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Second-time lucky for Discovery launch


Pickton pleads not guilty to six murder charges

600 men and women wait to see if they'll be selected to serve as jurors in the notorious B.C. murder trial that could last a year


Atlantic search for missing sailor to resume Sunday

Unidentified Canadian woman swept overboard from a Nova Scotia-based tall ship as it sailed toward the Caribbean


'I made noise, and things moved'

The Globe's four-week cancer series concludes with a look at patients who blaze their own trails through a maze of treatment.

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Features

Bank service charges

Withdrawing $20? That'll be $3.50, please

Business

Results leave bankers beaming

Earnings growth at TD and Scotia complete banner year for Big Six

The end of mandatory retirement: Now what?

A new Ontario law is winning praise, writes VIRGINIA GALT, but weigh your choices carefully

Black's former headquarters come full circle

Meighen firm gains belated victory over an old foe at famous address

Andrew Peller puts Andrés Wines behind it

The challenge: Turn a company built on Baby Duck into a premium wine producer


National

Santa, do you deliver to heaven?

Not every letter to Santa gets a standard reply, says Canada Post's head ‘elf'

Drug bust could end two police careers

Officers shot in Winnipeg bust may never recover, sources say

Harper says Gov.-Gen. set precedent on dual citizenship

PM takes thinly disguised shot at Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's reluctance drop French citizenship

Tory MP slams B.C. native treaty

Historic agreement criticized for stripping non-aboriginal residents of their voting rights


World

South America explores unification

With the EU as a guide, South America's leaders agree to consider forming a single representative body, but warn the process won't be easy

Arson suspected in Moscow fire

Drug treatment hospital becomes a death trap when fire erupts; at least 45 women stuck behind a locked gate were killed

Abbas considers early election to end impasse with Hamas

But Palestinian president doesn't rule out possibility of compromise with the militant group

Canadian fights to feed North Korea's hungry

Jean-Pierre de Margerie must combat obsessive controls and paranoia in trying to prevent children from starving


Science

O Frankentree

Genetically engineered spruce and poplars could save Canada's forests from over-harvesting and vicious pests such as the pine beetle. So why aren't environmentalists hugging these trees?

Stargazers to get rare triple planetary treat this weekend

Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars will be visible in Sunday's predawn skies


Health

Apple cider recalled after possible lead contamination

Affected products were sold at various craft shows and farm gate sales in Ontario during November

Contraceptive both convenient and tasty

First chewable birth-control method, a tiny, spearmint-flavoured tablet that also can be swallowed without chewing, hits U.S. pharmacy shelves


Technology

Features: Lots for list-lovers

There's 1) a site to build a wish list; 2) site to list your eccentric collection; 3) a site to list words

Gaming: One good frag: a case study

If instant deaths and the taunts of preternaturally skilled teens turn you off multiplay, look to Gears of War's online play

Bloggers add to ranks of jailed journalists

Online reporters, bloggers make up one-third of those incarcerated worldwide


Sports

Undisciplined Leafs drop seventh straight

Detroit scored five power-play goals on 14 opportunites to beat the Maple Leafs 5-1, reports TIM WHARNSBY

Senators stumble

Rangers' Shanahan scores his league-leading 22nd of the season as Ottawa loses its second in a row without Alfredsson

Sabres beat Canadiens in shootout

Thomas Vanek and Daniel Briere scored in a shootout as the Buffalo Sabres defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-2

Ohio State quarterback Smith wins Heisman Trophy

Troy Smith was a runaway winner Saturday night as the best player in college football


Arts

A bittersweet Christmas

Seven years after their brother's tragic plunge into the icy Atlantic Ocean, the Rankins are preparing for a reunion and cross-country winter tour

Glover defends Niagara actions

Lawyers for the Lethal Weapon star, who will plead not guilty, to appear in an Ontario court Tuesday

‘Truthiness' named word of the year

The word — if one can call it that — best summed up 2006, according to a Merriam-Webster online survey

Costello, Krall have twin boys

Musical couple ‘ecstatic' after Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James delivered

 

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