What may have disturbed Penny Loker the most about a CNN story about disfigured Vietnamese children and stillborn babies was the caption above the photos.

According to Loker's blog, it read: “Warning: the following photographs contain graphic content of severely deformed children. Viewer discretion is advised.”

Slut. Fag. Loser.

This is the way their world ends.

With a casual cruelty scrawled on a Facebook wall for all to see.

It’s one of the little deaths suffered by children every day, across the country.

These are not your father’s bullies. Rather, the digital age has given...

Six fighter jets and a few dozen soldiers are this country's only line of defence against foreign invaders.

Just not this country.

About 160 Canadian Forces personnel, along with CF-18 Hornet jet fighters, are hunkering down for a five-week campaign in not-quite-war-torn Iceland.

As the only NATO member...

Space becomes Chris Hadfield.

He's been delivering an unparalleled perspective on our homeworld ever since he rode a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station on December 21.

"India, through a hole in the clouds," the Canadian astronaut tweeted in early January, along with a picture he...

At least Cardinal Marc Ouellet's mother can take comfort in the fact that he didn't get the gig.

"Well, I am keeping my son, in a way," the 90-year-old reportedly said after hearing that Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio would be the 266th pope of the...

Susan Fleming was working in the garden one evening when she heard the call.

It came from the darkening hills that bordered her rural property in Uxbridge, Ont.

And sent a shiver down her spine.

"It was just like a baby being killed but also a donkey screaming," she recalls....

"Their solution," the Crown attorney told a rapt courtroom in Kingston, Ontario, "was to remove the diseased limb entirely and prune the tree back to the good wood."

That's how Laurie Lacelle described the murder of three teen sisters at the hands of their parents and older brother.

If Justin Trudeau's pro-energy stance gave him any currency in the West, it was quickly spent — thanks to the ill-timed emergence of comments he made to a Quebec television show two years ago.

"Canada isn't doing well right now because it's Albertans who control our...

Last night I dreamt.

I dreamt I was being showered with memories from my happiest days.

If only those dreams didn’t have to fade. As I awake to what my day will be like.

That's the opening to Toronto filmmaker Rich Obeng's mini-opus on the ravages of bullying...

Call it Generation Interrupted.

Bystanders to the economic train wreck of the Great Recession, members of Generation Y have acutely suffered the aftershocks and a painful recovery four years in the making.

Although past generations faced much more daunting challenges — global wars, deeper and more widespread economic depression —...

Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest has announced his resignation, bringing a long, turbulent career as premier to a close.

"The decision was unanimous. I will leave my post as leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec in a few days, once a new government is formed," he said at a...

Hamburglar is not amused.

McDonald's is heading for greener pastures, opening its very first batch of vegetarian-only restaurants next year.

Making its burger-free beachhead in Amritsar and Katra, India, the fast food giant is looking to capitalize on droves of hungry pilgrims that pour into the region year-round. Katra, home...

Spider-Man battles Batman on a Toronto subway car?

J. Jonah Jameson would have had a field day with this.

It seems the wacky web-crawler has gotten himself in another fine mess — and this time on public property.

Don't ask how these 'superheroes' happened to run...

Thai investigators are looking for two Portuguese men, who were seen on closed-circuit cameras escorting Noemi and Audrey Belanger back to their hotel room, according to the Bangkok Post.

They may have been the last people to see the Quebec sisters alive.

Noemi, 26, and Audrey,...

Shots rang out in Toronto's Little Italy, leaving one dead and another injured, as scores of people had gathered to watch a Euro Cup match at a bustling patio.

The shooting took place at The Sicilian Sidewalk Cafe at the corner of College Street and Montrose Avenue.

“All...

Mark your calendars.

It's going to be a busy year for end-of-the-world aficionados, now that Jose De Jesus Miranda has weighed in.

The U.S.-based religious leader is penciling in June 30 for the end of days, nudging out Mayan Doomsday enthusiasts who have have...

Paulina Gretzky hasn't met a social networking site she can't scandalize.

It wasn't so long ago that the daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was getting all kinds of flak for photos she had posted to Twitter -- not the least of it may have been from dear...

A TV personality. A syrupy smooth voice on the radio. A long-running game show host.

And, of course, a winning smile to ring in the new year. Every year.

Few growing up in the last century didn't welcome 'America's oldest teenager' into their living rooms.

Dick...

UPDATE: Thomas Mulcair was elected leader of the NDP on Saturday at the party's convention in Toronto.

The NDP may be filling the rafters and halls at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre -- some 4,000 supporters are in the house this weekend -- but the real mixer...

After a year of near-nuclear holocausts, tyrant-topplings across the Middle East and Egyptian deities popping up in testicular tumours, we're all asking the same question.

Anything else? Surely, that's all the news there could possibly be. Can we go home now?

But news...