Hall of Babedom: Anna Friel

Her endearing ABC drama Pushing Daisies may have gotten the hook, but this saucy English thespian came back in the limelight again as Will Ferrell's research assistant in Land of the Lost.

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Cangenuity: The Tipping Point of Pop Academic Tomes

Dateline: 2000 With an engineering professor at the British University of Waterloo for a dad and a Jamaican psychotherapist for a mom, it's no wonder Malcolm Gladwell ended up looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Bob Marley.

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Cangenuity: The Medium is the Message

Dateline: 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined this oft-invoked aphorism in his 1964 opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.

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Cangenuity: Generation X

Dateline: 1991 The demographic and pop culture cohort born between 1963 and 1977 came of age during a time of economic stability and domestic peace in the U.S.

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Cangenuity: Sowing the seeds of Cyberspace

Dateline: 1984 Vancouver science fiction author William Gibson, popularized the concept in Neuromancer, a novel fĂȘtted with the sci-fi geek-lit trifecta capturing the Hugo, Nebula and the Phillip K. Dick honors.

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Cangenuity: The Birth of Modern Peacekeeping

Dateline: 1956 "We need action not only to end the fighting but to make peace," said the Canadian globetrotting diplomat and future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

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Cangenuity: Kraftwerk & Daft Punk could have never got their synth on w/oThe Electric Sackbut leading the way for synths

Dateline: 1948 As a young scientist during the Second World War, Port Arthur's Hugh Le Caine worked as a physicist for the National Research Council, helping to develop a radar system that was later implemented by multiple branches of the armed forces.

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Cangenuity: The Birth of the V-Chip

Dateline: 1998 This program-blocking technology which allows parents to buffer their childrens' viewing choices was inspired by a grisly chapter in Canadian history.

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Cangenuity: To think Ski-doo was almost Ski-dog

Dateline: 1959 The iconic Canadian brand recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with the release of the 2009 models.

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Cangenuity-Canadian Tire Money

Dateline: 1958 Muriel Billes, the wife of company co-founder A.J. Billes, came up with the money idea that was pure marketing genius.

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Cangenuity- Programming language JAVA owes much to the Doobie Brothers

Dateline: 1991 The flashbulb moment for revolutionary Calgarian programmer James Gosling came at of all places, a Doobie Brothers concert.

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Cangenuity: Pita Pit and the Fast Food vs Nutrition Ceasefire

Dateline: 1995 Fast food and nutrition have long been warring factions, but Nelson Lang and John Sotiriadis decided it was high time for a ceasefire.

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Cangenuity: James Naismith & the Birth of B-Ball

Yorkshireman James Henry Atkinson's ingenious rodent-slaying Little Nipper, patented in 1897, still dominates the market over a century later. Yes, it has become a business cliché, but springing the next mousetrap remains the goal of the world's top innovators.

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Cangenuity: The Zipper Story

Dateline: : 1913 If it weren't for Gideon Sundback, the expression "You're flying low" would never have entered the vernacular. And what would a world be like if jeans only came in cumbersome button-fly?

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Cangenuity: Pondering Plexiglass

Dateline: 1931 William Chalmers was pursuing a PhD in chemistry at McGill when he happened upon an economical way to make the transparent shatter resistant polymethyl methacrylate using acetone and hydrogen cyanide.

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Cangenuity-The Birth of Instant Replay

Dateline: 1955 George Retzlaff, the founding producer of Hockey Night in Canada forever changed the experience of TV sports viewing when he introduced the concept of in-game instant replay.

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Cangenuity-IMAX

Dateline: 1970 At EXPO '67 in Montreal, multi-screen films had viewers blown away.

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Cangenuity-The Green Garbage Bag

Dateline: 1950 Q: How many men does it take to make a waste management milestone? A: Three.

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Cangenuity: Chowing down on Poutine

Fries smothered with cheese curds and drowned in hot brown gravy is certainly Quebec's most magnifique export. It has become an indelible part of la belle province's cultural cuisine.

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Cangenuity: Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit On Saturday, December 15, 1979 the age of trivia dawned when a pair of journalists, Scott Abbott, a sports editor with the Canadian Press and Chris Haney, a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, came up with the idea that put adult-orientated board games on the  …

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Cangenuity-mmm Butter Tarts

While the timing of the first brown sugar filled mini-pies popped out of an oven is hotly debated, one of the earliest references to the uniquely Canadian baked treats is in a book titled God Bless Our Homes, documenting 19th Century Canadian living.

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Cangenuity-The Canadarm Continues to Reach for the Stars

The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System first launched on November 13, 1981 and has lent a hand on over 50 space missions.

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Cangenuity: Canada Dry-Ginger Ale's "Gingervating" Story

The Irish had been brewing the beverage with bite since back in the mid 19th century but it was a Canadian pharmacist who updated the zippy formula for modern palates.

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