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"The Vinyl Cafe" radio show, which featured a mix of stories, essays and musical performances, was spun into bestselling books and became a touring production in 2008. The show's stories centred on Dave, the owner of a second-hand record store, and also featured Dave's wife, Morley, their...

Au contraire, mon ami..........they are alive and well ........and smiling.........for now anyway. :-P

Have you heard of the Greenfield company, Twila? Canadian company dedicated to raising pigs naturally. Their maple-flavored bacon is great. I also like their maple-flavored sausages. Check them out About Greenfield Natural Meat Co. I haven't seen it in our local grocery stores for a...

Canada's prison service has abruptly reversed course on its new policy for transgender inmates, one day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to promote equality for all trans Canadians, including those behind bars. Correctional Service Canada spokesman Jean-Paul Surette said trans...

One of the greats: Retiring Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Henry Burris is truly going out on top Henry Burris is taking the term “going out on top” to another level. Never before has a 41-year-old quarterback won a Grey Cup, while few players of any age have delivered a comparable performance...

Nicolas Nadeau. Remember that name if you follow Canadian figure skating. He was the first skater to take to the ice as the Men's Free Skate completion got underway at the Canadian National Figure Skating Championship last night. His performance brought the entire audience to their feet in a...

When Hayley Wickenheiser sees girls dragging hockey bags into arenas, she feels a sense of accomplishment. The normalcy of girls playing hockey is what she sweated for, fought for, and shed tears for. When Wickenheiser started playing 33 years ago, there were no girls' teams. She played...

It was one of the most brilliant geopolitical chess moves in over a decade, and it involved doing nothing, according to Eurasia senior analyst Lauren Goodrich. An expert on Russian politics at the intelligence firm Stratfor, Goodrich was referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin's...

Our Juniors won their first game of the per-competition series shutting out Finland 5 - 0. They play the Czechs on Wednesday (4PM PST on TSN1, 2, 3 and 4). Friday they will play Switzerland. The preliminaries get underway on Boxing Day. Dylan Strome was named captain of Canada’s...

"More than 80,000 public servants have been underpaid, overpaid, or not paid at all since Ottawa rolled out its new Phoenix payroll program Phoenix." Single mom calls Phoenix payroll claims mess a 'vicious circle' - Politics - CBC News

Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson has decided to question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally to determine whether he breached the Conflict of Interest Act when he attended Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraisers with corporate executives wanting favours from the federal government. Ms...

Michael Moore: ‘Disrupt the Inauguration’ Liberaral documentary filmaker Michael Moore is encouraging Americans to take to the streets to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. "Disrupt the Inauguration. The Majority have spoken – by nearly 2.7 million votes...

TORONTO — A couple of years ago, I was in Minnesota to cover the NHL playoffs, and took some time to walk around St. Paul and take in the sights. There are not a lot of sights in St. Paul. But there was a children’s museum, which was notable for the signs it had in the front window: No...

Don't usually pay attention, pt...........I buy them in bulk from Save-On. And yes, Jolly Ranchers is trademarked. Pick a name and then go with the jingle.

When I was still prospecting, everyone on the crew smoked and there were some fair sized crews. I tried a few times but am so AR that I would spend ages at a showing that really only deserved a few notes and a couple of samples. Now I clean for friends and neighbors and still can't operate...

Friends of mine grind it up to a fine powder and make absolutely killer chocolates. Others just use it in brownies. You can pretty well use in in anything, MHz. Where people mess up is when they don't grind it fine enough.

Imagine how you would feel if the government installed cameras in your home that recorded everything you did, then gave police the power to review the footage without a warrant, whenever they want. If that sounds to you like a gross violation of your privacy, you should probably be aware...

The malfunctioning Phoenix pay system that left thousands of Canada’s public servants unpaid has also doled out millions of dollars in overpayments to 13,700 employees since its ill-fated launch. A letter sent to MPs on the government operations committee says a total of 20,600 public...

What's average, pete. I grew up in Sask and spent the next 20 odd years of my life there. When I was a kid in the 50s my sisters and I used to toboggan off the second story of our farmhouse - if I can find them, I'll post the old black and whites my Dad took. Then slowly over the years the...

Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate Scenes of street flooding, like this one on Alton Road in Miami Beach in November, are becoming increasingly common. Credit Angel Valentin for The New York Times...