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This is terrific site. (I use it as the page which comes up when I turn on my browser.) The Sun Newspapers, Maclean's, 680 News, and the Financial Post have conspired to put together one fabulous web site to give you constantly updated news and sports as well as financial, entertainment and computer/internet information and more. This is what tomorrow's world will be like, with instant availability for all kinds of news and information.
You can get the 24 Hour News synopses updated regularly from 680 News (an all-news radio station from Toronto) on everything you'd hear on their newscast as well as access to more detailed, background stories. Whatever news is breaking at that moment is available here as well as news from earlier in the day. Links are provided to other news stories which expand the information you're interested in. There is also a connection to the Financial Post for in-depth financial news and articles of business interest. You can connect to each of the papers in the Sun organization for local news. Jam! is for entertainment news and Slam! is for up to date and in depth sports reporting (special pages for the Blue Jays and the Expos, football, etc.). You can click onto Maclean's and see their current lead story as well as other stories and items from the most recent and past issues. This site also lets you check out their University listings and enter their chat groups. Canoe has just added Chatelaine Magazines new site "Chatelaine Connects Women to Women" so you can peruse their detailed and interesting offering as well.
In addition to all of this Canoe has now associated with Yahoo! to provide a Canadian version of Yahoo! and has added Speakeasy! a chat group making it easy to express your views on all sorts of matters Canadian and otherwise.
This is a "must bookmark" site for fast, interesting Canadian and world wide news and views. Each of the individual sections is a full fledged site on its own. Between the Sun papers listed here and the newspapers available through the Southam Web and AJR Newslink you should have access to a nearby on-line newspaper almost wherever you live in Canada.
This isn't an Internet version of the Globe and Mail, but rather an Internet site hosted by the paper with a variety of places to visit. They call this "Canada's National Web Site", but the title seems a bit presumptuous. There are various Globe and Mail columns and sections available as well as the Globe and Mail forums. Not as much news and information, or as big a site, as one would have expected from this newpapaper and the way it bills itself. However, they recently revamped the site to make it much, much better then their first version and it merits a look. If they do a further revision it could become a great site.
The Report On Business Magazine
This site has only experpts from the most current edition of the Globe and Mail's ROB Magazine on-line. Adding back issues would be an improvement. This could be a much better site - and maybe it will be.
There are only selected articles from the current and past editions available, not the entire magazine. Just enough to give you a taste.
The Left frame has a list of each of the Southam newspapers currently on-line and a list of those about to be. Click on the paper of your choice to see what they have.
You can get a wealth of news information here of the sort you expect in a good newspaper by clicking on the category you want: Sports, Business, Entertainment, The Internet, High Tech, Columnists, Classsified Ads, Horoscopes, Wine Guide, Dining Out, Music Reviews, Crosswords, etc., etc. Between the papers listed here and the Sun papers available through Canoe and those found in AJR Newslink you should have access to a nearby on-line newspaper wherever you live in Canada.
This is the Toronto Star's internet version. It's big and full with such departments on-line as: News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Wheels, Homes, Careers, Classsifieds and Fun. It may not bill itself, as the Globe and Mail does, as "Canada's National Web Site" but it certainly delivers what you are looking for from a big newspaper's site.
Torstar, which publishes the Toronto Star, has this site as a gateway into its many other publishing ventures. From here you can get to the Internet sites for: The Star, Romance.net (for the worlds of Harlequin, Silhouette and Mira Books), Into e-zine (the lighter side of the Star - crosswords, horoscopes, pet news, games, sports), Sportswire (live 24 hour sports coverage of every imagineable sport there is including all of the alphabets - CFL, NFL, NHL, NBA - cricket, golf, soccer and "Miscellaneous"), Eye Magazine ( loads of entertianment stuff including the movie listings and times for Toronto), Metroland Group (the group of community papers Torstar publishes throughout Southern Ontario) and Canada Computes (the on-line versions of both Toronto Computes and Canada Computes with back issues and the current articles, columns, etc.) Check out this site if only to browse through the Canada Computes section.
This American site is filled with media related links and takes you to a huge number of, amongst other things, magazines and newspapers on the web. Their section for non-American newspapers in North America includes access to Canadian newspapers and has active links to over 40 papers across the country.
This is the largest single gateway into Canadian newspapers we've found. From here you can get into a wealth of local Canadian news supplied by both private Canadian papers and the chains. See how a major Canadian event is portrayed in the different provinces by different news organizations.
This is the place to get it all - or at least more of it than anywhere else. Links to scores of American newspapers and magazines as well as other media outlets. As mentioned above, it also has the best selection of Canadian newspapers to be found. If you want to see what the newspapers are saying, this is the place.
Get your news as it happens in short and easy to read digests with access to in depth items in a wide range of categories. Both of these sites are recommended for someone wanting to catch a news broadcast at their computer whenever they want it and to feel that they are as up to date as anyone anywhere else. Choose the topics you want to read about. Frequent updates. Links to all sorts of areas of interest. The CNN site also takes you to the All Politics site hosted by CNN and TIME.
CRAYON lets you make up your own newspaper (CReAte Your Own Newspaper) by choosing the sort of items you want to see and the sources you want to see them from. This site organizes the news you want in the way you want, if you want to do it that way.
The Daily Internet News Collage
This site has constantly updated links to a variety of news sources including USA Today, Time Daily and other newspapers as well as from Reuters and Clarinet news services.
This is one of the first online newspapers on the Web. A comprehensive source of news along with syndicated columnists who might not be in your local paper. It has a computer related area and a Java version.
This is the online version of the acclaimed PBS NewsHour With Jim Leher. It has transcripts of various discussions aired on the programme, a variety of discussion groups and forums, letters to the editor and Essays. This is a site full of thoughtful observations on the news of the world by thoughtful people. Not your regular news outlet.
TIME's site lets you check out articles in the current edition of the magazine and search previous editions as well as taking you to the All Politics site it shares with CNN.
TIME Daily for daily news, TIME for Kids and TIME Universe which takes you to all kinds of specialty topics and departments, Message Boards, Net Links, etc., etc. Each of the main articles have a search box for related items.
This is a really full site with lots of content. It seems to us as though this is the most content filled news magazine site on the Internet.
U.S. News & World Report Online
Has the current edition plus other features including discussion groups about the news.
This is a listing of the Reuters news releases. Click to see them here before reading them in your morning paper. It's often interesting to read the early versions of a particular developing story and watch as further information changes and enlarges the dispatch.
This site has been mentioned above for its links to Canadian and American news sources. It also has lots of links to other sources of news around the world.
It's in English but not always up to date. It has a great design and lots of news from that part of the world. This is a region that doesn't always see things the same way the American press does. With information from the current and back issues of the paper you can easily become the most informed person you know about Asian politics and events.
Three Great British Newspapers:
You must fill in to subscribe to The Electronic Telegraph and the Times of London first - but the're free. Each of these papers is a fabulous site, chock full of information. The Times site also takes you to The Sunday Times. The Guardian has its news in a weekly format but the other two are daily. This is one way to see how these three world famous British newspapers see what's happening in England and the rest of the world. As with reading any foreign paper, it's always interesting to see how the non-American press sees what's going on and what things they publish that the American press leaves out.
Want to see if you can understand Irish politics from an Irish point of view? Check this out to see if Irish politics can be understood at all or by anyone not from the Emerald Isle.
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
Get tomorrow's news today! (Because of the time difference you'll usually get an edition marked with the next day's date.) This is a well written and easy to read version of news from Israel and the Mid East. With so much news about that area coming from U.S. sources you get a different view when reading about events from there with the local perspective. A supurb way to give yourself a sense of balance.
Click here to submit any other News or Politics sites on the Internet you feel we should add. Thanks, Joel Miller.
One of the most noteable things about the Internet is how often sites you really like disappear. Everyone of the sites referred to above was operational and accessable at the time it was reviewed - but there is no guarantee it's still there. If you tried to click onto a site and had difficulty, please send us an e-mail so we can look into it. Thanks, Joel Miller
