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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 The Supreme Court of Canada says the one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 Grammy-winning pop artist Billie Eilish called billionaires out on Wednesday, seemingly to their faces.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 The Israeli military attacked the Gaza Strip for a fourth day on Friday, killing three people, Palestinian health authorities said, in another test of a fragile ceasefire agreement.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 Canada's economy shrank in August against widespread expectations of no growth, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, but an advanced estimate pointed out the economy might escape a recession in the third quarter.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 It's a treat to have the Toronto Blue Jays in a position to win the World Series; the trick for many families and baseball fans will be being able to watch it happen. Also, watch out for Mother Nature. In some parts of the country, she's not going to be playing nice.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 The Canadian sport system is strained financially at all levels. Athletes bear much of the burden, however, as costs are passed down. Being an Olympian, these days, is at once more of a full-time commitment and less sustainable than ever. But there are potential solutions for the crisis.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 What avenues for legal recourse actually exist? CBC spoke to lawyers and civil liberty associations to get a sense of whether the back-to-work order could be challenged in court.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 Representatives of the Ontario's air ambulance operation, Ornge, told a coroner's inquest that it's still impossible to meet the Ministry of Health's timelines for transportation of critically ill patients in the north, although response times have improved since 2021.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 He was a council 'disruptor' four years ago, and now he's council's leader. Has he learned lessons along the way?
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 CBC News discovered two major candy makers, Mars Inc. and the Hershey Company, had reduced the weight of several of their Halloween chocolate bar variety packs compared to last year by as much as almost 17 per cent.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 Loved ones of a Windsor woman want photos taken of her on the city's streets, during an active drug addiction, removed from social media. The woman in the photos is Alicia Newman and she died several years ago.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 Throngs of people lined up outside the Bank of Palestine branch in Gaza City, anxiously waiting to see if they would finally be able to access their funds for the first time in two years of war. Two of the bank's branches reopened their doors in Gaza this month, after the start of the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 When Kelly Duval moved from Montreal to Helsinki to connect with her Finnish roots, she never expected to build a life and truly settle there. Caught between a sense of partial belonging in both Canada and Finland, she explores the complex meaning of calling two places home.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 In the spirit of Nia DaCosta's reinvention of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, we've put together a list of other adaptations that changed their sources to make something radically different. Maybe not always radically better, but different.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 31, 2025 
 An anonymous Pentagon employee and a retired air force colonel are expressing concerns this week that the U.S. focus on alleged drug-carrying boats in waters near Latin America could affect American military might around the world, and serve as a precedent for other countries.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Arcade Fire's lead singers say their marriage is over, but they remain committed to the band.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Kit Weyman, a Toronto designer, tells The National about the moment his missed flight ended up getting his ‘Born Ready' shirt into the hands of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 President Donald Trump is slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States, and people fleeing war-torn countries, human rights abuses and catastrophes will now be of lower priority than white people from South Africa.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 At Issue this week: Canada-U.S. trade negotiations go off the rails after an anti-tariff ad angers Trump. Parties accuse each other of trying to force an election over the budget. And was Alberta justified in using the notwithstanding clause to get teachers back to work?
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Alberta Fish and Wildlife says a man was mauled by a grizzly bear south of Cochrane, Alta. The bear was subsequently shot by the man's hunting partner.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The Blue Jays' Trey Yesavage is now in a league of his own as the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to record 12 strikeouts in a World Series game while issuing zero walks. We dig into the numbers of the 22-year-old Toronto rookie's epic Game 5 performance against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The Canadian Armed Forces issued a formal apology Thursday in Ottawa for racial discrimination and harassment current and past members faced while serving their country.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Doctors in Montreal are prescribing music as medicine.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Hamas handed over two bodies it said were of deceased Israeli hostages on Thursday, a day after the tenuous Gaza ceasefire was shaken by a series of Israeli strikes which killed dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children, in the war-ravaged territory.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The Conservative and NDP caucuses are grappling with what to do about the upcoming federal budget and whether they want to be part of an effort to trigger an election by voting it down, multiple sources told CBC News.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Dictionary.com announced the internet brainrot slang term "67" (also written as "six-seven" or "6-7") is its Word of the Year for 2025, to the confusion of many online.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns that hacktivists have been tampering with online systems that control water, energy and agricultural facilities.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Like many of U.S. President Donald Trump's deals, the one he is currently touting with Chinese President Xi is thin on the details and thick on the hype.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took  control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian crisis.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa on Thursday.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the environmental impacts of two alternatives to burial and cremation of human bodies; check out a new kind of floating solar panel; and look into an idea to boost recycling rates and help vulnerable people at the same time.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Calgary students took part in a provincewide school walkout Thursday in response to  the outcome of the Alberta teachers' strike. Protest organizers say they're standing up for teachers, while the education minister and a Calgary school board say students shouldn't leave class.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Ontario's transportation minister says speed cameras across the province are set to be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford's government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Five blue balloons fluttered in light wind under cotton candy skies outside a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment on Wednesday evening as community members and friends and family of missing children Jack and Lilly Sullivan gathered for a candlelight vigil.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Ottawa's plans to spend $1.3 billion to build a new hospital for inmates in New Brunswick is misguided and a "profound misallocation of resources," Correctional Investigator of Canada Ivan Zinger says in his annual report released Thursday.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 A Winnipeg high school football player who suffered a serious neck injury during a game two weeks ago has died.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 A Winnipeg high school football player who suffered a serious neck injury during a game two weeks ago has died.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant has announced he is leaving his position in the CAQ government.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Mortal Kombat is one of the most important video games ever released. Digital Eclipse's collection of the franchise's titles from the 1990s to early 2000s isn't a flawless victory, but it's still worth your time.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The government says it's earmarking money in the upcoming budget to crack down on a tax-evasion scheme the trucking industry has long derided as a $1-billion scam.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Limited government funding is among many factors contributing to the state of financial disarray currently embroiling Canadian sport. As a result, National Sports Organizations have had to significantly tighten their belts, making cuts and slashing expenses wherever possible.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 In the small Alberta town of Cochrane, an eclectic group of engineers and athletes at Garmin Canada are helping to fuel the explosive growth of fitness watches and wearables.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Avid wildlife photographer Rod Young reported a bull elk in distress to Prince Albert National Park staff, who then tranquilized the animal and freed it from the man-made netting.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 South Korea's prime minister put his political weight behind his country's multi-billion dollar bid to sell Canada submarines. Kim Min-seok accompanied his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, on a tour of the Hanwha Ocean Ltd. yard ahead of the APEC summit.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 South Korea's prime minister put his political weight behind his country's multibillion-dollar bid to sell Canada submarines. Kim Min-seok accompanied his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, on a tour of the Hanwha Ocean Ltd. yard ahead of the APEC summit.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Canada's tourism sector generated a record-breaking amount of revenue of between May and August, reaching $59 billion, a six per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The Florida Panther forward, who is from Hammonds Plains, N.S., made a surprise appearance at a minor hockey game in Halifax on Wednesday night. Marchand said he didn't hesitate to come home once he learned his friend's 10-year-old daughter died after a battle with cancer.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Police have arrested five more suspects linked to the theft of treasures worth $143 million Cdn from the Louvre museum's Apollo gallery, a Paris prosecutor said on Thursday, expressing hope the latest developments will help find the jewels.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Police have arrested five more suspects linked to the theft of treasures worth $143 million Cdn from the Louvre museum's Apollo gallery, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday, expressing hope the latest developments will help them find the jewels.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 A team of doctors ending and starting their shifts at a Longueuil, Que., hospital spent an hour trying to resuscitate a newborn that was abandoned at a bus shelter in the early hours of Monday.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 India is pitching  Ahmedabad as the host city for the 2036 Olympic Games, but there are significant hurdles to India's longstanding ambitions, including persistent questions over mismanagement and governance issues within the country's Olympic Association, as well as low medal counts at previous Games.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Kyle Meyer always used to imagine a second child would complete their family. But after miscarriages and infertility challenges, he's come to resent certain assumptions people make about having children.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The budget for a new hospital for inmates in federal facilities is now estimated at $1.3 billion, over three times an estimate made public in 2021.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Ahead of the release of Prime Minister Mark Carney's climate competitiveness strategy, his energy minister offered some hints of what will be included when it's introduced in Tuesday's budget.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Opposition MPs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to make public the documents that govern three special agencies it has created to manage billions of dollars for major projects, defence procurement and the construction of affordable homes.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Inuit women and gender-diverse people say a grassroots social media movement publicizing allegations of sexual and physical assault against the CEO of the Manitoba Inuit Association is giving them the courage to come forward with their own accusations against him.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 The watchdog body meant to investigate Mounties' conduct has been without a chairperson for months, stalling investigations and weakening transparency about how the nation's police force interacts with Canadians across the country.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Speed cameras are widely in use across Europe, where studies have shown they are highly effective at preventing accidents.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 30, 2025 
 Bats don't exactly have a glowing public image. After all, they're often associated with blood-sucking vampires, gloomy caves and all things spooky. But migratory bats in Canada are in desperate need of protection, according to researchers.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of  his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of  his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan says unions will encourage workers incensed by the provincial government's suspension of bargaining rights to volunteer for recall campaigns and prepare for a possible general strike.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan says unions will encourage workers incensed by the provincial government's suspension of bargaining rights to volunteer for recall campaigns and prepare for a possible general strike.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the country's military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Oct. 29, 2025 | U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney met face to face at a dinner before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Jamaica assesses the damage after Hurricane Melissa. And Grok's NSFW reply to a 12-year-old.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Before Chris Dennis, a.k.a. La Voix, found fame on RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. and the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, he worked as a makeup artist in London — where, in 2009, he unwittingly played a role in one of the biggest robberies in British history.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Two Illinois National Guard members, both Democrats, say they will defy U.S. President Donald's Trump's order to deploy to the streets of Chicago.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 On her fifth album, the English singer-songwriter appears to debrief the dissolution of her five-year marriage to the Stranger Things actor in eyebrow-raising detail.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The Swedish defence firm Saab is considering Canada as a place to assemble Gripen fighter jets as it moves to quickly ramp up production to meet demand from Ukraine.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Less than a week before he unveils the federal government's next budget, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the size of the public service must return to "something more sustainable."
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 CBC Sports' daily newsletter presents some top Canadian athletes to follow on the road to the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Italy.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The Toronto Blue Jays are in Los Angeles as they take on the Dodgers for Games 3, 4, and 5 of the World Series. But they're not the only ones putting in the work at Dodgers Stadium. CBC staff photographer Ben Nelms is also there and shares the highs and lows of covering October baseball.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and first baseman Freddie Freeman are speaking Wednesday ahead of Game 5 against the Toronto Blue Jays in Los Angeles, with the World Series tied 2-2.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Many of nature's apex predators guard their dinner from scavengers until they've gobbled up every last morsel and licked the bones clean. But polar bars eat what they need, and leave the rest behind for other Arctic critters to munch.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Bouchra Marbouhi says she last saw her daughter the morning of Friday, Sept. 26, when she got her ready for school. She told the girl that her father would be picking her up for a sleepover. But he never brought her back.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The fallout continues after the Quebec government invoked closure over the weekend to force a new remuneration system on doctors, with many physicians already inquiring about opportunities in other provinces.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The Opposition NDP's effort to establish an independent public inquiry into the government's response to a wildfire that ravaged a northern Saskatchewan village this summer has been blocked.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 On Monday, a notice went out that any Canadian who purchased Keurig pods, machines or brewing system sold in Canada from June 8, 2016 to now could be eligible for a payout in a settlement from a lawsuit claiming the company misrepresented the ability to recycle its pods.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 There was star power on and off the field at Dodgers stadium, as Hollywood royalty — and actual royals — turned out for Game 4 of the World Series in Los Angeles Tuesday night.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Ontario Provincial Police say a British Columbia man has been charged in connection with a series of violent sexual assaults that happened nearly three decades ago across southwestern Ontario.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Nvidia made history on Wednesday as the first company to reach $5 trillion in market value, powered by a stunning rally and global artificial intelligence boom.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Hundreds of unionized General Motors employees took to the sidewalk outside the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., on Wednesday to call on the automotive company to find a new vehicle for the plant. A similar rally was being held in Brampton as part of Unifor's "Solidarity Actions."
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Former senator Don Meredith was found not guilty in his criminal trial on sexual assault charges on Wednesday.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 Londonderry Mall is the site of a Zellers relaunch. The new owner says the store will focus on affordable home goods, and ditch other categories like toys and pharmaceuticals.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The U.S. president and the Canadian prime minister exchanged gestures but barely spoke at a dinner in advance of the APEC Summit.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 For 20 years, core funding for sport from the federal government has not increased — even though inflation has caused prices to rise by more than 50 per cent. In recent months, some national sport organizations have been informed that their federal funding is set to be slashed.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 In 100 days, Canadian viewers will be treated to round-the-clock broadcasts, expert analysis and on-demand highlights, courtesy CBC/Radio-Canada at the Milan-Cortina Olympics in Italy.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it will abide by a ceasefire accord in Gaza, as health officials in the enclave said airstrikes had killed 104 people, with both sides trading blame for violations of the deal.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement following a series of strikes across the enclave that it said were in response to Hamas violations.
 
 
 
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 | Oct 29, 2025 
 In New Brunswick politics, most defeated premiers exit quietly, staying out of debates within their parties about what future direction to take or who should be the next leader.
 
 
 
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