Tiger Woods and fans in Melbourne, Australia. Photo by Rob Griffith/APGood news, we think. The Canadian economy expanded 0.1 per cent in the third quarter, the first quarterly gain...

  Director Ken Percy's view of the show. Photo by CBC Five Questions is a feature on the newsroom blog that profiles people on the Connect team. This week, director Ken...

Bone marrow registration event. Photo by Adrienne Ziegler-Shulman/Facebook Shari Ichelson Silverman is a bald mom (now with a wig) on a mission. Shari has leukemia, and needs a bone marrow transplant...

Cats at the Toronto Humane Society. Photo by Chris Young/Canadian PressFollowing animal cruelty charges at the Toronto Humane Society, Toronto police and the OSPCA are investigating the conditions at...

  Prescription medications in a production line. Photo by Mel Evans/AP PhotoBy Andrea Cardillo As an associate producer on the show I get to talk to a lot people who...

  Producer Lani on the chase. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBCAfter 15 months of captivity in Somalia, Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout is reuniting with her family in Nairobi. Tonight on Connect,...

Working on the show line-up. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBCGeneral manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs Brian Burke is making news, not about the Leafs, but with his gay son Brendan....

  AMW.com Case File Toronto's missing Mariam Makhniashvili is featured on the America's Most Wanted website, thanks to a call from Connect. After learning about Mariam's case from Connect producer...

The editor's suite. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC The federal government introduced legislation today that requires internet service providers (ISPs) to notify the police with reports of child pornography, or face fines...

Martin and Natalia Ritchie with daughter Scarlett. Photo by Jennifer Welch Natalia Ritchie has let Connect cameras and viewers into her life, as she waited for the gift of life: lungs....

Connect producers and writers. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBCWhat we're putting together for tonight's show: The connection between mental health and homelessness. Susan Gapka lived on the streets of Toronto...

  Writer Lisa Pileggi in action. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC Five Questions is a new feature on the newsroom blog that profiles people on the Connect team. This week, writer Lisa...

  It's a bird! It's a plane! It's singer Beyoncé crowd surfing at her recent show at O2 Arena in London! Watch her dive into the audience. And Charter For Compassion...

  U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Kunar province. Photo by David Guttenfelder/APBethany Smith deserted from the U.S. army and fled to Canada seeking refugee status, as a lesbian. She says she was harassed...

A Webby Award. Promotional photo If the Internet is the story of the decade, what are its chapters? The Webby Awards, which are like the Oscars of the web...

Sarposa prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo by Bill Graveland/CPWhat we're working on for tonight:   A former diplomat has revealed that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were...

8-year-old boy works on his homework. Photo by Nathan Denette/CPNo homework! A Calgary family took on the homework policy at their kids' school and won. The Milleys have walked...

Photo by Marcia Connolly/CBCModern art? This mashup of Mark Kelley and Reshmi Nair was created randomly, yet perfectly, by a cable glitch. This lol moment was caught on camera...

A woman wears a niqab during a demonstration outside Dutch parliament. Photo by Fred Ernst/AP The search for Miriam Makhniashvhili in Toronto continues. The police have taken extraordinary measures to find...

Reporter Connie Walker connecting. Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC Five Questions is a new feature on the newsroom blog that profiles people on the Connect team. This week, reporter Connie...

MJ multiplicity? Check out singer Sam Tsui, alongside many duplicates of himself, and a beat boxer, croon some of the King of Pop's greatest hits, a cappella. Tsui's cover...

"We Are The World," USA for Africa, 1985. Promotional photo. Living hungry. Today in Rome, international leaders met at the World Summit on Food Security, a three day conference to address global...

On February 6 this year, Charla Nash, 55, was mauled by her friend's 200-pound chimpanzee. Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids were ripped off during the attack. Here, months after...

So, how do you ask someone for their kidney? If you're interested in bringing up organ and tissue donation with your friends or family, Canadian Blood Services has a kit for hosting a...

Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBCToday was the funeral for Jeff Munro, the 32-year-old who was kicked and punched to death at the Don Jail, reportedly over a bag of potato...

As Senator Mike Duffy tries to shut down his fake Twitter account, CBC's Peter Mansbridge shrugs his shoulders and smiles. A Canadian snapshot of pretend tweets, including the new FakeMarkKelly....

Poor Carrie Prejean. If there's one thing the beauty queen from California is good at, it's garnering bad publicity.  First there was the Miss USA 2009 pageant where Prejean...

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is updating the Canadian citizenship test. Applicants will start taking the new test in March. Below are some examples of the kinds of questions that could appear on the test.1)...

Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBCThe Canadian government has released a new citizenship guide for potential immigrants today. As Mark tweeted, "The Connect team is involved in a heated discussion over Canadian citizenship...

City Sirens. Promotional photo Hamilton band City Sirens are adding a little rock to Remembrance Day. The band has released a single featuring John McCrae's famous poem "In Flanders Fields." The group...

Videos, videos and more videos of joyful dogs showing some puppy love to returning soldiers.  It walks. It crawls. It can withstand exposure to chemical warfare agents. It's PETMAN,...

The poppy is the Flower of Remembrance in Canada. Photo by Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press  Tonight on Connect, we are joined by Master Corporal Paul Franklin. He is a former...

I'm a soldier just back from Afghanistan. Ask Me Anything.Mark Shannon answered questions via Twitter last night following his appearance on "Ask Me Anything." Below are some highlights from the exchange.iamfearless: Mark...

Melting glaciers, rising sea levels and extreme weather warnings are just a few things you'll see riding this airplane featured in the Prince's Rainforest Project's latest video campaign about...

  News Contributor Reshmi Nair at work in the newsroom. Photo by CBCThree men have been charged in the beating death of a 32-year-old Don Jail inmate Jeff Munro. Tonight, his mother...

Remember the online video of the former Redskins cheerleader who got dystonia from the flu vaccine? Well, she's posted a health status update on YouTube. She says she has been...

20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo by Michael Sohn/Associated PressTwenty years ago today marked the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tonight on Connect, East meets...

Mark Kelley and Reshmi Nair on set. CBC Five Questions is a new feature on the newsroom blog that profiles people on the Connect team. This week, news contributor...

The famous Filipino dancing prisoners that brought you Michael Jackson's "Thriller" have done it again. Watch their latest routine, an amusing tribute to legendary rock group Queen. Keep an...

If you're trying to wrap your head around the human flesh search engine, covered on Connect, check out this doc.  The film's summary: The menacingly-named human flesh search engine has made headlines...

Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC On the show this evening, the latest on Fort Hood and today's shooting in Orlando. The foot that washed up on a BC beach last...

"Don't inject me! Don't infect me! Don't stick that needle in my arm and chemically wreck me!" ...just a sample of lyrics from "Don't Infect Me (The Swine Flue...

Connect writer Lisa, working on a segment. CBCSurvival at sea. Robert Decker, the sole survivor of a helicopter crash that killed 17 in the Atlantic Ocean this spring, says...

  Ken Block's TRAX STI car is billed as the world's fastest cat track operation automobile for backcountry access for snowboarding. Look at the car take on the snow. Meet...

The Connect newsroom. CBCToday MPs are voting on a Conservative private member's bill designed to kill the decade-old gun registry. Tonight, we take a look at the criminal use...

Video posted by request! Last week "Real Life" contributor Tanis Miller said studies show that the family dinner could hold the key to our children's future. So Tanis embarked on a...

As one viewer tweeted: "Lotto winner: BEST. GUEST. EVER." Seguro Ndabene talks about his multi-million-dollar wins, being lucky and being a fan of Mark....

More than two years after then three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her parents' rented vacation bungalow in Portugal, authorities have released a video of what Madeleine, now six, might...

Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC Kitchener Rangers hockey player Ben Fanelli remains in the hospital in critical condition, following a bodycheck on Friday that led him headfirst into the end...

  If children knew the facts about climate change, would they charge a baton-wielding police squad? Mom's Against Climate Change, an environmental initiative devoted to protecting younger generations, considers the...

Photo by Jet Belgraver/CBC It's week two on Connect. The team is busy putting together tonight's show. Producers are chasing, writers are writing and everyone is eating Halloween candy...