Why Canada avoided a severe winter COVID wave

Canada has managed to avoid a severe COVID-19 wave this winter despite a total lack of public health restrictions, a busy indoor holiday season and a rapidly mutating virus that is still very much circulating in the population.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary late Monday, approving President Donald Trump's nominee to take over the embattled department after the firing of Kristi Noem.

Police in Metro Vancouver are warning drivers to remain attentive, even in a self-driving vehicle, after ticketing a woman who "appeared to be literally asleep at the wheel" on Highway 1.

March 23, 2026 | Two pilots were killed and several passengers were injured when an Air Canada Express plane crashed into a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia airport. Trump’s optimism about war in the Middle East is reflected in the stock market, but rejected by Iran. And, posters tease Céline Dion’s rumoured return to the stage in Paris.

The class action was filed in 2015 and scheduled for trial earlier this year, but a notice released Monday said the proposed settlement could avoid a lengthy court process and probably offer larger compensation.

A civil jury in California found that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million US on Monday.

A civil jury in California found Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $19.25 million US.

Here's a brief explanation of how Major League Baseball will use technology this year to give players the opportunity to challenge calls on balls and strikes at the plate.

RCMP say three heli-skiers were killed in an avalanche on Mount Knauss just north of Terrace, B.C., in the province's northwest on Sunday. The same day, one person was killed in a separate avalanche, near the B.C.-Alaska border.

Justin Timberlake struggled to perform field sobriety tests requiring him to walk a straight line and stand on one leg after he was pulled over in New York's Hamptons in 2024 by police officers who suspected him of driving drunk, according to video footage released Friday.

B.C. RCMP say police got a satellite SOS Sunday afternoon reporting an avalanche. It happened near Pleasant Camp and the Klehini River, close to the B.C.-Alaska border.

Air traffic controllers in the U.S. are understaffed and overworked. Here are the facts about the job.

Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire early Monday in London in what British police are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime. Detectives were working to determine whether a claim of responsibility from a group with alleged links to Iran was authentic.

Quebec resident Antoine Forest was one of the pilots killed in the Sunday night crash at New York's LaGuardia airport, according to Radio-Canada sources.

Canadian Armed Forces members deployed in the Middle East are safe after a missile was intercepted on Sunday near the Israel-Lebanon border, the defence minister's office says.

The Liberal government's nominee to be the next fiscal watchdog insists she'll run an independent and non-partisan ship — even though her candidacy has created a political rift.

The Liberal government's nominee to be the next fiscal watchdog insists she'll run an independent and non-partisan ship — even though her candidacy has created a political rift.

The Liberal government's nominee to be the next fiscal watchdog insists she'll run an independent and non-partisan ship — even though her candidacy has created a political rift.

More U.S. federal immigration officers are making their way to U.S. airports after President Donald Trump said he'd deploy them to supplement the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country.

The federal government is asking the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations to repay more than $28.7 million following a forensic audit into its spending.

Can you tell this video of the LaGuardia Airport collision is fake? Grok was used to manipulate a photo of the damaged Air Canada plane, creating an AI-generated video.

A Colombian military transport plane with 121 people on board, mostly soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, killing at least 33 people and leaving at least 81 injured, according to the town's deputy mayor.

A military cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia, causing an undetermined number of casualties, the country's defence minister said.

A military transport plane with 125 people on board, most of them soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia, injuring at least 77 people, officials in the South American country said.

A recent ruling by Quebec’s housing tribunal has found the “no-pet” clause of a rental lease to be in violation of the province's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Two days after the arrest of former 19 Kids and Counting star Joseph Duggar, an arrest warrant for his wife Kendra Duggar was also issued and served.

Arborist Tyler Sirrs saw social media posts about a cat stuck for days in a tall tree in Orléans and decided to help. He described the rescue to CBC Ottawa Morning host Rebecca Zandbergen.

WNBA players unanimously approved the new collective bargaining agreement on Monday with more than 90 per cent participating in voting over the weekend.

A 34-year-old Conception Bay North man dubbed a “prolific offender” by the RCMP was arrested again on Sunday evening, less than two weeks after being granted bail.

The family of a man accused of killing his mother when he was a teen applauded and cried in a Winnipeg courtroom after a Manitoba judge ordered a stay of proceedings in the case Monday morning.