ExxonMobil blames climate change on the public by using 'misleading' language

A new study suggests that ExxonMobil has used language to shift the blame for fossil fuel use from producers to consumers over the past four decades. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Quebec minister: Vaccine passport could be required for work, restaurants

Businesses in Quebec should be able to use vaccine passports to make their workplaces safer for staff and clients, Quebec's economy minister said, offering a first glimpse of how a vaccine passport system might work in the province. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Beaver-hunting wolves have perfected a sit-and-wait strategy

Researchers used location tracking to discover that wolves will wait up to 30 hours in hiding spots near beaver ponds to ambush the elusive rodents. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Bell's mission to teach deaf to speak harms hearing-impaired today, critics

Alexander Graham Bell's true passion, and the project he focused on his entire life and funded with his earnings from the telephone, was the education of deaf people. But according to author Katie Booth, the harm of oralism still reverberates today. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

The view from the ground in Gaza and Israel

Amit Sherman and Hala Shoman live 38 kilometres apart, in Israel and Gaza respectively. They share what it’s been like to watch the escalating violence unfold where they are. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Canada reports 28 cases of rare blood clots following AstraZeneca vaccinations

After distributing more than 2.3 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses nationwide, public health officials have so far identified 28 suspected cases of a rare but serious condition called vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently

Greyhound Canada is permanently cutting all bus routes across the country, shutting down the intercity bus carrier's operations in Canada after nearly a century of service. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Tesla to stop accepting Bitcoin as payment

Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting bitcoin as a payment, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, citing environmental concerns. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

What happens when people get two different Covid-19 vaccines?

As some experts continue to warn of very rare side effects associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, Canadian health officials are now reviewing the research on mixing various COVID-19 shots. Here's what you need to know. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Ontario will no longer give AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk

Ontario will no longer give the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine as a first dose due to the risk of rare blood clots. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Vancouver gang wars increasingly putting public at risk as death toll climbs

Ongoing conflicts between Lower Mainland gangs are putting innocent bystanders in even more danger as the killings move into public spaces and daylight hours.  | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Think reading means you're smart?

We tend to think that reading is a sign of intelligence, that we’re improved by it. But are our assumptions well-founded? Not really, according to an array of literary front-runners including Fran Lebowitz and Nick Hornby. Writer Barbara Nichol explores the assumptions we have ab … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins its 2-year trip home with asteroid debris

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Cyberattack on U.S. pipeline linked to criminal gang

The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide, which cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, two people close to the investigation said Sunday. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Like comfort food': Trailer Park Boys reflects on 20 years of life in Sunnyvale

Twenty years after the Trailer Park Boys debuted, the show about a foul-mouthed bunch of petty criminals from the Sunnyvale Trailer Park has become a part of Canadiana. CBC News spoke with some of the cast members to learn about the origins of the unlikely hit. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Fraser Canyon museum awarded for preserving early history of Chinese Canadians

Lorna Fandrich and her husband established the Lytton Chinese History Museum in May 2017. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Mother's Day can bring dread, and these companies are catching on

Mother's Day was already complicated for a lot of reasons, from grief to estrangement to infertility, not to mention the extra strain of the pandemic. Now, a slew of companies are recognizing the sting that can come with a Mother's Day mention, and they're giving customers the ch … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Why cats may have more to teach us about living the good life than Socrates

Unlike humans, cats aren't burdened with questions about love, death and the meaning of life. They have no need for philosophy at all. So what's to be learned from this "unexamined" way of being? English philosopher John Gray explains. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Peloton recalls 2 treadmills:1 for injuring children,1 for falling touch screens

Peloton is recalling its treadmills, including about 5,400 in Canada, due to safety issues. One model, not available in Canada, has made headlines for pulling children and pets underneath it, while the model sold in Canada has a screen that can come loose and fall to the ground. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time

In our push for a human presence in space, there has been a group who have been left out, no matter how well-educated, fit or skilled they are: people with physical disabilities. The European Space Agency is aiming to change that. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Trillions of cicadas from Brood X set to emerge

Within days, a couple of weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X will emerge in 15 U.S. states after 17 years underground. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to fall to Earth in the coming days

On April 29, China successfully launched a crew module for a space station that it says will be completed by the end of 2022. But the first stage of the rocket that sent that module into orbit is falling to Earth uncontrollably. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Broken marriages becoming pandemic's other toll

COVID-19 is taking a toll on relationships and creating a boom for divorce lawyers, couples therapists and even debt counsellors who are helping newly single clients chart a path forward through the pandemic. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Bill Gates to Divorce

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced in a joint statement on Monday that they have made the decision to end their marriage. The pair, who launched the world's largest charitable foundation, said they would continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Why Uber's Flexible Work+ plan could be a game changer for app-based drivers

Key to improving app-based work benefits is to preserve the flexibility that is crucial for many workers, writes driver Binyam Asress. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

At $289K Vancouver's most affordable property is also the city's tiniest

With just 9 feet of frontage, an East Vancouver property is listed for $289K with unapproved development plans for a tiny house. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or way to tell time

Montreal's Marina Lançon was one of 15 people who volunteered to spend 40 days in a French cave without any way to tell the time or communicate with the outside world — all in the name of science.  | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Covid-19 vaccine maker Providence says it's leaving Canada

The head of a homegrown company behind a promising COVID-19 vaccine says he's ready to pull his company out of Canada and take its product elsewhere after calls for more substantial federal support went unanswered. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Cheeky sign war sparks 'salty' battle between Ontario businesses

"Hey DQ, wanna have a sign war?" the owner of Speedy Glass in Listowel, Ont., posted on Monday. Now it's a battle of the businesses, with signs across the town taking digs. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Canada's Bill C-10 could regulate user generated content

The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial changes to a bill that would bring videos and other content posted to social media sites like YouTube under the purview of the country's broadcasting regulator. So what is it proposing? | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

U.K. woman bruises banana peels to make stunning art

London's Anna Chojnicka has created about 400 works of art by bruising bananas with a seam ripper. She creates the art over time, drawing on the areas of the peel she wants to be darkest, first. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Fireballs streaking across the sky spark hunt for space garbage

The fiery re-entry of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into the Earth's atmosphere created a bright spectacle on March 25, sending a trio of meteorite detectives on a hunt for the debris. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Video game giant EA steering players into loot-box option in FIFA, insider says

A gaming insider says an internal company document proves video game giant Electronic Arts is trying to drive players into a type of game play that encourages them to spend more money and which has come under fire for possible links to gambling.  | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable

Internet service is down for about 900 customers in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after a beaver chewed through a crucial fibre cable, causing "extensive" damage. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

NASA makes breathable oxygen from thin air on Mars

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Source for natural blue food dye in red cabbage

A natural alternative to blue food dye has been very challenging to find because nature doesn't provide a lot of options | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Canadian LTE carrier suffers nationwide outage

Rogers says some wireless customers Canada-wide are experiencing intermittent service interruptions for both voice and data services. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Alberta confirms first case of rare blood clot after AstraZeneca vaccine

Alberta confirmed a case of the rare blood clot disorder in a man in his 60s, who has received treatment and is recovering. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Castro era ending in Cuba as Raúl announces resignation

Raúl Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of Cuba's all-powerful Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by him and his brother, Fidel Castro, that began with the 1959 revolution. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Dandies rebelled against social, gender and fashion norms

The original British dandy dates back to the 18th century, but since then, several generations of, mostly, men who identify as dandies have been challenging prevailing conceptions of masculinity and rebelling against social norms. Now, some who've studied this cultural movement s … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

'Fear ageism, not aging': How an ageist society is failing its elders

IDEAS producer Mary Lynk explores what is the purpose of a long life? Traditional cultures often place older people at the top of social hierarchy, but in modern Western societies there's been a profound loss of meaning and vital social roles for older adults. What happened? And … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

After review, Health Canada says people shouldn't hesitate to get AZ vaccine

Following reports of rare blood clotting events among some who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine, Health Canada officials said Wednesday they still believe the product is safe — and Canadians should have no qualms about rolling up their sleeves for it when the time comes. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

A school custodian says she was fired after refusing to put an app on her phone that checked her location, citing privacy concerns. As more people work remotely in the pandemic, "tattleware" that tracks employees’ productivity is on the rise, prompting lawyers to call for more pr … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

Brian Robson wants to find the two Irishmen who helped stuff him into a wooden crate in 1965 and ship him from Australia back to the U.K. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Fish stole an antifreeze gene from another fish and became natural GMOs

Millions of years before scientists created genetically modified Atlantic salmon with genes from two other fish, nature created genetically modified smelt with a gene from herring, growing evidence suggests. And now the Canadian scientists who first proposed that controversial id … | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Are cheaper eggs just as nutritious as organic or free-run options?

Some of the cheapest, widely available eggs tested by Marketplace may be just as nutritious as some of the most expensive.   | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist

Chinese officials pressured a Montreal-based human rights research institute affiliated with Concordia University to cancel a conference featuring a prominent exiled Uighur leader, says one of the organizers. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago

Brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us

A year of chronic, unpredictable stress caused by the ongoing pandemic is leaving many people feeling unmotivated, unable to focus and lethargic. Here's why. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 3 years ago