The first known cases in Canada of the U.K. variant of the coronavirus were discovered only by fluke, and the couple who fell ill are now facing public-health charges, CBC News has learned.  ...

Vaccine independence is important, because relying on relationships with other countries doesn’t always work, researchers say.

While some students are back in class following the holiday break, others are sticking with remote learning for now, due to a rise in cases of COVID-19 among school-aged kids. We asked experts about t...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a cabinet shuffle involving a handful of ministers, CBC News has learned.

As more and more cellphone videos surface of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last week, Canadians are leading some of the efforts to document and identify some of those involved in th...

Canada's outgoing top military commander and his U.S. counterpart will have their first conversation today about the violent protests that rocked Washington last week and the impending political showd...

Despite the political clouds hanging over the Alberta-to-Nebraska pipeline, could there still be a way forward for the long-disputed project under the incoming Biden administration? Some observers say...

As work, school and shopping increasingly move online, Canadians need to ensure the federal government's new Bill C-11 is framed to give proper digital privacy protection, write Vass Bednar and Mark S...

Statistics Canada is mailing out test kits to tens of thousands of people to study the prevalence of coronavirus in the country. In order to get a good result, the agency is hoping for a minimum 45 pe...

United Conservative Party MLAs, including Speaker Nathan Cooper and deputy Speaker Angela Pitt, are denouncing the choices of Premier Jason Kenney and caucus colleagues after several took vacations ab...

A father-and-son team of rookie inventors say they pitched their patent-pending COVID-safe lid applicator to Tim Hortons, and got a good response. But after the deal fell apart over a price dispute, t...

After a weekend of mounting pressure, Paul Woods has been fired as CEO of the London Health Sciences Centre, the hospital's board said in an email to staff Monday morning.

Ontario’s latest COVID-19 modelling will project the province’s intensive care units to be filled beyond capacity by early February, and will also show how a new more contagious variant of the cor...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that Canada would commit up to $55 million to a United Nations initiative aimed at preventing further degradation of land and protecting vital ecosystems....

In December, Air Canada said it would suspend Sydney, N.S., commercial flights indefinitely.

Canada and its closest military allies have exchanged important global health warnings and assessments for decades, but newly released documents show the Public Health Agency of Canada did not examine...

Oversight and transparency took centre stage on Day 1 of a nearly three-week review of the CBC's broadcasting licences, as the broadcaster asks Canada's telecommunications regulator to renew licences...

The leaders of Canada's top banks believe an economic rebound is on the horizon, but say the short-term looks difficult and spending won't truly pick up until the back half of 2021 or even 2022. ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday Britain was in "a race against time" to roll out COVID-19 vaccines as deaths hit record highs and hospitals run out of oxygen. His top medical advis...

Ariana Quesada, 16, walked into the RCMP detachment in High River, Alta., on Friday and filed a formal complaint asking police to investigate potential criminal negligence in the death of her father. ...