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Marie Henein is the smartest, toughest, most sought-after defence lawyer in the city. Her tactics kept Michael Bryant out of jail. Now she intends to do the same for Jian [...]

On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains off the Hollies hit 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' offered the first clue. Then morning host Jerry Agar burst on the air with [...]

IN A FARMER'S FIELD southwest of Hamilton, a developer's faded billboard offers an ironic testimonial to more upbeat times. "Welcome to a Grand adult lifestyle," it proclaims. But on this […]

ON A MAKESHIFT STAGE in the Bay and Bloor branch of Indigo Books, Heather Reisman is playing Oprah Winfrey. Microphone in hand, she strides the dais in a sleek black [...]

IN AURORA'S Royal Canadian Legion Hall, the buzz was palpable--a mix of genuine wonder and jaded disbelief. Assorted stars of the Ottawa press corps had flown in to mingle with […]

The 25th anniversary of the National Magazine Awards of Canada takes place during 2003.

It wasn't your usual high school reunion. The planning was strictly hush-hush. Invitations went out by phone and e-mail to only a select group. Even the alumni co-ordinators at Jarvis […]

THE HOUSE IS, to put it diplomatically, undistinguished--stolid and devoid of the slightest decorative flair. Planted on a leafy street in the resolutely middle-class Montreal neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace, it's the […]

Monica Beall and her husband, Dan, had planned a romantic weekend--time alone, with no children underfoot. But by noon on Sunday, Monica's daughter was back from a visit with her […]

It was, of course, a send-up[!]a risky self-parody. As the strains of an operatic overture wafted over the crowd of broadcasting glitterati gathered at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for [...]

In a makeshift, ground-floor office tucked behind the august marble lobby of the Hearst Building in midtown Manhattan, glamor is in distinctly short supply. In a space barely big enough [...]

On both sides of the border, hospital ERs feel the pinch The scenes would never make the television series ER. Not enough breathless melodrama. No screaming and scheming and bedlam [...]

In an airy showroom studded with designer silks and tweeds, a 38-year-old brunette with a faultless sense of chic was orchestrating a private revolt. A calculator in one hand, guidebooks [...]

The boredom drove them to it. The endless nights with nothing for the youth of Grand Bank, Nfld., to do but hang around the outport's one restaurant or linger on [...]

Beneath the lofty Victorian moldings, the tables had been laid as usual with white damask. Fine Villeroy & Boch china gleamed in the sunlight streaming through the ancient casements of [...]

It might have been an occasion for pomp and platitudes-a little rhetorical cheerleading, nothing more. But last June, as the 264th convocation of the University of Western Ontario got under [...]

i found god in myself . . . & i loved her fiercely -playwright Ntozake Shange It was in the midst of a Sunday morning mass on a visit back [...]

Hana Gartner was barrelling across the vast terrazzo expanse of the CBC's Toronto headquarters, doing what she claims she does best--worrying. Even before her debut last week as host of [...]

The sun was in Leo and the moon was in Cancer as the taxi pulled up outside a prosperous white house nestled below Mount Royal on a leafy Montreal boulevard. [...]

At dusk, the fog drifts in off Lake Ontario, lapping against the shoreline just beyond George and Maureen Potton's backyard fence. When they first moved to this manicured cul-de-sac on [...]

In Lakefield, a picture-postcard village of 2,400 near Peterborough, Ont., spring had made a belated appearance on the same day that Bob Rae's campaign bus rolled into town. Beneath a [...]

On Toronto's trendy Queen Street West, a crowd is pressing against the glass of the neo-Gothic monument that once served as the symbol of uptight WASP rectitude, the former headquarters [...]

At 21, her complexion is lightly grazed with acne, and one ear is studded with three silver hoops. As she slumps into a canvas chair in her third-floor dormitory room, [...]

Garth Drabinsky was not having a good day. It was not a day like some of his most notorious bad days--nothing like Dec. 1, 1989, when he walked out of [...]

It was a wrong turn on a placid Massachusetts country road that changed Rex Inglis's life. Holidaying in the rolling hills of the Berkshires with his wife, Denise, the wealthy [...]

What if? The phrase hangs over the landscape, ominous, expectant. What if Quebecers really did decide to do it this time around--to vote for separation in such vocal numbers that [...]

The door is slightly ajar--a crack barely visible in the ancient, burnished wood panelling that lines the office of the leader of the official Opposition on Parliament Hill. Lucien Bouchard [...]

A sober navy Buick LeSabre limousine waits outside the arrival lounge of the Ottawa airport, its engine purring, a handsome civil service chauffeur holding the door. Sheila Copps, fresh off [...]

Since the beginning of time, earth-bound man has searched the heavens for signs that would enrich his life, his soul--and his comprehension. For the ancients, the search was largely spiritual, [...]

Above the seawall at Hampton Beach on New Hampshire's Atlantic coast, the landscape bore the scars of three years of economic devastation. 'For Auction' signs studded empty shop windows gaping [...]

It was an image-maker's nightmare: three minutes of raw television footage that flashed around the world mercilessly replaying the scene of public humiliation. At the centre setting of the head [...]

For the dynasty that once controlled the mythical American kingdom that Jacqueline Kennedy christened Camelot, it was a relatively happy ending, requiring no funeral or public mourning. At 5:10 p.m., [...]

A HINT OF HOPE IN THE GULF IRAQ ACCEPTS GEORGE BUSH'S OFFER TO HOLD DIRECT TALKS BEFORE THE UN DEADLINE In the broadloomed chamber of the United Nations Security Council, [...]

FIGHTING MAD It was as if he sensed the reproach in advance. Lining up at a Houston nursing home near his legal voting address, The Houstonian Hotel, to cast his [...]

The face is, if anything, more sharply chiselled[!]testimony to the years that have passed since she slogged through the world's hellholes, confronting bar- barism beyond the scope of any voice-over [...]

At Brock University's new residence cafeteria on the outskirts of St. Catharines, the menu looks as hip as the hall's angular steel and glass design. Just inside the door, a [...]

For nearly a quarter of a century, their names have been inextricably linked. From Delhi's opulent salons to the bazaars of Madras, Indians of every political stripe have puzzled over [...]

Rex Murphy's impassioned commentary on public life has made him an unlikely star The setting alone seems at odds with the curmudgeonly outport persona whose every utterance seems to carry [...]

On the grainy black-and-white footage of a social worker's assessment video, a boy's tousled head rests upon a desk. Slowly, the cherubic face turns to stare into the lens, impassive. [...]

Briefly, their paths crossed in the CBC's fourth-floor Toronto waiting room for guests on Newsworld's Pamela Wallin Live. Tension bristled in the air. Breezing out of the studio in a [...]

The old order is dying and the new is struggling to be born. Borders are crumbling as a handful of the newly rich and powerful forge private fiefdoms, controlling the [...]

As the first American bombs fell on Baghdad in the early hours of Jan. 17, 1991, launching the Persian Gulf War, then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney stunned Canadians by announcing to [...]