Canada news

Nearly a dozen students at Mount Royal University in Calgary have been deregistered from classes by administration after refusing to say if they have had their COVID-19 shots.

Nine of the 24 players on Cuba’s national team at baseball’s U-23 World Cup defected during the tournament in Mexico, the Cuban government confirmed Sunday.

The three-person crew destined for the International Space Station on Tuesday includes a Russian actor and director who will be shooting the first feature film in space — beating a NASA-led project that aims to do the same thing with Tom Cruise. 

The three-person crew destined for the International Space Station on Tuesday includes a Russian actor and director who will be shooting the first feature film in space — beating a NASA-led project that aims to do the same thing with Tom Cruise. 

Jennifer Rosebluff-Thomas died from COVID-19 in an Edmonton hospital after delivering a preterm baby at 29 weeks. The unvaccinated mother was unconscious during the emergency C-section and never held her newborn before she died.

Drunken Birds will represent Canada in the race for an Oscar nomination for best international feature film. Montreal's Ivan Grbovic directed and co-wrote the drama, about a lovestruck Mexican drug cartel member who becomes a seasonal migrant worker in rural Quebec.

The federal government has invoked a dispute resolution process in a 1977 pipeline treaty with the United States in an effort to keep the economically vital Line 5 pipeline in operation.

The federal government has invoked a 1977 pipeline treaty in an effort to settle the Line 5 pipeline dispute.

Afghan women ministers made pleas to Canadian politicians for help two months before the Taliban took control of Kabul, Sen. Salma Ataullahjan says.

Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp have been hit by an outage on Monday affecting users around the world.

Kevin J. Johnston has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars for publicly branding Toronto restaurateur and philanthropist Mohamad Fakih a "terrorist" and a "baby killer" after being ordered to stop defaming the Paramount Fine Foods owner in 2019.

Hockey Northwestern Ontario has announced sprawling vaccine rules for nearly everyone involved in minor hockey — a move designed to keep youth players safe this season.

Hockey Northwestern Ontario has announced sprawling vaccine rules for nearly everyone involved in minor hockey — a move it says is designed to keep youth players safe this season.

Two-time gold medallist Sidney Crosby was one of three players named Monday to Canada's initial roster for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. Edmonton Oilers teammates Connor McDavid and Alex Pietrangelo are the others.

Star Trek's Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month, boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone before.

A large oil spill off the Southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe.

Two lots of Advil's Cold & Sinus Day/Night Convenience Pack are being recalled due to a labelling error.

September was arguably Alberta's worst month of the COVID-19 pandemic, data suggests. More Albertans tested positive than in any month prior, and records for hospital and ICU admissions were set. September was also the deadliest month since the second wave. Experts look at what could come next.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says it's working with other governments still dubious about allowing Canadians with mixed COVID-19 vaccines to travel across their borders without quarantining.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says it's working with other governments still dubious about allowing Canadians with mixed COVID-19 vaccines to travel across their borders without quarantining.

The CBC's Susan Ormiston reports from a new flea market in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where desperate residents are hawking household goods for money as economic collapse looms.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.

American prosecutors want former Manitoba reservist Patrik Mathews and his co-accused, Brian Lemley Jr., sentenced to 25 years in prison, saying they joined forces in working toward a civil war that would "decimate racial and ethnic minorities and subjugate women."

A Saskatchewan judge has released files detailing the Catholic Church's controversial $79-million compensation deal for residential school survivors following a successful court application by CBC News and the Globe and Mail.

Western's student council is looking at cutting ties with the London, Ont., university's fraternities and sororities. The University Students' Council president says the consideration is unrelated to last month's sexual assault allegations.

The Nova Scotia government says the eastern health zone, which includes Cape Breton, has the highest rate of deaths from drugs in the province.

The renting out of backyard private pools was one of this past summer's hottest trends in the GTA. But Toronto Deputy Mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong has received some complaints from angry neighbours and he's hoping the city will look into regulating the practice in time for next summer.

A scam based on a fake listing on Kijiji — with a puzzling twist — not only duped a family of renters out of thousands of dollars, but left the Ottawa couple who own the home feeling stunned and violated.

While most government workers in northern Ontario have to prove they are vaccinated against COVID-19, the thousands who work in the private sector do not, and it is creating tensions on the job.

Experts say it's normal to feel awkward, worried or even exhausted at the prospect of re-entering social situations. The key is to be honest about how you're feeling, and go easy on yourself.

Director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) is taking a lead role in helping hundreds and thousands of people better understand Indigenous history in Canada.

Canadians are unknowingly buying and building homes and other infrastructure in areas at high risk of flooding, wildfires and other climate change impacts. That could lead to billions of dollars in damage each year if governments don't force sellers to disclose risks and start adapting, a new report says.

While more than 5,000 air travellers who refused to quarantine in a hotel when they arrived in Canada were hit with big fines, CBC News has yet to confirm that any such fines were issued in Calgary or Montreal.

Journalist Matthew Remski explains why new age spirituality is such fertile ground for anti-vaccine movements.

Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year's U.S. elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol.

North and South Korea restored a stalled communication hotline after weeks of a hiatus in a small, fragile reconciliation step Monday, as the North pushes hard to win outside concessions with a mix of conciliatory gestures and missile tests.

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. A B.C. woman alleges in a civil lawsuit her two former realtors drugged and sexually assaulted her in their office. She says she decided to sue after interactions with the Victoria police left her distrustful of the criminal justice system.

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. A B.C. woman alleges in a civil lawsuit her two former real estate agents drugged and sexually assaulted her in their office. She says she decided to sue after interactions with the Victoria police left her distrustful of the criminal justice system.

Nearly 40 days on a ventilator. A tracheotomy. Forty-five pounds lost. Countless hours of physiotherapy. And now, PTSD and flashbacks. Paul Hemsing of Medicine Hat, Alta., is still recovering months after nearly dying of COVID-19, and is warning of the trauma the disease can inflict.

A pair of George Springer homers, including a grand slam and a record-breaking blast from Vladimir Guerrero Jr., pushed the Blue Jays to the brink of a berth in an American League wild-card tiebreaker game.