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Not everyone loves Voice of Fire
33 years ago
Duration 1:17
When Voice of Fire drew flames of criticism from (some) Canadians
The acquisition of a three-striped painting known as Voice of Fire provided the spark for a controversy in Ottawa in 1990.
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When the Reform Party was still getting used to the spotlight
Five months after an election that boosted their numbers and status, the Reform Party was still not entirely comfortable in the House of Commons.

Vancouver's city archives aims to preserve history. It has a colourful past of its own
The City of Vancouver Archives houses enough five-inch acid-free boxes of records to stretch eight kilometres if placed end to end. It's a long way from the archive's modest beginnings, when a mercurial figure known as Major James Skitt Matthews packed up the city's collection and took it to his house in "a fit of pique."

Jon Azpiri
News -Canada -British Columbia ||

How the director of the new MuchMusic documentary found gold in a treasure trove of archives
Sean Menard's new film 299 Queen Street West, premiering this week at SXSW, takes viewers back in time to the heyday of "the Nation's Music Station."

Sydney Urbanek
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The late-winter blast that blew through the Prairies in 1982

The 1977 Iggy Pop TV performance that never happened

The beer lockout that led to long lineups in 1985

Topol, icon of Fiddler on the Roof, dead at 87
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Signs, slogans and seals on International Women's Day in 1975

When Victorians didn't want 'eastern people' building a mall downtown
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See what New Brunswick life was like around 1940, in the digitized work of a film pioneer

Jennifer Sweet
News -Canada -New Brunswick ||

My Favourite Season
From Mary Pickford to Brendan Fraser, here's every Canadian actor ever nominated at the Oscars

Peter Knegt
Arts |

When Ontario tried out health insurance for pets in 1973

Why 1983 was 'one of the worst years' for university students

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Joni Mitchell honoured with Gershwin Prize at star-studded gala
News -Entertainment ||

When the ice just kept building up around Newfoundland in 1983

How Toronto encouraged butting out on the job in 1988

When Pac-Man just didn't cut it anymore for 'arcade addicts'

Canada's Cold War fallout shelters would have excluded most of us. These women had other plans

Andrew Sampson
News -Canada -Nova Scotia ||

When Pierre Trudeau left the Liberals and political life behind

Gordon Pinsent, Canadian acting icon, dead at 92

John Mazerolle
News -Entertainment ||

Bill and Hillary Clinton's excellent Ottawa adventure

The last days of Toronto's 'low-rent haven' on Queen Street

Want to see some of Winnipeg's most kitschy TV furniture ads? Well then, 'C'mon down!'

Darren Bernhardt
News -Canada -Manitoba ||

When everything is digital, why we long for media we can hold in our hands

Natalie Stechyson
News -Canada ||
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