"I'd say the most consequential difference in 2025 has been the volume, the simultaneous volume," Guillot said in an exclusive interview. That kind of activity, defence analysts say, is intended to test the reaction of the U.S. and Canadian militaries. "There's certainly Russian activity in the Arctic to the east of our continent," Guillot said. He said the questions the two countries are asking themselves include whether it makes sense to expand NORAD and include missile defence in the binational command, or allow each nation's operational commands to manage missile defence themselves, as U.S. NORTHCOM already does. Last summer, Defence Minister David McGuinty quietly removed the decades-old prohibition Canada had on participating in the U.S. ballistic missile defence program.

While mosquito- and tick-borne diseases are not of major concern in Newfoundland and Labrador yet, they’re something to monitor going forward, say researchers and a public health official. A recent Memorial University study set out to determine which mosquito species can be found in the province and what viruses they carry. Both Chapman and Sarkar said more research is needed to identify high-risk areas, which can be used for recommendations to both public health and people. Risk of Lyme disease remains lowAnother animal that can carry a dreaded disease and is regularly raised as a concern among residents in the summer months is the tick, which can transmit Lyme disease. (Henrike Wilhelm/CBC)While any provincial case of Lyme disease seems to have been contracted elsewhere, Fitzgerald said public health continues to monitor the situation — something that’s also the case for mosquito-borne viruses.

About 300 people took the time to fill out our 2025-26 audience feedback survey. The data we gather through our survey carries an obvious selection bias: the people filling it out are Cabin Radio’s existing audience. (Remember, Cabin Radio already exists as a listening option online, so you can hear what you’ll get on FM!) The appMore than 30 percent of respondents use our app for news and more than 20 percent use it to listen to Cabin Radio, so it’s getting good use. “My only suggestion is to optimize the Cabin Radio app for Android,” one wrote.

Canadians are losing trust in major institutions, including Parliament and the school system. Statistics Canada released the “confidence in institutions” results from the Canadian Social Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 earlier this month. Survey respondents were asked to rate their confidence in police, the justice system and courts, the school system, Parliament and Canadian media. (Media saw a low point in 2023 but has since gained ground, though 36.2 per cent is certainly nothing to write home about. This data was collected using the Canadian Social Survey, a Statistics Canada initiative that began in 2021.

But he cautioned against overestimating the importance of the visit, noting that Canada remains a U.S. ally. He is not the first new leader of a country to try to repair relations with China. Relations had deteriorated under the previous conservative government, leading to Chinese trade restrictions on wine, beef, coal and other Australian exports. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has sought to repair ties with China since his Labour Party ousted the Conservatives in 2024. It has indicated it would remove some of the tariffs if Canada were to drop the 100% charge on EVs.

Intern al government documents obtained by Go Public suggest Transport Canada officials and successive transport ministers worked to delay — and potentially undermine — an effort to force airlines to help pay for Canada’s air passenger complaints system. Neither the CTA, the transport minister, nor the ministry — which is also known as Transport Canada — agreed to interviews. Former ministers of transport in office since the CTA was directed to implement a fee did not respond to our questions. CTA proposes fee – and faces pushbackAfter Parliament ordered the fee for airlines in 2023, the agency proposed charging $790 for each eligible passenger complaint. 'Deliberately sabotaging' implementationBy May 2025, a new transport minister — Chrystia Freeland — was in office.

The Indigenous brothers were moved from Ottawa to live with Cooney and Hamber in Burlington in 2017 but remained wards of the Ottawa CAS. Halton CAS was in charge of supervising the family on a daily basis, and did so until the older brother died and the younger brother was removed from the couple's care in December 2022. The Halton Children's Aid Society said in a statement it is 'committed to learning everything' it can from this case. Advocate highlights 'really bad decisions'The Halton CAS had received many reports from people concerned about how Hamber and Cooney were treating the boys. The Ottawa CAS said it acknowledges the need for "better collaboration" and "co-ordination" between service providers, including other CAS agencies that are supervising adoption processes, schools and hospitals.

To celebrate the Road to the Junos and Juno Awards coming to Hamilton this year, CBC Hamilton has teamed up with CBC Music to bring you the chance to win exciting live music tickets. To enter, tell us about a memorable Hamilton music moment: A show you'll never forget, a Hamilton band or musician you saw in their early days, or a local music venue that made you fall in love with the city or the music scene. We want to hear how music influenced your view of this city, how the music scene left an impression on you, or how a moment here shaped your own relationship with music. The shows will feature local artists and will run in advance of the 2026 Juno Awards, being held in Hamilton on March 29. ET, Jan. 18, 2026.

Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond present a single, beginner-facing "How to Play D&D" resource that lays out what new players and Dungeon Masters need to know to get a table rolling. The flow of play is broken into easy-to-digest parts: roleplay, ability checks and saving throws, and combat rounds. For people ready to play, the resource points to free and low-friction options. Start small: read the basics, try the free intro adventure, build a Quick Build character, and jump into a Discord or local store session. Don’t overprep—roll a character, lean into roleplay, and let the dice teach you a few rules as you go.

(Lexi Freehill/CBC )Dukey’s triplets, dubbed Carla, Darla and Marla, were born healthy, an outcome Simpson and her family are grateful for. The odds are already long for triplet calves to be born, and it’s even more rare for them to survive. Incredibly, Carla, Darla and Marla are not Lucky 7’s first set of thriving triplets. But in the meantime, Stacey Simpson said she is happy to keep milking the novelty of such a rare occurrence. “We’ll probably keep up with Marla, Carla and Darla throughout the year just because we’ve gained a huge social media following from it,” Simpson said.

In Minneapolis, demonstrators moved toward the street where Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother, was shot; other actions targeted hotels believed to house federal agents. Local law enforcement and city officials said dozens of detentions and citations were issued as some gatherings became confrontational. Those episodes intensified calls for systemic reform, oversight and restrictions on how federal enforcement operates in local jurisdictions. Beyond the immediate political and legal questions, the protests underscored public health and community impacts that advocates warn are often overlooked. Lawmakers and local officials face pressure to balance public safety, civil liberties and community health.

Passengers hear banging, screaming from trapped baggage worker before takeoffNewsDuration 1:58An investigation is underway after a ground crew member at Toronto Pearson International Airport got trapped in the baggage hold of an Air Canada Rouge plane shortly before takeoff, only to be rescued when passengers on the Moncton-bound flight heard noise below them. [Correction: A previous version of this video description stated the incident happened in Moncton, N.B. In fact, the plane was at an airport in Toronto.]

A Kamloops, B.C., powerlifter who started breaking records in his 60s says it's never too late to start strength training. Larry Daoust, 66, specializes in the bench press and holds records with the B.C. Powerlifting Association and Canada Powerlifting for his age and weight class, having benched as much as 200 kilograms in competition. You'll notice in the gym there's many guys that are spotting me when I lift heavy and they're in their 70s. So when you have these lofty goals that you made in the new year ... take [it] step by step and just work out, learn.

These operations resulted in at least 110 deaths, occurring without judicial processes or a formal declaration of war by the U.S. Congress (Zegarra et al. During that same month, at least two vessels were seized by U.S. forces on the grounds of alleged “illegal operations” (Ali et al. Energy security renewed great-power competition, and the revival of interventionist doctrines increasingly converges in “strategic” areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Furthermore, to what degree could similar dynamics unfold around other strategic energy and mineral resources across the LAC region? It emphasises the interactions between political entities and physical landscapes (Blondeel et al.

Team Canada’s figure skating contingent for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games has been revealed at the conclusion of the 2026 Canadian National Skating Championships in Gatineau, Quebec. The Olympic team will include three ice dance duos, two pairs, and one competitor in each of the men’s and women’s singles events. Those quota spots were allocated based on placements at the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships. The skaters now…