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Loretta Mary Martin, one of the last links to First World War’s famed Newfoundland Regiment, dies at 91
Loretta Martin was 21 years younger than her husband Albert.
Happ gets payback against Rangers striking out eight
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher J.A. Happ works against Texas Rangers during the second inning AL action in Toronto on Friday August 17 , 2012.
Nova Scotia’s mink farms are booming – but the neighbours aren’t pleased
Dan Mullen, president of the Nova Scotia Mink Breeders Association, holds a mink at his farm in Waterville, Nova Scotia. He breeds 3,500 female mink every year and sells 18,000 pelts, and supports changes to industry regulations.
Mika Miyazato gets first career win at Safeway Classic
Mika Miyazato
Police grapple with how to handle threats online
Best pictures from August 17
Muslims offer last Friday prayers at the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) ahead of Eid-al-Fitr in the old quarters of Delhi August 17, 2012. Eid-al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar and is scheduled to be celebrated in India on August 20. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
City Limits: A tale of two (very, very different) mayors
Stephen Quinn
City manager demands spending freeze of all city services
Mayor Rob Ford, Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, Executive Director of Human Resources Bruce Anderson, Chief Negotiator Bob Reynolds and City Manager Joe Pennachetti during a press conference to discuss the latest information on negotiations with the CUPE 79 in Toronto, on March 29, 2012.
Quebec campaigns to pick up pace Sunday with televised debates
Quebec Liberal Party Leader Jean Charest speaks at a press briefing at the Manoir Montmorency restaurant in Quebec City Friday, August 17, 2012. Quebeckers are going to the polls on Sept. 4.
Around B.C. this weekend
Check out Jaws at Cinemathiques as part of the Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years program.
United Church of Canada approves Israeli settlement boycott
Canadian senators are warning the United Church of Canada that a boycott of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied lands could cause a rift with the Jewish community.
Encarnacion returns with a vengeance in Jays win over Rangers
Toronto Blue Jays Edwin Encarnacion hits a two run homer off Texas Rangers starting pitcher Yu Darvish during the first inning of American League baseball action in Toronto on Friday August 17 , 2012.
Why Wall Street unfriended Facebook
The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
Watchdog urges stronger rules, but won’t probe MP Calandra’s private basement fundraisers
Canada's Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson prepares to testify before the Commons ethics committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 27, 2012.
Pussy Riot draws international support after guilty verdict
Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova show the court's verdict as they sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. A judge found three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism on Friday, in a case that has drawn widespread international condemnation as an emblem of Russia's intolerance of dissent.
Rubenstein: Choi following in very good footsteps
Figaro a luxurious, Rhône-style white wine
Dany Heatley sues ex-agent, others for $11-million
Dany Heatley’s 20-page statement of claim alleges conspiracy, oppression, breach of fiduciary obligation and unjust enrichment by the family of his former agent, Stacey McAlpine.
Florida retirees hold the keys to the White House
Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cheer during a campaign event at El Palacio De Los Jugos in Miami, Florida August 13, 2012.
Dinosaur unearthed just 30 minutes from Alberta museum
Team members work on extracting dinosaur bones at a site near Drumheller, Alta., in this recent handout photo. A former Royal Tyrrell Museum employee discovered the remains of a triceratops just 30 minutes east of the museum in Drumheller.
Willie Wood wins first Champions Tour event
Willie Wood
No room for error cooking simply in a fine-dining B&B
The Stone Soup Inn serves up a braise and roast of quist farm lamb. Served with a side of fresh local ingredients.
East Asia gets feisty as anniversary of Japan's surrender approaches
Chinese activists who were deported from Japan, Bull Tsang Kin-shing, center at the front, and Koo Sze-yiu, center at the back, shout slogan after arriving in Hong Kong international airport Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Seven of 14 Chinese activists arrested after landing on disputed islands left Japan by plane Friday and the others were being deported as well, relieving some tension from one of the territorial rows Tokyo has with its neighbors.
Hoping to silence critics, Republican VP hopeful Ryan releases two years of tax returns
Republican vice presidential candidate Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks during a campaign rally at Miami University in Oxford.
Good week; bad week
Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) performs with the Spice Girls during the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in London.
Brides, rides and killer Clydesdales: Your memories of the CNE
The giant Wave Swinger ride in action at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, circa 1979.
Wally Buono shuns the forefront
David Ebner
For Canada and China, our economic differences could prove mutually beneficial
Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird (L) whispers to Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper while he stands next to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R), during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing February 8, 2012.
Pussy Riot’s sentence helps make their point
A masked demonstrator attends a demonstration in support of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot, whose members face prison for a stunt against President Vladimir Putin, outside Russia's embassy in Berlin. The three female band members have been in jail for more than five months because of an anti-Putin prank in Moscow's main cathedral. A judge is due to rule on their case Friday.
Goin’ down the road: the story of the first cross-Canada car trip
In August of 1912, author Thomas W. Wilby and driver Jack Haney left Halifax in a Reo automobile on a historic coast-to-coast journey. The two did not hit it off.
Backup running back Kackert steps off sideline, into Argos’ feature role
Rachel Brady
Canada’s Milos Raonic falls in quarter-finals to Stanislas Wawrinka
Milos Raonic of Canada serves to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in their quarter final round match in the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 17, 2012.
Internet rages over abandoned dog: Should the owner get a second chance?
Caisse remains coy on Lowe’s bid for Rona
Michael Sabia, CEO of the Caisse de Depot et de Placement du Quebec.
Paul Godfrey: Rewriting a dire news story
Illustration of Postmedia Network chief executive officer Paul Godfrey.
Why we should still mind the wage gap
Two business students on a 1,000 kilometre mission
Morgan Lunn, left, and Tori Stone, right, both 20, make their way along the Stanley Park's Seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia on Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
Ken Dryden: How the London Olympics captivated the world
Ken Dryden, former NHL goaltender, photographed in 2011.
ICC asked to prosecute longtime president of Rwanda for war crimes
WesternOne CEO buys
How demographics are working against stocks
David Parkinson
Portfolio manager practises what she preaches
Portfolio manager Barbara Stewart says her best investment move came during the 2008 and 2009 crash, a period when ‘all money managers were put to the test.’
Fashion photos of the week: Fall preview
A model wears a creation by Burberry Prorsum during London Fashion Week, Feb. 20, 2012.
Three (market) waves that can rock your portfolio
Tom Bradley
All the papacy’s men: Serving God’s highest servant
Pope Benedict with his his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein, left, and his butler Paolo Gabriele, bottom.
How the school system got to be the way it is
Zander Sherman was home-schooled until he joined a public high school. What he now considers the problem with the school system was painfully obvious to him from an early age.
Canada advances to Ivan Hlinka final with win over Czech Republic
Jersey with the Hockey Canada logo.
When renting is an appetizing option
How yoga is turning into a protest movement
Some yoga teachers say the essence of the practise is inner peace and detachment from the world. But a growing wave of activists around the world are yoking yoga to politics – including guru Baba Ramdev, who led an anti-corruption protest (and a mass yoga session) in New Delhi this week.
Why everyone is piling into junk bonds
Rob Carrick
John Farrell bristles at media speculation of move to Red Sox
Toronto Blue Jays' manager John Farrell reacts during their MLB game against the Miami Marlins in Miami, Florida June 24, 2012.
Man who murdered his estranged wife and her parents dies in B.C. jail
Fake enemies stoke indie film buzz
Producer Joss Whedon
Bullish on Grupo Simec
Want some calorie-packed tasty treats? Head to the CNE
Deep fried Mars bars
Cancer-free baby shampoo? Sure, but no rush or anything
Johnson & Johnson says that soon its products will no longer give your baby cancer.
Stable growth expected at Canada’s regional banks
A pedestrian walks past a Laurentian Bank branch in Montreal.
Poles apart in more than distance
South Pole
Six Canadian books that will change the way you garden - and eat
The Eat House, from the book Edible Landscaping, is a fully planted structure that is not only a building but an edible garden.
Riot gurl: Celebrating Helen Gurley Brown’s sexy, radical feminism
Helen Gurley Brown
Julia Child’s remarkable life, and other books worth a look
Biographer Bob Spitz celebrates the centenary of the Julia Child’s birth in his new book Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
In his memoir, Paul Auster not only confesses - he judges himself
Paul Auster
Hedda Gabler: Desperate Housewives predux
Moya O'Connell delivers a fine, fiery Hedda Gabler in Martha Henry’s production of Ibsen domestic drama.
A tribute album that rethinks and rehears Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits
High-voiced Antony Hegarty warbles affectingly on the acoustic-picked Stevie Nicks song, Landslide.
Rodney Graham's quirky visuals
Rodney Graham's works on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Conjunctions get no respect
Bottle of glue
‘Blonde Fury’: When blondes go mad, bad and dangerous to know
Emily Schultz
The Awakening: What good writing looks like
Johanna Schneller
The Invisible Man on TV: H.G. Wells is nowhere to be seen
Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart starred in a movie version of The Invisible Man.
Slippers fuzzy, focus sharp: Rodney Graham ponders entropy with unbridled charm
Clockwise, from top: Canadian Humourist; Sous Chef; Small Basement Camera Shop, circa 1937; Old Punk on Pay Phone.
Chronicle of a marriage dissolved
Rachel Cusk uses a detached, clinical gaze in her memoir On Marriage and Separation.
Caitlin Moran forces us to ask, is it time for fifth-wave feminism?
Moran’s duh-let’s-get-on-with-it take on modern equality didn’t always come so naturally.
Monitoring group denies claims of animal neglect at Marineland
Tourists line up at a viewing area to see a Killer Whale calf swimming with its mother at Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., on July 18, 2001.
Up for a challenge? Track everything you spend
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The close: S&P 500 nears highest close since 2008
<strong>Trader</strong> Michael Zicchinolfi works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, July 24, 2012.
White House’s emergency oil release plans met with stiff opposition
In this Aug. 7, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.
B.C. toddler’s death from balcony fall a caution to parents, police say
Police board chair uncertain budget freeze would result in layoffs
Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee, shown in 2006.
Coal deal lost India $33-billion, says auditor
An employee inspects a spinning wheel used to roll power wires at Rajasthan’s Kei Industries, which sells high-tension transmission cables to the national grid.
Questions to ask before hiring people you know
Mark Evans
The benefits of teaching case studies in Africa
Jennifer Lewington
Conservatives have done little to combat AIDS, but there are opportunities
AIDS activists rally across from the White House in Washington on July 24, 2012.
Slim majority see higher prices for gold next week: survey
3 stock picks from Contra The Heard's Benj Gallander
Police continue search after finding hands in Ontario river
A police search dog searches the banks of the Credit River in Hewick Meadows Park in Mississauga, Ont., after police discovered a female head on Aug. 16, 2012.
NDP will run Quebec party in next provincial election: Mulcair
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair holds a news in Ottawa on June 21, 2012, before Parliament breaks for its summer recess.
Politics muzzles Caisse's Sabia
Saskatchewan expects BHP potash mine to proceed
Operations at BHP Billiton’s Jansen site in Saskatchewan
I can’t take my rude and sarcastic colleague any more
U.S. durable goods on Friday
Retail sales report out, Wednesday
Silver showing signs of a breakout
Man stabbed in stomach outside plaza in west-end Toronto
The child miners of Congo
A miner makes his way out of a shaft at a cobalt mine just outside the city Likasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 12, 2012.
Shifting ground rocks diamond industry
A worker assesses the quality of an 11-carat diamond in Antwerp in this file photo.
Analysts fear reaction in other mining regions after South African killings
Women protest against the police near the scene of the shooting at the Lonmin mine on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.
NHL players honour Rypien one year after former Canuck’s death
A giant banner with the picture of former Vancouver Canuck Rick Rypien
Brazil’s next hurdles: sticky fingers, red tape
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia June 4, 2012.
Peregrine CEO pleads not guilty
A 2007 file photo shows Russell Wasendorf Sr., whose futures brokerage filed for bankruptcy protection on July 10, one day after Mr. Wasendorf attempted suicide and left a note describing how he had stolen from customers for nearly 20 years.
Police investigate after Vancouver officer allegedly kicks prisoner
Glencore unlikely to raise bid for Xstrata
The logo of Glencore is seen in front of the company's headquarter in the Swiss town of Zug on May 9, 2012.
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