Christian Cotroneo

Mark your calendars.

It's going to be a busy year for end-of-the-world aficionados, now that Jose De Jesus Miranda has weighed in.

The U.S.-based religious leader is penciling in June 30 for the end of days, nudging out Mayan Doomsday enthusiasts who have have...

Paulina Gretzky hasn't met a social networking site she can't scandalize.

It wasn't so long ago that the daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was getting all kinds of flak for photos she had posted to Twitter -- not the least of it may have been from dear...

A TV personality. A syrupy smooth voice on the radio. A long-running game show host.

And, of course, a winning smile to ring in the new year. Every year.

Few growing up in the last century didn't welcome 'America's oldest teenager' into their living rooms.

Dick...

UPDATE: Thomas Mulcair was elected leader of the NDP on Saturday at the party's convention in Toronto.

The NDP may be filling the rafters and halls at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre -- some 4,000 supporters are in the house this weekend -- but the real mixer...

After a year of near-nuclear holocausts, tyrant-topplings across the Middle East and Egyptian deities popping up in testicular tumours, we're all asking the same question.

Anything else? Surely, that's all the news there could possibly be. Can we go home now?

But news...

UPDATE: CBC News is reporting that an overdose is the "preliminary cause of death" of Joey Basha, according to a statement by Hong Kong police.

Police are still awaiting a toxicology report, according to The Canadian Press. Confirmation whether the criminal probe launched will continue is pending. Basha's...

Far from the shambling tents and tarps that the world now knows as Attawapiskat -- a northern Ontario reserve that catapulted to public attention just over a month ago -- a couple of politicians ran into each other in an Ottawa stairwell.

The Thursday encounter between Aboriginal Affairs...

Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56.

An iconic figure, Jobs is credited with ushering in countless consumer technologies -- and always, with an unfailingly personal touch. From the late 1980s to early this year, he took centre stage at Apple product releases...

By the time Marc Martel finishes his Freddie Mercury impression -- a stripped down, living-room rendition of a Queen classic -- it's clear that we have found somebody to love.

Since 'Somebody To Love' was posted on YouTube on September 20, the 34-year-old Canadian's home recording...

OTTAWA - Fear gripped financial markets Monday as the fallout of a downgrade of America's credit worthiness crushed stocks and investors seeking safety sent gold to a record high.

The volatility was reminiscent of the turmoil leading up to the recesssion three years ago, but fears of a sputtering recovery...

The Vancouver riots hardly gave the city a moment to reflect on its shattered Stanley Cup dream. Instead, the next day finds a nation reflecting on shattered windows, shops and bones.

Thanks to an unending stream of images, broadcast across the globe, we won't soon forget the teenaged girls kicking...

UPDATE: The couple has been identified.

While a city burned its Stanley Cup dream in the flurry of flames, looting and bone-breaking that was the 2011 Vancouver riots, an altogether different sort of passion spilled, literally, into the streets.

At the moment, they're known only as...

THE HUFFINGTON POST CANADA -- Within minutes of a 4-0 loss to the visiting Boston Bruins, angry, drunken crowds poured into the streets -- and an unassuming car became one of the earliest victims of the Vancouver riots that would follow.

By the time someone got...

Top of the ninth.

A tilt between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Score knotted at 1.

But it wasn't the hometown team that suddenly brought the crowd at Citizen's Bank Park to its feet.

Indeed, the entire country had erupted - dancing in the...

At least 200 people are dead and the devastation continues to mount in the wake of massive storms in the southern United States.

Officials in Alabama have confirmed 131 deaths so far, while there were 32 in Mississippi, 15 in Tennessee, 13 in Georgia, eight in Virginia and...