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Aug 08, 2026
A flight bound for Toronto was cancelled Thursday evening after a young child refused to secure their seatbelt, according to Porter Airlines.
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Aug 08, 2026
Another victim has died following a mass shooting in Thailand, northwest of Bangkok. The death toll is now at least eight.
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Aug 08, 2026
RCMP say an emergency alert covering the Halifax Regional Municipality has ended now that the suspect is in custody. The suspect is believed to have been involved in a shooting earlier Saturday in Annapolis Royal, N.S., say Halifax Regional Police.
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Aug 08, 2026
Canada's chief science adviser says the federal government should devise a way to reflect on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare the country and Canadians for future public health challenges.
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Aug 08, 2026
Dominion Society, which supports deporting immigrants en masse, is advertising a conference in Hamilton this month. It's prompted anti-racism groups to advise venues and businesses on how to avoid unwittingly booking events by groups they say promote hate, an issue that's come up in other parts of the country.
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Aug 08, 2026
While U.S. President Donald Trump has accused Canada of allowing illegal drugs and traffickers across the border, the reality on the ground appears very different. CBC News recently spent two days with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in and around Detroit.
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Aug 08, 2026
Women in Gaza experienced nearly 4,000 miscarriages between January and June this year, according to a UN report that suggests that rate is more than three times higher than in the second half of 2025. Though it's not yet clear exactly what is behind the spike, a doctor in central Gaza says harsh living conditions as well as fear and anxiety are contributing factors.
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Aug 08, 2026
Canada and the U.S. are shadowing two Chinese icebreakers operating in Arctic waters off Alaska, amid growing concern their scientific missions could also gather strategically valuable undersea data. Defence experts warn China's expanding Arctic presence is testing Canada's already stretched military capabilities.
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Aug 08, 2026
It seemed as if airlines were on the brink of disaster heading into the peak summer travel season. But the industry — and passengers' desire to travel — appears to have rallied, with July 23 seeing the most commercial flights ever tracked by Flightradar24.
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Aug 08, 2026
The hand-built planes are unmatched in the firefighting aircraft market and are built to last for decades. Europe wants more of them than ever.
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Aug 08, 2026
Dominion Society, which supports deporting immigrants en masse, is advertising a conference in Hamilton this month. It's prompted anti-racism groups to advise venues and businesses on how to avoid unwittingly booking events by groups they say promote hate, an issue that's come up in other parts of the country.
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Aug 08, 2026
Roblox isn't getting the high financial scores that it used to, as the popular gaming platform has lost approximately $70 billion US in market value over the last year. The company says the steep drop-off is partly because of changes in the games its users play and growing pains as it attempts to attract older gamers — but experts say more could be at play.
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Aug 08, 2026
The Bald Range fire grew to 50 square kilometres in three hours after it was first detected at 5:30 p.m. PT on Friday evening, said Erick Thompson with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen's emergency operations centre.
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Aug 08, 2026
A B.C. emergency alert says the Bald Range wildfire poses a significant risk to life.
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Aug 07, 2026
The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was similarly shut down because of mishandled remains, authorities said.
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Aug 07, 2026
Two Saskatchewan men have been found guilty of human trafficking for exploiting a Bangladeshi woman who worked in their restaurants in Gull Lake, Tisdale and Elrose.
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Aug 07, 2026
A Republican-led U.S. Senate committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to the president, in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times when questioned about his COVID-19 response. Andrew Chang explains why the committee called Fauci to testify, the argument that his refusal to answer questions is illegal and what could strengthen his Fifth Amendment defence.
(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)
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Aug 07, 2026
While police have made arrests after gunshots were fired at the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto in two separate incidents in recent months, finding those responsible for these alleged gun-for-hire plots remains elusive. Investigators say they are hamstrung without provisions from the federal government's controversial Bill C-22.
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Aug 07, 2026
Mollie the hamster has become something of a star in the running world after his owner, a Dutch physicist, rigged a system to track the critter's movements on the running app Strava.
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Aug 07, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $500 million US domestically in just seven days, making history as the fastest film to do so.
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Aug 07, 2026
Lev Goldberg, a transgender athlete, has swum across two out of five of the Great Lakes after completing Lake Huron this week. His mission is to raise awareness, and donations, for 2SLGBTQ youth.
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Aug 07, 2026
A man who made several trips across the Gordie Howe International Bridge during opening week says he was double charged for some of those trips and is urging other travelers to check their credit card bills.
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Aug 07, 2026
Quebec's premier says U.S. products will remain off the shelves of its government-run liquor stores, regardless of reports that Canada is readying to meet some U.S. demands, including rolling back its ban on American alcohol.
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Aug 07, 2026
Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr announced the Canadian government will sell 10 of its used C-130 Hercules aircraft to B.C.-based aerospace company Coulson Aviation, which will convert them into firefighting aircraft.
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Aug 07, 2026
Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr announced the Canadian government will sell 10 of its used C-130 Hercules aircraft to B.C.-based aerospace company Coulson Aviation, which will convert them into firefighting aircraft.
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Aug 07, 2026
Calgary couple's return journey from San Francisco was so chaotic due to the WestJet strike that they got home three days late — and missed their youngest's second birthday because of it.
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Aug 07, 2026
There's a new TV judge in town — and he has a pretty tough act to follow. CBS Media Ventures released a trailer this week for Adam's Law, a new syndicated daytime courtroom series starring Adam Levy, the 58-year-old son of none other than tough cookie herself, Judge Judy.
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Aug 07, 2026
Conquer Transportation, whose truck was in a fatal crash in Brandon, Man., in May — after it had its safety permit pulled in Manitoba — now can't operate from Alberta, the province's transportation minister said Thursday.
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Aug 07, 2026
Chancellor Friedrich Merz held a call on Friday to discuss the incident earlier this week at a German airport, when a drone laden with explosives crashed but did not detonate. Federal prosecutors have launched a counterterrorism probe into the incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport.
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Aug 07, 2026
Saudi Arabia expects imminent co-ordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Persian Gulf state and from Yemen's Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said.
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Aug 07, 2026
Yemen's Houthis said on Friday that they struck Saudi-backed forces, depots, vehicles and military equipment at the Sahn al-Jinn camp with a number of missiles and drones.
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Aug 07, 2026
Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, up 0.4 per cent, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years.
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Aug 07, 2026
A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a ?school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation's worst mass killing since 2022.
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Aug 07, 2026
A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a ?school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation's worst mass killing since 2022.
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Aug 07, 2026
A 20-month-old baby is recovering in hospital after a collision in Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough on Thursday evening. A police investigation is underway.
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Aug 07, 2026
An Annapolis Valley man is suing Nova Scotia's attorney general and the provincial health authority following his son's death this spring from an illness while in the custody of the province.
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Aug 07, 2026
Every August we are treated to one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Perseids. But this year, during the day of the peak, much of Canada will also get a partial solar eclipse.
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Aug 07, 2026
Google recently suspended a new feature that briefly allowed users to superimpose AI-generated images over Google Earth satellite maps. Experts say it could fuel online disinformation and undermine trust in satellite imagery — a key tool used to investigate human rights abuses worldwide.
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Aug 07, 2026
OpenAI, the tech giant behind ChatGPT, hosted an all-expenses-paid gathering of content creators to promote its new AI workplace tools. The backlash from followers was fierce and experts say it may just force the influencer marketing economy to figure out where it stands on artificial intelligence.
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Aug 07, 2026
Although the Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio-backed Phoenix Species Project faces some funding controversy, grassroots organizations are still using it to make a difference.
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Aug 07, 2026
The percentage of Canadians who see addressing climate change as a top priority spiked this summer after years of it taking a back seat to other issues, recent polling has found.
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Aug 06, 2026
Conservative MP Larry Brock, from the Ontario riding of Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, says he'll be resigning from Parliament next month, noting in a social media post that he'd accepted an opportunity at the Brantford Crown Attorney's office.
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Aug 06, 2026
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) says two of its officers and an inmate have died as a result of a "tragic accident during a transfer from Edmonton Institution for Women."
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Aug 06, 2026
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) says two of its officers and a person the agency says was an offender have died as a result of a "tragic accident during a transfer from Edmonton Institution for Women."
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Aug 06, 2026
Health Canada says the Public Health Agency of Canada is not currently investigating any salmonella infections tied to a jalapeno-linked outbreak in the United States, where at least 345 people across 27 states have gotten sick.
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Aug 06, 2026
Aug. 6, 2026 | Toronto police charge 2 youths, including a 15-year-old, in the latest shooting at the U.S. Consulate. The prime minister holds out for a 'comprehensive' U.S. trade deal as tensions ramp up. And more Canadian families are not sending their kids to summer camp.
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Aug 06, 2026
A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 US million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March.
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Aug 06, 2026
A man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best for igniting it, police said.
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Aug 06, 2026
A detective who interviewed the man accused of starting one of the wildfires in the Spokane, Wash., area, said the man confessed, described his planning process and explained how he created a device to ignite the blaze.
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Aug 06, 2026
Scientists have finally proven what Charles Darwin suspected more than a century ago — that a small, innocent-looking flowering plant growing in the rocky mountain crevices of southwestern China is, in fact, a killer.
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Aug 06, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in a new but narrower attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, renewing his challenge to a provision of the U.S. Constitution after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his previous effort.
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Aug 06, 2026
A lawyer accused of misappropriating money is appealing a judge's decision to temporarily remove him as the trustee of an account belonging to a First Nation in northern Alberta.
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Aug 06, 2026
Public health officials are urging anyone who may have had direct contact with a Japanese macaque at the Granby Zoo on Aug. 4 to contact Info-Santé.
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Aug 06, 2026
Grab your coziest sweater, pour yourself a jumbo-sized mug of coffee and settle in, Gilmore Girls fans, because we're headed back to Stars Hollow. HBO Max has announced a Gilmore Girls documentary is in production, promising never-before-seen footage and behind-the-scenes scoops from the people who brought the beloved Y2K comfort classic to life.
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Aug 06, 2026
The hiker was taken to hospital by air ambulance in serious condition, with lacerations on her body and a neck fracture, officials said.
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Aug 06, 2026
Reversing an earlier refusal, the FDA has approved Moderna's first mRNA flu shot for adults 50 and older. Here's what the major decision means as Health Canada considers its own approval of the vaccine.
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Aug 06, 2026
Some Alberta medical clinics are taking a wait-and-see approach to the province's new program that lets patients bypass their doctor and privately book diagnostic imaging tests.
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Aug 06, 2026
The federal government has written to the UN to say it remains "deeply concerned" about the threats facing B.C.-based Sikh activist Moninder Singh and is taking action to disrupt all credible threats made by by foreign actors against those on Canadian soil.
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Aug 06, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has met with the mayors of two flood-stricken municipalities under states of emergency in the Niagara Region.
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Aug 06, 2026
Search and rescue commander Paul Berry says teams are currently working to extricate Keshav Jindal from steep terrain.
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Aug 06, 2026
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the challenge of training enough mechanics to service the growing fleet of EVs; see how a stationary battery can be integrated into public spaces; and check out a drone show as an animal-friendly alternative to fireworks.
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Aug 06, 2026
Devyn McMillan thought she was well prepared in the event of a wildfire. Her ranch survived the White Rock Lake Fire in 2021, and she had evacuations plans already in place. But as flames from the Bradley Creek wildfire inched closer to her property, she realized this blaze was not like the last.
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Aug 06, 2026
Some vintners in Ontario's popular winemaking area were in cleanup mode on Wednesday, days after major rainfalls swept through
the Niagara Region and caused severe flooding.
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Aug 06, 2026
Some vintners in Ontario's popular winemaking area were in cleanup mode on Wednesday, days after major rainfalls swept through
the Niagara Region and caused severe flooding.
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Aug 06, 2026
Arrests have been made related to the shooting at Toronto's Salsa on St. Clair festival last month, Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw told reporters Thursday.
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Aug 06, 2026
Kelly Hrudey said Wednesday that he was told in June that his contract with Rogers Sportsnet would not be renewed for next season. He has appeared on Hockey Night in Canada on a full-time basis since 1998, immediately after his retirement as an NHL player.
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Aug 06, 2026
Generations have passed since James O'Neill first walked from Canada to the U.S. via the Ambassador Bridge. Now the 93-year-old lifelong Windsor resident can say he's done it again — on the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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Aug 06, 2026
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Canada's chief trade negotiator Janice Charette will be meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade envoy in Washington on Thursday.
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Aug 06, 2026
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Canada's chief trade negotiator Janice Charette met with U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade envoy in Washington on Thursday.
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Aug 06, 2026
Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion Lara Gut-Behrami announced her retirement from alpine skiing on Thursday.
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Aug 06, 2026
Toronto police investigators are holding a news conference Thursday to provide an update on a gunshot being fired at the U.S. consulate last week. It was the second time the downtown building was the target of gunfire this year.
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Aug 06, 2026
Two people have been arrested and are now facing a host of charges after a gunshot was fired at the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto last week.
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Aug 06, 2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday was held in contempt of Congress by a Republican-led Senate committee, just over a week after the longtime federal health official invoked the Fifth Amendment, declining to answer questions about his guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aug 06, 2026
A South Korean satellite has captured images of the mark left on the moon when a SpaceX rocket crashed into it on Wednesday.
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Aug 06, 2026
The union representing WestJet cabin crew has shared details of the tentative deal reached with the Calgary-based airline this week after a one-day strike.
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Aug 06, 2026
Katie Wadden says what got her rowing crew through the 2026 championship race at the Regatta was the thought of their head coach Mike Power.
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Aug 06, 2026
Katie Wadden says what got her rowing crew through the 2026 championship race at the Regatta was the thought of their head coach Mike Power.
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Aug 06, 2026
Israeli prosecutors Thursday charged a settler for the killing of a Palestinian community leader last year in the occupied West Bank, according to an indictment filed in district court.
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Aug 06, 2026
The Israeli military said Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Lebanon in the first Israeli deaths since the implementation of a shaky truce with the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in June.
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Aug 06, 2026
Leylah Fernandez fired three aces and connected on five of six break-point opportunities Wednesday to breeze past Mexico's Renata Zarazua 6-2, 6-2 in front of a partisan crowd at Sobeys Stadium. The Laval, Que., native is the lone Canadian remaining in either of the men's or women's draws of the National Bank Open.
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Aug 06, 2026
One of the leaders of an Alberta separation organization says his group is drawing closer to the release of an upcoming "white paper" exploring the structural policies needed to establish an independent country.
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Aug 06, 2026
For the past two decades, Karen Nanook has shared a bedroom with her adult daughter inside her elderly parents' home in Taloyoak, Nunavut. All that time, Nanook has been on the public housing waitlist, but she said she has never gone up more than third in her list in her community.
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Aug 06, 2026
Staff at the federal Fisheries Department are worried the United States government is about to adopt legislation jeopardizing the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, according to an internal government memo.
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Aug 06, 2026
Allana Swayze expected to pay more in rent after new flooring, lighting and a security system was added to the entrance and hallways of her Winnipeg apartment building — but she never imagined the owners would ask for a 78 per cent increase.
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Aug 06, 2026
Workers at some of Canada's biggest companies say increased workplace surveillance is taking a toll on their mental health as their bosses ramp up the use of software that monitors their screen activity.
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Aug 06, 2026
A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels.
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Aug 06, 2026
Cuba saw two nationwide power outages in a span of hours between Sunday and Monday, leaving the island's population once again having to wait for the lights to come back on.
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Aug 06, 2026
The number of police-involved sexual assault complaints reviewed by the Special Investigations Unit has been declining since 2021, data analyzed by CBC News shows. Researchers say changes to the Ontario police watchdog's investigative mandate may be behind the decline and advocates warn it could result in fewer people reporting police-involved sexual assaults to law enforcement.
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Aug 06, 2026
Perez Hilton's video has since been taken down, but was there any way to prevent people from witnessing something so traumatic?
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Aug 06, 2026
So-called friendslop games have sold millions over the last few years thanks to their focus on simple-to-learn scenarios, a lower-than-average cost of entry and a willingness to embrace the chaos that emerges when you get a group of friends together to have some fun.
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Aug 06, 2026
After decades of gradual decline, Canada's peacekeeping tradition is entering its final chapter. The Defence Department is shutting down four overseas missions and shrinking another, arguing troops are needed elsewhere. Critics warn the move sacrifices a defining national identity and surrenders diplomatic influence to countries such as China.
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Aug 05, 2026
About 65,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Washington state since the Autumn Lane, Fairview and Old Trails fires sparked within hours of each other on Saturday. Since then, favourable weather has helped as fire crews battle the blazes, but they're bracing for hotter, drier conditions.
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Aug 05, 2026
Justin Bellemore tells The National about the moment he camped out for more than a day in front of the Gordie Howe International Bridge in Windsor, Ont., so he could be the first cyclist when the pedestrian and bike lane opened.
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