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Byline: PATRICK WHITE; Staff Indigenous communities still can't access the records and funding needed to search for unmarked graves around former residential schools, according to the lawyer appointed to liaise [...]

Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP, PATRICK WHITE OTTAWA -- Lead Former correctional investigator Howard Sapers will chair a federal advisory panel looking into prisoner isolation in Canada for the next two years. [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE; Staff A proposed law tucked into last week's Ontario budget has alarmed lawyers, who describe the government's planned legislation as a potentially unconstitutional attempt to insulate the [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE; With reports from Associated Press and Guardian News Service FOLIO / MIDDLE EAST / DIPLOMACY More than a year into the Syrian revolt, the violence continues to [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE MUNICIPAL POLITICS The first year of this council term was widely panned for its fixation on cutting down the budget rather than building up the city, but [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE INFRASTRUCTURE An impending Ontario Energy Board decision could have far-reaching consequences for home hydro bills, the city's failing electrical grid and City Hall's forthcoming budget over the [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH CHURCH AND PATRICK WHITE YEAR IN REVIEW He is the most sought-after politician in Toronto, yet he plops his elbows upon a rumpled, beverage-stained desk calendar that is [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH CHURCH and PATRICK WHITE MUNICIPAL POLITICS Hold onto your toonies, Toronto. You might need them to visit Riverdale Farm, swim in an outdoor pool or borrow a popular [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH CHURCH and PATRICK WHITE 2012 BUDGET Fee Hikes On top of a property tax hike of 2.5 per cent, Toronto residents are being asked to shell out more [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE and ELIZABETH CHURCH CITY HALL A week before council votes on the Ford brothers' contentious vision for Toronto's dormant Port Lands, one member of the mayor's once-loyal [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE MUNICIPAL POLITICS Mayor Rob Ford is planning a major overhaul of City Hall arts funding that would increase grants for cultural groups and slash art programs run [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE CITY HALL Toronto police may shed up to 400 officers under a $20-million buyout plan going before its civilian oversight body next week. The force is just [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE CITY COUNCIL The future of an innovative traffic signal that guides 50,000 shoppers and movie-goers a day through the heart of Toronto's retail sector has been thrown [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT AND PATRICK WHITE MEETING TWO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has bragged about his ability to balance the city's books without going cap in hand to Queen's Park. [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE DEFICIT REDUCTION One of the latest incendiary proposals to emerge from a consultant's reckoning of Toronto city services would strip the city of its vaunted public art [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE MUNICIPAL FINANCES Toronto will announce Tuesday morning the most ambitious employee-buyout plan since amalgamation, when former mayor Mel Lastman tried to shed more than 1,400 jobs. Virtually [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE FUNAMBULISM Nik Wallenda walked his first tightrope when he was 2. He's bicycled 45 metres across a wire suspended 20 storeys high. He even proposed to his [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE TAXIS He hasn't decided whether they should be New York yellow or London black, but a councillor wants Toronto to follow other international cities in adopting a [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE and KIM MACKRAEL GROWING MOVEMENT A broad coalition of politicians and activists has launched a campaign to ban the sale and consumption of shark fins within Toronto, [...]

Byline: Patrick White Late last December, Asif Ansari looked at the rain falling outside his Southern California mansion and his heart lifted a bit. It was that unnerving kind of [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE TRANSPORTATION The head of Toronto's taxi-licensing committee is drafting a blueprint for the complete overhaul of the city's deeply divided taxi industry, making good on Mayor Rob [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE COUNCIL After spending $1.3-million and three years on planning, the city is halting work on a $22-million foot bridge to Fort York designed to be a landmark [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE GOLF / LPGA TOUR / CN CANADIAN WOMEN'S OPEN WINNIPEG -- Given her Canadian bonafides, you'd be excused for mistaking LPGA Tour star Morgan Pressel for a [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE THE AFGHAN MISSION The largest cadre of foreign ministers to descend on Afghanistan in three decades underwent an astonishing political conversion on Tuesday, turning from skeptics to [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE HISTORY WINNIPEG -- In a match that pits a modern-day human-rights crusader against a historical women's-rights pioneer, a prominent Winnipeg lawyer is questioning whether Nellie McClung should [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE HIGHER EDUCATION Facing the spectre of imminent job loss, faculty at Canada's only aboriginal-run university hope to stir national passions in their favour by doing what they [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE CFL / BLUE BOMBERS WINNIPEG -- The leachate stain that expanded across David Asper's suit jacket offered a perfect illustration why his offer to build a new [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE PROVINCIAL FINANCE Saskatchewan has been described as the Saudi Arabia of uranium and the Saudi Arabia of potash. Based on yesterday's provincial budget, it may garner a [...]

Byline: DANIEL LEBLANC AND PATRICK WHITE AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY OTTAWA and KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- The coming U.S. troop surge around Kandahar city will liberate Canadian troops to focus more of their [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE THE AFGHAN MISSION KABUL -- The fight against a resurgent Taliban is stalling while military planners await word from U.S. President Barack Obama about the future scope [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE SASKATCHEWAN The Saskatchewan government's nuclear ambitions could be on a collision course with public sentiment, a highly anticipated new report suggests. The report compiles the attitudes of [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE SCIENCE / THE MEDICAL ISOTOPE CRISIS WINNIPEG -- Canada's nuclear-science brain trust is hanging in the balance as an expert panel begins pondering the future of the [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE ISOTOPES WINNIPEG -- Saskatchewan finally showed its hand in the high-stakes pursuit to replace the deteriorating Chalk River medical isotope facility, proposing to build a nuclear reactor [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE MEDICAL ISOTOPES WINNIPEG -- Manitoba has joined Saskatchewan in the race to fill the vacuum left by the federal government's decision to get out of the isotope [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE; With a report from the Associated Press RED RIVER WATCH Relief turns to dread as Fargo braces for flood FARGO, N.D. -- Fargoites thought they had licked [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE; With a report from the Associated Press RED RIVER WATCH Relief turns to dread as Fargo braces for flood FARGO, N.D. -- Fargoites thought they had licked [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE SHAWN McCARTHY AND KAREN HOWLETT SASKATOON, OTTAWA and TORONTO -- Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he is keen to forge a partnership with Atomic Energy of Canada [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE WINNIPEG -- If Blackie has any shot at the White House, he'll need to kick the shoe-gnawing habit. In Barack and Michelle Obama's new home, the shoes [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE One of the leading champions of the construction of a national portrait gallery in Ottawa is applauding the federal government's decision to axe a controversial bidding process [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE Situated within earshot of the helicopter swarms thumping over North America's most famous waterfall, Niagara Glen cradles some of the country's most curious flora and fauna. Take [...]

Byline: Patrick White All good Monopoly players have a few things in common: greed, malice and a heart of Pennsylvania Railroad coal. Now you can add one more trait to [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE The only full-time teacher at Toronto's only Afrocentric school wishes they could dispense with that word altogether. Ever since the private, non-profit school opened its doors to [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE For a brief time when he was 6, Chief Robert Joseph's schoolteachers rendered him mute. If he dared speak Kwak'wala, his only tongue, even to complain of [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE When Lisa Fielding gets behind the wheel, she's a woman with a plan. On a typical afternoon, the Madeira Park, B.C., mother first drives to daycare to [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE Several years ago, Rev. Seamus Mackrell, a Catholic priest, noticed a rash of demoralized churchgoers among the patients he met at Chilliwack General Hospital. Situated amid farming [...]