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The summer when houses were hardly selling in Toronto

Even if people wanted to buy a home in 1982, they were holding back due to confusion over incentive programs.

Kelly Preston, actor and wife of John Travolta, dead at 57

Kelly Preston, who played dramatic and comic foil to actors ranging from Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Twins, died Sunday after a two-year battle with breast cancer, her husband, John Travolta, said. She was 57.

News Entertainment July 13

Washington NFL team officially drops name after decades of criticism

The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday it would drop the "Redskins" name and Indian head logo after completing a thorough review, bowing to decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.

Sports Football NFL July 13

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

How Indigenous people welcomed the Queen to Canada in 1970

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

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

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