The tearful reunions and welcoming hugs looked the same, but despite travelling to find safety in Canada, these newcomers are not considered refugees.
Non-binary Canadians are upset many Canadian airlines still don't offer passengers a gender-neutral «X» option when booking flights online. Instead, they must choose male or female. The airlines are promising change.
The federal public safety minister says he is 'deeply committed' to enhancing oversight of the RCMP by strengthening the role of the national police force's management advisory board.
The final bell is about to ring at the end of a topsy-turvy school year warped by the COVID-19 crisis and students are reflecting on how the pandemic shaped things.
The higher parts of Angelique Beauchemin's land, she said, are sinking an inch or two a year as they slope ever more steeply toward the river. While she's not a scientist, she says her biggest fear is that one day there will be a landslide and the white house at the top of the hill where she's lived for decades will tumble down.
A barge that ran aground near Vancouver's English Bay last year quickly became an accidental attraction, drawing selfie-seekers and inspiring T-shirt designs. But after seven months, residents seem to have grown weary of its hulking presence on the shoreline.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to the G7 in Germany Saturday without a consensus from the Commonwealth to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but with a chorus of countries calling for help to overcome the fallout of the war.
It can be much harder for First Nations people living on reserve to get a bank loan. Because they don't legally own the land they live on, they can't use it as collateral.
Smith's key policy idea seems designed to plunge Alberta into a constitutional mess, raising the question: how much conflict with Ottawa do conservatives want?
As gas prices and food costs continue to escalate and another interest rate hike is expected next month, many Canadians are wondering if a recession is coming and how to prepare for a possible economic downturn.
Vancouver police insist there's not much they can say publicly about their investigation into the death of missing Indigenous teen Noelle 'Ellie' O'Soup, but 'everything's on the table' as they work to determine how and why she died.
After a week of criticism and anger at the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia, and outcry in a rural area of New Brunswick, there are questions about the RCMP’s role in community policing.
Sitting through an inquest into her daughter's death, Selina McIntyre tells CBC News the hardest part is «knowing my daughter wanted me and I wasn't there.» McIntyre, of Hay River, N.W.T., is a witness before a coroner's jury examining the 2017 death of Delilah Blair, an inmate at the Windsor, Ont., jail.
Kristal Garbers says her 78-year-old father cannot live on his own after he's discharged from hospital, but he will face living without primary care if he lives with her in the Lower Mainland.
A mail carrier says her out-of-pocket costs for delivering packages along her rural route have doubled because of the steep hike in gas prices and cost of living being experienced by many Canadians.
The Archdiocese of Saint Boniface is offering to take residential school survivors and representatives from First Nation communities in Manitoba to Alberta for the Pope's visit this summer.
Soaring grocery prices are making it hard for some Canadians to feed their children, as families lean on food banks and donations for support.
The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting wants to know why the federal Justice Department withheld for several months four pages of notes from a senior Mountie.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled his cabinet for the 43rd Parliament of Ontario.
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at a new study of the marine life effects of the 2021 heat dome in B.C. and explore what the sriracha shortage says about Canada's reliance on California's produce.
Nearly 100,000 students asked to repay CERB benefits they claimed during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon get a break.
The RCMP spent more than $1.6 million during the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and another $1.2 million policing protests in Alberta, according to a CBC access to information request.
A dog from a breeding business run by Siobhan Coady and her husband won Best of Breed at the 146th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Wednesday.
Technology companies have expanded rapidly the past few years, but rampant inflation and rising interest rates have taken the wind of the sails of the once unstoppable hiring machine.
A proposed class-action lawsuit recently filed in Nova Scotia could see some former inmates seeking compensation for a prison practice that will soon be illegal in Canada. Dry cells are used when guards suspect an inmate of swallowing contraband or hiding it in a body cavity.
Scientists and philosophers say AI consciousness might be possible, but technology is so good at fooling humans into thinking it's alive that we will struggle to know if it's telling the truth.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford will unveil his new cabinet on Friday morning outside of Queen's Park in what is forecast to be glorious sunshine. After Friday's swearing-in ceremony, stormy economic and political weather lies ahead.
Almost 100,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in the federal election, most because they arrived after the deadline, a report by Elections Canada has revealed.
A report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a fatal plane crash last fall in Sundridge, Ont., was likely caused by problems during landing.
As allegations of abuse at a St. James facility come to light, families and advocates are calling for independent oversight in Manitoba's private care homes.
The trial of a man accused of sexually extorting Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd heard testimony about a secret police operation at the Netherlands property where Aydin Coban was arrested weeks later.
Despite recent polls calling her a frontrunner, Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner will not run to be the next leader of the United Conservative Party.
Relatives of those murdered in the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia have added their voices to those already raised to a fever-pitch in Ottawa.
Police have charged a man with attempted murder in connection with an incident where shots were fired at an RCMP patrol car.
The P.E.I. government has increased financial incentives to try to help recruit new doctors to the Island.
