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The B.C. Forests Practices Board is calling on the province to undertake a 'paradigm shift' in how it manages forests, saying wildfire risk mitigation currently focuses on areas near communities but leaves the wider forest landscape 'severely vulnerable.'

Ed Cassano, CEO of Pelagic Research Services, became emotional on Friday while describing the intense efforts to rescue five people onboard a missing submersible.

Two legends of bluegrass — Jesse McReynolds of Jim & Jesse and Bobby Osborne of The Osborne Brother — have died. Ketch Secor of bluegrass revival band The Old Crow Medicine Show says this marks the end of an era.

Akeem Scott's family is appealing a decision not to discipline the nurses who triaged him in the emergency room before he died. Scott was left unattended for hours at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and died just hours after he left.

Camps across Canada and the U.S. are having to adjust everything from moving activities indoors and rerouting canoe trips to cancelling campfires and outdoor swimming.

A woman who was barred from driving for almost two years while awaiting sentencing would face "a kind of double punishment" if she were now handed an additional mandatory one-year prohibition, Canada's top court has ruled.

Iconic skylines in U.S. cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and New York were shrouded in a haze as smoke from wildfires in Canada continues its southerly drift across the border.

Two surveys from the Bank of Canada Friday show that while consumers and business are still expecting things like inflation and wages to be higher than usual for the foreseeable future, they are starting to come back to some sort of pre-pandemic normal — and they're less worried about a recession, too.

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges, including sexual assault and indecent assault.

How will you get the news now? That’s a question many Canadians may be asking after tech companies Google and Meta, which owns the social media giants Facebook and Instagram, vowed to remove links to Canadian journalism.

A new women's hockey league is coming to North America. The Professional Hockey Federation and the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association announced a merger Friday, with an intention of starting a new league in January 2024.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's political career was halted on Friday as Brazil's federal electoral court (TSE) barred the far-right nationalist from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year's fraught election.

The French village of Masnières honoured one of its war heroes on Friday — Inuk sniper Lance-Cpl. John Shiwak of Labrador.

The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt — a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfil a campaign promise.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, ruling in favour of a web designer who cited her Christian beliefs in challenging a Colorado anti-discrimination law.

Alan Arkin, an American character actor who won an Oscar in 2007 for his role in the family comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine, has died, a representative confirmed to CBC News. He was 89.

France is facing some of its worst violence in decades in the aftermath of the police shooting of a 17-year-old at a police traffic stop. Many blame the government's culture of letting police solve their problems, along with a new law that empowered officers to fire their weapons more easily.

Canada's gross domestic product was unchanged in April, the second monthly reading in a row of sluggish growth, but early data for May suggests things have started to pick up.

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing "more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined" over her partnership with the beer giant.

Advocates, artists and entertainers are among the 85 new appointees to the Order of Canada this year.

B.C.'s biggest wildfire is burning through the traditional territories of three First Nations, destroying everything from hunting grounds to cultural landmarks.

The SAG-AFTRA actors union and major Hollywood studios agreed to extend their current labour agreement through July 12 and keep trying to reach a new deal, the two sides said in a statement on Friday. 

Netflix Inc., Walt Disney Co. and Hollywood's other major film and television studios were racing against a midnight deadline on Friday to reach a deal with the SAG-AFTRA actors union and avert a second labour strike this summer.

Charlottetown family doctor Paul Corney, who scaled back his 13-year-old practice earlier this month, has now decided to close it up completely, saying 'there is no help available' to reduce his workload to a manageable level.

As Canadian wildfire seasons intensify and communities in other provinces face their own threats, Lytton has been held up as a resilient community — one that lived the ultimate climate catastrophe but is being rebuilt to withstand the threat of future fires.

Nearly 15,000 of the cheques the Manitoba government cut earlier this year to help with rising fuel and food costs never made it to their intended recipients.

A timeline of the first few hours of the wildfire, based on information from the municipality, the provincial Emergency Management Office and Nova Scotia RCMP, shows the first emergency alert came more than 1.5 hours after police began evacuations.

Air Canada is apologizing for a situation that saw nearly three dozen teenagers from Conception Bay North stranded for three days in Montreal, and dashed their hopes of visiting New York City.

First Nations leaders say now is the time to repair the fractures in the Assembly of First Nations after RoseAnne Archibald was ousted as national chief.

A toxic street supply of opioids has helped make April the province's deadliest month on record. As the reality of Alberta's opioid crisis shifts, Danielle Smith seems uninterested in changing her plan.

Justin Trudeau famously promised a government that would be "open by default." That promise has aged poorly — but it has been made to look even worse over the past month.

On June 1, a Thursday, teachers and administrators at several public elementary schools in Ottawa noticed a steep and sudden drop in attendance. Many Muslim parents said the board's Pride-themed curriculum left them with little choice.

On June 1, a Thursday, teachers and administrators at several public elementary schools in Ottawa noticed a steep and sudden drop in attendance. Many Muslim parents said the board's Pride-themed curriculum left them with little choice.

Rudy Kelly is many things, but he's known to many as performer Chad Estrada. Now he's considering walking away from that part of his life, because of the feelings it brings up when people compare him to his father.

Planning an outdoor wedding can be notoriously unpredictable when any number of factors can make or break the big day: The temperature, the wind, the dreaded possibility of rain, and of course, wildfire smoke. Here's how the industry is pivoting to help couples deal.

The final entry in Indiana Jones's long-running franchise sees star Harrison Ford shuffle through the motions as an aging adventurer. The result is serviceable, but missing the charisma and magic of the originals.

As the calendar flips to July, a long-awaited federal policy will kick in aimed at cutting the amount of pollution from cars and trucks, while trying to keep pump prices affordable.

France's Interior Ministry says it has issued instructions for the complete shutdown of all public bus and tram services in the country before sunset Friday as the government combats rioting triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.

French protesters erected barricades, lit fires and shot fireworks at police in the streets of some French cities overnight as tensions mounted over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that has shocked the nation.

A Texas grand jury on Thursday declined to press criminal charges against rapper Travis Scott and five others over a 2021 crowd crush at a music festival that left 10 dead and injured thousands, prosecutors said.

TikTok is on a charm offensive, trying to prove it’s not a threat. CBC’s Ellen Mauro gets access to its new Transparency and Accountability Centre in L.A. and asks the company’s head of public policy what it’s doing to protect user data.

Three years after China introduced a national security law for Hong Kong that cracked down on anti-government protests, the city has changed. CBC’s Saša Petricic found a different atmosphere where dissent remains, but it’s a lot quieter.

As part of a class project, Jennifer Boudreau threw a message in a bottle in the ocean in 1988 when she was eight years old. She never expected it to be found on the beach of a remote Norwegian island 35 years later.

A tornado alert that was in effect for areas in south central Alberta ended Friday afternoon, but Environment Canada was still tracking severe weather across the province. 

The level of wildfire smoke blanketing Ontario, Quebec and the eastern United States is unprecedented. With Quebec's fires potentially burning into the fall, the summer could hold more smoke events for millions.

A new North American professional women's hockey league looks to be on its way. According to multiple reports, the Mark Walter Group acquired "certain assets" of the Premier Hockey Federation on Thursday. The Associated Press is also reporting that, as a result, a new league is projected to launch in January.

Immanuel Chibota collects broken and discarded crayons and turns them into new creations in an effort to prevent them from heading to landfills and polluting the environment.

In a Friday morning press conference, RCMP Supt. Wendy Mehat confirmed the 16-year-old was found around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. She was unharmed except for some mosquito bites.

A helicopter, a drone and teams of rescuers from across the Lower Mainland helped locate a missing teen who was separated from her group while hiking in a Metro Vancouver provincial park.

A helicopter, a drone and teams of rescuers from across the Lower Mainland helped locate a missing teen who was separated from her group while hiking in a Metro Vancouver provincial park.