collaborative project by the Geographical Names Board of Canada, illustrating a curated selection of places in Canada with names that have origins in multiple Indigenous languages. The names selected show the history and evolution of Indigenous place naming in Canada, from derived and inaccurate usage, to names provided by Indigenous organisations. Many Indigenous place names convey stories, knowledge, and descriptions of the land. By celebrating these names through this map, the Geographical Names Board of Canada hopes to increase the awareness of existing Indigenous place names and help promote the revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages. Many more Indigenous place names exist in Canada and will be added in future releases of this map. The content of this map is a compilation of information obtained from many current and historical sources. The Geographical Names Board of Canada does not warrant or guarantee that the information is accurate, complete or current at all times. For more information, to report data errors, or to suggest improvements to this application, please contact the Geographical Names Board of Canada Secretariat.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Canada and United States bilateral trade in goods, customs and balance of payments-basis, by currency and direction of trade, quarterly

<p>Canada and United States bilateral trade in goods data produced by Statistics Canada and the United States Census Bureau (customs basis) and the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (balance of payments basis). Data are presented before and after adjustments made to standardize definitions. Quarterly data are available on Customs and on Balance of payments basis and are not seasonally adjusted.</p>

Organization: Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Provincial Obstacles to Fish Passage

The Provincial Obstacles to Fish Passage theme presents records of all known obstacles to fish passage from several fisheries datasets. Records from the following datasets have been included: The Fisheries Information Summary System (FISS); the Fish Habitat Inventory and Information Program (FHIIP); the Field Data Information System (FDIS) and the Resource Analysis Branch (RAB) inventory studies. The main intent of this layer is to have a single layer of all known obstacles to fish passage. It is important to note that not all waterbodies have been studied and, not all lengths of many waterbodies have been studied so there are a very high number of obstacles in the real world that are not recorded in this dataset. This layer simply reports the obstacles to fish that are known. It is also very important to note that we are acknowledging these features as obstacles to fish passage versus barriers to fish passage. This is because an obstacle may be a barrier at one time of year but not at other times depending on the volume of water present and also, what is a barrier to one species of fish is not necessarily a barrier to another species.

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
RESULTS - Standards Units

Standards Units for an opening represents desired soil conservation limits and stocking outcomes for the defined net area to be reforested. An opening may have one or more standard units. Standards Units may not overlap. Older records may not have standard unit maps available. Stocking standards represent legal silviculture obligations for harvested areas for the defined standard units. This is part of the Silviculture and Land status Tracking dataset, which includes tracking achievement of silviculture obligations on Crown Land

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Distribution of Sea Otters - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Modeled data showing the likely distribution of sea otters. CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Local Health Area Boundaries

Local Health Area (LHA) boundaries; 2022 boundary configuration. The LHAs are a mutually exclusive and exhaustive classification of the land area in BC. LHAs are contiguous (land area is geographically adjacent) and fit within an existing geographical hierarchy structure, e.g., cannot violate higher-level geography boundaries such as the Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDA) and Health Authorities (HA).

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Distribution of California Sealions - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Modeled data showing the likely distribution of California sealions. CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative Boundary - Linework

The Georgia Basin Boundary dataset displays the extent of the Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative undertaken by the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. The objectives of the project are to support initiatives for clean air, clean water, habitat and species protection, and improved environmental decision-making in the Georgia Basin. The dataset consists of both a polygon layer and line layer

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Predictive Ecosystem Mapping (PEM) Project Boundaries

PEM_Projects contains Predictive Ecosystem Mapping (PEM) project boundaries (study areas) and attributes describing each project (project level metadata), plus links to the locations of other data associated with the project (e.g., reports, polygon datasets, plotfiles, legends). PEM uses modeling to divide the landscape into units according to a variety of ecological features including climate, physiography, surficial material, bedrock geology, soils and vegetation. This layer is derived from the STE_TEI_PROJECT_BOUNDARIES_SP layer by filtering on the PROJECT_TYPE attribute. Project types include: PEM, PEMWHR, and PEMSDM. Current version: v11 (published on 2024-10-03) Previous versions: v10 (published on 2023-11-14), v9 (published on 2023-03-01), v8 (published on 2016-09-01) Note that PEM polygon attribute data is not currently in the BCGW but is available for download in the TEI Data Distribution Packages. Refer to: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/terrestrial-ecosystem-information-tei-data-distribution-packages

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
MTA - Mineral Reserve Sites Business View

~~~~~~~~~~~~Defines areas within the province of British Columbia where mineral, placer and coal titles are restricted and placer titles are permitted. This business view contains a detailed set of attributes. A reserve is established by a B.C. Regulation of the Chief Gold Commissioner under - Section 22 of the Mineral Tenure Act: Mineral reserves - Section 21 of the Coal Act: Coal land reserves and it is the legal instrument used to prevent or restrict access to mineral, placer and coal lands.

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Oil and Gas Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Applications

The area of Crown land disturbance for applications falling within a Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) road allowance. The BC Energy Regulator issues cutting permits for any new Crown land disturbance within MOTI unconstructed road allowances. The Regulator does not issue land tenure over MOTI right of ways. This dataset contains polygon features for proposed applications collected through the Regulator's Application Management System (AMS). This dataset is updated nightly.

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM) Project Boundaries

Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM) project boundaries contains (study areas) and attributes describing each project (project level metadata), plus links to the locations of other data associated with the project (e.g., reports, polygon datasets, plotfiles, field data, legends).TEM divides the landscape into units according to a variety of ecological features including climate, physiography, surficial material, bedrock geology, soils and vegetation. This layer is derived from the STE_TEI_PROJECT_BOUNDARIES_SP layer by filtering on the PROJECT_TYPE attribute. Project Types include: TEM, NEM, TEMNSS, NEMNSS, TEMPRE, NEMPRE, TEMSEI, TEMSET, TEMTSM, TEMWHR, TEMSDM, TEMPRW, NEMPRW, and TEMSEW. Current version: v11 (published on 2024-10-03) Previous versions: v10 (published on 2023-11-14), v9 (published on 2023-03-01), v8 (published on 2016-09-01)

Organization: Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique