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Purdie case encourages police-cruiser cameras
An RCMP officer looks over the scene of a deadly shooting in Surrey, B.C., March 3, 2011. Saanich police are still investigating details of the shooting of Surrey resident Adam Brian Purdie, 28, who died near King George and Highway 10 in Surrey late Wednesday evening.
Watch: Kelly Olynyk Traded From Mavericks to Celtics
Laval mayor claims extortion attempt; responds to alleged incident involving prostitute
Community rocked by toddler’s car death
Diego and Camila Ruiz, 8 and 6, bring flowers to the Milton, Ont., home where a two-year-old boy died of heat stroke on Wednesday after spending considerable time in a very hot car.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford fires broadside over budget cuts
School's out for summer. Is it time to give kids a break?
Colm Beattie, 12,and his younger sister Avery, spend some time swimming in the pond and looking for frogs in the creek at the back of their family's property in Collingwood, Ont., after getting home from their last school day of the year Thursday. Mom, Leslie McIntyre, behind, wants to keep her childrens' summer unstructured, and will allow them to play and explore rather than putting them in organized camps.
On a night of firsts, Bennett’s selection is one big surprise
Anthony Bennett of Brampton, Ont., reacts after being selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in New York on Thursday.
School's out: Time for unscheduled fun!
Watch:Wimbledon: Djokovic evades giant killing trap
Ottawa’s elimination of CIDA brand signals end of a foreign-aid era
International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino during a September, 2012, visit to a school in Mentao Refugee Camp in Burkina Faso run by CARE with CIDA support.
CP Rail CEO on bridge collapse and reaching out to Nenshi
CP Rail CEO Hunter Harrison attends the company's AGM in Toronto on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
No evidence of collusion or perjury in Dziekanski case: Defence
RCMP Constable Bill Bentley arrives to testify at the Braidwood inquiry into the taser-related death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in Vancouver on Feb. 25, 2009.
For league eager to reinvent itself, new dawn in Winnipeg a welcome sight
Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce (4) and teammates stand for the anthem during the first game at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, June 12, 2013.
Montreal legend Tony Koulakis ran ultimate greasy spoon
For 35 years Cosmo Snack Bar proprietor Tony Koulakis served up all-day breakfasts that would cause palpitations in cardiologists. Tony Koulakis for Obit. Credit: Perpetuum Productions
Ontario gets two nuclear-energy options
The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station provides about 20 per cent of Ontario’s electricity. Opponents of nuclear power say it’s an old, centralized form of power generation. The large domed building in the centre is the Vacuum Building which is designed to suck any radioactive steam that could be released.
Demise of Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts appears certain
A cyclist passes vehicles driving along the Dunsmuir Street Viaduct adjacent to the Georgia Street Viaduct in Vancouver, June 25, 2013.
Emotional affair when heated rivals Lions and Stamps clash in Week One
Calgary Stampeders Jon Cornish (C) runs against the BC Lions Anthony Reddick (L) and Adam Bighill (R) during the second half of the CFL's Western Conference Final game in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 18, 2012.
Teachers’ contracts will be negotiated with tight purse-strings in mind
Striking British Columbia teachers and other supporters hold a rally on the final day of a three-day province wide walkout in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday March 7, 2012. British Columbia's 40,000 public school teachers were voting on a new contract Friday that could end a year-long labour dispute that had teachers refusing to do some work and staging a three-day walkout.
Young B.C. Lions hungry for success
B.C. Lions' Emmanuel Arceneaux, left, bobbles a pass as Edmonton Eskimos' Chris Rwabukamba, back, defends before Donovan Alexander, right, made the interception and ran the ball to the two-yard-line during the first half of a preseason CFL game in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday June 21, 2013.
A system that fails troubled teens
Teens and young adults who suffer from multiple mental illnesses can fall through the cracks in Ontario’s health care system, leaving families to seek expensive treatment out of the country.
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Maude-Aimee Leblanc three back at U.S. Open
Maude-Aimee Leblanc
Watch: Cleveland selects Canadian Bennett with top pick
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B.C.’s debt keeps on rising
B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong tables the budget in the Legislative Assembly Thursday, June 27, 2013 in Victoria
In Africa, Obama gets jarring reminder of global homophobia
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with African drummers on Goree Island near Dakar, Senegal, June 27, 2013. Obama visited the island on Thursday where African slaves in past centuries were shipped west.
Protesters returning to Egypt’s Tahrir Square
A man argues with a worker at a petrol station during a fuel shortage in Cairo June 26, 2013. President Mohamed Mursi will speak to the Egyptian people on Wednesday in a televised address that could determine his political survival as millions prepare to rally to demand his removal this weekend. Fears of a showdown in the streets between Mursi's Islamist supporters and a broad coalition of the disaffected have led people to stock up on food and buy up fuel supplies.
Blair: New CFL season, new faces in new places
The Ticats take to the field during their first pre-season game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at the University of Guelph's Alumni stadium, June 20, 2013.
Kenny Perry captures first major Seniors title
Kenny Perry
Best pictures from June 27
Insects and birds fly in a dump yard as a rag picker collects scraps in New Delhi June 27, 2013.
With DOMA dead, activists celebrate
A proponent of gay marriage celebrates the court ruling on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, during a gathering in San Francisco, June 26, 2013. The Supreme Court issued a pair of opinions Wednesday expanding gay rights, ruling unconstitutional a law denying federal benefits to married same-sex couples and effectively permitting gay marriage in California.
‘Mark has been kind of preparing for this his whole life’
Mark Carney taking up the job as governor of the Bank of England on July 1, 2013.
How did Canadians vote during the Cold War?
The Canadian flag of the time with the red ensign discovered during renovations of the Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto January 26, 2012.
Amazon enters crowded playground for online toy sellers
Amazon.ca launched a toys and games e-commerce site on Thursday.
Rob Ford, arts mayor?
Mayor Rob Ford missed the first arts lunch he was eligible to attend, but at this year’s he seemed relaxed.
3 top stock picks from Avenue Investment’s Paul Harris
Paul Harris.
Mark Carney’s gender-equality dilemma
A computer-generated file image provided by the Bank of England on April 26, 2013, showing the concept design for the reverse of the new 5-pound note, with a picture of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Bank of England’s chief has hinted that Jane Austen could become the new face of Britain’s 10-pound note. The bank’s outgoing governor, Mervyn King, told lawmakers Tuesday, June 25, 2013, that the “Pride and Prejudice” novelist is the leading candidate to replace Charles Darwin on the banknote. King’s comments came after the bank earlier announced it will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on the 5-pound note, a move that prompted outcries that no woman except Queen Elizabeth II would be represented on Bank of England bills.
From tragedy to genius: Laura Marling's soundtrack of influence
At just 23, Laura Marling has recorded four albums.
Bill Haas wins comfortably at Congressional
Bill Haas and Tiger Woods
New technique gives stroke survivors hope to speak again
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in Canada.
Stock to watch: Bauer poised to score with new goals
Kevin Davis, CEO of Bauer Performance Sports Ltd., poses for a photo at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
Guess how much the same-sex wedding industry is worth in Canada (think big)
With the average Canadian wedding setting couples back $26,961, multiplied by the 21,015 same sex-marriages recorded by Statistics Canada as of 2011, the financial bonus for the $4-billion-a-year wedding industry could be huge.
Canada’s elastic policy on foreign publishers
Simon Houpt
A value hunter’s guide to Canadian stocks
Facebook, LinkedIn poised to benefit from advertising dollars
Chris Umiastowski
I’m stuck at my retail job. How can I find a career?
Eileen Dooley
The darker side of flexible labour markets
A spectator shelters under an umbrella at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London, June 27, 2013. In contrast with previous economic downturns, the British economy today has a much less sheltered work force.
Layoffs can go ‘horribly wrong’ if mismanaged
Managers need to be taught how to handle layoffs.
Spending likely to slow as middle-class income stagnates
Shoppers in downtown Toronto. Slow income growth and rising living costs underscore the prediction by many economists that consumer spending will no longer drive economic growth in Canada.
‘Forced to listen’ to the girls upstairs, Charlie McDowell took to Twitter
Charlie McDowell, author of Dear Girls Above Me.
Flames trade Tanguay and Sarich to the Avs for Jones and O’Brien
Calgary Flames' Alex Tanguay listens to a coach during training camp in Calgary, Alta., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.
The future of advertising – now
Still from Immortal Fans, a fan-targeted organ donation campaign by Ogilvy Brazil for Sport Club Recife soccer team
Death, coffee and Bundt cakes: Death Cafés are safe places to talk about the afterlife
Food prices far outpace consumer price index
Claire Renouf of Sanagan's Meat Locker, works at the store’s Kensington Market location, in Toronto, May 17, 2013.
June 28: Living by water, and other letters to the editor
A truck is stranded in high water on a street near the Elbow River in Calgary.
Pricing in the regulatory risk of owning Canada’s telecom giants
People walk past a Rogers store in Montreal on Tuesday, June 26, 2012.
Top 1000: In a dismal year for profits, Canadian banks soared
The companies listed here are the 1,000 largest publicly traded Canadian corporations, measured by assets.
Kid Bruce McCulloch on traditional fatherhood
Kid Bruce McCulloch on traditional fatherhood
Why there are no big milestones to achieve in my life
Facebook billionaire writes 9,000-word wedding rebuttal (seriously?)
Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker speaks during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 17, 2011.
Bettman says the future of the Coyotes is up to Glendale
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to reporters after an NHL Board of Governors meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 in New York.
Canada's 50 biggest private companies
Wal-Mart Canada was the country's biggest private company by revenue in 2012.
100 Canadian companies with the highest return on equity
Return on common equity (ROCE) tells you how much profit a company is generating for each dollar that shareholders have invested in the business.
Canada's 100 biggest companies by market cap
Royal Bank of Canada was the country's biggest company by market cap in 2012.
Top 1000: Exclusive rankings of Canada's most profitable companies
The same lords of finance occupy five of the first six places on our latest profit scorecard, headed by the traditional pacesetter, Royal Bank of Canada, which reclaimed top spot after slipping to third a year earlier.
Canada's 100 biggest companies by revenue
Suncor Energy has the highest revenue in Canada in 2012.
Clark vows to move to surplus as economy slows, debt grows
B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong tables the provincial budget in the Legislative Assembly on June 27, 2013, in Victoria.
By-election looms as Margarett Best resigns
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty enters the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club on Friday July 20, 2012 to speak to media alongside MPP Michael Coteau, second right, Minister of Children and Youth Services Eric Hoskins, left, and Minister of Consumer Services Margarett Best, right, in Toronto after meeting with community leaders in the neighbourhood where a shooting rampage took place earlier that week.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia is on the wrong side of history
Justice Antonin Scalia lectures at the University of Kansas School of Law on Oct. 3, 1996.
Bell’s bid for Astral approved
Bell Canada Enterprises president and chief executive George Cope, left, looks at Astral Media Inc. president and CEO Ian Greenberg as a break is called in the CRTC hearings in Montreal Sept. 10, 2012.
The close: TSX rises on commodities, strong U.S. data
A trader signals to for a price on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, June 26, 2013.
Obama’s free-trade green plan has a chance of breaking WTO inertia
Solar panels on the roof of a building in Geneva, Switzerland.
Bergevin faces extra heat going into second draft as Canadiens' GM
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.
Here comes value: 10 Canadian bargain stocks
Rogers Sugar is a familiar brand name in Western Canada; in the East, it’s known as Lantic Sugar, which it bought in 2002.
Here comes value: Photos of companies that hit the investor sweet spot
Calgary-based Black Diamond Group (Top 1000 rank: 221) rents out and sells temporary housing and offices.
Darnell Nurse draws from football bloodlines ahead of NHL draft
Defenceman Darnell Nurse of the OHL’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
Have you seen the powerful picture of Obama at the Door of No Return?
U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured at the “Door of No Return” as he visits the Maison des Ecslaves, from which African slaves were shipped west until the mid-19th century, on Goree Island near Dakar, Senegal, June 27, 2013.
Two key risks this summer, according to Bank of America
To catch a hit with 'Thief,' Eidos Montreal needs patience
Cinematheque salutes Jacques Demy: a retrospective that sings and dances
Geoff Pevere
Evacuated High River residents given option of apartments
In photos: What to wear when celebrating hot tennis-playing boyfriends, drunk brides and equality for all
Maria Sharapova of Russia sits on court three to watch Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria play Grega Zemlja of Slovenia in their men's singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London June 27, 2013.
Ability to throw made humans successful
The top bargains and busts from the past 20 years of the NHL draft
New Jersey Devils center Travis Zajac, left, reacts after scoring a goal on Boston Bruins goalie Anton Khudobin, right, of Kazakhstan, during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in Newark, N.J. When head of NHL central scouting Dan Marr worked for the Atlanta Thrashers, they drafted Boris Valabik 10th overall in 2004. The next player on their list was Zajac.Valabik has spent most of his career in the American Hockey League and Europe while Zajac has played seven seasons with the New Jersey Devils, who drafted him 20th overall that year.
With TD deal, Aimia plots a course through turbulent skies
Sean Silcoff
B.C. Hydro fires five for allegedly stealing equipment, electricity
A B.C. Hydro office.
OSC beefs up priorities list, adds review of proxy voting
The screens at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto show the closing numbers of the TSX on July 3, 2012. The Ontario Securities Commission has revised its to-do list of priorities for the year ahead to include a review of the mechanics of the proxy voting system after a group of large institutional shareholders launched a campaign to get the issue back on the regulator’s agenda.
MBA grads may not be the stereotypes you imagine
Flood-affected companies get regulatory reprieve
The usually busy Centre Street was devoid of traffic Saturday as downtown Calgary dealt with the heaviest flooding in decades from the nearby Bow River. Lower left, a flooded Chinatown. Upper left Calgary’s tallest tower, the Bow, just behind the Telus building.
N.S. government criticized for delay in proclaiming law that would help domestic abuse victims
Jane Taber
Anger growing in High River as residents press officials for re-entry plan
A group of houses are surrounded in flood water in High River, Alberta, south of Calgary June 23, 2013.
Data: Explore pensions for all current Members of Parliament
What’s at stake for CIBC in Aeroplan shakeup
Aeroplan cards over the years
My friend’s husband is a verbal bully. How can I help her?
David Eddie
Heavy hitters Watson, Johnson to play RBC Canadian Open
Bubba Watson
Toronto to gauge impact of Ontario’s $150-million funding cut in new report
Mayor Rob Ford speaks about provincial funding cuts at Toronto City Hall on Thursday June 27, 2013.
Former Tory MP says he’s happy Senate made ‘a mockery’ of union disclosure bill
Bill Curry
Three decades of Canada's corporate stars
Mining industry gets failing mark on disclosure
File photo of the Bre-X office in Calgary. The OSC said Thursday that an ‘unacceptable’ number of Ontario mining companies are not following the disclosure rules brought in to reassure investors after the Bre-X gold scandal in the 1990s.
Player agent Don Baizley dies at 71 after battle with lung cancer
Don Baizley, an agent for locked-out NHL players, talks to reporters after a meeting with NHL Players Association officials Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004 in Rosemont, Ill. NHL agent Baizley, whose client list included Teemu Selanne and Peter Forsberg, has died at the age of 71.
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