Never has a city council meeting anywhere been followed with such intrigue. But this was one of the most compelling installments yet of the “Rob Ford show”, Inigo Gilmore reports.
Despite admitting to smoking crack cocaine, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford insists he will not stand down. Inigo Gilmore visits his home in Toronto to ask him if he plans to go into rehab.
As Canada boycotts the Commonwealth conference in Sri Lanka over the host country’s human rights record, C4 News asks Canada High Commissioner Gordon Campbell whether the move will achieve anything.
New video emerges of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ranting about how he would commit “first-degree murder”. Speaking to reporters, Mr Ford appeared lost for words, and said he was “extremely inebriated”.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits he smoked crack cocaine “in one of my drunken stupors” but insists he is not a drug addict.
Toronto mayor Rob Ford apologies for being drunk in public and urges police to release a video that appears to show him puffing on a crack cocaine pipe, although he admits he hasn’t seen the video.
Calls for Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford to resign intensify as police in Canada say they have obtained the video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe.
Jonathan Miller
It’s been on the cards for months, now it’s official. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he will boycott next month’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka over serious human rights concerns.
As charities urge G20 leaders to come good on pledges to fix a “broken” global tax system that hurts developing countries, the economic agenda risks being overshadowed by the war in Syria.
Two boys die after a python escapes from its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, slithering through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment, police say.
Britain is not alone in waiting with baited breath for a visit from the royal stork. Baby mania has hit the US, with the prospect of the Niagara Falls being lit up when the birth is announced.
Police say there is no evidence of foul play after finding actor Cory Monteith, star of the musical TV series Glee, dead in a hotel room in Vancouver.
An oil explosion on a freight train destroys several buildings in the centre of a Canadian town raising fears for dozens of missing citizens.
Mark Carney, the incoming governor of the Bank of England, is widely praised. So how good a job has he done in his five years in charge of Canada’s central bank?
Liam Dutton
In just a few days’ time, the Atlantic hurricane season begins, with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center predicting an active season and an above-average number of storms.