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In her nondescript, windowless office off a narrow hallway, Kathaleen Pittman, the administrator of the Hope Medical Group for Women abortion clinic, watches patients come and go, coordinates her staff, [...]

Hundreds of thousands of resource jobs will be up for grabs. The challenge: finding willing and able workers. BY THE END of 2009, it looked as though the sun had [...]

Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan left Somalia after a dramatic rescue four years ago. How it worked, and what's happened since, offer a gripping look inside a kidnapping operation. IT'S [...]

DOZENS OF PARENTS lined up at the doors of the Sooke School District office on Vancouver Island's West Coast one chilled, rainy evening last February and spent the night under [...]

Mornings at the Vatican each begin the same-early. On Thursday, Jan. 31, when he knew he would resign-but a week before the world did-Pope Benedict XVI likely woke shortly after [...]

FOR TAXPAYERS CONCERNED with out-of-control government spending, 2012 started on a bright enough note. Last January, the Department of National Defence announced it wanted to buy 20,000 custom-printed stress balls [...]

THE UNIVERSITY OF British Columbia has spent $37 million in recent years to construct 'one of the most sustainable buildings in North America,' trumpeting a 'living laboratory' that will 'help [...]

AMY GORDON WAS in the middle of completing her second university degree when she decided to go to college instead. Gordon already had a degree in biology from the University [...]

IF THE AMERICAN auto industry were to write its own Hollywood-style comeback story--from the depths of its 2008 crash to its improbable return to the top of the world--the ending [...]

THE TRAPPING LIFE was never easy: the months of solitude, the bitter cold. Then came the fashion industry's war on fur, and it became near impossible to sell pelts for [...]

AMY GORDON was in the middle of completing her second university degree when she decided to go to college instead. Gordon already had a degree in biology from the University [...]

BY THE END of 2009, it looked as though the sun had set on Canada's once-mighty forestry industry--a gutted workforce, hundreds of empty mills scattered across the country--and in Prince [...]

ON JULY 12, Victoria Henry, a 32-year-old native of Burnaby, B.C., was part of a six-woman team that scaled the tallest building in Europe: the Shard. Dubbed the 'Greenpeace spider [...]

IT'S EARLY ON a weekday morning, in the not-too-distant future, and a packed commuter train is speeding toward a large North American city when the Internet cuts out. It's more [...]

LATE LAST YEAR, a radical banking experiment hit a major milestone in Europe, a continent with no shortage of financial drama. It had nothing to do with the euro, however, [...]

He left home at 15 to work on farms, at bush camps and even a carnival. In his old age, he longed to return to the place he was born. [...]

FANCY SOME MANITOBA cod? How about Saskatchewan salmon? The idea of Prairie seafood may seem outlandish, but with soaring demand running headlong into environmental concerns over fish farms, some believe [...]

THE UNWRITTEN CONCEIT of foodie life is that it isn't cheap. If you're regularly whipping up brie and bacon risotto, or carrot, cumin and kidney-bean burgers, financially, you must be [...]

He fled Czechoslovakia dreaming of a life in Canada. An expert glider pilot, even an astronaut once sought out his tutelage. RUDOLF (RUDY) ROZSYPALEK was born on March 27, 1963, [...]

IT TAKES SURPRISINGLY little to rattle the world's markets. A fake tweet about explosions at the White House caused the Dow Jones to fall more than 140 points on April [...]

MICROSOFT HAS LONG operated as flit were several little companies each doing its own thing, from Xbox to Windows. Last week, the company announced a major reorganization of its structure [...]

He's got solo shows in NYC and London. Now Andrew Salgado is ready for Regina. IN ANDREW SALGADO'S studio, a dozen canvases with looming deadlines hang: large, abstract portraits of [...]

MANY MAJOR RETAILERS seem to believe you can only make hay while the sun shines. Last week, Target said a chilly spring lowered demand for seasonal items, leading to disappointing [...]

THE HORRIFIC COLLAPSE of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Bangladesh last month, which left 1,127 apparel workers dead, has exposed the sprawling, fractured supply chains giant retailers rely on [...]

NESTLED AMONG THE rolling green hills of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley near the Gaspereau River, Benjamin Bridge is part of the new wave of Canadian vineyards that's creating a buzz [...]

BEFORE LAST WEEK, Loblaw's Joe Fresh was known mostly as a hot spot for cheap, stylish clothing. Few customers likely cared how the clothes were made. That all changed with [...]

RIVERS AND CREEKS are beginning to rise again in Manitoba, and the Peguis First Nation is once again sandbagging homes in preparation for a flood season that could hit as [...]

WHEN WORLDWIDE SHIPMENTS of desktops and laptops slid by their largest margin in a decade earlier this month, Microsoft caught much of the blame over its radical new Windows 8 [...]

IN JUNE, ONE of the world's most important economies will get a new central-bank governor, and make history. And it's not the U.K.'s acquisition of Mark Carney. Russian lawmakers have [...]

IT TURNS OUT, free stuff piled on the side of the road isn't actually free. Chairs, tables and TVs plastered with 'free' signs cost taxpayers in the Victoria area $330,000 [...]

Golfer Sergio Garcia sees no obstacles-apparently even when his ball lands in the trees. When the Spanish superstar drove a shot into the nook of an oak tree at the [...]

A GROUP OF University of Toronto graduates claims to have built the most energy-efficient light bulb in the world. At about 200 per cent more efficiency than the current wave [...]

GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE world have been driving down interest rates in recent years in a bid to boost their economies. The Bank of Canada has held its rate at one [...]

MEMBERTOU FIRST NATION sits on a single square kilometre reserve on the outskirts of Sydney, N.S., on Cape Breton Island. It's home to fewer than 1,000 people, and has nowhere [...]

WHEN PIARA SINGH Bual arrived in Vancouver from India in 1970, he was 18 and alone. With his parents and seven siblings living in a small village in Punjab, he [...]

ROBERT MURRAY HEATH was born Nov. 7, 1957, in Mississauga, Ont. His father, Robert, was an engineer and his mother, Betty, was a telephone sales operator. Robert Sr. owned a [...]

WHEN A COMPANY reports a 45 per cent drop in profit for the quarter, what does its stock price do? If it's Amazon, it soars. On Jan. 29, a day [...]

ROLAND HUMPHREYS WEBB was born Sept. 2, 1975, in Sydney, N.S., to Roland Webb, a Vancouver-born engineer with the Canadian Coast Guard, and Mary Webb, a housewife from Newfoundland. Four [...]

YOUR NEXT CROSS-BORDER shopping trip could be more than 2,000 km away. A luxe shopping centre, a theatre and a handful of high-end hotels in Dallas are launching 'Canada Appreciation [...]

NICOLAS THOMAS VOYER-TAYLOR was born Feb. 6, 1990, in Saskatoon, to Julie Voyer, a francophone school administrator, and Thomas Taylor, an anglophone stockbroker. He had a brother, Gaetan, from Julie's [...]

IF YOU REALLY want to see benefits from working out, consider a move to the central London area of Westminster. There, overweight Londoners could see their benefit payments rise and [...]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT LAST week that Avis Budget Group is buying Zipcar for $500 million--close to double its stock market value-was a watershed moment for the upstart car-sharing industry. Zipcar, founded [...]

JOHN DIEFENBAKER'S HOUSE has a crack in its foundation. The sunroom paint is peeling away, while the house itself lists northward. For the Prince Albert Historical Society, which maintains the [...]

British Columbia: Note to Liberal leadership candidates--it takes just 120 seconds for a person to spot a future leader in a crowded room. Researchers at the University of British Columbia [...]

FORGET BOARDWALK: PLAYERS scheming and dealing real estate in the latest version of Monopoly will have their sights set on Banana Island. The man-made island is home to the wealthiest [...]

AS SOON AS the royal baby story hit the wires, up popped the 'live coverage' feeds on the Guardian and Telegraph news sites. It's the 'only story that anybody on [...]