There are stories of pressing national importance, and then there's Tim Hortons' Roll Up The Rim To Win contest, a veritable Canadian preoccupation and one so rife with rumours of conspiracy that it begs for an, ahem, journalistic investigation.

To wit, do residents...

Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic athlete better known as "Blade Runner," was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting death of his girlfriend.

A double-amputee with prosthetic legs who made history at the 2012 summer Olympics, Pistorius, 26, was arrested and charged in the alleged murder of...

Long before Luka Magnotta became a household name in Canada and the subject of an international manhunt, he was pursued by a group of online vigilantes desperate to stop a man they were convinced had killed animals for pleasure.

As the world knows,

After one of the mildest winters on record, Canada will get a healthy dose of snow and cold this season, with storms in the east, white stuff in central Canada, and dry cold in the west, a new winter forecast predicts.

The annual AccuWeather.com winter forecast released Wednesday suggests those...

Many within Quebec have complained that the rest of Canada — the so-called ‘ROC’ — doesn’t get the protests that have seen thousands of people take to the streets nightly. They blame over-simplification by a media focused on the minutia of tuition increases and the spectacle of pot-banging protests and...

In all the preparations that have been taking place for the celebration of HuffPost Canada's first birthday -- among them collecting stats such as "How many bloggers do we have now?" and "How many comments have we posted?" -- one seemingly unanswerable question kept popping up:

How many original Canadian...

Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has called on his officials to launch an investigation in the wake of a joint probe of P.E.I.'s controversial immigrant nominee program by the Huffington Post Canada and King's College journalism students.

“I have referred these findings to my department for further investigation,” Kenney said.

The clash between industry and wildlife in Alberta’s oil sands took a steep toll on black bears last year, with 145 of the animals killed by Fish and Wildlife conservation officers.

It was the highest annual cull in recent history. Nearly half of the black bears were shot...

So much news happened in 2011 it's hard to recall it all. Canadians were horrified by the images of destruction broadcast from Japan following a devastating earthquake and tsunami. In the spring, many Canucks woke up early to watch the royal wedding of William and Kate. Oh yes, and there...

UPDATE: Sold, to a fellow writer. Weh-Ming Cho found a buyer for the snowblower in Alec Bruce, a Moncton-based editor, columnist and blogger. Bruce won Cho over with an offer that included the line, "As a professional writer, I think we writer guys ought to stick together on matters of...

At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, Canadians pause in a silent, two-minute moment of remembrance for the men and women who have served our country in war, conflict and peace.

Known as Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day was first held throughout the Commonwealth...

Jack Layton's surprise announcement Monday was particularly startling for Canadians who had closely watched the NDP leader's spectacular spring election.

Hobbled by a hip fracture and the early media questions about his prostate cancer, Layton appeared to get stronger each day of the campaign. His cane became more of a...

KABUL - Ten-year-old Shuja Momuzai was collecting wood on his bicycle when the rockets hit, dozens of them of them strafing his street in Kabul. One struck the boy, but the explosive lodged in his bike spokes and failed to detonate.

Momuzai was spared but hundreds of...

UPDATE: As a Huffington Post Canada reader rightly noted, this video was shot and uploaded last year. It is not a new video.
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It begins like a family friendly Disney movie with a small cat nuzzling a fawn under a car in a suburban neighbourhood in Cranbrook, B.C.

It was only a matter of time before the Vancouver riots moved off the newscasts and into the monologues of late night TV.

Jimmy Kimmel did it up in fine form with this bit on Canada's new tourism ad, which he set up by noting how much he likes "angry...

With a cinematic score and all the Canadian stereotypes you can cram into a minute and a half, what’s not to love about this YouTube tribute to the Vancouver Canucks.

My Name Is Johnny Canuck features a bearded woodsman, axe in hand and dog at his side, recounting past beatings...

Canucks uber fan Philbert Simon wrote some lyrics to the tune from Bruno Mar’s Lazy Song, grabbed some friends to play the role of the infamous Green Men, turned on the camera and voila: A Canadian viral video hit.

With his team headed to the Stanley Cup...