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Oct 24, 2021
Ontario school districts using the hybrid model of simultaneous instruction say it's a flexible method that keeps students connected to their school communities and better able to adapt to sudden shifts between in-person and virtual learning. But the model continues to draw fierce criticism from students, parents and educators.
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Oct 24, 2021
With news that Facebook Inc. is expected to rebrand as a metaverse company, the not-so-novel term has made its way into headlines around the world. Here's what it means, and how companies are hoping it will hook users.
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Oct 24, 2021
I've never been comfortable with the westernized pronunciation of my name, but I was afraid to stand up or feel like an inconvenience, writes Sabra Ismath.
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Oct 24, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil a cabinet Tuesday that he promises will have gender parity and "proper regional distribution." Like all prime ministers, he is expected to make appointments that reflect the diversity of the country.
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Oct 24, 2021
Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would have been "better served" if he sought guidance from his party's elder statesmen, but that the current government has failed to reach out to him for advice.
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Oct 24, 2021
Very little is known about what Queen Elizabeth really thinks on issues of the day, political or otherwise, but rare moments may offer some insight.
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Oct 23, 2021
The Canadian Armed Forces said one reverse osmosis water purification unit landed in Iqaluit on Saturday, and another is expected to arrive on Sunday, as it responds to a request from the government of Nunavut to help provide residents with clean water.
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Oct 23, 2021
The Canadian Coast Guard and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in B.C. have evacuated crew members from a vessel off Victoria that lost 40 of its shipping containers Friday, after a fire on board Saturday.
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Oct 23, 2021
The Canadian Coast Guard and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in B.C. have evacuated crew members from a vessel off Victoria that lost 40 of its shipping containers Friday, after a fire on board Saturday.
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Oct 23, 2021
The gun used in a fatal shooting on a movie set in New Mexico earlier this week had been declared safe to use by a crew member just before it was discharged, court records show. The shooting happened hours after some workers walked off the job to protest safety conditions on set.
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Oct 23, 2021
Rogers Communications says it rejected a move by former chair Edward Rogers to name a slate of new directors because it contravened laws in British Columbia.
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Oct 23, 2021
An order to declare 10 foreign ambassadors persona non grata Saturday was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to last week's diplomatic call for the release of philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala, jailed since 2017 without having been convicted of a crime.
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Oct 23, 2021
An order to declare 10 foreign ambassadors persona non grata Saturday was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to last week's diplomatic call for the release of philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala, jailed since 2017 without having been convicted of a crime.
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Oct 23, 2021
Matteo Salvini, known for an 'Italians first' policy, is charged with kidnapping and abuse of office in connection with the illegal detention of 147 migrants aboard their rescue boat in August 2019.
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Oct 23, 2021
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces will be deployed to Saskatchewan to help battle the province's fourth wave of COVID-19, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said.
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Oct 23, 2021
In our zeal to help children catch up academically after learning remotely during parts of the pandemic, and to minimize the spread of COVID-19 at schools, a leading researcher says we may be neglecting the most important subject of all — recess.
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Oct 23, 2021
Pets owned by people experiencing homelessness are just as healthy as animals owned by other people, according to a new North American study from Community Vet Outreach and the University of Guelph in Ontario.
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Oct 23, 2021
NATO defence ministers engaged in what was undoubtedly a painful (if somewhat perfunctory) soul-searching exercise over Afghanistan in their first full-fledged meeting since the Taliban seized the country last summer.
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Oct 23, 2021
A new climate alliance led by Denmark and Costa Rica is pushing countries to set a date for the end of oil and gas extraction in their countries — but Canada seems unlikely to join.
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Oct 23, 2021
Worried about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Montreal patient attendant Monique Dupriez turned to her co-worker Dr. Ingrid Marchand for advice, but the process wasn't fast or easy. Even once she'd been persuaded, it took Dupriez a month to take the leap and actually be inoculated.
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Oct 23, 2021
Indigenous physicians say it's key to recognize the history of colonialism and trauma that's behind vaccine mistrust in some First Nations communities to boost COVID-19 vaccine rates.
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Oct 23, 2021
A Vancouver-based climate change workshop is empowering ordinary citizens to take climate action in their own neighbourhood. The program aims to bridge the gaps between complex science, distant policy making and individual climate action.
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Oct 23, 2021
Bulk buying, couponing and urban farming are three ways of fighting high food prices, tied to inflation. But experts say community organizations and individuals can't solve the problem of hunger and poverty on their own.
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Oct 23, 2021
Bulk buying, couponing and urban farming are three ways of fighting high food prices, tied to inflation. But experts say community organizations and individuals can't solve the problem of hunger and poverty on their own.
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Oct 23, 2021
Fall is in full swing across Canada. Here's a selection of fall foliage that CBC photographers, video producers and others have captured in recent days.
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Oct 23, 2021
Michael Carey Abadin, 19, who holds Canadian citizenship, is in a Cuban jail accused of throwing a rock through the window of a police car during pro-democracy protests. His mother says he has contracted COVID, hepatitis and herpes and appears to be in poor shape. Cuba has denied Canada consular visits.
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Oct 23, 2021
Canadians concerned over waning immunity from COVID-19 vaccines, breakthrough infections and the need for booster shots in the general public could benefit from a dose of some important context.
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Oct 23, 2021
It's been more than a month since the Taliban forbid Afghan girls in grades higher than six from going to school. The Taliban called it a temporary measure, but fears among Afghan women are growing that the harsh rule of the 1990s is again taking hold.
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Oct 23, 2021
Conflicts between transgender and women's rights do exist, but that doesn't mean we should censor discussion and debate, writes Jessica Triff.
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Oct 23, 2021
The House of Commons is a workplace unlike any other. But the sandstone walls of Parliament are not immune to the reality of a global pandemic. So sooner or later, the House was going to face the same issue now confronting every other institution and establishment in the country: whether to require that its occupants be vaccinated and what the consequences of such a requirement might be.
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Oct 23, 2021
U.S. health regulators say kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective at preventing symptomatic infections in elementary school children and caused no unexpected safety issues, as the country weighs beginning vaccinations in youngsters.
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Oct 22, 2021
For years when asked about his dream project Canadian director Denis Villeneuve would talk about Dune. After a long wait Villeneuve's adaptation is in theatres offering fans stunning settings and families fueding over a priceless resource.
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Oct 22, 2021
Ian Hanomansing talks to two Canadians experiencing supply chain shortages about what it means for their own business and for consumers.
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Oct 22, 2021
Ski resorts across Canada are struggling to find enough specialized workers and hospitality employees to be able to run at full capacity this winter. With their reliance on foreign workers, and those workers being unable to get visas in time, they are not able to employ as many people as they need to.
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Oct 22, 2021
A former self-described anti-vaxxer says he regrets not listening to the science as his pregnant wife lies in a medically induced coma 1,200 kilometres from home.
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Oct 22, 2021
Many students in Ontario are back in classrooms this fall, but some are still online, and some teachers are teaching both groups at the same time. The hybrid model is causing challenges for both students and teachers alike.
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Oct 22, 2021
Oct. 22, 2021 | Shock after Alec Baldwin fires a prop gun on a movie set that wound up killing the cinematographer and injuring the director. Prime Minister Trudeau says Canada will have enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine to vaccinate every child between 5 and 11 after Health Canada approval. Plus, how the global supply chain issues are affecting Canadian businesses and consumers.
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Oct 22, 2021
The annual pop-culture convention, which was postponed in August by COVID-19 restrictions, returns with a limited edition at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
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Oct 22, 2021
U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious tropical disease even though none had travelled internationally: an aromatherapy spray imported from India.
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Oct 22, 2021
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is appealing after a Federal Court judge struck down his request for reinstatement as the head of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine distribution campaign.
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Oct 22, 2021
An emerging trade irritant between Canada and the U.S. that's been quietly simmering for months has now bubbled into the open. The Canadian government sent a letter to U.S. officials expressing dismay over a proposal involving autos, and hinting that it might prompt a trade action.
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Oct 22, 2021
Taxpayers have spent an estimated $639,000 to $720,900 on salaries for high-ranking military officers who have been moved out of their jobs in connection with the military's sexual misconduct crisis, according to a CBC News analysis.
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Oct 22, 2021
A record number of humpback whale calves have been documented swimming off the coast of Washington State and British Columbia this summer and fall.
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Oct 22, 2021
Peter Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on Newhart and a closeted dad on Girls and who was on Broadway with longtime friend Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy, has died. He was 66.
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Oct 22, 2021
The Canadian Armed Forces will be stepping in to help with the water crisis in Iqaluit. "We will always be there to help Canadians deal with an emergency," Public Safety Minister Bill Blair tweeted on Friday
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Oct 22, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case on Nov. 1. But Justice Sonia Sotomayor says women in Texas seeking abortions "are entitled to relief now."
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Oct 22, 2021
Those who had an allergic reaction to their first shot of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can safely receive future doses of the same product or a different mRNA vaccine, says Canada's vaccine advisory committee.
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Oct 22, 2021
A Manitoba health-care worker who was fired from her job for drinking alcohol cannot challenge her termination under her province's Human Rights Code, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
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Oct 22, 2021
A Manitoba health-care worker who was fired from her job for drinking alcohol cannot challenge her termination under her province's Human Rights Code, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
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Oct 22, 2021
Niagara regional council, acting on a code of conduct investigation, has voted to dock the pay of the mayor of West Lincoln, Ont., six months after he asked a woman in a private Facebook message if the COVID-19 vaccine changed her menstrual cycle.
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Oct 22, 2021
Sen. Josée Forest-Niesing of Sudbury is in hospital in the northern Ontario city for COVID-19. Her office says Forest-Niesing, a lawyer appointed to the Senate in 2018, is "very grateful for all the encouraging messages and all of the support."
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Oct 22, 2021
Public health officials will provide an update on COVID-19 in Canada.
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Oct 22, 2021
Saskatchewan plans to increase the number of COVID-19 patients it sends to Ontario starting early next week.
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Oct 22, 2021
Rogers Communications Inc. says a move by former chair Edward Rogers to replace five members of the company's board is "invalid," the latest development in an ugly fight for control of the company.
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Oct 22, 2021
Despite being removed as chair of the company that bears his name, Edward Rogers is not giving up in his battle for control, and is looking to get rid of five members of the board.
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Oct 22, 2021
Despite being removed as chair of the company that bears his name, Edward Rogers is not giving up in his battle for control, and is looking to get rid of five members of the board.
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Oct 22, 2021
Years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks, a new study has found.
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Oct 22, 2021
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage is urging all Albertans to read the final report of the government-sponsored Steve Allan public inquiry into anti-Albertan activities.
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Oct 22, 2021
A vast trove of fossils unearthed in Argentina's southern Patagonia region is offering the oldest-known evidence that some dinosaurs thrived in a complex and well-organized herd structure, with adults caring for the young and sharing a communal nesting ground.
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Oct 22, 2021
A vast trove of fossils unearthed in Argentina's southern Patagonia region is offering the oldest-known evidence that some dinosaurs thrived in a complex and well-organized herd structure, with adults caring for the young and sharing a communal nesting ground.
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Oct 22, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should prepare to introduce some measures to limit rising COVID-19 cases as acting early will reduce the need for tougher restrictions later, his scientific advisers said in advice published on Friday.
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Oct 22, 2021
Newfoundland and Labrador's vaccine passport comes into effect today.??????? The passport system must now be used at places like restaurants, bars, bingo halls and performance spaces.
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Oct 22, 2021
Daryl Hunter has a collection of historical apples in his backyard on Keswick Ridge.
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Oct 22, 2021
CBD is found everywhere, from chocolate bars to pet treats and vape pens to face creams. While CBD itself holds real medicinal promise, Marketplace reveals many CBD products are illegal, come with unauthorized health claims not backed by science and ingredients that can't be legally verified.
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Oct 22, 2021
Gwyneth Paltrow's sex therapy show Sex, Love & Goop aims to change the way we talk about sex. Televised sex education has changed for the better, but there's still a long way to go, experts say.
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Oct 22, 2021
Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu's win at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition on Thursday has catapulted the 24-year-old into stardom and put Montreal on the map as a destination for music education, teachers say.
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Oct 22, 2021
Alberta announced it would move in August toward treating the pandemic as an endemic — ending contact tracing. That didn't last, but resuming it has been difficult, contact tracers say.
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Oct 22, 2021
With the COVID-19 death toll in the United States having surpassed 730,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed that he finds it "mind-boggling" that partisanship and skepticism of science continue to fuel the pandemic.
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Oct 22, 2021
Alberta announced it would move in August toward treating the pandemic as an endemic — ending contact tracing. That didn't last, but resuming it has been difficult, contact tracers say.
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Oct 22, 2021
A full month after pledging to address a sexual assault charge levelled against him in 2019 and since withdrawn, newly-elected Toronto MP Kevin Vuong has remained silent on the topic and out of sight.
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Oct 22, 2021
The anti-vaccine movement has long revolved around children. As the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine rollout approaches, what can we learn from this phenomenon to improve uptake in kids? Sociologist Jennifer Reich shares her insights.
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Oct 21, 2021
Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, court records released Friday show.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed the cinematographer and injured the film's director Thursday on a set outside Santa Fe, N.M., authorities said.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the film's director Thursday on a set outside Santa Fe, authorities said.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed the cinematographer and injured the film's director Thursday on a set outside Santa Fe, N.M., authorities said.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged on set by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed the cinematographer and injured the film's director Thursday outside Santa Fe, N.M., authorities said.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring and producing a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the movie set outside Santa Fe, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said.
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Oct 21, 2021
A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the movie set outside Santa Fe, authorities said.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Ontario government will allow businesses such as restaurants, bars and fitness centres to start lifting COVID-19 capacity limits starting on Monday, a senior government source has told CBC News.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Ontario government will allow businesses such as restaurants, bars and fitness centres to start lifting COVID-19 capacity limits starting on Monday, a senior government source has told CBC News.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Ontario government will allow businesses such as restaurants, bars and fitness centres to start lifting COVID-19 capacity limits starting on Monday, a senior government source has told CBC News.
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Oct 21, 2021
The majority of people who were victims of unprovoked assaults by strangers in the past year were simply going about their day, the Vancouver police said this week when announcing the findings of a case review that found approximately 1,555 such assaults occurred in the city between September of last year and the end of August.
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Oct 21, 2021
The National for Oct. 21 — Who's being left behind as Ottawa shifts away from wide-ranging pandemic support programs. Plus, Sask.'s ICU crisis prompts calls for restrictions.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a recall warning for whole red, yellow and white raw onions after U.S. health officials linked the vegetables to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than than 650 people in 37 U.S. states.
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Oct 21, 2021
Residents of Melbourne, Australia, flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Oct 21, 2021
Canada has lifted a blanket advisory against all non-essential travel outside the country which had been in place since the pandemic was declared in March 2020.
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Oct 21, 2021
CBC answers how the pediatric vaccine is different, where kids will be able to get it, how long approval might take and other questions around COVID-19 vaccinations for younger children.
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Oct 21, 2021
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says it's likely that people who lose their jobs for not complying with employer COVID-19 vaccine policies will not be eligible for employment insurance (EI).
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Oct 21, 2021
Dental records confirm that human remains found at a Florida wilderness park belong to Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend, Gabby Petito, was found dead after he returned home alone from their cross-country road trip earlier this year, the FBI says.
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Oct 21, 2021
Queen Elizabeth spent the night in hospital "for some preliminary investigations," and returned to Windsor Castle Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace.
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Oct 21, 2021
The 95-year-old monarch spent the night in hospital "for some preliminary investigations," and returned to Windsor Castle Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace.
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Oct 21, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today criticized a letter from former top military commander Admiral Art McDonald calling for his reinstatement, saying the letter's contents do not align with the government's approach to sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Oct 21, 2021
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former U.S. president Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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Oct 21, 2021
The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police in Haiti say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group is seen in a video released Thursday saying he will kill them if he doesn't get what he's demanding.
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Oct 21, 2021
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at why cities feel they can't do more to combat climate change and how NASA can help us better understand global warming.
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Oct 21, 2021
New COVID-19 modelling in Saskatchewan suggests more public health restrictions are needed to bend the curve.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Canadian Medical Association's Dr. Katharine Smart issued a statement on Thursday, one day after the province's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, broke down while presenting dire new modelling on the COVID-19 situation.
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Oct 21, 2021
It's a leadership crisis without precedent in the Canadian Armed Forces — a fact that only becomes crystal clear when you take a step back and look at the full depth and scope of the sexual misconduct crisis and survey the wreckage among the top ranks.
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Oct 21, 2021
The Liberal government says several existing pandemic support programs for individuals and businesses will end this weekend, while billions of dollars will be spent transitioning to new "targeted measures" leading into the spring.
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Oct 21, 2021
Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, former president Donald Trump says he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform.
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