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Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNYEMPLOYMENTArmira Vargas could be mistaken for a Canadian-dream poster child.She moved to Toronto from Colombia in 1989, parlaying her work visa as a nanny into a job [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNYCENSUS 2011: COUNTING THE COUNTRYThe Ikpes have been around: They've moved from Abuja, Nigeria, to the United Kingdom, then to Calgary and Toronto before settling in Saskatoon. [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY COSTA CONCORDIA As stories emerged Monday of frantic escapes from a sinking, lacerated cruise ship, recollections from Canadian survivors painted a picture of chaos and a [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AND IAN BAILEY; With report from The Canadian Press MEXICO TORONTO and VANCOUVER -- Within 48 hours of Ximena Osegueda's disappearance in Mexico, her family's house [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: HIGGS BOSON / FACTS OF THE MATTER So, does it exist? It's no idle query: The underpinnings of particle physics, and our assumptions of how [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY DEMOGRAPHICS TORONTO -- Twelve-thousand dollars is hardly a princely sum - unless it effectively doubles your income and opens up previously unthinkable possibilities. For Loucia Linkert, [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY; With reports from Tu Thanh Ha and Associated Press ARREST Cynthia Vanier, a mediator whose corporate maxim is 'building bridges from conflict to [...]

Byline: ERIN ANDERSSEN and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY END OF LIFE OTTAWA and TORONTO -- A call for Canada to legalize assisted suicide has thrust back onto the agenda a divisive [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY MUNICIPAL POLITICS Winnipeg councillor Mike Pagtakhan looked around at a Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting this year and was delighted to see some non-white faces among [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ONTARIO ELECTION / PROFILE / ANDREA HORWATH Friday night in North Bay, Ont. The blonde behind the bar is talking up patrons on tax policy. They [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI, KAREN HOWLETT and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ONTARIO ELECTION / PLATFORMS Since Dalton McGuinty's Liberals released their re-election platform on Labour Day, debate over a proposed tax credit [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE, ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and KAREN HOWLETT ONTARIO ELECTION OTTAWA, HAMILTON and MISSISSAUGA -- If Tim Hudak ever gets lonely on the campaign trail, all he needs to [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ONTARIO ELECTION / NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY TORONTO -- Andrea Horwath is riding a high not of her own making. And she knows it. As the writ [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY CBC INTERVIEW As the labour movement on Monday celebrated the legacy of Jack Layton, Olivia Chow recalled the final weeks with her husband, [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY 1812 RE-ENACTMENT A 14-year-old Ontario boy is dead, and his mother is one of two people charged with endangering the welfare of a child, after his [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: THE 9/11 DECADE / STORIES BEHIND ICONIC IMAGES FROM THAT DAY / IN FOCUS NEW YORK -- John Maguire still has the shirt. Its blue [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: THE 9/11 DECADE // Stories behind iconic images from that day As Richard Adamiak sought refuge, the choking cloud of dust came in with him. [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: THE 9/11 DECADE / Stories behind the iconic images from that day NEW YORK -- IN FOCUS Before making his way down the burning, crumbling [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: THE 9/11 DECADE / STORIES BEHIND ICONIC IMAGES FROM THAT DAY She still isn't sure what compelled her to do it. Why, standing in bewilderment [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: THE 9/11 DECADE / IN FOCUS OLD BRIDGE, N.J. -- It wasn't until she collapsed outside the building that the pain took over. Throughout the [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY CRIME Family and friends crowded into the Shahdady family's Scarborough house, prayed and struggled to talk about anything - anything but the 21-year-old daughter they had [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY RESEARCH Over more than half a century, the reactor in Chalk River, Ont., has produced a Nobel prize and boosted Canada's stature as a nuclear innovator, [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY; With files from the Associated Press INTERNET The latest alleged hacking mastermind, an 18-year-old arrested at home last week in Scotland's Shetland Islands, was let out [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ENERGY Squiggly neon lines zag between shifting digits and along X-Y axes, projected onto a triptych of imposing black wall panels. Somewhere in the foreground, a [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY TIME TO LEAD / YOUTH IN JAIL If Canada follows through on plans to crack down on miscreant youth, it'll be one of the few jurisdictions [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and JAMES ADAMS FOLIO: STAGE COLLAPSE Hot, humid air, a line of squalls and a gathering storm. It was when the sky immediately above the Ottawa [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY Folio: Time to lead / Youth in jail Canada incarcerates more convicted youth than almost any similarly industrialized country. And new federal crime legislation is poised [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY DRUG OVERDOSES The Ontario government and the College of Physicians and Surgeons have nothing against four dozen recommendations resulting from an inquest into a pair of [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY DISASTER RELIEF Manitoba is rolling out an ambitious plan to drain two rising lakes before next year's flood season starts - an expedited engineering feat that [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY MEDICINE BROCKVILLE, ONT. -- Day after day for five weeks, Hilda Bertrand and Brenda Toupin-Wiles sat in a Brockville, Ont., courtroom and listened to strangers dissect [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY INQUEST TORONTO -- The inquest into the death of Ashley Smith, a troubled 19-year-old who strangled herself in an Ontario prison, is on hold for the [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY OVERDOSE INQUEST She was a 48-year-old mother and former nurse, receiving disability payments for back pain. He was a fearless 19-year-old known for befriending everyone, who [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY NATURAL DISASTERS As residents of Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec try to dig out, dry out and rebuild after devastating fires and record-breaking floods, their governments and [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY JUSTICE TORONTO -- Byron Sonne emerged from a Toronto courthouse Wednesday afternoon free of shackles and the centre of a media frenzy. And after almost a [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY MANITOBA FLOODING Hours before his government planned to flood hundreds of homes in the hopes of saving hundreds more from inundation, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger addressed [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY MANITOBA FLOODS As Manitoba prepares to open a floodgate in the midst of the Assiniboine River's worst deluge in centuries, the province is turning for help [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY MANITOBA FLOODS In a straight line from his front door, Sandor Arendse watched work crews rip away at the only thing standing between his home and [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AND TAVIA GRANT FOLIO: INCOME GAP Behind corridors lined with contemporary Canadian art, sitting at a dark wooden table in his downtown Toronto office, Ed Clark [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY EDUCATION Dozens of the University of Toronto Schools alumni, parents and students are taking matters into their own hands, urging U of T to reconsider its [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AFTER THE ELECTION From a bartender to university students, Monday's historic election created a high number of first-time MPs, leaving pundits, reporters - heck, sometimes their [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: FIRST-TIME MPs / AFTER THE ELECTION Depending on the outcome of a couple of recounts, about 100 new MPs will be climbing Parliament Hill when [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ELECTION 2011 / MEDIA As election results started to roll in from Eastern Canada, a website calling on plugged-in politics junkies to tweet their dissent by [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ELECTION LAW In a quintessentially Canadian kind of online revolution, plugged-in vigilantes are vowing to flout an 73-year-old law by posting election results early. Polls close [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ELECTION 2011 / OUR TIME TO LEAD / VOTER TURNOUT / POLITICS If you ask the people elected to represent you, they will say the biggest [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY EDUCATION A high school created a century ago as a unique testing lab for would-be teachers and a haven for the academically gifted has to pack [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ELECTION 2011 / SOCIAL MEDIA The law hasn't changed. But the people expected to follow it - and the way they communicate - [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FOLIO: GUARDING THE ROYAL WEDDING In the eyes of security officials, it will be the most threatening romantic drive in modern history: A [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and JAMES BRADSHAW THE G8/G20 SUMMITS Industry Minister Tony Clement's local constituency office collected applications for a G8 Legacy Fund seven months before Parliament approved the [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY ELECTION 2011 / PAYING THE BILL When Canadians vote on May 2, they'll be paying for a federal election whose cost has grown 50 per cent [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY SCIENCE A series of holes hand-drilled into Arctic ice in the middle of a snowstorm at -40 degrees could shed light on everything from northern resource [...]