Banks deny compensation when hackers steal customers' money

A Vancouver-area man is speaking out after hackers broke into his bank account, stole $5,000 and Scotiabank refused to reimburse him. As organized cybercrimals increasingly target Canada’s banks, a public policy researcher says they need to bear the cost when their systems are co … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

World's first Ebola vaccine gets green light from EU regulator

World Health Organization calls European recommendation for an Ebola vaccine originally developed in Canada a major milestone. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

What your car knows about you – and what it's telling others

The advances in connected cars is remarkable, bolstering the safety and comfort of drivers and passengers. But the data they gather is plentiful — and that has privacy advocates raising a red flag. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Massive Tulip scam uncovered in Dutch flower markets, says growers' association

Millions of dollars worth of old tulip bulbs are being sold to tourists at the famous Amsterdam floating flower market, with almost none of them flowering. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

To keep data safe, companies must recruit more women in cybersecurity

The cybersecurity industry desperately needs more skilled workers to help protect our data, yet experts in the field say it has only just begun to explore one obvious solution: recruit more women. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

U.K. family arrested after driving through B.C. ditch into Washington state

A family of seven from the United Kingdom were arrested in Washington state earlier this month after entering the U.S. illegally from B.C. by driving through a ditch. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Chinese social media giant flouting Canadian election law Social Sharing

Chinese social media giant WeChat is flouting Canada's new elections rules, allowing election ads to run without setting up a digital ad registry as required by law, CBC News has learned. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dies at 85 – CBC News

Russia's space agency says Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow. He was 85. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Could modern political strife be making us sick?

A new study suggests engaging in politics can take a major toll on people's lives | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Widow tries for months to get money from dead husband's PayPal account

After 73-year-old Wendy Pellech’s husband died nine months ago, she began to cancel all his online accounts, including PayPal, assuming the online payment system would send her the balance. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Civic Museum is on the lookout for an amateur who can crack a '30s-era safe

The Civic Museum of Regina is looking for amateur safecrackers willing to take a shot at opening a 1930s-era safe in their collection.  | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Zantac Recalled as a Precaution

GlaxoSmithKline recalls the prescription heartburn medicine Zantac in all markets as a precaution days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finds 'unacceptable' levels of a probable cancer-causing impurity in the drug. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

'Food is a keystone': How to save our favourite foods from extinction

Pears so creamy you could spread them 'like jam,' mammoth stew, dishes of the Roman empire seasoned with the long-lost herb silphium. Author and culinary geographer Lenore Newman tells us about extinct foods, why humans are so good at loving them to death, and how we can prevent … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

'Poop pills' cured Canadian woman of C. difficile (2018)

Growing research suggests using fecal matter might be the solution to combating bad bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

CBC Podcast about Arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

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@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists

Driving simulation tests suggest that human memory, rather than negligence, may be responsible for "looked, but failed to see" collisions | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Square Canada doesn't have a tech issue: it's a Cuban coffee issue

The owners of a Toronto coffee stand say Square Canada has told them they can no longer use the popular payment technology because of concerns the coffee stand is selling beverages made from Cuban coffee beans. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Legal expert for the defence: attempt to prosecute Huawei CFO is unprecedented

If the case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou ever does go to trial in the U.S., documents filed with the B.C. Supreme Court highlight just how unusual and complex the proceedings would be. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Mona Eltahawy says the time for being civil, peaceful and polite is over

In her book "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls", Mona Eltahawy lays out her manifesto for achieving true gender freedom and equality. The Egyptian-American author and activist speaks with Piya about the society-changing value she sees in anger, attention, ambition, pow … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Make debate great again: How bad political argument is undermining democracy

We have forgotten how to argue, and it’s easy to become extremist in our political views. That is undermining our democracies from within, according to two philosophers. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Toronto business owner loses $14K to technical glitch at mobile payment company

A glitch in the popular Square payment technology is causing financial headaches for some of the company’s users, CBC News has learned. Square won’t say how widespread the issue is, or how many customers have been affected but the company concedes it's not a "one-off." | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Engineers in Alberta found a way for the oilsands to produce clean fuel

Engineers in Alberta believe they've got a way to capture hydrogen from the oilsands while leaving greenhouse gas emissions in the ground. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Archeology from space – discovering history from a few hundred kilometres up

Researchers used to getting their hands dirty digging in the dirt, are finding ancient sites using satellite technology | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

We asked 3 companies to recycle Canadian plastic and tracked it. Only 1 did

After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian plastic. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Police can't crack Toronto van attacker's devices, court docs show

The man charged with killing 10 people in the Toronto van attack last year is refusing to help police unlock three of his personal electronic devices, court documents obtained by CBC News show. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water

The image of bottle water as clean and pure is being challenged by a global investigation that found the water tested is often contaminated with tiny particles of plastic. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

In the '80s, this Calgary man invented one of the common words in internet-speak

Then-Calgary resident Wayne Pearson unintentionally created a word now synonymous with the internet, and linguist Gretchen McCulloch explains how the meaning of LOL varies across generations of users. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Why Edward Snowden thinks U.S. Congress will support the whistleblower

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says a whistleblower's complaint, which triggered Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, is strategically "quite wise." | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

German prosecutors indict top Volkswagen bosses over emissions scandal

German prosecutors have brought criminal charges of stock market manipulation against Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, former CEO Martin Winterkorn and chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch in connection with the carmaker's emissions cheating scandal. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

'More than we expected': Ocearch spots 5 great white sharks off Cape Breton

Five great white sharks have been spotted, and three have been tagged in Ocearch's latest expedition off the coast of Cape Breton. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Banks says customers to blame for thousands of dollars lost via e-transfers

A Manitoba man says marketing that claims people are protected when they e-transfer money is misleading, after fraudsters stole $3,000 and TD Bank said he was to blame. Rene Trudeau is one of dozens of people who contacted Go Public about frustrating e-transfer battles with their … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Why George Orwell's 1984 still matters, 70 years since publication

To kick off its 30th season, Writers & Company's Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Dorian Lynskey about the dystopian classic's lasting impact on society. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

The mysterious ailments experienced by some 40 Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families while stationed in Cuba may have had nothing to do with sonic "attacks" identified in earlier studies. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggest

The mysterious ailments experienced by some 40 Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families while stationed in Cuba may have had nothing to do with sonic "attacks" identified in earlier studies. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

The mysterious ailments experienced by some 40 Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families while stationed in Cuba may have had nothing to do with sonic "attacks" identified in earlier studies. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

An intense game of chess can burn hundreds of calories, research suggests

Research shows high-level chess players can burn hundreds of calories while competing. We talk to grandmaster Maurice Ashley about why the game needs brains, and brawn. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Can you picture things in your head? Well, this guy can't

Tom Ebeyer has aphantasia, the inability to visualize images in the mind. And for the first two decades of his life, he had no idea his brain was different in any way. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Revealing your emoticon side: how digital technology has changed the way we talk

Communication has changed thanks to our use of digital and mobile tools. From emojis and abbreviations to how we talk to our virtual assistants, how do we talk to each other today? | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

How Francis Wharton made his dentures from deer's teeth

Francis Wharton was far from civilization when he found himself needing a pair of dentures. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

The Ontario government lost $42M selling cannabis in the last year

The organization that operates the Ontario Cannabis Store racked up expenses totalling $106 million over the last fiscal year. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Japan may have to dump radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific, minister says

Tokyo Electric Power may have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan's environment minister says. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Think twice before you hand your phone to police to show auto insurance: experts

Ontario drivers should think twice about handing over their unlocked phone to a police officer to show electronic proof of insurance, privacy experts say. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Dreaming of a job doing absolutely nothing? It's not what it's cracked up to be

Ted Geltner thought he hit jackpot when he landed a stress-free job as a magazine editor. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Bonavista cuts off services for Airbnb operators with unpaid business tax bills

The Town of Bonavista is getting tougher in its attempts to collect taxes from Airbnb operators as rental properties pop up in the popular Newfoundland and Labrador tourist destination.  | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

'Aging with attitude': How to fix technology's ageism problem

Resources devoted to seniors and their adoption of new digital technology are sparse, but that's slowly starting to change, writes Ramona Pringle. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Biohackers trying to build a bootleg version of a million-dollar drug

Glybera was a made-in-Canada medical breakthrough that became the world’s most expensive drug and then quickly disappeared from the market because no one could afford the $1-million price for a dose. Now, a group of maverick biohackers is attempting to build an affordable bootleg … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago

Computer made of cloth challenges our concept of technology

Embroidered electronic tapestry beautifully illustrates the workings of computers | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 5 years ago