Baltimore prepares for 2nd night under curfew as solidarity protest erupts in NYC

Hundreds of people were marching Wednesday night in Baltimore in protest against the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who w...

Police killings America's real state of emergency: Neil Macdonald

The first time I heard my father say it, I was trailing along behind him, licking an ice cream on a warm summer night in a Glengarry County...

What's in the Senate report the Crown wants kept from Mike Duffy's trial?

An unexpected outburst of legal wrangling over admissible evidence has forced Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Vaillancourt to put th...

'We walked, ran, crawled, scrambled,' say Calgary couple who escaped earthquake

Ancient temples brought to their knees. Foreign rescue teams combing great piles of rubble in search of survivors. And funeral pyres burnin...

California drought has thirsty cities craving saltwater solutions

Walking into the old control room is like opening the "hatch" on the TV show Lost . Inside, there are dot matrix printers, floppy...

Baltimore Orioles defeat White Sox with no fans in stands

A first-pitch strike by Ubaldo Jimenez to Chicago White Sox leadoff hitter Adam Eaton to begin Wednesday afternoon's game in Baltimore ...

'We are hungry:' Aid reaches Nepal quake's epicentre

Hands pressed together in supplication, the Nepalese women pleaded for food, shelter and anything else the helicopter might have brought on...

Joni Mitchell alert and expected to recover, says singer's website

The health of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was the subject of conflicting information with her website stating she is alert and...

Nigeria moves girls rescued from Boko Haram, won't say where

Nigeria's military says it is moving 200 girls and 93 women from a northeastern forest where they were rescued from Boko Haram extremis...

Liberal lead in Atlantic Canada still wide, but shrinking

A recent poll shows the incumbent Liberals in Prince Edward Island, while still favoured to win, have seen their lead over the provincial T...

New bank fees target kids' accounts and allow 'double-dipping,' say customers

Banking fees are going up at all of Canada's five big banks, but some customers of RBC in particular are outraged about the changes. Th...

Baltimore shows police killings America's real state of emergency

The first time I heard my father say it, I was trailing along behind him, licking an ice cream on a warm summer night in a Glengarry County...