From National Pizza Day to National Puppy Day: Why so many national days have filled the calendar

National Day Calendar recognizes over 3,000 special days, weeks and months that are celebrated worldwide. The days honour ...

Yes, a Steak Canadian is a real thing. No, it wasn't invented 'in a place called Ontario'

But in his most recent video  — titled "What Even IS a Steak Canadian?!"  — Wootton decided to have a little fun trolling his ...

Austrian man finds out his grandfather was a Nazi in just a few clicks. He's encouraging others to do the same

Thanks to a new online tool from the German newspaper Die Zeit, it only took Christian Rainer a few seconds to confirm what ...

She went unidentified for over a century. Now this Indigenous woman's story is being told

Growing up, Daphne Richards-Cook heard a lot of stories about her great-great-grandmother, Sophie Mousseau. She was told that ...

Haven't filed your taxes? Pick up some pizza, call your friends and throw an admin party

Enter admin parties, the modern equivalent of a good old-fashioned barn-raising. Billed as “the new book club,” they are ...

Trump is going to the White House press dinner. Former journalists say he should be called out

Former ABC News correspondent Lisa Stark says these are not normal times–and that this weekend’s annual White House ...

The Sunday Magazine for April 26, 2026

Randall Bartlett and Jim Stanford discuss Canada's financial future and how to weather the economic challenges we face, Kory ...

Riffed from the Headlines 04/25/2026

Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly quiz, where we choose three riffs linked by one story in the news. Guess the story ...

John Keats’s love letters to his fiancée found roughly 37 years after they were stolen

The bound volume of 37 love letters, some handwritten, is worth $2.75 million. But Romantic scholars say its value is greater ...

Meet the unsung heroes of conservation this Earth Day

Throughout history, human activity has often damaged the environment, pushing forests and wildlife closer to extinction. But ...
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Why Canadians can't be 'Dames' or 'Sirs'-- and why some people want that to change

You know who just got an honorary knighthood from the Queen? Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City. And you know who was just made an honorary dame? Actress and humanitarian Angelina ...