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Cities’ summit grapples with infrastructure as Ford snipes from sidelines
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford talks to reporters May 31, 2013, at City Hall.
Hawks score early and often to take Game 2
Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford blocks a shot from the Los Angeles Kings as teammate Johnny Oduya watches in the third period of Game 2 of the NHL Western Conference final playoffs in Chicago, Illinois, June 2, 2013.
Turkish protest’s new frontier: A former bastion of stability feels heat from the street
An anti-government protester holds Turkey's national flag with a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, on it during a demonstration in Ankara late on June 2, 2013.
Soccer offers opportunity for revolution in women’s sports
John Doyle
Turkish PM Erdogan lashes out at the ‘menace that is called Twitter’
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under fire for repressive tactics.
Energy portfolio could blow up in Clark’s face
Justine Hunter
Former N.S. editor and cabinet minister Jane Purves dead at 63
Former Nova Scotia cabinet minister and veteran newspaper editor Jane Purves has died at 63. Photo taken in Halifax, NS, Monday April 17, 2000.
Polyamorists strive for future legal recognition as national convention wraps up
Late Iranian shah’s son seeks to unite dissident ex-pats
Prince Reza Pahlavi during an interview with the Globe and Mail in Toronto.
Kids unplug and immerse in tradition at native camp
Members of the Heiltsuk First Nation, of Bella Bella, B.C., raise their oars after completing the last leg of Tribal Journeys, an annual event celebrating native culture, upon arrival in Cowichan Bay, B.C., on Monday July 28, 2008.
B.C.'s new spending watchdog to put spotlight on small-town fiscal management
New MLA Mike Bernier toured a Dawson Creek water reclamation plant with Premier Christy Clark while campaiging in April.
Blair: Canadians see red after Leroux’s gesture
Sydney Leroux (R) of the U.S. celebrates her goal with teammate Heather O'Reilly during the second half of their friendly women's soccer match against Canada in Toronto, June 2, 2013.
Feds pick off-the-shelf design for long-awaited resupply ships
HMCS Preserver, one of Canada's operational support ships, designed to carry large amounts of fuel, provisions, and dry stores during naval operations, is pushed by tugs in Halifax harbour on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011.
Anti-blasphemy law creates a tinderbox in Pakistan
A demonstrator burns a cross during a protest in the Badami Bagh area of Lahore in March after mobs torched dozens of houses.
Medical marijuana review brings out Canadians’ entrepreneurial spirit
Medical marijuana users rely on the drug to control pain, epileptic seizures, and other debilitating symptoms.
Best pictures from June 2
Canadians would be willing to pay more for cellular services, study says
A smartphone user.
Perks from businesses put customers off, study finds
Research from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business carries a note of caution for businesses looking to butter up their customers with unexpected perks.
Resolute continues work on boreal deal, sues Greenpeace over logging allegations
Greenpeace claims that Resolute has been logging in off-limits boreal areas in Canada.
April trade figures to provide cold comfort, economists say
With Canada’s economy in slow-growth mode, the hope is that the global economy picks up the slack, so a lot is riding on the country’s export sector.
Roll Tide! Alabama beats Illini for NCAA men's golf title
Members of the NCAA champion Alabama men's golf team
It is not OK to teach empathy by showing children a suicide video
Friends embrace as several hundred people attend a community vigil to remember Rehtaeh Parsons at Victoria Park in Halifax on April 11, 2013.
It will hurt to fix the Toronto-area’s roads, highways and transit system, but it needs to be done
Southbound traffic on Spadina Ave. (south of Front St. West) is already heavy mid afternoon as commuters head for the Gardiner Expressway as they leave Toronto on April 9, 2013.
Chile’s ascent from 3rd to 1st world
President Sebastian Pinera of Chile at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Saving lives comes before patents
A bioprocessing engineer shows a shaker flask where cells in growth medium are cultured in a laboratory at Dutch biotech company uniQurein in Amsterdam Dec. 13, 2012. The cells are being used as tiny factories to produce the gene therapy drug Glybera.
Issue of SEC disclosure rules applying to first nations still debated
Having conducted an impact-benefits agreement with the local Inuit regional business council prior to opening its Meadowbank gold mine in Nunavut, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. is now negotiating a second deal for its Meliadine project in the territory.
How to put real value into ‘value’ funds
Smiling young man holds note saying VALUE ADDED
Despite bleak outlook, worst may be over for Europe
Its reform-minded government has diligently swallowed the German austerity diet. <137>A man walks past an unfinished block of houses in the neighbourhood of Cancelada, near Estepona, southern Spain November 30, 2012. Spain's "bad bank" opened its doors on Friday with a blueprint broadly based on Dublin's National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and a similar remit: to purge the country's lenders of toxic property assets that left them dangerously short of capital and reliant on European aid. Just like NAMA, SAREB - as the Spanish version is known - begins life accused both of paying too much for assets that have gone bad, and depressing the property market by acquiring them so cheaply. It has yet to attract private capital. REUTERS/Jon Nazca (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION REAL ESTATE) - RTR3B2AQ<252><137>
Canadian technology stocks are back in style
Martin Mittelstaedt
Shoalts: Penguins need to control emotions, faceoffs
David Shoalts
Miners lead transparency push for payments to governments
HudBay Minerals Inc. is preparing to lay out, under contentious new U.S. securities regulations, the revenues it pays to federal and local governments for its project in Peru.
How Canadian equity funds compare to ETFs
In focus: Five myths of becoming a CEO
Harvey Schachter
Want a better meeting? Don’t let the boss run it
Harvey Schachter
My company’s product is inferior. How can I sell it?
Canadian women fail to gain measure of redemption in friendly loss to U.S.
Christine Sinclair (R) of Canada battles for the ball with Christie Rampone of the U.S. during the second half of their friendly women's soccer match in Toronto, June 2, 2013.
Redefining the meaning of CEO at TD Bank
Ottawa set to unveil national anti-bullying program at school of late teen Jamie Hubley
Ottawa city councillor Allan Hubley poses with his son Jamie in this family photo released on Oct. 17, 2011. Hubley says bullying was part of the reason his 15-year-old son took his own life in the fall of 2011.
Quebec soccer association upholds ban on turbans on the playing field
Children take part in a soccer practice on a public field in Toronto on Wednesday April 25, 2012.
Blog: Hawks beat Kings and head to L.A. up by two games
First Nations unrest depends on concrete action from Harper: national chief
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo responds to the B.C. provincial health officer report on Aboriginal health during a news conference after it was released in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday March 28, 2013.
Pilots say aging Arctic airports are reducing service to northerners
A plane maneuvers over the cliffs near the Pangnirtung airport, in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Aug. 24, 2004.
Ontario's Charles Sousa calls for meeting with Jim Flaherty to talk transit
Canada's finance Minister Jim Flaherty prepares to address the Vancouver Board of Trade in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 23, 2013.
Toronto, Montreal, Moncton and Edmonton to host 2014 U-20 women’s World Cup
A look at the East grandstand of Toronto’s BMO Field. The facility will play host to matches of the 2014 Women’s U20 World Cup, The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Sunday. (file photo)
Amy Verner on her life-changing diagnosis: ‘There is no easy way out’
Globe and Mail columnist Amy Verner photographed in Tuileries Gardens in Paris.
An unbeatable beet salad
How long-lost relatives found each other at a Caribbean cruise buffet
Dirty work: What women think about the division of labour
In two-income households, domestic chores are an ongoing source of marital stress.
Lives Lived: John Crawford Murphy, 84
John Crawford Murphy died in Toronto of natural causes. He was 84.
Author Eve Ensler’s tips for success: Be emotional but make room for laughter
Habits Illustration. Eve Ensler. Credit: Anthony Jenkins / The Globe and Mail
How to do countertop push-ups in the kitchen
How picky women "gatekeepers" wind up doing most of the housework
Natalie Ciura and partner James Deacon.
Norton Rose Fulbright: a giant is born
John Coleman, the managing partner of Norton Rose in Canada
Watch Matt Cooke’s hit on Adam McQuaid
Boston Bruins' Adam McQuaid lays on the ice after being hit from behind by Pittsburgh Penguins' Matt Cooke resulting in a five minute major penalty during the second period of Game 1 of their NHL Eastern Conference finals hockey playoff series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June 1, 2013.
D’Angelo makes his long-awaited return with an energized show in Toronto
D'Angelo is pictured in this undated handout video. After years on hiatus, D’Angelo is back on tour and performing newer material.
Penguins’ Cooke escapes punishment for hit on McQuaid
Pittsburgh Penguins' Matt Cooke (R) checks Boston Bruins' Adam McQuaid from behind resulting in a five minute major penalty during the second period of Game 1 of their NHL Eastern Conference finals hockey playoff series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June 1, 2013.
Tiger-Cats open training camp without receiver-returner Chris Williams
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have placed wide receiver Chris Williams on the team’s suspended list. (file photo)
Heavy rain and high winds in Quebec leads to power outages, washed-out roads
Agony and ecstasy at the French Open
Germany's Angelique Kerber reacts as she plays Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Sunday, June 2, 2013 in Paris. Kuznetsova won 6-4 4-6 6-3.
Planes, trains and alliances: Swiss International bets on convergence
Passengers walk on a platform to enter a Swiss Federal Railways train at the main station in Zurich, on May 24, 2012.
New Raptors GM Ujiri fires basketball operations executive Stefanski
In this Feb. 22, 2011, file photo, Masai Ujiri, the Denver Nuggets general manager and executive vice president of basketball operations, addresses the media a during an NBA basketball news conference in Denver. The Toronto Raptors have named Masai Ujiri as their new general manager.
Our dairy farming is inefficient – and it's hurting our economy
Barrie McKenna
Freight train derails in Sudbury, Ont., after bridge collapse
In this OPP handout photo from CTV, a train car is seen in a river after a bridge collapse caused a Canadian Pacific train to derail.
In photos: Scenes from wild protests across Turkey
Police are shown trying to disperse protesters on June 1, 2013. The Turkish PM has dismissed the protesters as an extremist fringe.
Doug Ford blasts councillors for taking 'gravy plane' to national municipality meeting
Councillor Doug Ford speaks to the media in Toronto's city hall on Thursday May 30, 2013 .
Argos missing key defensive players as training camp opens
Toronto Argonauts defensive safety Jordan Younger (R) intercepts a pass intended for Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Andy Fantuz during the first half of their CFL football game in Toronto November 1, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Cassese (CANADA - Tags: SPORT FOOTBALL)
Stampeders sign DL Shawn Lemon, QB Jimmy Coy
New Alouettes coach Dan Hawkins ready to embrace Canadian football
Dan Hawkins speaks during a press conference in Montreal, Tuesday, February 19, 2013, announcing him as the new head coach of the Montreal Alouettes.
The week's best web reads: 5 stocks both Buffett and insiders like
No. 4 - Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Net worth: $53.5-billion
Police called when up to 30 parents fight at youth soccer game in Barrie, Ont.
Bedbugs pose a challenge for Canadian health officials
A bedbug is seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield. Though mostly harmless, bedbugs pose a challenge to Canadian health officials.
Miscues sink floundering Jays yet again in loss to Padres
Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons (5) watches his team from the dugout as they play the San Diego Padres during their interleague game in San Diego, California June 1, 2013.
June 2: Your lookahead horoscope
Gemini
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