Canadian News

2025-01-17

Metrolinx explored naming deal for GO station with online gambling company: sources

Metrolinx pursued a potential commercial naming rights arrangement last year, involving an online casino brand and a downtown Toronto GO station, but the proposal was subsequently quashed, CBC News has learned.

2025-01-17

Drug trafficker tied to minor's overdose death used drones to bring contraband into prison

Despite being caught leading a drone smuggling network while in prison, a convicted drug trafficker wasn't charged. He was released and later re-arrested, this time for his involvement in a drug selling platform that sold opioids to a minor who died of an overdose.

2025-01-17

She was searching online for a recipe. She found a video of herself engaged in a sexual act

Emboldened by her partner's conviction and motivated by a recent rash of killings police say are a result of intimate partner violence in Nova Scotia, a woman whose intimate images were shared online without her consent asked a court to lift a publication ban protecting her identity so she could raise awareness.

2025-01-17

Canada has a doctor shortage, while thousands of foreign-trained physicians living here still face barriers

Millions of Canadians do not have access to a family doctor. Thousands of internationally trained physicians living in Canada could help bring that number down but are currently unable to work as doctors because of several hurdles.

2025-01-12

Despite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow?

2025-01-12

Uncertainty and anxiety for some Northerners, as Trump returns to power

2025-01-11

Canada gets revenge on Czechs, to battle U.S. for gold supremacy at women's U18 hockey worlds

The Canadian women advance to Sunday's gold-medal game while getting revenge on the Czech Republic following a 4-2 win on Saturday in the semifinals at the women's U18 hockey world championship in Finland.

2025-01-11

Canada's acceptance of refugee claims has ballooned — more for some countries than others

2025-01-10

Autism Speaks is leaving Canada. Is that a good thing?

Some Canadians are celebrating a major autism organization's decision to pull out of the country, highlighting a shift in the way people think about autism. But others say the group's positive contributions shouldn't be dismissed so quickly.

2025-01-10

Norovirus cases are on the rise. Here's what you need to know about this nasty bug

A stomach illness outbreak at the University of Guelph is part of a trend that has experts noticing a rise in stomach bugs causing vomiting and diarrhea. 

2025-01-09

Trial of Kenneth Law postponed to 2026

The trial of Kenneth Law has been pushed to January 2026 to allow time for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that has a "direct bearing on this prosecution," according to court documents.

2025-01-08

Montrealer in L.A. films Palisades wildfire from rooftop before fleeing apartment

Evara David says when she returned to her Santa Monica, Calif., home after work on Jan. 7, the area was covered in smoke. Although there was no evacuation order for her neighbourhood at that point, she had reason to flee.