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Year 2000
Information Links

          The best feature about Y2K is the fact that there is a lot of high quality information readily available on the web. You can draw your own conclusions about how preparations are going and what you yourself may need to do.

Local Links (N.S.) National Links (Canada) International Links

 

 

 

- Local Links (N.S.) -

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA):
Web Site (for graphic browsers):
          http://www.acoa.ca/english/frameset_main.html
Frame URL (for Lynx users):
          http://www.acoa.ca/english/main/info_frame.html
Y2K Web Site (for graphic browsers):
          http://www.acoa.ca/english/frameset_y2k.html
Y2K Frame URL (for Lynx users):
          http://www.acoa.ca/english/info/info_frame_y2k.html

Government of Nova Scotia:
Web Site:
          http://www.gov.ns.ca
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.gov.ns.ca/y2k
Municipalities' Y2K Web Sites (not all N.S.):
          http://www.gov.ns.ca/homa/muns/advs/y2k_site.htm

Halifax Regional Municipality:
Web Site:
          http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/index.html
Text-Only Web Site:
          http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/textindex.html
HRM Year 2000 Project Web Site (Graphics intensive):
          http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/y2k/
HRM Year 2000 White Paper (591 KB PDF Format
- Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
          http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/y2k/hrmcdy2k.PDF

MT&T (N.S. and P.E.I. Phone Company):
Web Site:
          http://www.mtt.ca/index.html
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.mtt.ca/OnTheLeadingEdge/Year2000Solutions/

Nova Scotia Power:
Web Site:
          http://www.nspower.ca
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.nspower.ca/AboutUs/Year2000/

 

 

 

- National Links (Canada) -

Government of Canada:
Web Site:
          http://www.gc.ca/main_e.html
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.info2000.gc.ca./welcome/stream_e.htm
Small Business Y2K Tax Credit Site:
          http://www.fin.gc.ca/newse98/98-057e.html

Canadian Food Inspection Agency:
Web Site:
          http://www.cfia-acia.agr.ca/english/toc.html
Y2K Web Site:
http://www.cfia-acia.agr.ca/english/corpaffr/publications/Year2000/year2000.html

Emergency Preparedness Canada:
Web Site:
          http://www.epix.sfu.ca/epc/en_home.html
SafeGuard Expect The Unexpected Plan For Emergencies Web Site:
          http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/safeguard/expect/english/index.html

Industry Canada:
Web Site:
          http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html
Y2K Web Site:
          http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/yk04415e.html

Nav Canada:
Web Site:
          http://www.navcanada.ca/maine.htm
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.navcanada.ca/y2k/index.htm

 

 

 

- International Links -

Article: The Millennium Contagion: Is Your Mental Software Year 2000 Compliant?
Web Site:
          http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/tmc.htm

Article: Biggest Y2K fear: Fear
Web Site:
          http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=YEAR23&date=23-Mar-99

The Cassandra Project:
Web Site:
          http://www.Cassandraproject.org/

North American Electric Reliability Council:
Web Site:
          http://www.nerc.com
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.nerc.com/~y2k/y2k.html

Scientific American article:
Y2K, So Many Bugs ... So Little Time, January 1999
Web Site:
          http://www.sciam.com/1999/0199issue/0199dejager.html

U.K. Institute of Electrical Engineers:
Web Site:
          http://www.iee.org.uk/
Embedded Systems and Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.iee.org.uk/2000risk/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
Web Site:
          http://www.epa.gov
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.epa.gov/year2000/
Y2K Links Site:
          http://clu-in.org/y2k.htm

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency:
Web Site:
          http://www.fema.gov
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.fema.gov/y2k

The Utne Reader and its Y2K Citizen's Action Guide:
Web Site:
          http://www.utne.com
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.utne.com/y2k/index.html

iDefense's y2ktoday News Digest:
Web Site:
          http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp
iDefense Web Site:
          http://206.132.10.154/idmarketsite/

Ziff-Davis' ZD-Net:
Web Site:
          http://www.zdnet.com/
Y2K Web Site:
          http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/index.html

 

You may direct comments or suggestions about this feature to:

Andrew D. Wright,  au141@chebucto.ns.ca

 

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