[ Lifestyle ] A new look in toothpaste: stripes!
The inventor of striped toothpaste talks to CBC Radio in 1959 about his simple yet snazzy innovation.

Paralympics open with rocking ceremony
More than 5,000 performers of varying ages and abilities were part of Friday night's Paralympic opening ceremonies in Vancouver, dazzling a capacity crowd at BC Place stadium during the two hour show.

[ Sports ] The Arctic Winter Games kick off in 1970
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau launches the inaugural Arctic Winter Games.

[ Science & Technology ] Polar Bears: On Thin Ice

It prowls the globe's frozen north, a massive white bruin that fears no predator. The polar bear is both a totemic symbol of Canada and an important part of the Arctic ecosystem. But as four decades of intensive study has shown, climate change is threatening polar bear populations. CBC Digital Archives presents a dozen clips about how these bears of the great white north have gone from trophy hunter's quarry to nuisance to protected species.

[ Sports ] Playing to Win: Canada at the Paralympics
Wheelchair racers speeding to victory, blind swimmers competing for gold, and disabled skiers pushing their bodies to the limit. These are today's Paralympians. They train hard. They play to win. And in recent years, Canadians have been winning big at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics began as a postwar sporting event designed to get injured ex-soldiers moving again. But by the 1980s the Games had evolved into an elite international competition.

[ War & Conflict ] Going over the top at Vimy Ridge
Veterans recall one of the most terrifying and triumphant moments in Canada's military history.