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  • The Canadian Journalism Project

    • Freelancers

  • Canadian Freelance News
  • Wooden Horse Publishing (magazine markets)
  • Writing for money (how to make money as a freelance writer)
  • Writers-Editors Network (links professional writers and editors with those who need content and editorial services)
  • WritersMarket.com

    Journalists

  • Canadian Association of Journalists
  • Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
  • Canadian Newspaper Association
  • Canadian Writers Journal
  • Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board
  • JournalismNet
  • Megasources
  • Periodical Writers Association of Canada
  • Resources for Journalists
  • Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time (links for journalists and other professionals by Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University journalism professor and WABC-TV Tech Guru)

    • Research and Resources

  • FindArticles (magazine articles available online)
  • Internet Public Library (links and information on many subjects)
  • Michael Fagan's Translation Wizard (gathers over 40 translation tools and puts them together through one interface)
  • National Library of Canada
  • Project Gutenberg (full text of thousands of public domain books)
  • Resource Central (links to 41 encyclopedias)
  • Suite 101 (clusters of interest-related links)
  • xrefer (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and quotations, all in one search box)
  • Weblogs ["Blogs"] (see http://www.bourque.org/bloggers.html and www.blogger.com)

    Portals and Directories

  • Google Web Directory
  • Lookup Center (large readable set of search boxes)
  • Refdesk
  • Startspot.com
  • WWW Virtual Library
  • Arts & Letters Daily (rescued from death, by The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • www.myway.com (a clean web portal: "No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.")

    • Canadian Focus

  • Bourque Newswatch
  • Canadian Health Network
  • Canadiana: The Canadian Resource Page
  • Canadian-based Publications Online (newspapers, periodicals, journals, E-zines)

    Phone Directories

  • Canada 411
  • Freeality (international phone directories including Canada)
  • Melissa Data (quick and easy lookups at your fingertips- address and phone number information, nonprofit organizations and more)

    • Search Engines

  • Google Canada (widely esteemed as the Web's best search engine. Also includes 20 year Usenet archive, 700 million messages)
  • alltheweb (widely esteemed as Google's best competition)
  • ilectric.com ("most relevant metasearch engine on the web" )
  • Metacrawler (improved single-box meta-search engine with choice of files (text, image, audio, etc.); includes Google, and Fast)

    • Newsfeeds

  • CNN.com
  • Independent Media Center (story links on peace, human rights, demonstrations, etc)
  • moreover (claims 4,000 sources; browsable and searchable in 363 news categories)
  • Newsnow (updates its headline/links every 5 minutes in 5 major categories)
  • Yahoo News
  • Google Headline News, and News Search (new format; 4000 news sources searchable by keyword for past 30 days; choice of listing by relevance, or by date)
  • Drudge Report (scoops, scandals, and links galore)

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    Arts and Entertainment

  • Julie Ann Bertram Canadian Singer Songwriter
  • Existence Records Canadian Publisher of electronic music


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