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Canadian phenom Andrew Wiggins leads East team at All-American game
McDonald's East All-American's Andrew Wiggins looks up during the first half of the McDonald's All-American boys basketball game in Chicago, Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
Montreal labour leader Maurice Silcoff took the high road
Maurice Silcoff in the 1930s.
Anti-Keystone group uses Arkansas spill as ammunition
A member of a cleanup crew works in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways.
Boy, 15, wounded in drive-by shooting in Toronto; injuries not life-threatening
Police tape demarking a crime scene.
Alberta PCs’ finances falter in 2012 as Wildrose rakes in donations
Alberta Premier Alison Redford is photographed on Jan. 18, 2012. Alberta and Saskatchewan now account for more of Canada’s overall corporate investment dollars than Ontario.
Volunteers crisscross borders as Islamist extremism goes global
This undated image posted on a militant website purports to show militants in the al-Jazeera region on the Iraqi side of the Syria-Iraq border. Last month, militants inside Iraq killed 48 Syrian government troops who had sought refuge from the war in their country - an ambush that regional officials now say is evidence of a growing cross-border alliance between two powerful Sunni jihadi groups - Al-Qaida in Iraq and the Nusra Front in Syria.
Goldman Sachs exec in line to be next U.S. envoy to Canada
Jays offence sputters in extra-innings loss to Indians
Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista backs off from an inside pitch in the sixth inning of their baseball game against the Cleveland Indians in Toronto April 3, 2013.
New clues into the existence of dark matter
The newly installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 is visible at center left in this photo of the International Space Station's starboard truss.
Baird reaches out to Iran’s foes
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, left, listens during a press conference with his Bahraini counterpart Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, right, in Manama, Bahrain, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
Toronto faces spectre of another missed chance to rebuild transit
Marcus Gee
Alberta’s bold plan to cut emissions stuns Ottawa and oil industry
Mining trucks carry loads of oil-laden sand at the Albian Sands oils sands project in Fort McMurray, Alta.
Big man with big price tag? Johnson hopes to command a king’s ransom
Josh Johnson’s first start for the Toronto Blue Jays comes Friday, against the division rival Boston Red Sox.
Canada humiliates Switzerland at women’s world championships
Roy MacGregor
PQ urges ministers to discourse only in French
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois
Vancouver Art Gallery, staff avoid strike with tentative pact
A couple walks into the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Israel offers muted response to Gaza rockets
A Palestinian throws a stone toward Israeli troops Wednesday during protests in the West Bank city of Hebron over the death in prison of Maysara Abu Hamdeya, who was serving a life sentence over an attempt to bomb an Israeli café.
Quebec election night shooting defendant appears in court
Richard Bain arrives in court in Montreal in 2012.
Surrey aims to harness health technology boom
Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts takes a100-per-cent electric Nissan Leaf for a test drive after leaving a charging station at City Hall in Surrey last October.
Valanciunas has career-high 24 points as Raptors defeat Wizards
One dead, three critical after fire at B.C. seniors home
Chemotherapy mix-ups raise red flags for health care
André Picard
Jonathan Drouin wins big at Quebec Major Junior Hockey League awards
Jonathan Drouin of the Halifax MooseHeads skates during a game in Shawinigan, Quebec, February 27, 2013.
The classless society? Only in Canada, eh? Pity
Mitzie Hunter, CEO of Civic Action, travels on a subway as she takes part in The Big Race, a project by Centennial College's Centre for Creative Communication students, examining the efficiencies and inefficiencies of Toronto's transit system, on Thursday, March 28, 2013.
In Korea, economic co-operation feels the chill
A South Korean truck driver changes his South Korean license plate to one authorized by North Korea before leaving the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) office to go to the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, April 1, 2013. North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea, but Seoul and the United States played down the statement as tough talk. Pyongyang also threatened to close a border industrial zone, the last remaining example of inter-Korean cooperation which gives the North access to $2-billion in trade a year.
NDP’s proposed new rhetoric seeks to dial down socialism
Canada's New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair responds to the budget during a news conference in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 21, 2013.
For Bergevin, deadline proves all talk and no action
Marc Bergevin answers questions during a news conference which announces his appointment as the new general manager of the Montreal Canadiens NHL team in Brossard, Quebec, May 2, 2012.
The British class system? Needin' a makeover, innit
Pedestrians cross London Bridge during the commute to work in the City of London, June 22, 2012.
Leafs stay mostly quiet after chasing Kiprusoff and Luongo
Dave Nonis during a press conference at the Air Canada Centre on Jan 9 2013. 2013.
Vancouver woman’s family pleads for clues to 2009 murder
Peter Ladner, brother of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry, visits the crime scene at Pacific Spirit Regional Park on the fourth anniversary of her murder.
Best pictures from April 3
An aerial view of a boat and a car on a flooded street after heavy rains flooded a large part of the city, is pictured in La Plata April 3, 2013. At least 46 people were killed in Argentina on Wednesday after a torrential downpour battered the eastern city of La Plata and forced some 2,200 people to flee their homes in search of dry ground. REUTERS/Infobae.com/Handout (ARGENTINA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. ARGENTINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ARGENTINA. NO ONLINE USE. NOT FOR SALE FOR INTERNET DISPLAY. TEMPLATE OUT
3 top stock picks from Donville Kent’s Jason Donville
Jason Donville.
Young guns step up for Canada at world championhsips
Canada’s Jennifer Wakefield celebrates her shootout winner against Team USA.
First Quantum severs mine contract with SNC-Lavalin
The Cobre Panama mine site. First Quantum has suspended the contract with SNC-Lavalin for work on the site. First Quantum acquired Cobre Panama with its hostile takeover of Inmet Mining, and has pledged to slash costs at the open pit operation by employing in-house expertise rather than engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) firms.
Why you should keep calm and carry on in the face of a correction
Rob Carrick
A Supreme Court justice struggles to make an impact
Justice Andromache Karakatsanis appears before the Ad Hoc Committee on the Appointment of Supreme Court of Canada Justices on Parliament Hill on Oct. 19, 2011.
The PQ’s strategy of irritation
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois
Have your say: How can average citizens influence government policy between elections?
If you’re filing taxes as self-employed, make sure you meet these criteria
Tim Cestnick
Four ways to use a company's past to improve its future
Most executives think the only way to avoid being overtaken by younger, nimbler competitors is to throw out the baggage of history. But that is often a mistake.
50th season of Vancouver’s Arts Club announced
How to ensure employees get the message
Bill Howatt
Oilers and Flames take polar approaches at trade deadline
Calgary Flames Blake Comeau (17) checks Edmonton Oilers Magnus Paajarvi (91) into linesman David Brisbois during second period NHL action in Edmonton, Alta., on Monday April 1, 2013.
Stock to watch: Innergex may be a bargain after selloff
Innergex, which operates power projects such as Fitzimmons Creek in Whitler, has aggressive growth plans.
Ottawa needs a new model for infrastructure spending
Brian Lee Crowley
What are these guys doing on a billboard about ‘remarkable women’?
Fresh faces = refreshed share performance
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Art that ‘gets right into the soul’
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, acclaimed for their light/sound/video installations.
Up to half of baby boomers will have high blood pressure soon, report warns
Because it’s often asymptomatic, hypertension is termed the silent killer.
Glum economic news sparks triple-digit selloff on TSX
A tote board displays the closing figure for the TSX for the year in Toronto, Dec. 31, 2012. A selloff on Wednesday, which knocked 260 points, or 2.1 per cent, off the S&P/TSX index, began from the opening bell as investors reacted to several disappointing economic indicators.
Spain's Princess Cristina implicated in corruption case
Spain's Princess Cristina waves from inside a car beside her husband Inaki Urdangarin, in Madrid, in this file photo dated Wednesday Nov. 2, 2005. A Spanish court has named the king's daughter Princess Cristina Wednesday April 3, 2013, as a suspect in an alleged corruption case involving her husband, and the court has announced that it will call her for questioning. The Spanish royal palace refused to comment.
Heavy passengers to pay more on Samoa Air
Samoa Air uses small planes.
Bautista defends protests against umpires; Blanco to catch Dickey's next start
Outfielder Jose Bautista grumbles at the umpire after a called third strike during the Toronto Blue Jays home opener against the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 2, 2013.
Diplomats’ union threatens strike over pay equity
Treasury Board President Tony Clement.
Lululemon’s chief product officer leaving company
Pedestrians walk past a Lululemon Athletica store in New York
Canadians still favour their own country’s stocks
At the end of February, 2013, investments in Canadian companies accounted for 58 per cent of all equity mutual fund money invested by Canadians, according to the Investment Funds Institute of Canada. U.S. equity funds accounted for 11 per cent.
Why it will soon be The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, left, will be replaced by Jimmy Fallon, host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Legoland: Entertaining, but pales a bit now that we’ve been swept away by the Cyclone
Amitai Marmorstein and Celine Stubel star in Legoland.
Looking for analysis of international business? Check here
An employee walks past a screen displaying the worldwide locations of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, at the bank's headquarters in Abu Dhabi, April 3, 2013. The National Bank of Abu Dhabi named the banker who led Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's push into Asia as its chief executive on Wednesday, as it expands abroad from its saturated local market.
CIBC’s stay-at-home-strategy could prove costly
Sean Silcoff
Upgrading aging Toronto Hydro infrastructure to cost customers $3 a month
Toronto Hydro vault inspector Ron Noro makes his way up from a vault onder Gerrard Street containing a rusted-out transformer in a pool of oil that leaked out from the device Jan. 13, 2011.
Candid Luongo says he’s still a Canuck because contract ‘sucks’
Eric Duhatschek
Lives Lived: William Stanley Cummings, 97
The close: TSX falls more than 2 per cent, sheds all of 2013's gains
Traders at the oil pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange
Here's your spring cleaning plan of attack
A chair that’s also a book shelf
Quebec to support Bombardier’s C Series sales
An artist’s conception of the new Bombardier C Series jetliner
Shell submits Kitimat LNG plans for environmental review
Logs are moved on the Douglas Channel at dusk in Kitimat, B.C., on Jan. 11, 2012. Shell Canada Ltd. has sent its plans to build a $4-billion pipeline and liquefied natural-gas export terminal at Kitimat in northwestern British Columbia to federal and provincial environmental regulatory agencies.
In photos: The best furniture for small spaces
The bookcase works independently itself, dressing the home.
Toronto-Dominion Bank’s U.S. returns finally getting close to worthwhile
Toronto-Dominion Bank reported return on common equity in 2012 from U.S. banking of 6.4 per cent. In Canadian banking, return on equity was 43 per cent.
Seeing writing on the wall, Swedish telco exits Russia
A man makes a call outside a branch of Swedish telecom group Tele2 in St. Petersburg.
If you're not watching Eurovision Song Contest, you're missing out on a whole world of weirdness
Russell Smith
Transcript: How Steve Jobs put the shine on Apple
Steve Jobs speaks in front of a display of iPod products in 2007. “As former CEO and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs helped create products and technology that transformed the way we consume music, TV, movies, and books,” the Recording Academy said in a statement announcing he would be awarded a special Grammy at the 2012 ceremony.
In photos: Beautiful, hand-stitched couture drapes
Details in Camal Prihai's Studio Abeaute, a maker of handmade silk curtains, in Toronto, April 1, 2013.
What can I say when my server clearly pours too little wine into my glass?
Couture drapes: Handmade fashion doesn’t just walk the runway
Toronto’s Camal Pirbhai hand-stitches every detail of his couture drapes – pleats, delicate rosettes, even an embroidered butterfly’s wings. He also designs his own drapery hardware.
Information and maps for all 85 B.C. electoral districts
Jimmy Fallon in, Jay Leno out: What to expect from the newest Tonight Show host
This January 2013 publicity photo released by NBC shows Jimmy Fallon, host of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," holding a thank you note during a photo session in New York. NBC on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 announced its long-rumored switch in late night, replacing incumbent Jay Leno at "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon and moving the iconic franchise back to New York. Leno will wrap up what will be 22 years of headlining the iconic late-night show in Spring 2014. "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels will take over as producer of the new "Tonight Show."
Old classmate of two accused in Algeria plot became increasingly isolated, former co-worker says
Yearbook photo of Aaron Yoon. London South Collegiate Institute
Where are China’s rivers going?
Smog sits over the river in tourist town Fenghuang on Jan. 14, 2013.
Is Selena Gomez really to blame for Justin Bieber’s meltdown?
Bodyguards try to block the view of Canadian singer Justin Bieber as he goes through Wladyslaw Reymont Airport in Lodz following his concert March 25, 2013.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit director Ian Scott leaving post
Ian Scott poses for a photo at the SIU headquarters on October 27, 2008.
Leafs acquire O’Byrne from Avs
Calgary Flames' Curtis Glencross takes a hit from Colorado Avalanche's Ryan O'Byrne during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Calgary, Alberta, March 27, 2013
A gloomy Bond King says era of easy credit is at an end
Scott Barlow
CP derailment spills small amount of oil in northern Ontario
Rail tank cars at CP’s yard near Vancouver. A small amount of oil has leaked near a small northern Ontario community following a second Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. derailment in a week.
Canada bounces back after loss to Japan to defeat Russia at curling worlds
Canada skip Brad Jacobs
Samoa Air to charge passengers by weight (and they don’t mean luggage)
Michael Babad
NDP to propose toning down socialism in its constitution
Thomas Mulcair, leader of the New Democratic Party, on his March, 2013, trip to the U.S.
Stephen Toope steps down as president of UBC
Professor Stephen Toope, president of UBC poses in Montreal, October 25, 2011. (Christinne Muschi for The Globe and Mail)
Why life is like riding a horse (or at least learning how)
Sarah Vaillancourt rescues injury-plagued hockey career
Team Canada's Sarah Vaillancourt at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
Canada’s surprisingly large exposure to our too-big-to-fail banks
A Bay Street sign, the main street in the financial district is seen in Toronto, Jan. 28, 2013.
Chile Con Carne: Vivid portrait of a Chilean child refugee torn between two worlds
Paloma Nunez in the Alameda Theatre Company’s Chile Con Carne.
B.C.’s Clark vows to freeze carbon tax for five years
B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark stops for a coffee in her Vancouver riding on April 3, 2013.
Ontario government to investigate how hundreds of cancer patients received too-low chemo doses
Senators trade goalie Ben Bishop to Lightning for centre Cory Conacher
Ben Bishop
Vancouver-area home sales down 18 per cent
A for-sale sign outside condos overlooking the skyline in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, March 4, 2013.
Toronto FC lands Argentine striker Urrutti
A soccer ball with the Toronto FC logo is seen in this file photo.
Canadian scientists charged over transporting bacteria to China
A lab technician.
CAE lands $215-million worth of contracts for simulators, training
A technician operates a CAE-built A330-200 passenger plane flight simulator at the Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) centre in Berlin, November 1, 2012. Montreal-based CAE announced the sale of five flight simulators on Wednesday as part of several new military and commercial contracts worth a total of $215-million.
Police confirm Yorkdale Shopping Centre shooting victims had gang ties
Toronto Police search for evidence in the west parking lot at Yorkdale Mall on Sunday morning following a fatal shooting Saturday night, in Toronto, March 31, 2013.
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