Star Trek’s chief engineer, Montgomery Scott, may be the most famously Scottish person in all of pop culture. But here’s something fascinating: The actor who played Scotty, James Doohan, wasn’t …
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“The Pocket Rocket” won a record 11 Stanley Cups.
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WWE Hall of Fame wrestler taught “The Rock” how to wrestle.
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Considered one of the best rock drummers in history.
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Kelly Fraser was an Inuit-Canadian pop singer known for her version of Rhianna’s “Diamonds.” In Frasers’ 2013 version of the song, she mixed her native Inuktitut language with English to make the song accessible …
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When it comes to researching family history, the obit is a treasure trove of information.
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Godfrey Gao was a Taiwanese-Canadian actor best known for playing Magnus Bane in the 2013 film “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.”
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John Mann was the lead singer of Spirit of the West, a Canadian alternative rock band that had its biggest success in the 1990s with hits including “Political” and “And …
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Graeme Gibson was a Canadian author and conservationist who was the longtime partner of author Margaret Atwood. Gibson wrote novels including “Five Legs” (1969) and “Perpetual Motion” (1982).
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Three professional mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche in Banff National Park. David Lama, Jess Roskelley, and Hansjörg Auer were lost and presumed dead in the avalanche that took …