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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 [...]

The article presents information about the typical work day of Pope Benedict XVI as of early February 2013, focusing on a full schedule which included saying masses, attending multiple meetings, and writing. Topics include his work as the Holy Father, as head of the Vatican City State, and as the bishop of Rome.