A powerful pause for the sporting world

Devin Heroux of CBC Sports reflects on a week in sports that saw a united show of solidarity across professional leagues in support of racial justice.

A relatively new class of autoimmune diseases that affect the brain is throwing psychiatrists for a loop.

Public servants with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) who have been teleworking full-time for the past several years from cities such as Montreal are now being required to work in offices in the National Capital Region. 

Tens of thousands of Instagram users appear to have been duped by an account purporting to belong to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. Instead, a CBC News analysis finds the page features content generated by AI, including images showing a helicopter, a statuette of Wedding and an autographed motorbike.

A trio of British hunger strikers is taking food again last week, after claiming victory in a standoff with the U.K. government over the group Palestine Action. The activist group, best known for vandalizing British companies associated with Israel, has been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the government.

Canada is lagging in robotics adoption, industry watchers say, especially outside of the auto sector. At the same time, robots are taking off, thanks to a boom in China and new approaches incorporating AI. At a time when Canada is concerned about productivity, are we missing the boat?

Alberta emergency room doctors have counted what they say are six potentially preventable deaths as well as numerous close calls for patients who they say waited too long for care in emergency rooms across the province.

On the first day of the public hearing into their actions, all seven Vancouver Police Department officers denied the allegations that they intentionally or recklessly used unnecessary force in the 2015 death of Myles Gray.

Actor François Arnaud, who co-stars in the hit Canadian series Heated Rivalry, says while it seems the NHL has figured out that the steamy hockey romance is a big deal, he'd like to see the league do more to promote actual diversity on the ice, rather than just capitalize on the show's success for marketing purposes.

Former federal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will be starting treatment for breast cancer.

Jan. 19, 2026 | Trump links his Greenland threats to being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize in a message to Norway’s prime minister. A Canadian tourist is found dead in Australia surrounded by dingoes. And food prices hit another high.

Ben Maize, a Calgary man accused of tunnelling into his neighbour’s apartment, ran his own criminal trial Monday. Betty Golightly testified that she arrived home one day to find her apartment locked from the inside, then discovered holes in the drywall near her fireplace that appeared to lead to a tunnel to the unit below.

With less than a year before Quebecers head to the polls, other parties are undergoing leadership changes and the political landscape is shifting in the province. The Parti Québécois is currently leading in the polls.

Beyond its value as a strategic economic asset, Canada's only deepwater Arctic port may also prove crucial to Canadian sovereignty should U.S. President Donald Trump follow through on his rhetoric to take control of Greenland, Manitoba's premier says.

The Ontario Liberal caucus has named John Fraser as their pick for interim leader, a role he is poised to hold for a third time.

Malnourishment hospitalizations in Iqaluit have doubled from 2022 to 2024, and some experts say there is likely more cases going on than are being documented.

Gerald Benn, who was serving a life sentence for two counts of murder, should not have been found guilty, said the province's top court Monday in its decision to overturn the convictions and enter acquittals. 

Thaioronióhte Dan David, a renowned Kanien’kehá:ka journalist who helped establish the news department of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died.

Missing out on infielder Bo Bichette and fellow free agent Kyle Tucker sours what started out as a solid off-season for the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays. But Toronto still has a good enough team to compete for a World Series title.

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you might want to go out and look up, as the northern lights could put on a decent show Monday night.

An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six ​Afghans and injuring several others including a child, officials said.

An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six ​Afghans and injuring several others including a child, officials said.

Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died ⁠at ‍the ⁠age of 93, ⁠newspaper la Repubblica ‍and other Italian ⁠media said on ‍Monday.

Experts probing the cause of Sunday's derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 39 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster.

Experts probing the cause of Sunday's derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 40 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster.

Police in Queensland, Australia, are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Canadian woman after her body was found on a beach Monday morning surrounded by dingoes.

Police in Queensland, Australia, are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Canadian woman after her body was found on a beach Monday morning, reportedly surrounded by dingoes.

Canada's inflation rate ticked up to 2.4 per cent in December compared to the same period last year, when the federal government implemented a GST break that brought some prices down, Statistics Canada said on Monday.

The Ottawa Charge and the PWHL expansion Vancouver Goldeneyes shook up their rosters by completing a six-player trade on Sunday night.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has logged thousands of hours since 2023 to reconstruct the flow of finances in the multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme by Victoria mortgage broker Greg Martel.