Sex-selective abortion adds new focus to annual Hill protest

Thousands of protesters are expected on Parliament Hill today for an annual anti-abortion rally, weeks after Conservative backbenchers said they weren't allowed to talk about abortion in the House of Commons. The protest organizers say the theme will...

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Missing B.C. man kept secret offshore accounts

A B.C. man who vanished a decade ago in a possible underworld killing set up offshore companies and bank accounts before he went missing, and is among the 450 Canadians named in the recent massive leak of tax-haven data. Greg Cyr's ex-wife is now...

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Mother's Day 2013: Send us your life lessons from mom

CBC News Community team, from left to right: Andrew Yates, Lauren O'Neil, Andrea Bellamare, John Bowman (Not shown: Andrea Lee-Greenberg, on leave) If you're part of the CBC News community, you're likely to meet one of us: we're the folks working to...

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Curb junk food ads aimed at children, group says

Canadian children under 13 shouldn't be exposed to marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages, a coalition of medical groups says. Thursday's policy statement from the Canadian Medical Association, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Hypertension Canada and...

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Ex-Laval mayor Vaillancourt among 37 arrested

Quebec's anti-corruption squad arrested 37 people this morning including Gilles Vaillancourt, the embattled former mayor of Laval, Que. The squad also arrested former construction entrepreneur Tony Accurso and former Dessau Engineering executive Rosaire...

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Toronto marathon runner, 18, died of heart abnormality

The father of a teenager who died while running the Toronto marathon says his daughter died of an anatomical heart abnormality that is rarely detected. Steven van Nostrand said a coroner determined the stress of the late stage of the marathon caused...

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Child abductions by strangers rare in Canada

Child abductions by strangers rarely happen in Canada, but exactly how rare is harder to determine. Police statistics show 25 children of the 46,718 reported missing in 2011 listed as "abducted by stranger." However, the definition of stranger for...

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3 forest fires out of control across New Brunswick

Did you see the forest fires? Submit your breaking news, stories, photos and videos. Upload Now You must be a member of the CBC News Community to upload. Sign Up now. Two forest fires in New Brunswick's Petitcodiac area and another in Kedgwick...

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Queen of the North ferry captain recalls sinking

When the Queen of the North set sail on the night of March 21, 2006, captain Colin Henthorne and his crew were set for what should have been a routine voyage down B.C.'s Inside Passage from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. According...

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Revenue minister discusses moves against tax evaders

Revenue Minister Gail Shea and her cabinet colleague Maxime Bernier are meeting reporters on Parliament Hill this morning to discuss the Harper government's renewed effort to fight offshore tax evasion and crackdown on compliance problems. Last week,...

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Canada drops out of race to tap methane hydrates

Canada is abandoning a 15-year program that was researching ways to tap a potentially revolutionary energy source, just as Japan is starting to use the results to exploit the new fossil-fuel frontier: methane hydrates. Methane hydrates are crystals...

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Why Luka Magnotta's trial won't happen until 2014

Luka Magnotta's murder trial is set for Sept. 15, 2014. Although that date is more than two years after his arrest in connection with the death of Jun Lin, that is not an unusual amount of time for a high-profile murder case to reach the trial stage....

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Hockey fan’s 'Toronto stronger' sign angers Boston

A sign held by a Maple Leafs fan outside the Air Canada Centre on Monday has triggered an avalanche of online outrage. Before Monday night's Game 3 between the Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins, photos surfaced online of a Leafs holding a sign that read...

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Dalton McGuinty admits moving gas plants was his decision

Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty admitted Tuesday he didn't know the full cost of moving gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga when he made the controversial decision to relocate them. Speaking before the legislature's justice committee Tuesday,...

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Hot economy means boom times for sex trade in N.L.

Business is booming for the sex trade in Newfoundland and Labrador, as workers in the industry move from walking the streets to posting online. Iris is a high-class escort or "service provider" who works in and around the St. John's area. She agreed...

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MacKay looks to give presidential choppers a 2nd life

Some helicopters from U.S. President Barack Obama's cast-off fleet may yet find their way into the service of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The Canadian Press has learned Defence Minister Peter MacKay recently ordered National Defence to take another...

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Veteran Alberta parachutist dies after fall

A parachuting instructor has died after a jump at Eden North, a skydiving site north of Stony Plain, Alta. John Scott was an instructor at the Eden North Parachute School. RCMP were called to Eden North around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when it was reported...

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Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking

A Vancouver teacher says his career has been derailed by an ex-girlfriend who won't stop posting countless defamatory and offensive comments about him on the web. "I feel not only shut out of my own profession — but any job I apply for," said Lee David...

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Greg Weston: How a terror suspect slipped through immigration's cracks

Almost 20 years after Raed Jaser was ordered kicked out of Canada as a bogus refugee with a fake passport and a criminal past, he was still alive and well and living in Toronto last month when police charged him with plotting an alleged al-Qaeda-backed...

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