Canada's occupy movement is reaching the one-month mark, with cities across the country still participating in the international protest.

The occupations have had no shortage of controversies, with altercations between city workers and occupants, safety concerns and a drug overdose on site. Locals and government officials have been both...

Phoenix Coyotes winger Raffi Torres is defending his Halloween costume — and himself — after he dressed up as rapper Jay-Z for a Halloween party this past weekend.

A photo of Torres was tweeted with him in blackface, and circulated on Twitter on Sunday night, creating nothing short...

UPDATE: The organizers of Occupy Toronto are distancing themselves from a group which plans to march on the Toronto Stock Exchange Monday morning, according to the Toronto Star.

At a meeting held Sunday night in St. James Park, the epicentre of the Toronto protests, officials denied links between...

UPDATE: The cold drizzle that settled over Toronto Saturday afternoon didn’t seem to dampen the spirits of Occupy Toronto protesters -- but can they last for the long haul?

Some protesters say they plan to settle in at Toronto’s St. James Park for weeks. Some even say they plan to...

We spoke with some of the many people gathered in Toronto on Saturday for the first day of Occupy Toronto.

Taking their cue from Occupy Wall Street, where thousands of demonstrators are holed up in lower Manhattan to fight perceived corporate greed and stand up for the so-called "99 per...

It's generally unlikely that you'll find a piece of a satellite on your front lawn, but the odds of a close encounter with space junk went up this weekend, if only by a little.

NASA has confirmed that its defunct, bus-sized satellite fell to Earth Friday, but...

Few events can change the way you feel about your skin.

I was 10 years old during the Sept. 11 attacks, but I have little memory of the world before it. I was raised in a Calgary suburb so overwhelmingly white it made Salt Lake look like Compton. Racism is...

For the next week and a half, the Toronto International Film Festival takes over Toronto, offering Canadians a unique opportunity to witness celebrities behaving badly. Since its start in 1976, TIFF has become as much about the antics surrounding the films as it has been about the movies themselves.

Here's...

Sure, films, premieres and galas are the raison d'être of the Toronto International Film Festival, but what fun would it be without the celebrities?

For some TIFF fans, star spotting is all that matters at Canada's signature film festival. From Yorkville to Queen West, your chances of running into a...

Poutine, chicken nuggets, perogies, PB&J sandwiches — what do you remember from your school lunches?

This week, we looked into school lunches across the country with OpenFile, and whether healthier options will lead kids down the right nutritional path. We also asked you on Facebook and...

The crowd that gathered in downtown Toronto for NDP Leader Jack Layton's funeral this Saturday was nothing short of vast. Thousands of Torontonians came to Nathan Phillips Square and Roy Thomson Hall to honour Layton's life and legacy, and to offer their condolences to his family.

The procession started Saturday...

Few politicians could garner an impromptu memorial quite like Jack Layton has. His death has spurred gestures across the city, like the chalk murals at Nathan Phillips Square and the flowers and candles left in front of the home he shared with his wife, Olivia Chow. Even a...

After Jack Layton's death was announced on the morning of August 22, cities across the country made plans to remember him.

Through Facebook and Twitter, Torontonians came together at a memorial for Layton that afternoon at 4 p.m. Hundreds gathered in downtown Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square to...

In light of plummeting stocks and rising joblessness, economist Nouriel Roubini isn't too optimistic on the state of the global economy.

Roubini, whose often foreboding economic views have garnered him the nicknames "Dr. Doom" and "permabear" in the media, painted a characteristically bleak picture of the global economy. The economist...

The images coming from across the Horn of Africa are bleak: skeleton-thin babies being held by their underfed mothers, crying for food in refugee camps, wasting away in front of the lens.

The drought in East Africa is being called the worst the region has seen in half...

With the heat wave potentially breaking records across Canada, this weekend is sure to invite summer activities like swimming and boating. The rules for water safety are simple to remember, but they're also easy to forget. Every summer, drowning becomes a renewed risk.

The bodies of...

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said that the federal government believes that around 1,800 people have fraudulently obtained Canadian citizenship, and Ottawa has intentions to revoke their status.

Following an investigation by the police and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, hundreds of Canadians have received...

If you're hot now, just wait. Canadians aren't getting much respite from the heat this weekend.

By Sunday, highs across the country could hit the low 30s, with cities like Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and even Yellowknife seeing higher-than-normal temperatures.

"There's never a mystery when the weather is really cold or...

William and Kate land in Calgary Thursday after a private break, just in time for the kickoff of the city's annual Stampede, a 10-day exhibition and rodeo that celebrates the western way of life.

Custom-made, white Smithbilt cowboy hats will be presented to the couple as part of the...

It's been a good week for beer.

The Huffington Post Canada along with OpenFile in Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and Waterloo asked you what your favourite beers are. We also asked you to...