Excellent resources and information on Canadian politics and elections will be found in magazines, newspapers and other journals which are more generally referred to as "periodical literature". The links to the right will bring you to databases focussed on various types of periodicals.
For elections before 2000 it may be necessary to use microfilm copies of newspapers. These are available at the Dr. John Archer Library for several newspapers including the Regina Leader, Regina Leader-Post and the Winnipeg Free Press among others.
The Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ Database combines full text and indexed content from all four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). The content comes from a broad range of Canadian sources, with the majority of content in English and hundreds of thousands of full-text articles in French. The resource includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, providing content in Canadian current events, business, science and technology, medical, humanities and the arts, and hundreds of topics.
The full text database includes national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal,Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.
An index to Canadian periodicals (English and French), plus full text for some publications; also includes selected sections of The Globe and Mail.
