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Klassen change from Beaver and Elizabeth on Canadian coin
Except for beavers, loons and the odd moose, not many living Canadian creatures make it onto our official coins really, but that has chanced courtesy of Cindy Klassen. Chances are good you’ll see one in your pocket soon because the Canadian mint just issued 22 million of them.
Of course Klassen -five time long track speed… »
Montreal singer-songwriter Lhasa de Sela dies at 37
Sad News. Montreal singer-songwriter Lhasa de Sela (37) passed away just before midnight on the first day of 2010, losing her 2 year fight with breast cancer. Calling the city of Montreal home since the age of 19, de Sela was born in 1972 in Big Indian, New York to an American mother and a Mexican… »
Olympian among Canuck outer space hopefuls
Peter Giles of Halifax is among the 16 people picked to enter Canada’s next long term space program. Fifteen men and one woman were selected from a group of more than 5000 Canucks, Giles -a former Olympian- being one of them.
Giles was part of the Canadian team that finished seventh in the four-man 1,000-metre kayaking… »
Tracing one lead line…
While historians have speculated that lead poisoning may have been one of the reasons that Captain John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage failed, a soup can that was found in the Canadian Arctic seems to hold the proof. Recent testing of the can (by researchers from McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum) found… »
Bieber fever on Long Island
Justin Bieber, a 15-year-old pop singer from Stratford, Ontario caused a Beatles-style riot in Long Island on Friday afternoon. When thousands of teenage girls showed up at a shopping mall, where Bieber was to make an appearance to promote his new album, things got a little crazy.
After all the pushing and shoving was done, hours… »
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Dancing with Mary
I want to go dancing with Mary, just want more time ‘fore I go
We’ll waltz cross the floor as in oft times before, before this damned bloody war
Written by Barbara Shevchenko in memory of her grandfather Hugh McCurdy of Scotland, who was hit with mustard gas in the 1918 battle of Passchendaele in… »
Feature Interview: Justin Carre on aggressive men and wide faces
Justin Carre is a sport administration and psychology graduate at Brock University whose studies prove that men with wide faces are more aggressive than men with slim faces. Think about that, you might want to take out a measuring tape and maybe you’ll have some explaining to do.
Carre looked at all six Canadian NHL teams… »
Free at last
Abdelkader Belaouni, known as Kader to his many friends and supporters, didn’t waste any time while he was living in sanctuary in a Montreal church for three years, nine months and 22 days. While living in confinement in St. Gabriel’s Church for almost four years, the Algerian native refugee not only learned to play the piano,… »
Feature Interview: Ron Judd on the Vancouver 2010 games. Weather, gold and pressure
Ron Judd is a Seattle based sports writer who covered all Olympic Games since 1998, including the most recent winter events in Torino (06), Salt Lake City (02) and Nagano (98).
Rudd just released a book called “The winter Olympics: An insider’s guide to the legends, the lore and the Games”. The book has historical back… »
Pothole photographers of Montreal
The potholes in the streets of Montreal are legendary and are as much a part of the city’s identity as street hockey or bagels. When photographers Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca hit a huge pothole earlier this year, they came up with a brilliant idea. After replacing the suspension on their car, they started thinking… »
