Toronto Star
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The Toronto Star is Canada's highest circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. Its parent company, Torstar, owns dozens of regional and community newspapers, as well as Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, the world's leading publisher of romance novels. Torstar is currently seeking regulatory approval to purchase 20% of Bell Globemedia, owners of the CTV television network and The Globe and Mail. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal
The plan was painfully simple: save a mountain, turn a country, cool the Earth. And for the longest time, it seemed to be working here on Coal River Mountain, ground zero in ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
A fresh approach in American war on drugs
Wars rarely end at the first hint of truce. But when the Obama administration quietly announced this week it will halt federal raids against dispensers of medical marijuana, ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Meet the Canadian whose big idea felled Wall Street
Li's model sidestepped the problem of trying to correlate all the variables that determine risk. Instead, it based its assumptions on the historical dips and swells of the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Tar sands smog seen worsening
, "there are emissions of CO2 and air contaminants resulting from the generation of the energy required by (carbon capture and storage) facilities. The CO2 emissions offset ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
McCain's gaffes: Fatigue or old age?
When John McCain last week inadvertently labelled voters in western Pennsylvania a bunch of redneck racists, it could have been dismissed as one of those missteps that ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Ten worst countries for women
After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women [in Afghanistan] are illiterate. ...In the eastern [Republic of the Congo], ...rapes ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Diverse voices are lost with big media mergers
Several major media mergers are threatening to make the Canadian media scene an even more concentrated affair.Posted by Steve Anderson -
Lithium surge lacks staying power
Exploding lithium-ion batteries in laptop computers captured the headlines in 2006, but so far the big splash in 2007 appears to be lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. ...Posted by Marty Heyman
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Westhead: Pakistan's 'Path to Salvation'?
"The Pakistan army has started a ground assault in its remote, mountainous region of South Waziristan, opening a high-profile battle against Islamic militants in an area near ...Posted by Emma Asomba -
News & Features | Why Americans can't talk about health care
For Canadians and Europeans, who tend to view medical care as a civic right alongside the vote, the current debate over the U.S. health-care system can often seem puzzling – ...Posted by Shannon Jewell -
How Did 100,000,000 Women Disappear?
Two researchers crunching population statistics have confirmed an unsettling reality. Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray noticed the ratio of women to men in developing regions and ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Looking for a net gain in the energy sector
Give him $50 million, he says, and within four years he and his small team of scientists and engineers at General Fusion will show a world trying to wean itself off ...Posted by Katie Rose -
Ruling would 'bankrupt this province'
The problems were traced to chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins, seeping into the creek and well water from truckloads of waste asphalt and ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Liberals face their own economic challenge
A challenge for the Liberal party is to demonstrate that it recognizes the fundamental importance of an innovative, entrepreneurial economy where the state is an active and ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
'Cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache'
Meet the real pit bull. The one without the lipstick. Rahm Emanuel, the 48-year-old Chicago congressman expected to be named U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's new chief ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Business | Why Canada may dodge U.S. crisis
[Prime Minister] Harper said, "The economic and financial mess in the United States is disastrous. The policies have been irresponsible. We've made different choices in ...Posted by Dennis A. Abbott -
China's uphill Olympic sprint
The Chinese people are "crossing fingers for a gold spree on home soil" when the Beijing Olympics kick off Friday, as the China Daily newspaper put it a few days ago. And well ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Made-in-America China the worst of both worlds
Without a shot fired, the Middle Kingdom has been invaded, swamped by the West, gluttonous in its appetite for all things foreign and bourgeoisie, racing at warp speed toward ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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