Top chefs are rediscovering seaweed's unique flavours and have created these must-try dishes

We're used to seeing it wrapped around sushi, but in Europe seaweed was originally a peasant food, since it was free and full of nutrients. It's also the base of a traditional Welsh delicacy, laverhead. Here Maritimers have long tapped the health benefits of dulse, and now top chefs are rediscovering the plant's unique textures and umami flavours

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Watching the Vancouver Olympics set Alexa Murphy on the fast track to Canadian citizenship and ignited her passion to support our athletes in London 2012

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Ms. Chatelaine: The British Columbia native has opened for Tony Bennett and this fall will be the Canadian Opera Company's production of Die Fledermaus

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Unroll your blanket and unpack your picnic. Balmy summer nights were made
for open-air entertainment

Historic Dawson City show, Symphony Splash! in Victoria, Theatre under the Stars in Vancouver, Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, The Canadian Badlands Passion Play in Drumheller, Shakespeare in the Park in Calgary, Shakespear on the Saskatchewan, Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg, Shakespeare in High Park in Toronto, Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa, 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook, Driftwood Theatre tour in Ontario, Theatre de la Dame de Coeur in Upton, Repercussion Theatre in Montreal, Shakespeare by the Sea in Halifax, Two Planks and a Passion in Canning, Shakespeare by the Sea Festival in St. John's

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Divorce is often cited as one of life’s most traumatic events. In terms of the amount of grief and distress it brings with it, the severing of the connubial knot is right up there with the death of a loved one and financial ruin.

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