Current events, magazines, newspapers

Canadian Major Dailies

Get full-text access to a variety of Canadian Newspapers, including Ontario publications like The Sudbury Star from 1999, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post. It also contains publications from outside of Ontario including the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Telegraph Journal from New Brunswick, and the Times Colonist from British Columbia.

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Canadian Reference Centre

Canadian Reference Centre is the largest collection of regional full-text content available to Canadian schools and libraries. The database includes leading Canadian and international magazines, plus thousands of images from Canadian Press.

Canadian Reference Centre also includes newswires from the Canadian Press and La Presse Canadienne (en Francais), as well as full-text transcripts from CBC Radio and CBC Television. 

Users also get access to an image collection of more than 2 million photos, including images from Canadian Press.

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CBC Corner

Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & more. This one-of-a-kind digital portal allows you to access a wide variety of content including trusted news, local stories, entertaining TV and radio shows, award-winning podcasts, educational kids content, innovative podcasts, a free English and French language learning app, news in foreign languages and much more!

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Communication and Media eBooks

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library of Ebooks, a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Each collection offers a description and cover photo, illustration list, eBook Indexes, eBook table of contents, in-line graphics and tables, and hyperlinks to related content within an eBook.

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Globe and Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844

The digitized full-image version of the Globe and Mail Newspaper since  1844.

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MasterFILE Premier

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides a robust collection of

full-text magazines, e-books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection.

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Ontario Newspaper Index

Community and historical newspapers of Ontario: Acton Free Press, British Whig, Canadian Illustrated News, Essex Free Press, Georgetown Herald, Kingston Chronicle, Kingston Gazette, Marine Record, Provincial Freeman, Stouffville Sun-Tribune, Voice of the Fugitive, and more.

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World Book Student

and middle school learners. Optimized for iPads and built at an age-appropriate reading level, it features trusted content from The World Book Encyclopedia, along with interactive tools that make learning engaging and easy to navigate. Students can explore current events through Behind the Headlines, browse more than 10,000 biographies in the Biography Center, and use built-in resources like the Dictionary and Atlas to support research across subjects.