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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 [...]

Becherovka--a deliciously amber, bittersweet liqueur flavoured with anise and cinnamon--originated in the Czech Republic as a herbal remedy. In 1807, pharmacist Josef Becher began selling his spicy formulation as "stomach [...]

With candour rare for a physician, Dr. Chris O'Connor recalls the day he made a potentially fatal mistake. It happened at the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga, Ontario's busiest community [...]

Life in a student residence used to mean crowded bathrooms, noisy parties and worries about what's growing in the back of the fridge. Increasingly, however, it's about peace of mind, [...]

CanWest is fighting to change the rules on drug advertising. Millions are at stake. In the pivotal courtroom scene from A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise shouts, "I want the [...]

Canadians get one in every 10 meals from a restaurant. If that doesn't sound particularly heart-stopping, consider that these meals tend to be higher in fat, sodium and sugar content [...]

If last year's fabulous Canon PowerShot A620 is anything to go by, the new PowerShot A640 will almost certainly help keep Canon atop the digital camera market in Canada. Out [...]

Something just wasn't right with Ian MacPherson when he was born. His mother tells him he was "floppy," unable to hold up his head. On Aug. 8, 1982--the family will [...]

When it comes to improving wait times and access to health care, Canadians are still waiting. While the provinces insist that a majority of patients come away happy--and many do--a [...]

At first glance, it seemed like a classic David-and-Goliath punch-up: Danielle Lavigueur, a separated mother of two living in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore, claims the high school her 12-year-old [...]

For reasons that quickly become apparent, the flying silver carp does not have a lot of friends. "They're ugly, they smell bad and they're slimy," says Duane Chapman, a fisheries [...]

British lads have a well-deserved reputation for imbibing more than their fair share, but now the lasses are giving them a run for their money. Research by Moira Plant, professor [...]

The labels say trans fats are gone. Do they tell the whole story? Oreo cookies will never be confused with health food. This is partly because of common sense, and [...]

Arthur Rosenfeld speaks with the conviction of a man who has seen the incandescent light. As head of the California Energy Commission, he takes a decidedly low-watt approach toward energy [...]

Some doctors readily prescribe Depo-Provera as birth control for native women. Experts worry the drug might reduce bone density and help foster other ailments. Darleen Watts had heard enough about [...]

It's a dark day when the few drugs available to treat Alzheimer's disease start looking like they don't do much good. Aricept, Reminyl and Exelon are collectively known as cholinesterase [...]

We keep bracing ourselves for one cataclysmic threat after another. Our perceived lack of safety has become an obsession. GREGORY FIELDS is a pharmaceutical maverick. He calls his company, Canadian [...]

THE TERRACE OF THE Habbo Hotel seems like a good place to meet people. I figure that even in a virtual world, folks will want to be in the sun. [...]

THE SYMPTOMS weren't severe enough for 16-year-old Gordon Denison to give them much thought. It was 1996, and Denison was living in rural Ormstown, Que., 50 km southwest of Montreal. [...]

CANADIANS ARE masters of the universe. Just look at the numbers. Sure, the U.S. leads the world in spending on space research, laying out roughly US$7 per American each year, [...]

CANADIAN EUTHANASIA advocates in general shy away from the question. But it's clear that the wrenching debate over the mercy killings of infants that has gripped the Netherlands may soon [...]

RANDY FILBY makes sandwiches to die for. Fresh ingredients--a pox on anything frozen--and an emphasis on homestyle preparations have earned his tiny eatery, the Garage, a reputation as one of [...]

IT ISN'T EVEN NOON yet on a blisteringly hot Sunday, but the odds are pretty good the shirtless guy hanging on for dear life behind the wheel of his Jeep [...]

KAITLIN MORRISON LOST her virginity at 13 and, she says, "it was downhill from there." At 14, she left her parents' home in Port McNeill, B.C., on the northeast coast [...]

ALL TYLER BRADLEY WANTED was to make ski and snowboard wax that was environmentally friendly. So, about four years ago, the 25-year-old entrepreneur started looking for alternatives to the petroleum [...]

IT'S SUNNY AND -16[degrees]C, not too bad considering how cold it can get here in southern Manitoba. The only thing moving is the occasional passenger car or transport truck, billowing [...]

WHAT'S AN UPRISING these days without a mega pop star? In Kiev's wired world of the Orange Revolution, there's Ukraine's darling--Ruslana, the one-named singing sensation who won the 2004 Euro [...]

It's beginning to look like the Cold War. DANYLO HAWALESHKA reports on the Orange Revolution. It was like old times--a Russian leader warning the West to stay out of his [...]

A TAINTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; protesters in the streets; Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's claim to the presidency blocked by the supreme court; opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko calling for a general strike; [...]

Canadian meds have become a political hot potato in the States. Who says they're unsafe? AS WITH ALL GOOD ADS, there is no confusing the message. "Recently the FDA ordered [...]

DAVID SUZUKI WAS THERE to explain to Canadians the grand ambitions of the early space program and our Anik satellites. He helped us understand the first test-tube baby and advancing [...]

THIS COULD GET interesting, I thought. I was standing outside the unfinished Olympic Stadium in Athens, talking with two Australian tourists, when three cop cars pulled up and blocked the [...]

MY GREEK WIFE, Stavroula Logothettis, sometimes tells the story about how she, as a kid, would go with her parents to one of the open-air cinemas in Athens to watch [...]

All that gift shopping getting you down? Too busy to enjoy the holidays? Sometimes a Christmas special can lift those sagging spirits. An Indigo Christmas with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale [...]

THERE'S NOTHING quite like the deafening rat-tat-tat bursts of machine-gun fire to focus your attention. We'd spent almost two hours staking out a bridge for an ambush. Wind-whipped clouds--stragglers from [...]

WAY TO GO, VIAGRA. It's hard to believe you've been around more than five years. But what a half-decade it's been--from a gleam in some scientist's eye to one of [...]

AFTER YOUR SPOUSE and perhaps a close friend or two, your next most intimate relationship could easily be with your family doctor. After all, the GP often knows things about [...]

Sam Whittingham of Gabriola Island, B.C., has raced--and crashed--bicycles for 15 years. Whittingham, 31, usually rides bikes like those in the Tour de France, but in September at the World [...]

In the end, it wasn't just a chunk of broken insulation that doomed the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts in the sky over Texas and Louisiana in February. [...]

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 […]