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Canola

The superior cooking oil. Rapeseed was the cash crop for generations of Canadian farmers....

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Caesar

The Canadian cocktail. Walter Chell was up for a challenge. In 1969, the bartender...

Bonnie Mallard

Bonnie Mallard

2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner Bonnie Mallard is a professor of immunogenetics in...

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Peanut Butter

The protein substitute. Step aside, George Washington Carver. Contrary to almost universal belief, the...

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Egg Carton

The dimple that settled a fight. Who says nothing positive ever comes from fighting?...

Old photograph portrait of Dr. Margaret Newton

End Of Grain Rust

The fight with blight. Each of us could only hope to enjoy the definitive...

electric range

Electric Range

The power cooker. Thomas Ahearn’s dinner guests were a contented lot that Ottawa evening...

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