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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, Ma> 10, 2000 13 CANADIANCITIES.CA NEW WEBSITE FOR COAST COAST CANADIAN CITYSURFING LONDON, ONT. - An Ontario website designer is hoping Canada's major urban, centers provide the common denominator for a new one- stop information and e-commerce e-commerce Internet site aimed at city residents, visitors, and businesses alike. Chris Gallant, president of privateye.com in London, claims that his company's latest latest creation, www.canadianci- ties.ca, which officially went on-line last week, can indeed be all things toi all Canadians because its organizing principle principle is place, not product or services. "If you live in the city, there's no faster way to find out whafs happening in your town on a daily basis than the Internet - whether it's local news, weather, sports, servic es, entertainment, culture, restaurants, shopping - whatever whatever - and there's not a more convenient way to buy anything anything either. Same goes if you're visiting a city or planning planning to. For a business, it makes more sense to begin searching local y for what you need before getting into a time consuming process of elimination starting from a general, continent-wide list of suppliers," he said. "To be the definitive, up- to-the-minute Internet guide to Canada's cities - revealing them in all ttieir facets for such a broad audience - puts a premium on navigability, accuracy, and speed. We've made sure canadiancities.ca incorporates all three." j} From the canadiancities.ca home page visitors can quickly quickly summon a map of Canada, a list of cities [85 so far], the main of the city of their choice [from which its local information and business listings listings are accessible], or a unique form of on-line retailing retailing from their online shopping. shopping. Gallant is "localizing Internet commerce". Unlike conventional e-commerce, the online shopping' feature allows customers to accumulate accumulate a running total and pay only once, when they're finished finished all their shopping, rather than after each purchase. purchase. This unique "one stop" shopping method greatly reduces opportunities for credit card fraud and, according according to Gallant, is actually safer than in-store credit card transaction. "Security and privacy are the biggest concerns most people have about buying online. online. That's why we've insisted insisted on the most sophisticated encryption technology available available - it's the same as that used by several Fortune 500 companies. Also, the system, and strategies have been inspected and certified by the top security people iron Canada's four major banks," he said. Canadiancities.ca communicates communicates with banks over digital digital lines, not the Internet. Once approved, credit card numbers are erased. 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