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Oct 07, 2026
A convicted sex offender who sexually abused a 13-year-old boy whose family didn't know about the man's criminal past because he'd changed his name has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Oct 07, 2026
The former U.S. army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first U.S. military execution in more than 65 years.
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Oct 07, 2026
A monthly report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation said the figures mark two full years of annual declines, the longest downturn the Canadian rental market has experienced in recent history.
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Oct 07, 2026
The fraud trial for a suspended Ontario lawyer ping-ponged back and forth on whether TD Bank had suffered any harm or risk of loss as a result of a bad cheque the lawyer wrote.
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Oct 07, 2026
A Liberal MP is calling for more guardrails as the Carney government moves to fast-track construction of projects like pipelines, mines and ports with a major piece of legislation currently before Parliament.
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Oct 07, 2026
Four horses were travelling from across Western Canada to compete in the Equestrian Canada National Dressage West championship in Langley. Three were killed in a crash, and another was injured.
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Oct 07, 2026
In the months leading up to a sword attack at a Brandon, Man., high school, a teen wrote in a notebook about "invaders" of Canada — specifically Black and Muslim immigrants — and his mass murder plan, a court heard Tuesday.
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Oct 07, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters predicted it will quickly strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before striking the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Oct 07, 2026
France has been thrown into crisis as student-led protests erupted across the nation, calling for better conditions for learning and for the government to address a decade-long staffing shortage. Here's a look at what we know so far about the protests — and how they became so widespread.
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Oct 07, 2026
Federal Defence Minister David McGuinty is reminding Albertans of billions of dollars in military spending and that a strong Canada includes a strong Alberta.
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Oct 07, 2026
The Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it is introducing a new bill that would amend more than 30 laws in an effort to reduce red tape in the federal bureaucracy.
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Oct 07, 2026
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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Oct 07, 2026
The proposed framework includes requiring a Class 5 driver's licence, following applicable traffic rules, providing adequate space for cyclists and picking up manure.
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Oct 07, 2026
Stewart Wilson testified it felt like "TV stuff" as he sat in self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's lakefront mansion five years ago and the young man told him he was operating a $30-$50 million investment fund.
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Oct 07, 2026
Starbucks has been sued by U.S. consumers who said the coffee chain falsely advertised eight protein beverages as "sugar-free" because they contain lactose, a naturally occurring sugar in milk.
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Oct 07, 2026
NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing ?jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth's planetary neighbour.
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Oct 07, 2026
A top official with the World Health Organization said Wednesday the UN health agency doesn't know how a lab worker in Siberia died amid concerns about plague, and is urging Russia to provide more information.
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Oct 07, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival won praise for its all-woman lineup and charitable focus on reproductive rights and fighting gender-based violence. But the festival is coming under fire from two vendors alleging they endured poor working conditions and haven't received proper payment for their services.
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Oct 07, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo's inaugural festival, Daisy Chain Fields, won praise for its all-woman lineup and charitable focus on reproductive rights and fighting gender-based violence. But although some vendors raved about the experience, two vendors are alleging they endured poor working conditions and are still waiting for payment.
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Oct 07, 2026
Maya Turner just keeps putting the boots to the history books for Canadian university football. The first female to score points in a U Sports football game is now the first female captain in the century-long history of the Bisons program.
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Oct 07, 2026
The federal government will introduce legislation this fall that will indefinitely extend the ban on access to a medically assisted death for people who are only suffering from a mental illness, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Wednesday.
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Oct 07, 2026
Author and former UBC professor Steven Galloway says he was "shocked" to learn he was being accused of sexual assault, and believed he had split amicably after an affair with the former student making the allegation.
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Oct 07, 2026
The rare discovery of a nursery with billions of baby sea cucumbers in the ocean water near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, is helping researchers better understand the species - and could some day generate income for the Arctic hamlet.
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Oct 07, 2026
A constitutional lawyer has filed an emergency injunction in an attempt to force the incoming Parti Québécois government to swear allegiance to King Charles.
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Oct 07, 2026
The Weston family holding company Wittington Investments said Wednesday that it will purchase the U.K. chain Boots for $8.9 billion US, including debt, from private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Boots is one of Britain's most prominent retailers.
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Oct 07, 2026
More than 200,000 people have been displaced across Yemen as fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces has intensified in recent weeks, the United Nations's migration agency says.
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Oct 07, 2026
The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims.
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Oct 07, 2026
Volunteers spent three weeks trying to track and capture the dog, which is a rescue from Spain, where the breed is routinely killed after a career in racing.
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Oct 07, 2026
Two First Nations are challenging the construction of Bell Canada's AI data centre south of Regina, saying the project is moving ahead without consultation or adequate information about its environmental impacts.
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Oct 07, 2026
Two First Nations are challenging the construction of Bell Canada's AI data centre south of Regina, saying the project is moving ahead without consultation or adequate information about its environmental impacts.
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Oct 07, 2026
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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Oct 07, 2026
Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 12 civilians, including three children, and wounding more than 40 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.
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Oct 07, 2026
Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 19 civilians, including four children, and wounding around 60 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.
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Oct 07, 2026
With the election of the Parti Québécois in Quebec, Canada will have its first separatist government in over a decade. How much trouble will it cause for Mark Carney?
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Oct 07, 2026
There's a deadly disease that threatens to infect Manitoba frogs and salamanders — and it could wreak havoc if left unchecked. That's why Brandon University researchers are sampling amphibians to confirm what they fear is true: The fungal infection is already here.
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Oct 07, 2026
With the N.W.T. and Manitoba ending daylight savings, Nunavut's Kitikmeot and Kivalliq regions will be out of sync with their provincial and territorial neighbors. Now, some officials in the regions say it's time the regions ended the practice.
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Oct 07, 2026
Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in dire conditions.
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Oct 07, 2026
Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in dire conditions.
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Oct 07, 2026
Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in dire conditions.
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Oct 07, 2026
Nackawic's pulp mill will cease operations on Nov. 4, putting an estimated 350 employees out of work.
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Oct 07, 2026
Refugee rights advocates say they are shocked to hear that the federal immigration minister appeared in an interview with Radio-Canada to be unfamiliar with the landmark Supreme Court decision widely considered to be the cornerstone of the Canadian refugee protection system.
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Oct 07, 2026
As Israelis and Palestinians mark the sombre anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that began the three-year war between Israel and Hamas, people in Gaza are also starting to look to the future. CBC News spoke with six people in Gaza to ask them how they're managing with shelter, food and education.
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Oct 07, 2026
Arizona State University says it commissioned an independent review to make recommendations following the collapse and hospitalization of Canadian NHL prospect Matthew Mayich during a workout. Mayich's family lawyer says the review falls short because it's focused on policy rather than accountability.
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Oct 07, 2026
As Israelis and Palestinians mark the sombre anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that began the three-year war between Israel and Hamas, people in Gaza are also starting to look to the future. CBC News spoke with six people in Gaza to ask them how they're managing with shelter, food and education.
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Oct 07, 2026
The first-ever international guidelines on managing childhood obesity are raising the profile of GLP-1 treatments for kids and teens — but with strict criteria and a high degree of caution.
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Oct 07, 2026
Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.
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Oct 07, 2026
Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.
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Oct 07, 2026
As residents continue to move into the new temporary shelter village in Thunder Bay, Ont., the project has sparked debate on social media among municipal election candidates about drugs being allowed at the site. Here's the city's explanation behind the harm reduction approach at the site, and what advocates and experts in the region have to say on the matter.
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Oct 06, 2026
Artists Rashad Maharaj and Trevor Wheatley, along with event organizer Brandon Wong, tell The National about the moment they held a funeral for Toronto's famous 'Inconvenience Store,' a floating art installation in the city's harbour.
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Oct 06, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.
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Oct 06, 2026
For the first time in over a decade, Quebec has elected a separatist party in its provincial elections, even though most Quebecers don't want to secede from Canada. Andrew Chang explains how the fall of the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec led to the rise of the Parti Québécois and its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, and why sovereignty became a separate issue for voters.
Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images
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Oct 06, 2026
The Crown provided an overview of it's case against self-described 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski at the first day of his trial Tuesday. Prosecutors allege the 27-year-old spent investor money on himself, including exotic cars, flights on private jets and credit card bills in the millions, instead of investing it in cryptocurrency and foreign exchange like he told his investors.
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Oct 06, 2026
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating after a Delta Air Lines plane "clipped" an Air Canada aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died. She was 102.
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Oct 06, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing ?children's underwear.
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
A U.S. Marine was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa. The killing has drawn outrage on the island and inflamed longstanding tensions over U.S. military bases, which residents say are a source of noise, pollution and violent crime against women.
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Oct 06, 2026
The influencer, who goes by Abeeeer on popular Chinese social media platform Rednote, or Xiaohongshu, posted a "sincere apology" for violating the rules Saturday to her 520,000 followers, explaining that she was feeling physically unwell during the race but that it wasn't an excuse.
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Oct 06, 2026
A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into an surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years, authorities said Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Viewers of Big Brother U.K. are criticizing its contestants after the show aired a tense debate about transgender rights, pronouns, single-sex bathrooms and trans athletes in sports.
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Oct 06, 2026
Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will announce its planned path forward for medical assistance in dying on Wednesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Christine Fréchette, Quebec's outgoing premier, announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party.
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Oct 06, 2026
Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went into effect, says Canada's foreign influence watchdog.
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Oct 06, 2026
A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house.
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Oct 06, 2026
A series of audio stories, released as part of a new NHL marketing campaign and presented like popular hockey romance novels, is no longer available on Spotify after drawing widespread criticism.
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Oct 06, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the morning after the separatist Parti Québécois's electoral victory that the province and Canada can together fight for the prosperity of their people to ensure "we can live the way we want to live."
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Oct 06, 2026
A U.S. appeals court has upheld the verdict and sentence for one of the men found guilty of human smuggling in a case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while attempting to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022.
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Oct 06, 2026
The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ?of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.
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Oct 06, 2026
Canadian actor Simu Liu, star of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has tied the knot, marrying music industry executive Allison Hsu.
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Oct 06, 2026
Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago.
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Oct 06, 2026
Direct spending on the Canadian military could reach $163.6 billion by 2035 under the Liberal government's proposal to meet NATO's benchmark target of five per cent of GDP, the Parliamentary Budget Office in a new report on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
An 18-year-old resident of Yorkton, Sask., is facing terrorism charges for allegedly posting videos as a member of 764, a listed terrorist entity in Canada.
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Oct 06, 2026
The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony.
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Oct 06, 2026
Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.
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Oct 06, 2026
Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.
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Oct 06, 2026
Lionel Messi turned his official farewell to Argentina into a gala performance, contributing a penalty and two assists in a 3-0 win over Benin on Tuesday at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, where the crowd offered a deafening final ovation to the genius who defined the footballing pulse of a nation for two decades.
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Oct 06, 2026
Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday. The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires has been dubbed "The Night That No One Wants to End" as Messi plays for his country one last time.
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Oct 06, 2026
The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax. The merged company will be worth about $72 billion and will be one of Canada's largest utilities.
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Oct 06, 2026
The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax. The merged company will be one of Canada's largest utilities.
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Oct 06, 2026
After pausing work at the Martin Gallant Building in Stephenville Crossing this past summer, the Newfoundland and Labrador government says the building needs to be demolished, axing plans for it to become the new courthouse and provincial government services building. Mayor Lisa Lucas is now worried about what it means for her community.
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Oct 06, 2026
Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. hit a 19-month high in August, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Former Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Alexander has dropped out of the race to become Toronto's next mayor.
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Oct 06, 2026
Police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading French high schools as students, teachers and parents take to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.
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Oct 06, 2026
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.
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Oct 06, 2026
Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
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Oct 06, 2026
A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conversation must continue.
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Oct 06, 2026
Three ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer now stand upside down at the Fredericton Botanic Garden. What began as a joke has become a popular attraction — and a reminder of the threat facing hundreds of ash trees on the property.
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Oct 06, 2026
For a young woman in St. John's, the anticipation of her 21st birthday was anything but exciting.
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Oct 06, 2026
Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That's causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.
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Oct 06, 2026
A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occurring phenomenon.
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Oct 06, 2026
Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That's causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.
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Oct 06, 2026
Thirty-two years after a 10-year-old boy was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted, an audio tape of his September 1994 police interview was played for the jury Monday at the trial of his alleged attacker. Richard Neil has pleaded not guilty to 17 historical charges linked to attacks on three children.
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Oct 06, 2026
For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism. But police say the materials reported so far do not constitute hate crimes, and the group's chair and founder says the recruitment campaign is not going to stop.
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Oct 06, 2026
Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's fraud and money laundering trial will begin Tuesday morning in Toronto.
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Oct 05, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadians, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.
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Oct 05, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.
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Oct 05, 2026
Former UBC professor and bestselling author Steven Galloway claims he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault made by multiple people over a decade ago.
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