A pharmaceutical retailer that opened in Vancouver in the 1940s is testing drones as a new method of prescription drug delivery. | Continue reading
Fitbit has acknowledged a recent software update for its Charge 2 fitness tracker ruined a "small subset" of devices, issuing a statement after a CBC News investigation and customers complained the company was ignoring the problem. | Continue reading
The first systematic exploration of the interior of HMS Terror offers up the tantalizing prospect that well-preserved written documents might eventually be discovered within the Franklin Expedition wreck. | Continue reading
A Michigan school district is designing a school with special features to make it harder for a potential mass shooter to harm students. | Continue reading
Municipal, provincial and federal elections all operate under different rules, which can make it a little confusing when, for each, you're usually heading to the polls only once every four years. | Continue reading
Russia's state weather and environment monitoring agency on Monday released new details about a brief spike in radioactivity following a mysterious explosion at the navy's testing range that has been surrounded by secrecy and fuelled fears of increased radiation levels. | Continue reading
Police say the gang conflict in British Columbia's Lower Mainland is unlike any other in North America. Many young members come from middle- to upper-class homes. They're not driven by poverty, but instead by their desire to belong. | Continue reading
Research shows the internet is shortening our attention span and harming memory, creativity, wisdom and the capacity for empathy and critical thinking. Michael Enright talks to Maryanne Wolf, the author of Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital World. | Continue reading
The German city of Bielefeld is marking the 25th anniversary of a widespread conspiracy theory that there is no such thing as the German city of Bielefeld. | Continue reading
Awe is one of the most powerful human emotions we can experience. Research to understand it is showing how it has the potential to open our minds to bring us together or be used as a tool for manipulation. | Continue reading
The wildfires burning in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have prompted a public outcry on social media. But interest in the crisis has also led to the spread of misinformation and raised questions about whether the situation is as bad as it may seem. CBC News explains. | Continue reading
In Apple's attempt to completely rethink the credit card, it may have lost sight of how people actually use them. | Continue reading
Legislators in Washington State just signed a new bill into law making it legal for people to compost their bodies upon death rather than choosing a more traditional funerary practice such as burial or cremation. | Continue reading
The song’s 100-year history includes dismemberment, deceit and a legal battle over domain: doo doo doo doo doo doo. | Continue reading
Airbnb has taken dramatic action against one of its biggest hosts in Canada, shutting down his account and eight others linked to it in the wake of a CBC investigation that unearthed duplicate listings, shady guest ratings and hundreds of traveller complaints. | Continue reading
Elisabeth Ormandy and Oliver Giving hope others will take up the challenge to use less and reduce waste. Officials with Metro Vancouver say the average household fills up a garbage bag a week with trash destined for the landfill. | Continue reading
Halifax-based scuba diver Lloyd Bond says in the last three years he's seen increasing numbers of butterfly fish, seahorses, cornet fish, trigger fish, puffer fish, and many other species not native to Canadian waters. | Continue reading
They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio telescope, astrophysicists are discovering more of them in their search to learn what makes these objects tick. | Continue reading
Some summer camps are partnering with companies like Bunk1 and Waldo Photos, which use facial recognition, to offer parents a steady stream of photos of their children sent directly to their phones. Not everyone is sold on the idea, however. | Continue reading
Since metal's 1970s origins, women are now more powerful — and more diversely portrayed — than ever before. | Continue reading
The 30-year-old woman, who has experience skydiving, is now recovering in hospital with several fractures, including broken vertebrae, but police say her life is not in danger. | Continue reading
Blood pressure monitoring and other health diagnostics could one day be as simple as taking a smartphone selfie, according to a Canadian researcher. But while a new study shows the technology's potential, privacy experts are urging caution around the collection of personal health … | Continue reading
Sounds outrageous, but it's not that simple. Here’s what you should know about the Canadian tennis event's pay gap and why it exists — but maybe doesn’t have to. | Continue reading
All the rage for good reason — here’s why Canadians are so into 'birdwatching'. | Continue reading
A Calgary man who heard screams at a family's campsite in Banff ran to their nearby tent to find a wolf attempting to pull a man away. | Continue reading
A contingent of British soldiers on a top-secret mission arrived in the Canadian Rockies to construct a warship out of ice. | Continue reading
Asian elephants can distinguish small differences in quantities of food using smell alone | Continue reading
After a major kitchen renovation, an Ottawa couple says the contractor they hired has refused to reimburse money they're owed unless they sign a legal agreement preventing them from publishing a negative review. | Continue reading
Hand-held laser pointers, which emit powerful beams of green and blue light, are being used by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters to confuse police officers, scramble facial recognition cameras and deter people from taking photos amid political turmoil. | Continue reading
Surveys find that social media is changing the way we travel — and adding pressure to make our vacations perfect. Psychology professor Jaime Kurtz says that's ruining our holidays. | Continue reading
A century ago, elephant superstar Jumbo suffered from night rages. Science is now suggesting that the traumatic experiences of his capture and life in captivity caused PTSD. | Continue reading
American-owned Chase Bank has decided to forgive all outstanding debt owed by customers of its two Canadian credit cards that the bank retired last year. Affected customers can’t believe their luck. | Continue reading
Financial fraudsters often try to target the elderly or otherwise vulnerable — but one recently picked the worst possible target. | Continue reading
Researchers in the U.K. have found a link between the fertility declines in domestic male dogs and similar problems that have been widely reported in human males. | Continue reading
A man and a woman have been arrested after a data breach affecting 23,000 Revenu Québec employees. Personal information contained in the tax records of Quebec citizens were not affected, Revenu Québec said in a stament. | Continue reading
A Saskatchewan researcher says many wetlands across the prairies are being contaminated by a relatively new pesticide that is threatening the ecosystem. | Continue reading
The copyright infringement verdict against Katy Perry's hit single Dark Horse might appear as a victory for underdog artists, but it's also raising concerns about what constitutes theft versus inspiration in the music industry. | Continue reading
A hill of daffodils in California closed in July after gaining popularity on social media. A series of ocean pools in New Zealand blocked visitors because people littered, urinated and exuded their sunscreen in them. Travel writer Rosie Spinks says that's just the tip of the iceb … | Continue reading
Our gut bacteria can profoundly affect the way our brains work. Scientific research in recent years is starting to hint that our gut bacteria, known as our microbiome, is an active participant in our emotions, how we think and even how we behave. | Continue reading
The latest data from the World Meteorological Organization shows that the month of July "at least equalled if not surpassed the hottest month in recorded history." | Continue reading
A tourist from Belarus drowned on Thursday trying to cross the Teklanika River near Healy, Alaska, to make it to the bus where Christopher McCandless met his death in 1992. | Continue reading
Worldwide mining for Bitcoin is consuming as much energy as the country of Denmark | Continue reading
Montreal firefighters are investigating after an electric car caught fire and exploded inside a residential garage in Île-Bizard on Friday. | Continue reading
The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could take the world's second largest ice sheet close to or below the 2012 record low, the United Nations said on Friday. | Continue reading
Most people who count how many steps they walk every day are focused on the goal of 10,000, but Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke says there is nothing magic about that number. | Continue reading
A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species that squirts clouds of glowing liquid from pocket-shaped glands. | Continue reading