Sasha Erfanian, Centretown News
Britt Braaten, learning specialist at the Canadian War Museum, stands in front of the case holding Teddy, the bear given to Lieutenant Lawrence Browning Rogers by his daughter Aileen before he went off to fight in the First World War. The 100-year-old-bear was found in Roger's pocket when his body was recovered from Passchendaele.A book launch at the Canadian War Museum is set to bring the story of “Teddy” – a much-loved national wartime artifact – to life again.
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Inuk skull at Museum of Nature makes its way back to Arctic
For nearly six decades, a deceased Inuk woman’s skull sat in a locked cabinet at the Canadian Museum of Nature. This past July, it travelled more than 4,000 km back to its original resting place at the High Arctic edge of the Northwest Territories.
NASA probe to Europa follows in Lisgar high school’s footsteps
NASA has announced plans to send their first probe designed to detect life to Europa – one of the likeliest homes of alien existence in our solar system.
Centretown groups vow to end poverty
"It's time for a plan to end poverty in Canada," bluntly states the National Anti-Poverty Plan, released recently by the Dignity for All campaign.