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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Vital Canadian articles

The list of vital Canadian articles is here. Notwithstanding the significance of the article subjects, many of the articles are in need of improvement.

Articles in dispute

These are articles are tagged as having either their neutrality or accuracy in dispute.

• Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (disputed neutrality)
• Bombardier (disputed neutrality)
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (disputed neutrality)
• Canadian identity (disputed neutrality)
• Canadian nationalism (disputed neutrality)
• Canadian Wheat Board (POV, edit wars)
• Lorne Park (disputed neutrality -- casual racism in the voice of Wikipedia, casual racism in the source used for the majority of history section)
• Nickle Resolution (neutrality, reads more like an argumentative essay in parts)
• Ottawa municipal election, 2006 (factual accuracy)
• Regent Park (dispute neutrality -- apparently the residents don't care for the environment, abuse social programs, etc.)
• René Lévesque (disputed neutrality)
• Rural Division has been changed to Saskatchewan Rivers School Division(NPOV)
• Stephanie Pakrul (disputed neutrality)
• Surrey School Board & Mary Polak (disputed neutrality)
• Val-Jalbert, Quebec (disputed neutrality)
• History of Chinese immigration to Canada - this currently is turning into something much more than "immigration" and shoudl be retitled to History of the Chinese in Canada or something like that; or its non-immigration material should be excised; there are tons of overlap between this and other chinese-Canadian articles, which are abundant and disproportionate to coverage of any othe group; and all highly POV due to the POV nature/tone of latter-day press/academic coverage. I've been trying to add gold rush-era material but haven't had a lot of time to do so; when I first found this article it mimicked/transposed US history on Canadian (a fault which Canadian Chinese organizations such as the CCNC seem in no hurry to correct). This article needs de-POV'ing and there's more content that can be added, including immigration/departure figures and a more frank discussion of anti-Chinse-immigration policies/debates than the usual "they were just racists" tone; ethnohistory articles should NOT be written only from the perspective of the ethnic group in question, nor should they be policied to maintain an ethno-biased POV.....(see Talk:Chinese Canadian for a sampling of such ethno-biaed POVs). I know this sounds "testy" and I guess it is; like others in Canada I'm getting tired of having "my" history rewritten to suit ethnic-atonement agendas and the brow-beating tone of such articles (this one's a lot better than when I found it, but still it's been an edit war at times). I'm leaving Wikipedia after next weekend (for quite a while, if not forever) so am leaving notes on things I know need doing; this is a big one, and its existence also implies, for fairness:
  • History of German immigration to Canada
  • History of Norwegian immigration to Canada
  • History of Ukrainian immigration to Canada
• etc ad nauseam.
• History of immigration to Canada talks about the Scandinavian immigration via california and there is zero cited source and I cannot find a source to back this up. Anything I've read says they strictly came from the east. All these sub-sections lack cited sources and its rather annoying when attempting to look up reliable information.
• War of 1812 - unexamined acceptance of manifest destiny, Pierre Berton is a fringe source, casual racism in the voice of Wikipedia. Elinruby (talk) 20:59, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
• Nova Scotia (POV, edit wars -- anti-Indigenous/Euro-centric framing; current in dispute resolution)

Articles to expand

These are articles that are stubs or in need of expansion

• Canadiana has no examples. Compare to Kiwiana or Australiana.
• Meridian Credit Union
• Harmonized Sales Tax
• Ottawa The capital of Canada, and it's not even at GA status.
• Quebec City One of Canada's most beautiful cities and it's not up to GA standards.
• Ontario_Securities_Commission
• Greater Toronto English A distinctive dialect spoken within the Greater Toronto Area region mostly by younger kids. Needs substantial content improvements though, regarding the fact that both of its slangs and vocabulary words have been mostly shared by Multicultural London English and influences from Caribbean origin.
• Foreign Investment Review Agency. Needs substantial content improvements.
• The DMZ at Ryerson University Needs substantial content improvements.

Events

• Festival of the Sound
• History of flooding in Canada - specifically the current 2007 flood situation in British Columbia
• Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP
• History stubs
• Canadian current events
• Parti Québécois leadership election, 2005
• Airbus affair
• Fur trade
• Reciprocity (Canadian politics)
• Newfoundland National Convention
• Imperial Tobacco v. British Columbia
• Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership election, 2006
• Caledonia occupation
• 2006 World Outgames
• Canadian Marathon Championships
• Canadian 10Km Road Race Championships
• Canadian Cross Country Championships
• Canadian 5Km Road Race Championships
• Canadian Track and Field Championships
• Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships
• Canadian Youth Track and Field Championships
• AC Indoor Open
• Bastille Day § Canada (see WT:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board § Bastille Day in Canada)
• General Elections: 1878, 1882, 1887, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1949, 1953, 1958,

People

• Stubs: People, Politicians, Quebecers, Writers, Musicians

• Ned Goodman
• Libby Burnham
• Diane Urquhart
• Johnny Wayne
• Frank Shuster
• Richard Burnett
• Paul MacEwan Nova Scotia NDP/Liberal/CBLP MLA
• Rod Zimmer (Canadian Senator and Winnipeg businssman)
• John Clarke (activist), leader of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
• Philip Owen, former mayor of Vancouver BC **I added this page but it's significantly improved over how it was, maybe it should come off? Maybe someone could check and see what they think?--Anchoress 07:16, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
• Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester — a complicated and controversial figure, he's been called the "Father of British Canada" ([1]), the best British general in America during the American Revolution, and credited (or blamed) for inspiring and enacting the Quebec Act of 1774. A hugely important person, but you would not know it from the current state of his Wikipedia article.
• Larysa Harapyn
• Julie Stewart actress
• Mary Ormsby sports writer
• Nancy Durham journalist
• David Florida space pioneer
• John R. Anderson (diplomat) diplomat and military officer
• David Pearson (scientist)
• Paul Workman journalist
• Alban Garon, unsolved murder of a Canadian Chief Justice who had retired a few years ago, who was brutally beaten to death with his wife and friend, with no suspects.
• Terry Driver, aka the Abbotsford killer
• Red Fisher (journalist), journalist
• Moya Greene, President and CEO of Canada Post
• Dimitri Soudas, Prime Minister Harper's Press Secretary, needs much expansion, infobox, succession box
• Mario Laguë, diplomat and communications director for the Liberal Party
• Harold Williams (geologist) — article currently contains only one source, a blog post reporting his recent death. Richwales (talk · contribs) 05:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
• William J. S. Elliott - could use a picture of the subject
• Sandra McCardell - ambassador from Canada to Libya before being recalled due to 2011 Uprising
• Stephen J. Tanner - currently Kingston Police chief

Government and Politics

• List of indigenous Canadian politicians - needs updating in general, and Nunavut section is totally empty, despite having many elected Indigenous territorial politicians
• Toronto municipal election, 2014 - needs to be updated with election results for all wards.
• Historical rankings of Canadian prime ministers - U.S., British and Australian pages exist so I have created a stub using the three surveys I could find. Please add others.
• Established Programs Financing
• Kingston Police
• Question Period
• Registered Disability Savings Plan
• Timeline of the Canadian federal election, 2008
• Doman Scandal
• BC Legislature Raids - needs huge and complicated updating; I've shied away from it because of complexity, needs bio and trial(s) split-off articles.
• Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) - Complete list of former VCDSs needed
• Rent regulation in Canada - article is quite incomplete as to laws in several provinces
• Library and Archives Canada - article is very outdated and needs to be reviewed and updated. Some sources compiled in the talk page.
• Proposed Canadian annexation of the Turks and Caicos Islands
• List of reeves of the former townships and villages in Toronto (also List of reeves and mayors of East York, List of reeves and mayors of Scarborough, Ontario. List of reeves and mayors of Etobicoke, North_York#Governance, and York,_Toronto#Politics) - would benefit if we could include a few sentences at least on each reeve and mayor. There may not be enough to merit each reeve/mayor having their own article but there should be at least some basic biographical information available - even if it's only a few words. For instance, for List of reeves and mayors of Etobicoke you can find at least a sentence on each reeve on this page from the Etobicoke Historical Society.[2]
• Regular Force - It's a major component of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the article is pretty bare.
• National Defence Headquarters (Canada) - The article is quite small relative to the topic's importance.
• Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School - Needs to be expanded
• Canadian Defence Academy This does not contain much information.
• Fortissimo Sunset Ceremony
• Regional Development Agency (Canada)
• 2022 Toronto mayoral election - Will need monitoring and regular updating now that candidates are starting to announce.

Buildings and locations

• Geography stubs: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Building and structure stubs
• Old Quebec
• Cartier Railway
• Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Fairview Mall
• Garibaldi Provincial Park
• The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
• John H. Chapman Space Centre
• Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway - needs more references
• Bountiful, British Columbia
• Sainte Catherine Street
• Inside Passage
• New Westminster should be a priority article for BC; sections could/should be split off and expanded, civic history and more should be added, plus the usual climate etc sections; kinda random right now and cluttery.

Organizations and officials

• Stubs: Broadcasting, Government, Politics
• Calgary Stampeders
• Canada and the United Nations (added 18 Jan)
• Canada Border Services Agency
• Canada Command
• Canadian Federation of Independent Business
• Canadian International Development Agency
• Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
• Diplomatic Forum
• Health regions of Canada (red links)
• Lubicon Cree
• Montreal Star
• numbered company
• Pacific Cinémathèque; new article, some reported copyvio issues (leading to an AfD) but worth expanding
• Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
• Premier of Ontario
• Sun Belt Water Inc.
• Terry Fox Run
• Tax Court of Canada
• Toronto Humane Society
• Transport Canada (lots of sections that need to be added to)
• Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police
• Frontier College
• Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research
• Windsor Police Service
• Windsor International Film Festival
• Freemasonry in Canada
• Operation Black Vote Canada

Miscellany

• Stubs: Canada, Ottawa, Quebec, Railways, Roads, Schools, Universities
• Canada Day
• Canada First Defence Strategy
• Canadian Monopoly
• Continentalism
• Découverte
• E.N.G.
• HIV/AIDS in Canada
• The Jamaica
• I Am Canadian - needs referencing
• Local history - needs CanCon
• military budget of Canada - needs much more detail including comments about underfunding
• Mountain pine beetle Importance: [3]
• New Music Canada
• star candidate - would be good to add star candidates of the past.
• Les Plouffe
• Living tree doctrine
• Compare Agriculture in Canada to Agriculture in Australia or Agriculture in India and tell me you didn't weep. I saw what you mean-this page has been added to, it has been filled in somewhat now.
• Sedzé
• List of companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange - List needs to be completed - List has now been subdivided into individual alpha pages (e.g., Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (A)), and is now up-to-date and complete as of December 2007. Mlaffs (talk) 02:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
• List of Canadian Royal Commissions - many red links here
• Virginie - needs expansion from a francophone likely more familiar with the show
• Providence (Quebec TV series) - same as above
• The Guard (Canadian TV series)
• Population of Canadian federal ridings - carries data from the 2006 election - about 5 years old
• Politics of Toronto - no proper citations and could be expanded much more
• Time and Chance - virtually just a substub needing massive expansion
• Archiinocellia - Eocene snakefly genus from Horsefly, British Columbia needing assessing and possible cleanup
• Two Solitudes (Canadian society) - needs much more
• Cannabis in Canada - expand. I set it up as a bunch of links.
• Quebec comics - especially info from the last 20 years; more images would help

Articles to clean-up

These articles are tagged as needing to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.

• Athabasca University Students' Union
• Steamboats of the Stikine River
• Saint John, New Brunswick harbour cleanup
• Kwantlen University College
• 1995 Quebec referendum
• Aemilius Jarvis (businessperson, Ontario Bond Scandal)
• Albert C. Field
• Alfred Heinz Reumayr
• American and Canadian football position names
• Banking in Canada
• BC-STV
• Canada-Cuba relations
• Canadian armed forces divers
• Canadian Conservatism
• Canadian cuisine - Needs general organization and goals. Are we attempting to describe the general landscape of Canadian cuisine in terms of flavours, variation and general foods eaten (not limited to Canadian brands or invented foods) and/or trying to curate a list of uniquely Canadian food brands / inventions? Additionally, for the uniquely Canadian items, what is our cut off? Some of the foods are very regional and niche as opposed to widely accepted examples of Maple Syrup, Tim Hortons and Poutine.
• Canadian federal election results in the Laurentides, Outaouais and Northern Quebec
• Canadian name - Needs information on Aboriginal Canadian names
• Canadian Unitarian Council
• Christine Simpson
• Celebration of Light
• Concordia University College of Alberta
• COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec - needs updated information to reflect recent changes, maps and statistics need updating, tagged Dec 2020
• Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
• David Emerson
• The DMZ at Ryerson University
• École Secondaire Catholique Garneau
• Elizabeth May
• Expo 86
• Paul-André Fortier
• Frederick Phillip Grove
• Ian Gregson - lacks inline citations
• Infrastructure Canada
• Intuit Canada
• Great Coalition
• Kazzer
• Keith R. Thompson - article about this academic is a stub with one reference as of Mar 11, 2020. Should include info about his research, papers, etc.
• Langara College
• List of University of Toronto people - needs referencing to connect people with U of T.
• Marjorie Willison
• Mascouche, Quebec
• McLarens Settlement, Ontario
• Micronutrient Initiative - needs name change to Nutrition International
• Minister of Research and Innovation (Ontario)
• Newfoundland and Labrador - needs a lot of work, citing and adding info.
• Nuclear power in Canada - needs more citations
• Pacific Scandal
• Peter Nordbeck - tagged for notability and expand
• Priddis Greens, Alberta
• Primus Canada
• Queen West Art Crawl
• Rob Nicholson a better picture is needed
• Scarborough Town Centre
• Service Canada
• Quebec Resolutions
• Shell Canada lawsuit
• St. John Cathedral (Edmonton)
• Staggered Crossing limited notability; needs reliable sources or faces deletion.
• Stan Kutcher - horrible citations, looks like it's copied and pasted from a University essay
• Symphony of Fire
• Tourism in Canada
• Canada–United States softwood lumber dispute - "Looking ahead" section needs updating
• Ward Elcock
• William Alexander Fraser
• Yves Pelletier

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Disambiguation issues

Sometimes, articles are written which mistakenly link to disambiguation pages, or even directly to incorrect topics. These need to be monitored from time to time to ensure that incorrect links are replaced. Some such pages are listed here; if you want to assist in cleaning up links, use the "what links here" page on the given article, and correct the link in any case where you are sure that the actual intended topic is the Canadian one. If you're unsure, please post to WP:CANTALK for assistance. Also please add other pages here which need this type of monitoring, if known.

Please note that as there are always new articles being written, this is a permanent list that needs ongoing monitoring. Accordingly, please do not remove a location from this list just because you've cleaned up all the incorrect links that existed at one specific time, as new incorrect links will invariably exist again in the future.

Links to wrong article

Fixing this type of incorrect link is the top priority.

• Churchill (redir to Winston Churchill) --> Churchill, Manitoba or Churchill (electoral district)
• Cornwall (article about county in England) --> Cornwall, Ontario, also the Cornwall Ranch (Ashcroft Manor) and adjoining Cornwall Hills
• Dauphin (article about the royal connotations) --> Dauphin, Manitoba
• Hanover (city in Germany) --> Hanover, Ontario
• London (city in England) --> London, Ontario
• Morden (article about town in England) --> Morden, Manitoba
• Paris (city in France) --> Paris, Ontario
• Selkirk (article about town in Scotland) --> Selkirk, Manitoba or Selkirk (electoral district) or Selkirk Mountains
• Truro (article about town in England) --> Truro, Nova Scotia

Disambiguation pages

These should be corrected whenever possible, although since the dab page offers a link to the correct article it's not as crucial to fix these promptly as it is to fix links to the wrong article altogether.

• Brandon --> Brandon, Manitoba
• Chatham --> Chatham, Ontario
• Gander --> Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, or to any of fourteen other related articles.
• Gimli --> Gimli, Manitoba
• Halifax --> either Halifax, Nova Scotia (former city) or Halifax Regional Municipality
• Hamilton --> Hamilton, Ontario
• Kingston --> Kingston, Ontario or Kingston, New Brunswick or Kingston, Nova Scotia
• Langley --> Langley, British Columbia or sometimes in HBC references to Fort Langley
• North Bay --> North Bay, Ontario
• Pembroke --> Pembroke, Ontario
• Regina --> Regina, Saskatchewan
• Saint John --> Saint John, New Brunswick
• St. John's --> St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Sarnia --> Sarnia, Ontario
• Steinbach --> Steinbach, Manitoba
• Sudbury --> Sudbury, Ontario; Greater Sudbury; Sudbury District, Ontario; Sudbury (electoral district).
• Surrey --> Surrey, British Columbia
• Swan River --> Swan River, Manitoba
• Tavistock --> Tavistock, Ontario
• Thompson --> Thompson, Manitoba
• Tiverton --> Tiverton, Ontario
• Victoria --> Victoria, British Columbia, or any of several Victoria (electoral districts), or Victoria, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Windsor --> Windsor, Ontario
• Winkler --> Winkler, Manitoba