Search these resources for information related to particular interest groups, constituencies or market segments.

Some examples to try:

• Statistics Canada Community Profiles for an overview of socio-economic conditions for Nanaimo (or another location)

• E-STAT census tools to retrieve data about population, gender, income, language, immigration status and place of birth, etc.

Resources: 

To search for Business literature, enter words related to your topic in LibrarySearch; for example a company or product name, or words describing an industry or issue:

Try these refinements and activities within your search results:

• Limit to news articles only 

• Limit to trade publications only (i.e. industry- or sector-focused magazines, journals, newsletters)

• Limit to scholarly publications only

• Limit to items published in the last two years

• Access the full text of an item

• Look for how to link to full text when it isn't immediately available

• Look for how to email, print, and save your search results or an article

• Look for how to request an interlibrary loan 

Some examples to try:

restaurant equipment dishwashers

cbc and programming and ethnicity

spas in Canada

greenhouse gas reduction and tourism