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Wired magazine asked scores of authors to pen their own six-word masterpieces.

... as noted in The Maclean’s Book of Lists

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

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.)

French philosopher Voltaire famously dismissed Canada as but “a few acres of snow.” And what’s wrong with that? Words immortalizing the white, frozen stuff:

The warmest, coldest, wettest ... snowiest cities in the country