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Nursing homes with repeated violations continue to break law, despite Ontario’s promise to crack down

Ontario long-term care homes continue to break the law without facing serious penalties, with egregious consequences for seniors in the province. “We need...

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Mi’kmaw chief sees better future through MMIWG action plan

Spurred on by the pain from her own family tragedy, Annie Bernard-Daisley has spent the past few years fighting for justice for Indigenous...

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Liberal Party triggers ‘electoral urgency’ clause to speed up nominating candidates

The Liberal Party’s national campaign co-chairs have declared a “state of electoral urgency,” a procedural move that will allow the party to speed...

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Instructions for outfitting an RCMP car were left on federal website after Nova Scotia attacks in 2020

More than a year after a gunman’s lookalike RCMP car helped him move through Nova Scotia undetected and kill 22 people, federal officials...

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Partially paralyzed Indigenous man left in wheelchair he can’t operate outside Toronto ER files complaint

It felt like –7 C outside when Charles Hussin found himself kicked out of a downtown Toronto hospital’s emergency department in January and...

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Why it’s important for Indigenous people to tell our own stories

This First Person article is the experience of Ossie Michelin, a Labrador Inuk journalist from the community of North West River. For more...

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Craft beer industry faces reckoning as claims of sexism, misogyny and assault pour out online

As Jake Clark watched the #MeToo-style reckoning unfolding in the craft beer industry she went through a range of emotions — from heartbreak, to anger, to...

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Big TSX companies tripled number of Black board members in past year — but there are still only 26

This story is part of a CBC News exploration of systemic racism, including anti-Black racism, and the promises for change made last summer....

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Rain barrels a hot commodity as summer approaches

Last year’s hot, dry summer, an increased interest in home gardening, and a rising awareness of the effects of climate change have people...

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Survivors, faith leaders, call on Catholic Church to take responsibility for residential schools

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Taking in the sight of hundreds of shoes on the steps of the...

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‘Rainbow capitalism’ is pandering, pure and simple, but it can still help drive social change

This column is an opinion by Aimee Langer, a Master of Public Policy candidate at the School of Public Policy at the University of...

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Canadian Coast Guard moving toward gender-neutral uniforms

Each year, the Canadian Coast Guard College welcomes dozens of new recruits to its waterfront campus in Westmount, N.S.  One of the first assignments of...

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Opposition pushing Liberals to act following discovery of children’s remains at Kamloops residential school

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to search the grounds of other former residential schools following the discovery of remains...

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Vancouver teenager was one of 12 mistakenly given Moderna instead of Pfizer vaccine

A  teenager in Vancouver said she was accidentally given the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine instead of the Pfizer-BioNTech, which is the only one in Canada...

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Manitoba officials didn’t heed warnings about a 3rd COVID-19 wave. Now hospitals are overwhelmed

Across Canada, most provinces are relaxing pandemic restrictions or planning on reopening their economies later this spring or in the early summer — but Manitoba...

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I wanted to do things perfectly: How the model minority myth affects me and other Asian people

This first person piece was written by Florence Hwang, a journalist with CBC Saskatchewan. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please...