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December 18

Taking stock of Vancouver’s housing market turns into a numbers game
The average monthly rent (plus utilities) in Vancouver is $1,054 which is about $200 higher than the national average.
Manitoba schools sign historic pact to advance indigenous education
The University of Winnipeg recently became the first university in Canada to require all students to take an indigenous course in order to graduate.
Carolina Panthers prove doubters wrong, become Super Bowl favourites
Midway through last season when the Panthers were 3-8-1 some were calling quarterback Cam Newton a bust. After 17 straight regular-season wins, he could be named MVP.
‘Grinch-onomics’ at work as Alberta hikes tax on out-of-province craft beer
A customer walks through the craft beer section at the Liquor Depot in Edmonton, Alta., on April 14, 2015. The Alberta government recently introduced a 525-per-cent tax hike on out-of-province craft beer.
Energy, climate issues give hope for thaw in B.C.-Alberta relations
An artistic rendering of Pacific NorthWest’s proposed LNG export terminal on Lelu Island. B.C. has been working to secure allies in its bid to launch an LNG industry – one that could present opportunities for Alberta businesses and workers.
The Globe’s new home ‘a sign of faith in the future’
Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley stands beside a concrete pillar after writing his name and a few words on the pillar at a topping off ceremony at the new office.
Neighbours surprised ‘Frenchie’ accused of killing teenager
Raymond Cormier, accused of killing Tina Fontaine in 2014, lived in this Manitoba Housing apartment for about six months.
The meaning of the season: Reach out to those with a blue Christmas ahead
Marsha Lederman
Businessman Massey Whiteknife on transitioning into ‘two-spirited’ artist Iceis Rain
Beginning in January, Ms. Rain will take the helm of ICEIS Safety from her other identity Mr. Massey Whiteknife, company founder and philanthropist. The transition will be documented for a reality show under development called Queen of the Oil Sands.
Tim Leiweke: The travelling salesman who left his mark on Toronto
Tim Leiweke, an elemental, irresistible force, is the former president and CEO of MLSE. He had nothing but friends, until he arrived in Toronto.
Canada appoints its first transgender judge
Kael McKenzie, at the Law Courts in Winnipeg Manitoba, is the first openly-transgender judge in Canada.
What’s the best strategy for this 66-year-old to join his wife in retirement?
At 66, Vinnie is planning to hang up his hat come Jan. 1 and join his wife, Violet, 69, in retirement. He will be leaving behind earnings of $130,000 a year.
B.C.’s Turpel-Lafond deserves credit for role as children’s watchdog
Gary Mason
What market experts were predicting for 2015 – and how they went terribly wrong
A pump jack brings oil to the surface in the Monterey Shale, Calif., on April 29, 2013.
Syrians are only the latest refugees welcomed to the Ottawa Valley
Roy MacGregor
‘Skill, skill, skill’ has become Hockey Canada’s new golden mantra
Canadian players watch as the Russian flag is raised after losing 2-1 to Russia in the Bronze Medal game at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in Malmo, Sweden on Jan. 5, 2014. Another disappointing defeat at the world junior championship in 2014 hung over Hockey Canada, as management knew it messed up by leaving skilled players like Max Domi and Darnell Nurse off the team.
Audio: Stephen Quinn reads his Christmas poem
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
How Trudeau has tied his own hands on electoral reform
Adam Radwanski
Six epicurean gifts for the foodie on your list
Get in line for Beaucoup Bakery & Café’s decadent holiday cookie gift boxes.
Man sentenced to less than a year for role in B.C. ‘Surrey Six’ gang murders
RCMP officers search the property surrounding an apartment building where six people died in a mulitple homicide in Surrey, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007.
Gil Cardinal: Canadian documentarian found his identity in film
Canadian filmmaker Gilbert Joseph Cardinal died in Edmonton on Nov. 21 of cirrhosis.
Valeant's prescription: Pearson plots a comeback, but will it work?
The headquarters of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., seen in Laval, Que., on Nov. 9 2015.
Growth of average wholesale prices, compounded
Valeant bond comparison
Somalis share lessons with refugees on transitioning to Canadian life
Mahad Yusuf, executive director at the Somali Immigrant Aid Organization, wants to help incoming refugees while also helping his community rebuild their reputation.
Nutcracker and Cinderella: What to do in T.O. this weekend
Contemporary touches and comic bits have been added to the Tony-winning revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella.
Syrian refugees are arriving: Where will they work?
Leah Eichler
Physician-assisted suicide a necessarily imperfect right
A view of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a section of the Criminal Code that makes it illegal to aid or abet someone in committing suicide.
The Globe and Mail's annual, printable (and huge) holiday crossword
Amanda Alvaro helps fund art education programs around the world
ArtBound co-founder Amanda Alvaro.
S&P downgrades Alberta’s credit, citing oil slump and growing debt
Standard and Poor’s Ltd. has downgraded Alberta’s credit rating on concerns of weak budgetary performances and rising debt burden.
CEO, CFO acquiring at New Flyer Industries
Breakout on Extendicare
Devora Greenspon stands for a photo outside her nursing home Extendicare Bayview in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.
Why this investor sleeps better now
Alan Whitton
Paris climate talks were a noble failure
Eric Reguly
Manitoba First Nations group to buy railway, port from OmniTrax
Port of Churchill
Chart Watch: Bullish forces could re-assert control very soon
Raccoon rabies problem persists as new case found in Ontario
Six raccoons have tested postive for rabies in Hamilton, Ont.
Obama facing an uphill battle for 2016
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference in the briefing room at the White House in Washington on Dec. 18.
Eye on Shorts: What bearish investors are betting against
These two major currencies are having even worse years than the loonie
An Aug. 24 photo shows a currencies board in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
John Doyle: Top 10 TV shows from 2015
In AMC’s series Better Call Saul, Jimmy/Saul, played by Bob Odenkirk, is stymied in a key ambition to reinvent himself.
The best of Toronto, Stratford and Shaw theatre in 2015
Gray Powell as Vito and Steven Sutcliffe as Pill perform in The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.
The Globe Arts team’s favourite culture moments of 2015
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road
Document: Order for external investigation of Victoria police chief
The top five dance events of 2015
Betroffenheit, a piece by Electric Company Theatre and Kidd Pivot, is a staggering externalization of loss, trauma and addiction.
Victoria police chief on leave as new probes initiated after inappropriate messages
Victoria police chief Frank Elsner was found to have sent inappropriate online messages to another officer’s wife.
History of junk bond meltdowns points to trouble
In this Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, file photo, specialist Charles Solomon works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Jean Vanier’s comfort and joy: ‘Find the places of hope’
Jean Vanier is shown in his living room in Trosly, France.
True test of Canadian citizenship is in how we welcome Syria’s refugees
The 7 Fingers' Traces turns circus aesthetic on its head
The performers of The 7 Fingers troupe take everyday scenarios to surprising levels of excitement.
South Sudan, Burundi crises test Trudeau’s peacekeeping pledge
Suspected fighters are paraded before the media by Burundian police near a recovered cache of weapons after clashes in Bujumbura on Dec. 12.
Public Editor: Why The Globe has to be shown the errors of its way
Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead, 2015. Credit unknown.
Review: New YA fiction from Kate Blair, Martine Leavitt and others
Review: New comics from Alison McCreesh, Shigeru Mizuki and Carol Tyler
Review: Will Ferguson returns to Africa in Road Trip Rwanda
Will Ferguson’s latest book documents a three-week excursion to Rwanda undertaken by the writer and his friend.
Review: Terry Fallis’s Poles Apart is a pleasurable novel
Author Terry Fallis
Review: Tim Cook’s Fight to the Finish and J.L. Granatstein’s The Best Little Army in the World
Canadian troops patrol along the destroyed Rue Saint-Pierre after German forces were dislodged from Caen, France, in July, 1944. Author and historian J.L. Granatstein writes that Canadian soldiers didn’t become ‘the best little army in the world’ overnight.
Christian Bök: ‘I have written this book in the hope that I might frighten both my allies and my rivals’
Jacob Securities to shut down
A Bay Street sign, the main street in the financial district is seen in Toronto, January 28, 2013.
Review: Roger Angell’s This Old Man is a wide-ranging collection of essays
This undated photo provided by The New Yorker shows writer Roger Angell, who won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.
Playing Santa demands honesty
Truth and reconciliation: Will this time be any different?
William A. Macdonald
Vista Outdoor pulling back from a 52-week high
Hunting equipment inside SAIL in Ottawa. Vista Outdoors sells a wide range of outdoor equipment, from hunting supplies to golf rangefinders.
From being a hospital Santa to delivering a roadside baby, six remarkable tales of holiday healing
Without accountability, how will the RCMP ever expunge racism?
Meghan Rhoad is a women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and the author of Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada. Mavis Erickson is the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council women’s advocate and a lawyer in private practice.
Review: Robert Service sets himself an immense task in The End of the Cold War
End of the Cold War by Robert Service
Canadian pension plans saw declines this year, face rocky road in 2016
A new report says Canadian pension plans saw funding declines this year and face a rough road in 2016.
Suspect in downtown stabbing dressed for success but was broke and homeless
Rohinie Bisesar appears in court in front of Justice W. Agnew in Toronto on Dec.16 in this artist's sketch.
This week's most oversold TSX stocks
A Rogers Communications Inc. office tower is seen in downtown Montreal, March 6, 2009.
Three top stock picks from GlobeInvest’s Christine Poole
What it’s like … to provide health care near the North Pole
What it’s like … to be a hospital Santa
What it’s like … to comfort a stranger in the depths of grief
What it’s like...to assist a roadside birth
Lynn Scurfield for The Globe and Mail
Indian IT: From outsourced computer services to global business partners
Many Indian information and communications technologies companies have moved from providing services to partnering with corporations abroad.
Montreal’s identity as a city of light seesaws between innovation and branding
Robert Everett-Green
Provinces about to get their annual cheque from Ottawa
Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
Scotiabank eyes options for stake in Thai bank
Scotiabank sign outside Bank of Nova Scotia building at King St. West and Bay St. in downtown Toronto.
Police seek cheetah spotted along southeast B.C. highway
Creston RCMP released this photo of an adult cheetah that was spotted along Highway 3a Thursday afternoon in the Crawford Bay and Kootenay Bay areas of British Columbia.
Friday's small-cap stocks to watch
Eric Boyko, president and CEO of Stingray Digital poses in Montreal, June 4, 2015.
Inside the annual finance ministers’ meeting
Before the Bell: Stocks at risk of losing gains for the week
Jennifer Dowty
A most violent year: changes for domestic abuse victims follow killings
Lethbridge East MLA Maria Fitzpatrick, who has been vocal about being a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, poses for a photo in Lethbridge, Alberta, on Sunday, November 29, 2015.
When should I replace the timing belt?
A dealership garage may be expensive but is your best bet to solve many issues.
BlackBerry's focus on software starting to pay off: CEO
A reporter uses a BlackBerry device to photograph Blackberry CEO John Chen as he speaks to reporters following their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, Canada in this June 23, 2015, file photo.
Get a loonie for Christmas? Return it. (And other gifts you don’t want)
Does welcome to Canada have a limit?
Gary Mason
Lives Lived: Aniela Tabak, 104
Aniela Tabak
Heeding the lessons of the first Christmas story
Lorna Dueck
Carrick best reads: How life is better when you’re debt-free
Rookie MP Bardish Chagger faces innovation and taxation challenges in small-business portfolio
Minister of Small Business and Tourism, Bardish Chagger, tours small businesses in Toronto which were started with the assistance of Futurpreneur on December 14, 2015. JENNIFER ROBERTS FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Five years after the Arab Spring, a world of economic discontent
Tunisians take part in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor, which sparked the revolution that ousted a dictator and ignited the Arab Spring.
Dec. 18: Your daily horoscope
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip drives a hopeless, empty message
The confusion and calamity mount during Theodore, Alvin, and Simon’s ‘road chip,’ as the chipmunks travel from Los Angeles to Miami to attempt to stop their dad from proposing to his girlfriend.
Extraction: Bruce Willis can’t save this senseless CIA-based rescue mission
Gina Carano, left, and Kellan Lutz star as agents in Extraction, both warm and responsive as Ping-Pong paddles, batting lines back and forth lifelessly.
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