2010
Friday, December 31, 2010 | Categories: |
CP PHOTO/Tom HansonUnlike most of Canada where Christmas happens just for Christmas Day, and then everybody goes shopping and it's all over, in the province...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | Categories: |
If you select the "images" option of Google, and enter the name Camille Saint-Saens into the search engine, your screen will fill with hundreds of...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 | Categories: |
Positron emission tomography image of a human brain - image by BlatantNewsFor parents, the realization that their child may be autistic often comes slowly. A...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 | Categories: |
CP PHOTO/Frank GunnIf you stand outside any hospital in Canada, you'll probably see all kinds of vehicles picking up patients and dropping them off. Some...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 | Categories: |
Photo by DragunskIn June of 2009, Ontario's public adoption records were unsealed for the first time since the province started recording adoptions in 1921. Ontario...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Categories: |
It's been a long while now since "tweet" was a sound a bird made, and a new friend was just someone with whom you'd recently...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | Categories: |
Hindu devotees bathe in the River Ganges (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) This week on And The Winner Is... we are presenting two documentaries, both about people from India. Born...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | Categories: |
Dome of Rock Mosque in Jerusalem - AP Photo/Muhammed MuheisenFor the next two weeks "And The Winner Is..." is featuring a documentary about Jerusalem, one of the...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | Categories: |
This episode of "And The Winner Is..." is devoted to one of the greatest composers and music teachers of the twentieth century, Gustav Holst. A lot of people...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 | Categories: |
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Daniel HaydukBetween July 9th and July 12th of 1997, six hundred and fifty people were forced to leave an industrial neighborhood in Hamilton....
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | Categories: |
There is a dark grey compound - a jumble of concrete buildings - that sits on the outskirts of Baghdad. It has a twisted past....
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | Categories: |
Historians tell us that the age of the Vikings began in the year 793, when a band of Norse marauders sacked the British monastery of...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | Categories: |
Viking statues at L'Anse aux Meadows site in Newfoundland Photo by D.Gordon E.RobertsonAbout a thousand years ago, the Vikings sailed into northern Newfoundland and became...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Categories: |
Photo by Viking Ship MuseumOn June 8th of 793, Lindisfarne Abbey, located on a tidal -island on the north-east coast of England, was ravaged by...
Monday, August 30, 2010 | Categories: |
Photo by eabod The guidebooks say that "time stands still" among the dreaming spires of Oxford - and modern physics seems to agree. In...
Monday, August 16, 2010 | Categories: |
AP Photo by Jacquelyn Martin He's best known as lead guitarist, and a founding member, of both The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And...
Monday, August 9, 2010 | Categories: |
A woman walks past a billboard highlighting sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya. AP Photo/Khalil Senosi Putting a child up for adoption is one of life's most...
Monday, July 26, 2010 | Categories: |
(CP Photo/Peter McCabe)One of the main principles of Intelligent Urbanism is conviviality. In theory, an example of good urban planning is a city that has...
Monday, July 19, 2010 | Categories: |
CP Photo - Adrian WyldIn the coming decades, Canada is going to be transformed by climate change; perhaps more than any other country on the planet....
Monday, July 5, 2010 | Categories: |
AP photoBefore there were movies like "Smoke Signals" or "Atanarjuat", there was a century of celluloid stereotypes. Throughout its history Hollywood has made over 4,000...
Monday, June 28, 2010 | Categories: |
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)In 1998 actor-comedienne Franny Sheridan brought her one-woman show, "The Waltonsteins", to Ottawa. The show tells the story about Franny's family, who lived...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | Categories: |
AP Photo/Darron Cummings In 2003 CBC Radio and Television aired a series on clinical trials in Canada. The CBC investigation uncovered serious flaws in the...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | Categories: |
(CP PHOTO/HO/History Channel)Alex Debogorski is an ice road trucker. He hauls freight to those tiny pin-pricks of light on the dark, empty Canadian barrenlands where...
Monday, June 14, 2010 | Categories: |
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Have you ever wondered why word "small" doesn't exist on the Starbucks' menu? Well, size matters in the world of advertising -- and...
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Monday, June 7, 2010 | Categories: |
WOMEX 09 Ground Stage Photo by Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones Each year, on the last weekend in October, professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and...
Monday, May 31, 2010 | Categories: |
Fans cheer their team as players of Boca Juniors and River Plate enter the field before an Argentine soccer league match in Buenos Aires...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | Categories: |
AP Photo/HATEM MOUSSAIf you ever think about how much water you use, it's enough to make you produce some of your own -- from...
Friday, May 14, 2010 | Categories: |
Hindu devotees bathe in the River Ganges (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) This week on And The Winner Is...we are featuring two documentaries, both about people from India....
Monday, May 10, 2010 | Categories: |
Photo by eabod The guidebooks say that "time stands still" among the dreaming spires of Oxford - and modern physics seems to agree. In...
Monday, April 26, 2010 | Categories: |
AP Photo by Jacquelyn Martin He's best known as lead guitarist, and a founding member, of both The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And...
Monday, April 19, 2010 | Categories: |
The idea has been around for a very long time. You want to get in touch with your soul? You go to the countryside. To...
Monday, April 12, 2010 | Categories: |
Call it "Walden Pond Syndrome." You want to get in touch with your soul? You go to the countryside. To the mountains. And you go...
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Monday, April 5, 2010 | Categories: |
Canadians say "thank you" a lot. We thank people for holding doors open for us. We thank the person who hands us our morning coffee. ...
Monday, March 29, 2010 | Categories: |
Putting a child up for adoption is one of life's most wrenching decisions. And it doesn't just affect the child or the birth parents who...
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Friday, March 26, 2010 | Categories: |
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the... mega-city. This week And The Winner Is... goes global, exploring downtown Shanghai, Singapore and Buenos...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Categories: |
Listen to "Canada 2050: Our Future in Changing Climate"...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | Categories: |
Before there were movies like "Smoke Signals" or "Atanarjuat", there was a century of celluloid stereotypes. Throughout its history Hollywood has made over 4,000 movies...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Categories: |
They are among the fiercest and fastest predators of our sky. But they are also very fragile. 40 years ago Peregrine Falcons were almost wiped...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | Categories: |
Before there were movies like "Smoke Signals" or "Atanarjuat", there was a century of celluloid stereotypes. Throughout its history Hollywood has made over 4,000 movies...
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