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Health officials say flu season has arrived early this year, but how worried should Canadians be?

Halle Berry is denying allegations made by her ex-husband Olivier Martinez, who has filed for sole custody and a restraining order, accusing her of physically abusing their 13-year-old son, Maceo.

Nearly eight months after the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, new FBI court filings are shedding light on how Jesse Van Rootselaar allegedly spent months stockpiling an arsenal of weapons leading up to February's deadly attack.

Author and former UBC creative writing professor Steven Galloway wept as he testified that he can no longer write since unproven allegations of sexual assault derailed his career.

Anne Carson, the 76-year-old Canadian writer and artist who won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, has always been unapologetically — and quietly — herself, friends and admirers say.

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers faced pressure over U.S.

On Thursday, CBC News asked Premier Danielle Smith to define what she considers a strong mandate and what the thresholds will be for taking action on each question.

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At Issue this week: What does the Parti Québécois's win mean for a federal government now facing separatist challenges on two fronts?

Bryce Gowryluk, 16, was lifted from Crown Mountain by helicopter Saturday after accidentally taking what's called "the Widowmaker" climbing route.

Lawyers made closing arguments on Thursday at the trial of Cody Chubey, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Danielle Dobersheck on March 10, 2024, in Melfort, Sask.

The first of more than two dozen endangered monarch butterflies tagged with radio trackers on the Prairies this summer has made it to Mexico to overwinter, a mere five weeks after fluttering off from Winnipeg.

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public."

A Toronto-area man who pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine for a drug network allegedly tied to former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding has been sentenced to 68 months — just over five and a half years — in U.S. prison.

Joachim Agou has been dropped as the B.C.

The commissioner of official languages of Canada is rebuking Air Canada's outgoing CEO for a condolence message he delivered almost entirely in English after a deadly plane crash in New York earlier this year.

Kelly Knopf is out on bail.

Dozens of people have joined a certified class action alleging they were sexually assaulted at Nordik Spa Village in Chelsea, Que., in a lawsuit that implicates dozens of massage therapists who worked there over a 19-year period.

Canadian investment manager, ethical business proponent and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky has died.

Cold Lake First Nations filed an application Thursday for judicial review in Federal Court, challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national interest.

The head of the union representing thousands of Mounties says he's worried the Liberal plan to create a new financial crime law enforcement agency will hurt the already-strained RCMP.

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S.

Jason Halkett started the fire that became last year's Ditch 2 wildfire, forcing evacuations along Highway 2.

Stelco Holdings has days to share a plan to save hundreds of Ontario steel workers from layoffs already underway — or it risks legal action from the Canadian government.

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we meet workers training for an industry that needs them for the clean energy transition; see what a Kelvin wave looks like; and find out why trees have been planted upside down at a New Brunswick botanical g…

The Alberta government has announced new development measures that will force Edmonton to change infill rules and alter how new homes are allowed to take shape in neighbourhoods in the province's largest cities.

Alex Shved took the province to court after OHIP rejected his oncologist's request to receive urgent treatment in the U.S.

British police on Thursday said that search ‌warrants they secured to search properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed, but said the investigation into King Charles's younger brother was ongoing.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe offered a short, one word response to Musk: "No."

The federal government is launching a $2-billion rebate program that it says will help homeowners in Canada lower their annual heating costs while reducing emissions when they install heat pumps in their homes.

María del Carmen Abascal, a Spanish pensioner known widely as Maricarmen, died suddenly on Wednesday, two weeks after she was evicted from her apartment.

A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on ‌civilians in the key stronghold sought by Moscow.

Lindsey Vonn has been named in the U.S.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and librettist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."

Russia's health regulator said ‌Thursday that reports that a second person had fallen ill following the death of a worker at ‌a plague research laboratory in Siberia were false.

Nana Patekar, an acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker, died Thursday at his home in the western state of Goa.

A serving member of the British Royal Navy will appear in a London court on Thursday to face charges of spying for an undisclosed foreign power.

The two top candidates in Toronto’s mayoral race are facing off in a head-to-head debate inside the CBC Broadcasting Centre.

At Sarah Beley’s mother's funeral, Alberta was more than a political identity.

A charity that runs a museum in Oshawa has received nearly $3,000 in city fines for allowing "nuisance activity" on its property.

A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming PQ government has reignited a long-simmering debate over how the province elects its leaders.