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Members of Canada's music community are mourning the death of beloved musician Jocelyn Morlock, a Juno award-winning composer who spent years as the composer-in-residence at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.The 53-year-old's death was…

Summer McIntosh is now the world record holder in the 400-metre freestyle event.The 16-year-old swimming phenom electrified the hometown crowd with another memorable performance on Tuesday night at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on…

Tonight, just after sunset, skywatchers across B.C. will be in for an eye-popping show.Five planets — Mars, Uranus, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter — will be lined up in an arc and visible on the western horizon from almost anywhere on Earth."I…

If you've ever considered moving away from the hustle and bustle of Australia's major cities, there might be no better find than this private island off the coast of Queensland.Nestled just over a kilometre off the Whitsundays on the…

Randall Robinson, a self-described “pained victim of stolen identity” raised in segregated Virginia who grew up to galvanize Americans against apartheid in South Africa and champion reparations for the descendants of slaves, died on Friday…

After walking down a path where enslaved people once marched in chains to waiting ships, Vice President Kamala Harris entered a dungeon in Cape Coast, Ghana, where captive women had sung songs praying for death. If nothing else, her tour…

A former United Conservative Party candidate who resigned after controversial messages she sent came to light has won a permanent restraining order against the man who distributed those messages to the media."Ultimately, I am satisfied on…

The family of a woman who died in a "catastrophic" car crash caused by an erratic motorcyclist in Surrey, B.C., has been awarded nearly $2.5 million in damages.The husband and teenage children of Mariam Ghaly, 42, sued the motorcyclist in…

The RCMP will be getting tens of million of dollars over the next three years to ramp up investigations related to the harassment and intimidation of immigrant diaspora communities in Canada.The $49 million allocation is buried in Tuesday's…

A 22-year-old homeless man who is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy at a Toronto subway station Saturday was on probation when the attack occurred, and has been charged in recent…

The 2023 federal budget is proposing spending to make life more affordable, encourage investments in green energy, provide improved health-care services and roll out the next stage of the federal dental care program. It also offers targeted…

A photographer whose work documents and celebrates the homoerotic is among the winners of this year's Governor General Awards in Visual and Media Arts.Evergon, 77, said he'd hoped to receive one of the Artistic Achievement Awards…

Police in Nashville have released confronting bodycam video of officers responding to the primary school shooting that left six people dead.The deadly incident on Monday at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting in the US. Three…

Southern Manitobans still have that walk. The quick-paced one, with shoulders shrugged to the ears, heads down and hands driven deep into the pockets of their down-filled coats.It's a walk they've performed since November, to stiffen …

Director Ryan Coogler is set to "remount" The X-Files, says the creator of the paranormal sci-fi series. Chris Carter told CBC's On the Coast Monday that he recently spoke with Coogler, who directed Black Panther and the Rocky spinoff…

Video released on Tuesday showed Nashville police officers storming a private Christian grade school on Monday before confronting and fatally shooting an attacker who killed three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members.The six…

This item is part of Watching Washington, a regular dispatch from CBC News correspondents reporting on U.S. politics and developments that affect Canadians. What's newHere's an attention-grabbing charge: the idea that Canada might be…

WARNING: This article contains details of self-harm.Four months after child intervention workers withdrew services, 13-year-old Wren died from a drug overdose.The Alberta girl, who loved to hike, camp and swim, had a traumatic upbringing…

The ousted ruling party of Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was among 40 political parties the military-appointed election commission dissolved on Tuesday, after they failed to meet a registration deadline for an election set to…

WASHINGTON — A political crisis in Israel and setbacks to democracy in several other major countries closely allied with the United States are testing the Biden administration’s defense of democracy against a global trend toward the…

The streets of Israel have boiled with anger and frustration for three months. And they continue to seethe even after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayu paused — just a little — in his quest to rein in the country's judges.He will…

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX of conspiring to bribe Chinese government officials with $40 million US worth of…

In proposing his judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said he was restoring the balance of power between elected lawmakers and unelected judges. “It is not the end of democracy, it is the strengthening of…

Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov gave Britain the thumbs up as he took a ride in what he said was the first British Challenger 2 main battle tank to arrive in Ukraine.Britain said in January it would send 14 of the tanks to…

In a sign of easing tensions in Israel after the suspension of a contentious judicial overhaul, the United States ambassador to Israel said on Tuesday that President Biden would host the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in…

At least 39 people were killed on Monday night and 29 others injured when a fire broke out at a government-run migration facility in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, the authorities said.The fire broke out at the…

Three Perth bikies have been convicted of breaching tough new gang laws after they were busted showing their club tattoos while shirtless at a pool party.Rebels trio Jamie Ginn, Jason Pettigrove and Jesse Copeman were the first to be…

WorldAt least 39 migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention centre in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, federal officials said.Another 29 people suffered injuries in the nighttime fire at the facility in Ciudad JuarezThe…

The Archdiocese of Vancouver and one of two local high schools facing allegations of systemic sexual abuse have now filed their own lawsuits denying any wrongdoing, saying any mistreatment of students was through no fault of their own.The…

Millions of Australians have had their data compromised in recent major cyber attacks and while the crime may be committed virtually, it can have very real consequences for victims.Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial Services are among…