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Australia rallies to beat Canada's men's volleyball team in World League play
Blue Jays rally from 8-run deficit to beat Reds
Toronto Blue Jays' Edwin Encarnacion is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a three-run home run off Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Mat Latos in the third inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 20, 2014, in Cincinnati.
Ardron already turning heads as Canada’s men’s rugby captain
Canada’s Tyler Ardron, right, has already won sevens gold at the 2011 Pan American Games.
Brazilians are euphoric, and they want to win
FILE- In this June 17, 2014, file photo, the Brazil national soccer team sings their national anthem before the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil. Brazilian players have started to enter the field with their hands on each other’s shoulders. Brazil's team captain Thiago Silva asked the fans to embrace side-by-side while singing, just as the players have been doing. Most of the fans did that in Tuesday’s match against Mexico in Fortaleza.
B.C. to honour Geroy Simon's No. 81; Lions top Stamps in pre-season action
Backroom strategies and scrambles in the Ontario election
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledges supporters in Toronto on June 12.
The Canadian connection to King Richard III
Michael Ibsen, a furniture maker in Archway, North London who is a descendant of King Richard III whose body may have been found under a car park in Leicester.
Polls suggests Canadians appear less interested in building relations with East
Tourists from China check out the totem poles in Vancouver's Stanley Park on Thursday.
Toronto doctor gives $10-million for First Nations health care
Two teenagers walk along a dusty road on the Kahkewistahaw First Nation reserve in rural Saskatchewan Sep 6, 2013.
Woman dreams of winning lottery before cashing in nearly $7 million ticket
Alberta decries changes to foreign worker program
Employment Minister Jason Kenney, left, and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander in a reflection at a news conference in Ottawa Friday on reforms to the temporary foreign workers program.
Reforms to foreign worker program are welcome, but why the long wait?
Campbell Clark
Few answers for First Nations displaced in Alberta floods
Marty and Kim Woods visit their home on the Siksika Nation in Alberta earlier this month.
Supporters quietly prep for Mayor Ford’s return
Louise Boehler, campaign administrator for the east side of the city, is seen at Rob Ford's campaign office in Scarborough on May 28. She spends her days checking for voice messages, setting volunteers up with flyers and bumper stickers and then sending them out to canvass the city streets.
Alberta floods: A year later, and finally moving on
Ronda Kalman looks through the window of her flood-damaged former home earlier this month.
A week of thrilling matches in a country that wasn’t ready
Soccer fans react during the World Cup 2014 soccer match between Brazil and Mexico while watching the game in a street in Manaus June 17, 2014.
Tahir ul Qadri: In Pakistan, he wants revolution. In Canada, Tim Hortons
Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, centre, heads to Lahore on June 23 following this week’s fatal raid in Punjab.
Nelson Mandela a target of intrigue in final years, says book
Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel in 1998.
The investment moves of a retiring business owner
Brian Auty
Can Iris, 68, retire and still hang on to her house?
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Searching Vancouver for Cuban sandwiches
The Havana Restaurant in Vancouver doesn’t make a Cuban, but it serves the next best thing – a medianoche (typically consumed after a night of dancing).
Milk pickups resume at B.C. dairy farm; industry announces changes over video
Many visitors to Canada will pay $7 fee beginning next year under security plan
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander speaks during an event in Ottawa on Friday June 20, 2014.
Raonic, Bouchard have chance to take centre stage
Canadian tennis stars Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard
Kalydeco: A ‘miracle drug,’ with a catch
Kelsa Hague, 21,  spends up to three hours a day treating her disease.
The paradox of Quebec Inc.: Eager to buy but not to sell
Quebec was disappointed with the recent sale of gold producer Osisko Mining to Yamana Gold Inc. and Agnico Eagle.
Kelly: Baffling performance has us asking what Italy’s trying to do
Cathal Kelly
Car Free Day in Vancouver is anything but
Traffic moves along West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver June 4, 2008.
Best pictures from June 20th
A boy walks towards the ocean on the 10th annual International Surfing Day in Hermosa Beach, California June 20, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
From bushel to bread: Waiting for the wheat
Farmer Jay Schultz checks his wheat crop for moisture and disease.
Obama’s message to Iraq unclear
An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen gunman stands in front of a portrait of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, at the front line village of Taza Khormato, in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday June 20, 2014.
Toronto’s ever-intense third baseman evolves
Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie throws out Chicago White Sox Tyler Greene (not seen) during the eighth inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto April 17, 2013.
City of Calgary avoids repeat, but effects of floods still felt
Calgary, with the Bow River, are seen on June 4, almost a year after the city was badly flooded.
Treliving not the only new GM looking to make mark
Eric Duhatschek
Unhappy with bonds, retirees? Add an annuity to your fixed-income mix
Rob Carrick
Dr. Oz is just the latest salesman seeking gold in our flabby waistlines
Elizabeth Renzetti
Proxy battle looms at American Apparel
Dov Charney, at his Los Angeles headquarters in 2001, declined to comment yesterday on the possible boardroom fight over the future of American Apparel, the hip t-shirt purveyor he founded.
Forget Fire: Amazon is far more powerful
David Milstead
The art of making learning fun with drama, music and visual arts
Fort McMurray Learning through the Arts program leader Sarah Neiman, left, plays a game with grade six student Steven Fuchiara during programming in Fort McMurray, Alberta on Monday, June 16, 2014. The program integrates the arts into curriculum and has boosted math and literacy scores of First Nations kids above the provincial average.
I Remember: Dick Grimm
Under Dick Grimm, seen here with Greg Norman, the Canadian Tour, now PGA Tour Canada, developed a reputation as a first-rate developmental tour.
Iraq a minor bump on the road to an inevitable oil price surge
Eric Reguly
Infographic: BlackBerry's changing financials
Canadian journalist jailed in Egypt to learn his fate Monday
In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 file photo, from left, Mohammed Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian acting bureau chief of Al-Jazeera, Australian correspondent Peter Greste, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed appear in a defendant's cage along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges at a courtroom in Cairo. Egypts state news agency says the trial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists and 17 others has adjourned until next week when the judge will deliver the verdict, five months after the trial opened. Fahmy, Greste and Baher have been in detention since December 29.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi recalls memories of Alberta floods
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi with his Hell or High Water Calgary Stampede T-shirt and Smithbuilt Hat in Calgary, Alberta, July 3, 2013.
Giant in the golf world, Richard Grimm volunteered widely
Through the Canadian Tour, Richard (Dick) Grimm provided an atmosphere and crucible in which players could test themselves and find out whether they had what it took to advance.
Infographic: Weather patterns and trading profits
Toronto youths take advantage of sustained cold temperatures during the winter of 2014/15 to play a little pond hockey on Lake Ontario.
The vast, untapped market of pet insurance
Bam Bam relaxes at the pet-friendly office of Pets Plus Us in Oakville, Ont., this week. Just 3 per cent of the estimated 14 million cats and dogs in Canada are covered by insurance.
Friends meet for lunch to help Ottawa’s homeless
Chris Henderson, left, and Geoff Carter are part of a circle of friends who raise money for charities that help homeless people.
Learning the language of Silicon Valley
Leah Eichler
Three top stock picks from Agilith Capital’s Patrick Horan
Oil sands oil should cross the ocean, but from where exactly?
The waters of the Douglas Channel near Kitimat, BC April 8, 2014. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)
The Globe's stars and dogs for the week: American Apparel's stock is in fashion
Ottawa's blanket approach to temporary worker reductions a concern:Alberta
Giving homeless people with mental illness a place to live works:study
Stocks that capitalize on themes: expensive and worth it
David Berman
Voices of WorldPride: LGBT activists in their own words
Indonesia's King Oey, Iceland's Johanna Sigurdardottir and Uganda's Richard Lusimbo.
Scotiabank strikes again in Latin America, buys credit card business
Pedestrians pass by the Scotiabank location near Yonge and Bloor Streets in Toronto.
Infographic: As China goes, so goes copper
Stronger than expected economic data from China, specifically new orders for manufactured goods, suggest a tradable rally in copper miners may be on the horizon.
How the missing Israeli teenagers stoke feelings of tribal vengeance
They say soccer is an emotional game, redux: faces of the World Cup
Argentina's national soccer player Ezequiel Lavezzi heads the ball during a training session at Ciudad do Galo grounds in Vespasiano, outside Belo Horizonte, June 20, 2014. Argentina will face Iran in their 2104 World Cup Group F second match next June 21.
More Canadian executives see need to adapt to changing world
Senior business manager discussing work with his colleagues.
B.C.’s minimum happy-hour beverage pricing rules, at a glance
A tasting flight of beer, that includes from right to left Life, Sunshine, Naturtrb and Merckxserved with the house charcuterie board, at 33 Acres Brewing Co.mpany in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
China is still purchasing Canadian oil assets – just smaller ones
Pumpjack at horizontal Cardium well
French immersion: How a road trip helped me reconnect with my daughter
A Paris cafe on Avenue de l'Opera.
Sweet! A look at the summer’s hottest fashion accessories
Phillip Lim sunglasses, $350, Rebecca Minkoff bag, $345 at Holt Renfrew (www.holtrenfrew.com). Venessa Arizaga necklace, $395 through www.venessaarizaga.com. Theory dress, $415 at Hudson’s Bay (www.thebay.com).
Groupon snaps up Canadian coupon app
How Canadian researchers have gained greater insight into human nature
Mohammed Uddin is a postdoctoral researcher at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.
Why teachers across Canada are so angry
Striking teachers rally in Vancouver this week, angered by such comments as ‘it’s all about money – it’s never about the quality of education’ from their Premier.
Hong Kong’s democracy movement is testing Beijing’s resolve
A mock tank, covered with photocopies of a controversial white paper released by Beijing on Hong Kong’s future, is displayed by local artists to symbolize China’s threat to the city’s autonomy.
Four dividend dates every investor needs to know
John Heinzl
Love, anger and pride: How Ann-Marie MacDonald learned to let go of the past
Ann-Marie MacDonald (smiling in the centre of the picture, wearing a red top) at a Pride Day parade in Toronto in the late 1980s.
Why isn't the city taking a hard look at Toronto's school board?
Marcus Gee
Woman dead, man in hospital following suspected murder, attempted suicide: RCMP
World Cup daily briefing: June 21
Germany's Philipp Lahm, left, and Thomas Mueller applaud after the group G World Cup soccer match between Germany and Portugal at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Monday, June 16, 2014. Germany won the match 4-0.
CEO buys as Surge Energy surges to new 52-week highs
Bullish on Occidental Petroleum
Occidental Petroleum building in Los Angeles
Moncton shootings make a close-knit community even closer
Several hundred people attend a vigil at the Codiac RCMP Detachment in Moncton on June 6, 2014.
Bitcoin believers say digital money is gaining currency
‘It’s the technology behind bitcoin that’s amazing, not the bitcoin itself,’ says Anthony Di Iorio, founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada.
Moncton Mounties returning to duty in wake of shootings
RCMP Supt. Marlene Snowman, shown at a press conference June 6, said several officers from the Codiac detachment had been relieved of duty for mental-health reasons
Rectify offers a different take on the male lead
Aden Young’s portrayal of Daniel is compelling, sympathetic and complex.
A honey of a bear: Calgary Zoo's white black bear gets name to match her colour
Why gold's rise is getting ahead of inflation
Ian McGugan
Hay Fever: When everyone is acting, is anything real?
Tyrone Savage and Cynthia Dale star in Hay Fever, the 1924 Noel Coward comedy that in the hands of Alisa Palmer comes off as hollow, whether intentional or not.
New B.C. liquor laws bring happy hour to British Columbia
Sneaky fee claims like this illustrate what securities regulators are up against
In photos: This is what bringing your pets to work looks like
An employee works away while her dog Honey Dew adds to the nose streaks on the window.
Q&A: Passenger is setting hearts on fire
Michael Rosenberg, a.k.a. Passenger, was a busker for several years before finally hitting it big. Passenger registered a massive hit in 2012 with the single Let Her Go, which was a chart-topper in several countries. His latest album, Whispers, was released earlier this month.
Max Hall among players released by Blue Bombers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers' quarterback Max Hall (15) gestures to the bench after completing a pass against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during the first half of their CFL game in Winnipeg Friday, August 16, 2013.
Peters says pieces in place to make Hurricanes contenders
Carolina Hurricanes new coach Bill Peters smiles as he speaks to the media after he was introduced during an NHL hocke news conference, Friday, June 20, 2014, at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C.
Toronto mayoral race: Chow pledges 200 km of bike lanes
Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow gets set to take part in the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s 27th Annual Becel Heart&Stroke Ride for Heart in Toronto on June 1, 2014.
In subdued mining sector, Osisko’s royalty company shines
Osisko’s Canadian Malartic mine.
Mormon church sues leader of B.C. polygamous sect for trademark infringement
Five things to do in Toronto: June 20 to 22
Whitney Rose.
Author Christopher Moore on his new book, his favourite sentences and more
Jenny Slate and Obvious Child bring change to comedy
Jenny Slate plays a stand-up comedian in the new film Obvious Child.
A year after the floods, the show finally goes on in Calgary
Back to Calgary one year later: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, above right, with Charles-André Coderre of Jerusalem In My Heart.
Birding with Yeats: A mom’s memoir about life with her prodigious and obsessive birder son
Lynn Thomson traded up frozen arenas for sodden marshlands, lung-shredding screams of encouragement for hours of monastic silence.
Rival using e-mail lists stolen from mayor’s office, Doug Ford says
Councillor Doug Ford promises two or more FordFests this summer.
Fontaine: First Nations attitudes shifting on resource development, industry
Recalls this week include personal emergency systems, chargers, glider rocking chairs
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows a Linear Personal Emergency Reporting System (PERS) Transmitter. The transmitters are being recalled because the batteries used in the transmitters can fail to emit a low battery warning leading the user to believe the transmitter is functioning and not generate a warning. (AP Photo/U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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