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Prime Minister Stephen Harper wipes his brow while speaking to a business audience in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.
Ottawa Notebook

Tories tar long-gun success by 'swinging too hard' on torture

Though the Liberals are tied in knots on the registry, Stephen Harper's mentor is unimpressed with Tories freelancing while the PM is away Nov 20, 2009 7:18PM EST

Bikramjit Singh Sandhar says that to be an effective leader he has to unify the temple's members, including the 7,000 people who didn't vote for him.
Focus

Young – and emphatically orthodox

Robert Matas speaks to the charismatic new leader of the controversial but influential Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Nov 20, 2009 8:57PM EST

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 Nov 20, 2009 7:06PM EST

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H1N1 cases across Canada

A big-picture look at hospitalizations and deaths by province/territory Nov 14, 2009 11:14AM EST

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 Nov 20, 2009 10:41PM EST

Disaster assistance promised for Vancouver Island floods

Comox and Cowichan valleys face state of emergency and evacuations after high tides, heavy rains Nov 20, 2009 10:11PM EST

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 Nov 20, 2009 9:01PM EST

Many detainees were just farmers, Afghan official says

Torture controversy becomes swirling affair as senior government officials scramble to explain themselves Nov 20, 2009 9:44PM EST

A flickering last stand for a red-light landmark

Montreal's Café Cléopâtre is fighting to keep the bad old ways alive 12:29 AM EST

Sponsorship player gets two years in prison

Former adman Gilles-André Gosselin, who billed taxpayers $655,276 in fake invoices, pleaded guilty to fraud Nov 20, 2009 7:32PM EST

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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
A reign of terror, a trail of OPP inaction

Pretrial testimony read in court suggests police largely stood by despite continuing harassment of Ontario family

Christie Blatchford
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
Why the dog of a nuclear deal with India didn't bark

Great photo ops, but substantively, the PM's Indian trip was a bust

Jeffrey Simpson
Margaret Wente
Does cancer screening do harm?

Over-diagnosis has plenty of side effects – needless surgery and trauma, emotional anguish, wasted money and resources

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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A tug boat passes slowly underneath the Lion's Gate bridge in Vancouver as a shroud of fog envelopes Stanley Park during the early morning hours in downtown Vancouver, December 22, 2008.
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The Olympics

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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.
The Inquiry
Mulroney-Schreiber

It's a long-running saga and it's not over yet. What you need to know

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.
Canada's Slum
The Fix

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: A fresh perspective

Crack Cocaine addict Patricia Hurst uses a pipe to get high in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside January 29, 2009.
The Environment
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Climate change and how it affects the world around us

The wind farm at East Point, Prince Edward Island, on Saturday, March 10, 2007.