Telecommunications provider Telus is dipping its paws into the world of veterinary care, with the launch of a new app offering telemedicine for pets.  Telus Health MyPet functions similarly to Telus’s virtual medicine offerings for humans; pet owners download the app onto their smartphones for free and create a profile …

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table her fall economic statement today — a roadmap of what’s to come from the federal government as the economy stands on the brink of a recession. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced some heat when he told reporters during the 2021 election campaign that he doesn’t …

This story contains an image of the film poster.  Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai is still being harassed online, though it’s been months since the director tweeted a poster for her documentary short that depicted the Hindu goddess Kali holding a Pride flag and smoking a cigarette. At the time, the Indian director …

A gunman opened fire at a container truck carrying Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday, wounding him slightly as well as some of his supporters, a senior leader from his party and police said. Party official Asad Umar says Khan was wounded in the foot and was not …

Just days before it announced sweeping housing legislation, Ontario civil servants warned Premier Doug Ford’s government it has “limited options” to force municipalities to comply with a key part of its new plan.  Provincial bureaucrats provided the advice last month in a draft document, which was obtained by CBC Toronto. They took issue with …

EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News and The Road Ahead commissioned this public opinion research in mid-October, starting six days after Danielle Smith won the leadership of the United Conservative Party. As with all polls, this one is a snapshot in time.  This analysis is one in a series of articles to …

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has completed his acquisition of Twitter, dissolving its board of directors and floating ideas on how to change the platform — and now some social media experts are weighing in on what the Musk era will do for democracy and free speech through the platform.  Musk, who is now the …

Oleksandr Kharchenko doesn’t believe in coincidences. The seasoned energy adviser to multiple Ukrainian government departments, agencies and parliamentary members told CBC News he saw a point last winter when his country’s electrical grid was at its most vulnerable. At the time, Ukraine was in the final throes of an almost decade-long process …

What’s old is new again in the debate around whether to store nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario.  In 1979, when Atomic Energy of Canada was consulting on its plan to bury nuclear waste near Atikokan,  Thunder Bay folk singer Rodney Brown’s gave a five-minute deputation expressing his opposition to the …

Three organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa are to appear today at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act. Benjamin Dichter, James Bauder and Tamara Lich will testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is examining the use of the emergency powers …