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Hot housing in Vancouver rippling across the rest of B.C.
Crystal Lopez and her husband, Ryan, walk with their daughters Ciera, 2, and Ava, 5, in the backyard of the house they rent in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Thursday. The Lopezes are moving to South Surrey because housing prices are just too high in Tsawwassen.
Blue Jays’ Sanchez pounded by Oakland
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Aaron Sanchez (41) throws against the Oakland Athletics in the second inning at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 22, 2016.
Flyers beat Capitals 2-0, force Game 6
Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth (30) makes a save on Washington Capitals centre Jay Beagle (83) in the third period in game five of the first round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Verizon Center on April 22, 2016. The Flyers won 2-0, and the Capitals lead the series 3-2.
Complaint filed against Canada Post for east Toronto tabloid delivery
Ontario police break up ‘domestic dispute’ between man and pet parrot
OPP say the parrot did not appear to be hurt in any way. No charges were laid.
Tories likely to keep policy banning cash payments for memberships
Some have suggested the no-cash rule could adversely affect a prospective leadership candidate such as Jason Kenney, who would rely heavily on support from immigrant groups.
Toronto FC-Montreal Impact rivalry trash talk gets ready to walk the walk
Dominic Oduro #7 of the Montreal Impact kicks the ball near Kemar Lawrence #92 of the New York Red Bulls during the MLS game at the Olympic Stadium on March 12, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Impact defeated the New York Red Bulls 3-0.
With its star back Canadian men’s volleyball team focuses on Rio
Gavin Schmitt, who is a dominant force for Canada, is coming back from surgery on his left shin that forced him to miss the regional Olympic qualifications where Canada fell just short.
As new polio vaccine rolls out, world moves closer to complete eradication
A young girl is given the bivalent polio vaccine at a medical clinic in Maiduguri, the largest city of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria.
Edmonton's murder rate matches record high
Edmonton police say the economic downturn has likely played a role.
The Leap Manifesto is a path to jobs and justice
The time for a just transition beyond fossil fuels is now: Alberta holds incredible untapped potential for renewables, the best in Canada.
With oil slump hitting Alberta’s housing market, some see opportunity
It’s okay to throw hats on the ice but leave the rats, Gary Bettman says
In this Friday, April 15, 2016, crews round up rats thrown on the ice by fans after Florida Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov scored an empty-net goal during the third period of Game 2 in a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the New York Islanders in Sunrise, Fla. The Panthers defeated the Islanders 3-1.
Unions and families call for asbestos ban in Canada
Michelle Cote speaks about her father, Clem Cote who was diagnosed with mesothelioma, during a news conference April 22, 2016 in Ottawa.
Alberta Energy Regulator to study risks of aging energy facilities
Pump jacks sit abandoned an hour south of Calgary and have not paid out in over three years after the producing company has since gone under.
AFN Chief to urge Pope to rectify church’s role in residential schools
More than 50 Catholic orders that ran many of Canada’s residential schools were allowed to walk away from their commitment to compensate First Nations communities for the damage the schools caused, but some say they have a ‘moral obligation’ to reconcile.
Mysterious 'Windsor Hum' haunts residents as questions left unanswered
Although a federal government study has placed the source of the sound on the U.S. side of the Detroit River, much, still, remains unknown.
Elimination games have become a specialty for the New York Rangers
New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist (30) looks back at the puck in the net after giving up a goal during the first period in game four of the first round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Madison Square Garden.
Kelly: Chris Colabello was an anomaly until he tested positive for a PED
Cathal Kelly
A day in the life of Big Tancook Elementary School
Kelly: Toronto slowly shedding its culture of losing in sports
Cathal Kelly
Vancouver’s stance on pot is enough to make you dazed and confused
A man sports a painted face as he smokes marijuana as thousands of people gather at 4/20 celebrations on April 20, 2016 at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, Canada.
Duffy should be repaid lost wages after acquittal, lawyer argues
Senator Mike Duffy, followed by his lawyer Donald Bayne, arrives at the courthouse in Ottawa, Ont. for his first court appearance on April 7, 2015.
Leicester coach finally embraces Premier League title-contender status
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri.
Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta enters rarefied territory
Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta throws the last pitch of a no-hitter during the bottom of the ninth inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park. The Cubs won 16-0.
Ontario restaurant manager found guilty of discriminating against customer
The complainant, who has OCD and germaphobia, was awarded $12,000 by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal after a Baton Rouge manager refused to serve him.
Calgary cafés bet on board games boom
Friends socialize over drinks and appetizers at the Boxcar Cafe, a newly opened board game cafe in downtown Calgary.
Why currency could have a bigger impact on your TSX stocks than you think
A TSX tote board is pictured in Toronto.
Maumi Ozaki keeps the fish coming, so long as you dine by his rules
Customers arrive at Sushi Bar Maumi in Vancouver.
Red Wings should part with Pavel Datsyuk and start anew
Eric Duhatschek
Nova Scotia island’s one-room school a giant community asset
Claudia Cross, 10, plays during recess at Big Tancook Island Elementary School on Big Tancook Island, N.S. on April 21, 2016. Claudia, who is in Grade 5, is one of two students who attend the isolated school.
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
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Photos of the Week for April 17 to April 22
A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016.
A moderate normal for Alberta is not necessarily a bad thing
Gary Mason
How would a career change for her affect this couple’s retirement?
Bank of Canada interest rate may become victim of its own success
A Canadian dollar is pictured in January, 2015.
This teacher switched from dividends to capital gains
Larry Cuozzo
Master jeweller Walter Schluep created wearable works of art
Jeweller Walter Schluep (right) with Quebecois filmmaker Claude Jutra.
Freeport mulls selling minority stake in copper mine portfolio
A general view of a giant mine run by U.S. firm Freeport-McMoran Cooper & Gold Inc., at the Grassberg mining operation, in Indonesia's Papua province is seen in this July 22, 2005 file photograph.
Too much math and not enough exercise is hurting our children
Friday, June 19, 2009 - Calgary, Alberta -10-year-old, Kateri Okiley, runs along using the WiiFit during her 4th grade Gym class at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy on Friday, June 19, 2009. A Calgary researcher is testing whether a new generation of "exergames" can impact child and youth fitness. The classes are 34 mins in length and have three stations: XR Board, Dance Dance Revolution and the WiiFit. Photo by Chris Bolin for The Globe and Mail
Former WestJet employee charged with fraud, theft in $250,000 travel credit scam
A Westjet Boeing 737-700 takes off at the International Airport in Calgary, Alberta, May 3, 2011.
Tiny startups are making the banking behemoths nervous
Naima Khan, left, a third-year computer engineering student at the University of Waterloo, at TD Labs, an innovation team located within Kitchener-Waterloo's Communitech hub.
‘Do you feel me?’ An encounter with Prince
Prince performs at the19th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in March in New York.
'Dance artist. Guitar hero. Pop-music legend.': Brendan Canning on Prince
Stray bullet from targeted shooting injures seven-year-old Oshawa boy
S&P/TSX 60 interlisted stocks: Find out which country is driving the price
A Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) logo is seen in Toronto in this file photo.
Toronto developer Urbancorp hopes restructuring will ease financial woes
An Urbancorp development on Abell Street in Toronto.
Multiple insiders buying at IBI Group
Toronto's Victoria Park transit station, renovated by IBI Group.
Bullish on SNC-Lavalin
SNC Lavalin offices in downtown Montreal, Quebec.
Coroner’s inquest into Andrew Loku shooting won’t fix policing problems
Holding a photo of Andrew Loku, Cecil Peter speaks out against carding during a public consultation on street checks hosted by Yasir Naqvi, the provincial Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Loku was shot by Toronto police and died from his injuries.
TransCanada to produce Energy East environmental impact study: Quebec
TransCanada officials announce the Energy East Pipeline during a news conference in Calgary, Alta., in this Aug. 1, 2013, file photo.
Rights tribunal awards B.C. cop and marijuana advocate $20,000 for hurt dignity
Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, with Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps (not shown), provide an update on issues related to the Chief Constable Frank Elsner, during a press conference at the Victoria Police Department, in Victoria, B.C., on Dec. 11, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
When Ms. Straughan became Mr. Straughan: How a transgender teacher learned to be himself
Key Straughan, helping Aiyanna, 5, colour pictures, with a student at Queen Mary School, on March 23 2016. This year marked the first year Keyâs students referred to him as âMr.âù Key. Key helping Aiyanna, 5, colouring pictures. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
How did that ‘sell everything’ strategy work out?
When markets were having a mini-meltdown a few months ago, several banks advised investors to sell many, or all, of their equities.
In e-commerce battle, grocery stores perfect ‘click and collect’
Loblaw hired 10 to 12 employees for picking-and-packing in each of its 48 click-and-collect stores. It expects that higher sales will eventually help offset steeper labour costs, he said.
Conflict-management skills now in high demand in the workplace
Nobody will go to jail for Canada’s biggest stock scandal
Globe and Mail reporter Barrie McKenna.
Yvon Charbonneau, ex-labour leader and former Liberal MP, dead at 75
Yvon Charbonneau had two different stints at the helm of the Centrale de l’enseignement du Quebec, the province’s main teachers’ union.
Stephen Curry says he’ll be surprised if he doesn’t play Game 4
Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry, center, and coach Steve Kerr smile during a timeout during the first half in Game 2 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Houston Rockets Monday, April 18, 2016, in Oakland, Calif.
Could the private sector ease Toronto’s transit woes?
Toronto mayor John Tory attends a press conference outside Joyce Public School on Jan 19 2015, where he announced an upcoming TTC fare hike.
Craig Trenholm helps give Children’s Aid Foundation a fundraising 'facelift'
Signing the Paris Agreement doesn’t mean emissions will go down
Eric Reguly
Closing arguments begin in trial of Alberta couple charged in son’s death
David Stephan and his wife, Collet Stephan, arrive at court on March 10, 2016 in Lethbridge, Alta.
Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood is experiencing a restaurant revival
Nicki Laborie, whose Mediterranean cocktail bar on Cumberland Street opens next month.
Review: Lydia Perovic's All That Sang tells an erotically charged story of obsessive love
United Steelworkers union scraps efforts for U.S. tariff on aluminum
A cargo ship sits docked at Rio Tinto’s aluminum smelter in Kitimat, B.C. The company has welcomed the repeal of the petition.
Chris Colabello denies wrongdoing after testing positive for a PED
Toronto Blue Jays infielder Chris Colabello has been suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball.
The close: TSX finishes flat despite rise in oil prices
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on April 22.
This tattoo-café is the latest hybrid to join Toronto’s crowded coffee culture
Twin sisters Jen, left, and Sara Wetmore own and run the Jinks Art Factory, Toronto’s only café/tattoo shop hybrid. Unique spins on the classic coffee shop are becoming more common as business owners attempt to find a way to stand out in the city’s oversaturated market.
Business oddities: $25-million for a diamond? Shirley you must be kidding
This file photo taken on April 15, 2016 shows a woman walking past a poster advertising a diamond ring owned by child star turned diplomat Shirley Temple Black outside the Sotheby's in New York.
Musician Rufus Wainwright releases collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets
Rufus Wainwright Photo credit to Matthew Welch
Photographer’s edgy work displayed in Vitas Luckus: The Prince of Obscurity
He is perhaps Lithuania’s greatest photographer, but the late Vitas Luckus is mostly unknown outside that Baltic nation.
Head of retail brokerage CIBC Wood Gundy to retire
The large sign outside the CIBC head office at King St. West and Bay St. in Toronto as pictured on April 17 2014.
Ian Kyer: The man who wants to save Antonio Salieri
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Dancer Santee Smith offers a new way to consider indigenous women’s issues
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre's production of Re-Quickening is choreographer Santee Smith’s attempt to reframe the idea of ‘truths’ related to women, reconciliation and healing.
100 years later, Yeats’s Easter 1916 still stirs debate about its meaning
William Butler Yeats, pictured from around 1920, penned one one of the most famous lines in modern poetry – one that, to this day, stirs debate about what he really meant.
Public Editor: Inconsistent style can be confusing to readers
Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead.
Mental-health assessment ordered for woman accused in PATH stabbing
Rohinie Bisesar faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with a fatal 2015 stabbing.
Kate Taylor: Kids will suffer if Canada’s copyright legislation doesn’t change
Kate Taylor
Calendar: What investors need to know for the week ahead
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The United Nations fumbles on global drug policy
Duffy trial: A conviction on all counts for the Senate
A Modernist gem falls victim to Vancouver's housing market
Architect Fred Lasserre, the head of UBC’s architecture department at the time, designed the Modernist house in 1953.
Canine companions help opera top dog Luca Pisaroni handle the pressure
Luca Pisaroni with his dogs Tristan, a dachshund, and Lenny, a golden retriever.
Fatal police-involved shooting sparks investigation in Granisle, B.C.
OSC bans 'Chinese Warren Buffett' from trading, working in financial sector
Weizhen Tang, convicted of defrauding investors of $20-million, talks to reporters while on a lunch break during a sentencing hearing in Toronto, Jan. 9, 2013.
Mount Royal one-bedroom had the space buyers were looking for
Done Deal, 804 18th Ave. SW, unit 205, Calgary, Alta.
Australian composer Tim Minchin makes Matilda the Musical sing
Tim Minchin wrote the musical based on British writer Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name.
Canada’s multiculturalism: A circle, ever edging outwards
John Ralston Saul writes that Canada’s multicultural identity is, at its best, a balance between the place, the group and the individual.
Film of Stratford Festival’s 2015 Hamlet production has no raison d’être
The Stratford Festival’s 2015 production of Hamlet, now appearing on film, lacks a clear purpose.
The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: The breakout
Danny’s back: Manitoba’s Stoney Mountain penitentiary tattooed atop the Indian Posse logo and a traditional figure.
Finland’s fighting inequality with education, and winning. What’s their secret?
The week I finally caved and went to the doctor
Tabatha Southey
Ontario must clamp down on high-billing doctors, health minister says
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins says more than 500 Ontario doctors billed the province over $1-million last year.
Blazers’ CJ McCollum wins NBA’s Most Improved Player
Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum has been named the NBA’s Most Improved Player.
Review: Michael Wex’s Rhapsody in Schmaltz and Roger Horowitz’s Kosher USA ask us to reconsider Jewish cuisine
Potato latkes served with sour cream and applesauce.
Review: Kerry Lee Powell’s Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush and Laura Trunkey’s Double Dutch deliver the unexpected
New collections by Kerry Lee Powell, shown, and Laura Trunkey show that short fiction is still alive and strong in the land of Alice Munro.
Review: New fiction from Lydia Perovic, Jacob Wren and Fraser Nixon
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