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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 [...]