This website gives you fast, easy access to detailed records of air pollution, water quality, climate conditions and land use for hundreds of communities across Canada. All the data on this site were collected by provincial and federal government agencies. The Sources page gives you more information about where the data come from and what some of the technical terms mean.
Choose a category from the buttons at the top: Air (pollution concentrations and emissions); Water (pollution levels); Climate (temperature and precipitation); or Land (land use categories).
A menu will pop up that lets you select the data type (if applicable) then province and city. You can also choose to navigate by map.
The first edition of this website was developed in winter 2014 by Professor Ross McKitrick at the University of Guelph,
with funding support from the Research Fellowship in Sustainable Commerce at the College of Business and Economics.
The new edition was designed by Professor McKitrick in 2017 and developed by Sandbox Software Solutions.
Generous funding support has been received from the Donner Canadian Foundation, Davis Engineering Ltd
and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.