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Hunts Point locals say many rely on the wharfs to work from and it's a big draw for tourists when they visit. But with the federal government's upcoming closure of the infrastructure, the village and the fishers are unsure of the future of their community.
The incoming mayor of Clarington, Ont., will take office alongside a councillor who has been criminally charged with uttering threats against him, raising questions about how council will navigate the matter.
Canada wants to split its planned purchase of 12 German submarines, committing to eight up front while leaving the remaining four for a future decision. Sources tell CBC News the proposal is intended to preserve financial flexibility but could jeopardize some of the $86 billion in economic benefits promised by Germany.
NDP threatens a legal challenge over Danielle Smith's redistricting do-over, which mixed rural areas with Calgary and Lethbridge ridings.
The Regional District of East Kootenay, which includes B.C. communities like Cranbrook and Kimberley, now observes the same time as Fort Walton Beach and Crestview in Florida.
Hockey fans in Winnipeg say they're fed up with having to pay for additional subscriptions to watch their favourite teams play.
B.C.'s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into whether the provincial Crime Stoppers society took adequate steps to protect personal information following a massive data breach that exposed more than 1.5 million anonymous crime tips across Canada.
The case stemmed from a March 2025 protection order issued under British Columbia's Intimate Images Protection Act that X delete the intimate image shared on its platform.
A retired military lieutenant-colonel is on trial for sexual assault in Winnipeg, after a reservist accused her of groping and threatening him at a work function over three years ago.
A formal petition signed by members of the P.E.I. Progressive Conservative Party is calling for a vote on Premier Rob Lantz's leadership.
As Canada looks ahead at six December byelections and the United States rolls through midterms, Elections Canada is sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence is challenging how voters can get accurate information during elections.
More than three years after Canada's auditor general issued an "urgent call to action" to improve Nunavut's troubled child and family services, another follow-up report says little has been done to fix things, and the urgency remains.
Police officers killed three dogs involved in a "horrific incident" on Monday that left a young woman with life-threatening injuries in the northern community of Pelican Narrows, more than 400 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.
Universities will be compelled to stay neutral and allow freedom of expression if the Alberta legislature passes a new bill introduced by the United Conservative government on Tuesday.
In an internal union memo, Yves Francoeur, the president of the Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal — also known as the Montreal police brotherhood — said the manner in which the Montreal police force dismissed the officers raises "fundamental questions of law."
CBC News received information from the courts that was inaccurate.
Tyler King, the former junior hockey executive now facing sexual abuse charges relating to three under-age players in southern Alberta, has two sets of domestic violence-related offences currently before the courts, CBC News has learned.
Family members have identified the two victims of a suspected fatal grizzly bear attack near Bella Coola, B.C., as Jennifer Balcarras, 48, and her daughter Selah Reed, 20.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday her government will assemble a legal team to make the argument that new electoral boundaries proposed by an advisory panel achieve effective representation, should the Opposition NDP advance a legal challenge.
Tonya Azevedo says she lost $155,000 and her family of four can no longer live in their home of 20 years after a contractor who told them he was licensed did work that turned out to be unsafe. “I’m absolutely heartbroken,” says Azevedo, who had remortgaged her home to pay for the renos.
N.L. Stanley Cup winner Danny Cleary is disappointed to see the Town of Harbour Grace is seeking bids for the naming rights for its community centre after a 10-year agreement he had is set to expire. Mayor Terry Barnes says the town legally has to go that route but the name could still stay, in some form.
Just over five months after the remains of a newborn baby were found in a wooded area near Halifax, neither the Crown nor police can say whether a cause of death has been determined.
The earthquake — measured at a 3.4 magnitude — struck at 7:04 a.m. CST. Its epicentre was about nine kilometres east-northeast of Esterhazy, according to the NRC's Earthquake Canada website.
The firings are a result of an internal disciplinary investigation and were carried out on an administrative level — but the criminal investigations, which are separate, are ongoing, said Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher.
Some Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador are cautiously supporting the Manitoba premier's call for the abolition of the Indian Act. They agree the legislation adopted in 1876 should be scrapped, but they want assurances that whatever replaces it will be better.
Calgary-based Sumerian Oil and Gas is planning legal action against the Alberta Energy Regulator following months of enforcement issues. The company now alleges that its assets on Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, in central Alberta, were not secured as required before the deadly fire on Oct. 17.
A professor and researcher at the University of Waterloo has received the highest recognition in Canada for scientific excellence. Linda Nazar is a distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo and has been studying battery materials for over three decades.
Students from nursery to Grade 6 in Fisher River are taking Cree classes every other day of the week, in a push to improve fluency. Most adults in the community, located in Manitoba's Interlake, can't speak the language.
A $40 million US collection of rare and high-performance motorcycles seized from Canadian alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding will go up for auction next week in Mexico. The 61 bikes include models from Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, MV Agusta, Suzuki and Yamaha. Some were previously used in professional racing, according to the…
Bruce Power, the private company that operates the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, faces two federal Fisheries Act charges after millions of Lake Huron fish died over a period of two months in 2025.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's oft-stated determination to keep his government focused on what Canadians can control was tested Tuesday, as he meets with leaders from the 55 other member countries of the Commonwealth in Antigua. Here are five things to watch for.
Public Safety Canada is maintaining its longstanding advice for Canadians to be prepared to go at least three days without running water or electricity, following recent calls in the U.K. and other countries for their residents to do the same.
Police say one person has been found dead and a shelter-in-place order that was issued late Monday has been lifted after officers responded to a dangerous weapons call at a University of Toronto dormitory in Mississauga.
The investor group includes the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, the Investment Management Corp. of Ontario and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board.
Amir Zuccolo is the new mayor of Prince Edward Island's capital city, and will be the first woman to sit in the chair since the 1970s.
After his inauguration ceremony, Vancouver Mayor Pete Fry held a press conference with all 10 councillors, with representatives from each party — COPE, OneCity, ABC Vancouver, and Fry’s own Green Party, none of which has a majority on council — speaking of their desire to work together.
A year after a controversial ostrich cull in B.C.'s Interior, the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms have filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of animal cruelty, under-compensation and preventing the launch of a lucrative commercial enterprise.
RCMP say an SUV travelling on Highway 335 collided with a truck driving on Highway 35, killing the driver of the SUV.
The literary agent for Steven Galloway said it would have been "impossible" to sell any new work by his client in the years after a former student made unproven allegations of rape and sexual assault against the author a decade ago.
After facing searing criticism this spring, the Liberal government's hot-button lawful access legislation — which would make it easier for Canadian police and intelligence officials to tap private communications — now begins its time before a Senate committee.
Tyler King, 39, has been arrested and charged with sexually exploiting three players. The complainants, all under 18 at the time, were players from Saskatchewan and Alberta.
An advisory panel issued a report on Alberta’s electoral boundaries Monday, restoring rural ridings removed from the map by a prior commission while extending the boundaries of some Calgary ridings into surrounding rural communities.
Several First Nations in B.C. are challenging the federal government in court and seeking to overturn its decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline project as a project of national interest.
Members of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ont., are calling on the federal government to boost support for community safety programs, weeks after a hate-motivated shooting outside their place of worship.
The 59-year-old victim is a commanding officer and was supervising young cadets selling Remembrance Day poppies on Sunday. Police said the 12-year-old and another boy approached them and 'blew a loud air horn directly into [the young cadets'] ears' and an altercation ensued.
The rising cost of living is a burden for some seniors, but members of the Torbay 50-plus active group hope that a new cash payout from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will provide some relief.
Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher has announced the administrative dismissal of seven employees in connection with allegations of discriminatory and racist behaviour, as well as derogatory acts.
Brodie Rec League is a basketball league that launched in Burlington in 2020 and now has 50,000 athletes playing across 25 cities in North America including Burnaby, Toronto, Brooklyn, and Boston.
The second of two Nova Scotia minor hockey players accused of sexually assaulting teammates has pleaded guilty to three charges.
The second of two Nova Scotia minor hockey players accused of sexually assaulting teammates has pleaded guilty to three charges.
Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw assured residents "there's been no failure" in the investigation of a Bridle Path home invasion, after a man later deemed a suspect visited a hospital with a gunshot wound shortly after the incident Thursday but wasn't arrested.
A Quebec man accused of threatening Prime Minister Mark Carney over social media was declared not criminally responsible during a hearing Monday morning.
Kai-Ji Adam Lo is charged with 11 counts of 2nd-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder.
The cockpit voice recorder of the Hamilton-based Latitude Air Ambulance that crashed in early October in the U.S., killing six people, has been recovered, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Monday.
Was a then-Air Canada employee an inside man who helped carry out one of the biggest gold heists in Canadian history, or a scapegoat exploited by a longtime friend? Those were the two competing scenarios presented to a Brampton, Ont., court Monday as prosecutors and defence lawyers made their closing submissions in…
A proposed gold mining megaproject that would span three sites on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore is poised to undergo a federal impact assessment — much to the chagrin of the company behind it.
Police say Kai Pavlovic was killed before he was reported missing on Sept. 26, 2025.
Police said they were located safe late Monday night.
Police in Cape Breton are seeking public help to locate 37-year-old Clarissa Lynn Dennis and her newborn son who went missing in Groves Point on Sunday.
Nathan Fielder lookalikes will compete with mock business pitches and karaoke at Toronto’s Paradise Theatre on Nov. 17.
At two career colleges now under the Ontario government's microscope, more than half of the thousands of student financial aid applications last year came from a single IP address, officials allege in documents filed in court.
A man prosecutors say sadistically murdered and dismembered his wife in southeast New Brunswick took part in his sentencing hearing Monday from a hospital bed.
An outgoing at-large city councillor in Thunder Bay, Ont., says she accepts the sanction recommended against her by the city’s integrity commissioner after she was found to have breached the Code of Conduct. City manager John Collin filed a complaint about Coun. Rajni Agarwal in March, alleging that Agarwal “had…
Queen's Cove residents have been dealing with dirty water since last year after a ruptured pipe forced the local service district to turn off the water filtration system.
Snow removal companies in Ottawa say they're contending with higher fuel costs as they gear up for the winter season, and some say that could mean bigger bills for their customers.
Fed up with what she calls a violation of her backyard privacy, an East York woman is going public with her campaign to have new garden suites limited to just one storey.
Hudson Williams answered a range of questions from autistic and neurodivergent interviewers in Season 2 of The Assembly. Here are five things we learned about the Heated Rivalry star.
When Joyel Singfield co-signed her daughter’s TD student loan in 2020, it included life insurance. But when Maari died last year of breast cancer, TD told Singfield the life insurance had expired and she was on the hook for the nearly $40,000 debt. Singfield fought back and, with the help of Go Public, TD backtracked…
A CBC News investigation found at least 220 problem gamblers in Canada died by suicide in the last decade. But not all provinces are tracking this phenomenon, and no coroner has held a gambling suicide inquest — unlike in Australia and the U.K.
More than a dozen employees walked out of a Winnipeg restaurant this week after enduring what they describe as disrespectful and humiliating treatment while on the job.
British Columbia's incoming premier says his "preference" is to see teleworking public servants return to the office environment.
A medical oncologist based in Brandon is leaving the role in November, saying his repeated calls for support have been ignored by the province.
Four teens, aged 15 to 19 years, died in a crash in Puslinch, a rural area southeast of Guelph, early Saturday, according to Ontario Provincial Police.
An analysis of the mammoth Wonder Valley data centre suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day. A Utah State University physicist who conducted the review for the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation said the project demands a full…
Virginia Hicks is this year's national Silver Cross Mother, an annual tradition by the Royal Canadian Legion recognizing the mother of a fallen Canadian Armed Forces member each Remembrance Day. Every year she visits CFB Petawawa in the Ottawa Valley, where her daughter Sapper Mariebeth Short was killed during a…
As the season opening looms for southwestern Nova Scotia's lobster zone, fishermen face mounting uncertainty from skyrocketing fuel prices among other concerns.
People in the entire British Empire went to bed on Sept. 2, 1752, and woke up on Sept. 14, 1752.
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador can't say yet, or won't say, if a river otter being kept at Salmonier Nature Park will be euthanized, after complaints of insecure enclosures and aggressive behaviour.
Nine burn-care specialists from Hamilton Health Sciences have travelled to Edmonton to help treat military personnel severely injured in the deadly fire at a Canadian Forces base in Wainwright, Alta.
The devastating summer floods that hit north Niagara helped propel Canada's total insured damage from natural disasters over the summer to one of the worst on record, new data shows.
Starting on Nov. 8, filmgoers will be able to watch Quebec-made movies for just $3 in over a dozen independent cinemas on the second Sunday of each month, for the next year. The goal behind the initiative is to bring more eyes and support to Quebec on the big screen.
Canadian figure skaters Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud won pairs gold at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, capturing their first Grand Prix title in three years.
Nathan Rourke passed for 366 yards and the B.C. Lions came all the way back to beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 33-26 in the CFL’s West Division semifinal on Saturday in Vancouver.
Canada's Félix Roussel and Maxime Laoun delivered a wild one-two finish on home ice in the men's 500-metre final at the ISU Short Track World Tour stop in Montreal on Saturday, with Roussel taking gold after the top two Dutch skaters collided on the final turn.
Jurors have reached a verdict in Alexa Suitor's sexual assault trial, finding Suitor guilty of sexual assault and sexual interference.
Four people are dead and two others suffered life-threatening injuries after a single-vehicle crash in Puslinch — a rural area southwest of Guelph — early Saturday, according to Ontario Provincial Police.
Prince George resident Lydia Troc is an adventurer — her latest trip took her up to Mount Everest base camp in Nepal. But she didn't go alone — she took a plushie version of Prince George's beloved mascot Mr. PG.
Daijohn Richards, 23, of Toronto has been identified as a suspect wanted in connection with the Bridle Path neighbourhood home invasion investigation, where a family of four was shot at and attacked with a hammer.
Detachments will be closing in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Yukon and Northwest Territories. The number of wardens impacted by the decision is unknown, but CBC News has learned at least a dozen positions will be cut.
The number of teachers who have letters of authority in Nunavut classrooms has nearly doubled in 5 years, from around 50 to now over 90. Nunavut's education minister David Akeeagok says he's not concerned about the increase, but the teachers’ union warns of the growing reliance on unqualified teachers.
There are 400 positions up for grabs across 56 municipalities, but many of those positions have already been acclaimed. In a total of 27 municipalities, all positions have been acclaimed, according to P.E.I.'s unofficial election results.
A new women's hockey league in Fredericton has hit the ice for its first season. The Fredericton Senior Recreational Women’s Hockey League is for women aged 30 and up who want to get out and play without the stress of high-level competition.
The Adeline-C arrived in Halifax on Oct. 31, 1981, filled with state-of-the-art equipment, but it was soon abandoned by its crew. It would be years before its role in a complex U.S. drug smuggling operation worth as much as $200 million US became fully known.
Isolated in small communities with limited resources, rural Newfoundlanders and Labradorians had to rely on each other to survive. Thinking someone could bewitch you if you mistreated them was a reason to help all your neighbours, even the ones you didn’t particularly like.
A Toronto judge is weighing whether to send a single father to prison for importing cocaine into Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic, or find an alternate sentence that could "break the cycle" for his seven-year-old boy.
Salah Bachir's friends and family remembered the executive, philanthropist and party host at his funeral as someone who always found ways to contribute, whether it was hosting family festivities at his historic home in Paris, Ont., soliciting donations for the Toronto dialysis unit where he was a patient or throwing…
Four-time Para cycling world champion Mel Pemble collected her second straight silver medal in the women’s C3 kilometre time trial at this year’s track competition in Apeldoorn, Netherlands on Friday.
The Canadian Crime Stoppers Association is advising its local chapters to solely accept tips by telephone instead of online, it said in a statement to CBC News on Friday.
The head of a Toronto real estate group says his family is traumatized and recovering after they were attacked in a violent home invasion in the Bridle Path neighbourhood Thursday morning.
As accusations of misconduct against Montreal’s police service mount, Chief Fady Dagher says he is taking concrete steps to bring change from the ground up while investigating and potentially prosecuting those "one per cent" of officers who "tarnish the uniform."