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First volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoir to be published in November

A Promised Land will cover his swift and historic rise to the White House and his first term in office.

Books September 17

The cameraman who captured 'unforgettable' footage of the Hindenburg disaster

Thomas Craven kept his camera trained on the unfolding Hindenburg disaster, capturing highly valuable footage that day.

Aline Chrétien, wife of former PM Jean Chrétien, has died at age 84

An astute political partner whom former prime minister Jean Chrétien called his most trusted adviser and his "rock of Gibraltar," Aline Chrétien died peacefully Saturday morning at the age of 84.

Rosemary Barton

News Politics September 14

When Olympic champion Jesse Owens was a guest on CBC-TV

In 1963, the gold-winning sprinter told the panel on a CBC game show about competing at the 1936 Games and his work as a mentor to young athletes.

The day Brian Mulroney made his debut in Parliament as an MP

How Newfoundland became a place of refuge on 9/11

Finding the Titanic and dredging up memories of a tragedy

1st complete dinosaur skeleton, found in 1858, finally gets its due

News Technology & Science September 1

Ottawa names two former residential schools as national historic sites

Olivia Stefanovich

News Politics September 2

Andrew Scheer joins a short list of past leaders hoping for a second act in politics

News Politics August 28

The day an IRA bomb claimed the life of Lord Mountbatten

From 1980: When daily papers in Winnipeg and Ottawa folded

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When B.C. had more measles cases than the entire United States

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Youth volunteers uncover hundreds of ancient gold coins in Israel

News Technology & Science August 25

Filmmaker joins star-crossed search for a 70-year-old plane crash in Yukon

News Canada North August 24

Plague doctors and PPE: Today's gear has nothing on the medical garb of the Renaissance

Ainsley Hawthorn

News Canada Nfld. & Labrador August 23

When the polls saw a big change coming to Ottawa in 1984

Joe Gosnell, key negotiator in historic Nisga'a treaty, dead at 84

News Canada British Columbia August 18

Few laughed in Ottawa or P.E.I. when a pie hit a PM

As seen on CBC-TV: Snapshots of cross-border life before COVID-19

The great North America blackout of 2003

How Team Canada trained to take on the Soviets in 1972

What exactly does a U.S. vice-president do? It would have shocked the country's founders

Alexander Panetta

News World August 14

The first Bloc Québécois candidate elected to Parliament

75 years after Hiroshima bombing, it's falling to descendants to keep survivors' stories alive

News World August 6

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