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News Articles

Tools for finding free local, Canadian and international news articles and editorial cartoons from major current and historic news sources.

How to find news articles
Current news sources

The following databases contain news articles from thousands of sources, typically from the mid-1990's to the present day. Often just the full text is included, and not photos, graphs, and charts.

  • Omni Newspaper search
    • Search across many of the big name newspapers subscribed to by the library for top stories. Limited ability to filter results.
  • Omni, Individual Newspapers
    • Search for a specific newspaper title.
  • Canadian News @ ProQuest
    • Canadian focus, from big and small papers from across the country. Many options to filter results.
  • Factiva
    • Canadian and international focus, and advanced filtering options.
  • Nexis Uni
    • International focus, including Canadian content, and advanced search options.
News archives: Library subscriptions

The following databases contain the scanned and searchable images of the entire newspapers.

Online

Coverage

British Library Newspapers

19th century national, regional, and local newspapers

Calgary Herald

1883-2010

Daily Mail: Historical Archive

1896-2004

Globe and Mail

1844 to three years ago

Illustrated London News

1842-2003

Montreal Gazette

1785-2010

The New York Times

1851 to three years ago

Ottawa Citizen

1845-2010

Times Digital Archive (The Times, London)

1785 to 2010

Toronto Star

1894 to four years ago

Vancouver Sun

1912-2010

Windsor Star

1893-2010

News archives: free

Many libraries, archives, and other organizations have digitized newspaper content and made it available for free online. You can find titles listed by country on this Wikipedia page that is maintained by librarians from around the world (including the Laurier History Librarian).

The following collections allow you to search across a larger number of newspapers at one time (many of the individual titles are listed on the Wikipedia link above)

Local newspapers
Print and microform (major titles)

In addition to the online news archives listed above, the Laurier Library has several archival titles on microfilm, held either at the Waterloo campus on the 3rd floor, or the Annex storage facility. For current issues of these titles, see "Current news sources" above.

Title

Microfilm

Barron's

1994-2009; 1960-2009

Christian Science Monitor

1908-1925; 1925-1960; 1960-1983; 1983-

Chronicle Herald (Halifax)

1981-2008

Le Devoir (Montreal)

1981-2006

Guardian (Manchester)

2000-2008, 1981-1984, 1968-1980

Le Monde (Paris) 

1944-1947

National Post 

1998-

Wall Street Journal

1981-

Winnipeg Free Press

1981-2008

News summaries

World News Digest

1940 to present. Brief, full-text articles for general news, biographical and statistical information.

Keesing's Contemporary Archives

1931 to present. Provides summaries of world events derived from more than 1,000 daily news reports.

Mideastwire.com

2005 to present. Please log out when finished. Concise briefs, in English, of items from Arab and Persian print, radio and television media.

Alternative news

The Black Panther

1968 to 1980

Editorial and political cartoons
  • Today's Political Cartoons (Association of Editorial Cartoonists)
    • Contains political cartoons - both national and international, for the past 7 days, with a searchable archive for political cartoons back to 1996.
  • SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection
    • The Simon Fraser University Library Editorial Cartoons Collection contains over 8000 original drawings published in Canadian newspapers between 1952 and the present.
  • News Archives: Library subscriptions
    • Using the sources listed in the section above, in your search change the "Document Type" to "Editorial Cartoon."