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With her year-old son, Canadian golfer Dawn Coe-Jones boarded a flight last October from Tampa, Fla., heading for a late-season tournament near Allentown, Pa. Little Jimmy had a cold, wailed [...]

It had all the trappings of a Las Vegas gala. Movie floodlights crisscrossed the night sky as more than 1,000 invited guests, many of them dressed in tuxedos or evening [...]

BOB SWITZER, owner of Taz Records in Halifax, calls them keeners -- customers roughly 12 to 20 years old looking for vinyl alternatives to the pop-mush CDs played on radio. [...]

'THIS IS MY medicine cabinet,' says Karl Schibli, his ice-blue eyes widening with the excitement of someone about to let a neophyte in on what he already knows. The object [...]

IT SEEMED THE nightmare was finally over. There'd been no new Canadian cases of SARS in a month. But the situation went from good to bad to worse in just [...]

STRESSED-OUT, Canadians are more than ready for summertime, when the living is, well, easier. The last, lingering vestiges of winter -- the Stanley Cup playoffs -- are well on their [...]

We've seen how sick passengers aboard airplanes can spread a disease like SARS around the world. Lyme disease, another debilitating ailment threatening Canadians, also depends on air travel, but in [...]

THEY'LL SOON be here, riding the warm currents of summer: mosquitoes armed with the latest bioweapon -- the West Nile virus. Short of building a concrete bunker or setting up [...]

IT'S USUALLY pretty simple for Kandra Kaufield to get to work. The 27- year-old grade-school teacher from Charlottetown lives in suburban Hong Kong, a short walk from the train station [...]

IT WAS NOT what health-care officials had hoped for, to say the least. Only a week earlier, one of Health Canada's leading authorities on infectious diseases had speculated that SARS [...]

Margo Halupka is on the frightening front line of the SARS outbreak in Toronto. Halupka, 49, has been a nurse for almost 30 years, most of them at Scarborough Grace [...]

Automated mass production is how a lot of things get made, including, most certainly, books. But the centuries-old tradition of binding volumes by hand has hung on to find a […]

THOSE U.S. COMMERCIALS for some prescription drugs that occasionally turn up on TV programs seen in Canada sure can be bizarre. They tell you that, if you take a particular [...]

SOME COUNTERFEIT MONEY is easy to spot. A veteran RCMP officer recalls once seeing a particularly lame bill photocopied in black and white, then coloured in with crayons. But the [...]

MOST PEOPLE WHO take pictures know what it's like to have forgotten about a roll or two of exposed film. Some time later they come across them, have them developed, [...]

ANYWAY YOU LOOK AT IT, Health Canada's notion of bombarding food with radiation to kill dangerous germs is going be a tough sell. Most consumers would probably cringe if they [...]

MY WIFE AND I HAD just arrived at Toronto's Pearson airport, preparing to leave for our 'big fat Greek vacation' getaway, when a fan of hers came skipping out of [...]

SARAH HAMID considered herself a 'happy-go-lucky person.' A straight-A student with a loving family and a scholarship at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., she loved the campus clubs and [...]

50EVERYTHING SEEMED FINE when tiny Robyn White came bouncing into the world on Dec. 12, 1994. As parents do, Scott and Jasmin White of Oakville, Ont., began taking young Robyn [...]

DAREN JORGENSON had no thoughts of a multi-million-dollar cyberspace industry when he started selling pills on the Net two years ago. The Winnipeg pharmacist just hoped to make a few [...]

IT TAKES GREAT CARS to win on the world's top racing circuits. Just ask Jacques Villeneuve, who captured a Formula One championship with a good team and now struggles just [...]

HAVING A NICE SUMMER? It's hard to imagine how: read a newspaper, watch TV, surf the Web, and you soon get the impression that the world is coming to an [...]

It's remarkable what staying calm and a bit of luck can do for you. Last summer, Charles Stern of Mississauga, Ont., was at his Muskoka cottage. Belle, the family's Jack [...]

SUMMERTIME and the living is easy as the bus pulls up to Emerald Lake, a one-time limestone quarry now filled with spring water near Hamilton. Twenty-five kids aged eight to [...]

There are things Devin Trottier doesn't like to talk about. The 12- year-old is more stocky than fat but with a noticeably soft midriff. A thoughtful boy who enjoys playing [...]

THE OVERWHELMING impression was that they were everywhere -- and that they were all so darn happy. The World Youth Day pilgrims from 172 countries had an emotional spark that [...]

CANDY WRAPPERS, newspapers and cigarette packages cartwheeling through neighbourhoods. Maggot-ridden piles of garbage bags oozing across sidewalks, emitting a nauseating stench. That was Toronto's face to the world during a [...]

The numbers kept climbing. First one, then two, and finally three of Shirley Luxemberg's seven office co-workers at a clothing accessories factory in Montreal were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Then [...]

Imagine for a moment that you're a smoker who's been meaning to quit a pack-a-day habit for a while now. Or, if you can't picture yourself as a nicotine addict, [...]

It was June 12, 1944, and the D-Day invasion of Normandy was less than a week old. Waves of Allied bombers were pounding German positions, but on this afternoon Flying [...]

It was a bad day at the aerospace office. Around 9 a.m. on March 5, NASA called Richard Rembala, a lead engineer for Canadarm2. There was a problem. Less than [...]

A doctor's diagnosis can land like a punch in the solar plexus: you have Parkinson's disease. Chronic, progressive and incurable. In the life-altering reverberations that follow come the questions. Why? [...]