Alberta stopped tracking class sizes. Then it changed its funding formula. Now, it's a teachers' strike issue

Get a rough idea of how much Alberta’s teaching staff has grown compared to how much student enrolment has grown since the funding formula for school boards was changed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-teacher-strike-funding-formula-class-size-data-9.6932618?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 04:15PM

Celebration highs, lows for Blue Jays fans after ALCS home game tickets sell out

It’s been a rollercoaster day for many Toronto Blue Jays fans, from seeing the team sweep the New York Yankees in a 3-1 series victory to losing out in the Ticketmaster race to score seats for the next round.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/blue-jays-alds-victory-ticketmaster-race-9.6933173?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 04:00PM

B.C. tables historic legislation to smoke out deceptive vaping advertising

Attorney General Niki Sharma said her government's proposed law to to recover health-care costs from companies that market vaping products as safe or target youth is modelled after similar laws used to sue tobacco companies and opioid manufacturers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/deceptive-practices-vaping-law-british-columbia-9.6933076?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 03:52PM

Israel and Hamas agree to halt fighting in Gaza, Trump says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/israel-and-hamas-agree-to-halt-fighting-in-gaza-trump-says-9.6932831?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 12:53PM

Slain gang leader extorted thousands from Montreal-area restaurateurs, documents show

Financial records uncovered during a 2019 murder investigation detail what police say was a web of people, and seemingly restaurants, who owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Charalambos Theologou, the organized crime kingpin shot dead at a Starbucks in Laval, Que., last week.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bobby-the-greek-extortion-montreal-restaurant-arson-1.7653439?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 08:00AM

CBSA systems outage at Canada-U.S. border a 'big red flag,' says security expert

Border officers told they're union the September IT outage may have led them to miss potential security flags at Canada-U.S. crossings. The CBSA says safety standards were upheld, but security experts call it a big risk.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/cbsa-border-security-outage-canada-united-states-security-9.6931825?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 08:00AM

Inside the shadow war in Ukraine

Covert assassinations, sabotage, and the involvement of a terrorist group tied to Canada -- we take you inside the shadow wars between the Kremlin and Kyiv.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/inside-the-shadow-war-in-ukraine-9.6932212?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 12:00PM

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, perhaps best known for 1989's novel The Melancholy of Resistance, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nobel-literature-prize-swedish-academy-9.6932746?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 11:47AM

Meet the woman behind P.E.I.’s famous ‘mile-high’ lemon meringue pies

Joan Blanchard has been making pies at New Glasgow Lobster Suppers for an incredible 50 years. We took a look inside the kitchen to watch the magic happen as she made some of her final desserts.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6929027?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 09:00AM

N.S. Palestinians say Canada’s visa program failing families trying to flee Gaza

A Palestinian woman in Halifax, N.S., is making an impassioned plea for Canada to speed up its special measures visa program for people trying to escape Gaza, about 20 months after applying to bring her own family here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/najlaa-alzaanin-palestinian-canadian-special-measures-visa-9.6931873?cmp=rss

October 09, 2025 at 09:00AM