Most expensive houses in the 7 biggest cities in Canada
At these prices, can you really afford NOT to buy a stately pile?
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10 memorable but cheesy hockey player product pitches
Messier can’t stop eating Lays, while Sundin’s mom wants to make sure he eats his Chunky Soup.
Under the Tuscan spell
From dips to salads, Canadian food-makers conjure up images of the ’bella vita’ with one word: Tuscany, although there’s nothing very Tuscan about their products
10 (fictional but not wholly unbelievable) Canadian sex acts
We wonder what Pierre Berton would make of this imaginative list.
10 cities leading Canada in adult toy sales
It seems the sex-toy business is burgeoning across the land
8 pieces of toast auctioned for big dough
Want to make major bread in online auctions? Toast is a hot item.
Is local food bad for the economy?
The Locavore’s Dilemma, a controversial new book by two Canadian academics, is attracting its fair share of criticism
Why a good steak is rare in Calgary
Good meat is plentiful, of course, but dry aging to enhance flavour is hard to find
Dispatch from the Higgs boson cafeteria
Or rather, ’restaurant,’ where CERN physicists can eat three meals a day—and talk science
7 scientific discoveries named after Canadians
Would you believe there’s spider named for Neil Young?