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An ice cream truck owner's Instagram post recently went viral after he started charging social media influencers double for a cone. Has having tens of thousands of followers lost its lustre? The answer, say experts, is complex.

Sitka spruce tree DNA reveals that the old-growth trees developed mutations to their genetic code as they grow and age.

A Canadian imprisoned in Indonesia since 2014 after being convicted on charges of sexually exploiting students at a school in Jakarta has returned home, CBC News has confirmed.

U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census on Thursday, instead directing  federal agencies to use existing databases to try to compile information about the citizenship of people living in the United States.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how to extend the life of clothing and the ecological benefits that even the smallest garden can provide.

A blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, has been spotted off the B.C. coast by a research team with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Journalists and advocates of media freedom have spent two days in London discussing the need for a global fund to help pay legal fees and offer training, especially in developing countries, writes the CBC’s Derek Stoffel.

This time it's official — Ottawa city council has upheld the reviled Château Laurier addition by voting down a motion to overturn an earlier approval during a brief special council meeting Thursday afternoon.

Ottawa city council has upheld a decision to allow a reviled addition to the historic Château Laurier hotel, voting down an attempt to reopen the controversial matter Thursday afternoon.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is crying foul over the latest comments by Ottawa's former ambassador to China, as the government tried to distance itself from those remarks.

An Air Canada flight travelling from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving nearly three dozen people with minor injuries, the airline said.

An Air Canada flight travelling from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving nearly three dozen people with minor injuries, the airline said.

An Air Canada flight travelling from Toronto to Sydney, Australia, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving at least 35 passengers with minor injuries, the airline said.

An Air Canada flight travelling from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving more than three dozen people hurt, nine of them with serious injuries.

An Air Canada flight travelling from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving nearly three dozen people with minor injuries, the airline said.

Some four in five injury hospitalizations involving seniors are because of a fall, according to newly released data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the provincial Progressive Conservative government's cuts to Ontario's education system are "frightening" — and he worries they could undermine the quality of the education his three kids receive at an Ottawa-area public school.

Canada's premiers are meeting today in Saskatoon for the final day of their annual gathering, with Quebec expected to be at the centre of talks.

Canada's premiers are meeting today in Saskatoon for the final day of their annual gathering, with Quebec expected to be at the centre of talks.

Canada’s premiers say national unity is strong across the country and that regional leaders are working together on a number of fronts to ensure that harmony becomes even stronger.

The Dow Jones industrial stock index was in record territory above 27,000 points Thursday, as U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell reiterated the central bank is prepared to cut interest rates to support the economy.

Twitter is launching a pilot feature in Canada that will allow you to hide some responses to your tweets unless readers click on a feature to reveal them. 

Police say two young cousins are dead after they were overcome by carbon monoxide gas at a family residence in the Prince Albert, Sask., area.

Two young cousins are dead after police say they were overcome by carbon monoxide gas at a home in the Prince Albert, Sask., area.

France has adopted a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook despite threats from the U.S.

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued by RCMP for a woman who was ordered to safely return her child to his father in Spain, but instead allegedly fled for an unknown destination in Europe.

Nearly 500 fish species can naturally undergo sex changes if circumstances call for it. Now scientists have have taken a closer look at the biology that make this possible.

A few unwelcome spectators interrupted a Little League ball game under the lights on Monday night.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered southeast of New Orleans on Thursday as tropical storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the city and a surrounding stretch of the Gulf with a possible hurricane and torrential rains that could send water spilling over levees.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered southeast of New Orleans on Thursday as tropical storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the city and a surrounding stretch of the Gulf with a possible hurricane that could unload heavy rain and send water spilling over levees.

"I think that the relationship we've had with the RCMP can definitely serve as a model for other communities," says a Beardy's First Nation band councillor.

Online security experts have an urgent message for election officials in the Northwest Territories who recently announced online voting will be used for the first time in the upcoming territorial election: don’t do it.

As Country Thunder continues to expand in the music festival world, CEO Troy Vollhoffer says it all comes back to its roots in Saskatchewan.

Three Iranian vessels tried to block the passage of a BP-operated tanker through the Strait of Hormuz but withdrew after warnings from a British warship, the British government said on Thursday.

After a letter written in 1943 was found in the attic of a Chambly, Que., house undergoing renovations, the writer's son came to collect a priceless memento of his long-departed father.

Serge Currie's problems started when he tried to renew his Ontario health card two years ago. The Burlington, Ont., resident found out his Department of Defence birth certificate that was issued to his Canadian parents 52 years ago in Germany doesn't legally prove his citizenship.

Several Canadians are in the process of retrieving money removed from their bank accounts this past weekend by Spotify, a music streaming service to which they did not subscribe.

Jacques Campeau saw no other way out. Three times, the Quebec man applied for medically assisted death. All three times, he was rejected. In June, he killed himself.

The chair of the board has defended the invitation, noting that Kennedy "will not be speaking on his vaccination position" and will only be addressing the issue of green business. But giving him a platform and calling him a "visionary" positions him as an expert and normalizes his views in general. 

Crew members who were on board the HMCS Chicoutimi when it caught fire in 2004 suffered significantly higher rates of PTSD, asthma and depression, according to a military health survey. 

Crew members who were on board the HMCS Chicoutimi when it caught fire in 2004 suffered significantly higher rates of PTSD, asthma and depression, according to a military health survey. 

Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard is set to appear in court Thursday morning as a preliminary hearing begins to determine if he will stand trial on sex assault charges.

The Ontario's Teachers' Pension Plan Board has invested in a private U.S. prison company that has come under fire from authorities for improper segregation of immigrants and inadequate medical care in some of its facilities. 

A few months after the Canada Pension Plan made headlines for investing in private U.S. prison companies that run immigration detention centes, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board bought shares in one of those same companies.

In 2004, a sailor died after the submarine flooded and caught fire. On Thursday, results will be released from a health surveillance study, which looked at possible long-term health effects.

Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard is in a Toronto court this morning as a preliminary hearing begins to determine if he will stand trial on sexual assault charges.

Developer Grégoire Gollin has committed to transferring around 60 hectares of land near Oka, Que., to the Mohawks of Kanesatake through the federal government’s Ecological Gifts Program.

Developer Grégoire Gollin has committed to transferring around 60 hectares of land near Oka, Que., to the Mohawks of Kanesatake through the federal government’s Ecological Gifts Program.

While there are many positive signs for the Canadian economy, central bankers warn they don't have a magic solution if global trade battle worsens.

An Amber Alert has been issued in southern Ontario for two young brothers, missing in the Newmarket area, north of Toronto.