The transmissibility of Omicron means that it can pass very easily — even to people who are vaccinated and have been trying to limit their contacts, say experts as they warn against blaming those wh...

For six years — 2,190 days — Saira Ahmadi has been waiting for the chance to hold her six siblings after her family was torn apart by the Taliban over the last two decades.

During the pandemic, the number of self-employed Canadians dropped to its lowest level since 2007, and more big changes could be coming.

Ottawa wants to help municipalities build 100,000 new ‘middle-class’ homes by 2025. How does it plan to get there?

CBC's entertainment reporters watched a lot of TV in 2021. To help you wade through the options, here are some of their favourites.

Canada's long-standing, stalwart support of Ukraine will be under new and intense pressure early in the new year as the West braces for possible military action by Russia, perhaps as soon as late Janu...

No one in Canada will be able to maintain PCR testing for every community case with mild symptoms, Alberta's chief medical officer of health said Thursday.

Simon Fraser University, the University of Northern B.C. and the University of Victoria have all announced they will be beginning the new year’s spring term online.

Canada's military relieved an air force commander of his post in Kuwait on Dec. 7 amid an investigation into claims he made inappropriate comments.

Firefighters in Thunder Bay, Ont., battle a massive fire at the century-old Finnish Labour Temple building on Bay Street that started on Wednesday evening. The Hoito, one of the city’s most famous e...

A Regina mother says she's used to "chaos" after delivering three sets of twins in four years, in addition to two older children.

Cree-Métis singer Falynn Baptiste has become a champion of the Cree language, both in the classroom and on stage, after years of turning her back on her culture.

Pharmacy workers across Canada are struggling with an unbearable workload, as provinces change COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to fight the Omicron variant.

Excavation work in Wheatley, Ont., has been been halted following the discovery of a second gas well near the site of an August explosion that injured 20 and has displaced homeowners and businesses. ...

Shouldn't patients have already started showing up at eastern Ontario's hospitals and emergency rooms with COVID-19 infections? Not necessarily, say some infectious disease experts — and the reas...

Statistics Canada says real GDP increased by 0.8 per cent in October, as gains for the month were seen across most sectors, including manufacturing, whose rebound of 1.8 per cent in October more than ...

Once written off as tacky and outdated, Christmas blow moulds — hollow, hard plastic lawn decorations that light up from the inside — are now enjoying a resurgence in holiday displays across Canad...

Cold-loving balsam firs could struggle if climate change continues unabated. So some Nova Scotia Christmas tree growers are getting ready now.

Canada reported more than 20,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time on Thursday, a culmination of a record-shattering day that saw several provinces confirm new highs in infections.

Toronto police used Clearview AI facial recognition software to try to identify suspects, victims and witnesses in 84 criminal investigations in the three and a half months officers utilized the contr...