Youth Portal YouthPath is a new portal for young people in Canada. It was created by a team of some 400 young people with leadership and assistance from Human Resources Development Canada and 16 other federal departments. This is intended as a "single access point to government related youth programs, services and information". There are guides to jobs, travel, education, money, health (how to quit smoking) etc, a message board for discussion, polls, and news. It's very youthful, very animated, and very cool. If you don't like the Flash, you can turn it off.
Life on the Internet: "Canadian families are making major lifestyle changes in response ot the wave of new communications technologies entering their homes." This was the finding of a study done by The RBC Financial Group of the Royal Bank and Ipsos Reid and released in January. Canadian Familes and the Internet, the full report, is available in PDF Format from the RBC Newsroom - Internet is shaping the way in which Canadain families live and work together (Jan 23, 2002)
- 51% would take the computer to a desert island over the phone or television (if they anticipated they would be stuck there for a month)
- average family spends more than 32 hours online per week
- 39% of parents go online sometimes with their kids
- 59% of adults with the Internet at home have bought something onlin
- 37% of parents said they redesigned their homes to accommodate their computers
Technology News One very good way to stay up-to-date with Internet technology in Canada is to track the feature articles and headlines in the tech sections of the newspapers.
-- Globe and Mail tracks news and has feature articles in Globe Technology - www.globetechnology.com . SIgn up for weekly or daily tech alerts in your inbox.
-- National Post has Science and Technology together at www.nationalpost.com/tech. Stories may appear on the front page too.
-- Toronto Star keeps technology under business. Must select Business from the TorontoStar.ca home page. Has one week of stories.
-- itWorld Canada supplies Toronto Star articles. This is a full tech site from IDG Canada at itworldcanada.com/. Keep alert with the daily ITwire and get previews of the contents of the print magazines such as CIO Canada and ComputerWorld Canada.
-- CanWest coverage of technology is at the Canada.com site. It has a glossary, tool box, wire stories, and shopping. Also check the columnists such as Gillian Shaw of the Vancouver Sun, Andy Riga in the Montreal Gazette and others. Site will also point to features at the National Post such as the IT Monthly report. canada.com/technology/
For Film Buffs: The Globe and Mail has added a movie finder that will bring up film reviews done by Globe reviewers - Liam Lacey and Rick Groen. Go to http://www.globeandmail.com and select TV. Service has a simple search for keyword in title, actor, or director, and an advanced search with additional options for search by Globe rating, classification, year, and genre. Additional film information is obtained from the Movie Database. Film buffs can check "reviewed this week", and "movies on TV". Thank you Globe and Mail.
Newspaper Archives and Canadiana: Cold North Wind, an Ottawa company, is featuring a page from the past taken from the Toronto Star. This Day in History can be 10, 25, 50, 75, or 100 years ago.
In a project called Pages of the Past, Cold North Wind, working with Micromedia and the Toronto Star, has digitized and made searchable the complete contents of the Toronto Star going back to 1894 - including classifieds, photos, and obituaries. Pages of the Past, will be available by subscription through Micromedia. Micromedia, to help people know roughly where to look, has developed a Canadian Timeline. Search by subject, decade, or search for a keyword on the timeline - no subscription required.
Cold North Wind is also working with the US Newspaper Association on the America's Chronicles SM project to create digital archives of US community newspapers dating back to the 1600s. As well Cold North Wind is developing , Paper of Record, an historical newspaper portal project intended to have materials back to the 1700s.
Audio/Video: To mark Heritage Day (Feb 18), the Audio Video Preservation Trust of Canada added 12 classics to Masterworks 2002 along with video clips. There are categories for radio, tv, film, and sound recordings. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) was one of three for film. For television, there was This Hour Has 7 Days, Wojeck, and La Côte de Sable. There is a directory to the collections. Website: www.avtrust.ca
Knowledge Management: KnowMap, the "knowledge management, auditing and mapping magazine", is a fully web-based magazine now into its second year with the Jan/Feb 2002 issue. Xenia Stanford is the editor-in-chief. Publication is based in Calgary. It covers a wide range of topics that start with knowledge management but may also concern online learning, search engine positioning, records management and much else. There are several subscription plans. Explore at http://www.knowmap.com/
Search Engines: Somehow Danny Sullivan picked up a Report on Canadian Search Engines at advancehosting.ca. (http://www.advancedhosting.ca/review_search_engine_canada.htm). Wolfgang Leonhardt advises everyone (presumably Canadians) to make an effort to be listed in Canadian search engines. The short article has a list of 21 Canadian search engines. The list has several that are new to me: OnlyCanada.net, canseek.ca, canadopedia.com, canadiancontent.com. Most of the ones listed are OK and even interesting, but I do wish these Canadian sites would cease with the red maple leaves everywhere on a pink or red background.
Online News: Straightgoods, as it says in the mission statement, watches out "for Canadian consumers and citizens". Ever wonder where Linda McQuaig or Larry Solway went? Solway is running the Straight Goods Cyber Forum and McQuaig writes Corporate Watch. People needing a break from rightist views will like this site.
Online Shopping A report in the Globe and Mail (March 2, 2002) -- Bypassing their MDs, Canadians go on-line for drugs found that illegal drugs can be easily bought online and some Canadians are doing it. Canada Health Monitor estimates that up to 240,000 Canadians are buying prescription drugs online. The US Food and Drug Administration heard in hearings that up to 60 percent of drugs sold online may be counterfeit.
Buyer beware: prescription drugs on the Net is a related article (march 3/02) by Lanny Boutin and published at StraightGoods "Canada's independent online source of news you can use".
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