The Weather: Over a Century and a Half of Canada's Weather Data is Now Online Government of Canada. Press Release (July 31) "As the official
keeper of the nation's weather records, Environment Canada maintains a collection of over 200 million observations from over 7,000 sites some dating as far back as 1840." The National Climate Data and Information Archive is at http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/Welcome_e.html.
posted by gwen | 2:49 PM  

Dialog Newsroom: Dialog Newsroom (a for-fee service) has added more Canadian sources. Key sources are Canadian Press, Broadcast News, Toronto Star Metroland. Details at New Canadian Content Providers. Chronology (July / August 2003)
posted by gwen | 9:31 AM  

History: Our Roots (www.ourroots.ca) presents local history. "This unique, online, coast-to-coast record of Canadian local histories reflects the breadth and depth of our country's heritage, and celebrates the diverse landscapes, resources, and people that have contributed to sculpting its rich and ever-evolving national character. " This is a collaboration of " libraries, universities, colleges, archives, historical associations, businesses and individuals". Print materials have been digitized so that pages may be viewed as images. Collection may be browsed or searched by keyword.

posted by gwen | 9:08 AM

Wednesday, July 30, 2003  

Sympatico.ca Overture replaces Google at Sympatico.ca as the search engine. Overture will provide algorithmic search based on Fast/Allthewb, along with paid listings and paid inclusion for all English-language search. Sympatico will also be using Overture's Content Match for text listings on relevant content pages. Overture Sews Up Sympatico Internet News.com (July 24, 2003)
posted by gwen | 7:21 PM

Friday, July 25, 2003  

Government News: Government of Canada will be enhancing its News Room (news.gc.ca) to have more delivery channels (including RSS), more up to date, and easier searching. The News Room "provides a single access point for Government of Canada news releases, media advisories and background news information in both official languages." (Source: OLWeekly by Stephen Downes, July 21)
posted by gwen | 7:02 AM

Sunday, July 20, 2003  

Calgary: City of Calgary Deploys Plumtree Corporate Portal To Nearly One Million Residents "Portal Streamlines Public Services and Expands Collaboration For North America's Fastest-Growing City" (July 16, 2003)

From the press release: "The portal makes it easy for Calgary residents to interact with city employees and policy makers, giving them tools to provide feedback on city projects, to request building permits, dog licenses, review their property taxes and more. The City of Calgary is using the portal as a platform for developing Web applications to improve services and to decrease the total cost of providing online transactions for citizens. The public can view The City of Calgary's extranet portal at
http://www.calgary.ca ."

Calgary is using Plumtree Software.


posted by gwen | 7:45 AM

Wednesday, July 16, 2003  

WW1: War Diaries of the First World War at Archivia Net. "From the start of the First World War, CEF units were required to maintain a daily account of their “Actions in the Field.” This log was called a War Diary. The War Diaries are not personal diaries, rather they are a historical record of a unit’s administration, operations and activities during the First World War." (Source: ResearchBuzz)
posted by gwen | 10:42 AM

Monday, July 14, 2003  

Canadian Cuisine: Maclean's has a quiz to test how much you know about Canadian cuisine along with articles about the Canadian palate. Top Stories: The Best of Canadian Cuisine (July 1, 2003)
posted by gwen | 8:48 AM

Friday, July 11, 2003  

Yahoo Canada: Yahoo Canada revamped its site and is now more in line with the Yahoo.com form. Main page promotes Yahoo services more - directory is smaller, and Yahoo Movies in Canada is more prominent. Searching pages in Canada for west nile virus produces results similar to those from Google.ca. There is a basic search page at http://ca.search.yahoo.com/. See Yahoo Canada offers Canadian searches HotBytes, Econtent Institute (july 7, 2003)
posted by gwen | 11:47 AM  

Wi-Fi on VIA: VIA Rail will be offering Wi-Fi access to first class passengers in the Montreal - Toronto corridor in a test period of 4 months. All aboard with Wi-Fi on VIA Rail Canada ComputerWorld (July 10)
posted by gwen | 11:27 AM

Thursday, July 10, 2003  

Yahoo: Yahoo Canada Personals has added a "recommender" system to widen its dating service so that more people can find each other based on "affinities" - similar likes and dislikes. Yahoo Canada integrates 'afffinities'. Globe and Mail (July 9, 2003)

posted by gwen | 11:01 PM

Tuesday, July 08, 2003  

Sympatico and MSN.ca: Sympatico and MSN.ca Web portals to merge Canadian Press (June 16, 2003) -- "The two companies said Monday they will combine the content of Bell's Sympatico.ca and computing tools available from Microsoft's MSN.ca to create a co-branded portal to be available by next spring." Microsoft is also working with Rogers to develop a "mobile office experience".

posted by gwen | 12:01 PM

Monday, July 07, 2003  

Canada History Online: History of Canada Online is a resource from Blue Publishing for schools. Content is said to be drawn from the "best of the web" http://www.ottres.ca/hconline/index.html
posted by gwen | 12:35 PM

Thursday, July 03, 2003  

ProQuest and Canadian News: ProQuest has added 21 newspapers from CanWest and 50 Ontario newspapers including the Toronto Star from TorStar to its online databases and ProQuest Canadian Newsstand products . ProQuest news. (June 23, 2003)

As well, 11 newspapers have been added to eLibrary Canada -- Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Windsor Star.
posted by gwen | 11:34 AM