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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.

No one wanted Gracie to become the Queen-hell, Gracie didn't want to be the Queen. She is, though, and people are just lining up to take shots at her. Some want her gone; some want what she has.

Raine Campbell has survived her first semester at the School of Necessary Magic, but only just. Time to throw herself into her studies and get a better grasp on magic.

A new MMORPG is taking the School of Necessary Magic by storm, and everyone is addicted-except for Raine.

Two-hundred years ago the earth was destroyed by the World's Worst Day Ever.

Ryder had gone from the impossible to the highly improbable with Massimo and Leandro. But can she do better?

Caitlin may have freed her town from evil, but the Governor who oppressed them all is still on the loose.

The Governor is defeated; the tides are appearing to turn.

When Caitlin finally gets the chance to join her brother on a mission outside of the walls of the town she has been trapped inside all of her life, her entire reality is shaken.