Releasing rulings in a pair of much-anticipated cases that go to the heart of separate treatment for aboriginal offenders, the Supreme Court of Canada said considering factors such as cultural oppression and a history of abuse in the residential school system must be central to the sentencing process.

With the U.S. government poised to declare a Northern California bay the “official” 1579 landing site of the famous English explorer Sir Francis Drake — who is known to have anchored and repaired the Golden Hind that year somewhere along the U.S. Pacific Coast during his epic circumnavigation of the globe — the question arises: is Canada missing the boat on a landmark moment in world history?

Heritage Park, Canada’s largest living history museum and based in Calgary, served its security personnel a 72-hour lockout notice as required by the Labour Relations Code.

Granite countertops have no place in a mid-century modern home. Neither do painted brick, vinyl windows, a spa bathroom, or “poufy Roman shades,” for that matter. So say Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown — creators of the hit quarterly magazine Atomic Ranch — in their newly released book, Atomic Ranch: Midcentury Interiors.

A Winnipeg historian’s literary take on Canada’s longest-serving prime minister has been shortlisted for the 2012 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.

Five stamps commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic will be released by Canada Post on April 5.

A small, hand-carved ceremonial club that Captain James Cook collected on Vancouver Island while searching for the Northwest Passage has been returned to the West Coast after a 234-year absence.

A Canadian scientist’s analysis of ancient animal remains found in Ohio — including the leg bone of an extinct giant sloth believed to have been butchered by an Ice Age hunter more than 13,000 years ago — has added weight to a once-controversial argument that humans arrived in North America thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

The Canadian government has announced close to $5 million in funding for 24 projects commemorating this year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812, including almost $1 million to help create a series of interactive exhibits at Vancouver’s Canada Place to “bring the heroes and stories of the War of 1812 to life” more than 3,000 kilometres west of the conflict’s most famous battlegrounds in southern Ontario.

An international team of scientists has determined that the Viking invasions throughout the North Atlantic world more than 1,000 years ago were accompanied in almost every case by the introduction of common house mice to the newly established Norse colonies — with the lone exception of Canada.