Young man smoking black hat cowboy
Portfolio Strategy

The ETF bad boys

Exchange-traded funds are the hot investment these days. But the bandwagon effect has also led to the creation of unsuitable ones

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and his wife Janine Krieber arrive for their campaign flight in Ottawa on Sunday, September 14, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Ottawa Notebook

Dion's wife goes rogue?

Facebook posting openly questions Michael Ignatieff's leadership, his decision to shun the coalition and the party's reliance on 'Toronto elites'

The National Trust's Ancient Tree Adviser Brian Muelaner, pictured at Lanhydrock Bodmin, Cornwall.
World: Elizabeth Renzetti

Seeing the forest for its trees

Brian Muelaner may hail from the Canadian Prairies, but he's at home cataloguing Britain's ancient trees

Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March.
National: Portraiture

'Our nation's photo album'

Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is hiding from

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, centre, speaks to the press with Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa after the Senate, torn along party lines, voted to formally launch debate on historic legislation to enact President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care.

Historic U.S. health-care bill set for Senate debate

Legislation makes it to Senate floor, over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Obama.

Big clean begins in wake of B.C. floods

An evacuation order has been lifted for hundreds of south Vancouver Island residents forced from their homes by flooding, but not everyone will be sleeping in their own beds right away

Wait times all over the map as H1N1 vaccine rolled out in Ontario

Some Toronto clinics report no lineups, others broadcast wait times of two hours

Researcher's labour of love leads to breakthrough in treating MS

New way of thinking about debilitating disease has yielded stunning new treatments – but MS societies urge sufferers to be cautious before experimenting

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