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In '84 the Canadian dollar was down but July 4th tourism was up
Some of Canada's tourist attractions benefited from the low state of the dollar, with more Americans leaving home and more Canadians staying put.

RCMP spied on activists in early days of universal medicare planning in Sask., documents show
An access to information request has turned up documents that show that in the 1960s, the RCMP surveilled doctors in Saskatchewan who supported what is now universal medicare, fearing they may be communists.

Dayne Patterson
News -Canada -Saskatchewan ||

Cricket in Hamilton: 175 years of history, lots of players, nowhere to play
The sport of cricket has exploded in popularity over the last year, and the city of Hamilton currently only has one field that can accommodate the sport.

Cara Nickerson
News -Canada -Hamilton ||

Why Canada's national holiday is no longer Dominion Day

The day Midday said goodbye after more than 4,000 episodes on CBC

When rumours sent Newfoundlanders running to the banks in 1982

Jim Pappin, 1967 Stanley Cup hero for the Maple Leafs, dead at 82
Sports -Hockey -NHL ||

When Canada's national museum on the Ottawa River opened

A not very neighbourly arrangement at the U.S. border

The many times the royals have jetted across the pond for Canada Day
Hundreds of Mi'kmaw artifacts return home to Cape Breton

Erin Pottie
News -Canada -Nova Scotia |
Museum looking for items to tell 'Windsor's Prohibition History'
News -Canada -Windsor ||

When 'a flood of free newspapers' washed over Toronto

How TV's The Raccoons went from a one-time special to a long-running cartoon

The sunken destroyer that didn't sink as it was supposed to

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
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