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Dolphins, like people, are incredibly intelligent and social creatures. And also like people, they may be prone to the ravages of cognitive decline.

Hockey players' registration fees paid for $2.9 million in settlements this fiscal year including for a high-profile sexual assault allegation against members of the 2018 World Juniors team.

Hockey players' registration fees paid for $2.9 million in settlements this fiscal year including for a high-profile sexual assault allegation against members of the 2018 World Juniors team.

Bayern Munich and Canadian men's national team star Alphonso Davies has been named Canada Soccer player of the year for the fourth time in five seasons.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump's allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump's allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him.

Canada's attempt to seize and forfeit a Russian oligarch's holdings will be a major test of how the federal government balances sanctions and Charter rights, says an Ottawa trade lawyer.

Despite considerable bounce-back in some major business sectors on P.E.I. in 2022, the province is projecting it will run a deficit of $94.8 million by the end of the current fiscal year.

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and the Assembly of First Nations misled the public by not disclosing the fact that their $20-billion child welfare compensation deal left out some victims and reduced payments for others, says the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

The Canadian art fraud case captured national media attention from 1962 to 1964, and culminated in a dramatic Toronto court case that saw Haynes Art Gallery owner Leslie W. Lewis and art dealer Neil Sharkey convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison. 

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, says some of its employees accessed two U.S. reporters' data while trying to trace leaks of company information.

CBC Books is counting down the top 10 bestselling Canadian titles of 2022, using data from close to 300 independent Canadian bookstores, courtesy of Bookmanager. Listen to the countdown special hosted by Ali Hassan!

Crown prosecutors have "stayed" animal cruelty charges against Marineland, an aquatic theme park that allegedly held illegal dolphin shows. That means they won't pursue the charges filed by Niagara police in December 2021. 

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at what Alberta is doing right in building momentum for solar power, and take stock of the biggest weather stories of the year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is signalling a shift away from humanitarian aid toward funding infrastructure projects in developing countries.

There's no place like home for the holidays, but in large swaths of Canada and the U.S., getting there could be tricky amid a spate of weather warnings.

There's no place like home for the holidays, but in large swaths of Canada and the U.S., getting there could be tricky amid a spate of weather warnings.

CBC and other drone operators have been busy covering Canada from above this year. Here are some aerial highlights in 2022.

A woman who allegedly faked a nursing licence to work at a long-term care home in Gander was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail for the death of her four-year-old son in Hamilton, Ont.

Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of its top 400,000-euro ($578,800 Cdn) prizes Thursday.

Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of its top 400,000-euro ($578,800 Cdn) prizes Thursday.

Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday.

Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on a $250 million US bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, a federal magistrate judge said on Thursday.

Two of Sam Bankman-Fried's top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and are co-operating with investigators, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday as the crypto entrepreneur was extradited to the U.S. from the Bahamas.

Two of Sam Bankman-Fried's top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and are co-operating with investigators, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday as the crypto entrepreneur was extradited to the U.S. from the Bahamas.

One of the owners of a Winnipeg bagel shop was a high-ranking member of a drug trafficking network that moved cocaine and MDMA into Manitoba and distributed it within the province, a court filing alleges.

Every short-term rental operator's permit number is publicly visible on the City of Toronto website, which is leading to some nefarious behaviour. People are posting unregistered Airbnb listings using real permits, resulting in chaos for some legitimate hosts.

You may have seen the word “sanctions” pop up in headlines a lot more lately. But do you know what sanctions are? How they work? Or, if they're effective? We’re here to tackle some of your basic questions about sanctions.

Hockey Canada may have to repay some of New Brunswick's $1.25 million in funding to to co-host the 2023 World Junior Championship, if any Hockey Canada representatives involved with the event engage in “unethical” or “illegal” conduct before the tournament ends on Jan. 5, the contract shows.

A leading advocacy organization for LGBTQ refugees is partnering with the federal government to resettle hundreds of Afghan refugees fleeing persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

After a particularly deadly period that saw at least eight pedestrians killed in Quebec over a two-week span, including a 7-year-old whose family fled war-torn Ukraine, advocates are questioning what can be done to prevent more deaths.

For two years running, the federal government has raised concerns with Hockey Canada about accountability and transparency after learning its board of directors failed to track and monitor all conflict of interest cases, CBC News has learned.

The former Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment commander in a remote northern township has been suspended pending a new investigation into allegations of misconduct, CBC News has confirmed.

The former Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment commander in a remote northern township has been suspended pending a new investigation into allegations of misconduct, CBC News has confirmed.

The holidays can be a time to celebrate but for some people, the holidays may bring stress or sadness. Mental health and mindfulness experts suggest mindfulness practices this holiday season.

Businesses that depend on the flow of office workers are struggling as vacancy rates in office towers across Canada continue to rise. Vancouver's office tower vacancy rate has tripled since 2019, while Montreal's has doubled. 

Kenneth Richards, a former major with the Canadian Forces Cadet organization is facing three sexual assault charges in civilian court after military police reopened a 2017 case three years after it was shut over lack of evidence, CBC News has learned. 

The Ontario government has officially removed environmental protection for approximately 2,995 hectares of Greenbelt land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) despite widespread opposition across several sectors of society.

New research shows "unprecedented" evidence that about 13,000 years ago, a settlement of Paleo Indigenous people in the Hamilton area hunted and butchered either a mammoth or a mastodon. The discovery is consistent with the oral histories of the Haudenosaunee people.

The Ontario government has officially removed environmental protection for approximately 2,995 hectares of Greenbelt land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) despite widespread opposition across several sectors of society.

A new law, Bill S-206, carves out a narrow exemption in the Criminal Code to allow jurors to speak about jury proceedings with health care professionals.

With hundreds of cancelled flights at Vancouver International Airport after the region was blanketed with snow, some travellers say they've had to rely on strangers to get home.

Dec. 21, 2022 | Airport chaos in Vancouver leaves travellers stranded across Canada. Plus, Zelenskyy’s message to Washington during a historic trip.

A foot of a tiny mammal was found inside a microraptor’s skeleton. Such discoveries are very rare.

A foot of a tiny mammal was found inside a microraptor’s skeleton. Such discoveries are very rare.

Alberta's population grew by nearly 60,000 people between July and September of this year — more than in any other year since Statistics Canada began estimating populations in 1951.

More than 150 people gathered at a candlelight vigil on Wednesday night for five victims of a weekend shooting rampage at a condominium north of Toronto.