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Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas gets university assignment extension at Olympics

Canadian figure skater and McMaster University student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on her sociology assignment one day after going viral with her ...

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I wanted to complete a triathlon. My first step? Learning to swim

At the age of 37, Alberto Ortiz's swimming had been casual dips in lakes or resort pools. But when a cousin made a joke about training for a triathlon, the idea stuck. When the traini...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
With Maduro gone, Venezuelans test freedom to criticize leaders

Just over one month after the United States captured then-President Nicolas Maduro, some Venezuelans opposed to the government have become increasingly bold in challenging the new autho...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Civil rights pioneer says after almost 70 years, story of the Little Rock Nine still 'resonates'

Long before her work as an anti-racist educator and environmental campaigner in Canada, Minnijean Brown-Trickey showed enormous courage as one of the Li...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Watch these ice climbers scale Hamilton’s Tiffany Falls

Climbing company Muskoka Mountainworks took a group to Tiffany Falls in Hamilton for the first time last month. Two of the climbers tell CBC Hamilton they've long wanted to scale the frozen wat...

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February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Sidney Crosby named captain of Canada's men's hockey team

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Sidney Crosby was been named captain of Canada's men's hockey team at the Milan Cortina Games.

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February 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Beautiful, wonderful, or Toronto transit's black eye? Whatever it is, the Eglinton Crosstown is finally open

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT line has finally opened Sunday morning, over 15 years after construction first started on the long-delayed projec...

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
How aggressive free agency moves led the Patriots and Seahawks to the Super Bowl

Winning the headlines during free agency in March doesn't typically lead to success in January and February in the NFL. But this season, two of the most aggressive team...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Suspect in shooting of senior Russian officer detained, Russia says

Russia’s Federal Security Service said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed o...

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February 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Toronto man found adrift in Atlantic Ocean pleads guilty to stealing boat

Mohammad Saleh, who was arrested on board a boat drifting east of Sable Island in the Atlantic Ocean last fall, has pleaded guilty to charges of theft and possession of stolen...

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February 8, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Central Alberta clinic pioneers ‘first-of-its-kind’ sexual assault care

This ‘first-of-its-kind’ centre in Red Deer, Alta., is diverting over a third of sexual assault cases away from busy hospital emergency rooms, providing patients with a calmer a...

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Characters in Oscar-nominated short brought to life by award-winning actor Colm Feore at Kitchener studio

An animated Canadian film produced by the National Film Board of Canada which has been nominated for an Oscar has local connections. The Girls ...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Apartment residents say fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of 11-year-old was preventable

A man who lives in a Regina apartment building says the carbon monoxide detector in his unit sounded just hours before another resident, an 11-year-old boy, died.

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Family by design: Program connects kids with volunteer 'grandmothers'

A new program that links kids with volunteer grandmothers is helping bridge generations in Ottawa.

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February 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Why Spain is aiming to regularize half a million undocumented migrants

While the United States has intensified its immigration crackdown and deportation efforts and European countries are closing their borders one after the other, Spain's left-wing ...

#cbc #cbc-world-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Provincial officials still trying to find way to raise abandoned tidal turbine

Ten months after the Nova Scotia government’s Energy Department took the lead on finding a way to recover an abandoned tidal turbine from the depths of the Bay of Fundy, ...

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 10:17 AM
MLA Don Monahan enters provincial PC leadership race

There’s now a second declared candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

#cbc #cbc-newbrunswick-news #Canada #NewBrunswick
February 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
No place for politics in F-35 cockpits as Canadian fighter jet pilots get ready to train at U.S. base

While procurement for Canada’s complete fighter jet fleet remains up in the air, advocates say politics need to be set aside as members of the Roya...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Man behind the Clarity Act has choice words for Alberta separatists and Danielle Smith

Former Liberal cabinet minister Stéphane Dion is lambasting the brewing separatist movement in Alberta and demanding Premier Danielle Smith clarify her position a...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
No desks, no strategy: Experts say government's latest return-to-office order ignores reality

With federal public servants mandated to return to the office four days a week this summer, experts and unions are sounding the alarm over a lack of clear ...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Most of the world doesn’t require a prescription for birth control. Why do Canadians still need one?

Some Canadian doctors say patients on birth control need monitoring. But medical authorities in other countries increasingly disagree.

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February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl is not so much of a rematch as it is a matchup of contrasts

This year's Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks is all about contrasts, from a heralded defence vs. an underrated one, to a...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Brad Arnold, lead singer of Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, dead at 47

The band said in a statement that Brad Arnold "passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, in his sleep after his courageous battle with cancer."

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM