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Richardson’s two touchdowns lead Alouettes over struggling Bombers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Brady Browne (25) can't stop Montreal Alouettes' Jamel Richardson (18) as he dives in for the touchdown during the first half of their CFL game in Winnipeg, Friday, August 3, 2012.
What’s on this weekend: August 3 - August 5
Toronto, Ontario - 20090425 -- Great Lakes Swimmers -- Tony Dekker of the Great Lakes Swimmers performs with the rest of the band at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto April 25, 2009.
Quebec Liberals raise spectre of referendum to warn anglophones
Jean Charest, shown campaigning in Laval, told English radio Friday that abstaining from voting is like voting for the PQ.
West Coast Wines
Globe readers’ august plans for the mini-break
Best pictures from August 3
A girl dressed as holy cow, with a picture of her grandfather hung around her neck, participates in a parade to mark the Gaijatra Festival, also known as the festival of cows, in Kathmandu August 3, 2012. Hindus in Kathmandu celebrate the festival to ask for salvation and peace for their departed loved ones. Cows are regarded as holy animals in Nepal which help departed souls to reach heaven. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY)
Secret Location anything but underground
Pan Seared Haida Gwaii Halibut is seen at Secret Location restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, August 2, 2012.
Big day doesn’t materialize for Canada at Olympic Games
Canada's Dylan Armstrong packs his bag after his last throw in the mens shotput final at the 2012 Summer Olympics Friday, August 3, 2012 in London. Armstrong finished in fifth place.
What Canada did on Day 7 of the London Olympics
Canada's Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser prepare to start their track cycling women's team pursuit qualifying at the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 3, 2012.
After leaving the game behind, ex-gangster shines light on the underworld
David Carrillo is a former gang member who has been out for several years now. He was able to turn his life around but not without a lot of time and effort. Today he is successful at his chosen employment, and has covered his gang tattoos with artwork copied from his grandfather who is a famous painter.
Two forces, no victor in Syrian struggle
A man cycles past a destroyed Syrian Army compound in Azaz, 47 kilometres north of Aleppo, on Friday.
Ask not what your city can do for you
Stephen Quinn
Cape Cod reeling as great white shark returns
Christopher Myers is carried off Ballston Beach in Truro, Mass., after sustaining bite wounds to his legs while swimming on Monday.
Regina man killed in Mexico
Premier stays mum on how much B.C.’s pipeline approval will cost
BC Premier Christy Clark speaks to media about former Liberal John van Dongen who recently resigned to join the Conservatives during a press conference at the BC Legislative Building in Victoria, Tuesday March 27,2012.
Lululemon billionaire ready to chip in for Vancouver
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson is photographed in Gastown's Blood Alley in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, August 1, 2012.
After grappling with hijab, Saudi athlete's judo loss still has everyone smiling
Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shaherkani arrives ahead of her women's +78kg elimination round of 32 judo match against Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica at the London 2012 Olympic Games August 3, 2012.
The battle for Olympic information between new and old media
Pierre MB, a member of the Cameroon coaching staff, takes a picture of the team before their women's soccer first round Group E match against New Zealand at the City of Coventry Stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games July 31, 2012.
All eyes on Ray in Argos’ toughest test
Toronto quarterback Ricky Ray will need help in the pocket if the Argos want to establish themselves as contenders this season.
Judge releases nun who broke into U.S. nuclear bomb facility, threw human blood on wall
This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Safety Administration shows fuels pins loaded into a container.
The many faces of Olympic athletes
Dagmara Wozniak of the U.S. celebrates her victory against Tunisia's Azza Besbes during their women's sabre individual round of 16 fencing competition at the ExCel venue at the London 2012 Olympic Games August 1, 2012.
Clippings from an 88-day journey across in Atlantic
Pages from the scrapbook of Henri Beaudout in his home in Montreal, August 3, 2012. Photo of shark that attacked them at sea.
The lights are back on in India, but the future is dim
Indian people walk a narrow lane as high-voltage cables come out from an power meter at a slum in Mumbai, India, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012.
Wimbledon junior champ Bouchard receives wild card for Rogers Cup
Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard talks about her singles and doubles junior Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon Monday, July 16, 2012 in Montreal.
Bernhard Langer rallies to win 3M Championship
Bernhard Langer
Three Canadians, two kittens, one raft: A little-known journey across the Atlantic
Henri Beaudout is photographed with his scrapbook in his Montreal home on August 3, 2012.
All we are saying is give yogurt a chance
Charest needs to address the elephant in the room
Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest announces his plan for job creation at a news conference while campaigning on Thursday, August 2, 2012 in Quebec City.
Why boring stocks win
John Reese
Actuary invests in himself
Actuary Promod Sharma: ‘The government can’t tax the growth that’s compounding inside you.’
From the archives: Caribana through the decades
The Caribana parade, part of the annual carnival staged by Toronto's Caribbean community, went on as planned despite torrential rain on July 31, 1976. The weather may have delayed the start, but it did not dampen the spirits of the participants, who once again produced some startling costumes.
Don’t fear the small mortgage lender
Robert McLister
John Casella: Mellow, with hints of spice and acidity
Illustration of John Casella, managing director of Casella Wines.
Free ice cream? Hire me now
Leah Eichler
Businessman turns personal ordeal into a promise for the future
Romeo De Gasperis speaks at a tribute dinner on June 11.
When George Clinton funked up T.O.
George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelics perform at the Martin Luther King Jr. concert series in New York on July 13, 2010.
The Lineup: Aug. 4 - Aug. 10
A CBC radio documentary on George Clinton airs on Aug. 12. A dance party celebrating the documentary takes place on Aug. 9.
Telltale signs of criminality: Hairy legs, veggie wraps and errant schnauzer turds
More brawn than brains, but do Ryan Lochte's personal choices matter?
Ryan Lochte of the U.S., wearing his dental braces, holds his bronze medal during the men's 200m backstroke victory ceremony during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre August 2, 2012.
Pendleton at home on the Olympic velodrome
Britain's Victoria Pendleton celebrates after winning the gold in the track cycling women's keirin event, during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Pendleton washed away the disappointment of her disqualification in the team sprint by claiming the gold medal in the keirin on Friday at the Olympics.
Toronto FC travel to Chicago to take on the Fire
Toronto FC forward Ryan Johnson (right) heads the ball past CD Aguila defender C (right) during first half CONCACAF soccer action in Toronto on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.
Quiz: Romney's gaffes and other questions from the week's news
U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers foreign policy remarks at the University of Warsaw, July 31, 2012.
Who’s sitting on all the cash? Corporate Canada
David Parkinson
How TEDxToronto became the city’s premier speaker series
Shawn Micallef and Sonya Barnett will both be speaking at TEDxToronto, a series of talks that will be held at the Sony Centre for The Performing Arts.
In search of the spirit of Toronto’s biggest Caribbean bacchanal
Walter Elliott is pictured holding a headdress at his workshop in Toronto's east end. Mr. Elliott, a masquarader, makes his own costumes for the parade.
Are you in it for the love, or the money?
Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale gestures a heart shape after scoring against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Sponsoring Jamaican speed at Olympic Games
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates setting a new 100m World Record after the final of the Men's 100m during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
The joy of harvesting olives in Italy
Olive groves shimmer in the Sabine hills in the province of Roma, Italy.
How to add value to the golden years
Ethan and Ellen on July 27, 2012. Photo by Blair Gable for the Globe and Mail
Behind the protests, pipelines are a solid investment
David Berman
Aboriginal hotel and spa project gets $3-million injection from Ottawa
Minister of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan asks a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 21, 2012.
Chart: Generation gaps among Quebec voters
Screen grab for Quebec generation gap in voters chart
U.S. program to suspend deportation of young undocumented immigrants
Leslie Osegueda, a"Right to Dream" supporter blocks the street outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center Friday June 15, 2012, in Los Angeles to celebrate the Obama administrations decision to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants. Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."
Peacekeepers gone wild: How much more abuse will the UN ignore in Congo?
A UN Deputy Force Commander in Congo visits the area were M23 rebels fought with Congo government troops close to the eastern city of Goma on July 29, 2012.
Tim Hortons raises price of muffins, sandwiches citing higher operating costs
This file photo of a Tim Hortons in Innisfail, AB, was taken Sunday, April 22, 2012.
Despite nasty trampoline spill, Jason Burnett keeps a level head
Canada's Jason Burnett, from Etobicoke, Ont., leaves the floor with his coach, Dave Ross, after falling in the men's trampoline final at 2012 Summer Olympics Friday, August 3, 2012 in London. Burnett finished in last place.
Five essentials of a successful investing framework
Tom Bradley
In bed with boomers and millennials
Johanna Schneller
James Bond: Tools of the trade
A visitor takes picture of models of James Bond's Lotus Esprit used in the film The Spy Who Loved Me on display in the exhibition Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style at the Barbican centre in London, Thursday, July 5, 2012.
Hey! Where are the shows for us other Girls?
Mike Tyson onstage, in fighting form
Alternatives to Lena Dunham's Girls
The Mindy Project: Mindy Kaling, who also created the pilot, stars as Mindy Lahiri, a successful OB/GYN with a love for romantic comedy movies and a quest for self-improvement.
Walking Jamaica’s art history
A view of the "contemporary" room at the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s Jamaican art exhibition.
The Pan Am Games, city form, and a commitment to fitness
The proposed Pan Am YMCA pool hall.
Lianne La Havas isn’t Adele, but she doesn’t need to be
Unspooling the landscape with Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater
Problematic pronouns: Me can’t believe my I’s!
Teenage girl
Behold Shakespeare, as a 1591 Londoner
Mark Rylance in the Original Practices production of Richard III.
Misfits: When deadbeat slackers become real, live superheroes
Misfits’ wayward British teens are not to be fooled with. From left: Lauren Socha, Antonia Thomas and Iwan Rheon.
Only Canada can save America, according to this manifesto
A Canadian flag is seen painted on a scull oar during the women's lightweight double sculls heat at Eton Dorney during the London 2012 Olympic Games July 29, 2012.
Canada’s Dylan Armstrong falls short of the podium in men’s Olympic shot put
Canada's Dylan Armstrong narrowly qualified for the men's shot put finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England August 3/2012. (Photo by Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail)
Is that an ad or a news story – and does it matter which?
Below left: Totem Brand Stories
The weight of all those creepy crawlies
Tropical ant
In pictures: Not Barney Miller's police station
In Saskatoon, the new $101-million downtown municipal police headquarters scheduled to open in late 2013 is more than just an architectural turning point for the Saskatoon Police Service.
The close: Dow, TSX end with big job-fuelled gains
In this March 7, 2012, file photo shows job seekers standing line during the Career Expo job fair, in Portland, Ore.
Belarus expels Sweden's ambassador after teddy bear incident
Swedish Tomas Mazetti, left, and Hannah Frey, right, show a teddy bear on a parachute as they pose for a photo in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. The slogan on the paper fixed to the bear reads "We support the Belarusian struggle for free speech". Mazetti and Frey intruded Belarus' airspace with a Swedish light plane and dropped in hundreds of such teddy bears decked out in parachutes and slogans supporting human rights.
Map: 1 BIRCH WAY, SECHELT, B.C.
Map: 6300 LONDON RD., NO. 59, RICHMOND, B.C.
Cash deal for Sechelt building lot
Right To Play Dinner
I’ve been promoted, and have to supervise a nightmare worker
3 top picks from Odlum Brown’s Hank Cunningham
Hank Cunningham, a 40-year veteran of the bond market, says investors are making the classic mistake of buying into an investment category only after it has surged in price.
Buyers eye Knight Capital as customers stay away
Traders work at the Knight Capital kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Richmond home sells after price cut
Rock-flinging Wreckateer a smashing good time
A physics-based puzzler that might best be described as a cross between the perennially popular Angry Birds games and the PlayStation Network’s twisted but enjoyable Pain, this fantastical rock flinger has players lobbing projectiles into goblin-infested castles with an aim to raze them to the ground.
Greece, gods and amiable young idiots in Michael Frayn’s latest
Michael Frayn
A rich girl learns to sing the blues – in Greece
Tess Fragoulis
In Rachel Joyce’s subtle debut, an impulse becomes a pilgrimage
First-time novelist Rachel Joyce does a great job getting the ready to care about the book’s protaganist.
Four beach books: One keeper, one weeper, two sleepers
Two young women in Kelowna, B.C.'s Waterfront Park are too absorbed in their reading to notice as a gaggle of geese saunters by.
New in crime fiction: The latest mysteries and thrillers
Detail from the cover of “Vengeance” by Benjamin Black
Paperbacks fit for the beach: A summer guide
Paperback reader
Remembering Maeve Binchy, who lived life to the fullest
Maeve Binchy
How to make love to a movie star, and other new worthwhile reads
Detail from the cover of “How to Make Love to a Movie Star” by Norman Snider
Map: 1289 Robson St., Vancouver, B.C.
Interior of a one-bedroom apartment at the former Pacific Palisades buildings, now known at PaPa, in Vancouver, B.C., 2012
London’s Olympic Stadium charged with excitement for track and field
Fans are shown holding a Union flag, commonly known as a Union Jack,on a screen behind the Olympic flame during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 3, 2012. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
A faded icon turned nouveau-hip
Interior of a one-bedroom apartment at the former Pacific Palisades buildings, now known at PaPa, in Vancouver, B.C., 2012
Maple Leafs sign first rounder Morgan Rielly
Morgan Rielly puts on his new sweater after being picked by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round, fifth overall, of the NHL Draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 22, 2012.
Women's soccer highlights from Day 7 - Canada beats Britain
Canada's Christine Sinclair celebrates her goal against Britain during their quarterfinal women's soccer match.
Ten best small business stories of the week
Open Box’s Katryn Harris
Judge decries ‘theatrics’ at Apple-Samsung trial
Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 smartphone, left, compared to a Samsung Electronics Galaxy S II smartphone.
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