At the Venice Biennale, Canada’s entry blooms with unease

In a Venice Biennale taking place at a time of wars, tension over migration and climate anxiety, the Canadian pavilion poses a quieter question: Who gets to live with nature, who gets to protect it and who is shut out from it?


Winnie the Pooh has been beloved for 100 years. But fame wasn't so enchanting for the real Christopher Robin

One hundred years after Winnie the Pooh was published, it continues to enchant. Its origins have a happy beginning in the bond between a Canadian veterinary soldier and the cub he named for his adopted hometown, but the story takes an unhappy turn as the Milnes struggled with the effects of fame.


'It haunts my dreams': Heather Winterstein’s mother reflects on marathon inquest into Ontario ER death

Francine Shimizu-Orgar has frequent nightmares when her mind replays moments from the recent inquest into her daughter's death at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital. But if the inquiry, which the family pushed for, wasn't held, what happened to 24-year-old Heather Winterstein "would never have come out," Shimizu-Orgar tells CBC from the family home in the Niagara region city.


5 years after promising to restrict vaping flavours, its unclear whether Canada will

The federal Liberals have said since 2021 they'll restrict vaping flavours nationwide, but now Canada’s health minister won’t say when or even if it will still happen — despite widespread expert advice a ban could help curb the country's staggering youth vaping rate.


Ontario police investigating Senior Assassin game after unhoused man sprayed with water gun

Police in parts of Canada are warning high school students about the risks of playing a game that may have the public mistaking their water guns for real weapons. In one Ontario community, police are investigating students who appear to have targeted an unhoused Indigenous man.


I had an unplanned baby at 17. I never expected to battle infertility in my 30s

Lisa Richardson had an unplanned pregnancy in her teens and gave up that child for adoption. She always assumed that getting pregnant and becoming a mom would be easy when she was ready. But life took an unexpected turn.


Giving birth in a hotel room? For some Indigenous women, gaps in care mean few options

Across many northern and remote Indigenous communities, families must leave weeks before giving birth. Some travel alone, others bring a support person, while children and extended family stay behind.


Motorcyclist seriously injured after crash leaves bike dangling from B.C. traffic light

Police say a motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash near the Surrey-Delta border Saturday afternoon left a motorcycle dangling from a traffic light above a busy intersection.


Toronto FC welcomes Messi's Inter Miami at new-look BMO Field in World Cup dress rehearsal

An Inter Miami-Toronto FC match at the new-look BMO Field on Saturday provided a dress rehearsal for the FIFA World Cup next month.


Hockey icon Ernie 'Punch' McLean killed in northern B.C. crash

Ernie 'Punch' McLean led the Western Hockey League (WHL) New Westminster Bruins to four consecutive Memorial Cup finals and two championships between 1975-1978, and coached more than 100 players who later skated in the NHL.