BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was not perhaps in all respects a paragon, but he was unquestionably a polygon — a plain figure with many sides and angles. There were not enough buttons on his black coat to tell ...

As the nearly 180-year-old Kingston Penitentiary that has housed some of Canada's most notorious inmates prepares to close its gates for good, Linden MacIntyre weaves together the stories of three of ...

Award-winning journalist and broadcast host Bob McKeown is retiring after 31 years hosting CBC’s investigative program The Fifth Estate. McKeown will make his final appearance as host in The Fifth ...

And the award for Best Actor in a Disappointing Movie goes to... Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in "The Fifth Estate." Cumberbatch, also arriving on screens today in a smaller role in the must ...

A data breach at B.C.'s Interior Health involving tens of thousands of employees' most sensitive information is for sale on the dark web; health-care workers' identities are repeatedly stolen while ...

How did Assange get to the point where he must seek asylum at Ecuador’s London embassy while his enemies scream for his extradition, including the Swedish police, who want him for questioning in a ...