Decoding the decade: The future so far

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

We asked Margaret MacMillan to pick her most momentous events and issues of the decade. Help us by nominating yours

Herbert Kronzucker is a researcher at the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus who is leading a team of researchers who are trying to help solve the problem of world hunger by developing a type of rice that can thrive in salt water.

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

Reader nominee: Rick Hillier

Globe readers heap praise on Canada's former top military commander

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

Quebec Premier Jean Charest is introduced to an international relations group Monday, November 23, 2009 in Montreal before his speech about his upcoming trip to the environmental summit in Copenhagen.

Quebec vows ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions

Charest unveils target to reduce emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels, which would make the province a North American leader

Immigrants overqualified, earn less

A new study finds a bleak jobs picture for new Canadians, though the picture improves for those who have been here longer

Accused in terror plot ‘man of integrity,' brother says

Parliament Hill journalist whose brother is accused of involvement in an international terrorist plot speaks out, says brother is an honest man facing false charges

Charges won't go ahead against four in Creba case: report

CTV says a pre-trial ruling has forced the Crown to re-examine its case against four men charged in the fatal 2005 Boxing Day shooting

Tories storm out of Ontario legislature over HST

Opposition steps up protests over lack of public hearings on plan to combine provincial and federal sales taxes

Coast Guard drops search for missing Halifax sailor

Hubert Marcoux, 67, had hit high seas, strong winds on the way to Bermuda earlier this month and failed to arrive as planned a week ago

Toddler dies after plunging from balcony at Pearson

Boy was with his family on the airport's Terminal 1 departure level; police say incident was a tragic accident

Ontario stands behind stunt driving law despite ruling

Province says it views law as Constitutional even after judge dismissed charges against an 18-year-old woman last week

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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
Christie Blatchford
Abandoned, unprotected, afraid. Afghanistan? No. The heart of Ontario

Plight of Caledonia family is enough to make you weep.

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
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.
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.
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Climate change and how it affects the world around us

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