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Five things all Canadian cities should stop ignoring
Responding to the challenges faced by Canadian cities will require two things too often in short supply: political will and a willingness to innovate.
Loonie closes lower as Fed shows no intent for early rate rise
Canadian dollar coins, or Loonies, are displayed on a map of North America on Jan. 9, 2014, in Montreal.
Obama denounces beheading of U.S. journalist; no mention of further action against Islamic State militants
Islamic State insurgents who control territory in Iraq and Syria released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago.
Veteran NBA ref Dick Bavetta retires after 39-year career
FILE - In this May 24, 2008, file photo, NBA referee Dick Bavetta makes a point during the second quarter of Game 3 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals between the Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons in Auburn Hills, Mich. Bavetta is retiring after a 39-year career in which he never missed an assignment.
Brian Hoyer named Browns starter over Johnny Manziel
Cleveland Browns quarterback Brian Hoyer (6) gestures to his receivers during a passing drill with Johnny Manziel (2) at a mandatory minicamp practice at the NFL football team's facility in Berea, Ohio Wednesday, June 11, 2014.
Loonie lower, greenback strengthens: Fed minutes show growing debate about rates
'I'm just going to go for it' - Andrew Rannells replaces Neil Patrick Harris in 'Hedwig'
FILE - This June 12, 2011 file photo shows actor Andrew Rannells at the 65th annual Tony Awards in New York. Starting Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, Rannells, the Tony Award-nominated star of "The Book of Mormon” on Broadway and HBO's "Girls," replaces Neil Patrick Harris in the title role of the show "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
Iconic Massachusetts cutlery maker, nation's oldest after 177 years, files for bankruptcy
Argentina plans to pay bondholders locally to end default triggered by US debt dispute
FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez speaks at Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernandez announced on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 that she will send a bill to Congress that would set up a system to pay bondholders in Argentina instead of channeling them through the Bank of New York. The change is intended as a way around a U.S. court order that blocked Argentina from making interest payments on July 30, triggering the country's second default in 13 years. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)
Napoli signs Canadian-born Dutch midfielder Jonathan De Guzman
Swansea City's Jonathan de Guzman celebrates
Dramatic rescues as Phoenix drenched by ‘devastating’ rain
A man stands in the window of a flooded house in New River, Ariz., north of Phoenix, on Aug. 19, 2014. The area was flooded after several inches of rain pummelled the state.
Same questions, different answers as Blue Jays slump continues
Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Colby Rasmus can't make a catch against the Milwaukee Brewers
RBC’s asset management group hires head of international business
Exterior of the Royal Bank Plaza towers at the corner of Bay St. and Wellington St. West in Toronto on April 17, 2014.
TSX up as Fed minutes indicate no rush to hike rates, dissension on job growth
Social media struggles with images of journalists' slaying; Twitter suspends some accounts
FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of Foley by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
How Target strayed deep into the red in Canada
This file photo shows a shopping cart outside a Target store in Riverview, Fla.
Canadian sues Silvercorp over ‘false imprisonment’ in China
Canadian citizen Huang Kun, seen here in May, was jailed in China for two years for criminal defamation. Now released, Mr. Huang is suing Vancouver’s Silvercorp Metals over its alleged role in his imprisonment.
Target Corp. regrets opening so many stores so quickly in Canada: exec
FILE - This Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 file photo shows a shopping cart outside a Target store in Riverview, Fla. Target Corp. reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
Carrick on money: Nineteen things you must do before having kids
A U.S. estimate puts the number at $250,000 (U.S.) for raising a child to age 18, up 2 per cent from last year.
Is your previous success holding you back?
Superhero kid
Once wagered in Super Bowl, B.C. First Nations mask makes trip back to Bella Coola
Officials from the Seattle Art Museum will bring the Nuxalk forehead mask back to Bella Coola
Egypt promises more electricity starting next week and an end of rolling blackouts in 4 months
Sears Canada widens Q2 loss to $21.3 million, same store sales drop 6.8 per cent
Commuters walk past a Sears store in Toronto on Thursday April 25, 2013. Sears Canada Inc. reported a net loss of $21.3 million, or 21 cents per share, in the second quarter, compared to a profit of $152.8 million, or $1.50, in the same period last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Back-to-school gear: Top technology for higher learning
Weighing just 439 grams, the Z2 comes with a high definition10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 Triluminos IPS display
Liquor monopoly keeping money from Ontario's coffers, study says
An LCBO outlet is shown in Toronto. A report from the C.D. Howe Institute recommends that Ontario allow wine and beer sales in grocery and convenience stores, permit beer to be sold by other retail outlets and grant licences for off-winery stores to wineries and to new wine retailers.
Lowe's 2nd-quarter profit climbs on improving weather; trims full-year revenue outlook
FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2011 file photo, a Lowe's employee walks down an aisle in the store in Saugus, Mass. Lowe's reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Glencore swings to 8 per cent profit gain in first half, announces $1 billion buyback
Jennifer Aniston, Jon Hamm, Rob Lowe, Jennifer Hudson set to Stand Up to Cancer on Sept. 5
Singer Jennifer Hudson performs on NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
111-year-old Japanese retired educator who enjoys poetry recognized as the world’s oldest man
Sakari Momoi, a 111-year-old Japanese retired educator, poses for a photo after receiving a certificate from a Guinness World Records official, left, in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014.
Hockey gold medallists back on top of 'Amazing Race Canada' after France trip
Olympic gold medallists Meaghan Mikkelson (right) and Natalie Spooner won their fifth leg of "The Amazing Race Canada," on Tuesday in a somber episode that ventured to Normandy, France. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
Ukraine’s dying rebel capital seeks normal life against the soundscape of war
Local residents stand in line to get benefit payments outside the rebel headquarters in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014.
Bank of England board divided for the first time since 2011 on whether to raise interest rates
Six ways to fend off your biggest competitors
Your biggest competitor is not likely the traditional foe in your sector, but from e-commerce enabled global companies, competition for shrinking discretionary spending, technological substitution from new entrants, and existing players that are aggressively deploying technology to provide innovative low-cost and high-service solutions
Hedge fund managers who trade more outperform: Study
Global cruise lines set sail for China in pursuit of booming leisure market
In this Wednesday, June 4, 2014 photo, Chinese tourists play mini golf on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Mariner of the Seas during her voyage from Shanghai, China, to Jeju, South Korea. Cruise operators have traditionally sent older vessels to developing countries while saving their most advanced ships for U.S. and European customers. But surging growth in China means it’s a market operators can no longer ignore. The race for China underscores the growing strength of the leisure and travel industries in the world’s No. 2 economy as authorities try to spur domestic spending rather than trade and investment as an engine of growth. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
In Pictures: Concussion sensors hit a bump on the playing field
Impakt Protective Inc. employee Stewart Eady at the company’s shop in Kanata, Ont.
Concussion sensor gets a cool reception from sports helmet firms
Instead of being embraced by sports helmet makers, a concussion sensor developed by Danny Crossman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Impakt Protective Inc., is being shunned. How can Impakt Protective overcome liability issues and make contact sports safer for kids?
Latest jobs report a bad sign for Quebec's budget hopes
Clément Gignac
Tesla has great potential - but faces great challenges ahead
Tesla Store
Survey show 80% of renters under 50 desire home ownership
For sale signs sit on the lawns of two houses in the Kitsilano neighbourhood in Vancouver.
Global stocks drift as Asia gains slightly, Europe weaker amid wait for US Fed signals
Uncertainty in Russia, Eastern Europe causes beer sales drop for Carlsberg
BACK TO SCHOOL: In post-Katrina school landscape, hope, resentment as charters take over
Heineken reports sales and profit drop slightly in first half 2014; sees underlying strength
At least 36 dead, 7 missing in landslides in Hiroshima
Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) soldiers search for survivors as a site where a landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, August 20, 2014.
Can Quebec learn from Scotland’s McReferendum?
Can Quebec learn from Scotland’s McReferendum?
My Canadian oath: Whatever
Gerry Flahive
The North Pole is a distraction
Michael Byers
Aug. 20: Obama out of time – and more letters to the editor
President Barack Obama speaks about the situations in Iraq and in Ferguson, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Edgartown, Mass., his second statement to the media during the Obama family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Toronto police board hopes to name new chief in January
Toronto's Police Chief Bill Blair (centre right) is applauded by committee members at the Toronto Police Services Board meeting at Police Headquarters on Thursday August 14, 2014.
Bloomberg Philanthropies offers $45 million in grants to help cities become more innovative
NYC's Metropolitan Opera reaches deal with stagehands, expects to avert lockout
FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2014, file photo, pedestrians walk in front of the Metropolitan Opera house at New York's Lincoln Center. New York's Metropolitan Opera has reached tentative labor deals with two of its largest unions while negotiations continue with 10 more unions in hopes of averting a lockout, the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service announced early Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Missouri governor says he will not seek removal of prosecutor investigating police shooting
Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri August 19, 2014.
Macy's to pay $650,000 to resolve New York profiling allegations, attorney general says
US safety agency lets consumers check for recall repairs via the Internet
Ontario could make more money, see lower prices by ending booze monopoly: study
Loss to Brewers a sign Jays need bats to heat up
Milwaukee Brewers' Jonathan Lucroy slides safely past Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, center, during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in Milwaukee.
Woman, 57, dies after riding lawnmower flips into creek at Milton, Ont., farm
August 20: Your daily horoscope
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