A hiker who went missing in B.C.’s backwoods has been found after surviving more than five weeks in a remote park in B.C.’s northeast as snow fell and temperatures plunged. CBC News confirmed the information through family, as well as individuals involved in the search.  Sam Benastick, 20, was first reported …

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the Speaker of the House of Representatives if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke. Lucas Bersamin, the country’s executive secretary, referred the “active …

Two recent online trends are sweeping social media — and dividing people across gender lines, some say. Women are taking on the roles of men, calling it Women in Male Fields, jokingly sharing negative comments they’ve received in ways that flip the script.  “He lost his temper so I asked him, ‘Is it …

Will Canada escape the potentially economy-smashing tariffs threatened by Donald Trump? If you can’t answer that question, congratulations, you’re in good company. It’s the multibillion-dollar enigma on the minds of some of the best-connected people in North America’s capitals. Trump has threatened a 25 per cent tariff on every product entering from …

This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the next election will be the “carbon tax election,” but his campaign isn’t the only one calling for an end to Canada’s carbon pricing policy. The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) analyzed social …

Pakistani security forces launched an operation Tuesday night to disperse supporters of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan who had gathered in the capital to demand his release from prison. The latest development came hours after thousands of Khan supporters, defying government warnings, broke through a barrier of shipping containers …

A First Nation in southern Alberta is suing the federal government for $1 billion, the latest in a series of lawsuits which argue that annual payments promised in treaties should have been adjusted for inflation. The Bearspaw First Nation filed the proposed class-action lawsuit in Calgary on Tuesday, inviting other Treaty …

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Canadian political leaders can’t control the fact that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. Neither can they stop him from threatening to take illogical steps that could hurt American businesses and consumers almost as much as they would hurt Canadians. But Canadian political leaders can control how …

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose trade lawyer Jamieson Greer as his new U.S. trade representative, elevating a key veteran of his first-term trade war against China to execute a sweeping tariff agenda that promises to upend global trade. “Jamieson will focus the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on reining in …