Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable
Politics: The morning buzz

Liberals awake to new nadir

Amid faltering polls and Facebook rants, Liberal fortunes will only go up if Michael Ignatieff can conjure a convincing picture of Canada under his leadership

Niall Ferguson
'There will be blood'- Part 2

What Niall Ferguson thinks now

In February, the Harvard professor famously spoke of an impending global disaster. Has the market rally caused him to change his grim prophecy?

Decoding the decade

What's the most important international story of the past decade?

Margaret MacMillan picks the most momentous events and issues of the decade. Help us by nominating yours

Life: Live Better

How to avoid holiday panic

Our weekly guide to your life: We break down what needs to be done, and when, for every week until Christmas

Retail sales top expectations

Spending rises 1% in September, marking seventh gain in nine months, on higher car, supermarket sales

Toddler dies after plunging from balcony at Pearson

Boy was with his family on the airport's Terminal 1 departure level

Agriculture

Solving hunger with super-rice

Three billion people depend on rice. But it's being ravaged by a serious salt problem in the world's soil. A Canadian researcher hopes to find a solution with his breed of super grains that resist salt

21 Filipinos killed on way to file election papers

Bodies found after dozens of gunmen hijacked convoy of politicians, supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections

Two decades on, child poverty persists with no solution in sight

Why is it that nearly 10 per cent of Canadian kids live below the poverty line, even as parliament pledged to end child poverty?

While jailed in Tehran, Canadian journalist considered suicide

Maziar Bahari spent nearly four months in Evin prison, where he lost 25 pounds and says he was hit, kicked and whipped

Tories to introduce child-porn bill

Proposed legislation is said to require Internet service providers to report suspicious sites and activity

Mistletoe kiss OK despite flu threat, expert says

Britain's authority on etiquette says it's more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands

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Today's Highlights

Rob's Garage
Your car is on the fritz -- just ask Walter Matthau

Rob MacGregor helps a reader whose car has a terminal case of Black Death

Rob MacGregor
Video: The Next Big Thing
Going mobile, going strong

The car detailing business eliminates need for an office

''We run everything out of our mobile cleaning unit using the Internet hooked up to a cellphone and a laptop,' Andy Oakes says.

Today's Market

Markets Change Value
S&P/TSX Composite 149.58 11,728.91
Dow Jones Industrials 148.81 10,466.97
S&P 500 18.48 1,109.86
NASDAQ Composite 37.24 2,183.28

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Decoding the decade: Underrated films

Our readers' top list. Which film from our list of finalists do you think is the decades most underrated film?