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January 24

'Why my brother why him': Brampton, Ont. reels after 9-year-old killed at home by gunshot
Maple Leafs start to try Randy Carlyle’s patience
New York Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov (right) makes a save on Toronto Maple Leafs left winger James van Riemskyk during second period NHL action in Toronto on Thursday January 24, 2013.
With a loss, Ford could seek leave to appeal from Supreme Court
Clayton Ruby gives details of a civil lawsuit against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford during a media briefing in the Press Gallery on March 12, 2012.
Islanders keep Leafs winless at home
New York Islanders centre Keith Aucoin celebrates his goal during third period NHL action against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto on Thursday January 24, 2013.
Guatemala ex-dictator to know Monday if he faces genocide trial
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt looks on during a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City on Jan. 22, 2013. Rios Montt, who ruled the country from 1982-1983 during a bloody civil war, is in court to hear the charges against him for the slaughter of the Maya-Ixil ethnic group in the Quiche region in 1982.
First nations undivided in desire for change, Atleo says
Assembly of First Nations national chief Shawn Atleo and his wife, Nancy, take part in ceremonies prior to a meeting of B.C. chiefs in Vancouver on Jan. 24, 2013.
Mounties probe claims of Canadians’ role in Algeria hostage-taking
The town of In Amenas, Algeria, is seen in this satellite image. The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamic militants at the desert gas plant of Tiguentourine, 50 kilometres from In Amenas.
Violence flares on anniversary of Egypt uprising
An Egyptian protester evacuates an injured boy during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Jan. 25, 2013.
‘Bitumen bubble’ means a hard reckoning for Alberta, Redford warns
Reporters watch on monitors as Alberta Premier Alison Redford addresses the province in Calgary on Jan. 24, 2013.
Pupatello’s potential next steps give fellow candidates pause
Adam Radwanski
Mary Polak once had a right-wing reputation, but she’s refusing to use it in the coming election
Justine Hunter
Quebec's top engineering firms colluded on kickbacks, Charbonneau probe told
Political organizer Martin Dumont testifies at the Charbonneau inquiry on Jan. 21, 2013.
End of Spence’s protest leaves #IdleNoMore at a crossroads
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence takes part in a celebration to end her hunger strike in Ottawa on Jan. 24, 2013, after being released from hospital.
Stock to watch: Dividend looms for Laboratory Corp.
Lab technicians at the doping control laboratory for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
No signs Syria’s al-Assad will be overthrown, France says
A Free Syrian Army fighter stands in front of a building destroyed by Syrian Army air strikes in Damascus onThursday.
Best pictures from January 24
A Pakistan Customs official releases a falcon in the Kirthar National Park, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Karachi January 24, 2013. Tari Mahmood, Senior Preventive Officer of Pakistan Preventive Customs, said that the customs and the Sindh Wildlife department have released six falcons that were seized during a raid in Karachi two months earlier. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: ANIMALS CRIME LAW)
Vietnam to try producing own lethal drugs for death sentences
Syringe.
Starbucks posts better-than-expected sales in U.S., Asia
A woman holds a Starbucks takeaway cup in this file photo.
Britons advised to build an army of snowmen for a 'balanced thaw'
British environmentalists are hoping there will be some magic in that old silk hat they found.
3 top stock picks from CastleMoore’s Hap Sneddon
Robert ‘Hap’ Sneddon.
Samsung puts lid on capital spending
Visitorstry out the Samsung Galaxy Note II phone-cum-tablet at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Flames forwards Hudler, Cervenka get back in the saddle
Jiri Hudler
Apple faces opportunity despite market slide
A man walks in front of a company logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai January 24, 2013.
Survey places Toronto’s online resources among the best in the world
The City of Toronto website warns of the dangers of mumps.
Tiger Woods picks up career win 75 at Torrey Pines
Tiger Woods
Strategy mixing best of Buffett and Lynch crushes benchmark
Billionaire financier and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.
As smartphone rivals stumble, RIM revisits winning ways
RIM's BlackBerry device
Moderation breaks out in Japan-China dispute
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Here in Canada, we have our own gun madness
Pictures and tributes to Kesean Williams are seen in the foyer of Sir Winston Churchill school in Brampton, Ontario January 24, 2012.
Kerry dodges Keystone pipeline question
Democratic Senator John Kerry responds to questions at U.S. Senate hearing into his confirmation as secretary of state.
Shaming the obese ‘tastefully’: An oxymoron if ever there was one
Sinopec unit fined $1.5-million over deaths at Alberta oil sands project
Sinopec unit fined $1.5-million over workplace deaths at Alberta oil sands project
Advertising guru Chuck Porter: ‘We used traditional media in really weird ways’
Chuck Porter believes advertising has got to get better because the audience is getting more sophisticated.
Networking will get you the job, but will you like it?
Networking is a great way to get a new job.
Choose: Be devoted to your work or your family?
Harvey Schachter
In Davos, a U.S. deficit hawk gets dovish
Harvard University economist Lawrence Summers
If a job demands travel, should I speak up about child care?
Eileen Dooley
Guard was reprimanded for acting to save Ashley Smith’s life
Ashley Smith is shown surrounded by guard at Joliette Institution in Joliette, Que., on July 26, 2007 in this image made from video. The haunting protests of a now dead teenager filled a coroner's courtroom Wednesday as surveillance videos were screened showing the troubled inmate repeatedly tranquilized against her will or being threatened with having her face duct-taped.
John Bogle: “Invest, and don’t peek”
John Bogle, founder and retired chief executive of U.S.-based fund giant Vanguard Group, in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Francis Chou: “Look for a good deep-value fund”
Francis Chou’s Chou Associates Fund has posted an annualized return of 10.7% since its inception in 1986.
From the archives: BlackRock's Larry Fink pushes social responsibility in investing. We talked to him in 2013
BlackRock Inc. chairman and CEO Larry Fink (left) in Toronto with Noel Archard, head of BlackRock Canada.
Despite the irony in Sun TV’s plea, critics should back its bid for mandatory carriage
Simon Houpt
Ned Goodman: “I sleep like a baby”
Ned Goodman, CEO of Dundee Corp. and Goodman Investment Council
Nogne O Two Captains Double IPA, Norway
Burton Malkiel: “I tend to be more aggressive”
Burton Malkiel, a Princeton University economist and author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1.5 million copies sold and counting).
Bill Harris: “There’s too much oil, there’s too much gas”
David Berman
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: “I am a risk-taker”
Sean Silcoff
Robert Trudeau: “We buy 20 per cent of a company and try to help it grow”
John Daly
Nokia investors remain justifiably twitchy
Morgan Stanley CEO’s pay drops to $6-million
Morgan Stanley’s New York headquarters are seen at 48th Street and Broadway.
Coeur d’Alene finds warm welcome in high-yield market
Silver and gold producer Coeur d’Alene raised $300-million of bonds.
BMO chief economist Sherry Cooper on retirement (and the bad boys of Bay Street)
Gordon Pitts
Vancouver startup’s eye in the sky watches you in HD
Tim Kiladze
In pictures: Police investigate shooting death of 9-year-old
An investigator uses a metal detector and later sifts through collected debris from a lawn at the scene on a street in Brampton, Ont., on Jan. 24, 2013 where a 9-year old boy was shot late Wednesday evening, and later died of his injuries.
Oil firms face soaring security bill after attacks
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, identified by the Algerian interior ministry as the leader of a militant Islamic group, is pictured in a screen capture from an undated video distributed by the Belmokhtar Brigade obtained by Reuters, Jan. 16, 2013. Mr. Belmokhtar is suspected of leading the deadly assault on an Algerian natural gas plant.
You can’t have our oil and potash – or our farms, or our gold
Eric Reguly
Class project: Making sense of dollars and cents
Beth Butcher, Toronto District School Board Superintendent of Education, left rear, Jacques Ménard, chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns and vice-chair of the Task Force on Financial Literacy, Gary Rabbior, CFEE president, Ted Menzies, Minister of State (Finance), and Matthew Reid, Principal of Sprucecourt Public School, pose with students as they kick off the ‘Talk with our kids about money day’ program Thursday in Toronto.
Open Text posts highest-ever quarterly revenue
The Open Text building in Waterloo, Ont.
Seniors, is life really a beach once you're retired?
Retired couple sitting on the beach.
Ottawa moves to streamline R&D tax-credit program
Ottawa moves to streamline R&D tax-credit program
Paris haute couture: Gaultier, Valentino and Saab dominate the runways
Their restrained approach to detail can be deceiving. The red curlicue “grill work” on this dress consists of 220 metres of material.
Mammoliti: I’m investigating a conspiracy against me
Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti announces that he has resigned from the mayor's executive committee on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.
Nortel mediation to divide assets ends without agreement
A man walks past a company sign at a Nortel Networks office tower in Toronto in this 2009 file photo.
Seniors enjoying post-hockey beer pluck woman, dogs from icy river
Oldtimer hockey players (from left) Bert Kent, Bob Reid and Tom Blair celebrate their success after rescuing a woman and her two dogs after they plunged through the ice of the Thompson River in Kamloops, B.C., on Jan. 23, 2013.
What can both a Taiwanese actor and German feminists find in King Lear?
King Lear
Bank of England ready to set up first G7 yuan swap
An employee counts yuan banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. European and U.S. officials have been pressing China for years to do more to open up the yuan to market forces.
How do you run the world's most innovative online forex trading firm?
Former Oanda Corp. CEO Michael Stumm in Hart House at the University of Toronto
Netflix business model not so virtuous after all
No sentimental thoughts for Lewis until after Super Bowl
3 big events that Oscar predictors will be watching
Knife Fight: A ‘love letter’ to political idealists
Rob Lowe in Knife Fight.
The TSO’s brilliant take on a messy masterpiece
Thomas Dausgaard
Is alcohol ‘childhood in a bottle’?
The history of the penis: Lies, damned lies and self-measurements
Using the Montessori method to combat dementia
Therese Holtzman making cookies at the Dementia Support Dov & Zipora Burstein Senior Centre.
Movie 43: How many stars does it take to make possibly one of the worst films ever?
Halle Berry in “Movie 43”
Won't somebody please think of the children? Why we need to stop the 'parental overshare' plague
British singer Adele arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 12, 2012.
Hook-up culture and why chlamydia is on the rise
Our friends were fun until they had kids. Should we drop them?
David Eddie
How Facebook left me feeling used, abused and confused
So your kid wants to live with your ex. Here's what not to do
David Cronenberg at 70: What's next for the ultimate stubborn survivalist Canadian?
Geoff Pevere
The jobs have come back, MBA grads report
Now Hiring sign.
Knife Fight: The official trailer
Rob Lowe in Knife Fight.
The close: S&P 500 trims gain as Apple slump deepens
An employee holds Apple's iPhone 4S, left, and Samsung's Galaxy S III at a store in Seoul on Friday. Samsung Electronics has not violated the iPhone design, a Seoul court has ruled.
Ride the Cyclone: Theatrical thrills and some technical spills
The original cast of “Ride the Cyclone”
Map: 20 GOTHIC AVE., NO. 519, TORONTO
Ethics watchdog rules two more Conservative MPs sent inappropriate letters to CRTC
Canada's Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs Eve Adams speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa December 8, 2011.
Show me the money: NHL squabbling barely affects the economy
Derek DeCloet
Map: 256 CHRISTIE ST., TORONTO
High Park condo sells under asking
In pictures: Montessori Method for Dementia
Cholesterol-lowering drugs raise diabetes risk, Health Canada warns
In this June 14, 2011 file photo, the drug Lipitor is displayed at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J.
Natural gas puts oil in crosshairs as transport fuel of choice
The Canaport LNG terminal in Saint John. Liquefied natural gas as a transport fuel is revolutionizing the world’s energy markets, being used in garbage trucks and other municipal service vehicles, along with mass transit systems like buses. Trains, ships, and even aircraft are all potential targets, too.
Bidding war for Christie corner store
Housing rally threatens to force Fed’s hand on stimulus
Scott Barlow
Split emerges within Mali Islamist alliance as Africans prepare assault
A Malian soldier walks away from a cross, believed to have been removed by Islamist rebels from the church seen in the background, in the recently liberated town of Diabaly Jan. 24, 2013.
MLA wrong to lead appointment process after critical audit, watchdog says
The British Columbia Legislature in Victoria.
8 top wine picks from Down Under
Beppi Crosariol
Public editor: Why The Globe uses the term 'hunger strike'
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence speaks with journalists about her hunger strike in a teepee on Victoria Island in Ottawa Dec. 27, 2012.
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