Could drones help ease Canada's construction worker shortage?

An aging construction workforce and a shortage of workers has some businesses looking to drones to help fill the gaps in Canada's labour force, and help them do their work faster and with fewer people.

The money for medals doesn't come from taxpayers. It comes out of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Excellence Fund, which funnels corporate sponsorship dollars to our most successful high-performance athletes.

Paramedics rushed three workers to hospital following a Monday morning collapse at a home construction site in Hamilton’s Stoney Creek area.

The humble cucumber, a favourite in Russian salads and meals, is the latest staple to suddenly skyrocket in price, angering consumers and stirring up politicians and regulators keen to tamp down any popular discontent at a time of war.

Netflix, the preferred bidder to buy Warner Bros.' studio and streaming businesses, has given Warner a seven-day waiver to reopen talks with Paramount. The companies now have until Monday of next week to work out a possible deal, which Netflix would be allowed to match.

Two Saskatoon teenagers are in custody and facing charges of uttering threats following a national security investigation into online violent extremism, RCMP said in a press release.

The second of seven women complainants is testifying in the sexual assault trial of Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach.

Canada's Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Blondin successfully defended Olympic speed skating gold Tuesday, prevailing over the Dutch in women’s team pursuit in Milan.

The Canadian women's team pursuit trio of Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Blondin will get the chance to defend their Olympic title. The speed skaters won their team pursuit semifinal against the U.S. on Tuesday and will skate in the gold-medal final at 10:47 a.m. ET.

Canada's annual inflation rate edged down to 2.3 per cent in January, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.

Canada's annual inflation rate edged down to 2.3 per cent in January, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.

Iran and the United States reached an understanding on the main "guiding principles" in a second round of nuclear talks in Geneva ‌on Tuesday, but work still needs to be done, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

Iran's supreme leader warned on Tuesday that U.S. attempts to depose his government would fail, as Washington and Tehran began indirect talks in Geneva on their long-running nuclear dispute amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.

Russian forces pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure before a new round of ‌peace talks, killing three energy workers and leaving tens of thousands of people without power and heat, officials said Tuesday. For its part, Ukraine struck a Russian oil facility.

Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening shrubs. They face a gauntlet of other threats, all of which decimate their numbers. Yet the raptor’s path to legal protection moves at a sluggish pace.

The N.W.T. has been bracing for its diamond mines to close for years, but recent announcements from two of the three remaining players point to the possibility that it might all come to an end sooner than expected.

Advocates for countering crime online are urging social media platforms to do more to crack down on content in foreign languages promoting illegal drugs. TikTok shut down two accounts promoting what appeared to be opium in Punjabi after questions about it from CBC News.

The City of Prince Albert says it’s lost out on millions of dollars in federal and provincial funding because of low participation in the 2021 population census.

Files obtained through access to information confirm Transport Canada was concerned about forever chemicals, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as far back as the 1980s.

Nova Scotia's lung screening program is still in its infancy, but those leading the effort say they've already been able to deliver life-changing, positive news to dozens of people who might have been given a terminal diagnosis in other circumstances.

After witnessing the shooting of Bronson Paul by RCMP inside their Neqotkuk home, Jessica Paul is challenging police claims he was armed.

A 60-year-old man with Down syndrome has been living in the Inverness hospital since Dec. 22, despite the fact hospital staff say he does not require medical treatment. The small option home where he lived for 20 years says he cannot come back.

Four rising humanoid robot startups - Unitree Robotics,Galbot, Noetix and MagicLab - demonstrated their products at the gala, a televised event and touchstone for China comparable to the Super Bowl for the United States.

For some reason, not a lot of people know that the law in Canada requires them to report a car crash to their insurer, experts told CBC. If they don't, drivers leave themselves exposed to personal injury lawsuits, voiding their insurance policies and significantly higher premiums in the future.

Anne Lefebvre and Jenn Wroe are attempting to try every Winter Olympic sport they can before the games finish, hoping to inspire other women in their 50s. The CBCs Emma Weller caught up with them in Calabogie, Ont., for one event.

Jeremy Cummins, Ana Luiza Rangel and Aaron Minocha tell The National about the moment Canadian fans took over a bar in Milan, Italy, turning it into the unofficial Canada House.

Feb. 16, 2026| Freestyle skier Megan Oldham captures Canada’s second gold medal with a win in big air. The FBI analyzes DNA from a glove in the search for Nancy Guthrie. And, remembering acclaimed actor Robert Duvall.

A dominant American team that's allowed only one goal all tournament stands between Canada and gold. But a veteran-heavy Canadian team has belief.

Canada, which was worse than the U.S. in every possible way in a 5-0 loss in the preliminary round, has 72 hours to find the belief that Thursday’s women's hockey final will have a different result — that they can somehow beat an American team that’s younger, faster, meaner, stronger.

Canada, which was worse than the U.S. in every possible way in a 5-0 loss in the preliminary round, has 72 hours to find the belief that Thursday’s women's hockey final will have a different result — that they can somehow beat an American team that’s younger, faster, meaner, stronger.