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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland.

A centuries-old caroling tradition takes place during Christmas and New Year's in a small Newfoundland outport.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

Video games dull the brain and turn children into violence-craving delinquents, right? That opinion may be popular but it's not entirely factual.

Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?

Hearing, the first of our senses to develop in the womb, is also the most recent of our senses to appear in evolutionary terms.

"Night Watch" was radio's first "reality show", a program that brought live and authentic police drama to the airwaves.

An entertainment legend, Al Jolson was and remains a towering figure of the musical theatre.

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