This week, Lewis made the rounds on Parliament Hill for the first time since becoming NDP leader. CBC's The House gave him a tour of West Block the home of the House of Commons as he detailed what his political "experiment" will look like.
Pope Leo XIV says he won't debate U.S. President Donald Trump and will continue to preach peace.
Flaring gas towering high over Kitimat is a regular sight as the LNG Canada export terminal considered a nation-building project comes online, but some residents are concerned about possible health impacts.
As a gas tax break comes down the pipe from Ottawa, the summer blend of gas means prices could still move in the wrong direction for already-stretched motorists.
Electric ferries around the world are getting bigger and travelling longer distances than ever. They're also quietly arriving at quays across Canada. Here's where they're at across the country.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has served as wake-up call that a significant source of the world's oil supply remains dependent on the accessibility of this narrow passageway. But, analysts say, it may now force some serious consideration of oil export alternatives.
John Meissner has loved butter tarts since he was a little boy living at a farm in Guelph, Ont. But it wasn't until he had an offensively bad butter tart while judging at a festival in February that he decided he needed to do something to conserve the original recipe of the dessert.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has served as wake-up call that a significant source of the world's oil supply remains dependent on the accessibility of this narrow passageway. But, analysts say, it may now force some serious consideration of oil export alternatives.
Media reports published this week suggested Canada had blocked members of the Palestinian Football Association from entering the country ahead of the FIFA Congress in Vancouver later this month. However, it appears that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has yet to issue final visa decisions.
Companies are selling peptides on the grey market, despite warnings from Health Canada.
Organizers say the new union will unite tenants across Toronto to strengthen collective action on rent, housing conditions, and affordability, while landlords and housing providers also weigh in on the tensions in the rental market.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service employees who came forward as part of an external study investigating mental health at the spy agency described a sometimes isolating and bleak environment "laden with stigma."
The NBA's first round of playoffs begin Saturday, and for the first time in four years, the Toronto Raptors will be in the fight. And while the pundits may not be calling for Toronto to come out on top, don't try telling star Scottie Barnes the Raptors are the underdogs.
The family of a Quebec teen who died after mixing energy drinks and medication is joined by school groups in calling for a ban on energy drink sales to youth under 16, citing health risks and growing support for tighter rules.
Crown prosecutors are withdrawing all 14 murder charges laid against an Ontario man accused of selling a toxic substance to people at risk of self-harm, according to his lawyer. In turn, Kenneth Law will plead guilty to counselling or aiding suicide, Matthew Gourlay told CBC News on Friday evening.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday criticized the current iteration of North America's free trade agreement as a bad deal, taking a swipe at Canada's trade strategy ahead of upcoming negotiations.
Hundreds of people outside a courtroom expressed shock and dismay Friday after an Ontario judge dismissed dangerous driving causing death charges against a driver who killed three members of a family in a Markham, Ont., crash.
The Prince George Cougars failed to provide adequate security during a chaotic game against the Penticton Vees, Western Hockey League officials say.
A baby and toddler are dead after they were unable to be rescued from a burning house in Brazeau County, police said.
A baby is dead and a toddler is still missing after they were unable to be rescued from a house that caught fire in Brazeau County, police said.
CBC Sports' daily newsletter gets you ready for all eight matchups in the opening round of the NHL playoffs, featuring three Canadian teams.
Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular online, was recently hospitalized after a suspected overdose. The 20-year-old influencer’s content, based around ‘looksmaxxing’ tips, has garnered attention for how extreme and dangerous it can be.
On Nov. 30, 2023, Dean Penney told a fictitious crime boss of his involvement in the death of his estranged wife, Jennifer Hillier-Penney, exactly seven years prior and the steps he took to hide her body.
The ice cream flavoured with cajun seasoning, butter and garlic and topped with an entire crawfish sounds like a novelty treat. But in the seven years this Texas shop has been serving it up, it's become a staple.
Caylan Ford is hoping a Calgary courtroom will deliver her justice seven years after her private Facebook messages were leaked to media outlets, a move she says branded her a white supremacist and devastated her life.
This video has been posted online with false claims that it shows the U.S. naval blockade of Iran. In fact, it's an old video posted as early as May 2022.
Safety issue impacts some vehicles with six-speed automatic transmissions made between 2015 and 2017. The issue can cause unexpected downshifting while the vehicle is moving.
A new book from Jacob Tierney promises an inside look at how Heated Rivalry became a global television phenomenon packed with scripts, insights and behind-the-scenes moments.
Senior executives from Lockheed Martin will be in Quebec on Tuesday to confirm that they plan to service Canada's F-35 aircraft at the L3Harris facilities in Mirabel that are currently used to maintain the CF-18 fleet.
The historical fiction novel won in a 4-1 vote on the final day of the great Canadian book debate.
Sexual assault charges against a self-styled spiritual leader and his wife in the Edmonton area have been stayed.
Calls are growing for Keir Starmer to resign after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson, who was a close friend to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, failed a security vetting process but was appointed as the U.K's ambassador to the U. S. anyway.
Alberta has mandated a goal to restore the Montana-Alberta intertie to full capacity, whenever reasonable, potentially providing some relief to a trade irritant cited by U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade representative last year.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.
The Liberal government's groceries benefit and GST top-up announced in January will begin landing in Canadians' bank accounts in June.
Air Canada has temporarily suspended flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as the war in Iran drives up fuel costs.
When Dublin scientist Emma Murphy got word that a dead Greenland shark had washed up on the shores of northwestern Ireland, she was gobsmacked. Not only are the massive and ancient ocean dwellers notoriously elusive, but they usually make their homes in the remote depths of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.
SandP 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq all climbed in morning trading, as stocks run toward the finish of a third straight week of big gains. Brent crude oil, the international standard, dropped to about $86 US a barrel still higher than the $70 before the Iran war, but lower than it has been in recent weeks.
Forge FC midfielder Kyle Bekker gathered recently with teammates to inform them about his recent absence from the Canadian Premier League club. "I had surgery four weeks ago [this past] Monday to remove a tumour after being diagnosed with testicular cancer," Bekker revealed Thursday to CBC Sports.
The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
One person has been arrested for impaired driving after a supercar crashed and was stuck propped up against a wall outside Casa Loma.
A B.C. developer who has already risked jail time for failing to come clean about the finances behind her lavish lifestyle now faces a possible bankruptcy order over a $74-million loan she guaranteed in relation to prime property in the heart of Vancouver's Cambie Corridor.
Veteran operative Stephen Carter wants to change the small party into a big referendum advertiser. He may change its name, too.
Police say something "went wrong" when a youth managed to get a gun into a cell at the Thompson RCMP detachment after a search failed to find it on him. The incident happened in 2024. Cleaning staff found the gun behind a toilet two days later, and ammunition was later found in the toilet bowl.
Captain Antoine Forest, who died in a plane crash at New York's LaGuardia airport last month, is being remembered Friday in his hometown of Coteau-du-Lac, Que.
Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use as the document turns 44.
Several workers for a Canadian-owned Mexican gold mine received no response after making complaints to the company’s workplace ethics hotline saying that local management was working with a prominent organized crime group to force out the existing union, according to two former local union members.
In Montreal, a young woman in a Spin magazine T-shirt stares furiously at the blank page on her 2011 MacBook. It's a moment from the new movie Mile End Kicks that could have been ripped from director Chandler Levack's own life, when the former critic traded Toronto for Montreal's exploding music scene. Mile End Kicks is one of two movies from Levack opening on Friday.
Captain Antoine Forest, who died in a plane crash at New York's LaGuardia airport last month, will be remembered later today in his hometown of Coteau-du-Lac, Que.
A long-standing Toronto business has made the difficult decision to close its doors. The Patrician Grill, located on King Street East, was built in the 1950s and has been a family-owned restaurant since 1967. The cozy diner has been serving authentic homemade food to the business crowd, George Brown students and local residents for decades.
An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and they started to turn on each other.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a needlessly mean-spirited horror flick that's barely about mummies, may have you asking a million questions. And before you even get to the plot-related ones, the most obvious is: what's with that title?
Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city's plan to build one much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.
Kristina Whitlock tells The National about the moment she and her neighbours banded together to rescue an abandoned black bear cub in Maple Ridge, B.C.
U.S. singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla that was registered to him and towed from the Hollywood Hills, police said Thursday.
"No mayor should treat staff in this manner and the mayor owes these staff an unqualified apology," said external investigator Reece Harding in the report about Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, dated February 2026.
Growing its fan base in New York and adding more teams are key parts of the league's drive to get a coveted national U.S. broadcast rights deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump railed against a federal judge's decision on Thursday that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400-million US White House ballroom, allowing only below-ground work on a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.
The video played in Corner Brook Supreme Court, a four-plus hour long conversation, was started on Thursday afternoon.
It was the fans versus the referees in a tense and at times chaotic Western Hockey League playoff game in Prince George Wednesday night.
It was the fans versus the referees in a tense and at times chaotic Western Hockey League playoff game in Prince George, B.C., Wednesday night.
Netflix chair Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming service he co-founded 29 years ago as the company regains its footing after it lost its $72-billion US deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Montreal Metro announcements are getting a bleu-blanc-rouge twist during the Montreal Canadiens’ playoff run.
The filmmakers behind As Deep as the Grave, the indie film that is using an artificial intelligence-rendered version of Val Kilmer in a prominent role, debuted a first look at the recreated actor Wednesday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
The former CEO of Alberta Health Services is asking a judge for legal protection and a contempt finding against two podcasters she alleges have run a campaign of harassment and intimidation against her in response to her ongoing legal action.
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at how AI could help protect important ecosystems; get an update on offshore wind in the U.S.; and find out why Parks Canada is connecting with social media influencers.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have kicked receiver Ajou Ajou off the team after the CFL concluded he made 'aggressive and unwelcome physical contact' with multiple women at a Regina restaurant on the day of the Riders' Grey Cup parade last November.
An activist based in Surrey, B.C., who was a friend and associate of the assassinated pro-Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar, says he has been warned by police that he could be in serious danger.
An activist based in Surrey, B.C., who was a friend and associate of the assassinated pro-Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar, says he has been warned by police that he could be in serious danger.
Virginia police said Thursday that Justin Fairfax, the state's former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife Cerina and then fatally shot himself.
Virginia police said Thursday that Justin Fairfax, the state's former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife Cerina and then fatally shot himself.
Montreal’s largest school board has lost more than 100 support staff because they refused to remove religious symbols to comply with the province’s new secularism law.
An Israeli strike destroyed the last bridge over the Litani River into Lebanon's south, according to a senior Lebanese security source, fully severing almost a tenth of Lebanon from the rest of the country, after Israel destroyed other crossings during the war.
The New York Islanders are facing questions about a promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its housing market forecast following a jump in fixed mortgage rates and weaker than expected housing sales in the first three months of 2026. CREA had been forecasting higher sales, based on the idea that pent-up demand would emerge, especially from first-time buyers.
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.
While war in the Middle East stretches past the six-week mark and fuel prices have more than doubled, costs are starting to be passed onto consumers. One industry seeing the swift impacts of this is about to hit peak season: air travel.
A veteran military police officer is suing Ottawa and SIG Sauer after a holstered C-22 allegedly discharged without a trigger pull, ending his career. The case undercuts defence claims of a clean rollout and reopens scrutiny of a pistol platform tied to hundreds of disputed U.S. incidents and prior warnings.
U.S. court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns. A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec.
After flying 406,771 kilometres around the moon the farthest any humans have ever been Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch are ready to share more of their experiences with the public. CBC will have live coverage of today's news conference as they take questions from the media at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. ET.
An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week. In a statement, Imperial Oil apologized for the spill, which has been stopped and contained.
April 15, 2026 | Iran threatens to expand its shipping blockade from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea. A jury finds Ticketmaster and Live Nation held an illegal monopoly on ticket sales. And the growing concern over ultrafine particle pollutants.
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The autonomous taxi operator Waymo appears to be taking steps to break into the Canadian market, eyeing Toronto as a new testing ground for its self-driving fleet. But it may face technological, political and environmental roadblocks including the harsh reality of Canadian winters as it seeks to expand north.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she spoke with her Lebanese counterpart on Tuesday to express condolences on the killing of a Canadian citizen in the country last week, but declined to sanction Israel, which his family blames for the death.
