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September 19

Rivera, Oliver take final Toronto curtain calls for Yankees
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera signs autographs at the Rogers Centre before his team plays the Toronto Blue Jays in MLB American League baseball action in Toronto, Thursday September 19, 2013. Rivera has said he plans to retire after the season and it will be the last game he plays at the Rogers Centre.
Deals of the week: These offers end this weekend
2013 Subaru Legacy
Marshall Berman: interpreter of urban life
Marshall Berman
London, Ont. native Ronson fights hard to make UFC cut
If MMA fighter Jesse Ronson makes the ‘cut’ today, he will have shed 31 pounds in 32 days.
Jets succumb to depleted Wild
Minnesota Wild's Erik Haula (56) and Nino Niederreiter (22) celebrate a goal by teammate Mathew Dumba (not shown) against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Al Montoya (35) during first period pre-season NHL action in Winnipeg on Thursday, September 19, 2013.
Around the NHL
Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding (37) takes a breather during second period pre-season NHL action against the Winnipeg Jets in Winnipeg on Thursday, September 19, 2013. The Wild won 4-1.
Declassified file lists CSIS’s worries over ‘insider threat’ to security
Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle arrives at Nova Scotia provincial court for a sentencing hearing in Halifax on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Delisle, convicted of selling military secrets to Russia, becomes the first person to be sentenced under Canada’s Security of Information Act.
Bolland scores the winner as Leafs edge Senators
Ottawa Senators goalie Nathan Lawson lies on the ice after letting in the game winning goal by Toronto Maple Leafs' Dave Bolland who celebrates with teammates during third period pre-season NHL hockey action in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. The Leafs defeated the Senators 3-2.
Best pictures from September 19
A passenger aircraft, with the full "Harvest Moon" seen behind, makes its final approach to landing at Heathrow Airport in west London, September 19, 2013. The Harvest Moon is a traditional name for the full moon that is closest to the autumn equinox, and at a traditional period where farmers would be harvesting crops. The moon's rise time and angle of path give the illusion that the Harvest Moon is both closer, larger and brighter; though actually it is not. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Iran could be a surprise moderate as UN focuses on Middle East
Syrian rebels continue to fight, but an unlikely detente has formed between the U.S. and Iran as the UN General Assembly prepares to meet.
Yankees' playoff hopes take a hit from bats of Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays' Brett Lawrie (left) celebrates with teammate Adam Lind after Lind hit a three-run home run against the New York Yankees in the seventh inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto September 19, 2013.
Crowd scuffles over island runway extension plan
Porter Airlines planes landing at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on April 9, 2013.
Flaherty’s persistence in pressing for securities regulator pays off
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty speaks in his Parliament Hill office on Sept. 19, 2013.
Infographic: Accidents at level rail crossings by province
An official takes pictures of the scene of an accident involving a bus and a train in Ottawa September 18, 2013. A passenger train collided with a double-decker city bus on the outskirts of Ottawa and derailed on Wednesday, killing at least six people, an emergency official said.
Surrey crosswalks under review in wake of fatal accident
Grade 12 student Amarpreet Sivia was killed when she was hit by a motorcycle as she crossed 128th street.
Ford mum on associates' alleged misbehaviour
Dave Price allegedly damaged a door at the Georgetown GO Transit station in a late August incident.
Chiselled Argo finds new ways to keep ripped physique
Toronto Argonauts linebacker Robert McCune is known to have one of the strongest, most muscular physiques in all of football. He has modelled for fitness and bodybuilding magazines and won army weightlifting competitions.
Top court rejects mobster Pierino Divito’s appeal to return to Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada building in Ottawa.
Blue Bombers switch it up for rematch Eskimos
Jovon Johnson isn’t worried about his new role with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. ‘I’ve been in the defence probably longer than all of our coaches so I know what’s going on, I know the defence inside and out.’
Rail’s spread into suburbia ramps up debate over safety at busy crossings
Flowers and candles are left near the scene of the train-bus collision in Ottawa on Sept. 19, 2013.
Truth commission: How residential-school inmates found salvation through hockey
Fred Sasakamoose, a residential school survivor and the first First Nations NHL hockey player, sits in the Vancouver Giants dressing room where the WHL hockey team unveiled First Nations tribute jerseys in Vancouver, Sept. 19, 2013. The jerseys feature the "lazy cross", the brand of the Alkali Lake Ranch where most players on the Alkali Lake Braves hockey team worked. Sasakamoose played for the Chicago Blackhawks in 1954. The Giants will wear the jerseys on Friday when they open their season against the Victoria Royals.
Nice guys can finish first, Dix insists
Adrian Dix said he is looking foward to a ‘diverse range of candidates’ in the race to replace him as NDP leader.
Geroy Simon takes on Lions for first time since off-season trade to Riders
In this file photo, Former B.C. Lions' receiver Geroy Simon pauses while speaking to reporters after the CFL football team traded him to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, during a news conference in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday January 24, 2013. Simon and the Rougriders take on the Lions on Sunday.
Ottawa’s six lost lives leave community, classmates in grief
The victims of the Ottawa bus crash, clockwise from top right: Connor Boyd, Dave Woodard, Michael Bleakney, Rob More, Kyle Nash and Karen Kryzewski.
The best stocks of the post-Lehman era
Quebec-based Couche-Tard convenience moved into Norway with a $2.8-billion takeover of Statoil Fuel and Retail ASA.
Double-take: 26 stocks that both insiders and analysts love
Stenson scores biggest payday, wins Tour Championship
Henrik Stenson
Bezbatchenko to take over as Toronto FC general manager: Report
Don Garber right , commissioner of Major League Soccer, greets outgoing TFC CEO Kevin Payne in an executive box as Toronto FC take on Chicago Fire's in MLS action in Toronto on Wednesday September 11, 2013. The club has scheduled a major announcement concerning its future for Friday morning.
Writedown looms for BlackBerry as BB10 smartphones sit unsold
Attendants at the launch of a new Blackberry phone in Toronto, Jan. 30 2013.
Agriculture insiders see bumper crop on Prairies
Harvest is well under way across the Prairies and while farmers often say that they don’t count the crop until it’s all in the bin, there’s already talk of a record year.
The values charter and the unintended temptation
Quebec Minister for International Relations and Montreal, Jean-Francois Lisee, speaks to reporters at a news conference about the government's proposed Charter of Values Tuesday, September 17, 2013 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
The trend to two-tier math teaching
Brydon Pires works math exercises at Kumon in Mississauga.
UFC champ Jon Jones talks faith, sponsors and beating Gustafsson
Light-heavyweight champion Jon (Bones) Jones (left) squares off with Swedish challenger Alexander (The Mauler) Gustafsson in Toronto on Thursday, Sept.19, 2013 at a news conference ahead of UFC 165 on Saturday.
Forget 50-50. Try a 60-40 ratio of work to life
Harvey Schachter
Australia offers lessons for pro-consumer policies
Office workers walk through the green-lit foyer of an office building in Melbourne in this file photo.
Business writing tips to get results
When you’re writing a business letter, think of your audience and your goal.
I’m semi-retired but my boss wants me back full-time
Eileen Dooley
Three top stock picks from BMO Nesbitt Burns’ Stuart Hinshelwood
How marketers are getting the last laugh
More than 38 million people watched the Pepsi MAX prank on YouTube that had NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon surprise a car salesman by taking him on a hair-raising test drive.
Offensive phrases on bottle caps prompt Coca-Cola to cancel Canadian promotion
A printed bottle cap is shown in a handout photo from Blake Loates.
OSC proposes settlement to civil case against Peter Atkinson
Peter Atkinson, former Hollinger corporate lawyer, leaves the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago after making a brief appearance in U.S. Federal Court June 28, 2007.
Ontario picks panel to improve First Nations presence on juries
Alvin Fiddler, deputy grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, will be co-chair of an Ontario panel to improve First Nations representation on the province’s juries.
Blue Jays' slugger Encarnacion undergoes successful wrist surgery
Toronto Blue Jays DH Edwin Encarnacion looks on at the plate while playing against the Baltimore Orioles during sixth inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Encarnacion underwent wrist surgery on Thursday and will miss the final two weeks of the regular season.The all-star slugger will have cartilage damage repaired in his left wrist.
Canada’s first new refinery in decades breaks ground
North West Upgrading Inc. chairman Ian MacGregor speaks at a news conference announcing a partnership between his company, the Alberta government and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. in a file photo. Groundbreaking on the partnership’s oil sands bitumen upgrader outside Edmonton is scheduled for Friday.
B.C. cheese maker offers tearful apology for fatal E. coli poisoning
Gort’s Gouda old (No. 5) was a category winner in the 4th Canadian Cheese Grand Prix in 2004.
Bruce Heyman is Obama's pick for U.S. ambassador to Canada
President Barack Obama speaks in Washington on Sept. 16, 2013.
Experience the interactive: How Canada survived the financial crisis
Quebec’s secular charter will create cultural ‘ghettos,’ top Catholic bishop warns PQ
Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, shown Feb. 14, 2013.
Supreme Court to hear Grassy Narrows’ challenge over logging
Hundreds of natives, many who travelled all the way from Grassy Narrows, Ont., and many other support groups marched through Toronto's downtown to Queen’s Park on Apr. 7, 2010 to protest 40 years of mercury poisoning in their water. Some who are suffering from mercury poisoning were pushed along in wheelchairs. The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a challenge of the Ontario government’s right to permit industrial logging on the traditional lands of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, which native leaders say will exacerbate mercury contamination.
Calgary’s Jan Lisiecki named young artist of the year
Jan Lisiecki made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2012 and was nominated for a Juno Award earlier this year.
Ontario considering new safeguards for medical tests after Trillium review
Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews, shown Feb. 11, 2013.
The close: Stocks weak as investors digest Fed news
A trader works on the New York Stock Exchange floor
The Salinger moment: Book, documentary – now a feature film
Author J.D. Salinger, who died in 1951, with copies of his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Parents turning to private tutors to help with math deficit
Eleven-year-old Timur Begaliyev, who is enrolled in Kumon, no longer shies away from complex math problems.
My friend is a giant film snob. How do I get her to shut up?
David Eddie
How Italy saved the western with A Fistful of Dollars
Geoff Pevere
Is holding hands OK? How same-sex couples navigate public displays of affection
A new study will probe what the gay PDA does for LGBT couples and how it impacts others.
Talking points: Health bribes, ‘extra’ suicides and the toll of bullying
A traditional fire dragon dance is performed in Hong Kong’s Tai Hang district on the eve of the annual mid-autumn festival.
The problem with depicting the life of Nelson Mandela on film
British actor Idris Elba was the surprising choice for the heroic title role in the $35-million biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which premiered at TIFF.
The school dress code debate: How much skin is too much?
Evangelina Guerra, 10, picks a pair of uniform shorts inside an Old Navy clothing shop during a ChildSpree back-to-school shopping event in San Jose, Aug. 3, 2013.
How a single typo on a letter made me a lawbreaker
Why the literary season is a mixture of pleasure and dread
Russell Smith
The growing case against bed rest for high-risk pregnancies
Melissa Boisvenue with her seven-month-old daughter Gracie at home September 17, 2013 in Ottawa.
Oilers sign forward Nugent-Hopkins to seven-year contract extension
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Should I worry about buying a house with a flat roof?
Canada gives $5-million for West Bank amid rapprochement with Palestinians
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, left, arrives at a news conference with his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad al-Malki, in Ottawa on Sept. 19, 2013.
Dear Osgoode law snack hater: 6 things you should know about eating in public
Three stocks that will benefit the most from an upswing in Alberta natural gas prices
It’s like going to wine country, but at your local LCBO
Beppi Crosariol
James Moore hopeful BlackBerry ‘able to make it on their own’
Michael Babad
Wholesale sales rise 1.5 per cent in July, offsetting June drop
Workers at the Parkhurst Knitwear factory in Toronto, one the last domestic knitting mills in Canada.
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in case of Globe sourcing
Short-track speed skater Francois-Louis Tremblay retiring
Canada's Francois-Louis Tremblay of Alma, Que.  skates in the 1000 metre qualifying session at the World Cup short track speed skating championships in Vancouver, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008
‘I failed my son’: Jeffrey Baldwin’s dad breaks down at inquest
Richard Baldwin, father of Jeffrey Baldwin, leaves an inquest into his son's death in Toronto, Wednesday, Sept.18, 2013.
Historic records lost in Grand Forks city hall fire, officials fear
A Google Street View image of city hall in Grand Forks, B.C., taken in October 2012.
Growing pains as Germany shifts to wind and solar power
German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to shut all of Germany’s nuclear plants by 2022 and shift almost entirely to wind and solar power by 2050. But the plan to shift completely to renewable energy sources has run into problems.
In pictures: Victims of Ottawa bus crash
Head of N.B. Energy Institute resigns over false credentials
Dr. Louis LaPierre, chair of the newly created NB Institute for Energy, poses for a photo at the Fox Creek Golf Course in Dieppe, NB on Wednesday August 28, 2013. Mr. LaPierre resigned on Sept. 19 over revelations that he misrepresented his credentials.
6 free things to do in Albuquerque (that won't get you arrested)
Aaron Paulm left, stars as Jesse Pinkman in AMC’s Breaking Bad, along with Bryan Cranston as Walter White.
Police lied, covered up killings in South African mine massacre, inquiry finds
Striking mineworkers attend a ‘report back’ meeting near Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa's North West Province, Sept. 6, 2012. If South Africa’s gold miners strike over wages next week, the loss of output will drag down companies already being crushed between rising costs and falling prices for the metal.
'There is only one Ontario,' Wynne says as province resolves to not limit religious symbols
Ontario MPP Monte Kwinter is pictured in 2007. Mr. Kwinter will put forth a motion Thursday promising that Ontario will never restrict people from publicly expressing their religious beliefs.
Flaherty deserves credit for new securities regulator
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty speaks following the signing of an agreement on securities regulation, Thursday September 19, 2013 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The indicator that should foreshadow gold's next move
Gold bars are pictured at the Ginza Tanaka store in Tokyo in this file photo.
Ottawa football club to change racially charged name
Gold (U.S. dollar) vs 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected note yield (per cent)
Matter adjourned for teens charged in Rehtaeh Parsons case
Rehtaeh Parsons is shown in a handout photo from the Facebook tribute page "Angel Rehtaeh."
France's Julien Quesne wins Italian Open by one
Julien Quesne
B.C.'s Hinterland recruits blockbuster talent for the most Canadian game ever
“I’m Canadian, most of the team is Canadian, we’re in Canada and the setting is definitely inspired by the Pacific Northwest, the island where we live,” says Hinterland founder Raphael Van Lierop
Two Canadians arrested in Russian Arctic amid Greenpeace protests
A Russian Coast Guard vessel fires a warning shot as Greenpeace International activists protest near a Gazprom oil platform in the Pechora Sea September 18, 2013. Greenpeace said on Wednesday two of its activists scaled the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in Arctic waters in a fresh protest over the potential threat to the environment from operations slated to start by the end of the year.
BlackBerry writedown will have zero effect on its acquisition
Research in Motion (RIM) President and Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins introduces a new RIM Blackberry 10 device during the launch in New York, in this file photo taken January 30, 2013.
Why paying your kids to do homework deserves a big F
At midday: Markets flat after early gains
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, September 19, 2013.
Montreal man charged in alleged ‘granny scam’ phone call
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Ireland sees the light at the end of recession
Eric Reguly
Quebec, Newfoundland face pension ‘challenge’: Moody’s
Michael Babad
In Pictures: Opera Atelier's rediscovery of forgotten operatic works
Here, Peggy Kriha Dye and Olivier Laquerre appear in Opera Atelier's 2009 production of The Coronation of Poppea, a 17th-century Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. Early on, Mr. Pynkoski and Ms. Zingg discovered that there was a trove of classical music and notated dance that was little known or completely forgotten. “Some of it was lost after the French Revolution. The idea that there is this whole repertoire, virtually untouched, fascinated us, ” Mr. Pynkoski says. Why not find it and perform it?
‘Tapering victims’ poised for a run of success
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Why Ontario’s financial books could be closed before an election
Premier Kathleen Wynne stands with Ontario's Transport Minister Glenn Murray at a news conference on Sept. 18, 2013. All signs point to Ontario’s financial records not being reviewed before a spring election.
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