This page contains resources that we feel our readers may wish to use in respect to finding out more, and enjoying, western Canada's outdoors, researching, networking and meeting other like minded persons.
The page was last updated: June 20, 2004.
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Many people turn up at the ECOCLUB.com Chat Centre http://ecoclub.com/chat/ to chat every day, but they usually miss each other by a few minutes.
To avoid this every Thursday, at 9 in the morning Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) we will have one hour of chat called the weekly "Eastern Hemisphere EcoChat".
Also every Thursday at 9 in the evening (GMT) we will have one more hour of chat to be called the weekly "Western Hemisphere EcoChat".
It will be an open discussion on current tourism & environmental developments local or international. We welcome proposals about holding focused chat sessions, geographical or thematic.
Monday September 2, 2002. Wildcanada.net's new MyWildcanada lets you take control of your in-box so t hat you get what you want from Wildcanada.net, when and where you want it. This is the latest in a series of programs and services provided by Wildcan ada.net to give you the most sophisticated and easy to use on-line programs to protect Canada's wildlands and wildlife.
MyWildcanada is a suite of four tools that let you tailor many of Wildcanad a.net's services, update your account information, and more! You can reques t all of our regular Action Alerts and View from the Hill legislative updat es, or choose to receive only Action Alerts on issues that you are specific ally interested in. Remember: if you narrow your selection, you may not rec eive an Action Alert each week. If you find you're getting too much, or too little, you can use MyWildcanada to update your preferences any time you l ike.
MyWildcanada even lets you have multiple email addresses for each informati on type we send - Action Alerts, View from the Hill, and soon, Conservation Calendar events. You can choose to use your work, home, or other email add resses, and switch between them for your convenience. Going on vacation? No w you can suspend your service with Wildcanada.net and set the date when yo u would like to start receiving content again.
All of this is free. Wildcanada.net is dedicated to helping you make the mo st of your efforts to protect wildlands and wildlife in Canada, and we beli eve that these tools are a great way to do it!
Just click the following link to open a personalized page where you can set your password and start using this service.
Please save your password in a secure place and do not share your password with others. We hope you enjoy using this new service of Wildcanada.net.
Please note: This technology is new, and depending on your browser, and the speed of your computer and connection to the Internet, delays might be exp erienced accessing Wildcanada.net's complex databases. Some Netscape browse rs have trouble reading our web page. We're currently working to solve this problem. We recommend using Internet Explorer 5.1 or better to view the si te. And of course, while we've worked hard over the last year to get the gr emlins out of this fancy software, there may be a bug or two hiding. Be pat ient, please. We're doing this to help you protect nature.
Wildcanada.net has launched the Media Mentor, a new program that provides you with a fast, free, and effective way of writing a letter to the editor. The Media Mentor is backed by a powerful database containing more than 800 community, regional, and national newspapers across Canada. Letters to the editor are a powerful educational tool, helping to make known your concerns for Canada's wildlands and wildlife to decision makers both in Ottawa and at the grassroots community level. You can use the Media Mentor to send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper by visiting www.wildcanada.net.
Wildcanada.net is spearheading its Media Mentor program by asking people to write letters to the editor about Canada's federal Species at Risk Act (SARA), currently slated for third and final reading in the House of Commons in the first week of May. Wildcanada.net is encouraging people to use the Media Mentor to send letters to the editor asking that federal Members of Parliament support amendments made by the all-party Environment Committee to strengthen the Bill in key areas. The Liberal government is gutting these strengthening amendments, leaving the Bill weak and ineffective.
Wildcanada.net's Media Mentors program helps you find contact information for newspapers in your region. You can then write a letter to the editor in a special form, using a tutorial to help you craft an effective letter. Talking points on different issues can be consulted to help with writers block, and the letter can be emailed to the papers of your choice right from our web page.
Letters to the Editor provide people in your community and across the country with the opportunity to see that others share their values and concerns for wildlands and wildlife. Letters to the editor are frequently read by decision makers at the local, provincial, and federal level to measure the degree of concern for different issues
Wildcanada.net once asked an assistant to a senior Liberal Cabinet Minister how to ensure that the Minister would be aware of the importance of the endangered species issue. The answer: get a letter to the editor on the issue into every community newspaper in that Minister's home province. These letters get read by the Minister's constituency staff and by civil servants, and then get reported to the Minister on a regular basis.
To use Wildcanada.net's free Media Mentors program visit www.wildcanada.net and click on the Media Mentor icon. You can write a letter to the editor on the need to protect Canada's endangered plants and animals, or on a topic of your choice.
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For an excellent online catalogue of books and films go to Mountain Culture Online Archive Catalogue, maintained by the Banff Centre. The National Library and Archives of Canada, also has a very diverse collection.
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