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Need an idea for dinner this week? Try Ricardo's sesame beef ftir-fry with snow peas. https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/recipes/2020/01/19/sesame-beef-stir-fry-with-snow-peas.html

When “Sweat,” a contemporary drama between laid-off factory workers in rural America, had a run in Washington, D.C. in January 2016, the Washington Post theatre critic Peter Marks thought it had all been done before. http://torstar.co/s6rB50xZvJv

Blame may ease our anger. But it may also be counterproductive at this sensitive time, writes Penny Collenette. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/01/19/laying-blame-can-be-a-dangerous-game.html

Bong Joon Ho’s darkly funny thriller “Parasite” made history at the #SAGawards. It was the first time that award has gone to a film not in the English language.

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See what’s available — and for how much — with a selection of GTA Open Houses.

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Global politics, big money, high technology and the intricacies of Canadian law will come together Monday when the extradition hearing of Meng Wanzhou begins in a Vancouver courtroom. http://torstar.co/mNxW50xZuN0

At least 114 people were injured at protests outside the country's Parliament on Sunday, according to the Red Cross and the Lebanese Civil Defence teams. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middleeast/2020/01/19/lebanon-to-release-protesters-detained-after-night-of-riots.html

Schiff believes the U.S. intelligence agencies are withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be pertinent to President Trump's impeachment trial. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2020/01/19/schiff-accuses-nsa-cia-of-withholding-documents-on-ukraine.html

One can only hope the love Harry and Meghan have for each other — and their yearning to be free — has made all this fracturing of family, rupturing of traditions, worth it, @RDiManno@twitter.com writes. http://torstar.co/eUBu50xZrHO

Harry and Meghan have effectively used social media to leap over their 93-year-old grandmother and family, writes Jaime Watts. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/01/19/queen-elizabeth-shows-flexibility-as-social-media-shifts-power-to-her-grandchildren.html

City of Toronto planning staff have been told to oppose downtown homeowners who want approval to build parking pads on the basis they need access to a charger for an electric vehicle. http://torstar.co/OTvr50xZr61

#ICYMI: Plans to buy a Tesla have helped a Parkdale man get a front-yard parking spot over the protests of City of Toronto officials and his local councillor.

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Alternating between 2000 and 2008, before and after a local factory lays off hundreds for outsourcing, automization and cheaper non-unionized jobs, Lynn Nottage’s script is a modern tragedy in a sitcom setting, writes Carly Maga. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/review/2020/01/17/pulitzer-winning-sweat-lays-bare-the-first-sting-of-capitalisms-failures-in-toronto-debut.html

A new take on the Barber of Seville, spooky ghost monologues and the movie version of "Cats" (well . . . if you want it to become the new “Rocky Horror.”)

Here are nine things to do in Toronto this week: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2020/01/19/nine-things-to-do-in-toronto-this-week.html

#ICYMI: A popular University of Toronto Mississauga professor is defending his decision to reward marks to his students if they buy his book and follow him on social media.

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With just over two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, supporters of the two progressives and erstwhile political allies remained upset. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2020/01/19/sanders-and-warren-try-to-tone-down-rift-some-of-their-supporters-seem-less-willing-to-do-so.html

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne wrote Sunday to his Iranian counterpart to stress Canada’s view that the black boxes should be sent quickly for analysis by experts in either France or Ukraine. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/01/19/canada-keeps-up-pressure-amid-signs-iran-wont-turn-over-downed-planes-black-boxes.html

The federal government is spending $500,000 to lure investors to develop untapped mineral resources in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/01/19/feds-give-500k-to-project-to-promote-northern-mining-at-annual-conference.html

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking his country down a dangerous and divisive path, writes the Star editorial board. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2020/01/19/india-is-heading-down-a-divisive-path-with-citizenship-law.html

Seventeen more people in central China have been diagnosed with a new form of viral pneumonia that has killed two patients and placed other countries on alert. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/asia/2020/01/18/china-reports-17-new-cases-in-viral-pneumonia-outbreak.html