Do just one thing

If you had a shindig at your home and are left with half-drunk glasses of wine and stale beer in cans, there's no need to toss the drinks down the drain. You can pour the leftover vino and beer right into your compost bin. Not only is it biodegradable, your compost will love it -- the drinks are a good source of nitrogen, and the bacteria that break down the organic matter love the yeast in beer.

In 1952, the CBC opened the first television broadcasting facilities in Canada. The first station was CBFT in Montreal, which was followed by CBLT in Toronto two days later. Both outlets originally broadcast 18 hours of programming a week. Following its mandate that “television in Canada should be essentially Canadian,” the CBC at that time ensured that 60 per cent of its programs were produced in Canada. There were only about 100,000 TV sets in Canada at that time.

In 1953, 30 Canadians were released in the final exchange of Korean War prisoners.