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Dec 23, 2025
Billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon has won his long-running defamation lawsuit alleging that former fashion mogul and convicted sex offender Peter Nygard spread lies about him during a public spat over their adjacent properties in the Bahamas.
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Dec 23, 2025
Marina Hills's son Henry Losco died on Dec. 19 in their apartment at 1827 Albert St., after carbon monoxide spread leaked in the building while maintenance work was being done. Her husband Sergio Losco survived but is still in hospital.
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Dec 23, 2025
Frigid temperatures that hover around -40 C continue to keep much of the territory in its grip. There's no sign of that weather, patterns of which are coming from Siberia, easing up any time soon.
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Dec 23, 2025
Frigid temperatures that hover around -40 C — or -50 C in some communities — continue to keep much of the territory in their grip. There's no sign of that weather, patterns of which are coming from Siberia, easing up any time soon.
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Dec 23, 2025
From the bloody good 4 Nations Face-Off to the Blue Jays' thrilling World Series run, here's a look at the athletes and moments that shaped the past 12 months.
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Dec 23, 2025
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender.
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Dec 23, 2025
Yukon is facing dangerously cold temperatures over the Christmas holiday, driving up electricity demand. Yukon Energy Minister Ted Laking is urging residents to decrease power usage to relieve the strain on the power grid.
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Dec 23, 2025
A 25-year-old Prince Edward Island man faces charges related to promoting hatred and antisemitism — charges the RCMP says are a first in the province.
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Dec 23, 2025
Tensions are mounting in Quebec's Mauricie region as citizens, environmental groups and scientists push back against provincially approved forestry roadwork in a rare old-growth forest near Sainte-Thècle.
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Dec 23, 2025
A woman from Maidstone, Sask., has been fined and suspended from hunting after pleading guilty to trafficking and illegally transporting bear parts.
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Dec 23, 2025
Gavin McKenna's first experience at the world junior hockey championship ended in bitter heartbreak nearly a year ago. The 18-year-old Canadian forward and five fellow returnees from the Ottawa horror show are looking to make amends.
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Dec 23, 2025
New charges against British comedian and actor Russell Brand follow five initial ones made in April involving four women.
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Dec 23, 2025
A mandatory review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade kicks into high gear next year as U.S. President Donald Trump continues his campaign to realign global trade and poach key industries from the country's closest neighbours.
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Dec 23, 2025
The drop was largely due to contraction in the goods and services sectors. Analysts had predicted that growth would dip by 0.2 per cent ahead of the release.
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Dec 23, 2025
The website emailsanta.com receives millions of letters from children (and adults) from across the world, all addressed to Santa Claus. While many take the opportunity to ask Santa for gifts, lots of children also write looking for comfort.
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Dec 23, 2025
The website emailsanta.com receives millions of letters from children (and adults) from across the world, all addressed to Santa Claus. While many take the opportunity to ask Santa for gifts, lots of children also write looking for comfort.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Manitoba Trucking Association says businesses in the industry continue to grapple with interprovincial issues every day, despite a national conversation on alleviating barriers in light of American tariffs. One company on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border says navigating two sets of provincial rules adds administrative burdens.
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Dec 23, 2025
Peguis First Nation is suing former chief Glenn Hudson over allegations he failed to act in the best interest of the band and financially benefitted from breaches of duty — including claims that he enriched himself, his family and supporters.
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Dec 23, 2025
As the worst drought in decades dragged on through the summer of 2025, some Nova Scotians who use municipal water supplies were asked and then ordered to conserve water. This generated resentment and resistance over a perceived double standard between residential and commercial users.
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Dec 23, 2025
More than half the cemetery in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., could be lost to erosion in 30 years. Communities in the Yukon and Nunavut share what they've learned from dealing with similar challenges.
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Dec 23, 2025
A New Brunswick tenant and his landlord have been in a bitter year-long dispute that involves a 65 per cent rent increase, a failed eviction attempt, and claims that the rental unit, a bungalow, is needed to house the owner's aging mother-in-law.
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Dec 23, 2025
A New Brunswick tenant and his landlord have been in a bitter year-long dispute that involves a 65 per cent rent increase, a failed eviction attempt, and claims that the rental unit, a bungalow, is needed to house the owner's aging mother-in-law.
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Dec 23, 2025
Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones in a new air attack on Tuesday, authorities said, killing at least three people including a child and triggering emergency power cuts across the country as Ukrainians gear up to celebrate Christmas.
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Dec 23, 2025
Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a four-year-old child.
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Dec 23, 2025
Music classes for the very youngest children can set them up to one day play an instrument, but experts say the classes can also bring broader cognitive benefits: firing up areas of their developing brains linked to attention, memory and language development.
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Dec 23, 2025
After 33 years in custody in Quebec, Daniel Jolivet spent his first weekend outside of prison, rediscovering ordinary life. He was released on bail on Friday, after concerns about the fairness of his trial back in the early nineties.
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Dec 23, 2025
An internal review of technical outages that caused significant delays at airports and international land borders this fall has exposed critical flaws with the Canada Border Services Agency's IT services.
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Dec 23, 2025
More than 30 years after Canada's military allowed women to serve in combat roles, it's now specifically designing uniforms and body armour systems to fit their bodies.
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Dec 23, 2025
Between office parties, family gatherings and plans with friends, there can be lots of socializing crammed into the final weeks of the calendar. But experts say finding pockets of solitude can offer a reprieve.
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Dec 23, 2025
At first, Jennifer McGuire hated how her cherished Christmas traditions began falling by the wayside when her sons became adults. Now she's learning to love some new twists on old rituals.
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Dec 23, 2025
A parachute release knife of the type used by soldiers in the Second World War has found a new home at the Canadian War Museum, after being found among other donations to the Ottawa Tool Library.
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Dec 22, 2025
A portion of a postponed 60 Minutes segment critical of the Trump administration's deportation policies was temporarily available to watch Monday through a Canadian network's website and app.
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Dec 22, 2025
Dec. 22, 2025 | Prime Minister Mark Carney appoints longtime friend and business executive Mark Wiseman as the new ambassador to the U.S. Flu season hits Canada harder than it has in years. And, how tragedy helped shape rising Canadian hockey sensation, Matthew Schaefer.
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Dec 22, 2025
Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind some of the world's best-selling video games, has died at 55. He helped create the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than half a billion games.
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Dec 22, 2025
A carpenter from Sooke, B.C., claims he turned $88,000 into $415 million trading Tesla stock options but lost it all because of "inadequate advice" from the bank.
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Dec 22, 2025
Six British men, including a woman's former husband, were charged with more than 60 sexual offences against her over 13 years, U.K. prosecutors said on Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Singer Barry Manilow announced he will be undergoing surgery in late December to remove a cancerous spot on his lung. He announced his January concerts will be postponed to February.
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Dec 22, 2025
Selling unpasteurized milk has been illegal in Canada since 1991, due to its high risk of carrying potentially deadly bacteria. But advocates argue there's still demand for the product, with some Alberta municipalities lobbying the federal government to make sales legal.
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Dec 22, 2025
Street artist Banksy appeared to confirm via his Instagram account on Monday that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying down and pointing up at the sky, is his latest work.
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Dec 22, 2025
Mark Duguay of Windsor says $275 worth of Tim Hortons cards he bought for friends couldn't be redeemed because they'd already been drained of funds. The CEO of the Better Business Bureau for Western Ontario says it's not an uncommon issue due to scams that may include bar code tampering.
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Dec 22, 2025
The RCMP arrested two men who allegedly used a classified ads website to recruit women to smuggle cannabis out of Canada to Nigeria via the country's biggest airport.
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Dec 22, 2025
The RCMP arrested two men who allegedly used a classified ads website to recruit women to smuggle cannabis out of Canada to Nigeria via the country's biggest airport.
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Dec 22, 2025
Police in Niagara Region say a man who was arrested and injured by gunfire after an officer was shot Friday in Welland, Ont., remains in hospital and will likely face further charges as the province's police watchdog continues to investigate.
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Dec 22, 2025
The Israeli military said it was reviewing an incident in the occupied West Bank in which soldiers shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian who they said had thrown a brick at them, after CCTV footage appeared to show he was not doing so when shot.
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Dec 22, 2025
The firing of several employees at the makers of the Grand Theft Auto video games came as a complete surprise, according to one of the Canadian workers who was let go this past fall.
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Dec 22, 2025
Sidney Crosby broke Mario Lemieux's franchise scoring record with a goal and an assist in the first period of the Pittsburgh Penguins' 4-3 shootout win against the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Sunday night.
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Dec 22, 2025
The recall extends to a number of kinds of Pizza Pops of various packaging sizes with best-before dates for mid-June 2026. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the contaminated food may not look or smell spoiled, but can still make you sick.
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Dec 22, 2025
The recall extends to a number of kinds of Pizza Pops of various packaging sizes with best-before dates for mid-June 2026. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the contaminated food may not look or smell spoiled, but can still make you sick.
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Dec 22, 2025
For the first time in the history of Union Gospel Mission's Vancouver shelter, home-care aid workers are making weekly visits to help seniors with basic tasks like taking a shower.
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Dec 22, 2025
Ransone appeared in TV shows Bosch and Poker Face, as well as the films It: Chapter Two, The Black Phone and Black Phone 2
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Dec 22, 2025
If you're looking for love - Sylvan Lake might just be the place, with aesthetics and a community that rivals any romance film script. But now the town is gunning to actually be the backdrop for one.
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Dec 22, 2025
Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba will hold a public inquiry as soon as 2026 into the former Progressive Conservative government's post-election efforts to approve an environmental licence for sand-mining company Sio Silica.
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Dec 22, 2025
In a year-end interview, Premier Scott Moe said his major regret for 2025 is not visiting Denare Beach sooner. The northern village was devastated this summer when wildfire destroyed 200 homes.
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Dec 22, 2025
A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow, and investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year.
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Dec 22, 2025
Muhamad Merhi has operated a shoe repair stand inside the federal government's C.D. Howe Building for a quarter-century. 'I don't think I would have survived outside,' he says.
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Dec 22, 2025
Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a newly published study. However, Canada has few, if any, rules to govern how artificial intelligence is used in future elections.
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Dec 22, 2025
Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a newly published study. However, Canada has few, if any, rules to govern how artificial intelligence is used in future elections.
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Dec 22, 2025
Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a newly published study. However, Canada has few, if any, rules to govern how artificial intelligence is used in future elections.
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Dec 22, 2025
India's archaic judicial system and its backlog of millions of cases leave those seeking justice, along with many lawyers and judges, with an sense of hopelessness.
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Dec 22, 2025
India's archaic judicial system and its backlog of millions of cases leave those seeking justice, along with many lawyers and judges, with an sense of hopelessness.
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Dec 22, 2025
Corruption is a word that's come up throughout this year in relation to U.S. President Donald Trump's second term. There have been allegations of personal enrichment, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, through his family's crypto and real estate ventures. There are also accusations of quid pro quo deals with foreign leaders and convicted criminals seeking pardons.
Is this a bug in Trump's administration, or a feature?
To put it all into focus, Tommy Vietor is here. He's been following this issue of corruption on his very popular podcast, Pod Save America. He also co-hosts Pod Save the World.
For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts]
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Dec 21, 2025
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
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Dec 21, 2025
After Bill Staubi was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, he was determined to find a home for his life's work: a 1,300-piece art collection, four decades in the making. But now that the cancer is in remission, he's starting anew.
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Dec 21, 2025
Many Canadian charities say donations aren't keeping up with the demand for assistance this holiday season. The high cost of living is impacting how much people are able to give as well as the amount of people looking for help.
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Dec 21, 2025
The students are among more than 300 pupils and 12 staff seized by gunmen from St Mary's Catholic boarding school in the village of Papiri in the early hours of Nov. 21.
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Dec 21, 2025
It's the holiday eating edition of Checkup! What are your questions about food safety and ultra-processed food?
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Dec 21, 2025
After being selected first overall in the 2025 NHL draft, Canada's Matthew Schaefer is having an extraordinary rookie season, but getting here wasn't always easy. In an interview, he tells CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault about the personal losses that shaped his journey.
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Dec 21, 2025
Reese Howden of Cultus Lake, B.C., beat Florian Wilmsmann of Germany and Frenchman Evan Klufts to the finish line on Sunday in Innichen, Italy for a third straight World Cup victory and record-extending 21st of his career.
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Dec 21, 2025
Thousands of mourners gathered under tight police security at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday evening to mark a week since two gunmen targeting a Jewish festival killed 15 people. Since then, Australian governments have been galvanized into action on countering antisemitism and tightening already strict national gun controls.
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Dec 21, 2025
CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.
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Dec 21, 2025
Last December, Alberta rolled out its $29-million provincial border strategy in response to tariff threats from Donald Trump. But nearly one year later, Premier Danielle Smith says her government has learned the Coutts border crossing isn't a hub of illicit activity — and that could lead to a focus on other areas.
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Dec 21, 2025
A Steinbach man is turning trash into treasure by using discarded furniture swatches to create high-quality bags. The bags are sold for $5 in Steinbach and Thunder Bay, with 100 per cent of proceeds going to his local food bank.
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Dec 21, 2025
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is back in the headlines after European Union naval forces seized an Iranian fishing vessel last month that Somali pirates used to briefly hijack a Malta-flagged tanker carrying gasoline from India to South Africa. Fishermen insist the bigger problem in the region is that foreign vessels are fishing in waters intended for locals, harming their livelihoods.
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Dec 21, 2025
Given how weird they've gotten, why are language experts picking internet-based fads as the words of the year? What arcane process leads to words of the year that vacillate from the brain-numbing to the politically charged? And, given how mad it makes everyone, why are they even bothering to do it?
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Dec 21, 2025
If the cold winter weather and lack of sunlight are darkening your mood, here's what some experts say could help.
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Dec 21, 2025
For years, police have been on the front lines of mental health crisis calls in Toronto, but the city's police chief believes it's now time to rethink that approach.
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Dec 21, 2025
Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the cradle of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world, which has fallen into a vicious civil war.
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Dec 21, 2025
More new apprentices are signing up than in the past 15 years, yet getting to certification remains a struggle. Financial concerns, difficulty finding employers and spotty guidance and mentorship for apprentices and journeypersons alike are among the barriers tripping up new tradespeople today.
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Dec 21, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has too much regulation and not enough investments in clean energy and technology — and he's making his most direct repudiation yet of his predecessor's environmental policies.
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Dec 21, 2025
Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the cradle of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world, which has fallen into a vicious civil war.
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Dec 20, 2025
A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, killed eight people and wounded 27, Ukraine's emergency service said Saturday, as a Kremlin envoy was set to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war.
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Dec 20, 2025
The United States on Saturday seized an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on social media platform X.
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Dec 20, 2025
The United States on Saturday seized an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on social media platform X.
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Dec 20, 2025
Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of projects, will depart Saturday Night Live mid-season after tonight's episode hosted by Ariana Grande, his Wicked buddy. Born in Australia, Yang has Canadian and U.S. citizenships.
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Dec 20, 2025
Luigi Mangione's lawyers contend Attorney General Pam Bondi's decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer's parent company.
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Dec 20, 2025
Jake Paul sustained a "double broken jaw" in his loss to former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, the YouTuber confirmed early Saturday.
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Dec 20, 2025
The initial decoration of a couple of 'eyesore' tree stumps in Creston, B.C. by an anonymous source, leads town staff on a holiday-season decorating mission to spruce up the remaining stumps. While reactions to the initiative are mixed, the festive stumps have certainly become a talking point in the normally quiet southeastern B.C., mountain town.
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Dec 20, 2025
Reese Howden won gold at a ski cross event in Innichen, Italy, on Saturday for his second consecutive gold-medal result on the World Cup circuit.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Fron2 instrument is featured heavily on the soundtrack for an international feature film called Resurrection by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. The soundtrack was put together by the French electronic rock group M83 after Joe Berry, one of its members, became captivated by the unique instrument, which is made up of strings held between two wheels, played with a bow.
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Dec 20, 2025
A Plains Cree fashion designer from Beardy's & Okemasis Cree Nation, Stephanie Gamble is turning personal loss into purpose — lifting her children and Indigenous and two-spirit youth along the way.
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Dec 20, 2025
No matter you're going or how you're getting there, wise travellers this holiday season will be watching the forecasts, hoping for the best and preparing for anything.
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Dec 20, 2025
After eight years in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Kirsten Hillman will step down from her post in the new year. She sat down with CBC's The House to share how she connects with Trump-era Republicans and what Canadians need to know about the United States today.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Mi'kmaw woman at the centre of an aggravated assault case now before the Supreme Court of Canada spoke about what she went through for the first time ever in an interview with CBC News. She says it's up to courts to find "balance" between sentencing Indigenous offenders and protecting Indigenous women who are victims.
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Dec 20, 2025
Now, environmental groups and others are concerned that the apparent pivot from the Carney government will reverse years of progress made on nature conservation. Among the initiatives now facing uncertainty: new national parks and protected areas, as well as federal support for the Indigenous guardians program.
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Dec 20, 2025
Canada's growing profile in Antarctic research may get another boost in early 2026, as the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy confirms a possible second expedition is in the works, in collaboration with the Chilean navy. Climate scientists from the first all-Canadian expedition in March hope it offers the chance to collect more samples, as preliminary results come in from the earlier research mission.
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Dec 20, 2025
Here's what's on the CBC Health Unit's watch list for 2026: New approaches to connecting people with family doctors, anticipated changes to cancer screening, misinformation and vaccine wariness, future uses for GLP-1 agonists (like Ozempic and Wegovy) and the morphing toxic drug crisis.
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Dec 20, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has begun to lay out publicly what he sees as boundaries when dealing with China, as his government wades into a new relationship with the economic giant.
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Dec 20, 2025
In official posts, Second Sons Canada calls itself a "men's nationalist club" and promotes a nostalgic vision of Canada. But on personal podcasts and livestreams, its leaders consistently espouse antisemitism, violent rhetoric, praise Nazi Germany and use racist slurs.
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Dec 20, 2025
In official posts, Second Sons Canada calls itself a "men's nationalist club" and promotes a nostalgic vision of Canada. But on personal podcasts and livestreams, its leaders consistently espouse antisemitism, violent rhetoric, praise Nazi Germany and use racist slurs.
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