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Typing Club

Practise your keyboarding skills with these online lessons.

NPR Training: Storytelling tips and best practices

Learn how to share your own stories from the experts: audio, digital, social, visual. 

Mobile Syrup

Technology news and trends from a Canadian perspective. Lots of interesting, current articles to keep you up-to-date.

Digital Security Resources

Advanced and detailed resources for learning about digital security, privacy and more.

Digital Learn

If you are new to computers, haven’t used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.

Cyber Security 101 – The Smart Cybersecurity Network

Tips and information about protecting your privacy and security online. Modules include: A Healthy Computer; Checking the Mail, Have a Backup, Setting Security & Privacy, and more.

Code Club Projects

Fun, free, online classes in HTML & CSS, Python, Raspberry Pi, and Scratch.

MLA Top Health Websites For Consumers and Patients

A very useful list of reliable medical websites covering topics like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more. Based on criteria like credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, and currency.

What Is My Movie?

Can’t remember the name of a movie? Use your own words, or search with titles, actors, directors, genres etc. and this site’s powerful search feature will try to find it for you!

Samara Canada

Samara Canada is a nonprofit, non-partisan group that champions increased civic engagement and a more positive public life. They also carry out independent reseach on Canada’s democratic institutions and attitudes, and offer annual “Everyday Political Citizen” awards!

Civic Engagement and Political Participation in Canada

Government of Canada’s report on current state of citizen engagement. The first section focuses on the types of groups that people participate in and how often they participate. The second section looks at various forms of political participation: voting, volunteering for a political party, boycotting or choosing a particular product for ethical reasons, and signing petitions. 

govTogetherBC

This site is the home of the Government of British Columbia’s citizen engagement activities. Browse engagement projects by categories like transportation, government, health & safety, and environmental protection. Add your voice to current conversations and find out how public input collected through past citizen engagement projects has informed government decisions, policy and legislation.

District of West Vancouver – Get Involved

Visit the West Vancouver District’s “Be Involved” page for information about volunteering, joining committees and groups, and current engagement initiatives and opportunities.

West VancouverITE

WestvancouverITE is an online forum for community outreach and engagement. It provides citizens a convenient way to participate in important community consultation. Learn about the issues, read what others are saying, and post your own response. The feedback received will be reviewed by District staff and Council and incorporated into the decision-making process.

eBird

Join the international network of birders by recording the birds you see. Audubon and Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird project aims to make the thousands bird observations made each year by bird watchers more useful and accessible. It is amassing one of the largest biodiversity data resources in the world.

Yellow Pages

Residential and business listings for all of Canada. Telephone number lookup also available.

Tsleil-Waututh Nation

West Vancouver is on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Nation).

The official site of the Tseil-Waututh Nation, with information about their history, governance, businesses, lands, and community projects and events.

Squamish Nation

West Vancouver is on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Nation).

The official site of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), with access to current news and events as well as cultural and historical information.

Musqueam Nation

West Vancouver is on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Nation).

The official site of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Nation), with information about governance, lands, current events, and their social sector.

Nature

Explore high impact scientific and medical information. This resource includes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.