Current Events & History

For articles on the G-20 summit in Toronto from a variety of Canadian and international magazine, see search results from the Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly.  If you are looking at this subscription dabatase from home, you will need to login using your library c

Library Pressdisplay, our newest subscription online database, contains the full versions (including images) of many major newspapers, in their original languages (as well as in addition to translated versions in some cases).  Generally the last 30 to 90 issues are available.   

Interested in reading a German newspaper?  To read an issue of Der Tagesspiegel for example, follow these steps from the NVDPL Homepage:

-- Click on "Online Resources" in the Left Hand column.

Over the past couple of decades, wild salmon runs have diminished in size significantly, some to the extent they are threatened with extinction.  A longstanding controversy has been to what extent, if any, the B.C. aquaculture industry is responsible for the destruction of wild salmon runs.