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'

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

Putting together 'our nation's photo album'

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

The popularity of Red Friday rallies such as this one, held in Toronto in 2006, reflects Canadians' growing support of their army, navy and air force.
Focus

Canada's military: Invisible no more

Why our national mythology has moved beyond the idea of peacekeeping and embraced the culture of the warrior

Interactive map

H1N1 cases across Canada

A big-picture look at hospitalizations and deaths by province/territory

Workers use heavy machinery in the tailings pond at the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near Fort McMurray.

Canadians chagrined over status as climate-change dawdlers

Poll finds three quarters are embarrassed that country hasn't taken international lead on cutting greenhouse gases

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

New N.S. bishop named to replace Lahey

Sault Ste Marie bishop to take over Antigonish diocese as Raymond Lahey faces child pornography charges

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

Disaster assistance promised for Vancouver Island floods

Comox and Cowichan valleys face state of emergency and evacuations after high tides, heavy rains

Transport Canada not updating pilot-fatigue rules, union charges

Regulations for flight and duty times aren't consistent with new standards of UN civil aviation agency, association says

Wheat board shared farmers' ‘personal data' with companies

Audit says grain marketing agency gave out sensitive information - including social insurance numbers - too freely

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Adam Radwanski
The gloves are off in Ontario, but only Tories are swinging

Province's Liberals are finding politics a different game now that they've got Tim Hudak to contend with

Adam Radwanski
Marcus Gee
Women too soft to run for mayor? Them's fightin' words

Let's elect more women to civic office; but let's do it regardless of their sex, not because of it

Jeffrey Simpson
And the Conservative spin machine spins on …

This week it turned its attention to diplomat Richard Colvin

Jeffrey Simpson
Margaret Wente
Have you done your 10,000 hours?

Malcolm Gladwell thinks diligence beats talent. Steven Pinker begs to differ

Margaret Wente
Lawrence Martin
Our conservative redefinition

The celebrated advent of Barack Obama makes Canada's trend line look all the more remarkable

Rick Salutin
Our own little Abu Ghraib?

It's one more proof, a uniquely Canadian one, that the war on terror has become the chief incubator of terror

Rick Salutin

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On the one-year countdown to the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the 2010 Olympic Torch, designed and manufactured by Bombardier, and the torchbearer uniform, designed by the Hudson's Bay Company, were unveiled to the world. The first two torchbearers, named by Coca-Cola and RBC, respectively, are Patricia Moreno of Vancouver and Caleb Taylor of Regina.
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German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber waits for the start of the Mulroney-Schreiber hearing in Ottawa on Tuesday , March 31, 2009. The inquiry is investigating the business relationship between former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Schreiber.
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