Snowden's father might visit Moscow at FBI's request

Edward Snowden has been stuck in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since arriving from Hong Kong more than a month ago. ...

Norovirus blamed for 9 deaths in B.C. care home

Norovirus, once known as Norwalk virus, is highly contagious and often spreads in places like nursing homes. (Centres for Disease Control an...

Student forgotten 4 days in cell to get $4M from U.S.

Daniel Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a San Diego police officer who said he would ...

March honours Canadians' role in WW II Sicily liberation

If Operation Husky sounds unfamiliar to you, you are not alone. It is a code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily that liberated the regio...

Site at centre of U.S. prostitution bust active in Canada

A 26-year-old Winnipeg woman who asked to only be identified as Kristin holds a negligee up after taking a call from a client who responded ...

Aboriginal nutritional experiments had Ottawa's approval

A nurse takes a blood sample from a boy at the Indian School in Port Alberni, B.C., in 1948, during a period when nutritional experiments we...

Rainbow flags burned outside Fort McMurray pride event

RCMP in Fort McMurray are investigating after two rainbow flags were burned outside the first gay pride event in the northern Alberta city. ...

Quebec entrepreneur denied non-French business name

Related External Links Ménard's YouTube video (French) (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external li...

Spain train driver was on phone before deadly derailment

Francisco Jose Garzon Amo was talking on the phone to an official of national rail company Renfe when the crash happened and apparently was ...

7 unanswered questions about the Toronto streetcar shooting

Many questions remain surrounding the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim on a Toronto streetcar. (CBC) While demonstrators pr...

Striking diplomats target Harper's office in protest

Foreign service officers demonstrate outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., in May. On Tuesday, the striking workers are protesti...

Term 'cancer' should be narrowed, doctors say

Overdiagnosis occurs when tumours are detected that if left untreated would not cause harm during the patient's lifetime. (Eric Gaillar...