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Sep 01, 2026
A University of Ottawa study surveyed nearly 40,000 youth in Ontario and found that one in five had turned to AI chatbots for mental health advice. Experts say chatbots can fill a gap, but the lack of regulation — and of real human empathy — are cause for concern.
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Sep 01, 2026
Toronto begins a three-game series in Cleveland on Tuesday that will give the Blue Jays a shot at moving up in the standings at a critical time in the season.
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Sep 01, 2026
North of North returns for Season 2 with Siaja (Anna Lambe) nearly a year into rebuilding her life — still juggling work, motherhood, dating, and complicated relationships with her mother and estranged father. After last season's big confession, the show stays grounded in its mix of humour and heart, with Siaja's push for closure leading to a "very messy" place.
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Sep 01, 2026
Tens of thousands of music lovers descended on Great Park in Irvine, Calif., over the weekend to scream along to their favourite artists — part of a history-making event to raise funds for women's health, reproductive rights and ending gender-based violence.
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Sep 01, 2026
Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed.
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Aug 31, 2026
Graduate students Katie Adler and Emily Renkey from the Marmot Project at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory tell The National about the moment they held the first Fat Marmot Week crowning "Dawn" the winner.
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Aug 31, 2026
A jury has found Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, marking the first conviction in a case that has gripped hip-hop fans for decades.
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Aug 31, 2026
Aug. 31, 2026 | CBC News projects a Liberal sweep of three federal byelections, the first since the revitalized trade war with the U.S. A senior Trump official mocks Canada and blames the prime minister for the trade war. And the search is on for Canada's first Eurovision act.
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Aug 31, 2026
Aug. 31, 2026 | A senior Trump official mocks Canada and blames the prime minister for the trade war. Voters head to the polls in the first federal byelection since the trade war started. And the search is on for Canada's first Eurovision act.
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Aug 31, 2026
Chuck Thompson, the head of public affairs at CBC, says the public broadcaster is reviewing the Republican National Committee's "disappointing" decision to revoke CBC/Radio-Canada press accreditation for next month's event in Dallas, Texas.
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Aug 31, 2026
The search is officially on for a Canadian team to renovate Canada's most famous fixer-upper — 24 Sussex Drive — so it's no longer uninhabitable and future prime ministers can live there once again.
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Aug 31, 2026
Canadian and provincial health-care groups are calling on the federal government to stop Alberta from allowing physicians to practise in both the public and private system.
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Aug 31, 2026
An Edmonton-born man who spent months in ICE detention is back in Canada, where he is now sharing his story about the conditions and hurdles he faced while detained. Curtis Wright, 40, who spent most of his life living in the United States, was held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas for nine months after returning from a business trip to Mexico in November.
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Aug 31, 2026
Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in Gothic, Colo. The Fat Marmot Week contest is the brainchild of the Marmot Project, a long-term research initiative whose future hangs in the balance amid U.S. funding cuts.
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Aug 31, 2026
The Dog Stars, 20th Century Fox's post-apocalypse blockbuster blunder, bombed at the box office this weekend, earning just $19.3M US — a dismal start for the Ridley Scott directed, Jacob Elordi-led feature that cost an estimated $80 million US to make. It was one of the most underwhelming openings for a mainstream Hollywood release in a year that hasn't exactly been short of disappointing films.
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Aug 31, 2026
The Dog Stars, 20th Century Fox's post-apocalypse blockbuster blunder, bombed at the box office this weekend, earning just $19.3M US — a dismal start for the Ridley Scott directed, Jacob Elordi-led feature that cost an estimated $80 million US to make. It was one of the most underwhelming openings for a mainstream Hollywood release in a year that hasn't exactly been short of disappointing films.
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Aug 31, 2026
First Nation leaders are seeking accountability following the full parole of Brayden Bushby, who was found guilty in the manslaughter of Barbara Kentner of Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation. Members of Kentner's family were among those marching in Ottawa on Monday. The 34-year-old died after she was struck by a trailer hitch thrown from a moving vehicle in Thunder Bay in 2017.
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Aug 31, 2026
First Nation leaders are seeking accountability following the full parole of Brayden Bushby, who was found guilty in the manslaughter of Barbara Kentner of Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation. Members of Kentner's family were among those marching in Ottawa on Monday. The 34-year-old faced medical complications in the months after she was struck by a trailer hitch thrown at her from a moving vehicle in Thunder Bay in 2017.
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Aug 31, 2026
Canada's last captive whales are set to leave the country today as the six belugas from Marineland are headed to two aquariums in the United States.
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Aug 31, 2026
The El Niño weather pattern won't peak for several months, but some effects are noticeable right now — both in terms of weather and human preparation. Here's a photographic look at some of the ways El Niño is already making its mark.
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Aug 31, 2026
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled in favour of Cardinal Marc Ouellet in a defamation lawsuit brought against Paméla Groleau, ordering her to pay him $100,000 in damages.
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Aug 31, 2026
Lionel Messi has ended his career as a player for the Argentine national team at 39 years old, after nearly
two decades representing the national side.
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Aug 31, 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is cancelling its planned exhibit honouring British designer John Galliano, which had led to severe backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because of the designer's past antisemitic and racist statements.
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Aug 31, 2026
Anyone can enter, but amateurs beware: CBC/Radio-Canada is looking for a performer with a proven track record. Already, three competitors have made their intentions known.
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Aug 31, 2026
A sign featuring the Squamish Nation's language and several B.C. locations are on display in a new Wolverine video game that's expected to draw millions of players globally.
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Aug 31, 2026
A tornado touched down near a community in southwestern Manitoba on Sunday, Environment and Climate Change Canada has confirmed.
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Aug 31, 2026
As Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board lays off hundreds of people, some employees who have received notice — and their union — are raising concerns about the agency's implementation of artificial intelligence.
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Aug 31, 2026
Swiss police said on Monday that they had arrested a 43-year-old suspect in relation to a ?deadly shooting incident at a rave in the town of Aarau on the weekend.
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Aug 31, 2026
The union said the three-year collective agreements increase wages for full-rate production members to $50.20 an hour and skilled trades workers to $62.71 an hour.
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Aug 31, 2026
A spokesperson for Education Minister Tracy Schmidt confirmed to CBC News that sex ed is included in the Manitoba health curriculum overhaul announced earlier this week. It makes in-person phys-ed classes mandatory for all students in kindergarten to Grade 12.
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Aug 31, 2026
Thieves have been capitalizing on the gains in copper value, officials say, with thefts costing Canadian utilities and charging companies more than $1 million in the past year.
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Aug 31, 2026
A spokesperson for Education Minister Tracy Schmidt confirmed to CBC News that sex ed is included in the health curriculum overhaul — which makes in-person phys-ed classes mandatory for all students in kindergarten to Grade 12 — announced earlier this week.
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Aug 31, 2026
Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones.
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Aug 31, 2026
Rescuers rushed Monday to reach workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites buried in mud after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China, as the death toll continued to rise and increasingly desperate families search for their loved ones.
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Aug 31, 2026
Why Donald Trump is posting AI-generated videos of orange-haired geese holding guns and more.
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Aug 31, 2026
As Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board lays off hundreds of people, some employees who have received notice — and their union — are raising concerns about the agency's implementation of artificial intelligence.
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Aug 31, 2026
A week before a Nova Scotia meadery was going to sell almost 600 wine-size bottles of mead to a New Brunswick Renaissance fair, the 100-plus per cent markup fees charged by New Brunswick's liquor regulator largely scuttled the order. The situation even attracted the ire of Nova Scotia's premier.
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Aug 31, 2026
A week before a Nova Scotia meadery was going to sell almost 600 wine-size bottles of mead to a New Brunswick Renaissance fair, the 100-plus per cent markup fees charged by New Brunswick's liquor regulator largely scuttled the order. The situation even attracted the ire of Nova Scotia's premier.
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Aug 31, 2026
The proposed train line, designed to cut travel times between Toronto and Quebec City in half, could slice directly through one farmer's property in Rigaud, Que. He says the proposed train route would divide his farm and cut off his access to the main road — making farming operations impossible.
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Aug 31, 2026
New research highlights the declines in living corals in reefs around the world, showing the unprecedented twin-danger of human-caused climate change and an expected record El Niño.
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Aug 31, 2026
New research highlights the declines in living corals in reefs around the world, showing the unprecedented twin-danger of human-caused climate change and an expected record El Niño.
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Aug 31, 2026
After months on his political backfoot, Doug Ford was on the offensive this week, squaring off with Donald Trump in a war of words. Political analysts and experts say the fight plays to the premier's strengths and has contributed to a spike in his approvals just ahead of three provincial key byelections this week.
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Aug 31, 2026
New evidence, including a potential confession, has been uncovered in an investigation by the CBC's the fifth estate into the suspicious disappearance of a man in northern British Columbia.
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Aug 30, 2026
Waterloo Rocketry team lead Alex Pacheco tells The National about the moment the team launched their liquid bipropellant rocket, Polaris, breaking the world record for the highest apogee achieved by an amateur liquid-propellant rocket.
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Aug 30, 2026
Waterloo Rocketry team lead Alex Pacheco tells The National about the moment the team launched their liquid bipropellant rocket, Polaris, breaking the world record for the highest apogee achieved by an amateur liquid-propellant rocket.
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Aug 30, 2026
Aug. 30, 2026 | Hundreds of workers are believed to be trapped in tunnels buried under metres of mud from flash flooding in Nepal. Google changes its maps to read Lake America in the U.S. and the switch shows up on several Canadian websites. And, an island suddenly appears then vanishes in northern B.C.
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Aug 30, 2026
One person died and about 15 people are missing or unaccounted for after a major flash flood at the Grand Canyon forced evacuations, pushed large boulders into the Colorado River and knocked out the sole water pipeline that serves tourists and residents, the National Park Service said Sunday.
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Aug 30, 2026
A major flash flood at Arizona's Grand Canyon forced the evacuation of dozens of people and swept large boulders, metal structures and other debris into the Colorado River that runs through it, the U.S. National Park Service said. Saturday's flooding has left the park service seeking information about 15 people who may be missing or unaccounted for.
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Aug 30, 2026
Two bodies have been recovered since a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon, park officials said Monday, while about 80 people were rescued and one person remained unaccounted for.
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Aug 30, 2026
At least two bodies have been recovered since a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon, park officials said Monday, as search and recovery efforts continued for about 15 people still missing.
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Aug 30, 2026
U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday in the first military action in a month, prompting an Iranian response and breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months.
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Aug 30, 2026
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a statement carried by Iran's state broadcaster noted "the martyrdom and injury of several of our fighters and compatriots" after the U.S. bombed targets in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Aug 30, 2026
NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch on Sunday of the U.S. space agency's new flagship astronomical observatory, a repurposed spy satellite that will capture panoramic ?views of the cosmos.
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Aug 30, 2026
Nova Scotia's oldest documented wooden structure, a 318-year-old National Historic Site in Annapolis Royal, is for sale for $495,000. The de Gannes-Cosby House reflects centuries of French and British rule in the region and has been continuously occupied.
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Aug 30, 2026
Summer is winding down — and Alberta's separation debate is ramping up, as both sides laid the path ahead for their respective movements with rallies on Saturday.
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Aug 30, 2026
Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
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Aug 30, 2026
Icelanders voted to stay out of the European Union, referendum results showed on Sunday, as they rejected a government push to reopen membership talks and sided with those who said Iceland's fishing waters were too important to risk.
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Aug 30, 2026
Rescue crews are on scene after a ferry carrying more than 260 passengers capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.
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Aug 30, 2026
Some 237 people have been rescued, Northern Cyprus Prime Minister Unal Ustel told Turkish state-run TRT news channel. He said a search was underway for another 24 people.
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Aug 30, 2026
Some 237 people have been rescued, Northern Cyprus Prime Minister Unal Ustel told Turkish state-run TRT news channel. He said a search was underway for another 24 people.
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Aug 30, 2026
Some 237 people have been rescued, Northern Cyprus Prime Minister Unal Ustel told Turkish state-run TRT news channel.
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Aug 30, 2026
The District of Port Edwards is giving away free low-flush toilets that have been sitting unused in the district office basement for the past two decades.
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Aug 30, 2026
Susan Thompson is the first — and only — woman to serve as Winnipeg's mayor. Nearly three decades after she left office, she says it's taking too long for a second woman to be sworn in.
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Aug 30, 2026
Jasmin Esquivel of Prince Albert, Sask., won the national pageant in Surrey, B.C. and will represent Canada at the Mrs. Universe 2026 competition in Sri Lanka this fall. She says her children are her greatest support.
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Aug 30, 2026
A downtown Toronto cinema says it was forced to cancel screenings of a new movie after the film's distributor unexpectedly withdrew access — citing a decades-old practice in Canada that limits which theatres can show movies first.
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Aug 30, 2026
A group of tenants in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is demonstrating how communities can come together to keep each other safe during extreme heat events.
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Aug 30, 2026
Political stress is a distinct type of stress that refers to how political events, decisions and actors, can cause anxiety, even depression, and other health impacts. Academics like a team of researchers at the Body Politics Lab at Western University are digging into how people feel, emotionally and physically, about politics.
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Aug 30, 2026
As Germany's far right gains political ground, researchers say some of its supporters are becoming more comfortable signalling their views in public — sometimes without displaying an explicitly political symbol at all.
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Aug 30, 2026
With the Trump administration's promise to impose more tariffs on us in January, many Canadians are asking: What leverage should we use to get them to change course?
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Aug 30, 2026
It was a cruel twist of fate. Just three days before the WNBA and its players landed on a new collective bargaining agreement — one that would officialize Canada's first WNBA team's inaugural season — the country's national team was dealt a blow. It was eliminated from World Cup contention. And by Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello's Australian team, no less.
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Aug 30, 2026
Elizabeth Hunt never anticipated she would become an ice cream artist. But when she was given a hand-me-down kitchen gadget, she learned about the joy of experimenting on a budget and personalizing gifts.
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Aug 29, 2026
The Canadian women's vollleyball team punched its ticket to the Olympics for the first time since 1996 on Saturday with a 3-1 win (25-15, 20-25, 25-23, 25-14) over the host Dominican Republic in the final of the NORCECA Continental Qualifier in Santo Domingo.
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Aug 29, 2026
Several questions about the U.S. deal to develop vast Venezuelan oil reserves remain unanswered, and a rapid and large-scale increase in production is unlikely. But experts say increased exports from Venezuela "would compete directly with Canadian crude in the U.S. Gulf Coast market."
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Aug 29, 2026
John Albert (Buck) Martinez, a cancer survivor, catcher, manager and broadcaster for parts of five decades with the Toronto Blue Jays, was inducted into the club's new Hall of Excellence on Saturday.
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Aug 29, 2026
Bryan Esbaugh and his 15-year-old son, Wyatt, were fishing on Ponhook Lake in Queens County, N.S., when they accidentally hooked a bald eagle. After safely untangling the bird on shore, they set it free and playfully dubbed it the "Canadian White-Headed Lake Raptor."
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Aug 29, 2026
More than 100 people gathered outside of Hamilton city hall around midday Saturday to denounce the fact that a self-proclaimed nationalist group that wants to deport millions of people from Canada planned to host a day-long conference in the city the same day. Dominion Society members were seen meeting in Burlington, Ont.
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Aug 29, 2026
Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack since a siege by settlers in the area earlier this month drew an international outcry. The settlers surrounded a Palestinian home, throwing stones while seven Palestinians were trapped inside, according to witnesses.
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Aug 29, 2026
In the echoey void of a gutted Campbell's Soup factory in Toronto's west end, Canada's minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation announced the federal government's biggest bet to date on homegrown technology that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, medical science and a host of other key sectors of the economy.
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Aug 29, 2026
About 265,000 Icelanders are eligible to vote in a referendum on whether to trigger European Union membership talks. Supporters say membership could offer stability and protection against possible threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, while opponents say it's unnecessary and could endanger rich fishing stocks.
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Aug 29, 2026
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security video shows men, handcuffed and in chains, boarding a deportation flight to Haiti this week. Critics say the Trump administration is "bragging" about sending Haitian immigrants "back to a war-torn country" after rescinding temporary protected status.
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Aug 29, 2026
Rockstar Games' long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to generate billions in sales, but a backlash is brewing after part of the game was leaked in protest against the company's decision to only release digital copies.
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Aug 29, 2026
Telecommunications provider Eastlink is warning some customers of a potential data breach that happened in recent days, but it does not believe that credit card or banking information was exposed. The company operates in seven Canadian provinces and Bermuda.
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Aug 29, 2026
At least 27 people have been killed following a Russian attack on the Bucha district, close to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, officials said Saturday.
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Aug 29, 2026
The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday.
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Aug 29, 2026
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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Aug 29, 2026
Judge Michelle Brass says the meaning of eagle feathers varies between Indigenous communities, and it's especially important for Saulteaux people such as herself.
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Aug 29, 2026
Some climate scientists are cautious about prematurely attributing human caused-climate change as the sole cause of the disaster that resulted in the violent flooding of Himalayan villages in Nepal this week. But other experts say it was the kind of catastrophe they've been warning about for years.
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Aug 29, 2026
Politicians from Canada and the United States have thrown varying degrees of personal insults back and forth across the border this week, but the two governments' trade negotiators avoided getting personal — at least in public. Experts believe the two trade leads are striking a different tone because they have a different role to play as the dispute heats up.
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Aug 29, 2026
A U.K. woman is on a mission to convince her government to scrap its tax on sunscreen. Canadian cancer organizations say this country should consider doing the same.
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Aug 29, 2026
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing it has no business directing Canada's climate policy.
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Aug 29, 2026
The flareup in the Canada-U.S. tariff war has not only strengthened Ottawa's resolve to boost military co-operation with Europe and Asia — it's also hurting prospects of major military purchases from the United States.
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Aug 29, 2026
After years of speculation that Gen Z is the sober generation, new research shows that they are actually starting to drink more — nearly on par with the rest of the adult population.
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Aug 29, 2026
Youngstown, Ohio, sits in a wider congressional district known as OH-6, which exports more than $820 million US in goods to Canada every year. While not all of its imports and exports are caught in the crosshairs of the escalating U.S-Canadian tariffs, a prolonged trade war could threaten some businesses in those sectors.
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Aug 29, 2026
If all goes to plan, at 7:26 a.m. Sunday morning, a new space telescope will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket, ready to reveal new wonders about our universe. Here are some things scientists hope to unravel with this new telescope.
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Aug 28, 2026
Two-time Paralympic champion Danielle Dorris of Moncton, N.B., earned Canada's first medal to open the three-day Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, grabbing silver in the women's 50-metre butterfly S5-7 final on Friday night in Walnut, Calif.
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Aug 28, 2026
Joan Phillip, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Strathcona and wife of Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, has died.
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Aug 28, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country's oil reserves.
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Aug 28, 2026
Squishy toys have triggered recalls, seizures and burn warnings abroad. Health Canada has received 36 reports involving squishy dumpling toys, including injuries, but says it has not confirmed a specific health or safety risk.
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