October 30, 2004

New Indigo

Indigo set to launch revamped website By MARINA STRAUSS, Globe and Mail (Oct 28, 2004) Indigo intends to take on Amazon.ca. Watch for new site launch in the beginning of November.

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October 15, 2004

Greatest Canadian

Another great CBC contest - who is the greatest Canadian. Through the past few months people have been sending in nominations for Greatest Canadian. The television program on Sunday October 17 will kick off the voting to select the best.

From the announcement: "After each broadcast, you'll be able to vote by web, phone or wireless text message for the candidate that you feel is the greatest. Every Greatest Canadian vote you cast online will automatically enter you in a
contest to win one of 10 prizes of 2 Air Canada tickets to anywhere in the country OR a grand prize of 2 tickets and a mystery trip related to the winning nominee."

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest

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October 06, 2004

Canada411

Yellow Pages improves search Globe and Mail Update (Oct 5)
Canada 411 has improved its Find-A-Person. It accepts partial names and will do reverse lookup on a number.

Can also lookup postal codes for a city but the code doesn't show what it covers.

"Canada411 finally has reverse lookup for phone numbers. Find-a-person lookup will also handle partial names.

"The new searches are the result of a partnership between YPG and W3 Data Inc., a provider of on-line directory assistance services and operator of the WhitePages.com Network. W3 Data Inc. will also be hosting and providing operational support for the "Find a Person" look-up."

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October 04, 2004

RPM Weekly Music Charts

RPM Weekly was the first newsletter to promote Canadian music. Created by Walt Grealis in 1964, Grealis and partner, Stan Klees, "helped shape the face of Canadian music". This web site from Collections Canada has over 10,000 browsable and searchable charts about Canadian music over 36 years. Wonder what the top singles were in 1978? RPM has it.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/rpm/index-e.html

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