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  1. Comprehensive North American/Canadian History

  2. Native Canadian Links (Henderson)
      Provides links. 10-09

  3. Canadian Literature (National Library of Canada)

  4. American Pilot Responsible for Deaths of Canadian Soldiers (CBC News)
      American and Canadian reports on the deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan show that the incident was caused by an American pilot who refused to obey orders. The pilot was ordered twice not to attack before he dropped a bomb on the soldiers, according to the reports. Disciplinary action against the pilot has not been announced. 6-02

  5. Biographies in Music - Canadian (Canadian Encyclopedia)
      Provides hundreds of biographies by instrument or profession. 10-04

  6. -07-29-08 Giant Chunks Break Off Canadian Ice Shelf (MSNBC News)
      "Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday."

      "In a development consistent with climate change theories, the enormous icy plain broke free sometime last week and began slowly drifting into the Arctic Ocean. The piece had been a part of the shelf for 3,000 years." 07-08

  7. Canadian Version of Yahoo (Yahoo)
      Provides Canadian version of Yahoo. 10-09

  8. History of Canadian Provinces and Territories
      Provides a history of North America. 3-02

  9. Canadian Online Explorer (Newspaper)

  10. Canadian Encyclopedia (Canadian Encyclopedia)
      Provides information by subject, focused on all things Canadian. 10-04

  11. -05-02-05 Risk Behaviors of Canadian Teens (CDC.gov)
      "In an earlier study, StatsCan reported the teenage pregnancy rate is dropping, 'perhaps reflecting the availability of contraceptives, and the increased awareness of the risks of unprotected sex brought about by the AIDS epidemic.' " 5-05

  12. Canadian Legal Dictionary (DuhaimeLegal.org)
      Provides Canadian definitions or descriptions. 02-09

  13. The Canadian Medical Association Online 10-00

  14. Canadian Supreme Court Upholds Spanking - In a Limited Way (CBC News)
      "Canada's top court has upheld a law allowing parents to spank their children, but also set guidelines outlining 'reasonable limits' to the act." 1-04

  15. Treatment Findings for Anxiety Disorders (Canadian Health Network - Mental Health)
      Describes findings of effectiveness for treatment of several anxiety disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 6-04

  16. Carts for Hauling (BikeCartAge.com)
      Starts at around 356 Canadian dollars. Awesome Library does not endorse this product, but only provides it as an example. 6-01

  17. Secret Tribunal Helps Polluters and Overthrows U.S. Court Decisions (PBS - Moyers)
      "Bill Moyers and Sherry Jones uncover how multinational corporations have acquired the power to demand compensation if laws aimed at protecting the environment or public health harm them financially." Describes how corporations are interpreting an obscure provision of NAFTA (in Chapter 11) to bypass democratic processes. For example, a company in Canada makes a gasoline additive that was found to pollute the water in California. California banned the ingredient. The Canadian polluter sued the United States for lost pofits, using a provision in NAFTA. U.S. courts sided with California. A secret NAFTA tribunal overruled the U.S. courts. U.S. taxpayers may now have to pay.
      NAFTA was supposed to "protect investors if foreign governments tried to seize their property. But corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to undermine environmental decisions — the decisions of local communities — even the verdict of an American jury. The cases brought so far total almost four billion dollars." More multinational corporations are pursuing this approach of getting the secret NAFTA tribunal to award them hundreds of millions of dollars to protect polluters from losses. 2-02

  18. 09-10-02 Tropical Forests 100 Times More Economic Than Alternatives (Ananova.com) star
      "A study has found wild ecosystems are around 100 times more economic than ones converted to human use." "The study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science also found half of an ecosystem's economic value is lost when it is converted to human use."

      "The case studies looked at included the logging of a Malaysian tropical forest and a tropical forest in Cameroon converted to agriculture and commercial plantations. They also looked at a mangrove system in Thailand converted for shrimp farming, a Canadian marsh drained for agriculture and a Philippine coral reef dynamited for fishing."

  19. Key Stories and Facts Related to War with Iraq (CBC News)
      Provides in-depth articles from a Canadian perspective. 10-02

  20. 10-09-03 Cancer - Striking New Treatment (CBC News)
      "A major Canadian-led study has been stopped early because the drug being tested showed "striking" results in preventing breast cancer survivors from having a recurrence."

      In the study, women taking letrozole (also known as femara) had half as many recurrences of cancer as those women on a placebo." 10-03

  21. 10-20-03 Electricity from Water (BBC News)
      "A new way to generate electricity from water which could be used to power small electronic devices in the future has been developed by Canadian scientists." 10-03

  22. Same-Sex Marriages - Global Views of Same-Sex Marriage (CBS News)
      Three years after Amsterdam's mayor officiated at the Netherlands' first gay wedding, the gay marriage rate is falling, the first divorces are being registered and the issue has disappeared from the political agenda."

      While the United States is engaged in debate on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Canadians are discussing a federal law to legalize it and many European countries are adopting civil unions for gay couples."

      " 'It's an issue of separation of church and state. We don't have gay marriage here [Denmark]. We have civil marriage, and it's the same for everyone.' " 3-04

  23. -06-25-05 CIA Charged With Criminal Abductions (Observer International News)
      "The abduction is alleged to be part of America's 'rendition programme', in which terrorist suspects are forcibly removed to their home countries or to a third nation, where they can be interrogated without legal protection."

      "Earlier last week, an Italian judge issued arrest warrants for 13 people said to be CIA operatives involved in Omar's abduction. Another six people - all Americans - are also under investigation. It is the first time a foreign government has filed criminal charges against US citizens involved in counter-terrorism work abroad."

      "Other nations have also begun to oppose Washington's forcible removal of terror suspects. Canada is holding hearings into the deportation of a Canadian to Syria for questioning about alleged ties to al-Qaeda. German prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the suspected kidnapping of a German man who was flown to Afghanistan. In Stockholm, a parliamentary investigator has already concluded that CIA agents violated Swedish law by subjecting two Egyptian nationals to 'degrading and inhuman treatment' during a rendition in 2001." 6-05

  24. 06-29-05 Canada Approves Same-Sex Marriages (Guardian Unlimited)
      "Canada last night became the third country in the world to approve gay marriages when MPs passed a historic bill granting same-sex couples equal rights to those in traditional marriages."

      "The bill was passed by the Canadian House of Commons despite strong opposition from religious leaders and conservative MPs." 6-05

  25. Kielburger, Keil - Labor Hero (MyHero.com)
      "In 1995, when he was 12 years old, Craig Kielburger read a newspaper story that changed his life. Another 12-year-old boy, Iqbal Masih in Pakistan, had been murdered for bringing the world's attention to the terrible conditions endured by children working in the carpet-making industry. 'I saw him as a hero for speaking out about child labor,' says Kielburger. I suddenly understood that a young person can make a difference."

      "Kielburger set out to educate himself about human rights, and became so passionate about it that his parents reluctantly allowed him to accompany Alam Rahman, a Canadian human rights worker, on a trip through South Asia. There Kielburger saw, first-hand, the personal horrors behind child labor issues. He wrote about this experience in a book Free The Children."

      "Believing education to be one of the best ways to fight child labor, Free the Children [project] established 'Friendship Schools,' linking schools in developing countries with ones in North America, Europe and industrialized countries around the world. In all of these schools, it was children who saw the need and worked to find solutions...." 7-05

  26. -08-07-05 Peter Jennings Dies (CBS News)
      "Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died at age 67."

      "Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died Sunday at his New York home." 08-05

  27. -04-05-06 "Missing Link" Between Fish and Land Animals Found (TimesOnline.co.uk)
      "An evolutionary missing link that was among the first fish to leave the sea and walk on land has been unearthed in the Canadian Arctic."

      "The fossil discovery illuminates a chapter in the history of life on Earth that was essential to the ultimate emergence of human beings. Tiktaalik roseae, which lived about 375 million years ago, has features that blur the distinction between fish and terrestrial limbed creatures." 04-06

  28. 09-19-06 Panel: Innocent Man Captured by CIA, Sent to Syria, and Tortured (MSNBC News)
      "Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday." 09-06

  29. -10-11-06 Afghanistan on Dangerous Backslide (U.S. News)
      "But five years after U.S. troops swept away the Taliban and brought promises of a better life, Afghanistan's future is, at best, touch and go: Suicide bombers are striking in the capital, while once routed Taliban fighters have regrouped to take on NATO troops-mostly British and Canadian soldiers-in the Pashtun 'tribal belt' villages. Throughout the country, corruption is rampant, courts are nonexistent, and infrastructure remains abysmal in a nation where the average life expectancy is just 43 years." 10-06

  30. New Oil Sources May be Unattractive Options (Christian Science Monitor)
      "Oil-sand, oil-shale, and coal-to-oil projects – alternative fuel sources that could enhance US energy security – have always faced one hurdle. They look good only when oil prices are high. Now, they have another challenge: global warming."

      "California has enacted new climate-change policies that make energy companies responsible for the carbon emissions not just of their refineries but all phases of oil production, including extraction and transportation. If that notion catches on – at least two Canadian provinces have already signed on to California's plan – then the futures of oil-sand, shale, and coal-to-oil projects may look less attractive." 07-07

  31. Biosand Filters (WaterTiger.net)
      "The Davnor BioSand Water Filter uses the patented, award winning, Canadian Water Filtration (CWF) process. BioSand is a unique type of slow sand filtration. Cleaning the slow sand filter does not consume any media and produces virtually no wastewater. BioSand filters have capacities ranging from 20 litres per hour to 600 litres per hour." Costs start at around $400 per unit.

      Awesome Library does not endorse these products, but provides them as examples. 10-07

  32. Ultraviolet Light Disinfection: Water Line Version (ExcelWater.com)
      "Canadian-made Trojan UVMax effectively purifies your water, protecting you against viruses, bacteria, and intestinal protozoa such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia." 10-07

  33. -04-18-08 Wave Power (Time.com)
      "We get power from the wind, the sun, the atom and the stuff that's buried beneath the Earth. All that we haven't tapped is the ocean — and Finavera's conquering that final domain. The Canadian company with Irish roots (hence the name) pioneers projects that harness the power of ocean waves to generate electricity. Electrical generators, placed on the surface of the ocean, create power as they rise and fall with the motion of the ocean — which contains some of the highest energy density of any potential renewable source." 04-08

  34. Bobcats (A-Z Animals)
      "Bobcats are adaptable predators of the North American cat family, thought to be a subspecies of the Canadian lynx." 01-09

  35. -09-11-09 Editorial: TV's Shark Tank Advisor No Business Whiz (Time.com)
      "Shares of the company's oldest fund, O'Leary Global Equity Income Fund, which was launched in 2008, have plunged nearly 24% in the past year. Next, there's the truth-in-advertising problem: O'Leary calls himself an 'eco-preneur,' but many of the funds' investments are in coal companies and other large polluters."

      "O'Leary told Canadian business magazine Profit in June 2003, 'There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.' If O'Leary doesn't turn things around at his funds, he can add one more manager to his list." 09-09

  36. Self-Esteem (Stewart Resources Centre Materials)
      Provides resources for teaching self-esteem, using Anglo-American or Canadian values. 9-99

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