Open data Canada

http://open.canada.ca/en
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html#

datasets

EUROPE http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
CANADA http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html
United Nations http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
Calgary https://data.calgary.ca/opendata/Pages/DatasetListingAlphabetical.aspx
Netherlands http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/home/default.htm

datavis.ca

Gallery of Data Visualization
The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics

http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/index.php