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Trade talks squeeze Canada’s refugee-protection system
Campbell Clark
Where to find beer, wine and spirits in the event of an LCBO strike
The LCBO store on Queens Quay in Toronto.
Marlies lose to Griffins in Game 3 of AHL semi-finals
The Toronto Marlies and Grand Rapids Griffins do battle during Game 2 of their AHL playoff game.
Angus Reid says he didn’t lose sleep over B.C. polling
Angus Reid
GTA Sikh Marathon attracts young, old
Jeev Singh and other members of the Guru Govind Singh Children’s Foundation stretch before a practicerun in Brampton for ‘inspirational steps,’ a full 42 KM marathon that will run on May 19.
Race to the End of the Earth
A life-sized re-creation of Roald Amundsen’s underground workrooms.
How Green voters might have made Dix premier
B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix pauses while addressing supporters after conceding defeat in the provincial election.
Liberals build a new municipal brain trust
am Sullivan is photographed in the Vancouver-False Creek electoral district of Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, November 8, 2012.
Jays wallop defending champion Giants for series sweep
Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista congratulates teammate J.P. Arencibia after his two run homer off San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong during second inning action in Toronto on Tuesday May 14, 2013.
In winning re-election, Clark rose above perception and rebellion
Gary Mason
Horwath backs away from talk of bringing down Wynne government
Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario NDP party, leaves the office of Premier Kathleen Wynne after a short meeting on May 15 2013.
Pollsters hint at what went wrong in gauging the B.C. election
B.C. premier-elect Christy Clark pauses during a news conference at her office in Vancouver on May 15, 2013, after winning a majority in the provincial election Tuesday.
Whitecaps and Impact go scoreless in first leg of Canadian Championship
Montreal Impact's Andrés Romero, right, and Vancouver Whitecaps' Nigel Reo-Coker battle for the ball during first half first leg action of the Amway Canadian Championship final in Montreal, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
Steve Nash vows to finish out contract with Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash talks to reporters during an NBA news coneference in El Segundo, Calif., Monday, April 29, 2013.
NDP loss shows the powerlessness of positive thinking
B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix walks away from the podium and leaves the stage after conceding defeat in the provincial election in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday May 14, 2013.
Who will step aside to bring Clark to the Legislature?
Premier-elect Christy Clark on election night in Vancouver, May 14, 2013, after her party won in the B.C. provincial election.
Denis Coderre set to enter Montreal mayoral race
Denis Coderre must convince justifiably cynical Montreal voters that he can clean up City Hall.
Scarborough councillor joins group opposing casino in downtown Toronto
With the Toronto casino issue looming for the city of Toronto, some neighbourhoods in the city have seen anti-casino signs popping up on front lawns.
New Humbertown mall would be a rebirth
Marcus Gee
Radiologists defend Quebec’s mammogram machines
A first-of-its kind study examined the effectiveness of three types of breast cancer screening devices used in Canada.
Commodities bust reaches well beyond resource stocks
Fabrice Taylor
Best pictures from May 15
In this Monday, May 13, 2013 photo, an Indian Muslim Sufi devotee offers prayers at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti during the Urs festival in Ajmer, India. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine for the annual festival, marking the death anniversary of Sufi Muslim saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Time to take profits in PC drive makers
David Milstead
Scotiabank looks to expand wealth management
Scotiabank’s Cathedral branch in Puebla, Mexico: ‘We have a wonderful road to run in markets like Mexico, Chile and Peru which saw 25-per-cent growth last year.’
3 top stock picks from Baskin Financial’s David Baskin
David Baskin.
After the election, B.C. business breathes a sigh of relief
Premier-elect Christy Clark touted the exporting of liquefied natural gas as a path to prosperity for British Columbia.
Overcoming the racial divide, Sugarfoot Anderson remembers Jackie Robinson
Tuesday, April 23, 2012 - Calgary, Alberta - A photograph of baseball legend Jackie Robinson (left) and Ezzrett "Sugarfoot" Anderson taken in 1955 at the Royalite Service Station, which Anderson owned at the time in Calgary, Alberta.
Seven deductions the taxman won’t let you have
Tim Cestnick
13 U.S. financial stocks that deserve a closer look
A strange $90,000 gift to the undeserving Senator Duffy
Senator Mike Duffy
Indian company to build billion-dollar LNG plant in Nova Scotia to ship gas overseas
An LNG terminal in Saint John, N.B.
In Senegal, an African edifice on the precipice
Senegal's controversial $28-million "African Renaissance" statue, depicting a family rising triumphantly from a volcano, is unveiled during its inauguration ceremony in Dakar, April 3, 2010.
Would you be better off financially renting or buying a home?
Rob Carrick
Canada signals new era for Arctic Council
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt hands the gavel which symbolizes handing the chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Canada's Minister of the Arctic Council Leona Aglukkaq, at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, in Kiruna, Sweden, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
Flu carries higher risk of paralytic disease than flu shot
A new study shows that the risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome is actually 16 times higher after contracting influenza than after vaccination.
The top 10 worst management fads
Management by walking around is one of those fads. To expect constant wandering around to have any important effect on anything – apart from paranoia levels of staff and the shoe leather of managers – strikes me as gloriously wrong-headed, says Lucy Kellaway.
Professional fighter Georges St-Pierre on the importance of innovation
The Way of the Fight.
Google unleashes torrent of product upgrades
Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and chief executive officer, speaks during the keynote presentation at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
Stock to watch: Quebecor morphing into a telco dividend play
Quebecor’s headquarters in Montreal.
Oilers, councillors agree to split final $30-million to green light new arena
An artist's rendition of a proposed arena for Edmonton is shown in a handout.
Marc-André Fleury: A quandary for Pittsburgh, a headache for Canada
Roy MacGregor
Marijuana may cut risk of developing diabetes: study
Anti-piracy firm called out for using pirated images on its website
Screengrab from the Cinepre company website is shown.
Jean Chretien remembers the battles of Quebec
Jean Chrétien delivers a lecture at the Dover House in London May 15.
Want to find good marketing ideas? Ask your dad
Father and son reading book
Horwath’s budget talks with Wynne strike a friendly note
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath. is seen in her office in Toronto, Ont., on Nov. 14, 2012
As chair of Cannes jury, it’s Steven Spielberg’s turn to ‘sit in judgment’
Steven Spielberg, jury president of the 66th Cannes Film Festival
Mandate brings Clark out of Campbell caucus’s shadow
B.C. premier-elect Christy Clark pauses during a news conference at her office in Vancouver on May 15, 2013, after winning a majority in the provincial election Tuesday.
Jays’ Cabrera remains in lineup after MRI exam reveals only irritation in legs
Toronto Blue Jays' Melky Cabrera follows through on a RBI double against the San Francisco Giants during the seventh inning of their American League baseball game in Toronto, May 14, 2013.
The enduring power of maps: ‘You find where you are on it’
João Lauro Fonte used typography to map London and adds a red streak for the Thames.
Why I still love to see the season’s first lilacs
Mayor Ford being investigated by city after putting magnets on cars
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford puts ‘Rob Ford Mayor’ magnets on cars outside an Etobicoke meeting on the Humbertown redevelopment, May 14, 2013.
Chrétien plunges into Scottish independence debate
Former prime minister Jean Chretien warned a British audience to take the threat of Scottish separatism seriously in a speech May 15.
6 maps to change how you look at the world
The Finnish illustrator Vesa Sammalisto used a gorgeous colour scheme in this map, created for World Design Capital Helsinki, that shows the events and venues sponsored by Harwall Lapin Kultan, a Finnish brewery.
Edward Lam, 54, brought art to interior spaces
Edward Lam and Deborah Moss. Mr. Lam died of an undiagnosed brain aneurysm last month. The father of two girls, he was 54.
Edward Lam's work
Interior design by Edward Lam and Deborah Moss.
How Christy Clark used B.C.’s lagging economy to win re-election
David Parkinson
If your fridge breaks, shouldn’t you be able to ask it what’s wrong?
Andy Hobsbawm, founder and chief marketing officer of Evrything, a London-based firm dedicated to “making products smart,” says that Internet connectivity embedded into products will be a more important way for marketers to forge relationships with consumers.
Personal pronouns linked to interpersonal problems
Shaw Festival offers a human-sized Major Barbara
Graeme Somerville and Nicole Underhay in Major Barbara at the Shaw Festival.
The close: TSX falls over 100 points, Dow at record
The screens at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto show the closing numbers of the TSX on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.
5 hand-woven home decor must-haves
East meets north: The Superheroes collection is a cross-cultural mash-up of Swedish and Vietnamese influences. Designers Mattias Rask and Tor Palm (who run Glimpt Studio in Stockholm) were inspired by weavers in Ho Chi Minh City to create the bowl-like shape of its lounger, coffee table and stool. The pair worked with Swedish illustrator Malin Koort to create the Nordic-style patterning. Through cappellini.it.
Really? Rich people jumping the queue at Disney World by hiring disabled ‘guides’
Young boy with Goofy and Pluto at Disney World
Apple dip shows painful transition
Molten metal: Pouring bars of silver at Poland's Glogow smelter
A worker removes a freshly made bar of silver from a mould at the KGHM smelter.
Canada adds $75-million to growing pot of international donations for Mali
Malian soldiers point their AK-47 rifles during a training session given by a French army officer in Koulikoro May 7, 2013.
5 portraits by photographer Janieta Eyre
Detail of a work by Janieta Eyre
Amnesty International 'profoundly concerned' Canada is ignoring UN on torture
Abdullah Almalki (right to left), Muayyed Nureddin and Ahmad El-Maati arrive at a news conference in Ottawa Tuesday Oct.21, 2008. Amnesty International says Canada is obstructing efforts to compensate the three men who suffered torture in Syria — effectively ignoring a key recommendation from the United Nations Committee against Torture.
A downgrade for RIM, an upgrade for Rona
CEO Thorsten Heins will give a keynote speech on Tuesday in Orland which may give clues to the future of the company’s products.
Canada plots Sedins strategy for world hockey championship quarter-final
Team Sweden Henrik Sedin, left, and his brother Daniel listen to the coach during a practice session, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at the world hockey championship in Stockholm Sweden. Sweden will play Canada in the quarter finals Thursday May 16.
Can white wines really come from red grapes?
Photographer Janieta Eyre and ‘the magic function of the camera’
Toronto photographer Janieta Eyre.
What exactly did Bloomberg reporters see?
Central banks question Bloomberg data confidentiality
Alberta RCMP charge person with aiding suicide after body found in vehicle
RCMP cordon off a crime scene using police ta
What's in store for Internet as 'the next five billion' join up
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, centre, arrives at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Mr. Schmidt, co-author Jared Cohen, and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson took part in a visit to the reclusive communist state.
Reversal of fortunes: Poles help revive deteriorating German villages
Pawel Pilsniak, his wife Anna and two children Micheasz and Nathan pose for a photograph by the entrance to the village of Neu Rosow, Germany near the Polish border April 6, 2013.
Vancouver rioters who swarmed Good Samaritan sentenced
The Vancouver police Integrated Riot Investigation Team released a video showing suspects who allegedly assaulted Good Samaritan Robert Mackay during the Stanley Cup riot on June 15, 2011.
Global economy has a ‘long and fairly bumpy’ recovery ahead
Greece's Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras touches his head before a news conference on the liberalization of closed professions and markets at the Finance Ministry in Athens on May 9, 2013. Greek youth unemployment shot to a record 64 percent in February and consumers grew more pessimistic, underscoring the dire state of the recession-hit economy despite signs of improving business sentiment.
How to create the ultimate hanging basket
Hanging basket.
Duhatschek: Raffi Torres could get more than slap on the wrist
San Jose Sharks left wing Raffi Torres (13) looks up after hitting Los Angeles Kings center Jarret Stoll (28) to the ice during Game 1 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal playoff hockey game in Los Angeles, California, May 14, 2013.
Mennonite women’s new cookbook geared to celebrating life’s milestones
The cover of Mennonite Girls Can Cook.
From Israel to Taiwan: Do you know where your MP is travelling for free?
Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan accepted a trip to "watch the Ryder Cup" golf tournament in Chicago. The trip was paid for by Events Scotland.
BC New Democrats forgot the rules of successful campaigning
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark serves steamed buns to a customer while visiting a bakery in Vancouver on May 14. Like Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the 2011 federal campaign, Ms. Clark harped relentlessly on the theme of building a strong economy and preserving stable government handling of its finances.
Changes to Manitoba liquor laws will allow alcohol in spas, hair salons
White wine being poured at tasting Collection.
Quebec opposition denounces fracking legislation
Quebec Environment Minister Yves-François Blanchet
The power of incumbency: Political leaders in Canada keep getting re-elected
Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks to media in Grosvenor Square Garden after attending the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in London on Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
Everyone can be a superhero by donating an organ
Hike rates now, economist urges Bank of Canada
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.
Ontario strengthens regulation of private drug-mixing companies, hospital supply after chemo errors
Has Dan Brown become (gasp!) a better writer?
Dan Brown’s much-anticipated new book, "Inferno," was released on May 14, 2013.
Mad at Abercrombie’s anti-plus-size stance? Don’t do what this guy did
Screen grab from Greg Karber‘s video response to Abercrombie & Fitch on YouTube
Can this service take the pain out of moving?
Two men load a dresser into a moving truck while moving in Montreal Monday July 1, 2002.
Home fries
Three Canadian schools in the FT Top 50 executive education programs
The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in Toronto.
Zyblock named Dynamic Funds’ chief investment strategist
Myles Zyblock
More twists in Hon Hai (Foxconn) story than a soap opera
A worker pushes a trolley carrying products under nets which are installed on a factory building to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths at a Foxconn factory in Langfang, Hebei Province August 3, 2010.
Mastectomy revealed: What women can learn from Angelina Jolie’s surgeon
In this Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 file photo, actress Angelina Jolie poses for a portrait to promote her directorial debut of the film In the Land of Blood and Honey in New York. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s May 14, 2013 New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure.
Video: Abercrombie & Fitch gets a brand readjustment
Screen grab from Greg Karber video on YouTube
Homemade ricotta
Wind Mobile buyer keeps its ‘options open’
The WIND mobile store at the Holt Renfrew centre in Toronto is seen on December 15, 2010.
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