Canadian Questions

• 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

• 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

Lee, Hak Joon, and Tim Dearborn, eds. Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2020.

• Jenkins, Willis. The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013.
• Singh, David Emmanuel, and Bernard C. Farr. The Bible and Christian Ethics. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2013.

These Oxford University Press publications provide helpful ideas and terminology for your topic.

• Climate Change
• Christian Ethics
• Education
• Food
• Globalization
• International Relations
• Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
• Peace
• Poverty 
• Racism
• Refugees
• Theology

• 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
  • Atla Religion Database
• Other subject-specific databases could include:
  • Poverty and Inequality
    • EconLit
  • International relations
    • PAIS Index
  • Climate Change
    • GEOBASE
  • Indigenous Reconciliation
    • Sociology Collection

• 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

• The Hill Times
  • coverage of Canadian politics

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

• Arpa
  • [term] site:https://arpacanada.ca
• Cardus
  • [term] site:https://www.cardus.ca
• Citizens for Public Justice
  • [term] site:https://cpj.ca
• Liberty Coalition Canada
  • [term] site:https://libertycoalitioncanada.com

For denominational websites:

• Canadian Church Headquarters Directory (ecumenism.net)