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Paco Rabanne, celebrated fashion designer and perfumer, dead at 88
Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday.
Video rental store in small Sask. town still going because 'I'm stubborn,' says owner
On the main street of a small Saskatchewan town — fittingly in a building that used to be a movie theatre — sits what may be one of the last video rental stores in the province.
When St. John's supposedly had too much fog to spot the groundhog
There was brief talk of a groundhog on The National on Feb. 2, 1979, but a lot more talk about fog.
A tale of two winters in Alberta and N.L. in 2001
The 'premium' booze that upset some Canadian whisky-makers in 1985
Longtime CBC radio producer Michael Finlay dies after random assault in Toronto
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When a Canadian brought McDonald's fast food to Moscow
Cindy Williams, who played Shirley on TV's Laverne & Shirley, dead at 75
Why Toronto considered turning off its highway lights in 1996
Bobby Hull, the first NHLer to score over 50 goals in a season, dies at 84
Barrett Strong, Motown hitmaker and co-writer of I Heard It Through The Grapevine, dead at 81
Like vinyl, but for photos: Why film cameras are back in focus
Past in peril: Manitoba heritage agencies say they're being choked by chronic underfunding
Roadside History
'What happened?' Long forgotten Dorchester wharf was once heart of shire town
Flashback: The comet that flamed out
Newsletters: the publishing niche of the 1980s
From 2004: Talking about what a potential pandemic could look like
Retired teacher finds mammoth shoulder blade bone while walking dogs west of Edmonton
Haggis has always been kind of mysterious to Canadians
Why some Alberta ski resorts faced their 'worst season ever' in 1982
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American beer not even worthy to flush: Newfoundland's 'Son of Critch' tells the truth
What a visitor found inside the Diefenbunker in 1994
Grab some milk on your way home: An ode to the bygone neighbourhood grocery store
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Rare, recovered 1930s footage of steamship offers glimpse of Okanagan's past
