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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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

Ashley Roll's mother is reluctant to have her come to the phone. She's worried that answering questions will take too much out of the 19-year- old, but Ashley says she's [...]

They're everywhere. Turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper or magazine, and the stories leap out: stem cells to heal the body's failing nervous system; transplanted wombs; the smaller-than-small [...]

They seemed to emerge from nowhere. Hockey louts in minivans: moms and pops and gap-toothed kiddies with eyes as wide as toonies, cruising the downtown streets, waving flags and blowing [...]

The detective who investigated Jessica Weber's death is reluctant to say much about how she died. An Ontario court will decide that after a preliminary hearing expected this spring. Jessica's [...]

Surveys show that many Canadians remain leery of punching in a credit- card number to buy a book off the Net. So if Amazon.com still makes you blanch, how about [...]

In a closely guarded room in an industrial complex by Toronto's international airport, racks stacked with hundreds of powerful central processors stand erect like faceless sentinels. The rush of air [...]

In a cavernous printing plant -- walls hospital white, floors spanking clean -- a German press as big as a city bus devours three desktop- sized sheets of paper every [...]

Most people use bank machines to get cash, or maybe pay a few bills. But NCR Corp. expects the ATM of the future to become a 'physical fulfilment device.' You'll [...]

This Christmas, no doubt some Canadians have given their highly caffeinated loved ones the Starbucks Card, a loyalty ploy with a difference. It's part of a growing trend among retailers [...]

Special effects are a Hollywood staple, and 3-D software like Maya makes them seem effortless. While Maya, created by Toronto-based Alias|Wavefront, is widely recognized for films like Pearl Harbor and [...]

Clearly, it's not about practical transportation: if you're travelling long distances, you might be better off carrying it than riding it. Comfort? Certainly not. But it's undeniable: the minibike has [...]

Construction of the International Space Station will require dozens of space walks, yet NASA doesn't fully understand the danger posed by the sun's powerful radiation, says Ian Thomson, president of [...]

On an unusually warm weekday morning in early October, Norma Petitti, lean and smartly outfitted in a sporty skirt and blouse, takes a quick last swig from her coffee before [...]

Zsuzsa Harnad, who turns 84 this week, was pleased with the question. Harnad had just finished giving a class in t'ai chi ch'uan at a Montreal YMCA. A novice student [...]

Doing something for the first time, especially if it requires losing tens of millions of dollars, should be nerve-racking. But Martha Fusca, chief executive of Stornoway Communications LP, a newcomer [...]

After the attack on the World Trade Center, concern over personal security has risen in all aspects of our lives. Driving is no exception. A Calgary firm, CSI Wireless Inc., [...]

Engineer Charles Bull was just sitting down at his desk on the 73rd floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, logging on to his e-mail system to start his [...]

It's hard to imagine any skyscraper surviving what the World Trade Center was subjected to. Each massive 110-storey tower initially bore the full brunt of a Boeing 767 passenger jet [...]

Stolen shopping carts are mainstays of the junk that litters towns and cities, discarded on lawns, half-submerged in creeks, or dumped on their sides in alleys. These stray carts, worth [...]

How, you might ask, could anyone possibly improve on ice cream? It's already cool and creamy, a delicious distraction on hot summer days. Still, researchers at Ice Biotech Inc. in [...]

First impressions can be deceiving. Approaching Saint John, N.B., the pilot of the small commuter jet draws passengers' attention to the 'Reversing Falls' on the Saint John River where it [...]