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A decade ago, Susan Cole was named co-winner of Saskatchewan's 'Oilman of the Year' award in recognition of her role managing the world's largest carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) injection and storage [...]

Survival. That is what life comes down to for the growing number of Canadians who live on the street in big cities. Their already limited resources are exhausted by the [...]

Does a doctor have a right to end a patient's life? For someone facing the prospect of being sent to trial on a charge of murder, Nancy Morrison appeared remarkably [...]

If a patient tells his psychiatrist that he intends to harm someone, is the doctor legally obliged to tell the police? Should a woman be allowed to abort her fetus [...]

These days, the classrooms and corridors of Matthew Elementary School in Bonavista, Nfld., are like a shrine to John Cabot. A brightly colored mural documents the life and times of [...]

It was a secret that former Prince Edward Island premier Joe Ghiz kept even from his own wife and children. In January, 1988, Ghiz asked Islanders to finally resolve through [...]

John Cabot could never have imagined anything like this. When the Anglo-Italian explorer arrived at the Grand Banks in 1497, the schools of codfish were so thick, they literally stopped [...]

Compared with anywhere else in British Columbia-anywhere else in Canada for that matter, to say nothing of the rest of the world Kelowna does not look hard done by. Set [...]

To an uninitiated observer, it may have seemed as though the two campaign teams had inexplicably mixed up their schedules last week. While Saskatchewan Conservative Leader Bill Boyd tread on [...]

On a crisp and sunny morning in January, the regulars are flocking to Lorna's cafe in Lloydminster, a city of 17,800 straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. They are gathering for that [...]

For the star of such off-the-wall comedies as Ghostbusters and My Stepmother the Alien, it was an appropriately bizarre homecoming. Decked out in black pants, a black shirt and a [...]

On the afternoon of the last day of her life, Joan Heimbecker spent six hours in the science library at McMaster University in Hamilton poring over evidence that vitamins A [...]

The premier of Alberta is in his element. Dressed in blue jeans, white sneakers and a well-worn turquoise sweatshirt, Ralph Klein settles into a swivel chair in a studio at [...]

Listening to his opponents last week, Canadians might have expected Reform Leader Preston Manning to sprout horns at any moment. In speech after speech, representatives of Canada's three traditional parties [...]

As she stood outside a high-school gymnasium in Prince Edward Island last week, waiting to be introduced, Canada's 19th Prime Minister looked like a boxer pumping herself up for a [...]

Sometimes in politics, a little attention can be a very good thing--but a lot is not nearly as welcome. Consider the case of Reform party Leader Preston Manning. At the [...]

On paper, the party is in an enviable position. More than half of all Canadians live in provinces governed by the New Democratic Party. At the federal level, NDP activists [...]

It was a gruesome start to a week that shocked many Manitobans. Late on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 12, a young man wielding a machete entered the New York [...]

As a devotee of tae kwon do, Nova Scotia Premier Russell MacLellan has learned to be both patient and cunning. The Korean martial art, in which MacLellan holds a black [...]

In a darkened room on a busy corner of the University of Toronto sits a mil- lion-dollar piece of magic. In the lingo of those in the department of materials [...]

In political circles, the glass-walled building in downtown Fredericton where Frank McKenna toiled for 10 years as New Brunswick premier was sometimes known as 'Frank's 7-11.' The moniker referred to [...]

The oldtimers call it a 'capelin squall'--a mixture of bone-chilling winds, rain and fog that typically hammers the Newfoundland coast in late June just as the capelin are coming inshore [...]

'They went for escape, taking what little they had and moving north' Madeleine Gould can often be seen on the streets of Dawson sporting a T-shirt that reads: 'The Yukon: [...]

Tuberculosis outbreaks revive memories of an earlier epidemic The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation . . . and they shall [...]

The sight can be found in almost every small town in the Canadian Arctic. Perched on the tundra, aimed at the endless horizon, giant satellite dishes bring into the homes [...]

For 15 agonizing weeks, the three women sat in the Yellowknife courtroom in a row directly behind Crown prosecutor Peter Martin. Two of them, Doreen Hourie and Judit Pandev, lost [...]

Like many a literature buff before him, Julian Ross decided he would like to get into the publishing business. So in the mid-1980s, Ross, who lives in the small West [...]

Paddling on the Yellowknife River in the summer of 1988, where sparse boreal forest dissolves into the tundra, novelist Rudy Wiebe discovered his future. He was travelling as part of [...]

Somalia in March is a land of impossible heat and stark beauty. During the blistering days, the temperatures will soar as high as 50* C, cooling to a more bearable [...]