Toronto Star - 2014-12-28

• THE YEAR’S BEST SPORTS QUOTES
• Bill revives debate on serious but poorly understood illness
• ‘Cookie Guy’ doles out crumbs of human kindness
• CORPORATE WEED
• AirAsia jet loses contact above Java Sea with 161 people on board,
• Canada gets second shutout win,
• Yorkville fire remains shrouded in mystery
• Barberian builds on his father’s stake
• OPP officer driven to return to duty
• Critics push RCMP for action on mental health
• Deck the halls (and the decks) — a Christmas at sea
• Pakistan’s new reckoning with Taliban
• Volunteeri­ng for suicide saved Syrian boy from Islamic State
• Extremist leader gives himself up in Somalia
• Court lowers prison term in same-sex wedding case
• Police snub New York mayor at funeral
• Tsunami changed religious tide in Indonesia
• Canada gets image makeover in U.S.
• Canada needs a brighter science policy
• Making our prisons less inhumane
• U.S.-Cuba rapprochem­ent a win-win
• Coequal status for aboriginal­s vital to our future
• The Islamic State group targets all religions equally
• Britain looks to clear debts dating back to 1700s
• NOT SO STILL LIFE
• Rowdy ladies and a taut low-budget horror chiller
• No limits for the funny, and filthy, Jim Norton
• Remake fails to improve original
• Blades on Stage ice show fails to impress
• Did Dragons’ Den alumni fizzle or catch fire?
• > POP GOES THE YEAR
• A 2014 television time capsule
• SUNDAY CROSSWORD
• ILLEGAL INNOVATION
• Diemonds this girl’s best friend
• Changing the world by educating children
• Fearless young entreprene­ur a triple threat
• Unlocking the secrets of diseased brains
• Good care for kids needs to be election issue
• Tapestry Opera’s young new visionary
• The discipline to forgo birthday cake
• Young, ‘radical’ and a team player
• Taking the pulse of provincial health care
• ‘A born storytelle­r and a born writer’
• Art as life, with wit
• Catching up to our machines
• Caught between two countries
• > WHODUNIT: JACK BATTEN
• Comedy opts for easy escape
• China through the eyes of exiles
• HOLIDAY’S OVER
• Raptor win impresses Clippers
• Wizards make easy work of Celtics
• Jays still eyeing Japanese shortstop as second-base fix
• Devils GM decides to split coaching responsibi­lities
• Quarterbac­ks under pressure with post-season berths on line
• World juniors: Costly seats sit empty

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