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Title of Dataset:	Organization:	Status:	Short Description:	Vote:
Postal Code Database	Canada Post	Under review	The Postal Code database that corresponds Postal Codes to geographic locations denoted by a Longitude and Latitude or Street Address range.	Thumbs up (1184people agree)
Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS)	Shared Services Canada	Released in February 2014	For information on all Government of Canada programs and services, call 1 800 O-Canada (1-800-622-6232) Government Electronic Directory...	Thumbs up (967people agree)
Veterans of world war I and world war II	Veterans Affairs	Released in part in May 2013	Historical records of Canadians who served in war, their names, ages, home town, rank, where they served, when they served, with which...	Thumbs up (790people agree)
Agreements between mining corporations and aboriginal communities or governments	Natural Resources Canada	Under review	Data behind this document: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/minerals-metals/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca.minerals-metals/files/files/pdf/abor-auto/aam-eac-...	Thumbs up (776people agree)
Government of Canada Publications	Public Works and Government Services Canada	Released in October 2014	The Government of Canada Publications catalogue contains extensive data and information about GoC publications. Opening up this data would...	Thumbs up (749people agree)
Canadian Amateur Radio Call Sign Database	Industry Canada	Department Contacted	The database is available online already so it just needs to be added to your catalogue. It is searchable via a number of sites including...	Thumbs up (748people agree)
Average household income by FSA (2011)	Statistics Canada	In-Progress	One number for each FSA, the average household income for each FSA.	Thumbs up (735people agree)
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Records	Industry Canada	Department Contacted	The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Records Search database contains: • basic debtor information of all bankruptcies and proposals registered...	Thumbs up (728people agree)
Digital Charts	Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Under review	Digital Charts from the Canadian Hydrographic Service. The CHS offers exceptional digital charts in two formats – Electronic Navigational...	Thumbs up (724people agree)
Canadian Patent Database	Canadian Intellectual Property Office	Under review	CIPO's Canadian Patent Database. This database lets you access 93 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and...	Thumbs up (718people agree)
Pathogen Safety Data Sheets and Risk Assessment	Public Health Agency of Canada	Under review	Pathogen Safety Data Sheets (PSDSs) (previously titled Material Safety Data Sheets for infectious substances) are technical documents that...	Thumbs up (706people agree)
Licenced Fishing Vessel Directory	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	Information about all vessels that have been issued licences to commercially harvest specific species in the Pacific Region e.g. http://...	Thumbs up (697people agree)
Canadian Trade-marks Database	Canadian Intellectual Property Office	Under review	CIPO's Canadian Trade-marks Database. This database lets you access trade-marks.	Thumbs up (694people agree)
Historical Treaties	Natural Resources Canada; Earth Sciences Sector; Mapping Information Branch	In-Progress	I like that the maps are available with the officially adopted Historical Indian Treaties. What would be really helpful is if the GIS ready...	Thumbs up (692people agree)
Lobbying Data	Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying Canada	Released in March 2014	Lobbying activities from the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying Canada. Data behind the 12-Month Lobbying Activity Search (https://ocl-...	Thumbs up (689people agree)
Data from Canada Pension Plan : Old Age Security - Statistical Bulletin	Employment and Social Development Canada	Released in January 2014	Data tables found within the Statistical Bulletin 'Canada Pension Plan: Old Age Security'. Including: Net Amount paid for benefits,...	Thumbs up (689people agree)
Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS)	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS)	Thumbs up (688people agree)
Lightning Danger Locations	Environment Canada	Department Contacted	The data from which the Lightning Danger Maps are drawn, that is, a real-time or near-real-time feed or generated file containing the...	Thumbs up (687people agree)
Canadian Daily UV Index Forecast	Environment Canada	Released in February 2014	Daily UV forecast for major Canadian centers is currently offered in text format: http://weather.gc.ca/forecast/public_bulletins_e.html?...	Thumbs up (677people agree)
Vehicle Recalls Database	Transport Canada	Released in September 2012	The Vehicle Recalls Database is used by Transport Canada's Defect Investigations and Recalls Division to record and publish recalls...	Thumbs up (675people agree)
Proactive Disclosure (Hospitality, grant, contracts)	Government of Canada	Released in February 2015	It would be nice if we could get the proactive disclosure information in a common format between department. This would allow better linked...	Thumbs up (673people agree)
National Historic Sites of Canada	Parks Canada	Department Contacted	List of the National Historic Sites of Canada released in a KML format, that could easily be incorporated into a map using a virtual globe...	Thumbs up (671people agree)
National Occupational Classification (NOC)	Statistics Canada	Released in November 2013	The NOC is designed to classify occupational information from statistical surveys. It is also used in a range of contexts to compile,...	Thumbs up (671people agree)
Postal codes and federal ridings	Elections Canada	Department Contacted	Elections Canada already provides a search engine where you can find your federal riding, by postal code. It would be very useful to have...	Thumbs up (670people agree)
500 m gridded bathymetry	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	For Atlantic Canada DFO has created a 500 m gridded bathymetry data set that is delivered as a web mapping service. This data set should be...	Thumbs up (668people agree)
Activity or Fitness Level of Canadians	Statistics Canada	Released in October 2014	Health and fitness related data sets that describe the activity or fitness level of Canadians.	Thumbs up (666people agree)
Canada-Wide Tax Rates	Canada Revenue Agency	Released in November 2014	With eCommerce needing support, we need to look up daily rates for provinces with regards to taxation, every day. Every morning, I...	Thumbs up (664people agree)
National Household Survey	Statistics Canada	Released in May 2013	This survey provide statistical information about people in Canada by their demographic, social and economic characteristics as well as...	Thumbs up (657people agree)
Breakdown of Immigration Categories and Source Countries	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Department Contacted	The breakdown of immigration categories and their source countries. For example, what are the top source countries for economic immigrants...	Thumbs up (654people agree)
Flying hours to flight crew licence issuance	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	Number of hours required before issuance of private pilot licence, broken down by anonymized student and by the recommending instructor,...	Thumbs up (652people agree)
Hospital Wait Times	Health Canada	Released in February 2015	Emergency room wait times by hospital; updated hourly. May require anonymous, electronic patient sign in / sign out system. Set:...	Thumbs up (651people agree)
Top 100 dispensed drug in Canada	Health Canada	Department Contacted	The topmost drug (generic and brand name) prescribed by the doctors all over Canada, their cost and total expenditure from the patient's...	Thumbs up (650people agree)
Sales Tax Rates	Canada Revenue Agency	Released in November 2014	Sales tax rates per province and territory available via API such that a POS system could regularly request updated rate information...	Thumbs up (645people agree)
Traffic Flow	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	Vehicular Traffic Flow and Pedestrian Traffic Flow	Thumbs up (643people agree)
Current and Upcoming Elections	Elections Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to be able to see all elections that are upcoming in Canada with the type (federal, provincial, municipal, by-election..), the...	Thumbs up (641people agree)
Historical Fisheries Catch Data	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	This dataset would include historical harvest data for all Pacific and Atlantic fisheries. Data would encompass harvested weights and...	Thumbs up (640people agree)
Median Household Income and Household Income Distribution by Census Subdivision for 2011	Statistics Canada	Released in September 2013	The Median Household Income and Household Income Distribution by Census Subdivision for 2011	Thumbs up (640people agree)
Nautical maps/Lidar	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	Please make all nautical raster maps & .shp files available for free as per topo maps, badly need Lidar data for all of Canada...	Thumbs up (639people agree)
Federal Corporations	Industry Canada	Released in February 2014	There is a search available that would be nice to access through opendata. www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpSrch.html?...	Thumbs up (637people agree)
Wholesale Price Reports	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	Department Contacted	The data behind the Weekly Wholesale Prices Reports.	Thumbs up (635people agree)
Aboriginals	Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada	Released in part in February 2014	Data about Aboriginals, including: communities treaties land claims social issues natural resources agreements with the...	Thumbs up (633people agree)
Long-Term Climate Change impacts for Ontario	Environment Canada	In-Progress	Would like user-friendly spatial data showing how climate change will impact Ontario, if it exists. i.e.. areas more likely to...	Thumbs up (632people agree)
Companies that Outsource	Industry Canada	In-Progress	Provide a list of companies in Canada that outsource work/jobs to other countries	Thumbs up (630people agree)
Canadian importer database	Industry Canada	Released in January 2013	The database tables comprising the Canadian Importer Database at http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cid-dic.nsf/eng/home. The web interface is...	Thumbs up (629people agree)
Federal Pre-Budget Submissions	Parliament of Canada	In-Progress	Each year the Standing Committee on Finance receives and published all pre-budget submissions from taxpayers and organization. The database...	Thumbs up (628people agree)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Awards Database	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)	Released in February 2014	All research awards that are already publicly available to be also available with the Open Government License. This includes: NSERC...	Thumbs up (628people agree)
Federally regulated businesses	Industry Canada	Department contacted	Legal name, business or trade name, Industry classification, address and any other contact information that is available for federally...	Thumbs up (627people agree)
Occurrence statistics	Transportation Safety Board of Canada	Released in 2014	Yearly and monthly breakdown of occurrences in rail air marine and pipeline.	Thumbs up (622people agree)
New Salmon Escapement Database (NuSEDS)	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Released in November 2014	Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Pacific Region's centralized database that holds adult salmon escapement data. Specifically, the...	Thumbs up (620people agree)
Bedford Basin Monitoring Program	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Under review	The Bedford Institute of Oceanography has been collecting weekly profiles of water conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD), as well as...	Thumbs up (618people agree)
Postal Codes by Federal Ridings File (PCFRF)	Statistic Canada	Released in January 2014	I would like to have a file that lists Postal codes and the associated Federal Electoral Riding. Here is the information that I would...	Thumbs up (617people agree)
Parliamentary Committee appearances	Parliament of Canada	In-Progress	Names of all witnesses appearing before parliamentary committees, with the topics of the meeting, and the organization that the witnesses...	Thumbs up (616people agree)
Data on food ingredients	Canadian Food Inspection Agency	Department Contacted	Data on ingredients in food for the purpose of identifying any health warnings to consumers. This could be used in an app that would allow...	Thumbs up (614people agree)
Full budgetary expenditures in detail	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Released	This dataset would simply be an entire breakdown of the budget. With this dataset, patriotic developers are able to make interactive...	Thumbs up (613people agree)
Landed Weight and Landed Value of Fish, by species, fishery, gear and year	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	In-Progress	The data published at http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/stats/comm/summ-somm/annsumm-sommann/2012/ANNUAL12_USER_three_party_groups.htm is just a...	Thumbs up (612people agree)
Research Survey Dataset	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	The research survey dataset that contains the catch by species for all research bottom trawling surveys. The dataset would include location...	Thumbs up (612people agree)
Vessel position report records	Canadian Coast Guard	In-Progress	Yearly records of vessel position reports to Marine Communication Traffic Centres	Thumbs up (612people agree)
Aviation Charts, Publications and Weather Data	NavCanada	In-Progress	Aviation Charts such as navigation charts, terminal charts, publications such as Canadian Airport Charts (airport diagrams), Canada Flight...	Thumbs up (612people agree)
Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation data	Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada	Department Contacted	Data pertaining to the operation and oversight of residential schools organized in a geo-tagged format by institution location	Thumbs up (610people agree)
Competition Bureau Merger Registry	Competition Bureau (Industry Canada)	In-Progress	The Competition Bureau currently publishes a monthly report of concluded merger reviews on its website (http://www.competitionbureau.gc....	Thumbs up (609people agree)
CIHR Canadian Research Information System	Canadian Institutes of Health Research - CIHR	Department Contacted	All research awards that are already publicly available to be also available with the Open Government License. This includes: CIHR...	Thumbs up (608people agree)
Detailed Fisheries Harvest Data	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	This dataset would include highly detailed information about commercial fisheries harvests on both coasts. In the Pacific, for example, the...	Thumbs up (608people agree)
Canada's Sixth National Report on Climate Change: 2014	Environment Canada	Department Contacted	This is a report that is submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It should be available as a PDF and with...	Thumbs up (607people agree)
Income by municipality of employment along with municipality of residence	Statistics Canada	Released in October 2013	A dataset that shows what municipalities individuals work in, their income, and what municipalities they live in.	Thumbs up (607people agree)
Ecocide acts	Justice Canada	In-Progress	Recognizing extensive damage of our environment, the web of life as ecocide is being debated at international forum, at the World Congress...	Thumbs up (607people agree)
Dietary Reference Intakes	Health Canada	Department Contacted	The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are a comprehensive set of nutrient reference values for healthy populations that can be used for...	Thumbs up (605people agree)
Sexually transmitted disease diagnosis/reporting rates by location, age, date	Public Health Agency of Canada	Department Contacted	Sexually transmitted disease diagnosis/reporting rates by location, age, date.	Thumbs up (605people agree)
Mapping of airport and aerodrome and rail lines	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	Datasets that allow for mapping of airport and aerodrome and rail lines	Thumbs up (605people agree)
List of terrorist acts within canada and sovereign soil	Public Safety Canada	Released in 2013	Would be nice to have a similar dataset as what is available from the United States, especially for academic research/papers; specifically...	Thumbs up (602people agree)
Prison inmates costs for Canadians	Correctional Service of Canada	In-Progress	The cost, to taxpayers, to house an inmate in Canadian prisons.	Thumbs up (602people agree)
Divorce and Maintenance	Justice Canada	Department Contacted	I would like a database for divorce, child support, maintenance, Who pays, how long, how many times they have to go to court to vary each...	Thumbs up (601people agree)
Job Bank API	Employment and Social Development Canada	Under review	We would like live access to the job listings made available on the Job Bank site so they can be accessed by web and mobile applications.	Thumbs up (600people agree)
Flickr photos of historical significance	Library and Archives Canada	Department Contacted	LAC releases many pictures on their Flickr photostream, but many are not available for commercial re-use, making them unsuitable for...	Thumbs up (599people agree)
Postsecondary enrolment by Province, Institution type, and Field of Study	Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	A dataset of postsecondary enrolment by Province and field of study would be helpful for both public and private sector human resource...	Thumbs up (597people agree)
Members of Legislature Public Service	Parliament of Canada	Department Contacted	Members of legislature from each province with details on their riding, photo, etc. as available, for example, from: http://www1.gnb.ca/...	Thumbs up (597people agree)
Wages by Occupation for Canada, Provinces and Economic Regions	Employment and Social Development Canada	Released in January 2014	Minimum, median and maximum wages for Canada, provinces, territories and economic regions by all 520 specific occupation determined by the...	Thumbs up (594people agree)
Annual Report data for Legislated Employment Equity Program (LEEP) employers	Employment and Social Development Canada	Under review	Individual annual report data that have been submitted to the Labour Program by federally regulated private sector employers and Crown...	Thumbs up (593people agree)
Billings for Clinical Laboratory Testing by Physician and Lab	Health Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to see all of the medical laboratory tests that are billed by physicians and the labs throughout Canada, with information that...	Thumbs up (593people agree)
Regional Polygon Datasets	Natural Resources Canada	Released in September 2012	In many provinces, the province is described as 'regions', i.e. for Electoral Boundaries or for environment Canada use.. i.e., Lower...	Thumbs up (592people agree)
Provincial data citizenship and immigration data	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Department Contacted	It would be fruitful for if the permanent/temporary resident were also broken down by provinces.	Thumbs up (591people agree)
Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises	Industry Canada	Released in February 2013	The survey is designed to find out what kinds of financing small and medium enterprises are using, and to collect information on recent...	Thumbs up (590people agree)
Permafrost in Canada	Natural Resources Canada	Released in March 2013	Data used to create the Permafrost map of Canada	Thumbs up (590people agree)
Canadian Recreational Facility Listing	Parks Canada	Department Contacted	A listing of all of the hockey arenas across the country. Also listing the addresses (including longitude/latitude).	Thumbs up (589people agree)
Nuclear Energy	Ontario power generation	Not collected by the Government of Canada	Nuclear workforce in Canada and retirees per year	Thumbs up (589people agree)
Elections Information	Elections Canada	Department Contacted	Upcoming elections in canada with all the information provided for voters. Where do I vote? how/where to vote...	Thumbs up (588people agree)
DFAIT & United Nations Meeting Notes	Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade	Department Contacted	How many Canadians in our government work outside Canada with international partners such as the United Nations, World Bank, ILO, etc. How...	Thumbs up (588people agree)
Unemployment by occupational classification by province	Employment and Social Development Canada	Released in January 2014	Number of unemployed by occupational class per each province.	Thumbs up (587people agree)
Government Employee Details	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Released in February 2015	Can you publish the dataset of all employee of the government (federal,state,local,city etc) with the following info: salary,age,race,sex,...	Thumbs up (587people agree)
Provincial data sets - in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) format	Canadian Securities Administrators	Under review	The Canadian Securities Administrators' XBRL financial filings database. The only way to access this data is via SEDAR. Only human queries...	Thumbs up (585people agree)
Patient contacted drug recall	Health Canada	Released in October 2014	Pharmacy collaboration in contacting prescribers when drug recall occurs	Thumbs up (584people agree)
eManifest data	Canada Border Services Agency	Under review	All manifest data made available on a monthly basis from all ship, rail, ground and air transportation coming in and out of Canada. The...	Thumbs up (583people agree)
CANSIM Access Metadata	Statistics Canada	Under review	Data on the access requests made via CANSIM for Statistics Canada datasets. Would be interesting to see the level of demand for StatsCan...	Thumbs up (583people agree)
Imports and Exports by Country	Statistics Canada	Released in 2014	Imports and exports by country - trade data at the 6-digit commodity level (HS)	Thumbs up (583people agree)
F.I.R.S.T. Find Information on Recovery and Safety Tips	Public Safety	In-Progress	Information on what to do in the event of a flood or fire. People and numbers to call. Things to avoid and precautions to take. Basically...	Thumbs up (583people agree)
National Defence Budget Data	National Defence	Department Contacted	Annual current, historical and planned budget expenditure for National Defence with similar levels of detail as that published by the US...	Thumbs up (583people agree)
Taxes collected	Public Works and Government Services Canada	Released in January 2015	Each department that collects taxes for internal or external services or for the government at large should be disclosing this information...	Thumbs up (582people agree)
High resolution shoreline, defining intertidal	Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	Users would like to access the high resolution shoreline dataset so that they can start building other products off of it, including...	Thumbs up (582people agree)
General Well Data	Saskatchewan Energy And Resources	Not collected by the Government of Canada	General Well Data and Production Data for the Province of Saskatchewan.	Thumbs up (580people agree)
Prevelance of Minimum Wage Earners	Statistics Canada / Employment and Social Development Canada	Department Contacted	When the Minimum Wage Database was hosted by Statcan it contained information about the prevalence of employees earning minimum wage by...	Thumbs up (579people agree)
List of Departments & agencies within the federal government / Registry of Applied Titles	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Department Contacted	Although http://canada.ca/en/gov/dept/index.html provides the list, however, there is no export formats like CSV, JSON, or XML for computer...	Thumbs up (578people agree)
Database of government official visits	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Development Canada	Department Contacted	Database of all visits of foreign government officials in Canada, and all Canadian government officials visits abroad, either through...	Thumbs up (578people agree)
North American Industry Classification System codes (NAICS)	Statistics Canada	Released in January 2012	This dataset would include all of the codes in the North American Industry Classification System, a short description of the code and a...	Thumbs up (578people agree)
Real Property	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Released	I would like to get a data for all the building managed by Government of Canada	Thumbs up (574people agree)
Science Library Collections	Science Departments (Health, CFIA, AAFC ,NRCan, NSERC, NRC,..)	Department Contacted	I would like to see the contents of the library catalogues (like the old dewey decimal system) for the library holdings of science...	Thumbs up (574people agree)
Wait times for security screening in airports	Canadian Air Transport Security Authority	Under review	Wait times in airports as defined by http://www.catsa.gc.ca/waittimes	Thumbs up (573people agree)
Severe weather alerts	Environment Canada	Department Contacted	Severe weather alerts watches and warnings	Thumbs up (573people agree)
Youth In Transition Survey	Statistics Canada	Under review	The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is a longitudinal survey undertaken jointly by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills...	Thumbs up (572people agree)
NTv2 Grid Shift Files (.gsb)	Natural Resources Canada	Released	You can sign in and get the gsb files at http://webapp.geod.nrcan.gc.ca/geod/tools-outils/ntv2.php or the desktop application but it would...	Thumbs up (572people agree)
Management Accountabilty Framework (MAF) Results	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Under review	Historical MAF Results by Department	Thumbs up (571people agree)
National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System	Canadian Institute for Health Information	Department Contacted	Which medical providers prescribes which pharmaceutical drugs? How often? Patient level data should be anonymized or aggregated	Thumbs up (570people agree)
National Graduates Survey	Statistics Canada	Released in January 2015	This survey was designed to determine such factors as: the extent to which graduates of postsecondary programs had been successful in...	Thumbs up (567people agree)
Correctional Facility Locations	Correctional Services Canada	Department Contacted	A dataset that shows the location of federal correctional facilities (all levels) by latitude and longitude	Thumbs up (567people agree)
Countries that visit data.gc.ca, with catagories of interest	Open Government Secretariat, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Under review	Based on the current "Top 10 most Downloaded Datasets since launch" visting countries and categories of interest are separate tables. Build...	Thumbs up (567people agree)
Occupational Employment Statistics	Statistics Canada	Released in January 2014	Users would like to compile data for research on Occupational Employment Statistics for North America and can easily retrieve very granular...	Thumbs up (567people agree)
The breakdown of immigration categories and their source countries	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Under review	The breakdown of immigration categories and their source countries. For example, what are the top source countries for economic immigrants...	Thumbs up (565people agree)
Labour Market Opinon Database	Employment and Social Development Canada	Department Contacted	The dataset should include the business names of companies that applied for Labour Market Opinion, the province of the business location,...	Thumbs up (565people agree)
Travel Health	Public Health Agency of Canada	Department Contacted	Public Health Agency of Canada has travel health information at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/	Thumbs up (564people agree)
Government-wide Transfer Payments by Recipient	Government of Canada	Released in September 2013	As an example, this data set (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/donneesouvertes-opendata/cpc-pac/PA-V3-S6-2014-eng.csv) should be...	Thumbs up (563people agree)
Ontario Cellphone Towers Information	Industry Canada	Department Contacted	Include each cellphone tower as a unique record with information list in the below fields: Name/Tower ID Location/Address Town/...	Thumbs up (562people agree)
Listing of communities by Province and by Region for all of Canada	Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	A listing of all communities (incorporated and unincorporated and Indian Bands / First Nations, listed not only by Province, but also by...	Thumbs up (557people agree)
Records of the number of Canadians abroad, by country	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Released in September 2010	I would like to have access to a database that provides the number of Canadians living in a foreign country, for all countries.	Thumbs up (556people agree)
Historical Census Data	Library and Archives Canada	Department Contacted	Library and Archives Canada has a searchable database on their website of several historical Canadian censuses from 1825 to 1916. The...	Thumbs up (552people agree)
Public Sector Salary Disclosure	Ministry of Finance	Department Contacted	http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/pssd/ - The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 (the act) makes Ontario's...	Thumbs up (550people agree)
Harmonized Drainage Basin Boundaries shared by Canada and the U.S.	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Under review	International Joint Commission, NRCan, EC Description of the dataset you would like to make available: Seamless hydro data between Canada...	Thumbs up (550people agree)
Federal Right-Of-Way boundaries	Natural Resources Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to have access to federally regulated right-of-way boundaries for pipelines.	Thumbs up (549people agree)
Temporary Resident Visas issued by Region Federal government institution	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Under review	I would like to see statistics on temporary resident visas issued by Region.	Thumbs up (549people agree)
CIDA Project Investments and Benefits	Canadian International Development Agency	Released in 2013	Publish data on the number of projects that are underway and in what countries are they engaged in. This will help Canadians triangulate...	Thumbs up (548people agree)
Institute of Ocean Sciences Water Properties Data Holdings	Department of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences	Department Contacted	Metadata Inventory of water profiles. Including information about Temperature, Salinity, Transmissometer, Nutrients (nitrate, silcate OR...	Thumbs up (546people agree)
Proposed Laws	Ministry of Justice	Department Contacted	Proposed acts and bills, and their status	Thumbs up (545people agree)
Vehicle Class Emissions	Natural Resources Canada	Released in October 2013	I am looking for a dataset that collects average CO2 emissions and fuel use for standard vehicle types, rather than specific vehicle models...	Thumbs up (540people agree)
Crop inventory map	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	Released in February 2014	Annual crop inventory maps of canada.	Thumbs up (540people agree)
Pharmaceutical Drugs for Human Use	Health Canada	Under review	Electronic copies of all labels for pharmaceutical drugs that have been approved by Health Canada.	Thumbs up (539people agree)
Radar Data	Environment Canada	Department Contacted	Myself and hundreds if not thousands of weather enthusiasts would like access to free, raw Canadian Doppler Radar Data (Reflectivity,...	Thumbs up (538people agree)
List of Government of Canada policy instruments	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Department Contacted	List of approved policy instruments with associated metadata including: instrument type, effective date, OPI, primary, secondary and...	Thumbs up (532people agree)
Location of natural gas development wells in Canada	Ministry of Natural Resources	Department Contacted	I would like to obtain a dataset that includes the following: Well identifier In-service year Shutdown year Well status (...	Thumbs up (529people agree)
List of Canadian companies operating abroad	Canadian Trade Commissioner Service	Under review	A list of Canadian companies that operate abroad, including the countries where they operate.	Thumbs up (526people agree)
ALL YEARS of "Total Entries of Temporary Foreign Worker..."	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Under review	I would really like to see all years for this data set. When on-line, the only data made avaiable is from 2009 onward. This is for research...	Thumbs up (522people agree)
Outdoor Recreational Spaces	Parks Canada	Department Contacted	A list of all municipal and township owned and maintained outdoor play areas including but not limited to skating rinks, playgrounds, bike...	Thumbs up (521people agree)
Political Contributions	Elections Canada	Released	Political donations to parties, leadership campaigns, etc. as recorded by Elections Canada. They have a large publicly-accessible database...	Thumbs up (519people agree)
Infrastructure/building projects by forward sortation area (FSA)	Infrastructure Canada	Department Contacted	A list of new public infrastructure/building projects by forward sortation area (FSA).	Thumbs up (516people agree)
Citizenship and Immigration Canada Processing Times	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Department Contacted	Published processing times in August and September 2013 for Overseas spousal sponsorship applications in Canada and then at the London High...	Thumbs up (510people agree)
DB web	Government organization		News headlines in Quebec	Thumbs up (506people agree)
Aeronautical maps, digital	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	The full set of digitized aeronautical maps published in a manner similar to the FAA in the US. At present these maps are only...	Thumbs up (501people agree)
Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund Project Reports	Environment Canada	Department Contacted	The Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund has provided funding in two phases, starting in 2008. Interim or final project reports are...	Thumbs up (487people agree)
Canadian regulatory and legislative text	Department of Justice	Department Contacted	The laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/ site provided by the Department of Justice is searchable through an on-line form, but the search is limited. I...	Thumbs up (483people agree)
Community Mailbox location	Canada Post	Department Contacted	Location data of community mailbox. Ideally location by long/lat, but could also be by other form of reference (civic address, etc...	Thumbs up (481people agree)
Parking tickets	Municipal government	Not collected by the Government of Canada	I would like to get the parking ticket paid by each location with geocode by year.	Thumbs up (478people agree)
Insured vehicle by region or cities	Municipal government	Not collected by the Government of Canada	I would like to see if we could get numbers of vehicle insured or registered in each region or cities.	Thumbs up (473people agree)
List of GC policy instruments	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Department Contacted	List of approved policy instruments with associated metadata including: instrument type, effective date, OPI, primary, secondary and...	Thumbs up (471people agree)
Number of restricted fire zone days by date/ by park	Natural Resources Canada	Department Contacted	I want to see what the best time to go camping is, you could use this to determine the likelihood of a given week having a fire ban.	Thumbs up (470people agree)
Number of new permanent resident entries at each port of entry	Citizenship and Immigration Canada and/or Canada Border Services Agency	Department Contacted	Number of permanent residents admitted every year from each port of entry.	Thumbs up (468people agree)
Aboriginal Business Directory	Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada	Department Contacted	List of Aboriginal Businesses in Canada with details including Primary Business Activity, number of employees and total sales, along with...	Thumbs up (466people agree)
Overturned denials of permanent residency	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Department Contacted	The current datasets show the number of applications made, approved, denied, withdrawn, etc. It would be helpful to know how many...	Thumbs up (463people agree)
Public Service Staffing Actions	Public Service Commission of Canada	Department Contacted	Information on public service staffing actions by year, broken into: processes initiated, notices of intent to appoint, notices of...	Thumbs up (459people agree)
Traits of Plants in Canada (TOPIC)	Natural Resources Canada	Department Contacted	Functional traits of Canadian flora from the TOPIC database used by Literature Review Module and the Empirical Measurements Module.	Thumbs up (447people agree)
Canada Gazette	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Department Contacted	The Canada Gazette is searchable through an on-line form, but the search is limited. I would like to see an API developed for the Canada...	Thumbs up (442people agree)
Gas Station: Price & Location	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	The data set would be updated regularly and would ideally include the price for each gas and the location for each gas station across...	Thumbs up (412people agree)
Security clearances	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Department Contacted	Volumetric information on personal security clearances. http://iss-ssi.pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca/ssi-iss-services/esp-pss-eng.html	Thumbs up (303people agree)
Canadian Company Capabilities	Industry Canada	Department Contacted	Companies that can supply an organization with the goods, services and technology it needs. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ccc-rec.nsf/eng...	Thumbs up (252people agree)
National Hydro Network	Natural Resources Canada	Department Contacted	It would be great to be able to download one shapefile that covers an entire province of hydro features	Thumbs up (242people agree)
Pesticide Product Information Database	Health Canada	Department Contacted	Pesticide Product Information Database for accurately identifying and obtaining detailed agricultural pesticides. I'm considering the...	Thumbs up (235people agree)
List of Federal Institutions	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Released in 2011-12-07	In Burolis, TBS displays federal institution codes; 2 columns (Code, Institution URL). I'd like to see a dataset that consists of 3...	Thumbs up (226people agree)
Orders in Council Database	Privy Council Office	Department Contacted	The same information as made available in HTML format via this form http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/oic-ddc.asp	Thumbs up (226people agree)
Military Medals, Honours and Awards, 1812-1969	Veterans Affairs Canada	Department Contacted	http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/military-medals-1812-1969/Pages/military-medals-honours-awards.aspx There is a...	Thumbs up (225people agree)
Processing Times of All Visa Categories by Visa Office Over Time	Citizenship and Immigration Canada	Department Contacted	The average processing times of different visas, broken down by the visa office it is being processed at, over time. Additional Comments...	Thumbs up (224people agree)
Parks of Canada, in collaboration with other levels of government	Parks Canada	Department Contacted	A master list of all national and provincial parks (municipal if possible) as well as their accompanying facilities, fees, location (either...	Thumbs up (217people agree)
Departmental machine readable files inventory	Machine Readable Archives (MRA) division of the Public Archives of Canada	Department Contacted	In 1975-1976, the Machine Readable Archives (MRA) division of the Public Archives of Canada undertook a survey of all machine readable data...	Thumbs up (217people agree)
Permanent Residence Applications still in processing that have exceeded posted processing timelines	Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	Details of permanent residence applications still in processing that have exceeded the posted processing timeframe, including the Canadian...	Thumbs up (214people agree)
Base boundaries	Department of National Defence	Department Contacted	GIS file for the outer boundary of all bases and training areas.	Thumbs up (211people agree)
8-metre resolution bathymetry data	Department of Fisheries and Oceans	Department Contacted	Detailed bathymetry at resolutions from 1-metre to 16-metres, depending upon sea floor complexity. This would be consistent with such...	Thumbs up (209people agree)
Artists in Canada	National Art Gallery	Department Contacted		Thumbs up (202people agree)
Permanent Residents by Immigration Category and Citizenship	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Under review	Description of PRs by immigrant category and citizenship so we can know for example where economic immigrants are coming from	Thumbs up (109people agree)
Canada Time Zone	None	Not collected by the Government of Canada	Looking for GIS files (Google Earth KML/KMZ, MapInfo TAB file etc) that contains polygons for the Canadian time zone boundaries (both...	Thumbs up (105people agree)
In land refugee claim by port of entry	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada	Under review	In land refugee claim by port of entry with source countries	Thumbs up (104people agree)
Permanent Residents by Immigration Category, Province, and Citizenship	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Under review	Permanent Residents, for each province, by their immigration and citizenship. E.g. for PRs to BC, where do economic immigrants come from?	Thumbs up (91people agree)
Education level of Immigranst by Admission Category	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	A yearly table of the educational level, broken down by admission category for all immigrants, and for those over 15 years of age. Another...	Thumbs up (81people agree)
Annual caseload of people recieving CPP/QPP disability benefits	Employment and Social Development Canada	Department contacted	Annual caseload of people receiving CPP/QPP disability benefits over the past 10-15 years	Thumbs up (74people agree)
Carbon Footprint of Government of Canada Travel	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Department Contacted	The new Shared Travel Services (STS) Portal, provided by travel management company Hogg Robinson Group (HRG), is the gateway to the...	Thumbs up (74people agree)
ITB Procurements	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	Department contacted	There used to be an RSS feed of this data, then the RSS was broken for a while, and now it no longer exists. It'd be great to convert this...	Thumbs up (72people agree)
Job Bank Historical Data	Employment and Social Development Canada	Department Contacted	The number of postings per month, separated by a rough measure of skill such as an education requirement, or occupation (preferred), or...	Thumbs up (72people agree)
Members of Parliament and their Hill and Constituency staff	House of Commons	Department Contacted	Members of Parliament and the staff of their Hill and Constituency offices, with addresses, both physical and email, phone numbers etc.	Thumbs up (71people agree)
Medical Device Licences List	Health Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to have an interactive access to the public list of Medical Devices Licenses that are already published on the Health Canada...	Thumbs up (70people agree)
Department of Canadian Heritage grant recipients	Canadian Heritage	Released	The recipients of grants from each of Canadian Heritage's funding programs, including the names of the recipients, location (city) of the...	Thumbs up (70people agree)
Restaurant and Food Service Inspection in Canada	Provincial / municipal governments	Not collected by the Government of Canada	API to pull all warnings/violations issued by the CFIA to individual restaurants/stores.	Thumbs up (70people agree)
Primary and Secondary schools	Provincial Government	Not collected by the Government of Canada	A comprehensive list of primary and secondary schools in Canada from all provinces containing names of each school, the postal code,...	Thumbs up (69people agree)
CRTC ILECs Tariffs	Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission	Department Contacted	Please provide the list of tariffs with details like vendor name, location, crtc agreement number, item number, service description, rate,...	Thumbs up (68people agree)
Passport Canada Office Wait Times	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	A live feed of queue length could help people who work nearby choose an optimal time to go to the passport office. A historical day-of-...	Thumbs up (68people agree)
MyDemocracy	Government of Canada, Vox Pop Labs	Department contacted	There is an Opinion Survey being conducted by the Government of Canada here: https://www.mydemocracy.ca. Short of any personally...	Thumbs up (67people agree)
Number of all categories of visa applications for last 10-15 years	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	Dataset should consist of below : A number of all categories of application received since last 10 -15 years. Status of the...	Thumbs up (67people agree)
Economic Activity by Municipality	Canada Revenue Agency	Department Contacted	Quarterly data set of the business activity by municipality based on GST/HST reporting data. This data would be used to to track economic...	Thumbs up (67people agree)
Airworthiness Directives	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	Airworthiness Directives for all Canadian registered aircraft. Here is the link to the public website: http://wwwapps3.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur...	Thumbs up (66people agree)
Permanent Residents by country and education level 1960 to 2015	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	It should include data on skilled workers (principal applicants) by country of citizenship and education level. If possible, please publish...	Thumbs up (65people agree)
List of all aircraft, including non-Canadian planes, that take off from and land at Canadian airports.	NavCanada	Not collected by the Government of Canada	List of all the aircraft, including foreign planes (non-Canadian planes and planes that are not registered in Canada), that take off from...	Thumbs up (64people agree)
Urban Buildings - City of Ottawa	Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	A shapefile containing they footprint of more than 300,000 buildings in the City of Ottawa.	Thumbs up (64people agree)
SWOOP 2015	Land Information Ontario	Not collected by the Government of Canada	All of the current (2015) South Western Ontario Orthophotography Project Data as well as subsequent Central Ontario data next year.	Thumbs up (64people agree)
Canadian government liabilities	Statistics Canada	Released	List of liabilities Including federal pension shortfalls and crown corporations	Thumbs up (63people agree)
Public Statutory Holidays	None	Not collected by the Government of Canada	API that gives the public statutory holidays in Canada, and for each province.	Thumbs up (63people agree)
Total Property Insured Value per Province	Finances Canada	Department Contacted	I would like a dataset that gives a breakdown of total property insured per province.	Thumbs up (63people agree)
Netfile .TAX format and schema information	Canada Revenue Agency	Department Contacted	The Netfile process and documentation for electronically filing tax returns is only available to qualified commercial software vendors....	Thumbs up (63people agree)
Radio License Information	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	Department Contacted	All radio license information once available through the TAFL website (http://spectrum.ic.gc.ca/tafl/taflindex.html) that is transitioned...	Thumbs up (63people agree)
Tax Brackets 2015	Canada Revenue Agency	Released	2015 Tax Brackets in JSON format	Thumbs up (60people agree)
Assignment and Licensing System (ALS) database	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	Department Contacted	Entire dataset of antenna licences with coordinates and carriers for mapping purposes.	Thumbs up (60people agree)
Geographic Attribute File - 2001 Census	Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	The equivalent file for the Geographic Attribute File - 2006 Census & Geographic Attribute File - 2011 Census. The 2001 is needed to...	Thumbs up (59people agree)
Defence Research Reports	Defence Research and Development Canada	Department Contacted	A collection of these reports are already available online, but are not listed in the open data catalog. The dataset is available at http...	Thumbs up (57people agree)
Survey Results on Monument to Victims of Communism	Canadian Heritage	Department Contacted	Full responses of Canadians to the survey of the Department of Heritage on the Victims of Communism Monument. This should include all...	Thumbs up (57people agree)
Anti-terrorism Financing	Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada	Department contacted	http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/fi-if/amlc-clrpc/atf-fat/Pages/default.aspx These file exports aren't optimized for machine reading --...	Thumbs up (56people agree)
Database of predatory journals	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	Department Contacted	There has been an increase in the number of predatory journals that are being published. These journals undermine actual scientific...	Thumbs up (44people agree)
Parliament, Cabinet and prime minister	Parliament of Canada	Department Contacted	I am wondering whether it is possible to have access to the dataset that feeds this site: http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/...	Thumbs up (43people agree)
Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries	Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada	Department contacted	The boundaries of all Canadian Aboriginal Lands (i.e. reservations) in shape file format. You do have it in other formats that are not...	Thumbs up (42people agree)
Airline complaints	Canadian Transportation Agency	Department contacted	All airline complaints submitted to Canadian Transportation Agency. The nature of the complaint example, delays, cancellations, bad...	Thumbs up (40people agree)
Annual expenditures on internal audit	Treasury Board Secretariat, all departments and agencies	Department Contacted	Annual expenditures on internal audit functions by department/agency and for Canada; would be nice to obtain greater detail with respect to...	Thumbs up (39people agree)
Obstacle Limitation Surface		Not collected by the Government of Canada	Obstacle Limitation Surfaces (OLS) are a series of surfaces that set the height limits of object around an airport, runway or helicopter...	Thumbs up (38people agree)
Animal production by species	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	Department contacted	Animal production by region. Number of producers by category (meat/ fur/ research/ reintroduction etc) It would be valuable information...	Thumbs up (36people agree)
List of designated educational institutions	Employment and Social Development Canada	Department contacted	Master List of designated educational institutions containing all the educational institutions where students are eligible to receive...	Thumbs up (35people agree)
Population of Federal Public Service by department and by function (HR, Internal Audit, etc.) annually - internal auditors	Treasury Board Secretariat	Department Contacted	The dataset that I viewed does not have a breakdown by the function, for example people working in HR, Finance, Internal Audit, etc. I...	Thumbs up (32people agree)
Protected areas in Canada	CCEA	Not collected by the Government of Canada	Shapefile database of protected areas in Canada http://www.ccea.org/download-carts-data/	Thumbs up (32people agree)
Aerodrome Shapefile	Transport Canada	Department Contacted	A shapefile in any format including all aerodromes in Canada. This is for the purpose of determining proximity to aerodromes in order to...	Thumbs up (28people agree)
Population by Age and Province	Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to see a dataset that shows population per province broken into age. Rather than the grouped versions available now, I would...	Thumbs up (22people agree)
All Department & Agency Contracts & Amendments Over $10,000	Treasury Board Secretariat	Department Contacted	The Government of Canada’s Guidelines on the Proactive Disclosure of Contracts states that all departments must publish all contracts...	Thumbs up (22people agree)
Study permit holders by Province/Territory, Citizenship and Level of Study, as of December 31st	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	This dataset would expand on the existing “Study permit holders by Province/Territory and Citizenship, as of December 31st” dataset by...	Thumbs up (21people agree)
Super visas	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	Hello I am looking for information on the number of super visas allotted to parents and grandparents over the age of 50 . If possible break...	Thumbs up (21people agree)
Courts and Tribunals	Justice Canada and other Boards and Tribunals with decision making authority	Department Contacted	If we review the annual reports of many courts and tribunals, they do provide basic data such as: number of claims, success rates by party...	Thumbs up (20people agree)
List of cities/towns/municipalities/hamlets or CSDs in Canada	Canada Revenue Agency / Statistics Canada	Department Contacted	A list of cities/towns/municipalities/hamlets or “Census Subdivisions (CSD)” according to Stats Canada for Canada.	Thumbs up (20people agree)
Representative data sets	Elections Canada	Released	All federal, provincial, and municipal elected positions. Their election status, incumbent, next election for that position, if election is...	Thumbs up (20people agree)
Citizenship Revocations 1947-2017	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	I would like to know how many Canadian citizens have had their citizenship revoked since 1947, and on what grounds. There is very little...	Thumbs up (19people agree)
Canada 150	Canadian Heritage	Under Review	It would be interesting to see all the projects/proposals that got submitted but not approved ....While I understand the decision behind...	Thumbs up (18people agree)
Rates of Pay for Public Servants	Treasury Board Secretariat	Department Contacted	Open (JSON) format of pay rates for public servants, including all Collective agreements, and student rates of pay.	Thumbs up (15people agree)
Number of contractual employees in the federal public service	Treasury Board Secretariat	Department Contacted	I would like to know how many "contractual" employees employed in the Public Service of Canada. After reading the mandate of the PSC, it...	Thumbs up (7people agree)
Estimate of the population of undocumented immigrants residing in Canada	Canadian Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Department Contacted	If the CBSA or IRCC tracks estimates of the undocumented/unauthorized immigrant population in Canada, this information would be very...	Thumbs up (6people agree)
Fraser Valley Wild, Threatened and Lost Streams	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Department Contacted	Fraser Valley Wild, Threatened and Lost Streams interactive map. Able to pin point location and ability to turn off and on endangered...	Thumbs up (5people agree)
Historical range of dinosaurs / Map of major dinosaur discoveries	Parks Canada	Department Contacted	A dataset showing polygons with historical dinosaur ranges across Canada. This should probably come with another layer portraying how the...	Thumbs up (1people agree)

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