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The role of currency and exchange rates
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This site is developed and designed for traders, and its purpose is to provide them with free training in understanding today's markets. However, TrainingEducation is also a good resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the influence of currency in the trading business, about markets and money. The site has a "daily currency analysis"; articles that discuss the major changes in the currencies and exchange rates, and the impact these changes might have on the world economy.
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Statistics Canada
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Statistics Canada creates and releases statistics that can help people to a better understanding of Canada and its population, resources, economy and culture. The site has information about the census, and material organized in summary tables, maps, surveys and charts. The Daily is a section of the website which presents information about new releases and products, and is released every day at 8.30 a.m. There is also an "understanding statistics" section which can be helpful in understanding the material and information available on the site.
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Legal dictionary and resources
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Senior partner of Duhaime Law in Victoria, Lloyd Duhaime, has developed this website, which contains links and information about several aspects of the law.He says: "Duhaime.org is my tool for sharing my passion: the law and its fruit, justice, without which, history shows, force would ruthlessly rule the wise."
The site has a legal dictionary as well as topics such as bankruptcy, school law, criminal law, family law etc. Duhaime provides information about each topic, free legal advice in his articles, tips for further research,and reviews of other resources and links.
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Exchange rates
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The Bank of Canada 10-year Currency Converter enables you to see the exchange rate for any currency for a selected time period (a maximum of 10 years ago). The site converts any amount of any currency, and you can choose if you want to use the currency rate from the last business day, a certain number of past business days or from a certain start date to an end date. It gives you the option of using the nominal rate or the cash rate (the total amount you would pay if you went to a bank to convert the money, as most banks add 4% for this service).
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It's not okay to suck at math
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"Almost every story contains a number, be it a statistic, an address,
or someone's age," writes Craig Silverman in a recent Columbia
Journalism Review (CJR) column about journalists and math skills. In "Sorry, Wrong Number,"
Silverman notes that "journalists deal with numbers every single day,
and yet so many of us willingly profess ignorance or fear when faced
with simple arithmetic." He says it's time to...
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Reuters Handbook of Journalism now online
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The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is "the guidance Reuters journalists
live by," according to Dean Wright, global editor, ethics, innovation
and news standards for the news agency. The
Reuters Handbook is now available to the public for free online...
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Passionate about accuracy
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"Everybody knows (accuracy is) important. But there is that gap between the idea we have and what we actually do on a daily basis, and that’s where the idea of passion and culture comes in," says Craig Silverman, the author of Regret the Error. In this RRJ.ca Q&A, Silverman suggests some practical ideas for fostering that passion on both individual and organizational levels, including paper checklists, correction RSS feeds and spot fact-checking.
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Who speaks for a website?
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Online communities often operate as a news medium, rather than a traditionally staffed news publication. Other news reports about these sites, to be fully accurate, should reflect that fact by citing the individual author of information found on the site, rather than just the site itself. Online Journalism Review editor Robert Niles proposes a three-point checklist that reporters ought to follow whenever citing information they find on the Web.
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Canada's official languages
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The Officer of the Commissioner of Official Languages works "to promote and expand the dialogue between all the members of our society."The site presents several issues and news, in articles such as the "Social Fabric of Canada," and the symposium "Visions and Challenges for the 21st Century." Other resources on the website include information about language rights, the Federal Legislation on Official Languages and publications.
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Investopedia: a business encyclopedia and dictionary
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Investopedia is a free online dictionary and encyclopedia with more than 5,000 entries related to business, investment and finance. Provides definitions, explanations, examples, links and related terms. Search alphabetically, by category or keyword.
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