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When Facebook was just starting out

Facebook was an online innovation that more than three million Canadians had adopted by 2007, and they were just figuring the pitfalls and the potential.

A jacket, slippers and Treaty 11: Tłı̨chǫ seamstresses create historic garments to mark 100 years

A museum exhibit coming to The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife next month will commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 11.

News Canada North June 21

The hockey league that was ready to roll in 1993 - literally

Just when it seemed hockey was over, another sports league had players lacing 'em up on inline skates.

A new look for Old Sam: NLC swaps label on popular rum after reviewing brand's history

Old Sam isn't going anywhere, but the label on the popular bottle of rum is changing.

News Canada Nfld. & Labrador June 20

Apocalypse Then

Today's vaccines are the result of centuries of experimentation

Ainsley Hawthorn

News Canada Nfld. & Labrador June 20

Looking back at Blue, 50 years after Joni Mitchell recorded the masterpiece

News Canada June 18

Montreal was home to the first known queer magazine in North America from 1918-1920

Maighdlin Mahoney

Not a good time for newspapers: The 1992 edition

3:11

Car phones helped get the job done in 1990

From the archives: In 1990, former Africville residents discuss the legacy of trauma

News Canada Nova Scotia June 18

Frank Bonner, actor best known as WKRP's Herb Tarlek, dead at 79

News Entertainment June 18

These were the newest drinks on the market in the '70s, '80s, and '90s

When goat cheese 'got to be quite a fad' in Canada

Overtime in Vancouver: An oral history of the city's 2011 Stanley Cup riot

News Canada British Columbia June 15

It wasn't skateboarding in 1965. It was 'skurfing'

That time former NDP Leader Ed Broadbent made a comeback with a rap video

David Bowie painting found in dump near North Bay, Ont., expected to fetch up to $12K

News Canada Sudbury June 14

The meteorite that startled cows and Quebecers in 1994

When 2 prime ministers swapped houses

Ned Beatty, character actor best known for roles in Deliverance and Network, dies age 83

News Entertainment June 14

How a 1950s experiment brought foam igloos to Kinngait, Nunavut

News Canada North June 12

Something's rotten in the state of the internet, and archivists are worried

Radio Spark June 11

Tracking Halifax's history: Tram tracks, cobblestone uncovered on Spring Garden Road

News Canada Nova Scotia June 12

The Indigenous connection to the Underground Railroad

Radio Unreserved June 11

How Canadian content rules influenced the music industry in the 1970s

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