From Elle to Obsession: your weekend watch cheat sheet

This week, those looking for a summer blockbuster may be disappointed to see plenty of screen times for Minions & Monsters and … not much else. Here's a list of recent releases which — depending on your tastes — should be worth your time.

When a bug lands, do you swat or step back? We are taught to fear insects, but by looking closer at how they help our environment, we can trade our reflexive panic for wonder and learn to share our outdoor spaces, scientists say.

The École national d’horlogerie was founded after WW II as a way to help veterans reintegrate into society. Today, it’s about training professional watchmakers for the global market.

Hand-written notes. Problem-solving through discussion. Using a typewriter to complete an assignment. In-depth Q&As after oral presentations. These are some of the classroom methods from the past that professors are reviving in hopes of boosting student engagement and steering them away from AI shortcuts.

Amid the ongoing review of Canada's fighter jet procurement, a Department of National Defence official has been told to stop using a custom-made business card featuring two Lockheed Martin F-35s after she handed copies out at a recent military trade show.

Canada's ambitious new nuclear strategy has called for private investment to help expand the industry. Given that nuclear power plants are notoriously expensive to build, the government will have to heavily de-risk the ventures to attract large investors, like pension funds.

Two-time NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led all scorers with 26 points as Canada led from whistle-to-whistle in a
110-84 win over Puerto Rico on Friday in a FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying game.

Nurses will be escalating job action on July 7 at 5:30 a.m. PT, the B.C. Nurses' Union announced Friday evening. It says essential services will be maintained.

The heartbroken girlfriend of a young charter boat captain feared drowned in a deadly sinking in B.C. waters last Sunday says she was aboard the vessel two days earlier when a broken door swung open and water flooded in.

After Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled an official proposal for an oil pipeline to the West Coast on Thursday, one pollster sees the opportunity to win over a narrow group of undecided referendum voters, while some groups supporting the province's independence don't put much stock in the deal.

July 3, 2026 | Alberta's pipeline proposal raises new questions about the environment and national unity. Team Canada prepares to take on Morocco for a spot in the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals. And, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce officially tie the knot at New York's Madison Square Garden.

A video of the incident at Centennial Collegiate's June 23 graduation ceremony has been viewed 16.5 million times and the school says its principal has been the target of abuse.

Generations of Canada’s political class have summited at the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” to shake hands and flip pancakes. This year’s festival arrives with a looming referendum on Alberta’s future within Canada and, as of Thursday night, a multibillion-dollar pipeline bid.

Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says a second pipeline to the West Coast will be money well-spent for the federal government but can't say how much Ottawa would be on the hook for.

An inmate and a corrections officer at Toronto South Detention Centre were investigated for potential involvement in the alleged conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer at the jail, which sparked Project South, according to an Information to Obtain (ITO) application for more than 50 warrants in the police investigation.

In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland, organizers of Denmark’s Fourth of July celebration have barred U.S. officials from taking part.

AI tools have been in use in some Yukon clinics for months— and they’ve become a valuable resource for healthcare providers. But others argue AI has been embraced too quickly, without fully understanding potential impacts on patients.

As the Vatican excommunicated four bishops of the ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X this week, notice was also served that the society’s priests and lay Catholics who formally adhere to it are also considered cut off from the Roman Catholic Church — a move that raises the spiritual stakes for thousands of followers worldwide.

Canada midfielder Ismaël Koné felt like he had let the country down as he lay stricken on the pitch with a broken leg, but has remained around the squad to offer his support ahead of their World ​Cup last-16 game against Morocco in Houston on Saturday.

The cost of the new Gordie Howe bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit is still $6.4 billion despite multiple delays, according to the federal authority that oversees the bridge.

In the house where police found two dead brothers — both boys believed to have been murdered by their father Mohammed Al-Lami before he died by suicide — investigators found a note left on the desk of Al-Lami's office, CBC News has learned.

A chemotherapy ingredient that's in short supply in Canada can temporarily be imported and sold from a Chinese-authorized source instead, Health Canada says.

A pair of Winter Olympians traded their skis and skates for hats and boots Friday as the Calgary Stampede parade kicked off 10 days of western-themed festivities.

Three provinces are lending a helping hand to Quebec's wildfire prevention and suppression agency in its efforts to combat fires.

The Big Apple has been sparkling a little brighter these past few days with celebrity friends and family of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce spotted in the city — presumably for the superstar couple’s expected wedding today at Madison Square Garden.

Elections Alberta has rejected musician Corb Lund's 'Water Not Coal' petition, saying it failed to meet the requirements for a citizen initiative petition.

More than 2,000 Quebec households are still without a home following the province's July 1 moving day. Housing advocates say the increase compared to last year shows that building more apartments isn't enough to solve the affordability crisis.

The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late Supreme Leader, killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike earlier this year.

Tommy Hunter, the celebrated Canadian country musician, has died. He was 89.

The U.S. envoy to Canada says 14 months of trade talk between Canada and the Trump administration has resolved few issues. But Pete Hoekstra insists the Americans will keep talking in the hopes of striking an agreement on the future of CUSMA, as well as settling other issues.