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  • The Crafts Fair Online is a free directory of crafts oriented sites on the web. We offer organized links to thousands of individual crafter's web sites as well as craft web malls, crafts organizations, supplies, listings of real world shows, craft publications, crafts newsgroups, instruction, software and more.
    www.craftsfaironline.com

  • Build a Dream Catcher provides detailed instructions and diagrams for making a dream catcher. According to legend, dreams are messages from sacred spirits. It is said that the hole in the center of the web allows the good dreams through while bad dreams are trapped in the web until they disappear in the morning sun. Dream Catchers are believed to bless the "sleeping one" with pleasant dreams, good luck and harmony throughout their lives.
    http://web.onramp.ca/rivernen/build_dc.htm

  • Health Canada Online In partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Health Canada provides national leadership to develop health policy, enforce health regulations, promote disease prevention and enhance healthy living for all Canadians.
    Check out the award-winning Childhood and Youth section.
    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

  • Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national not-for-profit association incorporated in 1912. CPHA is composed of health professionals from over 25 health disciplines and is active in conducting and supporting health and social programs both nationally and internationally.
    www.cpha.ca

  • Merck Manual: Home Edition is an all-new publication is based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, commonly referred to as The Merck Manual, the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide. The Home Edition transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
    www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home

  • Women's Health Matters Network is your source for reliable, evidence-based and up-to-date information on women's health. The information on this site is brought to you by women's health experts at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for Research in Women's Health. At Women's Health Matters you will find the latest information, news and research findings on women's health, diseases and lifestyle trends. Use this information, within the supportive learning environment of the web, to make informed decisions about your health and your health care needs.
    www.womenshealthmatters.ca

  • Healthgate Objective is to facilitate improvements in patient care, biomedical research, and education by employing state-of-the-art technology to make information access and coverage both thorough and easy, while maintaining the highest standards of academic and scientific integrity.
    www.healthgate.com

  • Health A to Z is a search engine designed specifically to find health and medical information on the Internet.
    www.healthatoz.com

  • Health Information Online Food and Drug Adminstration guide to evaluating health information on the Internet.
    www.fda.gov/fdac/features/596_info.html#source

  • Consumer Health Information is a growing collection of the most requested National Health Institute publications.
    www.nih.gov/health/consumer/conicd.htm

  • KidsHealth is the mighty Web site devoted to the health of children and teens. Created by the medical experts at the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth has trainloads of accurate, up-to-date information about growth, food & fitness, childhood infections, immunizations, lab tests, medical and surgical conditions, and the latest treatments. You'll find health games, How The Body Works animations, the KidsVote health poll, and tons of surprises.
    http://kidshealth.org

  • The Alternative Medicine Directory is a resource directory of complementary health therapies, products and services.
    www.worldwidehealthcenter.net

  • The Mayo Clinic provides eight Healthy Living Centers that feature tools for improving your lifestyle and practical advice to help you stay healthy at home and at work: Family Life, Fitness & Sports Medicine, Healthy Aging, Men's Health, Food & Nutrition, Pregnancy & Reproduction, Women's Health, Working Life.
    www.mayohealth.org/home?id=SP4.1

  • The World Health Organization is defined by its Constitution as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work, its aim "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health".
    www.who.int

  • The Heart: An Online Exploration at the Franklin Institute enables you to explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
    http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

  • Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Home page of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The mission of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is to further the study, prevention and reduction of disability and death from heart disease and stroke through research, education and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.
    www.hsf.ca

  • American Heart Association Here you will find a vast amount of information on heart disease and stroke as well as late-breaking news.
    www.americanheart.org

  • Cardiac Care Network of Ontario The Cardiac Care Network of Ontario (CCN) is an advisory body dedicated to ensuring equitable, timely and appropriate access to cardiac services in the Canadian province of Ontario.
    www.ccn.on.ca

  • Facts About Blood Cholesterol provided by the Amercian National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/chd/index.htm

  • The Waterfront Trail stretches 325 kilometres along the shore of Lake Ontario, from Stoney Creek to Quinte West, and represents an important step towards bringing the vision of a regenerated waterfront closer to reality. This site features information on the trail including maps.
    www.waterfronttrail.org

  • World History Compass is provided as a free service courtesy of Schiller Computing. It's immediate goal is to provide links to history sites anywhere in the world.
    www.worldhistorycompass.com

  • Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. This site also provides extensive links to other history resources.
    www.fordham.edu/halsall

  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world, including medieval studies for kids and young adults.
    http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu

  • This Day in History presented by the History Channel. Input any day and month and find events that occurred on this date in a range of subject areas.
    http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/framed.cgi

  • dMarie Time Capsule allows you to enter a date to see a page of information of events on and around that date, as well as social indicators such as average income and cost of a loaf of bread. We currently have data online for the years 1900 through 1997, but not all pieces of data are available from 1995 through 1997. The information here is to serve as a fun, reminiscent stroll through past days.
    http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp

  • WWW.TIMEANDDATE.COM provides extensive time and date information (such as world time and calendars for any year) and links to other related sites.
    www.timeanddate.com

  • Raising the Roof is the only national charity in Canada dedicated to finding long-term solutions to homelessness. How? National public education campaigns. Funding to community groups across the country. Work with decision-makers, policy-makers and front-line agencies nation-wide to develop national and local strategies to prevent and end homelessness. This website also provides Useful Links on homelessness and related issues.
    www.raisingtheroof.org

  • Gay Canada is the largest and most comprehensive source of Canadian gay, lesbian and bisexual information on the Internet.
    www.gaycanada.com

  • EGALE Canada (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) is a national organization committed to advancing equality and justice for lesbians, gays and bisexuals at the federal level.
    www.egale.ca

  • Ontario Hospital Association is an organization of health care providers dedicated to the continuing improvement of health services in Ontario, through leadership, advocacy, education, communications, service and research. This web site features a directory of Ontario hospitals as well as links to their web sites.
    www.oha.com

  • Ontario Quality of Life Index (provided by the Ontario Social Development Council) is a tool for community development which can be used to monitor key indicators that encompass the social, health, environmental and economic dimensions of the quality of life. The QLI can be used to comment frequently on key issues that affect people and contribute to the public debate about how to improve the quality of life in our communities and our province.
    www.osdc.org/qli.html

  • Human Rights Internet is a world leader in the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community. Launched in the U.S., HRI has its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. From Ottawa, HRI communicates by phone, fax, mail and the information highway with more than 5,000 organizations and individuals around the world working for the advancement of human rights.
    www.hri.ca

  • Canadian Heritage Human Rights Programme provides access to both the
    CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
    and the GUIDE TO THE CHARTER
    as well as to other information on human rights in Canada.
    www.pch.gc.ca/ddp-hrd

  • Canadian Human Rights Commission features information on a variety of human rights issues, including women's equality and aboriginal rights. It also includes links to other sites of related interest. Recommended for: high school students, parents, educators and advocates.
    www.chrc-ccdp.ca

  • Canadian Human Rights Tribunal was created under the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) to inquire into complaints of discrimination and to decide if particular cases have contravened that Act. The Canadian Human Rights Commission looks into initial complaints of discrimination and, where warranted, refers cases on to the Tribunal. The Alternate Sources page on this site links to human rights organizations across Canada and around the world.
    www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca

  • Ontario Human Rights Commission provides an online version of the Ontario Human Rights Code, legal decisions, explanation of the complaint process and links to other related sites.
    www.ohrc.on.ca

  • UN High Commissioner For Human Rights This excellent site features links to information on a broad range of topics, including the UNHCHR, convention mechanisms, technical cooperation and human rights issues, as well as the sites and programs of other UN agencies. Recommended for: high school students, parents, educators and advocates.
    www.unhchr.ch

  • One World Contains a wide array of resources from academic groups, non-governmental orgs and international orgs on a variety of important issues concerning human rights, the environment and quality of life, plus a long list of links to partner organizations. Recommended for: high school students, parents, educators and advocates.
    http://oneworld.org

  • Highlighting Human Rights in Ontario This virtual exhibit features a sample of historical documents and photographs from the collections of the Archives of Ontario which highlight the evolving recognition of human rights throughout the history of the province prior to the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961.
    www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/humnrits

  • Amnesty International, Canadian Section: Amnesty members come from all cultures and walks of life, and number more than 67,000 in Canada and well over one million people around the world. We believe that mass public pressure, expressed through effective forms of action, is critical to stopping human rights violations.
    www.amnesty.ca

  • U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) maintains a continuous watch on tropical cyclones over the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Pacific from 15 May through November 30. The Center prepares and distributes hurricane watches and warnings for the general public, and also prepares and distributes marine and military advisories for other users. During the "off-season" NHC provides training for U.S. emergency managers and representatives from many other countries that are affected by tropical cyclones. NHC also conducts applied research to evaluate and improve hurricane forecasting techniques, and is involved in public awareness programs.
    www.nhc.noaa.gov

  • Hurricanes: Online Meteorology Guide introduces hurricanes and their associated features, where they develop and under what conditions.
    http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml

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