A civil rights breakthrough at Miss Universe Canada may not be universal as it's being left to individual franchises to decide whether to carry out a policy paving the way for transgender competitors.

A man who says he was sexually harassed by a Manitoba judge has asked the Canadian Judicial Council to appoint a lawyer to help him because he has been turned down by several other lawyers.

Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties to win the Champions League after the two sides finished the match 1-1.

Canadian-owned I'll Have Another overtook Bodemeister down the stretch to win the Preakness and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown.

NATO has asked for Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan past the end of their training mission in 2014, but Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird tells CBC he isn't "prepared to commit to any more than that."

The leaders of the G8 group of countries agreed that Europe's financial crisis must be addressed with a mix of growth and austerity measures, as they met in Maryland.

The adoption of emergency legislation to end Quebec's escalating student crisis stoked fiery debate across the province overnight, from highly charged street protests that lasted into the wee hours to harsh editorials and some calls for civil disobedience.

A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.

In an interview with CBC Radio's The House, retired Quebec Superior Court judge John Gomery tells host Evan Solomon that Quebec's new emergency law goes "very far." He also raises concerns with the media's coverage of the student conflict, describing the reporting as "increasingly extreme and immoderate."

Many British Columbians are headed to the province's shores this long weekend — but the increasing amount of tsunami debris washing up is raising alarm bells.

Community groups across the country are scrambling to save some 500 lighthouses the federal government has recently declared surplus.

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the United States with his family.

A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remains stuck on the ground after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.

SpaceX is set to make history with its launch in May, as a number of private companies in the U.S are trying to reach above Earth's atmosphere

Authorities cracked down on thousands of protesters, many of them students, flooding downtown Montreal near the Berri-UQÀM metro station Friday night after Molotov cocktails were thrown.

The family of Christine Harron, an Ontario teenager who vanished 19 years ago today, recently learned of a string of police errors that allowed the proceedings against a man who confessed to assaulting and killing the teenage girl to be permanently stayed.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg took the company public on Friday but the stock price closed just barely above its IPO price as stock markets closed.

Quebec's legislature has voted in favour of an emergency law aimed at cooling tensions in the 14-week student strike.

Opposition leader Tom Mulcair says Canada has been hit by the so-called 'Dutch disease,' which holds that increasing oil exports artificially inflate the dollar and harm manufacturing. But not all agree with his assessment.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair seeks permission to discipline 30 of his officers, including two senior officers, in the wake of a damning report on police actions during the G20 summit in 2010.