ADAM RADWANSKI | Columnist profile | E-mail From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 10:10PM EST Last updated Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 8:08AM EST It will put Ontario's dire fiscal situation into sharper focus.

February 10, 2012 Sandro Contenta Archbishop Thomas Collins, at St. Michael's Cathedral. He is to become a cardinal on Feb. 18 in Rome. RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR Chatter and deep yawns fill the gym at St.

Dean Beeby OTTAWA- The Canadian Press Published Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 7:23AM EST Last updated Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 8:28AM EST Stephen Harper's senior bureaucrats have been racking up some hefty airfares at a time of government restraint and controversy over travel. Travel expenses recently posted for the final quarter of 2011 show executives at the Privy Council Office, the prime minister's own department, paid costly fares last year on some of the most competitive

From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 5:00AM EST Torture, rights How bizarre that Prime Minister Stephen Harper should choose to raise the issue of human rights in China only a few days after his Public Safety Minister approved, under "exceptional circumstances," the use of information extracted through torture by foreign intelligence agencies. Good news for Iran, among others.

jeff blair TORONTO - Globe and Mail Update Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:05PM EST There was much for Ron Wilson to be unhappy about Saturday night but given the number of times he mentioned Carey Price by name both when prompted and unprompted and the manner in which he laid the unravelling of his team squarely on events after a first goal that was "stoppable," it was clear where most of the blame lied.

bruce anderson Globe and Mail Update Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:46AM EST The NDP leadership race is entering its last laps and the stakes are rising.

US skater Ashley Wagner won the women's competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championship in the US state of Colorado on Saturday. Japan's Mao Asada finished 2nd after getting the highest score for the short program the previous day. Another US skater, Caroline Zhang, took the bronze. Canada's Patrick Chan won the gold in the men's competition on Friday. Japan's Daisuke Takahashi was second.

FRIBOURG, Switzerland, Feb. 12 (UPI) - Ryan Harrison and John Isner had straight-set wins Sunday that completed a 5-0 U.S. sweep over Switzerland in a Davis Cup first-round series. Harrison defeated Michael Lammer 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (7-4) and Isner beat Marco Chiudinelli 6-3, 6-4.

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Associated Press Mitt Romney. Portland - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. Results of Maine's non-binding straw poll showed the former Massachusetts governor with 39 percent support, or 2,190 votes, ahead of libertarian