As the Occupy movement spread from Manhattan to cities across North America, Capital News watched the first 48 hours of the protest in downtown Ottawa.

A change in Canada’s refugee policy leaves people trying to escape armed conflict or civil war with an impossible choice — risk everything by trying to flee the country, or stay trapped in a deadly conflict.

Conservative MP Brian Storseth is proposing a private member's bill to remove hate speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act that he says infringe on Canadians' freedom of speech.

After another commercial aircraft missed the mark when landing at the Ottawa airport earlier this month, some experts are blaming Canadian runway standards for failing to measure up against their international counterparts.

Strange lights in the sky.  Unexplained tremors.  Human limbs washing ashore.  When the truly weird happens, people want answers from the authorities.  But does the Canadian government have the answers?  CapNews investigates.

Across Canada, the Amber Alert program has helped locate abducted children since 2003, but it's not perfect. The system is a patchwork, with some law enforcement agencies using phone trees to notify each other when a child is kidnapped. Now under review, the goal is a national standard to help save children's lives.

That plush lining in your winter gloves could be made from slaughtered and skinned dogs and cats.  That's why not one but two NDP MPs have tabled private members' bills to shut down canine and feline fur imports from China and southeast Asia.

The animation industry in Canada has come to life.  A combination of creative energy, new technologies, tax credit assistance and small-scale entrepreneurship has spawned a business sector now earning some $4 billion.  Capital News profiles one thriving company.

When the bulldozers move on that architectural monstrosity from the 1960s, are we inadvertently depriving future Canadians of a historical gem?  Cross-jurisdictional confusion, commercial interests and a failure to appreciate the worth of particular buildings are eroding our national heritage legacy. 

The good news for Aboriginal Peoples is that their income — personal and community — is on the rise.  The bad news, say aboriginal money managers, is that without a basic knowledge of how to handle newfound wealth it may slip through their fingers.

Canada's history stretches back for more than 15,000 years, full of countless objects, vast landscapes and captivating characters. Capital News Online, with the help of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, looks at nine significant objects from our nation's history and investigates the time, place and people that make the items so integral to understanding our past.

The Government of Canada wants you to eat kosher, and just gave $700,000 to the Montreal Jewish Community Council to develop kosher standards for non-Jewish foods.  L'chaim!

With millions invested in space technology, Canada is responsible for groundbreaking robotics, medical research — and even a little clowning around.

Renewed concern over violence in hockey has made its way onto the federal stage. Recent examples of severe violence on the ice has led to calls to revamp the rulebook and bring in the Criminal Code.

It's bad enough to be ill without having to suffer what passes for cuisine in most hospitals.  But on the premise that good food can help people get better, one company is leading the push for a new country-wide standard and an end to hospital kitchen nightmares.

The government is opening the national telecommuncations industry to foreign investment, which could mean good things for Canadians' cell phone bills and services.

The Olympic Committee says the Vancouver 2010 games will be one of the greenest in history. But some experts say the process of artificial snow making is not so green after all.

Hunters from the East Coast and the Arctic have been feasting on seals for centuries. There's growing interest in marketing seal meat nationally, but some obstacles must still be overcome.