Canada

How a graffitied message became a symbol of hope for a community

A floating security fence to protect warships in Halifax Harbour has fallen victim to a more modest assault: mussels

Peter C. Newman on how the convention revealed a party still searching for a way back from the brink

Paul Wells on why unlocking Alberta’s vast petroleum riches will be anything but easy

’Foreigners’ are not the project’s only obstacle

High-profile Quebec Tories blast the PM for ignoring the province

Our semi-regular round up of findings from the academic world

Tooba Yahya banks on her son’s shaky alibi that he was there when his sisters ’accidentally’ died

Statistics Canada performs a census just once every five years; between 2000 and 2010, Wood Buffalo performed eight.

With contracts for half a million public sector workers to be negotiated this year, things could get very ugly