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Trials of the decade

From same-sex marriage to detainee rights, these court decisions left their mark

Welcome to Decoding the Decade. Since November, we’ve been asking you to weigh in on a specific question related to the past 10 years. You can find all the questions on our Reader picks section.

On Dec. 26 we launched our full Decoding the Decade series.

Rick Hillier

He changed how Canada's soldiers are regarded, here and abroad

Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis

Their BlackBerry's best application was philanthropy

Margaret Atwood

She achieved so much, she might be taken for granted

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

She sounded the alarm on climate change in the Arctic

Anthony Pawson

He set the pace for great Canadian research

Ratna Omidvar

She took action to change the immigration debate

Clarence Louie

He revolutionized how native reserves are run

The decade in style: Hit or miss?

Have your say on 10 fashions, styles and trends that defined the decade

Sorry! The decade's best public apology

None was better than Stephen Harper's mea culpa of June 11, 2008

How we travelled then, how we travel now

Hello electronic tickets, GPS devices, packed lunches...goodbye printed tickets, guide books, airplane food

Don't just seize the day. Seize all possible joy

We could make list after list about the decade, but it's the personal milestones that resonate most

Scandalous behaviour?

Vote on the decade's political scandals and determine which were the real deal, or nothing but hype

In 1999, you would not have believed that...

A look at how the decade past made the improbable possible, with links to Globe archives

Decade of obits: People who made a difference

Compiled and written by The Globe's Sandra Martin

Decade of disasters

Between the breached levees of New Orleans, a heat wave that had Western Europe in a fatal sweat and the crumbled "tofu" buildings of earthquake-racked Sichuan, this felt like a decade of unprecedented natural disasters

Who was the decade's best?

Vote for the decade's best in 10 sports categories

Best comebacks of the decade

A look at the improbable and the inspirational

Battle of the Blades Pairs We’d Like to See

Dream duos for the popular CBC show

Sports Decade: Cinderella moments

A collection of images from the past 10 years from some of the most surprising sporting results

Celebrity smackdowns

Why they be hatin'? Some handsome fur has been flying in the past decade, keeping tabloids happy and tongues wagging. Celebrity spats are nothing new, but that doesn't make them any less juicy

The comebacks

These are the artists who saw a resurgence in this past decade - and one who departed too

10 innovative book covers from the past decade

Graphic designer Bill Douglas, who has more than 800 book covers to his credit, picks highlights and his personal favourites from the past 10 years

Highs and lows from the TV decade

The great and not-so great

Rogues, bad boys and girls, fraudsters and Ponzi schemers

Every decade has its business villains. Whether it is people who run hedge fund companies that blow up, or fraudsters whose Ponzi schemes bilk investors, they leave an infamous trail

The best advertising campaigns of the decade

Simon Houpt picks his top five, plus some runners-up. Watch the ads and vote for your favourite

The changing face of the auto industry

An interactive look at how the sector has evolved over the past decade

The top business spats of the decade

Spitzer, Balsillie, Ballmer and the airlines. They've all had their fights. Here's some huge rivalries over the past decade

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