Feb. 26, 2026 | Prime Minister Mark Carney’s India trade trip sparks outrage in the Sikh community. Pierre Poilievre lays out his vision for Canada-U.S. relations. And the fallout grows from Trump’s comments after the gold medal hockey win.
As workers filed out of Diageo's Amherstburg, Ont., Crown Royal bottling facility for the last time on Wednesday, some expressed anger not just at the company that put them out of work, but at the provincial government for not following through on a promise to pull Crown Royal off shelves if the plant closed.
The International Paralympic Committee's general assembly voted last September to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete under their own flags with their anthems at the upcoming Paralympics in Italy. The Canadian Paralympic Committee spoke out against and voted against that decision.
Netflix on Thursday signaled it was backing away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio assets, saying the deal was no longer financially attractive after Paramount Skydance revised its offer for the coveted Hollywood studio to a $31-a-share offer.
The parliamentary budget officer predicts Canada's rate of population growth will remain flat in 2026, mainly due to cuts to non-permanent resident admissions in the latest federal Immigration Levels Plan.
If you're a fan of masquerade balls, lavish homes, promenades, yearning and watching beautiful people reach their pinnacles, then you're likely already aware that Netflix dropped Part 2 of the fourth season of its smash hit Bridgerton today. Stars Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha explain to CBC what makes this season a standout.
Sixty-one PWHL players competed at Milano Cortina 2026, the first Winter Olympics since the league launched in 2024. For the first time, there's one place for all of those people to keep following women's hockey after the Olympics, a problem that's plagued the sport for years.
Dozens of Montreal school staff have either been fired, suspended or decided to resign following Quebec’s new law expanding the ban on religious symbols in schools. According to the Montreal Association of School Principals, hundreds of other school employees stand to lose their jobs.
Brantford, Ont., police have charged a 39-year-old woman with indignity to a body and concealing the body of a child, over two decades after a deceased newborn was found.
Canada's new foreign influence watchdog says his mandate will include attempts by foreign agents to interfere at the provincial and municipal level across Canada, including any attempt on behalf of a foreign government to influence a referendum on Alberta separation.
The stated concerns about the Interim Federal Health Program and the political rhetoric harken back to the last time changes were made to the program an episode that ended in a rebuke from the Federal Court.
Long ago, Neanderthals and humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their human blood came mostly from their female ancestors, and a new genetic study finds this was likely due to their mating preferences.
Nova Scotia-based actor Mike Smith of Trailer Park Boys has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says there's still a lot of work to do on the India security file a day after a senior government official said Ottawa no longer believes the country is linked to foreign interference and transnational repression.
Montreal’s transit agency says the “Go Habs Go!” slogan will return to some city buses next month after the provincial language watchdog authorized the use of the English expression.
Dave Hamilton, 43, has worked as an officer for 19 years and lives in Burlington, Ont. On Wednesday, he was charged by Halton police with one count of possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, and one count of transmitting such material.
The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach abruptly ended the cross-examination of the sixth complainant on Thursday following concerns about her mental health.
The sixth complainant in the sexual assault trial of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach is being cross-examined in a Toronto courtroom.
The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of Canadian businessman Frank Stonach expressed concern that the sixth complainant’s inability to focus on questions was turning the cross-examination into “a spectacle.”
The social media platform owned by Meta will now alert parents who are signed up to its optional supervision setting if their teenager repeatedly searches for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period. The alerts will begin next week for those signed up in Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia.
A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities have said.
The recall applies to many popular models like certain years of the F-150, a number of Super Duty trucks, Mavericks and more. Ford says it will issue an over-the-air software update for all affected models by May, and consumers can also use mobile service or visit a Ford dealer for the update.
Singer D4vd is the target of a Los Angeles County grand jury investigation of the killing of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla registered to him that was towed from the Hollywood Hills, court documents showed.
A Lindsay, Ont., apartment tenant charged with assault last summer following a fight with an intruder in his home will no longer face prosecution over the incident. A Crown attorney said there is no longer a reasonable prospect that Jeremy David “J.D.” McDonald may be convicted.
Métis leaders on Wednesday unveiled a model dog sled repatriated to their communities after more than a century in the Vatican collection.
Some members of Congress on Friday will hear from Bill Clinton about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They won't hear directly from Donald Trump anytime soon, or from Kenneth Starr ever, about their Epstein ties.
Tumbler Ridge, B.C., parents are navigating the difficult question of how to return to school this week, with temporary classrooms open today to staff and students.
Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take
on the moon's mysterious magnetic field, scientists say.
After weeks of hearing warnings about a grim balance sheet, Albertans will be presented with the United Conservative government's proposed 2026-27 provincial budget on Thursday afternoon.
Indigenous health-care providers in northwest B.C. say they are unable to book patients' medical appointments in Vancouver during the FIFA World Cup events this summer because of the high cost of hotel rooms and travel.
Iran and the United States were holding another round of indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday to try to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the U.S. gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle East.
Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Middle East war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the region.
A convoy believed to be carrying Iranian diplomats has returned to an Omani diplomatic residence in Geneva hosting indirect talks with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program.
Iran and the United States began indirect talks Thursday in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear negotiations, viewed as a last chance for diplomacy as the U.S. has gathered a fleet of aircraft and warships to the Middle East to pressure Tehran into a deal.
A judge will give her decision next month on the sentence for a teen who set her classmate on fire at Evan Hardy Collegiate in 2024. The lawyers have recommended the maximum youth sentence of three years from the date of sentencing.
The N.W.T.’s school sports association and Yellowknife school officials say there will be increased security at this weekend's Sr. Cager basketball tournament in Yellowknife, citing some recent "potential safety concerns" at city schools.
The ripple effects from when a teen lit her classmate on fire in a high school hallway in 2024 are being shared in a Saskatoon courtroom. The attacker is in court for her sentencing hearing after she previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder.
A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, authorities said Wednesday.
After a more than eight-hour wait at one emergency department in St. John's, and a wild ride across the city to a second one, Paul Reid saw his heart monitor go berserk before he lost consciousness. It happened almost three years ago, but Reid is speaking out about it now because he fears systemic problems in the health-care system haven't been fixed.
For Mohawks in Akwesasne, crossing international borders is a way of life. But now, many are worried about what the possibility ICE agents might be coming to the region could mean for their inherent rights.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to India Thursday for what officials from both countries describe as a potentially history-making trip where years of frosty bilateral relations will be put aside and the framework for a comprehensive trade deal could be hammered out.
The new look at Canada’s conservation economy comes amid federal cuts to departments like Environment, Climate Change and Nature and the Parks Canada agency, while other important conservation programs face funding uncertainty.
The federal government is pledging $1.55 billion in new funding to ensure First Nations children have equal access to public services over the next year, CBC News has learned.
The family of a 37-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in Ottawa's Carlington neighbourhood earlier this month says the victim, Andrew Dawson-Swan, had moved into his apartment building just weeks before his death and seemed to be afraid of someone there.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has provided CBC News with new details about the $10,000 fine it issued to a Loblaw-owned Superstore last month for promoting imported food as Canadian. The federal food regulator said the mislabelled product was a Loblaw-owned brand: President's Choice broccoli slaw.
For Mohawks in Akwesasne, crossing international borders is a way of life. But now, many are worried about what the possibility ICE agents might be coming to the region could mean for their inherent rights.
The province is revamping how the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) works, slashing the amount that eligible students can get in the form of grants. Here's what you need to know.
Growing up Black in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Queen Alexis rarely saw herself reflected on stage or in arts education spaces she loved. On the 30th anniversary of Black History Month, she reflects on how the performing arts are often still financially out of reach for Black families.
The family of a 37-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in Ottawa's Carlington neighbourhood earlier this month says the victim, Andrew Dawson-Swan, had moved into his apartment building just weeks before his death and seemed to be afraid of someone there.
The Toronto Blue Jays and Max Scherzer have reached an agreement on a one-year deal worth $3 million US, according to multiple reports.
Stephanie Brown tells The National about the moment she fostered a rare 4-eared cat named Dobby.
Canada's airline regulator says the air carriers ferrying Canadians abroad have a responsibility to get delayed or stranded passengers back on track "as soon as possible," including when unpredictable circumstances unfold, such as the violence in Mexico that recently disrupted flight service to the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta.
Feb. 25, 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump's trade envoy tells Canada to just accept higher tariffs as the price of making deals, including CUSMA. Canadian teachers raise the alarm over surging school violence. And, Mexico's military patrols Puerto Vallarta as tourists slowly trickle back.
U.S. women's hockey captain Hilary Knight says president Donald Trump's remarks about her team were 'distasteful and unfortunate,' and shouldn't minimize what her team accomplished at the Olympics.
When a pair of Canadians got stranded on the ice on Lake St. Clair on Tuesday, an American team with a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter ended up coming to their rescue.
Canada and South Korea have signed a new defence agreement, roughly a month after Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to band together in the face of "great power" economic coercion.
In Donald Trump's 2026 state of the union address which broke the record for the longest such speech he spoke about everything from lauding the men's Olympic hockey team to repeatedly chastizing Democrats for not standing up to applaud his comments. Andrew Chang breaks down the choreography of the address to explain the strategy behind the words.
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Stanley Oskineegish says all of the infrastructure in his community has completely frozen. The chief of Nibinamik First Nation in northwestern Ontario has been busy co-ordinating Canadian Rangers and emergency supplies to support his people, since power outages have left homes and community buildings without heat. Here's the latest on the situation in the remote Oji-Cree community in northwestern Ontario.
Humpback whales are more likely to get entangled in fishing gear in years when rising ocean temperatures make cold-water habitat harder to find, according to new research published Wednesday.
Harvey Weinstein has hired Luigi Mangione and Sean "Diddy" Combs's lawyers to represent him at his third New
York rape trial, reshaping his legal team after declining to end the matter with a guilty plea. The lawyers, Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, take over for Weinstein's longtime lawyer, Arthur Aidala, who ceded his courtroom role to focus on the ex-studio boss' appeals and pending civil matters.
There were hugs, tears and frustration outside the Diageo Crown Royal facility in Amherstburg, Ont., as workers left the bottling plant for the last time Wednesday. Their final goodbye comes a few months after the England-based spirits giant announced it would close the plant, which opened in 1971 and is said to be the town's biggest employer.
Veteran Paralympians Greg Westlake, Adam Dixon, Mark Arendz and Ina Forrest will lead Canada's team at the Milano-Cortina Games.
Winnipeg police arrested two teens and a 30-year-old woman in connection with three of the nearly a dozen threats made to city schools over a two-week span this month.
Astronaut Mike Fincke has identified himself as the one who suffered a medical issue aboard the International Space Station last month, prompting NASA's first-ever medical evacuation.
An Innu community on Quebec’s Lower North Shore is shaken by an intervention by wildlife officers who circled and attempted to enter a cabin in Ekuanitshit Monday evening, injuring an elderly woman in the process.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says a baby formula sold online and at Costco is being recalled due to concerns of a toxin that can cause food poisoning.
Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are among the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a wide net that includes rap, metal, RandB, hip-hop, Britpop, blues rock and pop.
A video purporting to show Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, out for a stroll in Quebec City has gained millions of views since it was posted last week. It’s fake.
The Pittsburgh Penguins placed Sidney Crosby on injured reserve Wednesday after the Canadian captain missed Sunday's Olympic gold-medal game with a lower-body injury. The veteran centre will be out at least four weeks, the NHL team said.
Global Affairs Canada has announced $8 million in funding for Cuba as the country grapples with U.S. President Donald Trump's oil blockade.
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Frank Stronach back in 1986 said she became a social recluse after the alleged attack made her mistrust men for the rest of her life.
The sixth complainant is testifying in the sexual assault trial of Canadian businessmen Frank Stronach at a Toronto courtroom.
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Frank Stronach in 1986 told a Toronto court on Wednesday that she threatened to break the windows of his Toronto Harbourfront condo and jump into Lake Ontario before the alleged attack.
Physician David Edward-Ooi Poon, who made international headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic with his campaign to reunite cross-border families and couples, has been accused of a slew of crimes spanning the last 12 years and is suspended from his medical practices in Ontario and Saskatchewan
There's more to nitpick about Resident Evil Requiem than some might have hoped, but the truth is it does so much so well that none of them stop it from being a must-play entrant in the series.
One person was killed and four others injured when a vehicle crashed into a drop-in centre at the corner of Rideau and Cobourg streets in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning.
The owner of two dogs that were shot dead during a hunting incident in Central Elgin last year says a hefty fine and suspended licence is not enough to deter hunters from crossing into private property.
Leaders of the Willow Lake Métis Nation located south of Fort McMurray, Alta., say the return of a wood bison herd to their traditional territory is a victory for food sustainability.
Bill Gates "took responsibility for his actions" over ties to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a town hall meeting with employees of the Gates Foundation, a spokesperson for the philanthropic group told Reuters in a written statement.
The Australian government has told dependants of Australian diplomats in Israel and Lebanon to leave the two Middle East countries, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, amid rising fears of military conflict between the United States and Iran.
At least 30 people died after heavy rains hit Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, local authorities said Tuesday, while 39 people were missing.
Former UCP Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney on the shifting immigration consensus in Canada.
AI Minister Evan Solomon says OpenAI’s decision not to report the Tumbler Ridge shooter to police before the killings was a “failure”. Will he regulate the company to prevent the next tragedy?
Desiree Ates, whose mother is Indigenous and whose father is Black, is the first Black female police officer at the Regina Police Service. Now, she hopes to bring her background and experiences to build relationships in her community.
While many people across the Yukon struggle to find affordable housing, the mayor of Faro says people should consider moving to his town.
A London high school student started an organization last year to provide hospitalized children with support and a creative outlet. Now, she’s working to grow it into something bigger.
Ontario is considering changes to legislation that could allow special constables to arrest people using drugs on public transit a move constables say needs to come with an increased ability to use force and advocates say risks further victimizing the most vulnerable.
Immigration organizations are expressing concerns about Immigration Minister Lena Diab's availability, and nine Liberal MPs are questioning her place at the cabinet table.
In what feels to some like a sea change in acceptable behaviour, celebrities and those close to them have been calling for everyday fans to contribute to grassroots fundraising efforts. Not everyone thinks that's OK.
Ontario is considering changes to legislation that could allow special constables to arrest people using drugs on public transit a move constables say needs to come with an increased ability to use force and advocates say risks further victimizing the most vulnerable.
Ontario is considering changes to legislation that could allow special constables to arrest people using drugs on public transit a move constables say needs to come with an increased ability to use force and advocates say risks further victimizing the most vulnerable.
Jordan Morrison says his 20s were 'ruined' by Phoenix pay errors that he's still fighting today. An economist warns the federal government will continue losing talented young workers to the private sectors if these errors continue.
The Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team visited U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and later received about a two-minute bipartisan standing ovation during his state of the union address.
The Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and later received about a two-minute bipartisan standing ovation during his State of the Union address.
Canadian cricket player Yuvraj Samra, 19, tells The National about the moment he became the youngest player to score more than 100 runs in a cricket innings at the T20 World Cup in India.
