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Detroit, as seen through the eyes of a Canadian in 1980

The CBC's Joe Schlesinger describes a city of extremes as the U.S. Republican Party was meeting there to nominate their candidate for President in July 1980.

There were so many options for frozen treats in the '80s

There was no need to go to the ice cream shop in the '80s. Not when you could stock your freezer with every frozen treat under the summer sun.

How Indigenous people welcomed the Queen to Canada in 1970

Centennial observances in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories drew Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne for a visit in 1970.

The many roles of Gordon Pinsent's long and varied acting career

Gordon Pinsent is one of the most familiar faces in Canadian drama — as he should be, after six-plus decades of entertaining us on the stage and big and small screens.

Pete Luckett's best practices for freezing strawberries

Skylab: the space station that fell out of orbit

Pushing ice cream on wheels in 1980s Saskatchewan

When the 'fine city' of Vancouver wanted, but didn't get, a baseball team

The end of a 150-year-old tradition on Cross Island, N.S.

When the N.L. government flashed the cash to get kids to stay in school

Bonavista Peninsula gets historic nod from UNESCO for 560M-year-old fossils

News Canada Nfld. & Labrador July 10

The British Columbian who became a sumo wrestler and WWE star

Norway's 1992 Olympic slalom champion Jagge dead at 54

Sports Olympics Winter Sports Alpine Skiing July 9

When Sudbury, Ont., was a suitable substitute for the moon

When a Toronto suburb 'banned' voice mail at its city hall

Enormous monument to Confederate general removed in Richmond, Virginia

News World July 7

The swallows that wouldn't leave a Calgary home alone

Why Montreal didn't want mountain bikes on Mount Royal anymore

Oscar-winning film score composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

News Entertainment July 6

When the WHO said SARS had stopped spreading in Toronto

The action movie-like rescue of Ed the Duck in 1990

The last run of a slow train nicknamed the Newfie Bullet

How an 'act of neglect' put national treasures at risk in 1990

How Vancouver found out it won the 2010 Olympics

When 75 snow monkeys went on the lam in Quebec

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