Newsmakers of the Year

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  Newsmakers of the Year: neo-NDPers

  When the NDP won an unprecedented 103 seats in the federal election, an eclectic cast of unknowns was thrust into the spotlight

  by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Newsmakers of the Year: the heroes of the Arab Spring

  The Arab Spring unleashed a wave of hope and action in a region ruled by oppressive regimes and tyrants

  by Michael Petrou - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Newsmakers of the Year: Will and Kate

  Will and Kate give the monarchy new blood and relevance. They gave everyone else a love story to remember.

  by Anne Kingston - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 21 Comments

Winners and Losers

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  Losers: the down and out

  From Sarah Palin’s presidential bid to dire visions of the apocalypse–everything that didn’t turn out in 2011

  by Michael Friscolanti - Monday, December 5, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  This year’s winners: the game changers

  From Arcade Fire, through Mark Carney to the Palestinians–whatever they did, this year they played by their own rules

  by Anne Kingston - Monday, December 5, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Losers: the Canucks

  Roberto Luongo was the star Vancouver wanted. But he and the Canucks couldn’t deliver on a city’s Stanley cup dream.

  by Charlie Gillis - Monday, December 5, 2011 - 3 Comments

Heroes and Villains

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  Rogues of the year

  From scam marriage to b-day parties with dictators–they’ve done it

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Villains: Meet the shame gang

  From Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik to cancer fraudster Ashley Kirilow: portraits of evil

  by Colby Cosh - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 2 Comments

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  Villains: CBS has lost its Sheen

  As Two and a Half Men rolls on without him, Charlie treads the familiar path of a washed-up star and turns to cable tv

  by Jaime Weinman - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 2 Comments

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  Heroes: none but the brave

  From average Joes like Dennis Manuge to celebs like Kate Winslet

  by Emma Teitel - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Villains: Gadhafi reign of fear in

  He had Libyan dissidents gunned down in London, sponsored the Italian Red Brigades, and kept an album of photographs of Condoleeza Rice–to cite a few

  by Michael Petrou - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Heroes: the Fukushima 50

  When 700 workers were evacuated from a Japanese nuclear power plant, these few stayed behind to battle a meltdown

  by Jason Kirby - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 0 Comments

Entrances and Exits

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  Entrances: Pippa Middleton

  Like Kate, Pippa has perfected the “say nothing, keep smiling” strategy

  by Patricia Treble - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 4 Comments

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  Entrances: She’s the one to watch

  From Tavi Gevinson to Maria Aragon, 2011 had plenty of dynamite girls

  by Kate Lunau - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Exits: the newly departed

  From Oprah to Glenn Beck: the ones who bowed out, and those who were booted out

  by Colby Cosh - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Entrances: Bursting on the scene

  From the IMF’s first pink ribbon at the top to the new country on the map–a close look at this year’s newcomers

  by Emma Teitel - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Exits: No rush for the doors

  Canada’s top soldier in Afghanistan tells Maclean’s he’d go back if he could

  by John Geddes - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 0 Comments

Mergers and Breakups

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  Breakups: Sayonara!

  From George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis to Lauro Garza and the GOP–a tour of this year’s splitsville

  by Jaime Weinman - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Mergers: Sarkozying up to the chancellor

  How Europe’s power couple makes the unlikeliest of pairs

  by Nicholas Köhler - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Mergers: And they all lived happily ever after

  From Shania Twain and Frédéric Thiébaud to the Huffington Post and AOL–this year’s best love stories

  by Cathy Gulli - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

Comebacks and Setbacks

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  Comebacks: many happy returns

  From Sidney Crosby, through Gabrielle Giffords to Crocs–this year’s memorable revivals

  by Richard Warnica - Friday, December 9, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Two steps back

  From Julian Assange to RIM–this year’s reversals of fortune

  by Alex Ballingall - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Setbacks: Rupert Murdoch

  The media mogul has always had an unsavoury reputation, but he had never looked weak or ineffectual before

  by Jaime Weinman - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

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  Comebacks: the Winnipeg Jets

  All hail Marc Chipman, or Jesus of the prairies

  by Jonathon Gatehouse - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

Feuds

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  Feuds: fightin’ words

  From Google and Apple to Newfoundland and a ballooning moose population–bad blood runs deep

  by macleans.ca - Friday, December 9, 2011 - 2 Comments