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Police arrest 'Super Freak' bank robbery suspect

Bomb squads sharpen skills in robot rodeo

Dead squid gets plastic surgery

Calgary MP advises soldiers to 'pull trigger'

Calgary MP Rob Anders is raising eyebrows for signing a card in support of Canadian troops with the handwritten message: "When in doubt, pull the trigger."

Needles found in sausages: Toronto police

Police in Toronto have issued a public safety warning about needles found embedded in packaged meat at grocery stores.

Brenda Martin in and out of prison since parole

Brenda Martin, a Canadian who spent two years in a Mexican prison for her part in a highly publicized case of money laundering and was later flown home in a government-chartered jet, has been in and...

Bus killer Vince Li returns to court

The man who stabbed and beheaded a passenger aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba returned to a Winnipeg courtroom on Monday for a mandatory annual review of his detention in a mental-health facility.

Mulroney-Schreiber dealings inappropriate: report

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney's business dealings with German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber were "inappropriate," Justice Jeffrey Oliphant says in his report.

Hate crime alleged after two gay men beaten

A man in Windsor, Ont., has been charged with inciting hatred after two openly gay men were assaulted in the city's downtown.

Ted Koppel's son found dead in NYC apartment

The 40-year-old son of former ABC anchor Ted Koppel has been found dead in an Upper Manhattan apartment, police said Tuesday.

Bank of Canada expected to raise interest rates today

Higher borrowing costs appear to be in the forecast for Canadians today, as Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is expected to approve the central bank's first interest rate increase in three years.

Chris Haney, co-creator of Trivial Pursuit, dies at 59

Chris Haney, one of the co-creators of Canada's most famous board game, Trivial Pursuit, has died at the age of 59 after a long illness.

Smoking rates decline among young adults

New survey results from Health Canada show smoking rates among young adults declined last year.

Antidepressants linked to raised risk of miscarriage

Canadian researchers are raising new worries about the use of antidepressants in pregnancy, after finding that the medications appear to hike the risk of miscarriage by 68 per cent.

Michelle 'Bombshell' McGee says Bullock should thank her

Thanks to her affair with Jesse James, Michelle McGee is now shooting ads for the pro-adultery website AshleyMadison.com. As McGee tells CTV's "etalk," she's good with the...

Netanyahu shortens Canada trip after deadly raid

The Harper government wants more information about an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others.

Economy grew by 6.1 per cent in first quarter

Canada's economy grew at an annualized rate of 6.1 per cent in the first quarter. Statistics Canada says the national gross domestic product increased by 1.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2010,...

Canadians want halt to Mulroney-Schreiber affair: poll

Canadians have had just about enough of the murky Mulroney-Schreiber affair, a new poll suggests.

Ex-stripper mom pleads not guilty to killing baby

A former stripper was arraigned Monday on macabre allegations that she let her newborn baby die and stashed the corpse in a freezer.

Mulroney mum with media at T.O. fundraiser

Just hours after a judge called "inappropriate" Brian Mulroney's acceptance of money from a former arms dealer, the former prime minister smiled as he walked silently past the media before a...

One in five Canadians think the Queen should stay home: Poll

A majority of Canadians have little interest in the Queen's visit to Canada next month, a poll by Leger Marketing for QMI Agency suggests.

Army overflowing with recruits, but air force short

Canadian army, navy and air force chiefs gave starkly different reports to a Senate committee Monday on public enthusiasm to join their ranks.

Private security firm hired for G8/G20 summits

Private security firm Contemporary Security Canada has announced that it has been awarded the contract to provide "security screening services" for June's G8 and G20 summits.

Canadian profs warn privacy laws don't reach cyberspace

The proliferation of online college and university course offerings is raising concerns about privacy, a pair of Nova Scotia educators warn.

Alcohol may have been a factor in bizarre, grisly Edmonton road death: police

An impaired driving investigation is underway after a fatal accident in which a man was hit by a pickup truck in north Edmonton and then dragged under another vehicle for 27 blocks.

Canadians among least optimistic cure for cancer is imminent: Poll

For all the running, cycling, ribbon-wearing, and head-shaving done by residents of Canada and the western world, we are actually the least optimistic that a cure for cancer will be found within our...

Anti-HST petition a ‘done deal,’ organizers say

Support for the petition set to surpass 15 per cent of voters necessary in vast majority of B.C.’s ridings

CBC’s schedule – too soft, too safe?

The public broadcaster’s fall season doesn’t take nearly enough chances, which is precisely what the network should be doing

Belinda Stronach on why girls need their own summit

‘One of our key pillars is to improve the lives of girls and women around the globe’

Opposition hammers Tories on summit security

The subject of policing costs dominated the Commons again today

Stockwell Day: Apple's latest iPad convert

Minister raves about his new tech toy, says it's great for the environment

Canadian leaders seek details of Israeli attack on aid convoy

'Given the loss of civilian lives, we are expecting clarification on exactly what happened' Michael Ignatieff's statement of regret said

Feds paint Harkat as liar in final arguments

A federal lawyer began concluding arguments in the Mohamed Harkat case by painting him as a calculating terrorist who consistently covered his tracks with lies

GAUDET: Welcome to the club

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has become the newest member of the notorious Billion Dollar Boondoggle Club thanks to Summitscam. He joins the ranks of Jean Chretien, Jane Stewart, Allan Rock and...

TRAVERS: Middle East dangerous place to play Canadian politics

Stephen Harper has long played domestic politics with the Israeli fire. Now foreign policy flames are licking around a Prime Minister caught too close to the leader of a country being condemned this...

MAHER: We’ll never know whole story on Mulroney

On Nov. 24, 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper boarded a Northwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Portland. Once airborne, he informed the flight attendant that he had a bomb, hijacked the plane and...

SIMPSON: Oliphant applied the smell test - and Mulroney failed

After all the testimony, and after all these years, it’s hard to imagine that Mr. Justice Jeffrey Oliphant could have concluded anything else. Said he, in a report released Monday: The conduct of...

WESTON: Mulroney's legacy lost

A $14-million commission of inquiry has confirmed what many Canadians likely had already concluded — namely, former prime minister Brian Mulroney was wrong to accept three envelopes stuffed with...

IVISON: No mistaking Oliphant's condemnation

Canadians didn't need a $16-million public inquiry to tell them it was not appropriate for a former prime minister to take envelopes stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a...

YAFFE: Mulroney actions 'not appropriate' -- should he repay taxpayers?

A government inquiry's findings that Brian Mulroney's business dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber were inappropriate leaves the former PM's reputation in tatters. Justice Jeffrey Oliphant's report,...

EZRA: Why is it OK to pick on Christians?

Ihave never told him this, but I was tremendously disappointed when I first met Monsignor Fred Dolan, the Canadian vicar of Opus Dei. It was about six or seven years ago, around the time The Da...

Prime Minister Layton?

In one respect, the results of an Angus Reid poll to be released on Monday are not surprising — the Conservatives are at 35 per cent, the Liberals at 27 and the NDP are at 19 per cent; in Quebec,...

Fear of Liberal advertising to blame for billion-dollar G20 tab?

Blaming Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals is the latest defence in the Conservative quiver of excuses to try to explain the massive $1-billion security tab for next month’s G8/G20 summits. As the...

Clement blames 'silly season' for infomercial flap

Industry Minister Tony Clement dismisses a Commons uproar over an infomercial appearance as a product of the parliamentary "silly season."

Upset! Comedian's 'Best Party' wins Reykjavik election

Voters in Iceland's capital have dumped the city's traditional political leaders in favour of a new, humour-based party founded by a popular comedian.

Gun-registry report delayed until after Commons vote

A positive report on Canada's long-gun registry was kept secret from members of Parliament until after a crucial vote in the House of Commons, newly disclosed documents show.

Toews 'welcomes' audit of $1.1 billion security budget

The public safety minister is standing behind the whopping $1.1 billion security bill for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits, and says the auditor general is free to review the expenditures after world...

Tale of Mulroney-Schreiber comes to inconclusive end

Justice Jeffrey Oliphant will unveil Monday the final inconclusive chapter in the tawdry tale of Brian Mulroney's dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber.

Feds ready to spend $1B on maternal health: sources

The federal government is telling other G8 countries that Canada is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health -- as long as other countries ante up too, sources tell The...

TMI: New Zealand PM tells news conference he's had a vascetomy

A news conference in New Zealand came to an awkward halt Monday after the country's prime minister acknowledged having had a vasectomy.

Couple's slaying a case of mistaken identity?

Young grandparents gunned down in a quiet Cranbrook home may have been the victims of a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Proposed copyright bill aims to protect artists and consumers

The Conservative government is poised to introduce its long awaited copyright bill within days, Industry Minister Tony Clement told QMI Agency Sunday.

Copyright bill open to collaboration, amendments: Clement

Faced with an almost guaranteed public campaign against their new copyright legislation, the Conservatives are actively looking to recruit allies across the Commons floor.

Body of man pulled from Que. canal

The body of a man in his twenties was pulled from the Chambly Canal in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu early Sunday morning.

Two dead in B.C. shooting

>A man and a woman are dead following a shooting in Cranbrook, B.C. Saturday morning.

Rumours surround Canadian commander's dismissal

Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard — who was fired late Saturday as head of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan because of alleged sexual misconduct — is the first Canadian general officer to be dismissed...

Passenger removed from plane in unscheduled Montreal stop

A transatlantic Aeromexico flight made an unscheduled stop at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport Sunday night, airport authorities confirmed around 8 p.m.

Hot, dry weather keeps fires raging in Quebec

The forest fires that have forced 2,500 from their homes continued to rage through Quebec Sunday, bolstered by wind, sun and dry conditions.

Health authorities warn against dangers of 'fake' pot

The weed may be fake, but the potential dangers are real. That’s the message health authorities in Canada and the United States are sending out about a herbal incense product that, when smoked,...

Edmonton man dead after being struck, dragged 20 blocks

A man is dead after being struck by one vehicle and dragged by another for more than 20 blocks late Saturday night in Edmonton.

E-mail raises more questions in Jaffer-Guergis affair

Business partners considered letting the then-minister take credit for proposed Canadian industrial park in China

Jaffer’s business partners considered letting Guergis take credit for industrial park

Businessman mentioned idea in an e-mail to Nazim Gillani

Fuel and sewage spills poisoning Arctic, study finds

Revelations come as Gulf of Mexico spill presses Ottawa to put its Arctic environmental rules under more scrutiny

Paul Martin's legacy

Five years later, former PM Paul Martin reflects on two of his legacy projects - a new deal for cities and the G20 - and is pleased by what he sees

AG ready to look at security tab

‘It certainly seems like a lot of money’, Sheila Fraser says

With Harper in his corner, Netanyahu gets warm Canadian welcome

Since elected, Ottawa has shown unbending support for Israel, despite tilting with the political winds on other major foreign-policy issues

Canadian scientists make spinal-cord research breakthrough

Researchers pinpointed unique abilities of spinal cord neurochemical receptors as the reason why patients with severed cords often have some muscle activity

G8, G20 summit security a waste of money, anarchists say

Montreal anarchists also say the $930-million G8/G20 security plan itself is 'psychological warfare' meant to deter protesters

The 21 Creepiest Religious Toys and Gifts

California Mom Finds Kidnapped Daughter on Facebook

Miracle escape for drummer who fell from balcony and impaled his head on a fence

Quotable: M.I.A. Isn’t Impressed With Lady Gaga

Celine Dion Pregnant With TWINS

'Shrek' Beats 'Sex' AND 'Persia'

Skype's New IPhone App Makes Calls Over 3G

Meet Apple iPad's Chinese rival, iPed

Symantec Tips For Guarding Facebook Privacy

3G Roaming Ripoffs Follow Apple iPad on its World Tour

Liberals can't remove Ignatieff before next election, even if they wanted to

The Liberals are heading into the summer with their public support as low as it was under former leader Stéphane Dion, and some Grits are worried Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will lead them to...

Government can't have it both ways on ministerial accountability, says expert

The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper "can't have it both ways" and invoke ministerial accountability in the controversy over access-to-information interference while ignoring it to avoid...

AG's House audit could be election campaign issue, says pollster

The controversial issue of the AG's performance audit on Parliament could become an election issue and cause some MPs to lose their seats depending on how it's handled by the House, says pollster Nik...

Feds stalling special Afghan detainees probe, could be a fall election

The federal government is hindering attempts to finalize an agreement allowing opposition MPs to view uncensored copies of secret documents central to allegations of detainee torture in Afghanistan,...

HÉBERT: One last fling for Mulroney-Schreiber

Among the 17 questions Justice Jeffrey Oliphant is expected to answer in Monday’s report on the business relationship between Brian Mulroney and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, a few are of more...

LEGER: Summits: It’s time to scrap the lavish gabfests

It’s going to cost more than a billion dollars to host the G8-G20 summits this summer in Ontario. Is that for real? It’s going to cost Canada $1.1 billion to house, feed and protect 20 heads of...

GEIST: Security breach disclosure bill has bark but no bite

Last week Industry Minister Tony Clement unveiled two bills touted as important components of the government’s national digital strategy. The Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act is a repeat of...

SOLBERG: Ditzy Grits lack focus on big issues

Last Tuesday, I accidentally watched question period, something I had sworn off when I left that chamber of horrors a year and a half ago. (No, I said horrors!) Imagine my surprise when Liberal...

KAY: Harper seen as champion of Israel

The first time I met Benjamin Netanyahu was on Sept. 9, 2002, in the lobby of a Montreal hotel. The former Israeli prime minister (as he then was) and his entourage had just retreated from Concordia...

50 Cent Went From Built to Bony for Role

Family Divided Over Jesse James Abuse Claims

Duchess of York Getting Hired By Trump on 'Apprentice'?

Sarah Silverman Gets Frisky In Public

Flood of frogs shuts down major Greek highway

German robbers destroy bank but fail to get cash

Man infects himself with computer virus

Conservatives remain in lead

The governing Conservative Party holds a national lead of eight percentage points over the Liberals, according to new poll by EKOS. The poll, released exclusively to CBC, shows that when...

Shrimp burglar hits St. John's store

St. John's fish store has suffered a string of break-ins in May by a thief or thieves looking for a very specific seafood product.

Thieves changed flat tire before stealing impounded car, then burning it

It appears likely that thieves deliberately targeted a 1979 Chev Capri involved in a theft from an impound lot Monday night in Charlottetown.

Guergis not welcome back: Tories

Former Conservative cabinet minister Helena Guergis will never be readmitted to the Tory caucus, CBC News has learned.

Girl, 10, shot in Winnipeg's West End

A 10-year-old Winnipeg girl was wounded as bullets ripped through the front window of a West End home early Wednesday evening.

Didn't talk lobbying with Jaffer: CEO

The head of an Ontario waste management firm says he never discussed lobbying efforts with former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer or his wife, former cabinet minister Helena Guergis.