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Day 1: The strange and shocking from the Games

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Sports

The first day of the Olympics was notable for the first head-to-head meeting between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, a stunning disqualification and r...

Surrey toddler falls 3 floors after pushing out window screen

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A toddler received minor injuries after falling from a third-floor apartment window in Surrey's Strawberry Hill neighbourhood Saturday afternoon. ...

Brian Pallister unopposed for Tory leadership in Manitoba

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Politics

Brian Pallister is set to become the next leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative party after a nomination process closed Saturday with him be...

Vancouver police chase gun suspect around Hastings Park

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A 28-year-old man has been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon after he was allegedly spotted waving a handgun near Hastings Park, home of t...

B.C. small towns lure doctors with housing

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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The mayor of an interior town says rural communities in B.C. are outbidding each other to attract doctors, with some communities shelling out consider...

Man in critical condition after Coquitlam fight

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A man in his 20s is in critical condition after a fight Friday night in Coquitlam. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tony Farahbakhchian said the victim...

1st gold will bring confidence says U.K. Olympics chief

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Even before they filed into the Olympic Stadium to the tune of David’s Bowie’s rock anthem Heroes, the athletes of Great Britain’s Olympic team ...

Police investigate Williams Lake arrest

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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West Vancouver police have been called in to investigate the conduct of a Williams Lake RCMP officer, after a man who was arrested ended up in hospita...

Ryan Lochte destroys Michael Phelps to win 400 IM

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Sports

Round 1 goes to Ryan Lochte. In the battle for swimming supremacy, the American raced to an Olympic gold medal during the men’s 400-metr...

Nunavut residents rescue RCMP after office fired on

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A man who is about 20 years old is in police custody in Iqaluit after shots were fired at the Kimmirut detachment early Saturday morning. ...

B.C. premier saves some fighting words for Ottawa

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Much of B.C. Premier Christy Clark's criticism at a meeting of premiers in Halifax this week was aimed at Alberta Premier Alison Redford's proposed na...

Human rights complaint over Montreal girl forced off bus

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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The family of a 12-year-old girl who was forced off a public transit bus in Ville St-Laurent, Que., last month is filing a civil rights complaint agai...

Toronto police car in funeral procession kills pedestrian

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Ontario's civilian police watchdog is investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a police car leading a funeral procession in Toronto. ...

Canadian Trail: Day 1

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Sports

How Canadian athletes are faring on Saturday (Day 1) at the Olympic Games in London: Badminton Toby Ng (Vancouver) and Grace G...

Fireworks to light up sky over English Bay

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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The Honda Celebration of Light international fireworks competition kicks off over English Bay Saturday night with the first of three pyrotechnic displ...

Head of TCHC considers arming special constables

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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The president of Toronto Community Housing says he'd like to arm the special constables who patrol its neighbourhoods. Gene Jones has aske...

1 man stabbed in Scarborough

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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One man is in a Toronto hospital with serious injuries after a stabbing near Warden Avenue and Kingston Road. Police were called to Birchc...

Sinclair, Tancredi lead Canadian women past South Africa

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada Sports

Christine Sinclair and Melissa Tancredi helped Canada score a 3-0 victory over South Africa for their first win in the Olympic women's soccer tourname...

Hundreds attend funeral of girl killed in Toronto mass shooting

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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More than 300 people made their way to a Toronto funeral home Saturday morning to say goodbye to Shyanne Charles, the 14-year-old girl killed in a mas...

U.S. agency investigating Enbridge oil spill

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A U.S. government agency is investigating an oil leak of about 1,200 barrels (190,000 litres) that seeped out of an Enbridge pipeline in Wisconsin, wh...

Paintings by famous Montreal artist damaged in robbery

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Two of the eight paintings by Montreal artist Guido Molinari that were recovered by police were seriously damaged in the robbery. Last wee...

Second person dies from Saint-Eustache car crash

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Two people are dead following a car crash that took place around 5 a.m. ET Saturday in Saint-Eustache, north of Montreal. Sgt. Phillipe Ge...

Bike path stabbing in the Laurentians

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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A 29-year-old man was stabbed on the cycling path in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, about 100 kilometres north-west of Montreal. Police say the ...

Police make arrest in strip joint stabbing

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Montreal police have arrested a suspect in Longueuil in connection to a stabbing near a strip joint that happened Saturday morning. The dr...

Ron Hynes diagnosed with cancer

CBC | Posted 09.27.2012 | Canada
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Singer-songwriter Ron Hynes has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Lynn Horne, Hynes' manager, said Hynes will be starting treatments of r...