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Who started the Polar Bear dip every Jan. 1, anyway?
Vancouverites have been challenging the chill of the Pacific at English Bay for over a century.
Flashback: A sentimental feeling
In this week's Flashback newsletter, Brenda Lee reaches No.1 at last, a new documentary looks back on the frenzy over Cabbage Patch Kids in 1983 and five other blasts from the past.
When it made no sense to grow Christmas trees for profit in N.L.
It was hard to make money growing Christmas trees in a place where plenty of them were growing on public land.
When retailers saw their best Christmas since the start of the '80s

When the monarch was pushed off some Canadian currency

















