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Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will be called Guardians, dropping its previous name of 106 years. It ends months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop names that are considered racist.

The federal government is expected to respond today to calls to bring Afghan interpreters and their families to Canada.

Edmonton’s Alberta Avenue neighbourhood is fighting a recent increase in opioid overdoses by training residents to administer life-saving naloxone. One teenager has already put his training to use this week.

Republican politicians are increasingly speaking out this week in effort to persuade people who are skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines to take the shots as a new, more contagious variant sends caseloads soaring.

A federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says.

Vancouver couple Tyler Iwata and Steven Hashimoto and Victoria LGBT advocate Madu Suzuki say pressure from outside of Japan is needed to bring change to a country where there's still no law to protect gay people from discrimination.

The Manage Alcohol Program out of the North End Community Health Centre in Halifax administers pre-set daily doses of liquor to 25 clients currently subscribed in the project.

With hundreds of wildfire evacuees now living in hotels in Winnipeg and Brandon, some say they’re struggling to settle into their home away from home. 

Regina band The Dead South is reuniting with its cello player, who last year faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

The price of lumber rose at its fastest pace in more than a year on Thursday, after timber companies warned that wildfires in Western Canada are hurting their business.

A controversial monument being built in Ottawa to honour victims of communist regimes has received donations in honour of known fascists and Nazi collaborators, according to a list posted online by the organization spearheading the project.

Some Canadian universities are turning down residence applications by the hundreds this year, and the rejected students — who were hoping for an on-campus experience after the COVID-19 pandemic ate their final years of high school — say it’s a major disappointment.

Ontario's long-awaited paid sick day program — created to protect vulnerable workers from COVID-19 — has seen far less uptake than anticipated, new figures reveal.

As Earth warms, Canada is facing not only more frequent heat waves, but higher nighttime temperatures. That combination is potentially deadly.

As Earth warms, Canada is facing not only more frequent heat waves, but higher nighttime temperatures. That combination is potentially deadly.

Brittney Amundsen wrote the message in 2012, when she was 17. Layers of luck and coincidence are wrapped up in the find.

Deepfake technology — the use of algorithms to create realistic copies of people in video, audio, or photography — is once again in the spotlight. That's after Morgan Neville's documentary Roadrunner used the technology to copy the voice of the late Anthony Bourdain. MIT Technology Review's senior A.I. editor, Karen Hao, breaks down the risks for how we perceive our reality.

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin says his career "appears to be over" after he was abruptly removed from his role overseeing Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout because of a decades-old allegation of sexual misconduct.

The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States.

Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc leaders say Indigenous people across Canada have been inundated with ground penetrating radar specialist requests to survey former residential schools grounds and worry that some may be taken advantage of.

The federal government, provinces and territories have failed to plan emissions cuts sufficient to achieve Canada's net-zero goals, according to a new climate report.

Female security guards at the Royal Canadian Mint operation in Ottawa faced constant sexual harassment and racial taunts while superiors either stood by or joined in, according to several former employees who spoke to CBC News.

Canada's spy agency says state actors may attempt to blackmail voters and pressure politicians in order to influence the outcome of the next election.

Mayors on both sides of the Blue Water Bridge border crossing are expressing frustration that the U.S. government isn't following suit with Canada on loosening border restrictions.

Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai said it has been experiencing a "service incident."

Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai said it has been experiencing a "service incident."

Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai said it has been experiencing a "service incident."

A priest told mourners at a memorial service Thursday for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence ahead of his funeral.

A priest told mourners at a memorial service Thursday for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence ahead of his funeral.

A lawyer for Linda O'Leary argues that evidence showing another vessel's lights were off at the time his client crashed into it is too strong to find her guilty in the fatal boat collision.

Linda O'Leary's lawyer said in the closing arguments of her Ontario provincial court trial that evidence showing another vessel's lights were off at the time his client crashed into it is too strong to find her guilty in the fatal 2019 boat collision, but the Crown argued O'Leary should have been watching for unlit objects on the water.

A lawyer for Linda O'Leary argues that evidence showing another vessel's lights were off at the time his client crashed into it is too strong to find her guilty in the fatal boat collision.

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul says she won't be "distracted" by her ongoing conflict with what she describes as a "small group" of highly placed people within the party.

Tokyo 2020 officially gets underway on Friday with an opening ceremony that will look quite different from past Olympic Games.

A new report details the "fraught" and "violent" history of Wood Buffalo National Park, which includes the removal of hundreds of members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Now, the First Nation is asking for a formal apology and reparations. 

Residents of the storm-ravaged central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Thursday were shovelling mud from their homes and hauling away wrecked cars and piles of destroyed belongings following floods that killed at least 33 people in the city and surrounding areas.

Public inquirer Steve Allan's report into foreign funding allegedly besmirching the reputation of Alberta oil is due on July 30. What did environmental organizations see when he revealed the evidence against them?

A pilot program in the Northwest Territories will eventually see three community safety officers respond to non-criminal safety concerns in the hamlet of Ford Liard, without carrying weapons.

Steve Allan's report into foreign funding allegedly besmirching the reputation of Alberta oil is due on July 30. What did environmental organizations see when he revealed the evidence against them?

The World Health Organization on Thursday urged Indonesia to implement a stricter and wider lockdown to combat surging COVID-19 infections and deaths, just days after the country's president flagged the easing of restrictions.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not revised its masking guidance even as the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps the United States, driving up infections, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday.

Organizers are hoping a surge of young fans tune in to the coverage of the new Olympic sports.

A former resident of B.C.'s Lower Mainland allegedly fled Canada after posting a $10,000 release bond following his arrest by immigration officials investigating a scam that saw victims send more than $1 million to fraudsters posing as Canada Revenue Agency employees.

During the sleeping hours in Canada, and with one day to go until the opening ceremony, another Tokyo Olympic creator departed in controversy. Here's what you missed on Thursday in Tokyo.

China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.

Rising COVID-19 infections, layers of safety protocols, high heat and protests are some of the many challenges of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. So, what’s going on behind the scenes to keep these Games on track? CBC’s Thomas Daigle answers your questions from Tokyo.

Rising COVID-19 infections, layers of safety protocols, high heat and protests are some of the many challenges facing Tokyo 2020. So what’s going on behind the scenes to keep these Games running? We'll answer your questions.

The debate over mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health-care workers is growing louder in Canada as more countries move forward with the controversial approach to safeguard health-care settings and fight the spread of more contagious variants.

The federal government is set to host a national summit on Islamophobia today, one day after holding a similar summit on antisemitism.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said government agencies need to do more to help end Islamophobia in Canada, during a national summit on Thursday.