Canadian news Sources
What's This?

Canada.com

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
o.canada.com/ (HTML5)

News, Sports, Weather Entertainment News and Lottery numbers from Canada's largest online news site part of the CanWest empire which also publishes print newspapers in most major Canadian cities. Stories are full-length and well-written. The emphasis is. as expected, on Canadian national news.


What's This?

CBC

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.cbc.ca/mobile/ (HTML5)

News site from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Extensive coverage of region, national and international news.

Works in the Android browser but displays a blank page in Opera Mini.


What's This?

CTV.ca

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ (HTML5)

News and program highlights from the Canadian CTV television network. Text only but frequently updated with detailed stories. Works in the Android browser but displays a blank page in Opera Mini.


What's This?

Metro News

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
metronews.ca/ (xhtml-mp)

News, weather, sports, business, entertainment, columns and  for Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton and Halifax from Canada's free national newspaper, Metro. Source Oh! Mobile Directory


What's This?

National Post Mobile

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
www.nationalpost.com/m/ (xhtml-mp)

Canadian and International News, Sports, Business, Opinions, Arts, Blogs, Weather and Ski Reports from Canada's National Post and Financial Post. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory


What's This?

Calgary Herald

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.calgaryherald.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Canwest owned Calgary daily newspaper features local, nation and international news, sports, business, technology and entertainment sections in an attractive content rich format.


What's This?

Edmonton Journal

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.edmontonjournal.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

News, photos, features, editorials and local weather from the Edmonton Journal.


What's This?

Montreal Gazette

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.montrealgazette.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Covering Montreal and Quebec, The Gazette's mobile edition is content rich with over 100 stories from the paper's print edition.


What's This?

Ottawa Citizen

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.ottawacitizen.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

The Ottawa Citizen's mobile site includes local weather, local, national and international news and sports and business, entertainment, technolgy and travel sections.


What's This?

Ottawa Herald

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
www.ottawaherald.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Local news, sports and weather from The Ottawa Herald. Full length news articles include photos. Source Oh! Mobile Directory


What's This?

Regina Leader-Post

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.leaderpost.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

The mobile edition of Regina's  Leader-Post daily paper is a big site which looks like it contains virtually the entire editorial content of the print edition.


What's This?

The Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.thestarphoenix.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Mobile edition of Saskatoon's daily newspaper features news, sports, entertainment, technology, travel and business sections.  


What's This?

Toronto Globe & Mail

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
m.theglobeandmail.com (xhtml-mp)

Stories and news photos from the News, Business, Stock Quotes, Sports, Hockey, Politics, Arts, Technology, and Life sections of the Toronto Globe and Mail.


What's This?

The Vancouver Province

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.theprovince.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Vncouver's biggest newspaper, The Province, recently launched this updated mobile site featuring news photos, local weather and the full text of dozens of news items form the paper's online and print editions.


What's This?

Georgia Straight

Content: ****  Usability: XXXX
m.straight.com/ (xhtml-mp)

Mobify's unofficial mobile version of Straight.com, Vancouver's alternative weekly.  The mobile edition includes the paper's News and Music sections. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory.


What's This?

Vancouver Sun

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.vancouversun.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

The Vancouver Sun's new mobile site has the full text and selected images from over 100 items from the paper's news, sports, entertainment, business and technology sections as well as local weather.  Large page sizes (over 50 KB) may be an issue for some phones.


What's This?

Victoria  Times Colonist

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.timescolonist.com/ (xhtml-mp)

Covering Victoria and Vancouver Island, the Canwest owned Times Colonist's mobile site includes local weather, new photos and local, national and international news, sports, business and entertainment items.


What's This?

Windsor Star

Content: ****  Usability: XXX
www.windsorstar.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)

Windsor, Ontario's only newspaper is part of the giant Canwest publishing group. Its mobile site share the format of its fellow Canwest papers which includes  a lot of content from all sections of the paper.


'
What's This?
QR Code
It's a QR (Quick Response) Code containing the URL of WapReview Mobile. Snap it with your phone's QR Code reader to go to the WapReview mobile site.

Ratings Key :

Content - 0-5 *'s indicating the quality of the site's writing, depth, timeliness and accuracy.

Usability - 0-5 X's indicating the usability of the site on a mobile device, based on ease and intuitivness of navigation and lack of excessive scrolling through ads etc. to reach main content.