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Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
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Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world.
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HighBeam Free online encyclopedia - Search and browse 57000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
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Eureka/Cedrom Francophone resources are available as text or PDF files. Resources are updated daily and contain 20 years of archives. The collection includes national and international newspapers, news wires, audio capsules and radio/television transcripts. The French-language titles are bundled with 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario.
Canadian Points of View EBSCO This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Career Cruising Bilingual database designed to help students plan their future
General Reference GALE-High School
CPLQ (Canadian Periodical Index) Emphasis is on Canada, its people, and its history. Aligned to Provincial learning standards, the database includes reference, periodicals, primary source, and multimedia resources and nearly one thousand biographies on famous Canadian Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
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