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Nov 24, 2020
Canada is spending a tremendous amount of money to get the country through the COVID-19 pandemic, but a growing movement says we can shed our old worries about the federal deficit. Modern monetary theory argues that since we control our own currency, the country can create more money and never go broke. Today, Front Burner examines this controversial idea and how it relates to Canada.
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Nov 23, 2020
Atlantic Canada deflates its bubble with COVID-19 cases on the rise. Plus, Dr. Theresa Tam's blunt holiday message.
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Nov 23, 2020
Jeopardy! record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday.
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Nov 23, 2020
With the holiday season just weeks away, Canadians are wondering if one of the bright spots in Canada's long, dark winter will be another casualty of 2020 — and whether the country will ever get off the roller coaster of flattening the curve only to see cases soar again.
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Nov 23, 2020
The U.S. federal agency that must sign off on the presidential transition told president-elect Joe Biden on Monday that he can formally begin the transition process.
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Nov 23, 2020
Though the Toronto Raptors lost two of their three big free agents when Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol departed, they held onto the main one — Fred VanVleet — and kept their eyes on an even bigger prize.
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Nov 23, 2020
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will deliver a long-awaited update on the health of federal finances on Nov. 30.
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Nov 23, 2020
The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Nov. 23.
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Nov 23, 2020
General Motors will recall about seven million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
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Nov 23, 2020
The Canada Revenue Agency says it's warning about 213,000 Canadians who may have been paid twice through the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program that they could be called upon to repay the money.
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Nov 23, 2020
Michigan certified U.S. president-elect Joe Biden as the winner in the election battleground Midwestern state on Monday, making President Donald Trump's effort to deny Biden a victory by claiming election irregularities and fraud in many states even less likely to succeed.
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Nov 23, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump's hopes of reversing his election loss hung by a thread on Monday as Michigan and Pennsylvania looked to push ahead with certifying results.
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Nov 23, 2020
A human rights complaint has been filed against Bank of Montreal and the Vancouver Police Board after Indigenous man Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter, 12-year-old Tori-Anne, were suspected of fraud and handcuffed while trying to open an account at a Vancouver branch of the bank last year.
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Nov 23, 2020
Both Newfoundland and Labrador and P.E.I are exiting the Atlantic bubble for at least two weeks as COVID-19 cases rise in parts of the region.
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Nov 23, 2020
Greenhouse gas concentrations climbed to a new record in 2019 and rose again this year despite an expected drop in emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday, warning against complacency.
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Nov 23, 2020
Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today for a long-awaited new commercial rent relief program offered by the federal government.
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Nov 23, 2020
Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today for a long-awaited new commercial rent-relief program offered by the federal government.
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Nov 23, 2020
The federal government's latest lifeline to cash-strapped businesses landed with a swirl of anxiety as companies face an uncertain future that the country's finance minister summed up in three words: "Winter is coming."
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Nov 23, 2020
In today's Morning Brief, we have the story of a man who got taken by a job scam and then saw his bank take $3,000 from this tax-free savings account to cover money lost to the fraudsters.
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Nov 23, 2020
A Toronto man fell victim to a job scam, but was even more shocked when his bank, Scotiabank subsidiary Tangerine, took some $3,000 from his account to make up for what it lost to the fraudsters. Go Public investigated banking rules that allow seizure of funds from different accounts.
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Nov 23, 2020
More than 8,000 people have arrived on U.K. shores this year, crossing the English Channel by boat — four times the number in 2019, when about 10 people died. The increased numbers have created issues for housing while the migrants wait for their asylum claims to be processed.
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Nov 23, 2020
A Toronto man fell victim to a job scam, but was even more shocked when his bank, Scotiabank subsidiary Tangerine, took some $3,000 from his account to make up for what it lost to the fraudsters. Go Public investigated banking rules that allow seizure of funds from different accounts.
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Nov 23, 2020
The two formal complainants whose testimony led to the integrity commissioner's damning report on Ottawa Coun. Rick Chiarelli's conduct spoke to CBC News about the toxic work culture in the office, why they stayed and what they would like to see happen now.
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Nov 23, 2020
For many of them, it was the defining professional experience of their lives. But Canada's legacy in Afghanistan is also something deeply personal for the more than 140 former diplomats, aid workers and police officers who have signed an open letter urging the international community — Canada included — not to abandon Afghanistan as its tentative peace process drags on.
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Nov 23, 2020
An organization called the Canadian Grief Alliance says the loss COVID-19 is causing across the country is something we've never experienced before. It's calling for a national strategy to help Canadians gain access to the resources they need to cope with their grief.
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Nov 23, 2020
Independent Quebec Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne is calling for a crackdown on the consumption of online pornography by young people through new legislation that would force sites to verify the age of all users.
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Nov 23, 2020
CBC News reached out to provincial workplace compensation boards across the country and found that more than 26,000 claims have been filed for contracting COVID-19 at work.
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Nov 23, 2020
AstraZeneca says late-stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine were "highly effective" in preventing disease.
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Nov 22, 2020
Record COVID-19 cases on the Prairies while parts of Ontario prepare for lockdown. Plus, a Canadian exclusive interview with Barack Obama.
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Nov 22, 2020
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's first cabinet picks are coming Tuesday and planning is underway for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite roadblocks from the Trump administration.
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Nov 22, 2020
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden is building out his administration with several key picks for national security and foreign policy roles, including Antony Blinken for secretary of state, and former secretary of state John Kerry as the incoming administration's choice to lead efforts to combat climate change.
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Nov 22, 2020
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies at a perilous time, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.
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Nov 22, 2020
A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection to a shooting at a suburban Milwaukee mall that injured eight people, authorities said Sunday.
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Nov 22, 2020
Canada has granted interim authorization to Eli Lilly's antibody drug for treating COVID-19 in patients who are not hospitalized but are at risk of serious illness because of their age or other conditions, the drug-maker said on Friday.
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Nov 22, 2020
Former U.S. president Barack Obama says the biggest challenge for president-elect Joe Biden will be to bridge the vast political divide that exists in the country and find areas of potential compromise with those who continue to support Donald Trump, without whom he can't govern. Watch excerpts from his full interview with The Current.
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Nov 22, 2020
The head of the U.S. effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine said the first inoculations could happen as soon as 24 hours after the Food and Drug Administration grants approval, which would kick off the largest inoculation campaign in U.S. history starting in mid-December.
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Nov 22, 2020
Seven provinces have signed on to a federal rent assistance program created as part of the national housing strategy, newly released documents show.
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Nov 22, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet. President-elect Joe Biden has said he will rejoin the global pact.
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Nov 22, 2020
In the pandemic response unit at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary, Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil picked up the phone. It was his job to call a family to break the news that their loved one had died of COVID-19.
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Nov 22, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders of the other Group of 20 countries promised Sunday to support developing nations in accessing COVID-19 vaccines while also committing to delay debt payments for cash-strapped jurisdictions.
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Nov 22, 2020
Vaccine distribution, the inability to pull off a mass campaign that could spark crowds and the absence of a national immunization registry are among the top hurdles facing Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, says the head of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
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Nov 22, 2020
A 102-year-old Vancouver woman says she's received phone calls from as far away as England after clinching the Guinness World Record for oldest curler this month.
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Nov 22, 2020
As Manitoba struggles to manage the country's highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rate, Premier Brian Pallister defended his government's handling of the pandemic in an interview Sunday on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live.
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Nov 22, 2020
The family of Loujain Alhathloul, a graduate of UBC who has been jailed in Saudi Arabia for more than two years, is calling on countries, including Canada, to hold the kingdom to account on its human rights record as it hosts the G20 summit.
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Nov 22, 2020
Canada's chief public health officer has warned that more and larger outbreaks are occurring in long-term care homes and hospitals, and infections are spreading in Indigenous communities.
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Nov 22, 2020
CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.
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Nov 22, 2020
A sharp rise in coronavirus infections in the Gaza Strip could overwhelm the Palestinian enclave's meagre medical system by next week, public health advisers said on Sunday.
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Nov 22, 2020
AstraZeneca has started late-stage trials of an experimental antibody combination drug it hopes could be used as a so-called prophylactic to prevent COVID-19 infection in at-risk people for up to 12 months.
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Nov 22, 2020
About 6,500 students across the country are vying for athletic scholarships to take their sport to the college or university level in 2021. But with many games and competitions cancelled there are fewer opportunities for the athletes to get the attention of talent scouts.
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Nov 22, 2020
Is the Buy American pledge from incoming U.S. president Joe Biden a nothingburger or a potential billion-dollar blow to Canada's economy? It could go either way. Key decisions in the coming months will determine if that threat has teeth. Here's what to watch.
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Nov 22, 2020
Making a new friend, in the middle of a pandemic? It may sound wild with all the restrictions in place. But for some, COVID-19 has brought them together.
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Nov 22, 2020
Three experts say the U.S. system has made too many offices and functions subject to partisan influences, while Canada relies more heavily on neutral bureaucrats for the same functions. The result is a loss of trust in the U.S., where nothing is seen as untainted by partisan politics.
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Nov 22, 2020
Saskatchewan is one of several provinces that's cutting off or clawing back social assistance by the same amount that recipients got in CERB funds they weren't entitled to. Landlords say it's put them in a "morally tough spot."
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Nov 22, 2020
Season 4 of the Netflix series The Crown has landed and is already sparking controversy, reflecting the challenge of turning historical facts into drama as the series exploring the reign of Queen Elizabeth moves closer to the present.
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Nov 22, 2020
Many Canadian snowbirds are determined to head south this winter despite the COVID-19 pandemic, but they face hurdles getting their vehicles across a closed U.S. land border. In response, several transport companies have come up with new ways to help snowbirds — and their cars — get across.
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Nov 21, 2020
Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.
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Nov 21, 2020
Thousands of people took to the streets in Paris and other French cities Saturday at the urging of civil liberties campaigners and journalist groups to protest a proposed security law they say would impinge on freedom of information and media rights.
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Nov 21, 2020
Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Pompeii, officials at the archeological park in Italy said Saturday.
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Nov 21, 2020
All of the protesters arrested when Ottawa police dispersed a downtown demonstration in support of Black and Indigenous lives early Saturday morning have been released from custody.
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Nov 21, 2020
Members of the Justice for Abdirahman coalition say they feel ‘betrayed' after Ottawa police dispersed a demonstration in the downtown area early Saturday morning.
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Nov 21, 2020
Fred VanVleet, one of the most coveted players in free agency this year, is remaining a Toronto Raptor. A source close to the team confirmed a report on Saturday that the Raptors had re-signed the 26-year-old to a four-year, $85-million US deal, keeping one of the best backcourts in the league intact.
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Nov 21, 2020
Ontario reported 1,588 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, along with 21 new deaths.
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Nov 21, 2020
Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies on Sunday will pledge to pay for a fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world so that poorer countries are not left out and to extend debt relief to them, a draft G20 communique showed.
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Nov 21, 2020
Leaders of the G20 countries will debate this weekend how to deal with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that has caused a global recession and how to manage the recovery once the coronavirus is under control.
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Nov 21, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning that Canada's future hangs in the balance if people don't reduce their contacts to prevent dire new COVID-19 projections from becoming a reality.
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Nov 21, 2020
Negotiations between Canada and the United Kingdom to hammer out the terms of their post-Brexit trade have concluded, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a video released to the media Saturday morning.
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Nov 21, 2020
CBC News Network showcases the best of CBC journalism, covering breaking stories with speed, and adding context and meaning along the way. CBC News Network is also the destination for original journalism, with added depth from CBC News bureaus across the country and around the world.
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Nov 21, 2020
Several rockets hit residential areas in the early rush hour in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 31, police officials said.
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Nov 21, 2020
People are using private COVID-19 testing ahead of trips and gatherings. But it has sparked debate about access and the value of a negative result.
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Nov 21, 2020
International affairs experts are fond of saying that China's weakness as a superpower is that it lacks friends. But for China's geopolitical foes and rivals, alliances are only as strong as the political will behind them.
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Nov 21, 2020
From debunking misinformation about mRNA vaccine technology to how COVID-19 vaccinations would be prioritized for more than 35 million Canadians, here are some answers — as well as clarity on what we don't yet know.
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Nov 21, 2020
A number of services are setting up shop in Canada that give customers the option to pay for online purchases in instalments. Fees are typically much lower, but one expert cautions that doesn't mean they're without downsides.
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Nov 21, 2020
As COVID-19 cases rise in many provinces, how can you and your family celebrate Christmas safely this year? How do you talk to your family about your holiday plans? Is it safe to give and receive presents, cards or cookies? Your questions, answered.
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Nov 21, 2020
While some may dismiss the futile attempts by Donald Trump and his lawyers to overturn the result of the U.S. presidential election, out in state capitals, officials are worried for their own safety and the fate of U.S. democracy as they face death threats, intimidation tactics and harassment.
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Nov 21, 2020
Edmonton's Dr. Neeja Bakshi has a warning from the pandemic's front lines: Things are getting worse and the health-care system is being pushed to its absolute limits.
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Nov 21, 2020
Edmonton's Dr. Neeja Bakshi has a warning from the pandemic's front lines: things are getting worse and the health care system is being pushed to its absolute limits.
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Nov 21, 2020
While some may dismiss the futile attempts by Donald Trump and his lawyers to overturn the result of the U.S. presidential election, out in state capitals, officials are worried for their own safety and the fate of U.S. democracy as they face death threats, intimidation tactics and harassment.
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Nov 20, 2020
As signs emerge that a transitional trade deal between Canada and the U.K. is imminent, Opposition MPs on the Commons trade committee warned Friday they may not be able to pass implementation legislation in time because the Liberal government let the talks drag on too long.
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Nov 20, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump's son, Don Jr., tested positive this week for the coronavirus, a spokesperson said Friday, adding he has been isolating and has no symptoms.
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Nov 20, 2020
Independent MP Yasmin Ratansi is denying allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards her staff and improper handling of immigration files.
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Nov 20, 2020
Businesses, nonprofits and charities hit financially by the pandemic will be able to apply for the federal government's new rent subsidy program starting Monday.
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Nov 20, 2020
Nineteen public servants at Global Affairs Canada (GAC) are working on a part-time basis to help former finance minister Bill Morneau's campaign to become the next secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to figures tabled in the House of Commons Friday.
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Nov 20, 2020
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Illinois resident charged in the shooting deaths of two people during a protest in Wisconsin earlier this year and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives, posted $2 million US in bail and was released from custody Friday.
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Nov 20, 2020
The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Nov. 20.
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Nov 20, 2020
Volunteers armed with tennis balls, sticks and cans filled with coins will be a new kind of soldier in the conservation battle to keep Alberta's urban coyotes wild.
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Nov 20, 2020
At his request, Donald Trump was meeting with two Michigan state legislators at the White House on Friday, as the U.S. president made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Nov 20, 2020
Michigan's top Republican state legislators said after meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Friday that they did not have any information that would change the outcome of the presidential election in the state, where Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
Michigan's top Republican state legislators said after meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Friday that they did not have any information that would change the outcome of the presidential election in the state, where Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
Donald Trump summoned two Michigan state legislators to the White House on Friday, as the U.S. president made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Canadian military has embarked on a plan to acquire its own coronavirus testing capacity, senior defence officials told a House of Commons committee today.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Toronto Raptors will begin the next season playing in Tampa, Fla, after their request to play home games in Toronto was denied by the federal government. A federal source with direct knowledge confirmed to CBC News that the team could return to Toronto later in the season if pandemic conditions improve.
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Nov 20, 2020
Two Michigan state legislators headed to the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Nov 20, 2020
A retired Ontario Provincial Police officer and former colleague of Constable Marc Hovingh, who was shot and killed in the line of duty in the town of Gore Bay Thursday, says all of Manitoulin Island is in a state of shock after his death.
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Nov 20, 2020
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has overruled a senior departmental official over the framing of an investigation into Neskantaga First Nation's 25-year-long water crisis, CBC News has learned.
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Nov 20, 2020
Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 1.1 per cent to $53.9 billion in September to mark the fifth consecutive monthly increase since the record drop in April as a result of the pandemic.
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