BalanceTV.ca is about strategies for living well. Covers food, wellness, relationships. Brought to you by CTV Canadian Living. Very good looking site.
The National Library of Canada has a homework page for kids. I suspect parents will get more use out of it than kids. It's colourful but a tad serious. Age levels are indicated - as if kids would care. Canadian heroes in fact and fiction has potential but is missing hundreds of names. National Library of Canada - Kids Page http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/6/29/index-e.html (Mentioned in the Sympatico newsletter)
The MyYahoo Canada is slipping in its news options. It still shows Canadian Press and some categories of Reuters Canada as available but they haven't been updated for months. Instead Canadians can personalize their choices for Headline News & Politics to Yahoo Full Coverage, top stories from NPR, Reuters including World News from Reuters Canada (but no other category such as Canada alone), AP and AP Canada. Very slim pickings and all US.
At least at MSN.ca one can get CBC, Maclean's, and Le Soleil - along with MSNBC.
Sympatico gets its news stories from the Globe and Mail but there are no updates over the weekend, and some categories can get stuck on one story for many days. Bob Hope died a week ago and that is still the top entertainment story. Odd that MySympatico doesn't get stories from CTV as well.
CBC.ca has a nice feature by which you can personalize the news page to your location. Thus I can see the top 3 stories for Toronto and the weather.
Canada.com does a better job with Canadian news since it draws from Canadian Press, National Post and other papers in the CanWest collection. However, there are no personalization features.
There is no good Canadian news service that can be customized to the reader's interests.
Federation of Ontario Naturalists has published online "A Smart Future for Ontario" by Linda Pim and Joel Ornoy - why urban sprawl happens and how to control it. http://www.ontarionature.org/enviroandcons/issues/sprawl.html
New site provides extensive data about classical music, Canadian composers by Angela Pacienza. CP (Aug 6, 2003) - Canadian Music Centre has representing Canada's classical composers has opened a new website with biographies and sound bit from 580 composers. Other features include the option to buy (of course), event calendar, find a score, find a composer. Also has Sound Progression - a learning tool "designed as an introduction to the compositional trends of 20th century Canadian composers."
AOL Canada aims to broaden service Globe and Mail (July 21)
AOL Canada began offering broadband access in British Columbia and Alberta through Telus late last year. Perhaps by the end of the summer they may be able to do the same in Ontario and Quebec. Article says "Broadband or high-speed access, meanwhile, continues to grow but remains highly competitive. Margins are slender or non-existent, and the market is virtually controlled by a who's who of cable and telecommunications giants, including BCE Inc., Telus Corp., Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. "
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