As with speaking, reading, and writing, working on your listening skills will help you to be able to listen to and understand other people. Communication is the goal of language learning.
This is the CBC news from Learning English with CBC. There are many stories and listening activities on the CBC Edmonton website that you can use. The weekly stories are read more slowly and are for listeners at Benchmark 4. The monthly stories are longer and faster and are suitable for listeners at Benchmark 6.
Learning English with CBC Manitoba also has some great listening activities. These often deal with Manitoba issues.
This website, settlement.org. is designed for newcomers who are planning to live in Ontario, but there is lots of excellent information and some very good listening activities, from CLB 1 all the way up to CLB 9. Try some and challenge yourself!
Here is a job interview dialogue. Here is a conversation about giving compliments.
The English Language Listening Lab Online (ELLLO) has over 1200 audio files that you can listen to. There are comprehension questions for each conversation. You can search for a conversation on almost any topic. Best of all, the speakers are real people (not actors) from all over the world. This is a great website!
ESL Podcasts has hundreds of podcasts that you can listen to for free online. Like ELLLO, you can search for podcast on specific topics. The speaking is sometimes at a very slow pace.
Breaking News English has hundreds of listening organized by theme and by level. Sean Banville, the creator of Breaking News English actually has nine different websites for learning English, including lessons on movies, on discussion topics, on famous people, holidays, etc.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is the work one man (Randall) and features his voice on many different listening activities. There are quizzes for you to try as well.
ESL Fast has some good listening exercises to practice.
Some learners find dictation exercises helpful to develop their listening skills. This Dictation Exercises website has many audio files for dictation; you listen and then type what you heard. You can check your answers or ask for a hint.
Grammar Girl is a podcast that focuses on common grammar questions. You can listen to short podcasts and follow along with the transcript if you like. You can choose podcasts on general topics, specific grammar points, punctuation, word choice or style.
Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips series of podcasts. They have about twenty experts offering advice on topics like education, pets, health and fitness. The Legal Lad podcast talks about the law but please remember this is an American website, so what he says is not relevant in the Canadian context.
TED is one of my all-time favourite websites for listening. You can choose to listen to interesting and often inspiring talks on almost any subject. You can choose talks of 3, 6, 9, 12 or 18 minutes. There are also transcripts so you can read along if you wish. You can listen not only to what the speakers say, but how they say it: their delivery. Most of the speakers are excellent models for speaking; notice how they use stress and intonation, pauses and emphasis,
There are some excellent language-learning websites that have very good videos. You can listen and learn!
EngVid is a series of over 600 free English video lessons given by 9 different teachers.They have beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons on many different topics.EngVid also has a YouTube channel.
Rachel's English is a very good website with over 300 videos. You can find many videos on correct pronunciation. You can also catch Rachel on her YouTube channel.
One of my students introduced me to English with Jennifer . She has a website as well as a YouTube channel which you may find useful. I don't recommend the tongue twisters, but there is a lot of good information on these sites.
If you are interested in listening to something longer in English, then here are some suggestions for you. I recommend that you listen to authentic English speakers reading or talking; I believe that this will improve your language skills more than listening to someone talk about grammar.
The National Film Board of Canada (or Office national du film du Canada, or ONF - since we are a bilingual country!) has many excellent documentaries and animated films that you can watch for free. They also have a YouTube Channel, which offers "free streaming of documentary, fiction and animated films, all of which explore the world we live in from a Canadian point of view" (from their website).
Radio Ireland has a website called Documentary on One with some interesting podcasts that you can download or listen to online.These are spoken with an Irish accent, but the they're well done and there are some interesting topics.