CBC News The lawyer for the man accused of carrying out a daring, daylight gangland-style assassination in Toronto’s Little Italy, says his client “has no idea why he’s been charged.” Christopher Avery, said Friday that Dean Wiwchar is “extremely upset”…
CBC News A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal election was registered to a “Pierre Poutine” of Separatist Street, Joliette, Que., court documents reveal. The…
CBC News British Columbia now has the toughest animal-cruelty laws in the country, a year after the discovery by the SPCA of a mass grave of up to 100 sled dogs in Whistler. The provincial government has introduced the Sled…
CBC News For over a quarter century the U.S. political system has dodged and weaved its way around one of the great scandals of our times — the mass incarceration of millions of its citizens. But in all the theatrics…
CBC News Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu said Wednesday he’s against the death penalty, but not opposed to convicted murderers having ropes in their cells to kill themselves. His comments, made to reporters ahead of the Conservative caucus meeting, prompted immediate…
CBC News Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead. Police said Hoare’s death at his home in England was not considered to be suspicious, according to…
CBC News Winnipeg police have made an arrest in connection with a weekend rooming house fire that killed four and left two others critically injured. Lulonda Lynn Flett, 40, has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder and four…
CBC News The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations Shawn Atleo told the country’s 630 chiefs on Tuesday that it is time to move away from the Indian Act. Atleo laid out a plan calling on all First Nations…
CBC News A woman who told a New Brunswick court she was abducted, held for 26 days and sexually assaulted by Romeo Cormier testified Thursday that she was too fearful to escape, even though there were opportunities. Asked during cross-examination by…
CBC News When Cathy Wagner of Bridgewater, N.S., heard a CBC story last week about babies stolen from their families several years ago in Hunan province, her reaction was that nothing has changed. She’s the mother of a 5-year-old girl…