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July 11

Saskatchewan nurses reach deal with Canadian Blood Agency
Blue Jays come up big in ninth inning to top Tampa Bay Rays
Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Reyes, center, acknowledges teammate Steve Tolleson after his single scored Reyes and Dan Johnson in front of Tampa Bay Rays catcher Jose Molina during the ninth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 11, 2014, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Health Canada restricts use of antibiotics for growth in livestock
Cattle eat as a feed truck pours food into their trough on a feedlot near Airdrie, Alta., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005. In an effort to curb drug-resistant superbugs, Health Canada is restricting the use of antibiotics in livestock. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Last-minute Feoli-Gudina TD catch lifts unbeaten Bombers over Alouettes
Winnipeg Blue Bombers wide receiver Julian Feoli-Gudino flies over Montreal Alouettes defensive back Jamaan Webb during first quarter CFL football action Friday, July 11, 2014 in Montreal.
Crown downplays importance of gang leader’s testimony at B.C. murder trial
The "Surrey Six" murder trial continues in Vancouver, B.C.
Schmoozing and boozing: The big business of the Calgary Stampede
An inflatable cowboy looks out over visitors at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday, July 6, 2014.
MLA says he was ruled out as foster parent because of his sexual orientation
Spencer Chandra-Herbert (on the right) and Romi Chandra Herbert.
Court approves First Nation challenge of Trans Mountain pipeline review
The Fat Badger nails British pub feel
Scotch egg served at the The Fat Badger, a British gastro-pub in downtown Vancouver, B.C. on July 8, 2014.
B.C. calls for help battling wildfires; it's on the way from Ontario
Jazz bassist Charlie Haden, part of groundbreaking Ornette Coleman Quartet, dies at 76
This undated photo provided by Universal Music Group shows Charlie Haden, third from left, posing with the Haden Family band. Haden died Friday, July 11, 2014 in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 76. (AP Photo/Universal Music Group)
Lopsided rocket warfare rages on between Israel and Hamas
A man reacts after what police said was an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City on Friday. More than 100 have died in Gaza.
TDSB to appeal Central Tech field ruling
Central Tech’s sports field has been closed since soil was found to be contaminated last fall. In the interim, a battle over plans to allow a private company to build a dome is before the courts.
External body to review Halifax special-care home where resident died: minister
B.C. government, Fraser Valley First Nation sign new revenue-sharing deal
Canadian killed in Syria shown in new propaganda video
A man sits on a motorbike in front of a wall with a graffiti message at Mission Hospital in Bannu, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province July 11, 2014. The Afghan Taliban have urged Muslims to avoid extremism and remain united, a message apparently aimed at the Islamic State (ISIL), which recently declared an Islamic caliphate in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.
Drake facing potential of 'extremely awkward' meeting with WNBA star Skylar Diggins at ESPYs
Head of US agency Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp resigning; Gotbaum longest-serving PBGC head
Elizabeth Comper was a fighter against racism on several fronts
Tony and Elizabeth Comper launched a bold educational initiative: Fighting Antisemitism Together (FAST).
Solitary confinement for federal inmates often exceeds UN recommendations
Edward (Eddie) Snowshoe, back row, right, poses for a photo with his mother and three brothers.
Billionaire Elon Musk giving $1M to New York museum preserving legacy of inventor Nikola Tesla
Bobby Brown exits New Edition reunion tour to focus on health
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, singer Bobby Brown, arrives at the Soul Train Awards at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Brown is leaving a reunion tour with the group New Edition to focus on his health. A spokeswoman for the R&B group said on Friday, July 11, 2014 that group members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant wished the 45-year-old singer a speedy recovery. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Invision/AP, File)
False killer whale calf rescued near Tofino, B.C.
The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, with assistance from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and other agencies, rescued a young false killer whale from a beach near Tofino on Thursday afternoon.
Baird to press Egypt for help in cooling Mideast crisis
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he is reaching out to Egypt to persuade its government to get involved in resolving an escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Are drivers justified in their irritation? Maybe they should just think like cyclists
Elizabeth Renzetti
Queen’s University faces a king-sized noise-pollution problem
The Queen’s University football team plays at Richardson Stadium. A group of residents in Kingston who live next to Queen’s University are complaining about noise pollution.
No new money for doctors, new Ontario health minister says
Ontario minister of health Eric Hoskins is photographed in his offices in Toronto, Ontario
Deb Matthews brings cost-cutting savvy to rest of government
Adam Radwanski
Philadelphia judge revokes Meek Mill's parole, sends him to jail for probation violation
FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2013, file photo, Meek Mill performs at the BET Hip Hop Awards, in Atlanta. A judge has sent Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill to jail for three to six months for violating his probation on a 2009 drug and gun case. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Athletes mark 60th anniversary of the Miracle Mile at Harry Jerome meet
The best images from July 11
The Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, perform during The Royal International Air Tattoo at the RAF in Fairford.
Crown downplays importance of gang leader's testimony at B.C. murder trial
Tour de France fans have no selfie control
Spectators cheer as the pack of riders cycles on its way during the second 201 km stage of  the Tour de France cycling race from York to Sheffield, July 6, 2014.
Couple in their 60s want to downsize home, not lifestyle
Borrow to invest? Maybe just this once
Rob Carrick
The new storyline for Canada's big insurers: International operations
The head office of Manulife is located on Bloor Street East in Toronto.
The Globe's stars and dogs for the week: Potbelly leaves investors hungry
Kelly and Doyle on the World Cup final
FILE - The July 3, 2010 file photo shows Germany's Miroslav Klose celebrating after scoring during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Argentina and Germany at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
Bullish on Cenovus Energy
CanElson Drilling COO signals optimism
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How I learned to love uncertainty
Leah Eichler
Digging deep to fight cancer
Kate Armstrong walks in Toronto on Tuesday. Ms. Armstrong is helping raise $250,000 this year.
The week's best web reads: Beware of trendy high-dividend ETFs
Fans reduced to extras in FIFA’s lucrative reality show
Cathal Kelly
Fipke still looking for new diamond finds
Charles Fipke, left, and trainer Bob Baffert before the 2013 Kentucky Derby.
As David Cameron struggles, other British leaders fail to gain ground
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a September, 2013, photo, has been dogged by scandal, but Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been unable to capitalize according to public opinion polls.
Airshow plane lands on Yellowknife road after mechanical difficulties
BRICS nations rally around Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with new members of the Civic Chamber at the Kremlin in Moscow July 9, 2014
Dismal June jobs record points to continued low interest rates
The Canadian economy shed 9,400 jobs in June, pushing the unemployment rate up slightly to 7.1 per cent
Ga. judge grants 2-week trial delay for 3 charged in deadly salmonella outbreak from peanuts
Stampede hand, horses hurt during attempted theft of truck, horse trailer
Report: Chris Bosh agrees to max deal with Heat
Miami Heat's Chris Bosh reacts during play against the San Antonio Spurs in the second quarter of Game 5 of their NBA Finals series in San Antonio, Texas, June 16, 2013.
Privacy, the internet and the impossibility of “the right to be forgotten”
A man walks through a tunnel of Google homepage logos. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Toronto Bosnians to fill coffee cups to mark Srebrenica genocide
Participants pour coffee in Istanbul to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on July 11, 2012.
Doyle: An almost magnificent World Cup. Almost.
John Doyle
The early birds: 5 bands that flew under the radar at NXNE
Alvvays play at the Mod Club in downtown Toronto during North by Northeast in June.
US gov't sets duties on steel pipe imports from Korea, 8 others; Favours US producers, unions
Two legal challenges filed over federal approval of Northern Gateway
The view looking down the Douglas Channel from Kitimat, B.C. Tuesday, June, 17, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
US rig count increased by 1 in latest week to 1,875
Three top picks from Horizons' Don Vialoux
Don Vialoux.
Ahmed found guilty on two terror charges, acquitted on explosives count
Former Ottawa hospital technician Misbahuddin Ahmed was found guilty Friday of two terrorism-related charges.
Canadian insurers see opportunity in looser India investment rules
Indians throng a street of a wholesale market on World Population Day in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 11, 2014.
Three more manslaughter convictions in B.C. beating death linked to Hells Angels
Three hot makeup looks for the summer – and how you can get them
‘Squishy-soft’ Canada left out of U.S. jobs party
Ian McGugan
Business Highlights
Ten stock picks for a value investor’s portfolio
Using a combined-ratio technique to find good value in a bull market, six stocks pass the test this week, with four runners up.
Hockey, family and takin’ care of business
Keith Pelley, president of Rogers Media
How Han Dong painted Trinity-Spadina Liberal red
Trinity-Spadina MPP Han Dong left, Trinity-Spadina MP Adam Vaughan, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP Marie-France Lalonde and MP John McCallum at a rally at Vaughan’s campaign office. Vaughan credits Dong’s win in the provincial election for helping him win the recent by-election.
Marketing sponsorships relying on blind faith
Canadian winter Olympians (left to right) Charles Hamelin, Chris Del Bosco, Kaillie Humphries, Meaghan Mikkelson, Erik Guay, Jon Montgomery and Maelle Ricker pose for a photo at an event announcing the sponsorship of the team by Adidas in Toronto on Tuesday June 25, 2013.
Why knowing a stock’s total return is so important
John Heinzl
Behind the facade of Canadian housing
Teacher shot in the neighbourhood where he wanted to help end violence
The casket holding the remains of slain Toronto teacher and graduate student Abshir Hassan is carried out of a mosque after his funeral in Toronto on Friday.
Engineer finds his stocks on fringes of market
Michael Bumstead
Bus carrying Chinese tourists crashes in national park in Wyoming; 8 remain hospitalized
This Thursday, July 10, 2014 photo provided by the Grand Teton National Park shows a bus that flipped on its side in Grand Teton National Park. Officials say about two dozen people were taken to a hospital after a bus flipped on its side. Authorities say no other vehicles were involved. It wasn't clear who owned the bus or whether it was on a tour. (AP Photo/Michael Nash, Grand Teton National Park)
Oral history goes digital as Google helps map ancestral lands
UVic anthropologist and key indigenous leader with Google Earth Outreach, Dr. Brian Thom, speaks with Stz'uminus First Nation elder Ray Harris about how they can map their territories using Google Earth.
Whitecaps sign midfielder Teibert to multi-year contract extension
Ottawa to consider local exemptions to overhaul of foreign-worker program
Employment Minister Jason Kenney speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, June 20, 2014 on reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is seen in background.
Cheap at sea, pricey on the plate: The voodoo of lobster economics
Amid an unprecendent glut, Larry the doomed lobster is followed from a Nova Scotia trap to a Toronto table.
Most actively traded companies on the TSX, TSX Venture Exchange
Biden says national politics too corrosive, calls on governors to lead nation 'out of mess'
Women's clothing retailers face tough year, more bankruptcies: analysts
NEB to rule on relief-well alternatives for Arctic drilling projects
This aerial image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013.
The big Canadian tech hope that wasn’t – yet
Peter Allen, CEO of DragonWave in Ottawa May 7, 2010.
The close: Stocks edge up, loonie tanks
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange June 26, 2014.
Calendar: What investors need to know for the week ahead
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After death of Palestinian teen, Israel left to deal with new national threat
Palestinians carry the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir in Jerusalem on Friday, July 4, 2014. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands of people converged on a cemetery for the burial of an Arab teenager, who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a suspected revenge attack.
Rob Ford says he’s not homophobic, he has ‘spendaphobia’
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford took the unusual step of wearing his chain of office, usually reserved for formal occasions such as Remembrance Day, to two events on Friday.
Biden says national politics too corrosive, calls on governors to lead nation 'out of mess'
FILE - In this June 26, 2014, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Biden is scheduled to address the National Governors Association conference in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, July 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
Hometown of ailing ex-NHLer Odjick to rename local arena after him
Former NHL player Gino Odjick pauses to look at the hundreds of fans that gathered to support him outside Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday June 29, 2014. The Quebec hometown of ailing former NHLer Gino Odjick is planning to rename the local arena after him. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
LeBron move to Cleveland makes the Cavs a betting favourite in Las Vegas
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
Vancouver Whitecaps learning how to grind out wins ahead of Chivas USA matchup
North Dakota saltwater pipeline spill renews call for more monitoring; effort failed last year
US appeals decision to grant new trial for ex-BP engineer convicted of obstructing justice
July 12: This week’s Talking Point – co-operating on Northern Gateway – plus letters to the editor
Protesters in Vancouver march at a rally to oppose Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline.
No details on how Ottawa will spend anti-prostitution funding
Justice Minister Peter MacKay arrives at a Commons justice committee meeting on Monday July 7, 2014. Mr. MacKay says his prostitution bill complies with the Charter.
Appeals court backs EPA's mining restraints, rules against industry in mountaintop coal mining
Man accused of posing as airline employee to fraudulently book free travel
Why the iconic strip club Jilly’s is closing for good
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