Most people find researching current and recent events difficult. Save for interviewing the individuals involved (not always possible for term papers but a valuable research strategy for theses) you will still have numerous options that you can pursue. Some of these are listed below.
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.