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Canadian Questions

Course Number: GC221

Subject: Global Citizenship

Searching tips
  • consider your terms and synonyms (some might be objectionable)
    • indigenous, "first nations," "first peoples," aboriginal, indian
  • "phrase searching"
  • truncat* (finds truncate, truncation)
  • search in different fields (anywhere, title, subject)
  • use AND OR NOT
Books and eBooks
  • In Omni, limit your search results to Books and eBooks
    • other limits include: Available online or Publication date
  • consider your terminology, and the fields you are searching
    • keyword anywhere
    • title
    • subject
  • "moral and ethical aspects" or "religious aspects" to terms related to the course:
    • Indigenous Women; Israel and Palestine; Sudan War or conflict; Sikhs Canada; racism, schools; economic inequality education; factory farming; oil and gas, drilling; meat consumption and climate change; disabled, employment; housing

Books on Christian ethics and theology
Lee, Hak Joon, and Tim Dearborn, eds. Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2020.
Very Short Introductions (Oxford)
Articles
  • In Omni, limit your search results to Articles
    • other limits include: Available online; Peer-Reviewed Journals, or Publication date
  • Because Omni contains a large and wide range of resources, it can sometimes be hard to narrow down to what you really need. 
  • For all topics in this course, try using
  • Other subject-specific databases could include:

Current news sources
  • Google News
    • From from around the world; you can't get past paywalls
    • Save searches
  • Canadian News (Proquest)
    • Full text of Canadian news sources from many newspapers, including articles, columns, editorials and features
    • Note: Save search/alerts; Document URL
  • CPI.Q (Gale)
    • Index for Canadian academic journals and popular magazines
    • Note: Search Alerts, Get Link
  • Nexis Uni
    • Full text for Canadian (e.g, Waterloo Record) and international sources
    • Note: Create search alerts; Link to this page
    • less easy to use, but has some handy search commands
Topical Coverage of News
Christian and denominational viewpoints

There is no one place that allows you to view resources that describe Christian or denominational responses to an issue. However, there are some tricks to searching Google effectively.

  • limit to a Canadian domain: site:ca
  • limit to a document type: filetype:pdf (organizations sometimes "publish" their material)

In addition, consider searching the sites of particular organizations

For denominational websites: