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A scene-by-scene look at what happened when chaos erupted in the House of Commons

In just a few minutes, Trudeau crossed the chamber floor and marred his reputation. Here's an annotated guide to the MPs involved in the fracas and their reactions

Canada's grandstanding Prime Minister turned his beloved cameras against himself

Matt Gurney: I don't think the Prime Minister was out of control. I think he was very consciously mugging for the cameras and showing Decisive Leadership™

Georgia gang leader indicted for murder after ordering hit on baby as initiation rite

KenDarious Edwards Jr. died in his mother’s grasp on May 10, 2014, as they tried to hide from their attackers in a bathtub

Canadians will give Trudeau a pass for his actions in the House of Commons — if he mends his ways

Michael Den Tandt: The events of Wednesday in the Commons are not lethal for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but he messed up big-time

Ottawa woman says gym told her she couldn’t work out in tank top: ‘I felt discriminated against’

'The Movati staff never indicated Ms. Vecchio’s style of shirt was not appropriate – it was the lack of coverage that was the issue,' the gym said in a statement

Fistfights and tear gas: These four parliamentary brawls outdo Canada’s on every level

WATCH: Within the last year, lawmakers from South Africa, Turkey, Iraq and Kosovo have fist-fought, thrown water bottles, and even released tear gas canisters

Toronto financial district stabbing suspect Rohinie Bisesar is fit to stand trial for murder despite bizarre rants

The woman accused of stabbing a stranger to death in a drugstore last December is fit to stand trial, a mental health court judge has ruled

Justin Trudeau has apologized five times in the past 24 hours (three of them were for himself)

Even before pulling Tory whip Gordon Brown from a crowd of MPs and inadvertently elbowing NDP MP Ruth-Ellen Brosseau, Trudeau had already apologized twice

60 Minutes' Morley Safer — 'One of the most important journalists in any medium, ever' — dies at 84

Over four decades, Safer's tobacco-and-whiskey voice delivered stories that ranged from art, music and popular culture to social injustices and war reports

Immigration minister walks back suggestion that ‘a cultural element’ is why Syrian refugees go to food banks

Food banks from Halifax to B.C. have reported serving hundreds of Syrians since November, when the Liberal government launched a major resettlement program

His wife was in pain, and he couldn’t afford her meds. So he killed her, deputies say

'I want to apologize, I didn't call earlier. I wanted to tell my kids what happened first'

‘We urge the U.S. to stop spying’: Chinese fighter jets sharply intercepted U.S. surveillance plane

Two Chinese fighters flew within about 15 metres of the U.S. aircraft in an 'unsafe' manner on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. pilot to descend sharply to avoid a collision

‘I shot him. It’s my fault’: How did an Arizona lawmaker become an Alaska murder suspect?

Mark De Simone has been arrested and charged with murder. But the killing remains deeply mysterious because of the enigmatic man at its center

NEB recommends Trans Mountain pipeline expansion approval with 157 conditions

The proposed expansion project would nearly triple the capacity of the crude oil pipeline, which runs from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast

Donald Trump raised sons who became his emissaries, but not the way you might think

Why is there a gulf between a good father who raised good kids and a nasty campaign persona that's the total opposite?

Clinic accused of giving several expectant mothers same 3D ultrasound photo

An Ontario ultrasound clinic gave at least a dozen expectant mothers identical 3D stock images, after asking them to leave the room before printing their photos

Skyrocketing housing costs ‘clear and present danger’ to Vancouver’s economy, new report warns

Expensive housing and long commutes are eroding Vancouver’s ability to attract talent and business investment, study says

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Commons gets Old Testament when Liberals move to take control of House procedure

John Ivison: Tom Mulcair also sounded the alarm, saying the Tories ‘on their worst day’ didn’t try to stifle democracy in the way the Grits are now attempting

Stephane Dion operates in a world of polite gatherings and unrocked boats

Kelly McParland: Canada's foreign affairs minister is skilled at the balancing act required to make mildly critical statements without offending anyone

In Alberta, we're all progressives now

Frank Atkins: We need to stop the Alberta progressive economics tradition and it needs to happen now

Wildrose leader Brian Jean an unsung hero of Fort McMurray wildfire

Graham Thomson: Brian Jean's house burned down on the first day. For a few days he lived in a tent rather than take up a space in an evacuation centre

Canadian Politics

Justin Trudeau has apologized five times in the past 24 hours (three of them were for himself)

Even before pulling Tory whip Gordon Brown from a crowd of MPs and inadvertently elbowing NDP MP Ruth-Ellen Brosseau, Trudeau had already apologized twice

Investing

Goldman just downgraded the whole world with the summer stock slump set to be a doozy

Investors should stick to cash or credit for the next three months, warns the latest investment bank to bail on stocks

Tech Desk

Google to face opportunities and hurdles with new ‘Daydream’ VR headsets

Google said it will develop a range of VR headsets that promise to be more comfortable and durable than its ultra-cheap Cardboard headset

Entrepreneur

How connecting artists with beer helped Collective Arts become one of Ontario's top craft brewers

Since 'pouring its first pint' in 2013, Collective Arts has gone above and beyond to showcase emerging artists in Canada and throughout the world on their labels

Arts

Real Friends: An interactive map of the writers and producers who helped craft Drake's Views

A visual breakdown of the team of trusted collaborators the 6 God worked with to sculpt that beloved 'Toronto sound'

As the new Jeffersons, Black-ish is a window into a real American family, and it keeps getting better

And taking a page from Norman Lear, it offers conversations that play out in the world, where people can’t be reduced to talking points

The Shaw Festival goes back down the rabbit hole, with Alice, Uncle Vanya and Mrs. Warren

'Our first sight of the Shaw Festival’s Alice in Wonderland raises expectations and raises them high'

Israel & Middle East

ISIL video showing executioner in wheelchair could be aimed at flaunting ‘equal opportunities’ values

ISIL has previously issued statements claiming that it represents Muslims of all creeds and races, despite its sectarian hatred of Muslims of the Shia faith

Driving

How to get your car’s grimy interior looking like new

Tired of your vehicle's run-down and dirty interior? Don't ditch your car – clean it!

From Toronto to Texas to retrieve an heirloom

Except in this case, the heirloom is an entire garage full of tools

Volvo takes aim at compact luxury with 40.1, 40.2 concepts

Volvo is keeping the momentum going with two new compact concepts

Sports

Cleveland basks in the warm sense of inevitability that is LeBron James

Scott Stinson: It took awhile, but the Toronto Raptors find themselves having run smack into the middle of a LeBron in full flight

Canada rebounds from tough game to bury Sweden and move into semi-finals

After being shut out at the world hockey championship for the first time in 10 years, Canada’s offence came alive in a 6-0 win against Sweden in the quarter-finals on Thursday

Raptors up against another level of star in LeBron James

Steve Simmons: The Toronto Raptors are up against the most dangerous multi-performance, multi-tooled superstar perhaps in basketball history

‘It’s tough’: Lightning not expecting Steven Stamkos to come to the rescue

It’s harsh for the Lightning to digest, considering their general inability to create much offence in the past two games of the Eastern Conference final against the Pittsburgh Penguins

Midas Letter

Lesser-known metals poised for price increases: zinc, niobium, uranium

Sure there's a bull market in gold, silver and lithium under way. But what about zinc, niobium and uranium? These metals could be poised for a price breakout

Personal Finance

‘Can I be fired while on maternity leave?’ and other commonly asked questions

Maternity leave, disability leave and illness can leave employees feeling vulnerable — here are the answers to some of the most asked questions

Executive

'There is no need to be in the Silicon Valley': Patrick Pichette, Google adviser and former CFO

Patrick Pichette, the Google adviser and former CFO, speaks to Karl Moore about innovation, Canadian ties and Bombardier

Toronto

We need to rejig Toronto’s wards — but we don’t need to add more politicians

Chris Selley: Sticking with 44 councillors and redrawing the ward boundaries to fit was one of the five options. And it’s a perfectly reasonable one for council to endorse

‘The whole city is outraged’: Premature baby clings to life after woman in targeted car killed

Candice Rochelle Bobb, 35, was fatally wounded while seated in a car with three others Sunday night. Doctors delivered her baby with an emergency C-section

Rob Ford’s nephew says he’s running as city votes to hold July byelection for late mayor’s council seat

Michael Ford, 22, has developed a reputation as much more thoughtful and quiet presence in municipal politics than his uncles Rob and Doug

Health

Giving babies foods like peanuts before age one cuts risk of sensitization: study

Babies fed cow's milk, eggs and peanuts before age one are less likely to develop sensitization to those foods and could possibly avoid full-blown allergies later in childhood, a study suggests

Life

Introducing The Shark, one of Iceland's oldest and most feared culinary traditions

Where the more cosmopolitan Reykjavik offers the opportunity for experimentation, less populous areas are ingredients-driven

Travel

Book aims to fill gap between reality and stereotypes along historic byway, Route 66

A new story is unfolding along Route 66 thanks to a yearlong project coordinated by a tourism group with help from the National Park Service and American Indian tribes

Homes

Hot Trends and Tips for the 2016 Garden

Grab your trowel and get ready to dig in. Gardening season has finally arrived, bringing a fresh crop of new plants!

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Louis C.K. crushes Jeopardy’s Power Players, Anderson Cooper sinks and Jonathan Franzen loves birds

This week's Jeopardy is all about the smartest celebs putting their egos and pride to the test, being wrong and pretending they knew it all along

Neighbors 2 grows up from frat boy humour to feminist representation, without losing any of its hilarity

For all its feelings, Neighbors 2 is genuinely hilarious, and (surprisingly) that's thanks in large part to Zac Efron

‘Michael Cera is extremely beautiful’: Willow Smith joins forces with the actor for a song, develops a crush

Who would've thought that the notorious hair-whipper and Scott Pilgrim would team up for the song of the summer?

‘L.A. face with an Oakland booty’: Is Blake Lively’s use of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s lyric racially insensitive?

Lively used the lyric to caption a photo of her look at the Cannes Film Festival this week, leading the internet to instant outrage

Loaded with memes and pop culture references, The Angry Birds Movie stays on trend and by-the-numbers

The Angry Birds movie may not have the sweet nature and wit of a true Pixar classic, but it's accessible enough for parents and kids

Drake is building an extravagant mansion in Toronto, complete with a jersey museum and an awards room

The rapper has plans for a 21,000-square foot mansion in Bridle Path, one of the ritziest neighbourhoods in the city

League of Exotique Dancers brings back burlesque and reminds us why it’s always better to dance naked

'Feminism wasn’t about burning your bra and not shaving your legs, it was shaving your legs, working in a bar as a sex object, but knowing that you were'

‘I was screaming inside’: Xavier Dolan reacts to his latest film’s damning reviews at Cannes

'I'm not particularly worried. There have been glowing reports too'

Patrik Laine, Auston Matthews power U.S. and Finland into world championship semis

The two top prospects in this year’s NHL Entry Draft were on full display as Finland and the U.S. both advanced to the semi-final at the world hockey championship on Thursday

$999K: 'Lovely' 3,200-sq.-ft. lake-front home — with an indoor pool — that you'll likely want to tear down

By most standards, 508 Pearl Street in Windsor is a pretty nice home. It's not flashy, but it's big, has a series of nice spaces inside and an indoor pool

330 million people live within three hours of new Shanghai Disneyland — you might want to avoid weekends

Almost one million Chinese have already flocked to Disney's first resort in mainland China and the gates to the Magic Kingdom won't open for weeks

Freakish fluke that 187-carat diamond pulled from ice in North West Territories was ever found

Rare diamonds are hot right now, but Foxfire found in Canada’s Diavik mine ranks as a ‘really rare find’ says mining giant

Monogamy was failing me, so was polyamory the answer? It was exhilarating — at first

Britany Robinson: For so long, I'd been failing to find honesty in others. But perhaps that was a result of my failure to be honest with myself

‘Choose life, celebrate life’: Patricia Heaton tweets support for anti-abortion clinic

Heaton, is one of few vocal pro-life supporters in Hollywood, and once said, 'Women who experience unplanned pregnancy also deserve unplanned joy'

Toronto to Texas: A 6,200 km trip to collect my late grandfather’s prized tools

Clayton Seams: What better way to see the U.S. than through the windshield of a pickup? Our truck of choice was the Nissan Titan XD with a 5.0L turbo-diesel V8

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