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Why critics panned Mortal Kombat as a video game and a movie in the '90s

The graphics weren't sophisticated, but the video game's violence was too graphic for some critics.

When Canada was testing out this 'Telefile' thing in the '90s

Filing taxes by telephone? It was a new method being tested out in New Brunswick in the mid-1990s.

Ancient cave poop reveals how bats have adapted to humans and climate change

The University of Ottawa's Lauren Gallant led an investigation into a mountainous mound of bat guano that dates back thousands of years — and hopes to glean secrets from their fecal focal point.

Radio As It Happens April 15

When CBC viewers met Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a young folksinger in 1966, Buffy Sainte-Marie made some of her earliest appearances to talk and perform on CBC-TV.

Alberta separatism was a thing in the early 1980s

'The second coming of the ice age' in St. John's in 1984

When comic books weren't the bargains they used to be

Retail giant W. Galen Weston has died at age 80

News Business April 13

How the citizens' band made the airwaves more accessible

Why Air Canada's summer seat sale was a first in 1982

How France opened its door to Mickey Mouse in 1992

When Ontario Place was under construction and over budget

The Saskatchewan city with a competing mail service in 1982

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Why Ontario ended happy hour in 1984

How Walter S. Allward's Monument at Vimy marked a turning point in the nation's art history

Philip Dombowsky

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dead at 99

News World April 9

Rapper DMX dead at 50 after several days on life support

News Entertainment April 9

When it looked as if Toronto would get a Major League Baseball team

The birth of the Chicken McNugget and the ensuing demand for poultry

When CBC was going to finally live under one roof in Toronto

Why author Stephen King tried becoming a movie director in 1986

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The generic beer that was too cheap for Saskatchewan

How the 'information highway' made working from home possible

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When Pierre Trudeau heckled the hecklers

The day the Blue Jays first took flight

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