Senator Patrick Brazeau: Bring on the RCMP charges

Bring it on. That's Senator Patrick Brazeau's message to the RCMP regarding any investigation into his expenses. Brazeau was one of three senators suspended without pay on Nov. 5, for allegedly filing inappropriate expenses. No one has been charged...

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Randall Hopley, who abducted B.C. boy, sentenced to 7 years

Randall Hopley has been sentenced to six years in prison and declared a long-term offender for the abduction of three-year-old Kienan Hebert in 2011. In a Cranbrook, B.C., courtroom Friday morning, Hopley was also sentenced to one year...

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Attacks by seniors with dementia prompt investigation

The B.C. Coroners Service will investigate the level of care in two B.C. seniors' homes following two deadly attacks earlier this year on seniors at the homes by other patients with dementia.    Investigators will look into the conditions...

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Christopher Montgomery: Senate white knight on Conservative blacklist?

Of all the questions left over from last week's release of a treasure trove of documents from the RCMP's investigation into the Senate scandal, one of the most nagging is this: Why is it that the one person who raised a red flag is no longer working...

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New Brunswick crash kills 4 teens

RCMP say four teens are dead after a crash in Notre-Dame, N.B. (CBC) Four teenagers are dead after a vehicle crashed just after midnight in Notre-Dame, N.B. RCMP said three people were ejected from the car after it veered off...

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Scott Jones attack inspires Don't be Afraid campaign

The story of a Nova Scotia man who was brutally stabbed last month has sparked an awareness campaign encouraging people to speak up against homophobia. Scott Jones, 27, is recovering after he was stabbed in the back twice and his throat was slashed...

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Faux plane crash SOS from Avery's puzzles authorities

The Canadian military mobilized search aircraft in a desperate hunt for a large passenger plane they believed had crashed in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, after a farm market inexplicably emitted an electronic SOS signal, CBC News has learned. It...

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Father given unsupervised access to children he molested

A B.C. Supreme Court judge reviewing evidence from a custody dispute determined that the father of four children sexually and physically abused three of them, contrary to the findings of a flawed Vancouver Police Department investigation. The mother...

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‘Scary’ number of defibrillators inaccessible to public during an emergency

They can help increase your chance of surviving a cardiac arrest by 75 per cent, but a shocking number of Canada's Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) may be inaccessible to the public during an emergency because they are locked away or not registered...

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Canada's economy grows at fastest pace in 2 years

CBC News Posted: Nov 29, 2013 9:14 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 29, 2013 9:42 AM ET Canada's economic growth was stronger than expected in the third quarter. Statistics Canada says the national gross domestic product grew at a 2.7 per...

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Pot-smoking Mountie can't smoke in uniform, RCMP says

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription thinks he should be able to smoke the drug while in uniform, but the RCMP says he can't smoke marijuana while in red serge or while wearing his regular working uniform....

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New Snowden docs show Canada let U.S. spy at G20

Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits. The documents...

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Child athlete injured in Whistler luging accident

A young athlete was taken to hospital last night following an accident on the luge track in Whistler, B.C., but the extent of the child's injuries remain unclear. ​Patricia Leslie, a director with Whistler Athletes' Centre, said a young athlete...

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Power slowly restored across Nova Scotia after storm

Nova Scotia Power crews continue to make progress in restoring electricity to thousands of customers after a wind and rain storm pummelled the Maritimes overnight. As of 11 a.m. AT Thursday, there were about 14,000 customers still in the dark, down...

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Shipyard workers walk off job alleging bullying by management

Updated Irving Shipyard employees in Halifax upset about worker's death CBC News Posted: Nov 28, 2013 9:40 AM AT Last Updated: Nov 28, 2013 11:23 AM AT Around 300 shipyard workers in Halifax walked off the job this morning, complaining...

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GMO salmon criticisms 'don't merit comment,' exec says

The CEO of an American company producing genetically modified salmon eggs in eastern Prince Edward Island is brushing off criticism from anti-GMO groups. AquaBounty announced this week it had received approval from Environment Canada to produce...

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Cyberbullying bill needs 'better understanding' of young people

Justice Minister Peter MacKay has called Bill C-13, the anti-cyberbullying legislation he introduced last week, a key tool in "ensuring that our children are safe from online predators and from online exploitation." Although child psychologists...

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Ex-PM's multimillion-dollar estate embroiled in court fight

For years, the fortune of a former prime minister was quietly mired in a hefty court battle pitting members of a prominent Canadian family against a big bank, Bay Street law firms and each other, CBC News has learned. The fight over the financial legacy...

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Xbox One lease-to-own option multiplies cost of hot gift

A St. John's credit counselling service is advising shoppers to buy rather than lease the Xbox One, one of the hottest gifts this Christmas season.  Microsoft's Xbox One gaming console retails for a cool $499, plus tax. The product sold more than...

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Snowstorm slams Eastern Canada

Eastern Canada is getting hit with its first big snowstorm of the year, a system that is expected to bring as much as 25 centimetres of snow to parts of Quebec and and eastern Ontario. Accidents that have caused injuries have already been reported....

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Olivia Wise, teen YouTube star, dies after cancer fight

The Toronto teenager who stole Katy Perry's heart with her YouTube version of the American singer's Roar to raise awareness of brain cancer has died following her battle with the disease.  Olivia Wise, 16, died Monday, according...

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Tories, Liberals hold 2 seats each in federal byelections

The Liberals and Conservatives each won two of the four federal byelections Monday night, a result that maintains the electoral status quo but may be seen as a partial victory for Justin Trudeau's party — which nearly pulled...

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Cleanup attempt on Wright-Duffy deal raises more questions

The prime minister's director of communications hit the talk-show circuit this weekend to explain Stephen Harper's handling of the Wright-Duffy affair, but may have raised more questions about how much Harper knew and what he did with that knowledge....

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Auditor general raises concerns about food safety, border security

Canada's Auditor General has raised red flags around food safety, border security, emergency plans on First Nations reserves and rail safety in his annual fall report tabled on Tuesday. Michael Ferguson found that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency...

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Blast of wind, snow, freezing rain eyes Atlantic Canada

New Heavy rain expected in Nova Scotia on Wednesday The Canadian Press Posted: Nov 26, 2013 10:19 AM AT Last Updated: Nov 26, 2013 10:19 AM AT Environment Canada says a major storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico will bring snow, rain...

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Middle-class votes sought for 1 big reason in today's byelections

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau can't stop talking about the middle class. In ads, speeches and in question period, the two party leaders refer repeatedly to middle-class families. The idea of the middle class is also a major...

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