Current Events
Databases
A great resource to find trending issues in your country.
http://find.galegroup.com/gic/start.do?prodId=GIC&userGroupName=pcslibrary
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Username: pcslibrary
Password: the usual one
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=CIC&u=pcslibrary
Canada In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content, written from a Canadian perspective, with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Username: pcslibrary
Password: the usual one
Newspapers Online
It's interesting to read about an issue from the point of view of different countries
http://digital.timescolonist.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
Username: pcslibrary@pacificchristian.ca
Password: the usual one!
http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/
https://www.theguardian.com/international
Setting up a Google Alert
In "Create an alert about..." type your topic and click Enter.
Click "Show Options"
Chose: How often you want to be notified
The sources (i.e. News, Blog, Video, etc.)
Language
Region (Country)
How Many (Only the best/All)
Deliver to (your email address)
Click "Create Alert"
You can delete a Google Alert by going into your Alert page and clicking on the bin next to it.