Society

Remembering the public figures who died this year

Plus why young people see value in Snapchat, WhatsApp and Instagram

The CBC host forecasts the next year in hockey

1. Authors Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson: Atwood had just been passed over for the Governor General’s Award for poetry in...

Welcome to the era of on-demand/available on everything

The Calgary-based airline’s flight attendants have always been known for the jokes they tell passengers. Here are some of the best, picked by the company’s chief executive:

The all-time coldest temperatures for capital cities in Canada

Quebec is the top Christmas-tree producing province

It was a good year for Daft Punk, Naheed Nenshi and the rest of these newsmakers

Canada has claims to the origins of ice hockey, basketball and five-pin bowling, but maybe it’s something about long, cold winters that inspires us to invent other pastimes. (In 2010, Canadian firms accounted for between six and eight per cent of global toy sales.)