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
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
NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Experts say making marijuana legal will help yield much needed insight into the drug's health effects — both positive and negative. | Continue reading
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
"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
A new study suggests belugas are being increasingly infected with a parasite known as toxoplasma gondii, transmitted through the feces of cats. | Continue reading
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
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's Wendy Mesley delves into the controversy surrounding a highly addictive online video game called EverQuest in 2002. | Continue reading
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
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
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
After years of serious decline, the wolf population on Michigan's Isle Royale is growing, thanks to human intervention. | Continue reading
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
Online services have been down since midnight Wednesday frustrating many customers. | Continue reading
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
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
Omar Abdulaziz believes the Saudi Arabian government is trying to intimidate him into silence for his protests against its human rights record. | Continue reading
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
Astronomers are getting closer to determining where a strange visitor from another stellar system came from. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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