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NBA game between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder has been postponed because the Rockets do not have the required eight players.

Houston's Wednesday season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder has been postponed after positive or inconclusive coronavirus test results and James Harden's violation of the NBA's COVID-19 protocols left the Rockets without the league-mandated eight players available.

A Toronto-based company says it has plans to bring fibre-optic internet to Iqaluit by 2022. CanArctic Inuit Networks says in a release that it will construct a fibre-optic line more than 2,000 kilometres long between Clarenville, N.L. and Iqaluit.

After more than two years of living under an around-the-clock bail agreement, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou plans to ask a B.C. judge to change the terms of her daytime supervision next month while she fights against extradition to the United States.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday the government is looking to create a National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Air Disasters, set on Jan. 8, the day Flight PS752 was shot down in Iran earlier this year.

With visits to the pediatric ward limited, Santa needed a big lift this year from firefighters and the Armed Forces.

Anti-hate groups are urging the federal government to reconsider which employers can apply for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) after white nationalist Paul Fromm received money for two of his groups.

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a hard year in many ways. For those searching for love, a pandemic did not help their cause. But it has led some Toronto couples to get creative when it comes to dating. Natalie Kalata brings you their stories.

2020 was a year like no other — CBC News revisits the stories that touched hearts, changed perspectives, brought Canadians together and, at times, kept us distanced from the ones we love most.

An unexpected rebound in wood product prices this month is boosting profits for Canadian forestry companies but leaving homeowners and buyers with the prospect of higher home and renovation costs in 2021.

The Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan has sent a 149-year-old portrait to Ireland as part of a major in-house exhibition.

The Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan has sent a 149-year-old portrait to Ireland as part of a major in-house exhibition.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock says scientists have identified another new variant of the coronavirus in two people, both of whom are contacts of recent arrivals from South Africa.

Britain's transport minister has ordered flights and arrivals from South Africa to be halted after a potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spread to Britain.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed Wednesday that Canada would extend its initial ban on passenger flights from the United Kingdom, put in place in response to the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant of COVID-19.

The NHL released its 2021 schedule today but Ontario's minister of sport says discussions are still ongoing about how the all-Canadian North division will operate.

Vice-Admiral Art McDonald will be named Canada's chief of the defence staff, CBC has learned.

Vice-Admiral Art McDonald, the current head of the navy, has been named Canada's chief of the defence staff. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement during an address Wednesday afternoon.

About nine people gathered outside on the Wolfville, N.S., waterfront for the ceremony last Saturday. It was freezing cold but no one seemed to mind.

Health Canada has approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for use in this country, clearing the way for thousands of doses to arrive by month's end.

Canada's economy grew by 0.4 per cent in October, the sixth straight month of expansion after a record-setting plunge in April.

Furious truck drivers scuffled with police and sounded their horns in protest around the English port of Dover as a partial blockade by France designed to contain a highly infectious coronavirus variant has stranded thousands before Christmas.

Truck drivers trapped along hundreds of kilometres of roads near the southern English port of Dover are facing a riddle: to travel to France they must have a COVID-19 test. But they say there are no tests to be had.

At the end of 2020, Premier John Horgan doesn't regret calling an election or decisions made when COVID-19 cases surged in British Columbia.

Rob Burke was quarantining at his property in St. Peters Bay, P.E.I., earlier this year when he decided he needed a project and set his sights on a dead tree.

Decades ago, an artist buried 12 treasures across North America. Nine remain under the ground. One treasure hunter thinks he's cracked the code and found not one, but two, of the remaining treasures. And he thinks they're both in Canada.

Decades ago, an artist buried 12 treasures across North America. Nine remain under the ground. One treasure hunter thinks he's cracked the code and found not one, but two, of the remaining treasures. And he thinks they're both in Canada.

Current speed restrictions for ships moving through Canadian waters will not prevent North Atlantic right whales from being killed if struck, according to new research that also determined smaller vessels are capable of deadly impacts. 

Since Abdul Jalab arrived in Nova Scotia at the end of January, Halifax has felt like home to him. He gives back to the community that welcomed him with open arms by running errands for vulnerable people during COVID-19.

Roughly 400 people from Trinidad and Tobago are stuck on Canadian farms after labouring through the pandemic as essential workers. They won't be home for Christmas, but the community is bringing the celebration to them.

When Dawnie Codina Langschmidt heard the stories of children in a remote northern Ontario First Nation pleading for clean running water, she said she had to do something to make sure they knew they were heard.

This year, added stress from the second wave of the pandemic is making day to day life even more difficult for many. If you’ve been feeling more down lately compared to during the first wave, you are not alone.

Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study has found, and it has widespread impacts, including affecting water quality.

The global pandemic posed major challenges — and a potential business boom – for Canada's postal service as consumers make a transformative shift to online shopping.

For journalists, it is almost impossible to describe the events of this remarkable year without sounding hyperbolic. Few of us have worked through such an unrelenting news cycle, where each story seems to dwarf the one before and where the unprecedented has become the routine. We take a look back at how CBC covered 2020.

While Ontario health-care workers are lining up in droves for the COVID-19 vaccine at newly launched hospital immunization programs, others worry hesitancy may prove to be an issue among front-line staff in the months ahead.

Premier Doug Ford has zeroed in on international travellers, suggesting they represent a significant risk for worsening the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. CBC News takes a closer look at the facts.

The coming year will see intense scrutiny on the navy's plan to build 15 new warships to replace its existing fleet of frigates. Some defence experts estimate the lifetime cost of the frigates will exceed $213 billion over four decades. The challenge will be to avoid an F-35-style political fiasco.

Germany's U.N. envoy, during his last scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China's deputy U.N. envoy to respond: "Out of the bottom of my heart: Good riddance."

Tenessa Rayann Lyric Nikirk, 24, was found guilty earlier this year of dangerous driving causing bodily harm in connection with the Dec. 20, 2017 crash that left young Leila Bui with severe brain damage, a broken neck and a lacerated spleen.

As 2020 comes to a close, we take a look back at the year in pop culture. From TV shows adjusting to the pandemic to the NBA bubble, Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Amil Niazi from the CBC podcast Pop Chat drop by to talk about what movies, TV shows, and music helped us make sense of this unprecedented year.

The National for December 22: Two premiers plead with residents to stay home over the holidays. Plus, Dr. Anthony Fauci on vaccines and the challenges ahead.

After months of being pressed for details on which individuals, groups and companies received federal pandemic supports, the Liberal government has published a searchable registry of companies that have accessed the Canada emergency wage subsidy.

Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBC's The National that he believes the new strain of the COVID-19 virus that is circulating widely in the U.K. is probably already in both Canada and the United States

U.S. President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Canada's ambassador to the U.S. says China's detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor is an issue that is 'central' to the Canada-U.S. bilateral relationship and that the U.S. is 'deeply committed' to helping resolve the detention of the two Canadians

A physician who edited the standards of care that Hamilton paramedics must follow says there were multiple signs that Yosif Al-Hasnawi should have been transported to a lead trauma hospital as soon as possible. 

The B.C. government is using its emergency powers to place a cap of 15 per cent on the fees that delivery companies can charge to restaurants.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix put the number of hospitalized patients at 357 people, 84 of whom are in intensive care.

Canada and the United Kingdom have inked a temporary agreement that will head off an automatic increase in tariffs that was set to kick in when Britain leaves the European Union next week.