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After more than a month of decline, COVID-19 cases started to increase around the world last week, the World Health Organization said. It said the rise was largely driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the BA.2 subvariant and the lifting of public health and social measures.

The chair of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board breaks her silence two weeks after the Broken Trust final report was submitted to the board, and over a week after it was recommended more sudden deaths of Indigenous people should be reinvestigated.

NASA released an image Wednesday from the James Webb Space Telescope that was taken to see how its 18 hexagonal mirrors worked together for a single co-ordinated image of a star 1.6 million kilometres away from Earth. Officials said it worked better than expected.

As London Public Library in southwestern Ontario commits to adding a full-time addiction and mental health specialist to its staff, experts say more social work training and support is exactly what urban libraries need.

Disney workers are planning walkouts during their breaks every day this week to protest the company's slow response to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill.

The U.S. Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort Wednesday to tame the worst inflation since the 1970s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signalling potentially up to seven rate hikes this year.

Lindsay Pentland says working in a hospital setting in Leamington as a registered practical nurse during the pandemic caused a "moral injury" she doesn't feel can be healed by the Ontario government's recently promised pay bonus. She's living in Wheatley, Ont., and is now a travelling nurse.

A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world's largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness World Records wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn't, in fact, a potato after all.

Canada's telecommunications regulator will announce this afternoon whether it will ban the state-controlled Russian television network RT from Canadian airwaves.

Canada's telecommunications regulator has removed the the state-controlled Russian television network RT from Canadian airwaves.

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than two million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness.

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than two million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness.

A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday night, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people. A small tsunami reached shore, but the low-risk advisory was lifted by Thursday morning.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, leaving two people dead, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than two million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness.

Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario will receive over $4 million to create 37 new addiction treatment beds, the province's associate minister of mental health and addictions said Tuesday in the town of over 5,000 people. It's among communities receiving funding for a total of 400 new addictions treatment beds across Ontario.

British Columbia's privacy commissioner has found that federal political parties are subject to the province's Personal Information Protection Act, a decision experts say opens the door to a level of independent oversight not currently in place when it comes to understanding how the parties use personal data.

The federal government is expected to announce as soon as tomorrow that travellers entering Canada will no longer have to take a pre-arrival COVID-19 test, CBC News has learned.

The container ship Ever Forward is currently grounded in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, nearly a year after another ship run by the same company blocked the Suez Canal for six days.

The container ship Ever Forward is currently grounded in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, nearly a year after another ship run by the same company blocked the Suez Canal for six days.

A network of activists and organizations in neighbouring countries and across Europe have sprung into action to support LGBTQ people fleeing the war in Ukraine, facilitating access to queer-friendly housing, transportation and medical care.

Eric Mercury, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose soulful vocals pushed the boundaries of rock music on his 1969 debut "Electric Black Man," has died at age 77.

Eric Mercury, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose soulful vocals pushed the boundaries of rock music on his 1969 debut "Electric Black Man," has died at age 77.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday announced plans to fully lift coronavirus restrictions on March 21 as new infections driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant slow.

Nine people died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said.

Nine people died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said.

Canada's inflation rate rose to a new multi-decade high of 5.7 per cent last month, as the price of everything from gasoline to groceries to shelter rose swiftly.

Canada's inflation rate rose to a new multi-decade high of 5.7 per cent last month, as the price of everything from gasoline to groceries to shelter rose swiftly.

A division of Honda Canada Inc. is announcing it will spend $1.38 billion over six years to upgrade an Ontario manufacturing plant to make electric hybrid vehicles, an investment that includes millions in funding from the federal and provincial governments.

A division of Honda Canada Inc. is announcing it will spend $1.38 billion over six years to upgrade an Ontario manufacturing plant to make electric hybrid vehicles, an investment that includes millions in funding from the federal and provincial governments.

A division of Honda Canada Inc. is set to announce Wednesday that it will spend $1.38 billion over six years to upgrade an Ontario manufacturing plant to make electric hybrid vehicles, an investment that includes millions in funding from the federal and provincial governments.

A division of Honda Canada Inc. is announcing it will spend $1.38 billion over six years to upgrade an Ontario manufacturing plant to make electric hybrid vehicles, an investment that includes millions in funding from the federal and provincial governments.

Brian Jean who won’t be sworn in as an MLA until April 5 and thus will be unable to be a thorn in Jason Kenney’s UCP caucus for another three weeks. But they’ll be battling behind the scenes by proxy if not actually in the streets.

In the City of Vancouver, buying magic mushrooms, in at least one case, can be as easy as ordering your morning cup of coffee. 

A Winnipeg man wanted in connection with an alleged child sex trafficking ring in the Philippines has abandoned his motion that, if successful, would have forced Winnipeg police to return electronic devices seized during the execution of a search warrant.

The charges against six activists arrested in connection to an encampment eviction at J.C. Beemer Park in November were withdrawn on Monday in a Hamilton court.

When Svitlana Trofymchuk came to visit friends in Toronto last month, she didn't expect her city to be the target of a Russian invasion. She's now hoping to obtain a temporary work permit to make ends meet while she's in Canada.

A new study looking into how university students feel about Quebec’s religious symbols law is painting a bleak picture, with many saying they’ve lost faith in the province and plan to leave.

A new study looking into how university students feel about Quebec’s religious symbols law is painting a bleak picture, with many saying they’ve lost faith in the province and plan to leave.

Restorative justice aims to give people a better understanding of what other people are experiencing, but it's not clear what that process will look like for Lisa Banfield, who was accused of providing the gunman with ammunition.

Also referred to as "snake" worms or "crazy" worms, it's not fully understood how these invasive jumping worms from Asia might affect everything from backyard gardens to forests across Canada.

After a third consecutive election loss last year, a new race to lead the Conservative Party of Canada is underway. We go through the candidates so far and look at how they say they’ll get the party back in power.

30 years after the cod moratorium, DFO said they also won't be able to do a full assessment on the province's capelin stock.

Inuvik Gwich'in community Ruth Wright pays between $1.50 to $3 for one orange, knowing the fruit travelled roughly eight days and more than 6,000 kilometres to reach her. Its journey tells a larger story, however — that of food insecurity in the North.

A group behind a failed development project still holding $15 million in deposits from seniors who bought into the building has been granted creditor protection, leaving some investors in limbo.

Last fall Quebec signed a new contract with its nurses, which was designed to reduce forced overtime and address staff shortages. But some part-time nurses say they're victims of the new contract, which will soon force them to double their workload.

A new study out of Hong Kong suggests Omicron might be surviving longer on everyday objects than its early predecessor — raising questions about which basic precautions to prevent surface-based transmission might still be warranted. 

A Filipino space is almost always a Christian one, writes Alia Rasul. That's why, as a Filipino Muslim, she is speaking up about her people and culture.

A Filipino space is almost always a Christian one, writes Alia Rasul. That's why, as a Filipino Muslim, she is speaking up about her people and culture.

Some small municipalities in northwestern Ontario say they lack the resources to take as much action as they’d like to prepare for climate change, but are doing what they can. Several administrators spoke to CBC after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Feb. 28 report on the effects of global warming worldwide. 

The risk of Canadian weapons shipments being lost, stolen or otherwise misused is growing as the war in Ukraine enters a chaotic and uncertain new phase.