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March 7

Probe sheds light on Canada's lucrative online drug industry
Kris Thorkelson, of the Internet Pharmacist's Association, sits in his Winnipeg internet dispensary Monday, Jan. 20, 2003.
Best pictures from March 7
Pakistani women and children reach out to receive a ration of rice, during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Migrant workers recall the terror of February night
Javier Abelardo Alba, one of the three Peruvian immigrants workers who survived a car accident early February in rural Ontario talks during an interview with The Globe and Mail at the London Ontario retirement home where he is recovering from his injuries, March 7, 2012.
Beckham bides time before helping draw Galaxy even with TFC
David Beckham warms up for a training session at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on March 6, 2012, ahead of his team's CONCACAF quarter-final first leg tie against Toronto FC tomorrow.
Invisible Children and its Kony 2012 campaign in the spotlight
Screengrab from a video produced by a group called Invisible Children which seeks to end conflict in Uganda. The video tells the story of a former child soldier and encourages governments to track down and arrest LRA leader Joseph Kony.
Loser of close vote weighs court action in face of robo-call controversy
Protesters take part in a robocall protest on Parliament Hills in Ottawa on Monday, March 5, 2012.
Young Raptors put best foot forward
Toronto Raptors' Jose Calderon drives to the basket in the first half against the Houston Rockets in Toronto, March 7, 2012.
Legislating away immigration backlog an option, Kenney declares
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is expected to put most or all of the 27 members of the European Union on a list of countries whose citizens will receive additional scrutiny when making a refugee claim in Canada.
White working-class vote continues to elude Romney
Konrad Yakabuski
Too many wrinkles to iron out of Senate reform plan
B.C .Premier Christy Clark supports the Senate Election Act.
Solar storms mean turbulent 'space weather' over Canada
This handout image provided by NASA shows a solar flare heading toward Earth.
Symbolic Myanmar visit signals Harper's shifting worldview
Campbell Clark
Proposed Pickering airport leaves agricultural future up in the air
A sign against the construction of the Pickering Airport can be seen on a rural road in the town of Brougham.
Returning B.C. teachers vow to keep up pressure against Bill 22
B.C. teachers rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, March 7, 2012.
Playwright Tom Cone honoured for lifetime achievement
Tom Cone was the librettist and Leslie Uyeda the composer in a one-act opera, Game Misconduct, produced for the Vancouver Festival.
On Toronto's transit, no one at Queen's Park is blameless
'Vendetta bomber' deemed a dangerous offender
Vancouver cyclists' café offers different spokes for different folks
Thomas Eleizegui, owner of Musette Caffe, hopes his establishment will be a new hangout for cyclists – the first cycling-oriented coffee shop in Vancouver, where people can meet, pump up their tires, and grab a coffee.
Caretaker charged with elder abuse in BC Housing facility
Vancouver mayors eyeing all options for transit revenues
The Vancoiuver region’s 22 mayors are seeking solutions for both a short-term fix to TransLink funding, starting next year, and a much more ambitious permanent restructuring of funding for the billion-dollar-a-year agency.
I've heard people refer to a 'dumb period' for wine - what is that?
Beckham's L.A. Galaxy visit Toronto FC at Rogers Centre
Toronto FC's goalkeeper Stefan Frei makes a save against the L.A. Galaxy.
Howard back on familiar ice at Brier - playoffs
Ontario skip Glenn Howard, centre, watches his shot as second Brent Laing, left, and lead Craig Savill sweep during a morning draw against British Columbia at the Tim Hortons Brier in Saskatoon, March, 7, 2012.
2012: The world's top 10 billionaires, according to Forbes
Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, 72, has topped Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires for the third year running. Mr. Slim and his family have a net worth of $72-billion (U.S.), putting him well ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
McGuinty renews two-year freeze on MPP salaries
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty takes questions from the media on various issues after a tour of the Krembil Discovery Centre under construction at Toronto Western Hospital in Toronto on Wednesday March 7, 2012.
BMO kicks off new mortgage fight
Bank of Montreal is bringing historic low mortgage rates back into the market, only a few weeks after it and several other lenders pulled similar discounts, amid concerns over collapsing profit margins.
Big guns fall silent and so do Canucks
Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin.
Japan's misleading recovery
Electricity polls are being erected along a street in the tsunami-ravaged town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture Sunday, March 27, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami slammed northeastern Japan.
Greek debt threat won't trigger Armageddon
A Greek flag flies in the wind at a park in central Athens.
Unreasonable searches of homes in B.C. must stop
marijuana leaf
Gender apartheid cannot be justified in the name of religion
Afghan President Hamid Karzai looks on during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
A squabbling family: Osama bin Laden's last days
Local residents watch as authorities use heavy machinery to demolish the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Feb. 26, 2012.
Class-action trial a Caribbean headache for Manulife
Manulife Financial's former CEO, Dominic D'Alessandro, left, and its current CEO, Donald Guloien, right, are expected to testify.
Valjas sprints to first World Cup medal
Apple dials down the marketing magic
Unlike late co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in October, product launches under new Apple CEO Tim Cook present "a very stable corporate message and image," says Tim Bajarin, an analyst with California-based Creative Strategies Inc.
Inside an Apple event: The new iPad announcement
Apple's senior vice-president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller talks about the built-in camera on the new iPad during an Apple event in San Francisco, March 7, 2012.
Estrogen could lower breast cancer risk, study suggests
Seamark to acquire assets of LeeSide Capital
A year after The Hit, Pacioretty is even better
Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara hits Montreal Canadiens left winger Max Pacioretty into the boards in Montreal, March 8, 2011.
Teen challenges R rating on bullying doc
Katy Butler, a high-school student from Michigan and a onetime target of bullying, poses with boxes containing more than 210,000 petition signatures that she is delivering to the Los Angeles office of the Motion Picture Association of America to urge the MPAA to lower the rating of the documentary Bully from R to PG-13, in Los Angeles, March 7, 2012.
Ferrovial is a sweet drive for value investors
David Milstead
Oil sands, green groups unlikely allies in push for carbon tax
Stephen Harper signs a "No Carbon Tax" sign at a campaign rally in Cornwall, P.E.I. on Oct 13, 2008. Mr. Harper's government is facing growing calls for a carbon tax from some surprising quarters as it pursues plans to regulate industrial sources of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Stocks with brightening profit outlooks
How dividing your income can multiply your tax savings
Tim Cestnick
Gridlock's a pain. Why not show other drivers where to avoid it?
Several councillors confirmed Wednesday that in private meetings Mayor Rob Ford has floated the option of bringing back the vehicle-registration tax – and jacking up the annual fee to between $80 and $100 from the $60 charge that was killed last year.
In tweets: Celebrities, politicians get behind #kony2012
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau talks to reporters outside the House of Commons, in Ottawa, Wednesday February 8. 2012.
Canadian firms guide Afghan efforts to unlock mining 'treasure trove'
Afghan Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, March 5, 2012.
Hands on with the new iPad
The new iPad
Ad agency DDB moves global creative team to China
DDB moving its global creative headquarters to Shanghai, the first major agency to make such a move.
Buy a nice house, forget about retiring
Rob Carrick
RBC added as underwriter for Facebook IPO
Royal Bank of Canada
The Sibling Effect, by Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger
3 top stock picks from money manager David Burrows
How open journalism reimagines the story
Simon Houpt
This Toronto bungalow sold for $421,800 over asking. Yes, really
North York, ON house that recently sold for more than $400,000 over asking. The property is photographed Mar. 5, 2012. (Moe Doiron/The Globe and Mail)
Tenting in Asia's Golden Triangle
Former defensive tackle Adriano Belli says player bounties common in CFL
Toronto Argonauts' Adriano Belli sacks Edmonton Eskimos' quarterback Stefan LeFors in the second half of their CFL game in Toronto, Oct. 6, 2007.
Patricia Rozema's manifesto for Canadian movies
Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema at home in Toronto on March 7, 2012.
Interactive: What's the most congested street in Toronto?
CRTC cracks down on VoIP service providers
The CRTC has taken concerted steps to toughen up the rules for how 911 calls are handled using Internet phones in recent years. The issue captured national attention in 2008 when 18-month-old Elijah Luck died in Calgary after an ambulance was mistakenly dispatched to a city in another province.
In pictures: Weird and wonderful cars and concepts in Geneva
Toyota's diji concept.
Is this generation great?
Keith Willis
Keith Willis
Sixth-grade girl led away in handcuffs for disobeying principal
Andrea Martin pulls out of Genie broadcast at last minute
Comedic actress Andrea Martin
Rob Ford won't appeal; audit hearing to go ahead in April
Fundraising goal jumps for human-rights museum
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights under construction in Winnipeg on Sept. 26, 2011.
Friends With Kids: The official trailer
Frame grab from YouTube trailer for Friends with Kids. Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Harper 'not opposed at all' to giving elections watchdog more teeth
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on March 7, 2012.
Toyota recalls over 681,000 cars and trucks
Toyota Tacoma
John Carter: The official trailer
Frame grab from trailer for John Carter.
Want radiant, glowing skin? Eat this
The close: Dow, TSX end three-day slump
B.C. government rejects deal with Telus to rename BC Place
Muscular ballet and rocking butoh at Vancouver festival
Michael Montgomery of Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Richard Goode delivers the goods
Richard Goode
How a Ugandan warlord went viral in 24 hours
Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, speaking to journalists after a meeting with the UN humanitarian chief Ri-Kwamba in southern Sudan November 12, 2006.
Get the all-natural facial that's Gwyneth-Paltrow approved
Investors too down on Bombardier's C-Series prospects: CIBC
Impact enter MLS with high hopes on the field and in the seats
Montreal Impact's Davy Arnaud, (2nd left) listens to head coach Jesse Marsch, as he talks with players during a training session in Montreal, Tuesday.
Fiji's unassuming side
World search under way for first man charged in Sun Sea migrant case
Police and military wear surgical masks as they board the MV Sun Sea after it was escorted into CFB Esquimalt in August, 2010.
How do I tell Ms. Busybody to button it?
David Eddie
Travel photos of the week: March 8
Ukrainian border guards and a sniffer dog are seen in the Borispol airport near Kiev March 2, 2012. Hairdressers and makeup artists conducted master classes for Ukrainian border guards who will meet tourists at Ukraine's main air hub during the Euro 2012 football championship.
A closer look at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand
Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle is located in the part of the world where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet.
New Thailand hotel offering $80 credit
McGuinty rejects Ontario teachers' request to discuss wage freeze
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty takes questions from the media on various issues after a tour of the Krembil Discovery Centre under construction at Toronto Western Hospital in Toronto on Wednesday March 7, 2012.
Toronto's SickKids hospital gets $40-million donation
Philanthropist and founder and CEO of Mattamy Homes Peter Gilgan dons a lab coat after announcing a $40-million donation to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto Mar. 7, 2012.
Assault charge recommended for B.C. RCMP officer in arrest of teen girl
Bleak margins dim Canadian Solar outlook
Canadian Solar shares have lost about three-quarters of their value in the last one year, compared with a 66-per-cent decline in the broader MAC Global Solar Energy Index.
New iPad not called iPad 3? Uh-oh
Apple
Scenes from Fiji: beautiful beaches, stunning sea life
A double rainbow appears after a brief rain in the Yasawa Islands.
NFL's Peyton Manning released, but Scotiabank drafts his brother
The Manning brothers on The Simpsons
Keep your powder dry with Sherritt International
Lou Schizas
Montreal police use tear gas on protesting students; four injured
Students protesting rising tuition costs clash with police in Montreal on March 7, 2012.
Stouffville home benefits from tee-off potential
Done Deal, 50 McMullen Drive, Stouffville, Ont.
How U.S. 'data surprises' help drive Canadian markets
The Goldman Sachs report says there are three good reasons why Canadian markets follow U.S. cues.
Lupul injury may be final nail in Leafs coffin
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel (81) celebrates an empty-net goal against the New York Islanders with teammate Joffrey Lupul (19) in the third period of their NHL hockey game on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Kessel and Lupul will join Toronto Maple Leafs teammate Dion Phaneuf in enemy territory at the NHL all-star game. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-John Dunn
Ad agency valuations don't add up
Open design sells Etobicoke waterfront condo
Done Deal, 90 STADIUM RD., NO. 424, Toronto
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