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A revolutionary MS treatment?

CTV's medical/health correspondent Avis Favaro takes your questions

David Eaves

Why not open flu data?

In an era of just-in-time delivery and RFID chips, ‘we don't know' is not an acceptable answer to questions about H1N1 vaccine supply

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

Nation Builder

Reader nominee: Rick Hillier

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

Masked men break prisoner out of police custody in Hamilton

Prisoner escapes after jail guards overpowered by two gun-toting men wearing surgical-type masks; police consider men armed and dangerous

Surrey massacre leads to another arrest

Two innocent men were victims of 2007 gang shooting in B.C. condo tower

MS group to fund research into 'liberation procedure'

Move follows weekend report into findings of Italian professor, who believes multiple sclerosis may be treatable with simple surgery

Teen accused in Calgary explosives case arrested in Manitoba

Warrant remains outstanding for co-accused charged with attempted murder

Mysterious firebombings hit Montreal

Latest occurs early this morning, bringing the total in the past month to nine

Deer drugged, tasered after downtown Toronto stroll

Animal caught after several hours surrounded by police in the city's core

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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 these tactics? The Conservatives think they work

The ‘Frat Pack' are just part of the party's attack-machine strategy

Jeffrey Simpson
Margaret Wente
Something's wrong with this rights case

Our courts and tribunals have spent more than a decade chewing over one man's 12 weeks in boot camp

Margaret Wente
Lawrence Martin
Our conservative redefinition

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

Lawrence Martin
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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Mulroney-Schreiber

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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.
Canada's Slum
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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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