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March 26

Saskatchewan declares war on gophers
Gainer the Gopher, the long-time mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was honoured by the provincial legislature four months ago, on the eve of the 2009 Grey Cup.
Saskatchewan builder gets creditor protection in wake of lawsuits
Toronto FC signs defender Gargan
Toronto FC's Dwayne DeRosario celebrates scoring his side's goal against DC United during first half MLS action in Toronto on Saturday August 15, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Coronation Park squatter camp
Andre Coetzee, 57, drinks a mug of coffee at a squatter camp.
Tories, Liberals back Quebec's veil ban
Numbers
Teemu Selanne #8 of the Anaheim Ducks poses with the puck and teammates who assisted his 600th career goal, Scott Niedermayer #27 and Corey Perry #10 that he made during the game against of the Colorado Avalanche on March 21, 2010 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Debora Robinson/NHLI via Getty Images)
Corsi rating
Buffalo Sabres left winger Thomas Vanek (L) misses the puck during a scoring chance in front of the Canadiens goal as Montreal center Glen Metropolit (R) closes during second period NHL hockey action in Buffalo, New York, March 24, 2010. REUTERS/Gary Wiepert
Quotables
Ottawa Senators goalie Brian Elliott makes a save on the Montreal Canadiens during second period of NHL hockey action in Montreal March 22, 2010. REUTERS/Shaun Best
Gaffe on detainees file exposes role of politics, ex-colonel says
Bob Rae holds redacted documents on Afghan detainees tabled by the Conservatives in the House of Commons in April, 2010.
Job market and housing lead robust economic rebound
Looks deceiving in Ontario's generic-drug strategy
Adam Radwanski
Dress for success
Seventeen-year-old Cashala Eugene, left, designed and made a prom dress for Rachel Vaillancourt, 19, a graduating student at Bloor Collegiate. The program was organized by PACT, a Toronto-based group focused on assisting young people.
Hockey's numbers game
Matthew Sekeres
Controversial Alberta physician charged with sex crime
Janyk wins national ski title
Canadian alpine ski team member Britt Janyk poses for a photograph in Creekside at Whistler, B.C. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Janyk of Whistler, B.C., won her 13th career Canadian alpine skiing title Friday, taking gold in the women's giant slalom. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Canucks backup stands down
Vancouver Canucks' Andrew Raycroft makes a glove save during third period NHL action against the Anaheim Ducks in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday March 24, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Allawi wins thin plurality in Iraq election
Supporters of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who came second in Iraq's election, protest the results in Baghdad. The characters in the poster translate as 'Why?'
McCain seeks to reclaim his conservative credentials
Nuggets hand Raptors dispiriting loss
Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony goes to the basket against Toronto Raptors forward Andrea Bargnani (L) during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Toronto March 26, 2010. REUTERS/ Mike Cassese
The unstoppable UFC force
Stephen Brunt
Judge declares mistrial in Manners case
A Toronto Police officer patrols in front of Toronto Superior Court Friday, March 26, 2010. Police, including the Emergency Task Force, stepped up security outside the courthouse as the jury in the Jordan Manners murder case continued its deliberations.
A season-long goodbye
Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox (R) shares a laugh with St. Louis Cardinals team guest, basketball coach Bobby Knight (L), before the teams meet in their spring training MLB baseball game in Jupiter, Florida March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
University of Ottawa
An anti-racism protester yells outside the speaking venue for Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday.
Gauging the appetite for dissent
University of Calgary
Concordia University
After high tension earlier in the decade, Concordia's Muslim Student Association president Abdullah Husen says that 'there’s just a lot more friendly discussion going on.'
Palin draws crowd at McCain rally
Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (L) speaks as U.S. Senator John McCain (C) (R-AZ) and his wife Cindy McCain listen during a campaign rally for McCain at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona March 26, 2010.
Remembering … before it's too late
Huskies eliminate Redmen
McGill University Redmen goaltender Hubert Morin looks for the puck as it flies past him as teammate Yan Turcotte looks on helplessly as St. Mary’s University Huskies Shawn O’Donnell skates in during CIS hockey championship in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Friday March 26, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sandi Krasowski
Rapist hopes victim has learned 'to keep her doors locked'
Toronto public school board proposes specialized academies
Chris Spence, TDSB director of education, wants to change the way boys are taught in school.
Stars and Dogs for the week of March 27
Archie, a Chinese Crested, is seen here prior to winning World's Ugliest Dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. in 2006.
Pain on Olympic gain
Canadian jeff Pain at the start of the skeleton track at the Whistler Sliding Centre during her first run of the men's competition in Whistler February 19, 2010. John Lehmann/The Globe And Mail
GM shows a nimble touch in Oshawa
Auto workers at the General Motors Canada assembly line in Oshawa, Ont.
University of Ottawa gets an F in Coulter-culture 101
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter speaks in Calgary on Thursday.
WestJet charts bold new path
Calgary, Alta.---26/03/2010---Gregg Saretsky, new CEO for Westjet Airlines, in his office at the airlines' headquarters. digital photo by Larry MacDougal
Labrador community votes to uphold alcohol ban
Residents of the northern Labrador community of Natuashish in a 2007 file photo.
Face off ... on the Thames
Geoff Roth, Peter McClelland and Rob Weitemeyer, the three members of the Cambridge rowing team.
The ups and downs of investing in airline stocks
DRIPs are the secret to this investor's success
Eric Davies, 67
'They want to make it look like we are dumb morons'
Don McLeroy, a dentist in Bryan-College Station, Texas, is a Republican representative to the Texas State Board of Education.
Liberals look to catch next wave
John Ibbitson
Tone down the real estate speeches
Derek DeCloet
No GST hit for financial sector: Ottawa
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
Is that a future U.S. President in the back row of my Grade 3 class?
Smart people talked, but were the Liberals listening?
Jeffrey Simpson
American intellectuals and the 'fictitious personality' gambit
Neil Reynolds
Sisters' Obamacare lobby second to nun
Drugs and alcohol caused teen girls' deaths
Ann Coulter, come back! Bring Rush Limbaugh, too!
Tabatha Southey
Ottawa to recover $350,000 in lobbying fees over vaccine contract
Shire's 10-year-old vaccine contract with the federal government was worth about $300-million.
Ontario government advises municipalities to freeze salaries
Obamacare may lure Quebec MDs
Lysiane Gagnon
The problem of saying no to the sick
Michael Bliss, historian and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Winston Blackmore asks for funding to participate in polygamy review
Winston Blackmore shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some grandchildren in 2008. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
How to prank the office
File #: 8221569 Whoopee Cushion. Breaking wind rubber humor Credit: iStockphoto (Royalty-Free) Keywords: Whoopee Cushion, April Fools Day, Gag, Breaking Wind, Embarrassment, Mischief, Cushion, Fun, Humor, Sound
RIM snags software firm Viigo
A Research In Motion BlackBerry Storm
The abortion issue comes back to life
Active ETFs add a new spin to a low-cost product
Rob Carrick
David Black, a true believer amid cries of doom
What investors should know
Football's sickly state of decay in Toronto
File: Western Michigan University Broncos' Londen Fryar sits on the bench after his team lost the in the inaugural NCAA International Bowl football game to the University of Cincinnati Bearcats in Toronto, Canada, January 6, 2007. Cincinnati defeated Western Michigan 27-24 in the first bowl game played outside the United States since the 1930s. REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski
March 27: Letters to the editor
Football's decline in Toronto
Europe's three-headed monster
Doug Saunders
Dining, dancing, free-trade deal making
Judge declares mistrial in Manners case
A Toronto Police officer patrols in front of Toronto Superior Court Friday, March 26, 2010. Police, including the Emergency Task Force, stepped up security outside the courthouse as the jury in the Jordan Manners murder case continued its deliberations.
The menace of free speech?
Margaret Wente
Five essential stories of the week
Lululemon CEO Christine Day
U.S. bond rates raise alarm
The U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington
Virtue, Moir win world ice dance title
Gold medalists Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir celebrate on the podium of the Ice Dance competition at the World Figure Skating Championships on March 26, 2010 at the Palavela ice-rink in Turin. Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won gold while US Meryl Davis and Charlie White took silver and Italy's Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali got bronze. Getty Images / DAMIEN MEYER
Judge declares mistrial in Manners case
The family of Jordan Manners, including his mother Loreen Small, left, arrive at their North York townhome after the judge declared a mistrial in the first-degree murder trial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on March 26, 2010.
The sad truth about Harper and maternal health
A mother and child await treatment at the Empilisweni Clinic in Worcester, South Africa, on Feb. 4, 2008.
Summer movies: what a bunch of misfits!
Johanna Schneller
The effect of moving without the Fed
David Parkinson
How to make money selling cars
2010 Ford Focus at the Geneva motor show: In a few months Ford will launch the reinvented Focus; it represents not just a thrifty and stylish compact, but rides on a platform – the mechanical bits and pieces – that will be shared among 10 different models
The anatomy of Congo's bloodbath
Spitfires hitting stride after trying season
Windsor Spitfires' Stephen Johnston celebrates his game winning goal over Erie during third period OHL playoff hockey action on Tuesday.
The bleak calculus of Congo's war without end
A woman's machete-ravaged face testifies to the brutality of Congo's conflict.
A plan to cope with a debt cloud
Facelift for Saturday, March 27, 2010.
Toronto FC signs midfielder Martin Saric
Teachers deal start of trend?
Beauty in the Beaches? Not always
The house at 11 Munro Park Avenue, in the Beaches.
The close: For Dow and TSX, gains are hard to hold
Did you catch all of this week's stories?
Young cowgirl Kashley Seitz, 6, of High River, Alta., practices her rope technique before going onstage at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday July 11, 2004.
Competition bureau charges 'misconceived:' CREA
Roseanne/Ottawa/Grass
Ask a cleaning expert
Honey and spice butterflied lamb
Men and the art of motorcycle jackets
Russell Smith
Bullish on Galleon Energy
Buying at ARC Energy Trust
Pump jack
How to … tackle spring cleaning
Always 'leader of the gang'
Elyse Allan, CEO of GE Canada
Getting physical (facts) can boost your sleuthing prowess
Toronto Hydro, Winnipeg sell bonds
A mad weekend journey
John Doyle
Potato and fennel gratin
Manulife chief Donald Guloien paid $9.33-million in 2009
Carrie and Big come to Canada
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