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Michael Rafferty's Fate In Hands Of Jury Now

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - The fate of Michael Rafferty, accused of abducting eight-year-old Victoria Stafford for his sexual gratification before brutally killin...

Rafferty Trial Nears End

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.09.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - Do not be fooled by the "murderous duo" of Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty, the jury that will soon be deciding Rafferty's f...

Watching the Watchdog: The Bare Facts About "Naked News"

Tim Knight | Posted 07.07.2012 | Canada
Tim Knight

For teenage boys and lonely men everywhere it's the answer to the nag: "Why don't you stop playing all those damn video games and actually learn something by watching the news instead?"

What Americans Think Of Joe Fresh Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Karolina Weglarz | Posted 04.26.2012 | Canada Style

Whether it's the bright, bold colours or their affordable prices, we in Canada can't get enough of Joe Fresh. The iconic brand launched in 2006 to suc...

Tori Stafford Suspect Constantly Checking News After Girl's Disappearance

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.13.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - In the days following Victoria Stafford's disappearance, the man accused of killing her began dating new women and worked on his beat-u...

Stafford Trial Hearing About Forensics

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - Traces of blood found in a car allegedly used to abduct Victoria Stafford belonged — with near certainty — to the eight-year-old a...

Stafford Trial To Hear About DNA Evidence

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - The trial of a man accused of killing Victoria Stafford won't sit Tuesday in London, Ont., because one of the lawyers is ill.Superior C...

Trial To Hear About Search Of Rafferty's Home

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.05.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - A hazy picture of the man accused of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford began to emerge Thursday, with glimpses of a life filled ...

Chilling Autopsy Testimony Continues

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.05.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - It was possibly the most exhaustive missing-person search in Canadian history, but for months the remains of eight-year-old Victoria St...

Transgendered Beauty Queen Wants Clear Answer From Trump

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.03.2012 | Canada

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A woman who was originally barred from competing in the Miss Universe Pageant because she was born a man says she was devastated...

Sister: Ottawa Did Not Do Enough For Jailed Farmer

CP | Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.02.2012 | Canada

GRAND FALLS, N.B. - The sister of a New Brunswick potato farmer who spent more than a year in a Lebanese jail on accusations he exported rotten potato...

Public to Politicians: Is it Just You, or Is it Me?

Alison Loat | Posted 05.10.2012 | Canada Politics
Alison Loat

On Friday, the Manning Centre released their annual poll on Canadians' attitudes towards various policy issues and government's performance more generally. If I were a politician, these stats would make me want to enter some form of image makeover and/or rehabilitation program, pronto.

Degrassi Actor's Death Likely To Remain A Mystery

CP | Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.18.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Fans of actor Neil Hope, who played troubled teen Wheels on "Degrassi Junior High," are still wondering just how his death at age 35 could h...

RCMP Shooting Suspect Arrested

CP | Chris Purdy, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2012 | Canada

EDMONTON - RCMP believe a fugitive charged in the shooting of two Alberta Mounties heard the emotional plea his parents made through the media and dec...

Family Killed In B.C. Car Crash

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2012 | Canada

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A newspaper employee and his family travelling to Vancouver to fulfil a lifelong dream to see an international tennis match were...

Three Canadians Plucked From Sinking Sailboat

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2012 | Canada

First the power on their sailboat cut out, then they were knocked into the stormy waters of the Pacific by the very ship that was steaming to their re...

Canada Census 2011: Are You Part Of This Home Trend?

The Huffington Post Canada | Sarah Kelsey | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada Style

More and more people are ditching detached homes in the suburbs for high-rise life in the big city. According to figures released this morning from...

Missed Stop Sign Cause For Deadly Crash

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.09.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - A van carrying 13 poultry farm workers from South America drove right through a stop sign and into the path of a freightliner truck, po...

Sheila Nabb Recovering From Surgery

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.03.2012 | Canada

CALGARY - The husband of an Alberta woman severely beaten in Mexico says she is slowly recovering from extensive facial reconstruction surgery and fac...

Suspect In Sheila Nabb Beating To Stand Trial

CBC | Posted 04.03.2012 | Canada

A Mexican man will stand trial for attempted murder in the vicious beating of Canadian tourist Sheila Nabb, a judge in Mexico has ruled. ...

Shafia Family To Keep Their Fortune

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.31.2012 | Canada

OTTAWA - In the weeks before he helped kill his sisters and his father's first wife, someone had used Hamed Shafia's laptop for an online search.That ...

What The Shafia Trial Means For Canada's Muslims

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - The Shafia murder trial has cast a shadow over Canada's Islamic community, further tarnishing an image that has not yet recovered from the e...

Houston, We Have A Problem

CP | Linda Shearman, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.29.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Two Toronto teens who launched a Lego man into space were rewarded with some awe-inspiring video, but experts say anyone trying to replicate...

Closing Arguments Over In Shafia Trial

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.26.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - The evidence against three people accused of killing half their family over honour is "irrefutable," a Crown attorney told the jury i...

Lawyer: A Murder Staged To Look Like An Accident

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.26.2012 | Canada

UPDATE: Closing arguments at the Shafia trial have been delayed to a security issue, according to reporters at the courthouse in Kingston. "Strang...