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Canada's most comprehensive collection of legal forms and precedents, covering selective portions of the print source: Commercial, Leases, Labour relations & employment, Computers & Internet Technology.

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A meta-site offering access to the contents of nearly 130 online dictionaries. OneLook includes general English language resources (ex. Cambridge and Collins dictionaries), and also provides content from dictionaries in five other languages (Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish) as well as from specialized resources in Art, Science, Business, Medicine and other subject areas.

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Explores controversial subjects by including materials representing both sides of an issue. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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A catalogue of all public, college, and institute libraries in BC.

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