Canada

In the 1970s, a Canadian doctor named Richard Keith Downey together with University of Manitoba researcher Baldur Stefansson created an edible version of rapeseed (a toxic member of the mustard family). Because it was...

When this Toronto band formed hastily in 1968, drummer John Rutsey’s older brother suggested  “Rush,” both because of the psychedelic connotations (see Mahogany Rush) but also to reflect the band’s frenetic scrambling for a...

“It Tastes Awful. And It Works.” It’s hard to believe that would be a winning advertising slogan, but W. K. Buckley made it work, because he wasn’t lying. . .  it did taste awful. Buckley was...

While working in a New York beauty salon 1908, Florence Nightingale Graham (1881-1966) became known as “the little Canadian woman with the magic hands.” An ambitious nursing school dropout from Woodbridge, Ontario, she borrowed...

What does hockey have to do with doughnuts? In most ways, not much, except that Tim Horton, a Hockey hall of Farmer from Cochrane, Ontario, helped start the now-famous doughnut chain. Tim Horton was...

Type Name Heaviest Recorded (lbs) Heaviest Recorded (kg) Whale Blue Whale 418,877 189,999.4 Shark Whale Shark 47,000 21,318 Dolphin Killer Whale 22,000 9,979 Seal Southern Elephant Seal 11,000 4,989.5 Crocodile Saltwater Crocodile 4,409 2,000...