This First Person column is the experience of Atefa Rahimi, who moved from Afghanistan to Saskatoon. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. It was still dark when my little sister and I got up at 2 a.m. to train before everyone else in Kabul woke up. I …

Good luck picking up the books on an unofficial summer reading list from the Chicago Sun-Times. Hoping to delve into the “multigenerational saga” Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende, for instance? Keep dreaming. Maybe a science-driven story like Andy Weir’s The Last Algorithm is more to your taste? The algorithm can’t help you. OK then, how about …

Warning: This story contains distressing details of sexual offences against minors. For almost three decades, Richard John Dyke preyed indiscriminately on children who strayed into his dark orbit. The 48-year-old husband of a small-town home daycare operator pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual interference, child pornography and voyeurism charges on May …

NFL owners unanimously approved allowing players to participate in flag football for the 2028 Olympics. The vote at the spring meetings Tuesday authorized the league to negotiate safety provisions and scheduling logistics with the NFL Players Association and relevant international and national team governing bodies before it becomes reality during …

Quebec Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe tabled a bill today that would force streaming giants to add French-language content and make it more easily accessible to users. Bill 109, titled An Act to affirm the cultural sovereignty of Quebec and to enact the Act respecting the discoverability of French-language cultural content in the digital environment, has been …

One chess grandmaster versus the world. Who would you bet on? Chess.com, the website where the record-setting match took place, had predicted Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen would emerge victorious by a large margin in a mega-match against more than 143,000 players. But on Monday, after an online freestyle match spanning …

A B.C. hospital employee who alleges an ex-partner of his shared a nude photo of him without his consent has been told he had no reasonable expectation of privacy for the picture he took of himself while at work. His complaint was dismissed by the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) in a …

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of North American students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and school districts into paying ransoms. Matthew Lane, 19, entered into a plea deal on …

After users in Ontario and Quebec reported a widespread outage of Bell Canada’s services this morning, the company said an update triggered the interruption and that it had since fully restored its system. “Bell conducted an update that impacted some of our routers. We rolled back the update to quickly restore services,” a spokesperson for …

Iran has said it is “ready for talks” with Canada about renewing long dormant diplomatic relations between the two countries, but that Ottawa must be the one to make the first move. “The relationship was frozen unilaterally by Canada, not by Iran,” said Esmail Baghaei, a foreign ministry spokesperson, at …