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G20 Analysis

They took Toronto's streets, but for what?

It was a day like this city has never seen and hoped it never would

Poutine - Fernand Lachance, a cafe owner in Warwick, Que., assembled its foundation in 1957 for a trucker craving both French fries and curds. Jean-Paul Roy, a restaurateur in Drummondville, Que., added gravy to complete the dish. Poutine has since sneakily cropped up in eateries across the country and past our borders, inspiring such (questionable) variations on the classic toppings as bacon, peas and barbecue sauce.
Share Your Canada

What should Canada's national dish be?

With Canada Day around the corner, The Globe is teaming up with Facebook to survey Canadians about what our country means to us.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at his closing news conference at the G8 Summit
John Ibbitson

Could Stephen Harper be right?

Prime Minister defends G8’s relevance in the G20 era

A demonstrater faces police in riot gear near the G20 site on June 25, 2010 in Toronto.
Summary

The G8/G20 Saturday morning roundup

What you need to know as Day 2 of the G8 winds down in Huntsville and the G20 gears up in Toronto

Montreal, June 10, 2010-- Amir Raz, Canada research chair in the cognitive neuroscience of attention, poses outside his McGill University offices in Montreal, June 10, 2010.
Medicine

From magic trick to medical treatment

Hypnosis ‘is not quackery’; rather, it may hold secrets to treating such ailments as Tourette’s syndrome and asthma

Master Corporal Kristal Giesebrecht, 34, was killed in a blast near Kandahar City on Saturday.

Two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

34-year-old master corporal, 21-year-old private killed in blast, bringing death toll to 150 since mission began

Stern condemnation

G8 wavering shows difficulty of taking common action

Leaders condemn North Korea, water down rebuke of Iran after resistance from Russia, fail to take major strides in other areas.

Strike averted at Via Rail

Via reaches tentative three-year deal with union

Five-year-old Manitoba boy killed in bike accident

Police say boy was struck by a tow truck as he rode through an intersection

One of two missing kayakers found off Newfoundland coast

RCMP say they’ve involved in co-ordinated search with Canadian Coast Guard

Quebec, public workers settle amicably

475,000 employees to get 7% raise over five years

Syncrude guilty in ducks trial

Verdict marks landmark ruling in environmental case sparked by discovery of more than 1,600 dead ducks on company's tailings pond

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Christie Blatchford
Hilda wasn't frail - until she received hospital ‘care’

She was fully mobile and full of spunk

Christie Blatchford
Adam Radwanski
On summit security, police answer to no one

With neither legislation nor precedent to limit their powers, the rights of Canadians come off second best

Police make their presence known Tuesday on the streets of Toronto.
Margaret Wente
Motherhood: the new oppression

The obligations of responsible mothering have been ratcheted way up – they even start before conception

Margaret Wente
Marcus Gee
They took Toronto's streets, but for what?

It was a day like this city has never seen and hoped it never would

G20 Protest in Toronto. June 26, 2010. Ryan Enn Hughes For The Globe and Mail
Jeffrey Simpson
They’re a motley crew of 20 at this Toronto summit

These summits group countries with huge disparities in income and size – and often different foreign policy agendas

Jeffrey Simpson
Lawrence Martin
The gong show’s over – Parliament can use the break

Prorogation, vitriol, muzzling, flip-flops, culture wars, Jaffer-Guergis have made it a session to forget

Lawrence Martin
Rick Salutin
The men who came to dinner

Summit leaders have annihilated much of our normal life for the past week for their safety and convenience

Rick Salutin
On Parliament Hill
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The West Block, right, on Parliament Hill as seen from the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa.
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A tug boat passes slowly underneath the Lion's Gate bridge in Vancouver as a shroud of fog envelopes Stanley Park during the early morning hours in downtown Vancouver, December 22, 2008.
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Aerial views of downtown Toronto
The G(irls)20 Summit
Belinda Stronach on why girls need their own summit

‘One of our key pillars is to improve the lives of girls and women around the globe’