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national

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  4. Lawrence Martin
  5. Adam Radwanski
  6. Jeffrey Simpson
  7. Margaret Wente
  8. Roy MacGregor

JEFFREY SIMPSON

Truculent moralizing for a domestic audience

Almost everything the Harper government does internationally is meant to impress at home

MARGARET WENTE

We’re ripe for a great disruption in higher education

The digital revolution will turn our current university model upside down – and it's for the best

ADAM RADWANSKI

Lie back and think of London if you’re not convinced about austerity measures

Ontario’s job figures starting to resemble those of Indiana

GARY MASON

Surprise challenge to B.C. teachers’ union leadership offers hope for change

Rick Guenther faces long odds, but what he’s saying is some of the clearest thinking that has come from a union representative in some time

ROY MacGREGOR

John Tavares brings hard lacrosse lessons to NHL

Islanders hard-nosed centre is the talk of the league after January to remember

JEFFREY SIMPSON

The worst of both worlds: high drug prices, low R&D

Canadians are among the biggest consumers of pharmaceuticals in the world

SIMON HOUPT

Sun News: as Canadian as hockey and bureaucrats posing as new citizens

Network used phony citizenship ceremony in promo spot touting its nationalist credentials

GARY MASON

Why not try after-hours care the Dutch way?

‘If you manage a chronic illness properly, you shouldn’t need an emergency room’

MARGARET WENTE

The war against the young

Seniors have a sturdier safety net than any other segment of society. How smart is it to suck our grandchildren dry to pay for it?

CAMPBELL CLARK

On the Middle East, Canadians give Baird room to play his hand

Forty-eight per cent of the population supports the Harper government’s pro-Israel policy, a poll finds, countering the notion that neutrality is what Canadians want

toronto

  1. Marcus Gee

MARCUS GEE

Cost puts brakes to Sheppard subway extension advocate’s zeal

Mayor Rob Ford’s transit adviser ‘extremely optimistic’ about project, but admits city needs to look more closely at money question first

Marcus Gee

Ford to Stintz: It’s the subway or the highway

TTC chair finds the mayor unreceptive to reasonable alternatives on the Eglinton stretch

world

  1. Doug Saunders
  2. Konrad Yakabuski

DOUG SAUNDERS

Obama, Merkel and Putin are at war with reason

Just as the world is facing a set of urgent crises, some of its most influential countries have entered election periods

KONRAD YAKABUSKI

Florida GOP primary rides on housing crisis blame

Republicans in quintessential swing state to vote based on which candidate less associated with economic woes

Doug Saunders

The world’s not in crisis – it’s just between stabilities

After decades of fixed inequality, global economic realities are being rebalanced

KONRAD YAKABUSKI

Super PAC’s supersized bank account only thing keeping Gingrich’s hopes alive

New, Supreme Court-ordained electioneering vehicles have made American democracy more than ever a money game

KONRAD YAKABUSKI

Obama to embrace his inner populist

Address to make the case that his presidency stands as a rampart against the 1 per cent

business

  1. Derek DeCloet
  2. Eric Reguly
  3. Brian Milner
  4. Barrie McKenna
  5. Streetwise
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  7. Jeff Rubin's Smaller World
  8. Rob Carrick
  9. Tim Cestnick
  10. John Heinzl
  11. David Parkinson
  12. Ian McGugan
  13. Chrystia Freeland
  14. Avner Mandelman
  15. Thane Stenner
  16. Gwyn Morgan
  17. Susan Pinker
  18. Dan Richards
  19. George Athanassakos
  20. Skot Kortje
  21. John Reese

NEIL REYNOLDS

America’s down, but not out

Mark Carney says it’ll take years for the U.S. economy to recover. Nonsense, says American political scientist Charles Doran

DAVID PARKINSON

Maybe it’s time for a dash of rational exuberance

The forces driving down valuations are starting to fade

ROB CARRICK

How one adviser is adapting to a low-rate environment

The barbell strategy balances zero-risk investments with riskier choices that have a big potential payoff

ERIC REGULY

Sarkozy could be next domino to fall

President faces tough re-election fight as euro zone woes knock pins out from beneath France’s economy

TOM BRADLEY

For money managers, small can be beautiful

Asset managers need only enough capital to fund operations and meet regulatory requirements

Lou Schizas

Copper Mountain Mining Corp needs to break past $6

Once past resistance, the stock has little resistance back to $8, says Lou Schizas

Darcy Keith

Shares of Canada's airlines poised for takeoff: RBC

Upgrades both Air Canada and WestJet as the sector returns to investor favour

Damien Lynch

Today’s small-cap stocks to watch

CHRYSTIA FREELAND

‘China Syndrome’ rears head in coming U.S. election

Empirical study finds ‘levelling’ result of globalization hammers blue-collar Americans and their communities

sports

  1. Allan Maki
  2. Jeff Blair
  3. Stephen Brunt
  4. Bruce Dowbiggin
  5. Eric Duhatschek
  6. David Shoalts
  7. Lorne Rubenstein

Good Week; Bad Week

Winners and loser in the world of sports

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN

NBC dresses up in its Super Bowl Sunday best

Marketing machine clicks into high gear as clock ticks down to game

ERIC DUHATSCHEK

The real NHL trading game

Eric Duhatschek examines the tough decisions facing general managers in his weekly NHL notebook column

Woman charged with extorting Yankees GM

Brian Cashman had $6,000 extracted from him

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN

McCown stands by Crosby story

ERIC DUHATSCHEK

Still hope for NHL’s laggards vying for playoffs

History shows it’s almost never too late to make run for post-season

DAVID EBNER

At the Winter X Games, Canadians soar for Sarah

The spirit of Sarah Burke, tragically killed in a training accident, inspires her teammates to six gold medals as they prepare for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia

DAVID SHOALTS

Will Devils escape from New Jersey?

Like former Coyotes owner Moyes, Devils co-owner finding it rather difficult to give up his share of the team

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN

Broadway Joe makes a Super subject

HBO documentary chronicles charismatic quarterback

ROY MacGREGOR

Brain injuries in all-star spotlight

Improved head protection just one step in reducing dangers to an acceptable level

arts

  1. Lynn Crosbie
  2. Elizabeth Renzetti
  3. Johanna Schneller
  4. John Doyle
  5. Andrew Ryan
  6. Russell Smith
  7. Leah McLaren

John Doyle

Weekend TV: The Super Bowl, plus a few alternatives

Football dominates, but there are also cute animals

ELIZABETH RENZETTI

How panda diplomacy became bear-knuckle haggling

As every trader knows, you can’t negotiate with an empty sack. You’ve got to bring some shiny beads of your own

R.M. VAUGHAN

Eye candy – and food for thought, too

You can be dazzled by the technique of these works, or you can just enjoy the materiality of the paint

JOHANNA SCHNELLER

Two actresses, one sweet, one scary. You figure it out

It would seem from their answers that Madonna resorted to a certain amount of type-casting for the leads in her new film W.E.

WARREN CLEMENTS

Is Newt Gingrich deft, or just daft?

The words may be similar, but the meanings couldn’t be much farther apart

LEAH McLAREN

How the Daily Mail gets smart readers to devour stupid news

Surpassing the Grey Lady herself, the Daily Mail has claimed the spot of world’s No. 1 website by combining the tawdry, the tacky, the touching and the (occasionally) high-minded

LIAM LACEY

Guilding the Oscars: What those other awards tell us

The actors’, directors’ and producers’ prizes are fairly reliable indicators of what the Academy will announce in three weeks

JOHN DOYLE

Undercover Boss Canada is utterly phony

Contrary to the show’s bogus premise, tears, hugs and gift certificates are not enough to solve workplace problems

RUSSELL SMITH

Fiction or non-fiction: Does it matter any more?

In a world where memoirists vie for media attention with ever-more-alarming personal stories, the view that there is no such thing as truth is dangerous

JOHN DOYLE

Kim or Pippa: Who’s the hottest It Girl of them all?

The answer, oddly enough, may lie on Say Yes to the Dress

technology

Hugh Thompson

Don’t own a PVR? Do you like watching 28,000 commercials?

One in five of Canadians don’t own a Personal Video Recorder, here are five reasons the other four should get on that

Ivor Tossell

Stuff ‘Girls Say’ meme airs our culture’s hilarious grievances

Comedy videos evolved into an all-purpose template for dissecting the way group A talks to group B

Michael Liedtke

Google search results to include social data from Google+

Personalized search results will return links and comments from other people in one of the social circles on the user's Plus account

Ivor Tossell

Who are you really following on Twitter?

The ad-hoc system of authenticating only some accounts – and in the case of the Wendi Deng debacle, getting it wrong – stands to do more harm than good

life

  1. Judith Timson
  2. Beppi Crosariol
  3. Lucy Waverman
  4. Leslie Beck
  5. Paul Taylor
  6. Andre Picard
  7. Sarah Hampson
  8. David Eddie
  9. Anthony E. Wolf
  10. Amy Verner
  11. Micah Toub
  12. Claudia Dey

ALEXANDRA GILL

KFC that pulls rank on the Colonel

Crisp, papery-skinned Korean fried chicken is an elusive target but well worth tracking down

Bruce Kirkby

Love in the wild: The art of zipping two sleeping bags together

...and other ways to light a fire in the wilderness

Zarqa Nawaz

My husband refuses to see my daughter from a previous marriage

She’s a single mother and he is hard on her and on me about it

Eric Forbes

Carrie Guyett (Forbes)

Mother, first lady, painter. Born March 12, 1908, in Norton, N.B. Died Oct. 2, 2011, in Fredericton of congestive heart failure, aged 103.

Paul Taylor

The science behind massage

New research helps explain why it feels so good

Paul Taylor

Blood pressure difference a sign of trouble

If it varies significantly in your right and left arms, you could be at an elevated risk of heart attack or stroke

PAUL TAYLOR

New research offers hope to those who can’t speak

Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to interpret or ‘read’ thoughts, which could lead to the development of electronic devices to help them communicate

Beppi Crosariol

The changing taste of Tuscany's wines

The region can be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but its varied reds often yield impressive results

JOHN BENTLEY MAYS

In Toronto’s Little Portugal, a mix of building scale and a taste of what’s to come

Dundas West development celebrates the continental city that is emerging from Toronto’s Victorian roots

Dave LeBlanc

Phone app brings Toronto architecture to life

Ryerson Architecture Mobile App lets you point and click for building info

focus

ELIZABETH RENZETTI

How panda diplomacy became bear-knuckle haggling

As every trader knows, you can’t negotiate with an empty sack. You’ve got to bring some shiny beads of your own

TABATHA SOUTHEY

Gender offender: This airport rule promotes prejudice, not security

It's unfortunate that since July, 2011, a Department of Transport rule has been on the books that could prevent gender transitioning soldiers from flying home for Christmas

Tabatha Southey

Fly me to the moon (or just to the next Republican debate)

I’d like to see these debates move beyond the realm of speculative fiction and into outright fantasy

Tabatha Southey

Why Congress couldn't clean up the Internet with SOPA

Under the anti-piracy legislation proposed in the U.S. the Internet's culture of contribution and connection would be decimated. The Net would be unrecognizable, except that there would still be pirates

Tabatha Southey

Joe Oliver’s fever dream of forbidden pipeline love

It’s just another crappy romcom: American Big Oil gets cozy with the Environmental Movement