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The last Battle of Alberta was in 1991. Here's how Calgary is different — and how it remains the same
The Calgary Flames will face off against the Edmonton Oilers in a renewed Battle of Alberta, the first time the two teams have met in a playoff series since 1991. Calgary looked a lot different back then, but other things have stayed the same.
That time the Stanley Cup final would include the Canucks or Leafs
It wasn't a classic hockey rivalry, but Vancouver had plenty of pent-up hostility against Toronto when the Canucks and the Leafs met in the 1994 NHL playoffs.
When the CRTC decided the internet couldn't be regulated
It took almost a year of study, but in the end the Canadian broadcast regulator decided it wasn't its place to enforce rules for audio and video online in 1999.
When Toronto's mayor planned to make Yonge and Bay one-way streets
The first flight of Top Gun (and two other reasons to visit the cinema) in 1986
A life 'defined by something he didn't do': David Milgaard, wrongfully convicted of murder, dies at 69
1990 was the year of the tire fire in Canada
The top chef who came to taste the lobster nouveau in N.B.
Character actor Fred Ward, known for role in The Right Stuff, dead at age 79
When the 1982 Vancouver Canucks made it to the Stanley Cup final
When 'spoiled' Torontonians lost twice-a-week garbage pickup
From 1980: Will Ottawa set a precedent by helping Chrysler?
A look inside the Quebec City hat shop where 'it's as though time stopped'
The election everyone was ready for — except Pierre Trudeau
After 20 years, Apple is saying goodbye to the iPod
What The Kids in the Hall did after their CBC-TV show ended
In 1990, the 'lobster money' wasn't what it used to be out east
When beer and wine almost made it into Ontario corner stores
The place to go for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle haircut in 1990
From 1979: Will gas rationing come to Canada?
The Newfoundland sealers who got stranded on the ice for weeks
Memories of 1997 flood back for Manitobans 25 years later, though many want to move on
Trash talk: unparliamentary language has a long history in the House of Commons
