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Canada Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says.Continue Reading

The Canadian military is training for potential conflicts in the North. Here’s what that looks like in Eeyou Istchee Natalia Weichsel/CBC A swarm of troops dressed in white and wearing snowshoes glide across a frozen valley. Suddenly they stop, form a line, kneel and pull out their rifles. Smoke fillsContinue Reading

Saskatchewan·First Person Marwa Abu Eita had a career as an architect, but while working with her husband’s construction company, came to feel like lost her independence. Making the leap to immigrate to Canada helped her find a new direction and professional fulfilment. In Dubai, I lost my confidence. In Regina,Continue Reading

Canada·CBC Investigates CBC’s visual investigative team tracked 68 flights by the RCMP’s Black Hawk helicopters that were aimed at cracking down on illegal migration. Mounties leased helicopters for $5.3 million amid effort to tighten border Tracking the $5.3M border Black Hawks: Were they worth it? The RCMP leased two BlackContinue Reading

Canada In B.C. and Ontario, there’s been public chatter about doing away with time changes for years. In Saskatchewan, most people have never changed their clocks. Here’s a primer on where each of the provinces and territories stand. Most provinces have mulled ditching twice annual time changes at some point.Continue Reading

Canada A historic deal that calls for three major tobacco companies to pay out billions in compensation to provinces and territories as well as former smokers across Canada has cleared its final legal hurdle in Ontario, bringing a decades-long court saga to a close. 3 major companies to compensate provinces,Continue Reading

Canada Political anxiety isn’t new, but it’s arguably been more intense lately given Trump’s “shock and awe” strategy since taking office, most recently around the tariffs he’s threatening to impose. CBC News asked Canadians to share how Trump’s policies are affecting their mental health and they said they’re feeling helpless, scared andContinue Reading

Canada A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023. 2 Akwesasne residents face U.S.Continue Reading

As far as Laken Pavan’s family knew, he was backpacking around Europe, soaking up the sights. But the 17-year-old had a different plan when he left Vancouver in April 2024. First he flew to Turkey. Then to Moscow, and on to Russian-occupied Donetsk in Ukraine.  And it was there that heContinue Reading