Former Lebanese soccer player Assile Toufaily couldn’t help but cry upon hearing of an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. “I’m happy. They had some sort of objective to help Gaza, they did what they did. But it’s good they managed to find a way to end it,” she told CBC News from Lyon, …

If there’s one thing Canada’s premiers have always agreed on, it’s that the federal government needs to respect provincial jurisdiction. If there’s a second thing they now agree on, it’s that (notwithstanding their belief that governments should mind their own business) the federal government should spend substantially more on national defence — not least because …

The Israeli military said its air force struck a facility used by Hezbollah to store mid-range rockets in southern Lebanon on Thursday, after both sides accused each other of breaching a ceasefire that aims to halt more than a year of fighting. Israel said it also opened fire on Thursday on what it called …

Wicked reintroduced millions to the world of Oz last weekend — and has already made millions doing it. But aside from any magic it brought back into the world, audiences are noticing a trend. “People just have thrown all etiquette right out the window,” culture writer Amil Niazi told CBC News in an …

Australia on Thursday passed into law a social media ban for those under 16 years old, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech. From late 2025, platforms including Meta’s Instagram and Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, TikTok and Snapchat must show …

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. It’s an idea that thrills cancer researchers: a blood test that has the potential to …

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum got a foretaste of what dealing with Donald Trump’s return to the White House will be like on Wednesday night, when she was forced to correct what appeared to be Trump’s mischaracterization of their first conversation. On Wednesday afternoon, Sheinbaum tweeted that she’d had “an excellent conversation with President …

Parts of Toronto’s Immigration Holding Centre — where migrants are detained by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) before they’re either deported or released into the community to wait for their immigration cases to be heard — look like university dorm rooms. Minley Lloyd is a CBSA assistant director of …

Day 69:44What a new viral video reveals about the Iranian government’s approach to policing women’s expression When Azam Jangravi saw video of an Iranian woman walking around a university campus in Tehran stripped to her underwear, she was overcome with emotion.  “I started to cry first,” Jangravi, an Iranian-Canadian who’s protested …

The Current24:06My Dad Ward: Freeing women from trafficking This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Evelyn Zaccheus spoke in a whisper as she recorded the voice note. That’s because she was describing her slavery ordeal from inside her trafficker’s home in the Gulf country of Oman. After she hit …