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1042 episodes transcribedComing off his Album of the Year win at the Grammys, where he made a statement denouncing ICE, Bad Bunny will take the stage at the Super Bowl half ti...
Clara Hughes. Hayley Wickenheiser. Beckie Scott. Legends of Team Canada with 13 Olympic medals between them. So what do they watch for when Team Canad...
A young bar-tailed godwit code-named B6 flew for more than 13,000 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in 2022. That's the longest known sustained fligh...
Toronto Star Crime Reporter, Jennifer Pagliaro on an investigation by York Regional Police connecting several Toronto police officers to organized cri...
Scrap chocolate and vanilla: mango, coconut, and pistachio are the hot new Canadian ice cream flavours… in Mexico, that is. Ice cream is one of many C...
Canadian hockey legend PK Subban is one of the executive producers of a new CBC special, Rivals: the Four-Nations Face-Off -- chronicling that epic ho...
Lily and Jack Sullivan have been missing for nine months. For the first time their maternal grandmother is speaking in a CBC exclusive interview.
The number of homeless people in smaller cities, towns and in rural communities is climbing. We hear from two mayors who are grappling with the surge...
Many of us participate in Dry January — and go right back to drinking during the other eleven months of the year. Sure, Dry January can be a great jum...
New research from the Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that more people aged 14-20 are being diagnosed with psychotic disorders, includi...
Files released by The U.S. Department of Justice show that many high-profile figures who've tried to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein were chu...
“The future is fungal,” says Toby Kiers. She has won the "green Nobel" for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi — the vast underground network that act...
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff sees potential in the disruption that's come along with AI. He says it's an opportunity for us to reclaim our humanity...
NASA’s Artemis II mission is about to send a crew farther from Earth than any human has ever gone. The mission marks the first crewed lunar flight sin...
Everywhere you turn, there's a distraction, and the evidence suggests we're all reading fewer books. Some have described it as a "crisis". We speak to...
Sport is for many a part of their national identity. So what if your nation doesn’t fall within one country’s specific borders? That’s the genesis of...
The Artemis II mission will send four astronauts, including Canadian Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the moon and back. It’s the first crewed l...
According to the UN, the world is entering an era of “water bankruptcy,” a term scientists are using to describe what happens when water use outpaces...
The Conservative Party convention is underway in Calgary, and Pierre Poilievre will face a leadership review tonight. Jason Kenney, the former premier...
The price of gold hit another record high this week. People see the precious metal as a safe haven during unstable times. But there are other reasons...
