A vintage law from the prohibition era still affects Canada’s modern wine industry. A Tory MP private member’s bill aims to change the law and make it legal for local wines to cross interprovincial borders.

Transgendered people often find themselves in a grey area when it comes to their rights. Many face discrimination when it comes to healthcare, housing and employment. Capital News Online explores the political, medical, legal and social challenges of trans-forming.

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• Profile of a transgender Activist
• Exploring the politics of transgender rights
• Mapping the medical transition

After a decade of general decline in the number of murders, 2010 had the lowest homicide rate in over 40 years according to a Statistics Canada report released last month. Capital News Online takes a look at the people and the techniques behind homicide investigations.

Inside

» INFO GRAPHIC: Homicide rates
» VIDEO: Connecting the dots: Profiling techniques
» AUDIO: Serial killers: Inside murderous minds

Foreign flora and fauna are permeating Canada’s delicate ecosystems, wreaking havoc and changing Canadian landscapes forever. Capital News Online examines the ecological and economic price tag.

Voter turnout in recent elections continues a race to the bottom. Capital News Online explores the trend and what it means for politics in Canada.

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• Tune in to Guy Giorno and Brad Lavigne as the top strategists go head-to-head on fighting elections in a climate of voter apathy.
• What is the likelihood of you voting?  Take our demographic predictor for a spin.
• See the dispiriting figures on recent voter turnout province by province.  In which provinces did voter participation actually increase?

In trying to imagine the perfect capital city, the National Capital Commission is crossing the country asking Canadians how they want Ottawa to look on Canada’s 200th birthday.  But is this any way to build Shangri-La on the Rideau?

Every day, fraudsters try to trick Canadians into giving up their hard-earned money. With new methods of electronic payment and online commerce, the stakes are higher than ever. Capital News Online takes aim at scams.

Soccer has really scored in Canada. More and more Canadians are donning jerseys and cleats and heading to fields – indoor and out. FIFA has given Canada possession of the 2015 Women’s World Cup, which is sure to bring Canada’s most popular participation sport to centre field. Capital News Online kicks-off the story.

Researchers in Ottawa are working on a cancer therapy that is safe for humans, but deadly for cancer cells. The new experimental procedure injects viruses into the body to seek and destroy cancer cells, leaving healthy ones safe and sound. The discovery may mean we are one step closer in the race to cure cancer.

According to a recent Statistics Canada report, fitness levels have significantly dropped among Canadians and weight gain is on a roll. Capital News Online takes a bite out of the obesity issue, chews a strip off of diet and exercise fads and focuses in on the enormous effects of packing on the pounds.

A Recession. Unemployment. Fewer jobs. Little money. And now a heated debate over Canada’s Employment Insurance system. Confused much? Capital News Online breaks down the proposed changes for how unemployed Canadians can get paid and what it takes to qualify.

Generation Y — people born in the late seventies to nineties — is the first generation to grow up with computers, electronic gagets and video games. Pampered by parents, Gen Y-ers are confident, ambitious and not afraid to question authority. They're even challenging the way democracy works in Canada. And much like young generations past, they're changing the face of Parliament.

Words in all their varieties — slang, vernacular, jargon — are essential to how we communicate.  But what happens when vocabularies shrink, or an entire language falls out of use? Capital News Online gets the word on the street.

After a decade of general decline in the number of murders, 2010 had the lowest homicide rate in over 40 years according to a Statistics Canada report released last month. Capital News Online takes a look at the people and the techniques behind homicide investigations.

Inside

» INFO GRAPHIC: Homicide rates
» VIDEO: Connecting the dots: Profiling techniques
» AUDIO: Serial killers: Inside murderous minds

Canadian Forces have until July 2011 to leave Afghanistan, but much work remains to be done. Capital News Online explores the personal and political discourse around Canada’s exit strategy in a three-part documentary.

Soccer has really scored in Canada. More and more Canadians are donning jerseys and cleats and heading to fields – indoor and out. FIFA has given Canada possession of the 2015 Women’s World Cup, which is sure to bring Canada’s most popular participation sport to centre field. Capital News Online kicks-off the story.