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When 'a flood of free newspapers' washed over Toronto
In 2000, Toronto had at least a half-dozen daily newspapers in business. That was before free dailies joined the game.

How TV's The Raccoons went from a one-time special to a long-running cartoon
It started as a one-off holiday special in 1980, but The Raccoons became a long-running cartoon with an environmental bent.

The sunken destroyer that didn't sink as it was supposed to
The Saguenay sank to the bottom of Lunenburg Bay in 1994, but that wasn't the problem. How it sunk was the problem.

When Alan Maitland retired from CBC's As It Happens

The Canada geese that rode a truck from the 416 to the 506

Lettuce show you how we really feel: When fed-up farmers dumped produce in protest

When Canadian tourists were paying more to visit Britain

There wasn't enough Canada on Canadian TV in 1988

London researcher studying city's hosiery history
News -Canada -London |

When world leaders met in recessionary Venice

Scottish researcher scouring Maritimes for 'Holy Grail' of lost tartans

Erin Pottie
News -Canada -Nova Scotia ||

The hockey league that was literally ready to roll in 1993

The performers at Canada's 'first pop festival' in 1969

The cat who looked like 'a big elephant' compared to other felines

Car phones helped get the job done in 1990

Not a good time for newspapers: The 1992 edition

Watergate 50 years later: Last guy to turn out the lights before burglars arrived recalls infamous break-in

Mark Gollom
News -World ||

Black Ark, a 12-ft structure modelled after slave ships, asks us to see Canadian history differently

Chris Dart
Arts |

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

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

After 27 years, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hits retirement
News -Business ||

When Jurassic Park first roared into movie theatres

When 2 prime ministers swapped houses

The meteorite that startled cows and Quebecers in 1994
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