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Aug 14, 2026
Canadian director Ally Pankiw revealed Thursday in an Instagram post that she turned down work on an upcoming Harry Potter television series, saying, "It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia!"
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Aug 14, 2026
Canada has announced new sanctions against five senior Iranian officials, accusing them of being involved in activities obstructing navigation rights in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Aug 14, 2026
Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is on an epic record-breaking run: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the fastest movie ever to cross the $700-million US mark at the North American box office.
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Aug 14, 2026
Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition will not be returning, according to a statement on the show's official X account.
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Aug 14, 2026
Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the wordmark — referring to a text-only logo — on the top of the app would be changing to a more minimal design. It's the first time the mark is changing in 10 years — and reactions were mixed.
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Aug 14, 2026
Premier Doug Ford's government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision made in July 2025.
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Aug 14, 2026
Firefighters across Europe struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of the continent, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes.
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Aug 14, 2026
The U.S. wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn a siege imposed by Jewish settlers in a Palestinian village, officials said on Friday, as settlers pressured residents by pitching a new tent before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down.
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Aug 14, 2026
The overdose of a 15-year-old boy in Edmonton underscores the urgent need to bring involuntary addiction care into force for Alberta's youth, says the judge who led a fatality inquiry into his death.
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Aug 14, 2026
Curtis Geiger purchased a Calgary Stampede Showband 50/50 lottery ticket last month but only checked it this week to discover he'd won $125,000 — except he didn't. The organization running the lottery says he missed the 48-hour window to collect his prize money.
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Aug 14, 2026
?Record rainfall in Japan stranded thousands of travelers at Tokyo's Narita airport on Friday, bringing floods to the surrounding area that disrupted transport, knocked out power to 20,000 homes and killed eight.
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Aug 14, 2026
?Record rainfall in Japan stranded thousands of travelers at Tokyo's Narita airport on Friday, bringing floods to the surrounding area that disrupted transport, knocked out power to 20,000 homes and killed eight.
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Aug 14, 2026
A man from the small northeastern Ontario town of Cobalt accused of trying to kill his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend with a sword has pleaded guilty. 20-year-old Phillipe Rivard Gagnon pleaded guilty to attempted murder in Haileybury court earlier this week.
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Aug 14, 2026
Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, regaining a seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election.
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Aug 14, 2026
While The End of Oak Street is at times genuinely fun and somewhat original, there does seem to be something missing from what's been widely crowned the summer blockbuster we've all been waiting for.
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Aug 14, 2026
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around what the deal means for Canada's digital sovereignty amid the country's trade war with the U.S.
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Aug 14, 2026
Through yoga nights, concerts and affordable dinners, Legion branches across the country are making a big play to welcome new members in their 100th year — not only to fill needs in the community and provide third spaces for a younger generation, but also to ensure they can continue surviving.
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Aug 14, 2026
Edmonton-based Studio Reset was founded by developers with years of experience working at studios like Electronic Arts-owned Bioware. As companies with billion-dollar budgets become more risk averse chasing the next big hit, it could be the best way for developers to flex their creative muscles.
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Aug 14, 2026
Long Lake #58 is mourning the death by drug overdose of a third young person in this northwestern Ontario community this year. After demanding action from provincial, federal and policing partners to protect their members, Long Lake #58 and neighbouring Ginoogaming First Nation are now taking matters into their own hands.
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Aug 14, 2026
A study of fossilized feces, known as coprolites, from 540 million years ago found fecal matter likely played a significant role in an explosion of biodiversity in the early Cambrian period. Paleontologists say these fossils can tell us a lot about ancient animals and the ecosystems they inhabited.
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Aug 14, 2026
Some community members in Nelson, B.C., organized a rally after a young grizzly bear was killed.
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Aug 13, 2026
Summer McIntosh earned a gold medal Thursday night, defeating Jenna Forrester of Australia in championship record time in the women's 400-metre individual medley at the Pac Pacific swimming competition in Irvine, Calif.
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Aug 13, 2026
Summer McIntosh earned a gold medal Thursday night, defeating Jenna Forrester of Australia in championship record time in the women's 400-metre individual medley at the Pac Pacific swimming competition in Irvine, Calif.
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Aug 13, 2026
A dozen people who took part in a weeks-long international student protest in northeast Calgary have been flagged as "being possibly inadmissible" and, according to an immigration lawyer, could be forced to leave Canada.
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Aug 13, 2026
A high-altitude NASA spy plane was just tracked flying over British Columbia's wildfires. Why? It was on a mission to study "fire clouds," self-perpetuating thunderstorms generated by the blazes themselves that can trigger fire tornadoes and lightning. CBC Meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down the science behind these pyrocumulonimbus storms and why climate change is making them more frequent.
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Aug 13, 2026
After Liberal MP Shaun Chen announced Monday his plans to resign his seat in the House of Commons in September, he was accused online of breaking House rules by voting on legislation while he was in China earlier this year.
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Aug 13, 2026
Preston Manning is stepping into the fray ahead of Alberta's fall referendum by headlining a public forum tackling Western Canada's long-standing grievances with Ottawa.
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Aug 13, 2026
More than 100,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada. Avneet Dhillon explains the reasons behind the petition, which comes as the latest trade deadline approaches.
(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)
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Aug 13, 2026
The B.C. RCMP's commanding officer has been ousted following unspecified allegations dating from 2016 to 2018, according to a statement from the force. Dwayne McDonald, who served as the RCMP's deputy commissioner, was relieved of his duties.
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Aug 13, 2026
The United States on Thursday threatened to maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely, ratcheting up economic pressure on Tehran as ceasefire talks have floundered, global oil supply ?is dropping and regional tensions are rising.
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Aug 13, 2026
The United States on Thursday said that it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely and would ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran as ceasefire talks have floundered, global ?oil supply is dropping and regional tensions are rising.
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Aug 13, 2026
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a recall of some Whole Foods Market brand products, saying they've been linked to a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. Various guacamoles, pico de gallos, salsas and prepared foods are part of the recall, issued Thursday.
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Aug 13, 2026
Selena Gomez was sued on Thursday by investors who say the singer and actor committed fraud by failing to fulfil duties to build and promote her mental health startup.
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Aug 13, 2026
A for-profit plasma donation company says it's temporarily shutting down collection at all its Canadian clinics amid public scrutiny.
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Aug 13, 2026
Emily Hampshire, Sabrina Jalees and Robert Naylor and drag queen Priyanka join the Crave TV show.
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Aug 13, 2026
The vote to add the phrase 'Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump' to the building's façade sets up a test of a recent federal judge's ruling that blocked the performing arts venue's two-year closure and determined U.S. President Donald Trump's name was added to the building illegally.
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Aug 13, 2026
Broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man's head to be sucked through the opening before his fellow passengers pulled him to safety, U.S. investigators said Thursday.
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Aug 13, 2026
A Famous Players 6 employee in Prince George, B.C., improvised and drew movie posters for the film Spider-Man: Brand New Day when the official movie posters never showed up.
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Aug 13, 2026
Amid heated debate over transgender athletes in women's sports, former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White say they plan to enter the 2027 WNBA draft. Experts say it's a "bad-faith" attempt to score political points at the expense of a marginalized community.
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Aug 13, 2026
Heated Rivalry actor Dylan Walsh is in the penalty box after he revealed that the hit hockey romance streaming series could be filming a dozen episodes, leading to fan speculation that more than one season could be in the works.
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Aug 13, 2026
Heated Rivalry actor Dylan Walsh is in the penalty box after he revealed that the hit hockey romance streaming series could be filming a dozen episodes, leading to fan speculation that more than one season could be in the works.
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Aug 13, 2026
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we learn how Canada is doing compared to other countries in a recent environmental report card, see Nazi warships uncovered by drought and heat in Europe and learn how event organizers and tourism are adapting to smoky summers in B.C.
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Aug 13, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was unaware until yesterday of the Progressive Conservative Party spending money to allegedly surveil former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie in Jamaica in 2023.
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Aug 13, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was unaware until yesterday of the Progressive Conservative Party spending money to allegedly surveil former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie in Jamaica in 2023.
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Aug 13, 2026
Canadian director Matt Johnson says focusing on Anthony Bourdain's life and legacy would come with too much baggage, so he and lead actor Dominic Sessa tried to interrogate the more difficult, complicated feelings in a young man's life.
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Aug 13, 2026
The celestial event peaked overnight, coinciding with a new moon that provided ideal conditions for stargazers because moonlight did not interfere with the view.
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Aug 13, 2026
Amazon is now using content on Twitch to train artificial intelligence models — a move that has garnered fierce backlash from both streamers and users on the interactive livestreaming platform.
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Aug 13, 2026
The leader of Russia's only registered anti-war party said he will stay in the country and keep pushing for change, despite increased pressure from the authorities ?that has led to the party's exclusion from upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Aug 13, 2026
Forecasters in the U.K. are predicting the mercury will rise as high as 38 C in central and southeast England on Thursday, potentially making it the hottest day of the year. Temperatures in France, meanwhile, are forecast to go even higher, reaching 40 C in central and southern areas and 38 C in Paris.
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Aug 13, 2026
The U.K. recorded its hottest day of the year Thursday, with the temperature reaching 38.1 C in West London. Britain, like France, is experiencing its fifth heat wave of the year.
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Aug 13, 2026
The U.K. recorded its hottest day of the year Thursday, with the temperature reaching 38.1 C in west London. Britain, like France, is experiencing its fifth heat wave of the year.
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Aug 13, 2026
A man who has been on the run since 1991 was arrested by the U.S.'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California, they say.
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Aug 13, 2026
The U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Aug 13, 2026
At Mountain Park Cemetery in Alberta's foothills, a one-way rotary phone connects the living to the dead through the wind. The cemetery is the last thing left of the old mining town, telling the stories of frontier hardship through the many restored gravestones that lie there.
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Aug 13, 2026
A Toronto police officer is injured after being shot during a robbery investigation early Thursday morning.
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Aug 13, 2026
Documents unsealed by CBC News and a consortium of other media outlets reveal a chronology of the day law enforcement responded to the deadly shooting in northern B.C.
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Aug 13, 2026
How the political narrative on immigration in Canada changed dramatically over less than a decade.
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Aug 13, 2026
A Saint John man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing deaths of his sons, aged 10 and 17, has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
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Aug 13, 2026
A Saint John man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing deaths of his sons, aged 10 and 17, is scheduled to be sentenced today.
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Aug 13, 2026
A 64-year-old Quebec man has become the first patient in North America to receive a regenerated liver thanks to a breakthrough technology that could make dozens of additional livers available for transplant in its first year alone.
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Aug 13, 2026
Days and daycares are getting hotter. And a growing number of parents, educators, and health and legal advocates are lobbying for maximum indoor temperature at daycares, likely 26 C, akin to standards adopted for long-term care facilities in Ontario.
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Aug 13, 2026
From skull fractures to ICU admissions, pediatric specialists across Canada say severe e-scooter trauma in kids is becoming routine — and current rules are failing to protect them.
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Aug 13, 2026
Cathy Link of St. Catharines said she was shocked to receive a phone call from Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday informing her the province had ended lease negotiations with Niagara's regional government for a proposed new emergency shelter in her neighourhood.
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Aug 12, 2026
Toronto's Summer McIntosh opened her race schedule at the Pan Pacific swimming championships Wednesday night with a second-place finish outdoors in the women's 200-metre freestyle in Irvine, Calif.
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Aug 12, 2026
New Zealander Tom Hudson tells The National about the moment he finally completed his two-year canoeing journey across Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to Montreal.
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Aug 12, 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage triggered a byelection when he quit as Member of Parliament amid an investigation into his finances. Avneet Dhillon explains what led to the probe, and why his main challenger in the race is Count Binface — a candidate dressed as a giant trash can.
(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)
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Aug 12, 2026
Quebec and Newfoundland Labrador are close to a new deal on Churchill Falls, sources with knowledge of the matter have confirmed to CBC News.
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Aug 12, 2026
Tens of thousands of Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country. The woman behind the petition says it's grown beyond her expectations.
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Aug 12, 2026
Marineland has begun moving a third batch of whales to aquariums outside of Canada, with six hitting the road Wednesday.
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Aug 12, 2026
Jerry Tong, Zekun (Alex) Wang, Fei (Frank) Han and Feiyang (Astrid) Ji, who were accused in an explosives and firearms-manufacturing investigation, are facing a slew of new charges.
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Aug 12, 2026
The four people accused in a London, Ont., explosives and firearms-manufacturing investigation now face 19 new charges, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The three men and one woman were students or recent graduates of Western University.
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Aug 12, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump ?said ?on Wednesday that ?White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ?would depart
her role at the end ?of the month to ?spend more time with her family.
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Aug 12, 2026
A Washington judge has ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay jazz musician Chuck Redd more than $250,000 US in legal fees. The ruling comes just months after that same judge tossed the centre's lawsuit accusing Redd of breach of contract.
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Aug 12, 2026
Former Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse and his wife are embroiled in a legal dispute with the Ontario government over its refusal to reimburse the couple nearly $700,000 in foreign buyer tax they paid on their Mississauga home.
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Aug 12, 2026
Ever heard of the name Clara Peeters? If not, chances are you're not alone. But art historian and curator Cynthia Osiecki absolutely knew her — and her groundbreaking work. So, when she stumbled across an unattributed still-life painting in the storage area of the National Museum of Norway in Oslo in 2022, she couldn't shake the feeling that she was certain who painted it.
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Aug 12, 2026
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor and director Rob Reiner and photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
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Aug 12, 2026
English actress and The Office star Lucy Davis revealed Tuesday that she's been receiving treatment for Stage 4 breast cancer for the past year and a half, and that the "incurable" disease has since spread to her bones. But Davis, 53, says she's at peace and wants to continue working as an actress and animal rights advocate.
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Aug 12, 2026
Five members of Canada's 2018 world junior team were found to have breached Hockey Canada's code of conduct, with four remaining suspended.
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Aug 12, 2026
The covert movements that saw U.S. President Donald Trump depart a plane carrying reporters and some White House staff in Turkey last month have few, if any, precedents in modern history, and have left lingering questions.
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Aug 12, 2026
Contrary to what was spread on social media in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Montreal on June 22, an SPVM police officer did not fire on civilian Michel Mizrahi, who died in the operation, according to Radio-Canada sources.
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Aug 12, 2026
A top adviser to Iran's IRGC says Iranian officials have seen "how the American military is weaker than what we perceived" since the U.S. and Israel first launched their attack in February of this year, as talks to end the fighting remain stalled.
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Aug 12, 2026
Expert says encounters between people and black bears can increase when there is less food available or when a bear's habitat is disrupted. Here's what you need to know about reducing the risks.
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Aug 12, 2026
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to businessmen Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record-breaking price,
the second such sale in a year. This sale agreement is $12.5 billion US, according to a person familiar with the terms who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because neither side revealed specific details.
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Aug 12, 2026
Tammara Thibeault reflects on her historic rise to unified world champion, her mindset, Olympic ambitions and what comes next after her fifth professional victory.
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Aug 12, 2026
The Canadian Armed Forces is holding an event today with Canadian drone manufacturers to test their platforms in real-world scenarios.
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Aug 12, 2026
One American doctor said changes in B.C.'s health care have allowed him to move to Canada.
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Aug 12, 2026
Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer helped ignite China's explosive economic boom by forcing change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died at the age of 97.
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Aug 12, 2026
The Saskatoon team heads to France Wednesday for the festival. The sport is helpful for recovering and building strength after surgeries, but team members say they stay in the program because of the life-long connections between women with a shared story.
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