The White House released a budget on Friday, in which the Trump administration requested funds for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to cover the first-year costs of rebuilding Alcatraz into "a state-of-the-art secure prison facility."
After the author and "Brat Pack" actor's wife and son confronted him with the fact he didn't have friends anymore, McCarthy crisscrossed the country to visit old friends and ask strangers whether friendships between men are in trouble.
The federal health regulator said Friday its assessment found no evidence of a machine malfunction and the equipment performed as expected, wrote Health Canada spokesperson Mark Johnson in an emailed statement.
The Toronto Tempo selected Julie Allemand with their first pick of the WNBA expansion draft on Friday.
Although Chinese tariffs on Canadian pork products remain in place after a visit to China by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, he says the important task is relationship-building and it's not realistic to expect immediate solutions.
RCMP say six of their vehicles that were left at the Potlotek First Nation Thursday after officers left the scene on foot suffered damage that includes broken windows, flat tires, "urine-soaked interior surfaces" and dents.
From the coalfields of northern England to the Arctic snows and the steaming jungles of Brazil, diamond hunter and scholar Graham Pearson has carved a name for himself that now lives on in rock.
In some cars, a wiring issue with the seatbelt may cause the seatbelt indicator to say the belt in the third-row driver's side seat is buckled, even when it's not. Hyundai says it will notify affected drivers in writing, though drivers can also check if they are impacted by the recall online.
The new approaches could provide an important boost to conservation in Canada and reduce the burden on Ottawa to do the work alone, but experts say if it’s not done correctly, these other-conserved areas may end up existing on paper but not providing the level of protection necessary for ecosystems to thrive.
Imagine school being two hours of core academics learned daily via an app, without teachers, and double that time spent on hands-on experiences. The unconventional model from a U.S. private school is sparking chatter and may benefit some, but Canadian experts say the approach blending GenAI with pre-existing methods warrants serious consideration about student privacy, well-being and what kids are actually learning.
The Liberal government's second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians' information includes what's anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to to change how they manage their data.
Thought curling season was over? Well, think again. Because even after an electric ride through the Grand Slams, Olympic trials, Olympics, Scotties, Brier and world championships, there is one event still to come. Rock League a new professional curling outfit will make its debut Monday at Toronto’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.
Details are being shared about a recent incident involving a B.C. Ferries vessel that veered off course near rock shoals off the northern coast on March 8. On Thursday, the company summarized what happened and confirmed an investigation is underway.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Campbell says thefts occurred on five consecutive days from March 23, with victims saying they were bear-sprayed and robbed after arranging meetings on Facebook Marketplace.
The price of gas crossed the $2 per litre mark in some parts of Canada this week, something the rest of the country could see as the war in Iran drags on, experts say.
For more than a year, Pam Bondi violated the norms of independence expected from a U.S. attorney general and forced Department of Justice attorneys to do the bidding of President Donald Trump. Yet her loyalty and willingness to turn the department into a weapon of retribution for Trump weren't enough to satisfy the president.
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran.
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed most of Blake Lively's claims in her lawsuit accusing Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment in connection with the filming of their 2024 romantic drama "It Ends With Us."
A New York airport authority rejected sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas's ad copy and asked her to tone it down, so she filed a free speech lawsuit. The judge took her side, and now she has two massive ads on full display.
The Survivor tribe has spoken…. and they’re not thrilled. That’s because on Wednesday night, CBS had to interrupt the series’ extra-long merge episode to air U.S. President Donald Trump’s prime-time address on the war in Iran.
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we take a closer look at a low-tech way to remove and lock away carbon; get a view from space of what the western U.S. heat wave did to the snow; and see what China's EV transition looks like on the ground.
Representatives from some of the country's most powerful financial institutions have joined a trade mission to China to promote Canada in one of the world's largest markets.
After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' arrest on a DUI charge.
The Coalition Avenir Québec government adopted legislation on Thursday that puts limits on praying in public and extends a ban on wearing religious symbols to daycare workers.
U.S. President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post on Thursday, a White House official said, following mounting frustration with her performance, including her handling of investigative files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Alberta government is looking to make changes in all public libraries to ensure children and young teens don't have access to graphic sexual images.
On March 19, the day before Eid al-Fitr, Osama Abu Nassar took his 18-month-old son, Jawad, to a supermarket east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza when eyewitnesses say he approached a restricted area and was detained by the Israeli military.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reacted to reports that Stellantis is in talks with a Chinese automobile manufacturer about the possibility of building Chinese electric vehicles in Canada at its idled Brampton assembly plant.
Sipekne'katik First Nation has blocked one lane of Highway 102 southbound while Millbrook First Nation has blocked one lane northbound after an RCMP raid on a Potlotek First Nation cannabis shop.
Protesters have blocked access to Highway 4 in Potlotek and one lane of Highway 102 near the Sipekne'katik First Nation.
Sipekne'katik First Nation has blocked one lane of Highway 102 southbound while Millbrook First Nation has blocked one lane northbound after an RCMP raid on a Potlotek First Nation cannabis shop.
François Legault is attending his last question period at the National Assembly Thursday morning before stepping down as premier next week.
Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Thursday, in the last session of a holiday-truncated week, after U.S. President Donald Trump signalled more aggressive attacks on Iran, dampening expectations for a swift end to the Middle East conflict.
Wall Street's main indexes were set for a lower open on Thursday, in the last session of a holiday-truncated week, after President Donald Trump signaled more aggressive attacks on Iran, dampening expectations for a swift end to the Middle East conflict.
Oil prices surged on Thursday and equities markets around the world were mixed in volatile trade as traders weighed conflicting developments and remarks related to the Iran war.
Ayla Egotik-Learn, a 23-year-old Inuk mother from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, was discovered dead in January, inside her apartment northwest of Edmonton. Her baby has never been found and is presumed dead by RCMP.
With the FIFA World Cup coming to Canada and plans in place for a notable rule change, the eyes of the soccer world are sure to turn to the Canadian Premier League this season. Those at the top of the eight-team national league believe it is ready for the glare.
Hayley Scamurra scored twice and Ann-Renee Desbiens made 18 saves as the Montreal Victoire blanked the Vancouver Goldeneyes 3-0 on Wednesday night, clinching a playoff spot and extending their point streak to a league-record 12 games.
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo, N.Y., street in February five days after U.S. Border Patrol agents left him outside a Tim Hortons has been ruled a homicide.
After hitting NATO's two per cent GDP spending target in March 2026, Canada now faces a daunting climb to five per cent by 2035, according to the CD Howe Institute, one of the country’s leading economic think-tanks.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to temporarily pause federal taxes on gas and diesel for the remainder of the year.
A First Nation's injunction request, to be heard April 7, claims the independence petition drive threatens treaty rights.
A private company that’s received more than $184 million in public funds over the past eight years to care for some of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable people is now losing workers so quickly, remaining workers say it’s a major safety issue.
New Brunswick-based Irving Oil is looking for new supply options as the U.S. war on Iran threatens one of its most reliable, and long-standing, sources of crude oil.
An undersea magnitude 7.4 earthquake toppled buildings in parts of northern Indonesia, sent people fleeing from their homes, killed at least one person and generated a small tsunami Thursday.
In a highly unusual move, Justice Vikas Khaladkar unleashed a wave of criticism when the court was told there weren't enough sheriff's officers to bring Dean Penney, who is accused of murder, to court.
People in Ottawa have been receiving multiple deliveries of vegetables from Walmart that they never asked for. To add further confusion, the deliveries contain only one or two veggies. Giacomo Panico unpacks the mystery.
Radio-Canada’s Enquête program has uncovered fake maple syrup being sold on store shelves in Quebec. The lab responsible for testing maple syrup in Quebec says it’s a first. The producer in question is blaming suppliers from out of province.
At the same time that a phishing scam related to Canada's bread price-fixing settlement is going around, CBC News has learned people are being targeted by a similar scam involving dairy.
The Montreal-based security firm GardaWorld, backed by Quebec public funds, is now profiting from the expansion of U.S. immigration detention, raising questions about oversight and corporate accountability.
The Montreal-based security firm GardaWorld, backed by Quebec public financing, is now profiting from the expansion of U.S. immigration detention, raising questions about oversight and corporate accountability.
Health Canada has slapped new terms and conditions on all of a company's paid plasma centres after multiple failed inspections where the regulator found "recurring, systemic deficiencies."
The Alberta Teachers’ Association says the provincial government's suggestion that educators don't act with integrity or present issues in a balanced way is offensive.
The union representing fishery workers in Newfoundland and Labrador says there will be no snow crab processed in the province until they get a deal for a "fair" price.
The federal government's new "30 days or free" policy for issuing passports takes effect on Wednesday.
Utah officials announced on Wednesday that they were closing a five-decade-old case after finding "definitive proof" that American serial killer Ted Bundy killed a 17-year-old Utah girl.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that banning conversion therapy for minors is a violation of free speech. But a man who once underwent the practice himself says it's about protecting vulnerable young people from serious and sometimes fatal harm.
CBC Sports' daily newsletter breaks down Italy's stunning loss in World Cup qualifying and how it could help co-host Canada.
Megan Thee Stallion was rushed to the hospital after "feeling very ill" while onstage on Broadway in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. She later took to social media to explain she had been "pushing myself past my limits lately."
Hershey said Wednesday it will use classic recipes for all Reese's products starting next year, a change that comes after the grandson of Reese's founder criticized the company for shifting to cheaper ingredients.
Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" protesters. Chrissy Isaacs, a Grassy Narrows woman suffering from mercury poisoning, was in Toronto on Monday to demand compensation from the provincial government for mercury contamination in her community.
Canadian comedy icon Mary Walsh looks back at her life and career in a new memoir, which includes the many prime ministers and politicians she ambushed as Marg Delahunty, Princess Warrior.
If your dog goes crazy every time the mail delivery person shows up at your door, you may be relieved to know that it soon may no longer be a problem. But beyond that, a lot of people are uncertain what the pending demise of door-to-door mail delivery means for them.
Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old injured in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, has been moved out of intensive care and into a "recovery and rehab-focused unit" at B.C. Children's Hospital, according to her father.
Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard has filed a lawsuit against a long list of defendants including a woman who accused him of sexual assault and Manitoba's former attorney general alleging he was defamed and suffered as a result of what he describes as an abuse of process surrounding his prosecution in Winnipeg.
If it wasn’t already clear, the Toronto Tempo’s latest addition makes their Year 1 intentions plain and obvious. As Masai Ujiri, announced Tuesday as principal owner of the WNBA team, once said, the Tempo plan is to win and win in Toronto.
Supreme Court justices, with Donald Trump breaking historical precedent by attending oral arguments, tackled the legality of his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S., a contentious part of his administration's immigration approach.
Singer and dancer Maren Wade says in the trademark infringement lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Monday that the glittery branding of Swift’s 2025 album comes too close to the aesthetic of her own Confessions of a Showgirl.
An Ontario judge said she would not be able to convict Canadian businessman Frank Stronach on the charges related to one of the complainants in his sex assault trial, saying her evidence is "fatally flawed."
Even though Canada's opponent for its FIFA World Cup opener in Toronto was just determined Tuesday, many of the resale tickets left for the international match come at a steep cost.
Ever since becoming leader in 2011, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un has made his nuclear weapons program a national goal almost a doctrine arguing it is the only way for smaller powers to keep from being "mercilessly violated" by superpowers.
Stocks are climbing worldwide, and oil prices are easing Wednesday as hopes build that the war with Iran could end soon.
The two killers of Surrey, B.C., mechanic Delphin Paul Prestbakmo have had their life sentences overturned. Prestbakmo, known as Pauly, was stabbed over 40 times in the parking lot near Semiahmoo Shopping Centre in the early morning of Aug. 16, 2019.
The Supreme Court today will hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s consequential first-day executive order in 2025, a case that could upend a long-held understanding on who is considered a U.S. citizen.
We look at the latest research on AI and cognitive decline. Is artificial intelligence making us dumb?
The number of inmate-on-inmate assaults appears to be rising in the province, according to Ministry of the Solicitor General figures. The big concern in northern Ontario is violence fuelled by overcrowding and a lack of options to separate the person who was attacked from the perpetrator.
As the war in the Middle East continues, crude oil prices are hovering well above the $100 US mark a pressure that is starting to weigh on consumer-facing, fuel-guzzling businesses like airlines, shipping couriers and rideshare companies.
Canada's finance minister François-Philippe Champagne is in China to continue diversifying trading partners and strengthen the economy. This visit follows that of Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this year as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has driven more and more countries to turn toward China, the world's second-largest economy.
President Donald Trump has been pressuring U.S. oil and gas executives to invest in Venezuela’s energy sector, nearly three months after the toppling of former president Nicolás Maduro, as the country is said to have the largest crude oil reserves in the world.
The Canadian government will transfer control of Nunavut's land and resources to the territory next April. But there are many big changes to be worked out before the transfer date. Some federal jobs will be transferred to the Nunavut government, a new department responsible for land and resources will be established, and Ottawa still needs to remediate contaminated sites on federal land.
The countdown is on for NASA's Artemis II mission, which will launch as early as Wednesday evening and take four astronauts around the moon in the first lunar voyage in over 50 years. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is set to make history as the first Canadian to fly around the moon.
Armed men mounted further attacks Tuesday in Haiti's Artibonite region, a key agricultural area. The attacks came days after a gang's weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, according to human rights groups and local residents.
Richmond RCMP say officers were out in a targeted enforcement at a cherry blossom viewing site over the weekend, and at one point 50 vehicles were illegally parked, disrupting traffic and creating safety hazards.
Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S.
March 31, 2026 | Canadians honour politician, diplomat and human rights activist Stephen Lewis after his death from cancer at 88. CBC News looks inside China's electric vehicle manufacturing ecosystem and what it could mean for North America. And NASA's final preparations for the historic Artemis II launch.
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Wildlife advocates say Ottawa's authorization of the emergency use of strychnine in Alberta and Saskatchewan to target gophers is a disappointing reversal of a previous decision rejecting its use.
U.S. President Donald Trump says a U.S. takeover of one of Iran's most critical assets Kharg Island could happen “very easily,” but experts warn the reality is far more complicated. Andrew Chang breaks down why even a successful assault could lead to heavy losses and uncertain gains.
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Tensions in the Canada-U.S. relationship are playing out in border towns in both countries. Border Road, which connects Sweet Grass Hills, Mont., and Coutts, Alta., will be closed to Canadians starting in July. Wheat farmer Roger Horgus grew up on the American side. He says the move he says will create unnecessary barriers.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million US ballroom on the site where it demolished the East Wing of the White House, barring construction work from proceeding without congressional approval.
What defines an Alberta whisky like one might define a Kentucky or Tennessee bourbon? The provincial government says it has come up with some rules and it used AI to help draft them.
As the search continues for a baby girl who vanished months ago when her mother was killed, Alberta RCMP are releasing new heartbreaking details on the case. Police ask the public to share any information which could assist them in their investigation.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Liberal government should cancel the high-speed rail project planned to link Toronto and Quebec City.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Tania Warner's husband, Edward Warner, says a judge set the bond for his wife at $9,500 US.
