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Armed with just a lawn chair and his dog, this man is taking on Canada’s postal system.

Canadian scientists have found evidence that some plants embrace family values. These plants can recognize their siblings — and are “friendly” toward them. NOVA’s Anna Rothschild reports. NOVA

For 4 days last July a black toxic cloud hung over the city of Hamilton, Canada’s steel city on the shores of Lake Ontario. It was the worst fire in Hamilton’s history, and one of the worst fires of its kind in the world. The Hamilton conflagration was a plastics fire. Polyvinyl chloride or PVC, […]

Residents of Hamilton, Ontario say they were burned in more ways than one by a huge industrial blaze that blanketed their city in toxic smoke for days. It was a disaster, they say, that could have been prevented. For four days last July, a black, toxic cloud hung over the city of Hamilton; Canada’s “steel […]

The Golden Horseshoe was the place we were looking for in today’s Geo Quiz. It’s located in Southern Ontario — on the western end of the Niagara Peninsula and around the westernmost part of Lake Ontario. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Ken Peters in Hamilton, Ontario, about a bid to move the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton.