Why naturopaths can mislead the public about their credentials

While New Brunswick's medical college has launched a legal challenge against several naturopaths for their false advertising, other regulators seem downright uninterested . | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Canada: Investigation into StatsCan over collection of financial data

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has launched an investigation into Statistics Canada after receiving complaints about the agency's collection of personal financial transaction information. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Kepler telescope decalred dead after finding thousands of worlds

NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

The good and not-so-good of CBC's Brazil election coverage | CBC News

It's our job at CBC News to explore this story from all angles. However, like any well laid plan, our coverage is only as good as its execution, and unfortunately we made some mistakes. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Bitcoin mining could cancel out climate change efforts, scientists say

Demand for bitcoin could single-handedly derail efforts to limit global warming because the increasingly popular digital currency takes huge amounts of energy to produce, scientists say. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Greener coffee pods? Bacteria help turn food waste into compostable plastic

What if plastic were made from waste like banana peels instead of petroleum? And what if, after use, that plastic decomposed? A Canadian cleantech startup aims to make that the future of food packaging such as coffee pods. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970

Well over half the world’s population of vertebrates, from fish to birds to mammals, have been wiped out in the past four decades, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

'It's an epidemic:' Inexpensive crystal meth eclipsing opioids on the Prairies

Opioid use continues to be a public-health crisis with just under 4,000 deaths across Canada in 2017 and over 3,000 in 2016. But officers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta say they're worried about crystal meth as a narcotic of choice. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

How the stories we tell ourselves might help create consciousness

Narrative thinking is how we process and understand our own story. American psychologist, Dan McAdams wrote, "We are all storytellers, and we are the stories we tell." But some of us have no unfolding internal autobiography that helps us bridge our brains and minds. Some of us ex … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Toronto privacy expert resigns from Sidewalk Labs over data concerns

A privacy expert who resigned this week from her role as an advisor to Sidewalk Labs, the Google sister company set to build a "smart" neighbourhood on Toronto's waterfront, is concerned that the "treasure trove" of data will be vulnerable to attacks. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs

Apple often overestimates the cost of repairs to its products and threatens third-party shops who are willing to fix them for a fraction of the price. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Rockstar Games is under fire for employees' extreme overtime

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser ignited a storm this week when he suggested employees at his studio worked 100-hour weeks. He's since clarified, but critics say extreme overtime is common in the industry. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Roboticist is teaching AI to write fortune cookies and TED Talks

Before Alexander Reben took to the TEDx San Francisco stage with a computer-written speech, he was trying to teach AI to write original aphorisms. The results are remarkable — and hilarious. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Canadian Mayor Sued for Blocking Residents on Twitter

Three local activists are suing Mayor Jim Watson for blocking them on Twitter, arguing that by doing so, he is violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms section on freedom of expression. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Canada to end solitary confinement in prisons

The Liberal government is moving to end the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tabled legislation to create new penitentiary units to house inmates separately while still offering them access to rehabilitation and other programs. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Canada's giant public health 'experiment' with legalized cannabis begins

Experts say making marijuana legal will help yield much needed insight into the drug's health effects — both positive and negative. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Marijuana is now legal in Canada

Recreational marijuana is legal, but the vision of a pot-permissive Canada still remains hazy. We try to answer some frequently asked questions surrounding legal weed. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

First legal weed sold in Canada at Newfoundland shops

"When's the last time you bought a gram and got a receipt for it? Never happened," said Canopy CEO Bruce Linton to his first customers as they stood in the front of the line for sales to officially start. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Parasite spread by cats threatens Quebec's endangered belugas, study shows

A new study suggests belugas are being increasingly infected with a parasite known as toxoplasma gondii, transmitted through the feces of cats. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Rogers, Fido and Bell call centre workers penalized for reducing plans

Current and former employees describe how incentive systems at call centres for Rogers, Fido and Bell mean agents who decrease service plans suffer penalties, leading to a culture of "doing as little as possible" for the customer. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Transgender Canadian woman sets off debate after winning cycling championship

Dr. Rachel McKinnon is the first transgender woman to win a world championship after she finished first at the UCI Track Cycling World Championship on Sunday. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

EverQuest, or 'EverCrack'? (2002) [video]

CBC's Wendy Mesley delves into the controversy surrounding a highly addictive online video game called EverQuest in 2002. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Apple under fire for allegations of controversial business practices [video]

The National goes undercover to investigate some of Apple's controversial business practices including allegations of overpriced repair charges and the battery/slowdown scandal. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Prepared for a crash: province expects hit from high-volume online pot orders

The province is anticipating high traffic volume when online marijuana sales go live. It says it's been working for months to crash-proof the website. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Why some newly licensed truckers aren't ready for the road

A hidden-camera investigation by CBC's Marketplace reveals how Canada's patchwork training and testing system leaves some new truckers ill-prepared to operate tractor-trailers — the giants of the road that are involved in about 20 per cent of deadly crashes in this country. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Complex wolf transfer underway on Lake Superior island

After years of serious decline, the wolf population on Michigan's Isle Royale is growing, thanks to human intervention. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Why Amazon's decision to raise employees' wages is a great deal – for Amazon

Amazon earned widespread praise for its plan to raise its U.S. employees' minimum wage to $15, but Wired reporter Louise Matsakis says the company has its own reasons for boosting workers' pay. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

The largest credit union in Canada is having a 48+ hour online services outage

Online services have been down since midnight Wednesday frustrating many customers. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Big Canadian restaurant chains hit by 'malware outbreak'

Restaurant company Recipe Unlimited, which owns many popular chains, has been told to pay ransom in bitcoin to retrieve data that hackers claim to have stolen. The company says the threat isn't real because its systems are protected. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

I'd like to biggie size my malware. Canadian restaurant chain shuts down stores

A Canadian company that owns popular restaurant chains including Swiss Chalet and Harvey's says it experienced a "malware outbreak" on Friday, forcing it to temporarily close some locations. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

A Quebecer spoke out against the Saudis then learned he had spyware on his phone

Omar Abdulaziz believes the Saudi Arabian government is trying to intimidate him into silence for his protests against its human rights record. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Is Neoliberalism Destroying the World? (CBC Ideas)

Deregulation. Infinite growth. Self-correcting markets. All are hallmarks of neoliberal thinking. But they're more than just assumptions about the economy. They undergird much of the most influential thinking about governance right now, and dominate political and economic thinkin … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

That weird interstellar comet? Astronomers have calculated its home star system

Astronomers are getting closer to determining where a strange visitor from another stellar system came from. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Federal use of A.I. in visa applications could breach human rights

A new report is warning about the federal government's interest in using artificial intelligence to screen and process immigrant files, saying it could create discrimination, as well as privacy and human rights breaches. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

City may limit Bitcoin mining facility's access to electricity during heat waves

The bitcoin mining facility is located right beside the city of Medicine Hat's new natural gas-fired power plant. The bitcoin plant can consume more than 60 megawatts of power — at least 10 times more electricity than is used by any other facility in the city. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Chatbot sends happy customer to suicide prevention site

The last thing a satisfied WestJet customer expected to hear when she sent the company a glowing review was a referral to a suicide hotline. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

The company behind Canada’s biggest phone scam

You've probably got the call: An automated message threatens you with arrest over unpaid taxes owed to Canada Revenue Agency. They may demand as little as $700 — though some have handed over more than $100,000. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Why did the bridge collapse?

The Reeve of the rural municipality of Clayton says the bridge that collapsed six hours after it opened was built without having geotechnical investigation done on the riverbed it stood on. A bridge building expert calls that approach "irregular." | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Small Ontario towns pay ransom after hackers hold computer systems hostage

Town officials in Midland have paid off hackers who compromised the computer system for 48 hours. This comes after Wasaga Beach experienced the same problem in July and also paid the ransom to reclaim data. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Researchers discover planet Vulcan from Star Trek – sort of

Researchers have discovered a planet orbiting a star just 16 light-years away, the very star that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said his fictional planet orbited. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

Read about what CBC News and the Toronto Star discovered after sending a pair of reporters undercover to a ticket industry convention in Las Vegas that brings together box-office giants and the world's top scalpers in the same room. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

I'm getting ripped off: inside Ticketmaster's price-hiking bag of tricks

Buying a ticket for Saturday's Bruno Mars concert in Toronto was probably never going to be cheap, but what many of the star's 17,000 fans who scored a seat might not realize is it wasn't just scalpers driving up prices. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Canada's artificial trans fats ban comes into effect – with a phase-out period

Artificial trans fats will be off Canadian plates for good, as the final step to ban them in Canada is scheduled to take effect Monday. Researchers believe a ban could prevent up to 12,000 heart attacks in Canada over 20 years. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

SpaceX signs passenger to fly around the moon

SpaceX says it has signed the first private moon traveller. The big reveal on who it is — and when the flight to the moon will be — will be Monday. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Litigation gone digital: Ottawa experiments with AI in tax cases

The Trudeau government is eager to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) software can help deliver federal programs more efficiently. Justice Canada is among the first out of the gate, with a pilot project to experiment with AI in tax litigation cases - even before clear ethi … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

'One of the boys': Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River

An unusual visitor has been hanging out in the St. Lawrence River for the past three years: A narwhal, more than 1,000 kilometres south of its usual range. And it appears that the lone narwhal has been adopted by a band of belugas. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

Probiotics might not help your gut microbiome and could prevent return to health

While over-the-counter probiotics are popularly viewed as enhancing health or helping protect against certain ailments, new scientific evidence suggests that in some cases, it could cause harm. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago

What has your data? Getting from the apps you installed

Nearly 60 per cent of apps collected more information than declared in their privacy policies according to a recent study that compared the stated practices of hundreds of apps with how they actually behaved. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 6 years ago