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Association: professional business, industry, and trade organizations

• ACE - Canada
  Organization: The Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs
  For the truly enterprising student, ACE is the place where the spirit of entrepreneurship can be shared, supported and sustained. This site gives contact information for chapters in campuses across Canada (and expanding internationally); offers fund-raising case studies; and posts employment and business opportunities available to ACE members. It also describes other resources ACE offers its members: mentoring programs, a business-planning guide, real-world starter projects, guest speakers, a thrice-yearly newsletter, and an annual conference.
• Canadian Bankers Association
  Organization: Canadian Bankers Association
  Talk about bank mergers: here’s where all the major players pool their resources in one, single cyberbranch. Check out their seminars, peruse their publications, study their surveys, or just compare bank notes. From precise industry stats to your most puzzling FAQs: if you have an interest in Canadian Banking, deposit some time here.
• Doing Business in Canada (DBIC)
  Organization: Industry Canada
  Canadian service companies are invited to join government agencies and trade associations in this not-for-profit alliance. This economic dating service helps entrepreneurs generate business by matching them with foreign companies wanting to sell products or services in Canada, along with domestic companies doing business abroad. The site provides a useful program overview, for both domestic and foreign consumption.

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• Canada NewsWire
  Organization: Canada NewsWire
  A collection bin for press releases, Canada NewsWire is a great resource for checking up recent business news (mainly announcements and financial reports from Canadian public companies). The site archives stories for 13 months. An extra, free service will email you releases from companies you select. You'll find government releases at the bottom of the home page.
• Canadian Company Capabilities
  Organization: Industry Canada
  Another branch of Strategis, the federal government's huge business website, this section offers a database of addresses, contact names and corporate information on more than 32,000 Canadian companies. If you'd like to join the database, a registration option is available. Links to international company directories are also available.
• Canadian Venture Exchange
  Organization: Canadian Venture Exchange
  Packed with information and real-time quotes for 2,400 CDNX-traded companies, the site includes daily trading statistics, information on this exchange's regulatory policies, plus handy glossaries of investment terms and industry abbreviations. Use their extensive, searchable database to learn how you can benefit from this new marketplace for venture capital, created from a 1999 merger of the Alberta and Vancouver stock exchanges.

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• Strategis
  Organization: Industry Canada
  The federal government's primary business site offers a ton of information — enough to weigh you down if you’re not careful. Still, with its advanced search feature, this site should help you zero in on the business or government web page with the info you need. You can subscribe by e-mail to “Strategis Headlines”, a free weekly bulletin listing the URLs for all new and updated information on the site. That way you’ll stay informed when your area of interest adds a page, a report, or a new interactive tool.
• Strategis Site Map
  Organization: Strategies (Industry Canada)
  Bookmark this page: it's a plain-text, easy-to-follow outline of all the major areas and categories within Industry Canada's business-oriented Strategies mega site. You'll find many of those sections and pages reviewed separately here at PROFIT guide, but this list provides a quick "big picture" overview. Naturally, each item in the list is a link to send you to the information you need.
• Canada Business Service Centres
  Organization: Federal and Provincial Governments
  Your taxes paid for this site -- why not use it? This central gateway lets your business access the government information it needs. Click on one of the provincial flag to be guided to the service, program, or regulation of your choice. A co-operative venture between various levels of government, the CBSCs aim to help you obtain quick, accurate and comprehensive business information. (From government? Anything's possible.)

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• Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre
  Organization: C/MBSC
  No matter where you live, this site offers a host of business data, including information on including launching your company, marketing and tapping foreign markets.
• British Columbia Digital Edge
  Organization: Economic Development Association of British Columbia
  A great resource if you're thinking of expanding into B.C. Introductory information on the province's regions, major cities and important towns, and lots of contact names and numbers for further details.
• CFDCs -- Western Canada
  Organization: Community Futures Development Corporations
  This website links you to over 90 Community Futures Development Corporations in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It offers many free services -- case studies of real Success Stories, an interactive Calendar of Events, business discussion forums, a client directory, classified ads, Business Tip of the Month, and business web links. Also explains the financing and training programs provided by CFDCs, including business development loans, technical support, training, and information services.

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• WorldPages
  Organization: Web YP Inc.
  With listings of business, home and government phone numbers and addresses in both Canada and the U.S., this may be the best site of its kind on the Net. Especially noteworthy, the map function allows you to locate most of the companies listed on the site. Links to additional international phone listings are housed in International Search.
• Marketing Canada Resource Directory
  Organization: Beakbane Marketing Inc.
  Link to just about any business, news, or creative resource you can think of. You could get lost in its "billions and billions" of annotated links. Well - more than 500, anyway. And they're surprisingly well-organized, in categories such as Business, Computers/Technology, Media, Government/Politics, Search Engines, Production, Market Research, and much more. If you're not sure what you're looking for, this is a great place to start looking.
• Contact! The Canadian Management Network
  Organization: Strategies (Industry Canada)
  Do You Own a Small Business? Are You Considering Starting a Small Business? Do You Advise Small Businesses? Those are the first three choices you’ll find on the Contact! home page — each one guiding you to hundreds of business links, both government and private, arranged by category and region. There’s also a powerful search engine to locate just about anything you’re looking for: discussion forums on a host of topics; a timetable for various national business awards; reviews of 300+ business software packages; a free library of 650+ business articles; links to 2300+ support organizations… And it just keeps growing.

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