Defence lawyers presented a 911 call to a Kingston, Ont., court that Zainab Shafia made to police before her death, in which she says her boyfriend was angry they had broken up and that he might try to kidnap her. The jury heard the call Tuesday during cross-examination of Ammar Wahid, Zainab’s former boyfriend. “Like [...]

More than half of the immigration judges applying to review refugee claims in Canada in 2012 are not qualified to do the job, a CBC investigation has found. That’s because more than half of them failed to meet new criteria that will be a requirement of the role after it undergoes legislative changes. The immigration [...]

Egyptian Montrealers gathered at the Egyptian consulate in Montreal Tuesday night to show solidarity for protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. They said they are demanding the ruling military council immediately transfer power to a civilian government. Yasmine Farahat said the council, that took power when president Hosni Mubarak was forced out last January, has not [...]

Federal prisons in British Columbia and Manitoba are forcing some inmates to be double-bunked in segregation cells, a practice that was supposed to have been abolished for everything but extreme emergency situations a decade ago, CBC News has learned. Documents obtained by CBC News under the Access to Information Act show at least two prisons [...]

Taylor Van Diest was on her way to meet friends for a Halloween party when she was killed. CBC Police may have a break in the Halloween night slaying of an 18-year-old woman in Armstrong, B.C. RCMP say there have been what they call “significant developments” in the investigation into the killing of Taylor Van [...]