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Edmonton police say they hope a new digital billboard in the city's downtown will help generate information about the disappearance of Jeannine Ermineskin from the area over three years ago. 

Scallop fishers in the Bay of Fundy are keeping an eye out for a creamy-white species that grows on the seabed and could be described as gross.  

For the past five weeks, Toronto night nurse Keren Elumir has been handing out clean underwear and electrolyte packets at a safe consumption and overdose prevention site in Moss Park.

The former president of the Métis Nation of Alberta testified in Ontario court last week on how disagreement between provincial organizations began affecting operations of the Métis Nation Council (MNC).

Many find themselves struggling with the cold, gray days with the shorter daylight hours of winter. But even within this gloomier setting, there's an easy way to boost your mood, according to Holli-Anne Passmore. 

Ozempic was first approved to treat diabetes in Canada seven years ago. Now the largest study of its kind suggests it and other medications like it have a host of other potential health benefits beyond obesity, but could also bring increased risk of other conditions.

The year 2025 brings big change for northern B.C. artist Jeremy Pahl, who has long shared his brand of Tsimshian folk and rock music under the stage name Saltwater Hank. 

The latest disintegration of a SpaceX test flight was a spectacular sight, as broken-up rocket parts streaked like jellyfish tendrils across the Caribbean sky on Thursday evening.

When Kate Gammon and her family fled their Santa Monica, Calif., home during the recent wildfires, she wasn't sure what they would find when they returned. 

Berens River First Nation in Manitoba is grieving the loss of the community's arena in a fire on Thursday.

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in AD 79, has unearthed a new treasure — a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa.

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.   

This story is part of Welcome to Canada, a CBC News series about immigration told through the eyes of the people who have experienced it.

Canada has told a First Nations child advocate it will not negotiate in line with Assembly of First Nations (AFN) resolutions rejecting a $47.8-billion proposal to reform the on-reserve child welfare system, according to a recently released letter.

Some of the visuals coming out of Los Angeles County over the past week are ones we expect with wildfires: dramatic flames, orange skies and damaged structures. 

WARNING: This story contains details of abuse of children at residential schools

Major medical groups are proposing a change to how doctors diagnose obesity.

The Métis National Council is getting its day in court.

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.

Los Angeles is already infamous for poor air quality. But the fires scorching the area now are sending up plumes of black smoke that pose threats to human health beyond that of standard wildfires.

There has never been more focus on who is Indigenous and who is not as more people seek answers about their ancestry.

Experts and parents are sounding the alarm about non-medical anabolic steroid use as posts glorifying it grow on social media.

Imagine this: you're gently awoken by the dulcet tones of your personal assistant just as you're nearing the end of your final sleep cycle.

Today, six climate agencies from around the world all confirmed what we knew was coming: Earth once again experienced its hottest year on record.

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Being able to speak Inuktitut on Hockey Night in Canada is like a dream come true for Pujjuut Kusugak. 

For Edward Chou, a first-year biochemistry student at the University of Guelph, the symptoms began shortly after lunch on Monday. 

Some Indigenous people reacted to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement this week that he would resign once the Liberals select a successor by praising him for his commitment to reconciliation, but others are pointing to unkept promises.

Mélanie Bouchard tries to bring her 13-year-old son everywhere, but car troubles coupled with the cost of an adapted vehicle to fit his wheelchair has left the single mom of four with few options.

One of the oldest public arts funders in North America hired its first Indigenous chief executive officer late last year.

The news caught retired Ottawa police investigator Randy Wisker by surprise.

A day after CBC revealed that a self-styled Vancouver Island "childbirth activist" was under police investigation, a manslaughter charge has been sworn against Gloria Lemay in relation to the death of a newborn last January.

Barry Blanchard, an alpinist and mountain guide who lives in Canmore, Alta., was among 88 people appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest honours, late last year.

The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the country's first death from an outbreak of the virus that has sickened dozens of people and millions of poultry and cattle.

A new book chronicles the experiences of Northern Indigenous people at residential schools with a particular look at Grollier Hall and Stringer Hall in Inuvik, N.W.T.

New research shows the rate of myopia among children and teens worldwide has tripled over the past three decades, with a particularly steep increase noted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 

Halton Healthcare and Conservation Halton announced in early December they were partnering with a B.C.-based foundation to offer nature prescriptions to patients for free access to the local conservation areas.

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a "dinosaur highway" and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.

It was a feat of determination, said Christina Lennox, who re-created a 1930s photo of their great-grandmother using 87,000 beads. 

Michael Cheena says he gets emotional when he reads the names of the 18 residential schools that operated in Ontario on a monument in Spirit Garden in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square. He attended two of them.

Every year, we get to experience not only the wonders of the sky, but also missions to space that expand our knowledge of our universe.

On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization first learned about what ended up becoming the worst pandemic in over a century.