Amanda Knox says she won't willingly return to Italy

Amanda Knox said Friday she will fight the reinstated guilty verdict against her and an ex-boyfriend in the 2007 slaying of a British roommate in Italy and vowed to "never go willingly" to face her fate in that country's judicial system . "I'm going...

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Sports drinks unnecessary, counterproductive for most people

If you're grabbing a sports drink to replenish your electrolytes after exercise, you could actually be working against your workout. A CBC Marketplace investigation found that the vast majority of Canadians don't exercise hard enough to need the colourful...

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CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Snowden documents

A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada's electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands...

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Young and restless, Russia's polarized 'Putin generation': Nahlah Ayed

Sergei Pospelov's political influences come from around the world: He quotes John F. Kennedy, reads about Winston Churchill, and praises Vladimir Putin. It doesn't take long after the latter's name comes up before Pospelov displays a picture on his...

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Ontario premier defends minimum wage increase

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is defending her government's decision to raise Ontario's minimum wage, and repeated her call to have future minimum wage increases linked to inflation. "It is the fairest position that we could have taken," Wynne said...

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Destruction of books from Fisheries libraries cost thousands

It's costing the federal government more than $22,000 to dispose of books and research material from Fisheries and Oceans scientific libraries across the country, according to new documents. The information comes from the office of Fisheries and Oceans...

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Chalk one up for Trudeau's Senate surprise: Chris Hall

There may well prove to be a great deal wrong with Justin Trudeau's plan to change the Senate, but being bold won't be one of them. The Liberal leader sent jaws dropping and tongues wagging across Ottawa when he hoofed all 32 Liberal senators out of...

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Putin's pre-Sochi crackdown expands despite high-profile releases

When Russia's best known political prisoner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was released last month from prison after serving almost all of his 10-year sentence, he told reporters "you should not see me as a symbol that there are no more political prisoners left...

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Doctors trying to bring Michael Schumacher out of coma

Michael Schumacher's doctors have started the process of bringing the former Formula One champion out of the coma he has been in since a skiing accident a month ago, his manager said Thursday. The 45-year-old Schumacher suffered serious head injuries...

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Justin Bieber posts online video while being charged with assault

About the same time he was being charged with assaulting a limousine driver, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber posted an Instagram video promoting his new video that some speculate may have been shot from inside a Toronto police station....

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MPs return to Parliament today, with election on their minds

An election is a year or more away, yet when Parliament is back in business Monday it will be hard to interpret any activity in a way that isn't somehow related to the vote scheduled in 2015. Expect to see a few new distractions. Liberal Leader...

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5 memorable performances from the Grammys

Whether it was over-the-top turns from current chart-toppers or one of the U.S. Recording Academy's many risk-taking match-ups, the 56th annual Grammy Awards was a performance-packed extravaganza. Here are five onstage performances that stood...

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The bloody backlash against Russia's gays: Nahlah Ayed

Dmitri Chizhevsky's injured left eye is hidden behind a simple cotton disc and a slash of medical tape. He imagines that when his eye is finally healed, he will be able to see with it again. The doctors disagree, insisting he's lucky even to be alive....

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The new ministerial responsibility: punish the underlings

Near the end of the fall sitting of Parliament, Tom Mulcair had a little bee in his bonnet over the lost, then found, emails of Ben Perrin, the prime minister's former legal counsel at the centre of the Duffy-Wright affair.  During question period...

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Send in the Marines? The quiet Western buildup in Africa: Brian Stewart

In the U.S. military's remarkably globalized world staff, officers deep in a special headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, are organizing training missions over three continents all dedicated to one special place — Africa. What's striking is that...

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2 detained after 'sexual act' on Air Canada flight

Two people were detained for allegedly having sex on an Air Canada flight this weekend. The woman, 24, and man, 38, were detained when Air Canada flight 610 from Toronto landed in Halifax, N.S., on Friday evening.  Sgt. Alain LeBlanc of the...

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Gas pipeline explosion leaves thousands without heat in southern Manitoba

A fire is out after burning for more than 12 hours at the site of a natural gas pipeline explosion near Otterburne, Man., about 50 kilometres south of Winnipeg. But officials say there are now natural gas outages affecting as many as 4,000 people...

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'There were angels that night': stories of survival from L'Isle-Verte

Nelida Pettigrew always had boots, a scarf and a warm coat ready at the door, just in case. Her daughter made a point of ensuring that if Pettigrew ever needed to leave her room at the Résidence du Havre in a hurry, she would be properly dressed.  ...

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