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The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power 1972-1975 By Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh Harbour, 368 pp., $32.

When David Clarke first got wind that Butchart Gardens was going to mount a Christmas display, his response was unequivocal - he hated it.

Over centuries, families and countries evolve unique recipes

If you can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and fry an egg, you already have all the skills needed to make this incredible Christmas morning stuffed French toast.

A few years ago, The Beaver magazine asked a panel of historians to name the worst Canadians in history. Amongst this hall of infamy, there was one name that caught my eye.

Butchart Gardens is all decked out for Christmas. From spring through fall, it's the blooms and foliage that draw close to a million tourists from around the world.

They pop up like magic mushrooms after heavy rain. Sometimes they're in single-digit groups, sometimes in hundreds and quite often these days numbering in the thousands.

University of Texas astronomers have discovered what might be the universe's largest black hole, a finding experts said could lead to a better picture of how galaxies and black holes are formed.

Legendary Who guitarist Pete Townshend has weathered drug abuse, alcohol addiction, infidelity, near-deafening rock 'n' roll assaults to his ears and, of course, those infamous child pornography charges.

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