As the NBA prepares for its third straight pandemic-affected season, player vaccinations have quickly turned into a hot-button issue. The conversation prompted basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to go public with his stance that every NBA player should be vaccinated.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

Russia on Sunday reported a record daily death toll from COVID-19, the fifth time in a week that deaths there have hit a new high.

The widely shared obituary for Karen Sydow, a woman who lived with cerebral palsy, resonated with Dr. Jillian Horton. "I had a sister like Karen," she says. "My years of being her sibling taught me a painful truth: the world is better at caring about people like Karen in death than in life."

If the U.S. side of the border remains closed next month, some snowbirds will be shelling out big bucks to fly to the U.S. and transport their RVs across the land border.

Questions are being raised about the Catholic Church's claim it provided $28 million worth of "in-kind" compensation to residential school survivors.

Chrystia Freeland may be staying put in finance, but that's the only easy call facing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he puts together a cabinet out of what the election left him.

Majority of respondents supported elimination of blind bidding for home sales in a recent poll commissioned by CBC News.

I’ve always struggled with my body, but it took nearly four decades until I was diagnosed with an eating disorder, writes Gregory Walters.

According to Elections Canada, the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — the country's three biggest cities — account for 116 of Canada's 338 ridings. And the results in those ridings help to tell the story of both the Liberal victory and a fundamental split in federal politics.