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Byline: Alex Diggins GREAT FEAR ON THE MOUNTAIN by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, tr Bill Johnston 250pp, Archipelago, T PS13.99 (0808 196 6794), RRPPS15.99 There's an apocryphal story that, during the [...]

Byline: Bill Johnston London, Ont. -- When Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was running for office, he promised voters to 'stop the gravy train.' He didn't provide many particulars. We now [...]

Byline: Bill Johnston We need a two-pronged approach for the education of children on reserves. It is not only a matter of raising educational standards but also of reinforcing a [...]

Byline: Bill Johnston Philosophers invent colours all the time. How about 'eulb'? AJ Ayer defined this as the colour that something is if it is not blue. Or 'grue', which [...]

Byline: Bill Johnston London, Ont. -- Like many others, I read with interest that Brian Mulroney felt Pierre Trudeau was morally unfit to lead this country (Mulroney Lashes Out At [...]

Byline: ANDRE ALEXIS Bacacay By Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Bill Johnston Archipelago Books, 275 pages, $33.95 A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes By Witold Gombrowicz Translated [...]

Byline: MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT New York NY -- BY MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT Globe and Mail Correspondent NEW YORK Meet Bill Johnston, one of the world's savviest investors. It's 9:29 in the morning, [...]

Byline: Antonia Lloyd-Jones As a translator of Polish literature, I sometimes put my fellow Britons on the spot by asking if they can name a Polish author they've read, and [...]

Byline: Lorena Allam 'Horrific' allegations made by youth detainees, of sexually inappropriate behaviour and excessive use of force by officers, being forced to sleep naked or in wet clothes, wear [...]

Byline: Sarah Collard Australian governments must address the crisis in youth detention, according to the country's human rights commissioners, warning the lives of young people are being placed at serious [...]

Byline: Peter Hannam Households and businesses will get no immediate relief on their utility bills after Friday's meeting of energy ministers, with discussions instead aimed at ensuring electricity and gas [...]

Byline: Peter Hannam Australia's liquefied natural gas exporters will snare windfall profits of as much as $40bn this year alone in the wake of Russia's war on Ukraine, offering the [...]

Byline: Sarah Collard 'Every time there's a knock at the door I think it's a policeman coming to tell me he's dead,' a Noongar grandmother of a 15-year-old boy currently [...]

Byline: Peter Hannam Western Australia will shut its last coal-fired power unit before the end of the decade and spend an extra half a billion dollars to foster new jobs [...]

Byline: Paul Daley The more things change for many Australians the more they stay shamefully the same for Indigenous people in Western Australia's ill-named 'justice system' -- particularly if they [...]

Byline: Rosamund Brennan A beam of light shoots across the gallery space, projecting a series of zoomorphic figures onto a grainy, red surface. A dugong, a turtle, a fish and [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead The Bank of Canada's interestrate cut threatens to overheat the country's booming housing markets, making it easier for homebuyers to borrow and further driving up [...]

ULSTER...............................29 SCARLETS........................... 5 THE Scarlets' hopes of moving to the top of Conference B of the Guinness PRO14 disappeared when they suffered a Black Friday walloping in Ulster. They didn't [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI AND CHEN WANG Lead Navin Seepaul is a 29-year-old single dad who makes $30,000 a year as a barber. He owns a $1-million house in Brampton, a [...]

Byline: Lisa Cox The Western Australian Labor government says it will back the federal government's 2030 climate targets, rejecting attempts by the state's Environmental Protection Authority to introduce tougher measures [...]

Byline: Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Chip Brownlee MONTGOMERY, Ala. - As a crop duster with a banner saying 'Abortion is okay,' hummed above the Capitol, circling back and forth around the [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff A lot has gone right for the economy in the past decade, yet evidence is mounting that Canadians are worried sick about money. People are losing [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Equifax Canada says consumer delinquencies climbed higher in the fourth quarter of 2018 and the credit-monitoring company warns that rising delinquency rates are likely to [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The storyline that debt levels in Canada are big but manageable is starting to unravel. Oddly, it's seniors who are showing the first signs of serious [...]

Byline: Calla Wahlquist A mining company that operates next to an Indigenous-owned station targeted by racist, pro-mining signs has been fined $40,000 for breaching mining conditions. Melbourne-based Hawthorn Resources was [...]

Byline: Saul Hubbard The Register-Guard Lane County faces five years of lean spending of state and federal money on transportation projects, under a draft spending plan from the Oregon Department [...]

Byline: The Register-Guard Willamalane's Senior Men's Breakfast Group - 7:45 a.m. Thursday. Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 West C Street, Springfield. All senior men are invited. Attendees may invite their [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia -- ''So Ivan, are you calling Andy 'Sir'?'' Ivan Lendl paused and then laughed, which would surely seem strange to those who know him only as Andy Murray's [...]

After another winter of severe snowstorms and floods, I looked forward to today, the first day of spring, balmy weather and blooming flowers. Hundreds of communities welcome spring with an [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia -- The Grand Slam was there for the taking in September in New York, and although Serena Williams faltered there and then faltered in the final in Melbourne [...]

PORTILLO, Chile -- I was struggling as I reached the top of one of the most famous ski runs in the Andes Mountains: the Super C Couloir. At the end [...]

FACEBOOK On Sunday, the last day of Pope Francis' U.S. visit, he met with a group of clergy sex abuse victims and vowed to protect young believers. Pope Francis talked [...]

Byline: David Frith Frank Tyson, who has died aged 85, probably bowled as fast a ball as any cricketer who has ever played, and inevitably he attracted the nickname 'Typhoon'. [...]

Byline: DAVID ISRAELSON; Special to The Globe and Mail MORTGAGES / BORROWING LIMITS When the Occupy movement hit the headlines in 2011, we heard about the 99 per cent, but [...]

Byline: David Frith Long-term cricket watchers sometimes think back to the Nottinghamshire and England batsman Reg Simpson, who has died aged 93, when the bouncers are flying nowadays. In an [...]

The 100th Davis Cup final will be played in Prague this weekend. But the Cup -- still the premier team event in tennis -- would be well into triple digits [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH CHURCH THE BUDGET Toronto Mayor Rob Ford put on a show of strength, marshalling his 'team' of councillors behind him to face the press as he began the [...]

McSHANE--Bruce W.,passed away on August 13, 2011. Born in Montclair New Jersey he was the son of Bruce Winthrop and Mary Crane. When he was 1, his father died in [...]

Don't be silly. You can't have a funeral when you die, any more than you can have anything when you die. That's because you are dead. Other people can have [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE REAL ESTATE Pamela Tebbs's dream home turned into a nightmare the minute construction workers began flushing her toilet. The crew brought in to do some renovations to [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE COMPETITION BUREAU Canada's competition laws have been toughened in recent years as the government aims to crack down on predatory business practices, but the most transformative change [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE REGULATION REAL ESTATE REPORTER Toronto home buyers could be browsing websites containing enhanced real estate listings within weeks, as the Toronto Real Estate Board scrambles to avoid [...]