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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes his seat as he arrives for the start of the leaders' retreat at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru on Saturday.

APEC leaders vow to push free trade

Summit members agree to freeze new barriers to trade for 12 months; Harper says sound policies key to avoiding financial collapse similar to Great Depression


Obama pledges economic plan for 2.5 million ‘more jobs'

But in clarifying president-elect's message, spokesman says he meant the plan will ‘save or create' 2.5 million jobs


Maritimes get blast of winter

Heavy snow disrupts travel, closes roads and knocks out power


No. 33 joins the greats

Montreal honours St. Patrick before Saturday's game against the Bruins

Nation Builder 2008

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Tell us who should win

The Globe is looking for those outstanding Canadians who unify and inspire


Breakdown

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Canada's mental health crisis

Globe series returns with focus on children


Globe essay

Quebec's false turn and its next realignment

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If the polls are right, the Liberal status quo will be reinstated and the PQ is in for some psychoanalysis.

 

Report on Business 

The Detroit Three ... Two? One?

Bailout or no bailout, North American car makers will still be making vehicles in the next decade. But don't expect the auto industry of tomorrow to look anything like today's

The Caisse says it's in good shape

Directors of Quebec's most powerful economic institution dispel growing concerns over liquidity problems

Inflation drops to 2.6 per cent

Gasoline prices rise at slower rate than previously, while car prices decline

HudBay, Lundin merge in $814-million deal

Friendly transaction will create Canada's second-largest base metals company by market capitalization

GM closes Oshawa truck plant earlier than planned

May shutdown comes as the beleaguered auto maker reduces production at plants across North America


National 

Auto bailout would drive deficit too high, McGuinty warns

Ontario Premier says demands on his government increasing as economic times get worse

'Lives could have already been saved'

What caused Sunday's deadly crash in B.C.? One of the first assumptions is pilot error - but there could have been more to it than that

Vancouver Games to face money hurdles: CEO

‘We have to be ready' for unpleasant surprises, Furlong warns, and ‘manage ourselves accordingly'

Online messages detail plot to kill girl's family

Court hears disturbing exchange between accused, his girlfriend and two others

Bomb suspect's partner stands by him

Ottawa professor alleges history of 'bizarre' surveillance as she offers life savings as bail at extradition hearing


Canadian Politics 

Desperate opposition pounces on Caisse rumours

Talk of massive losses at pension fund provides fodder for Charest's opponents

For Campbell, normal no longer exists

Economic crisis not a perfect storm, but rather a 'seismic shift,' B.C. Premier says

RCMP interview Bernier about Couillard claims

Mounties waited until after the election to discuss allegations of influence peddling with former foreign affairs minister


World 

Is Japan's 'lost decade' a window to the future?

It hit suddenly, and when the bubble burst it was a wipeout. As today's crisis deepens, the unthinkable is becoming all too real

Eight Canadian soldiers hurt north of Kandahar

Injured expected to make full recovery; French soldier also killed in separate attack

Strong quake hits waters off western Indonesia

No immediate reports of injuries or damage

French Socialists in disarray after leadership vote

Aubry declared winner over Royal by tiny margin; Royal supporters demand a re-run

Carter, Annan refused entry to Zimbabwe

Former U.S. president, others were planning humanitarian mission to the impoverished African country

U.S. strike in Pakistan kills wanted British militant

Rashid Rauf was suspected ringleader of a 2006 plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners using liquid explosives


Life 

Grey Cup: They bleed for the Cup - no matter who's playing

Superfans go mobile, scouring the Internet for cheap flights and sometimes even taking out loans to reach the four-day bash

The graffiti made me do it

People are more likely to break laws near tagged walls and litter

Driven by the sun

It cost him his life savings. It ended a relationship. But Marcelo da Luz's passion for solar-powered cars culminated in a Guinness World Record. Patrick White reports


Health 

Will a few weeks off from exercise hurt me?

Keep up your workout intensity or you'll pay for it later

Fall babies may be more likely to develop asthma

Study shows that kids born in early fall have a 30 per cent higher chance of developing asthma

Skip the doctor's office, go right to the drugstore

More provinces look to grant pharmacists greater power to prescribe drugs

Even our kids have drinking problems

What we drink over the course of a day might as well be counted as a full meal, according to a beverage consumption report from Statscan


Science 

Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk

Repairs to gummed-up joint come as recycling system to convert urine into drinking water breaks down for third day in row