B.C. children escape abductors after home invasion goes wrong

A 25-year-old man is in custody and the RCMP are searching for two other men after two children were abducted during a home invasion in Burnaby, B.C., on Sunday. 

Three teens suspected in Vancouver bank robberies

Police in the Vancouver area have arrested three teens under age 15 who are suspected of a string of bank robberies in the Lower Mainland. 

Canada on crash course without Hercules foam safety device: ex-pilot

Canada needs to act swiftly to equip their Hercules aircraft with protective foam after an inquiry into the deadly crash of a British Hercules found it may have prevented the tragedy, a former RAF pilot says.

Newfoundland and Labrador to develop Lower Churchill alone

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador plans to move ahead on its own to develop the Lower Churchill River hydroelectric generating project, Premier Danny Williams announced Monday.

Golf courses, rec centres booming: StatsCan

Golf courses, recreation centres and ski hills reaped financial rewards as an increasing number of Canadians tried to get fit in 2004, Statistics Canada says.

Mom who let 2 babies starve set to be deported

Deportation proceedings were due to start Monday against a Japanese woman who left her two young children alone to die in her apartment in Calgary while she partied for more than 10 days in 2001.

Rie Fujii says she wants to be reunited with her family in Japan.

Quebec boy travels to Rome to sing for Pope

A young boy from the Quebec City area who is coping with a rare illness is about to live one of his dreams by singing for Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.

Jeremy Gabriel (CBC)

4 men beat, rob 91-year-old homeowner

Police in Ottawa are asking for the public's help after four masked men stormed into the home of a 91-year-old man, tied him up and beat him before making off with his money.

Would-be patient takes hostages at N.S. clinic

A man seeking medical attention briefly took four people hostages when he was denied service at a doctor's office in Halifax on Sunday.

Vietnamese family finally reunited in B.C.

Seventeen years after he fled Vietnam, a resident of a Philippine refugee camp was finally reunited Sunday with his brother in Vancouver.

School abuse deal includes $80M for lawyers

Lawyers who have been representing residential school abuse survivors are expected to get the biggest payment ever recorded for a Canadian class action case.

Former NWT premier Stephen Kakfwi isn't happy that lawyers are making so much from the residential school deal. (CBC)