Environment Canada has issued air quality warnings for a large swath of northern Alberta as well as the Edmonton region, due to wildfire smoke.
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Environment Canada has issued air quality warnings for a large swath of northern Alberta as well as the Edmonton region, due to wildfire smoke.
The Zipper ride, which was part of a touring carnival, will be closed indefinitely as investigations continue into the death of a worker on Tuesday.
Checkup wants to know: Has AI in the classroom gone too far or not far enough? Also, how has AI changed your life?
An Edmonton radio station's late-night disc jockey is one of a few computerized DJs that have popped up across Canada and the world in recent years.
The agency announced that four separate items are being recalled due to possible contamination including products from the Montreal-based company Allo Simonne and two baklava pastries that were sold at a mall in Laval.
Canada and Scotland advanced to the Women's Rugby World Cup quarterfinals on Saturday, Scotland for the first time since 1998.
The Calgary man who killed himself during a three-hour standoff Thursday that began after he shot at police was facing trials on a number of organized crime-related offences and had recently cut off his ankle monitor, CBC News has learned.
A small town south of Quebec City is keeping a close eye on its fire hydrants after 41,000 litres of water werestolen in the middle of the night. Provincial police say they will monitor the area to prevent similar incidents.
The Nova Scotia government has confirmed 20 homes were destroyed last weekend in the Annapolis County wildfire.
A large sinkhole has closed an east end intersection in Toronto and flooded at least two basements following a water main break late Wednesday night, the city says.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew did not violate provincial conflict of interest laws when he took planes chartered by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the Grey Cup in 2023 and 2024, the province’s ethics commissioner found Wednesday.
A 39-year-old man is facing hate-related charges in connection with two recent incidents outside Hampstead town hall, in which the Israeli and Hampstead flags were set ablaze.
Paul Gray took the photo on Sunday as a wildfire burned more than 20 kilometres away.
What’s it like to be a kid living through a war? Working with CBC Kids News, freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife spoke to children living in Gaza City on Aug. 3. Gaza City is the largest city in Gaza, a Palestinian territory that has been devastated by an ongoing war between Israel and Hamas since October 2023. The children described the difficulties they’ve faced, like not being able to attend school, going hungry, losing their homes and seeing loved ones die. Some of the children have been using music to uplift their spirits and the spirits of those around them.
Pierre Poilievre is heading back to Ottawa as Opposition leader following his byelection win. Anand Ram explains the path ahead for the Conservative leader as he recalibrates his party's political lines of attack and prepares for an upcoming leadership review. Chapter timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 0:41 Poilievre vs. Carney 3:10 Poilievre vs. Trump 6:09 Poilievre, the PM?
Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.
Victoria Mboko's U.S. Open debut ended early with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic in a women's first-round singles match Monday in New York City.
The Roses — a Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman-led remake of 1989's The War of the Roses — is wonderfully depressing. It's also quite funny.
The body of a Norwegian trekker missing since Aug. 14 has been discovered, marking a tragic end to a more than week-long search and rescue effort in northern Manitoba.
Big tech companies are going all-in on AI-enabled glasses. For consumers who've grown increasingly comfortable with using AI every day, they offer a convenient new contact point right before your eyes. But it's unavoidable that some personal data and privacy will be sacrificed. Will everyone want to buy in?
Ottawa's annual Pride parade was cancelled on Sunday after it was halted by the group Queers for Palestine, which blocked the parade in front of Parliament Hill.
Many people are making a conscious choice to spend their dollars on products that will last them a lifetime. But those kinds of items are getting harder to find, and experts say companies are deliberately making products that will need to be replaced, all in the name of profit.
From The Beatles to Taylor Swift, generations of artists have electrified stadiums, drawing massive crowds into unforgettable shared experiences. But how have they evolved over the decades, and why do they remain an essential part of our social lives today?
It took David Hartwick 19 days of riding — plus one day of rest — to get from Kitchener, Ont., to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. and back. He stopped in many Canadian cities on the way.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will soon travel to Europe in a bid to deepen economic and security ties with Germany.
New court filings show a holding company owned by David Thomson, of Thomson Reuters, wants to buy the royal charter that formed the Hudson's Bay retailer for at least $15 million and donate it to the Archives of Manitoba.
Toronto police say they received a call about a shooting at Scarborough Town Centre just before 2 p.m. Thursday.
One lobster has now been documented to have travelled about 220 nautical miles from near Grand Manan to Provincetown, Mass., and one researcher says it's the farthest she's ever seen a New Brunswick lobster travel.
An American man who recently paddled to Canada on a kayak says he has claimed asylum with hopes of finding peace north of the border.
UPEI's Climate Smart Lab in St. Peter's Bay has unveiled what it's calling a first-of-its-kind flooding simulator, showing how waves hit and interact with different types of shoreline. As CBC's Cody MacKay explains, researchers hope to find answers on how to better protect the Island's vulnerable coastal land.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May told supporters Tuesday that she won’t be leading the party into the next election.
Want to spot up to six planets at once in the night sky? Look up before dawn for the second and last "planet parade" of the year.
What the skibidi is happening to the English language? "Skibidi," pronounced SKI-bi-di, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.
First Nations and municipalities in northeastern Ontario are calling for the province to ban the forestry industry's use of herbicides containing glyphosate. One Serpent River First Nation member says she's "mindful" of where she gathers berries and traditional medicines due to use of the chemical.
Most Metro Vancouver residents with a wood-burning fireplace or wood stove will have to register their appliances by Sept. 15 as part of regional bylaws — or risk facing a fine.
Winnipeg Humane Society staff say they’re disappointed that the organization was asked to leave the Hanover Ag Fair in Grunthal, Man., on Saturday, after setting up an animal welfare display that featured a papier mâché pig and a human-sized cage at the event on Saturday.
After months of stalled negotiations, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday morning. The federal government stepped in hours later to order binding arbitration, forcing an end to the strike — or so they thought.
Terence Stamp, the British actor who often portrayed complex villains, including General Zod in the early Superman films, has died. He was 87.
While the compact hurricane's centre isn't expected to strike land, it threatens to dump flooding rains on the northeast Caribbean as it continues to grow larger.
Don Watkins, the owner of Sliceberg Pizza, tells The National about the moment his restaurant made hundreds of meals to feed volunteer firefighters in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Worldwide plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, but there are no immediate plans to resume efforts to create a legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution.
The shíshálh Nation says ground-penetrating radar has identified 41 additional potential unmarked gravesites at the former St. Augustine's Residential School on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, bringing the total number of potential sites there to 81.
The NFL can be put on trial over civil claims that Brian Flores and other Black coaches face discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting the league's attempt to force Flores into arbitration with commissioner Roger Goodell as the arbitrator.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's office says work is "well underway" to find a local constituency office in his suburban Ottawa riding that meets his security requirements.
Scouts Canada says it has eliminated nearly one-third of its paid staff positions, as the organization attempts to balance its books in the face of an ongoing deficit of about $5 million.
A 'magnificent and luminous spiral' streaking across the sky over Quebec on Tuesday night was thought by many to be an unidentified flying object. Turns out it was part of a spacecraft — just not an alien spacecraft.