It's regularly touted as a "superfood" or a "healthy fat" and is found in health food stores across the country. But coconut oil is made up almost entirely of saturated fat. Marketplace looks at how the product came to be seen as an attractive alternative for cooking, baking — an … | Continue reading
Data analytics firms are tracking consumers' transactions — from food orders to clothes returns — and assigning buyers a numerical value. That hidden score could determine the kind of service consumers receive from retailers to insurance companies, says Laura Antonini. | Continue reading
Movie studios have a long tradition of testing out new films to see how audiences react before launching them in wide release. But with their latest research innovation — one based on artificial intelligence — Disney is taking it to a whole new level. | Continue reading
A student and a teacher explain why nothing has changed one week after Ontario became the first province to pass a cellphone ban. | Continue reading
John Konecny relocated for work by loading his belongings into a canoe and paddling up the Rideau Canal to Ottawa. He ended up convincing Canada's tax agency to cover his moving expenses. | Continue reading
A study published in the journal Nature finds that while the EV "revolution" is crucial to a greener future, it presents a battery waste management problem. Manufacturers, startups — and everyday Canadians — are already looking ahead. | Continue reading
A Chinese woman trying to gain permanent residency in Canada through the purchase of a unit in a wholesale mall on the outskirts of Regina found herself caught in a tangled web of false promises and dubious practices. | Continue reading
Ontario residents are being warned about a relatively new kind of fraud called "SIM swapping" in which criminals steal personal information via mobile phones in order to gain access to bank accounts. | Continue reading
A Vancouver-bound Air Canada flight forced to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to mechanical issues has sparked a discussion about what domestic air passengers should know if they happen to land on U.S. soil without advance warning. | Continue reading
After a recent New York Times article called for the Mona Lisa to come down, travel writer Robin Esrock argues tourists need to stop focusing on hot-ticket bucket list attractions like the famed painting and try some humbler travel destinations. | Continue reading
If you woke up Thursday to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren't alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept phones in Canada and the U.S. overnight, delivering largely unintelligible messages from friends, family and the occasional ex. | Continue reading
Employers and recruiters are seeing more candidates not showing up for interviews and new hires not reporting to work on for their first day on the job — all without explanation. It seems Canada’s hot job market has shifted the balance of power in many sectors from employers to e … | Continue reading
Video of a driverless Tesla moving at a brisk walking pace at a mall parking lot in Richmond, B.C. — sometimes in the wrong lane — raises questions about what is and isn't legal when regulations don't come close to capturing the advances or dangers of self-driving vehicles. | Continue reading
The remains of an ancient ape found in a Bavarian clay pit suggest that humans' ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday. | Continue reading
There is a big gap between the hype and the science about cleaning the air ducts in our homes, according to Jeffrey Siegel. He studies indoor air quality and is a professor in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Siegel says air … | Continue reading
They wanted to stir childhood memories to increase donations, so Calgary gamers Andrew Smith and Curtis Braham went big. | Continue reading
Connie Walker is an award-winning Cree journalist, and the host of CBC's true crime podcast, Missing and Murdered. She's thought a lot about not sacrificing ethics for storytelling. | Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump's move last year to tax imported steel triggered jeers but also cheers. Its goal — to raise steel prices — threatened to hurt the legions of domestic manufacturers that depend on steel. | Continue reading
The number of SUVs on the road continues to climb, despite their large contribution to carbon emissions, because they keep drivers in a safety "arms race," says a transportation and environment journalist. | Continue reading
Canadians have long been taught to sort and recycle their plastic into our blue bins. But an undercover Marketplace investigation uncovered huge piles of Canadian plastic dumped and burned overseas in illegal Malaysian landfills, polluting rivers and sometimes creating toxic bypr … | Continue reading
There was little evidence of foreign interference on social media during the federal campaign, but news coverage suggested otherwise, researchers say. | Continue reading
While many Canadians will welcome the extra hour of sleep as daylight time comes to an end, researchers say even small disruptions to our body clocks can have harmful effects especially when repeated night after night. | Continue reading
Time to say goodbye to old-fashioned money? If you thought printing polymer bills and quashing the penny were controversial, just wait for digital cash. It's a global turf where Canada is an important player. | Continue reading
There was little evidence of foreign interference on social media during the federal campaign, but news coverage suggested otherwise, researchers say. | Continue reading
Almost 13,000 people died in 2018, the vast majority from illicit fentanyl use. However, medicinal dependency on opioids has also been a problem for a long time. Many doctors have prescribed them for patients who suffer from chronic pain — an affliction that affects one in five C … | Continue reading
To attract a generation of workers who grew up with cellphones and iPads, the construction industry — which faces a critical shortage of skilled workers — would be wise to adopt higher-tech tools, experts and young workers say. | Continue reading
Simon Fraser University research psychologist Myriam Juda says switching to permanent daylight time will interrupt British Columbians' circadian rythms, putting people in a permanent jet-lag like state. | Continue reading
An estimated 1.4 million litres of oil have spilled from TC Energy Corp.'s Keystone crude pipeline in North Dakota, state authorities said on Thursday, a major leak at a time of increased regulatory scrutiny of oil pipeline expansions. | Continue reading
Desjardins Group says the theft of member data announced in June is far larger than initially thought and affects all 4.2 million members of the credit union. | Continue reading
CBC News examined customer reviews posted on Amazon.ca in 2018-19 for various grocery items, and discovered numerous complaints about receiving food that was expired or past its best-before date. Amazon said the issue has been addressed. | Continue reading
A Florida-based hydrogen company that received millions of public dollars from New Brunswickers has told shareholders that its technology doesn't work as previously described, CBC News has learned. | Continue reading
Neuroscientist Henning Beck, author of Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative and Successful, explains why the shortcomings in our brains are actually what makes us creative. | Continue reading
Waterfront Toronto's board voted unanimously Thursday to move ahead into an evaluation phase of Sidewalk Labs' proposed Quayside development — a so-called "smart city" that would be built on the shore of Lake Ontario in the city's east end. | Continue reading
Insect and animal byproducts make up many common candy ingredients, such as natural red dye, confectioner’s glaze, gelatin and even honey. | Continue reading
Auto-brewery syndrome occurs when a disturbance to the gut microbiome results in the fermentation of carbohydrates | Continue reading
When her son pockets a Kinder Egg from the checkout line of the grocery store, Jennifer Warren attempts to turn it into an invaluable moral lesson. But the store manager has other plans. | Continue reading
The newly crowned champion of French-language Scrabble, faced a unique challenge going into Monday's final in Louvain, Belgium. After all, he doesn't speak French. At all. | Continue reading
When Canada's medical assistance in dying law was passed in 2016, the widespread assumption was that it excluded those with a dementia diagnosis. But Gayle Garlock decided to challenge that assumption and to test the limits of the law. | Continue reading
Quebec finds itself in the middle of a quickly escalating legal battle waged by the Trump administration against the state of California and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | Continue reading
The initial buzz over real-estate startup WeWork can be blamed on a "consensual hallucination between investors and founders," says business professor Scott Galloway. | Continue reading
Toronto teen’s Free Hong Kong-themed sneaker design gets pulled from Vans design contest. | Continue reading
The diplomat who testified in the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday is a "patriot" and "straight shooter," says a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. | Continue reading
Trevor Berkan's friends and neighbours remember him for his hard work in his community and his love of his family. After his sudden death, nearby neighbours organized a community harvest on Saturday to take care of the remaining crop. | Continue reading
Research has found Arctic soil has warmed to the point where it releases more carbon in winter than northern plants can absorb during the summer. | Continue reading
Astrology is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, with apps and social media accounts that can give you daily guidance from the stars. Journalist Julie Beck says that people who find astrology useful don't care that it has no basis in science. | Continue reading
A Google affiliate has started delivering packages with drones in a test being run in a Virginia town. | Continue reading
A mother's search for inclusion and acceptance of her son finally has a hopeful chapter, thanks to New Brunswick's 'geek' community. | Continue reading
There's less life overall, and much of it is domesticated plants and animals instead of wildlife. | Continue reading