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

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Post published:September 12, 2020
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Long after he had triumphed at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, American sprinter and track star Jesse Owens was asked how he felt about having competed in Adolf Hitler's Germany. "At that particular time, not…

When a Toronto suburb ‘banned’ voice mail at its city hall

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Post published:July 7, 2020
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Sure, voice mail had its drawbacks, but could a city bureaucracy really go without it? It was something the mayor of North York, Ont., was willing to try 25 years…

The end of the Acadian Peninsula’s crab-fishing boom in the 1980s

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Post published:June 25, 2020
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The crab catch was down, and so were hopes for what it could provide for New Brunswickers. "In the early '80s, crab became to the Acadian Peninsula what gold was…