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The family of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old Toronto man fatally shot aboard a streetcar in an altercation with police last month, has cancelled a news conference that had been scheduled for this afternoon. More...

The family of Sammy Yatim expressed relief today that a Toronto police officer is facing a charge of second-degree murder, following the fatal shooting of the 18-year-old on a streetcar last month. More...

An Ottawa family of eight is among a group of families and investors who claim a rent-to-own company scammed them out of more than $2.5 million, CBC News has learned. More...

The "heart-wrenching" decision an Ottawa mother made to leave her severely autistic son at a provincial developmental services office is an acute response to difficulties her family faces, but it also reflects challenges many Ontario parents of autistic children share. More...

Searchers said they found no trace of a missing California woman after they combed a park near her home in Gilroy, Calif. Martha Gutierrez, 52, has not been seen since Tuesday when her son killed his 11-year-old sister and then himself in the family apartment. The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury...

The family of a woman who vanished from a cruise ship between the Bahamas and Florida last week say questions about her disappearance remain unanswered. More...

The Airdrie, Alta., family whose baby was killed by their pet husky have put the dog down. More...

B.C's representative for children and youth has released a scathing report into the 2008 deaths of Kaitlynne, Cordon and Max Schoenborn, saying the family "fell through the cracks" and the province needs to do more to protect against domestic violence. More...

A family of four were among those killed when an SUV collided head-on with a semi-trailer outside the town of McLeese Lake, B.C., the Prince George Citizen reports. More...

AP - Three members of a Canadian family attempting to cross the Pacific in a sailboat have been rescued after being thrown into the ocean after encountering strong winds and rough seas that battered and disabled their vessel hundreds of miles from Hawaii. More...

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Family members of a Winnipeg man who lost his mother, wife and two young daughters in a house fire this week say they are praying for his surviving infant girl. More...

AP - In mailboxes across South Carolina in 2007, likely Republican voters received a Christmas card signed by "The Romney Family" with a quotation from a 19th century Mormon leader suggesting God had several wives. More...

A Toronto family is terrorized by a brutal home invasion but the occupants avoid serious injuries, police say. More...

The family of a Toronto man who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan last year is trying to bring him home by reaching out to his captors themselves. More...

The family of Amir Hekmati, the Arizona-born ex-Marine currently held in Iran accused of being a CIA spy, said today the Iranian government told them to "remain silent" about Hekmati's arrest should they want him released. "The Iranian government detained Amir on Aug. 29, 2011 without any...

Family and friends are in mourning after an apartment building fire claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son in Pointe-Claire, Que. More...

Almost immediately after a police officer began interviewing a husband, wife and son accused of killing their family in a Kingston canal, he suspected they knew more than they were telling him, court heard Tuesday. More...

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In a number of recent newsletters we've looked at spear-phishing and how it can make your employees, customers, clients and users into unwitting dupes of the crackers and malfeasants who are trying to steal the "family jewels" of your organization. Just ask the folks at RSA (who insist that they...