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  • Council on Palliative Care at McGill University provides links to websites related to palliative care.
    http://www.med.mcgill.ca/orgs/palcare/copclnks.htm#palgen

  • Edmonton Palliative Care Program An extensive palliative care site offered by the Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and The Edmonton Regional Palliative Care Program. Sophisticated web design and extensive content put this site among the top half dozen palliative care sources on the web. The home page solicits registration, but you can proceed to view the site without registering.
    www.palliative.org

  • KidSource Online The source for in depth and timely education and healthcare information that will make a difference in the lives of parents and their children. Includes updates on consumer product recalls.
    www.kidsource.com

  • Baby Name Finder provided by the Baby Center. Find baby names by sex, ethnic origin, number of syllables, and more!
    www.babycenter.com/babyname

  • Canadian Patents: The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) welcomes you and invites you to try their searchable database of Canadian Patent Bibliographic data. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis.
    http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/patents/pt_main-e.html

  • Patents Cafe provides links to patent information worldwide, including patent search databases and resources.
    www.patentcafe.com

  • Pesticide Education Resources presented by the University of Nebraska. This site provides information on pesticide use, handling, properties, laws and regs, training manuals, etc. There is also a section on Integrated Pest Management.
    http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/ephome.htm

  • Care For Pets is an extensive pet care resource presented by the American Veterinary Medical Association and includes information on animal health and safety, buying a pet, as well as careers in veterinary medicine.
    www.avma.org/care4pets

  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was founded in 1995 for the purpose of providing detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The IEP is free of charge and available to all internet users world wide. The present staff of 15 editors and nearly 100 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at colleges and universities around the world, most notably from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.
    www.iep.utm.edu

  • Episteme Links includes thousands of sorted links to philosophy resources on the internet and has several additional features. As it is updated often, regular visitors would do well to find out what is new and read the information about EL. Also, free email newsletters help you to stay in touch with philosophy online.
    www.epistemelinks.com

  • Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System provides details, taken from literature references, for over 250 plants that can poison livestock, pets and humans in Canada. Its interactive search engine provides information on plant names, distribution, toxic plant parts, toxic chemicals, and symptoms of poisoning. This site also provides many links to other important poisonous plant sites on the Internet.
    http://res.agr.ca/brd/poisonpl/title.html

  • Bard of Canada: Robert W. Service provides a biography of the poet, as well as some of his poetry, including: "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" (in the collection entitled The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses).
    www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/8336/robert_service.html

  • Poets' Corner is an anthology, or collection of poems gathered from many different sources. Its goal is to become the largest and most diverse publically-accessible online colection of poetry in the world, with thousands of works by hundreds of poets, all arranged and indexed by author. There are currently 5,407 works by 632 poets available at this site.
    www.theotherpages.org/poems

  • League of Canadian Poets is Canada's national organization serving professionally published and practising poets. Browse upcoming poetry readings across Canada, new and award winning books of poetry and poems, entry guidelines for our contests, membership services and benefits, information on our two national poetry book awards and our catalogue of members.
    www.poets.ca

  • Representative Poetry On-line includes over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, and can be searched by poet, title, first line, date or key word. This site also features famous poetry criticism in prose and verse.
    www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html

  • Oxford Book of English Verse (1250 - 1900) indexed by author, title and first line.
    www.bartleby.com/101

  • The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form. You can search in a variety of ways, including keywords and phrases, or just browse.
    http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

  • American and English Poetry 1250-1920 provides a searchable collection of poetry, as well as chronologic, author, title and first line indexes.
    www.bartleby.com/verse

  • The Life and Works of Geoffrey Chaucer offers the biography of the poet and online versions of all the Canterbury Tales and other works, as well as sound quotations spoken in Middle English. Many links to other related web sites.
    www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

  • Digital Dante offers the biography of the poet and online versions of the Divine Comedy and other works, as well as links to a vast number of other web sites concerned with Dante's life, works and times.
    http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu

  • RhymeZone provides a rhyming dictionary. Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, and more.
    www.rhymezone.com

  • Durham Regional Police Service provides extensive information including crime statistics and links to other related sites.
    www.police.durham.on.ca

  • Population of Canada, the Provinces and Territories provided by Statistics Canada, including birth and death rates.
    www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/popula.htm

  • Annual Review of Population Law database contains summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics. It is produced jointly by Harvard Law School and the United Nations Population Fund. This website also contains files on specific topics containing the laws from selected countries in the world dealing with these topics. At present, there are files on abortion laws and population policies.
    http://annualreview.law.harvard.edu/annual_review.htm

  • Canada Post featuring postal code lookup and information on delivery confirmation, outlets, rates, stamps and special events.
    www.canadapost.ca

  • United States Postal Service with information on mail in the U.S. including zip code lookup and official state name abbreviations.
    www.usps.gov

  • Prince Edward Island Information Centre is an award-winning, comprehensive collection of information about the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. You'll find information here about vacationing on the island, about doing business there, about the Provincial Government, and on a wide variety of topics that influence the everyday lives of Islanders.
    www.gov.pe.ca

  • Confederation Bridge , which joins Prince Edward Island to Canada's mainland, is the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. Find out more about this architectural marvel, including toll rates and safety information, at this web site. You can also look at pictures of the bridge in various stages of completion.
    www.confederationbridge.com

  • Correctional Service of Canada is the federal government agency responsible for administering sentences of a term of two years or more, as imposed by the court. CSC is responsible for managing institutions of various security levels and supervising offenders under conditional release in the community. This web site provides extensive information and links to other related sites.
    www.csc-scc.gc.ca

  • National Parole Board of Canada as part of the criminal justice system, makes independent, quality conditional release and pardon decisions and clemency recommendations. The Board contributes to the protection of society by facilitating, as appropriate, the timely integration of offenders as law-abiding citizens. This web site provides extensive information and links to other related sites.
    www.npb-cnlc.gc.ca

  • Information and Privacy Commissioner / Ontario ensures right of access and provides information concerning both the Ontario and Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts.
    www.ipc.on.ca

  • Great American Speeches lets you listen and watch some of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. Arranged by decade, you can feel what it must have been like to have been an audience member when Marcus Garvey called for a return to Africa in 1924, or when President Ronald Reagan mourned the "Challenger" astronauts in 1986.
    www.pbs.org/greatspeeches

  • Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors elected by the membership. The first Toastmasters club was established on October 22, 1924, in Santa Ana, California, by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, who conceived and developed the idea of helping others to speak more effectively. There is information here on the Ajax-Pickering Club.
    www.toastmasters.org

  • Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women.
    http://gos.sbc.edu

  • PubList Internet directory of publications, with a database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and more... You can search by title, keyword, ISSN, and publisher. You can browse by publisher, title or category.
    www.publist.com

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