Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse from Barbados, took a Montreal hotel giant to court in the 60s and won. It was the first Canadian case where an institution was found guilty of job discrimination based on race.

In 1987, a Nova Scotia radio station didn't care where its weather forecasts came from, but it wanted them to be accurate.

While Maud Lewis paintings routinely sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auction, sometimes they can sell for a lot more due to details such as how a previous owner acquired the painting or who owned it. A Lewis painting up for auction Thursday fits that description.