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Oscars 2025: The full list of winners
Anora, a movie about a young stripper who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch, won best picture at the Oscars Sunday — marking the end to one of the most scandalous awards seasons in recent memory.
Gap widens between financially stable Canadians and those struggling with debt, says report
The number of Canadians in debt is on the rise across the country and, according to a new report, there's a growing gap between those who have benefitted as interest rates come down, and those who have fallen behind from the higher costs.
Want to buy Canadian? There's an app for that
Wouldn't it be great if your phone could just magically tell you whether the products you want to buy are Canadian or not? Well, now it can — thanks to savvy entrepreneurs across the country who've created apps to meant to help shoppers identify the origin of everyday staples.
From Coca-Cola to local Canadian brewers, the prebiotic soda industry is booming. Here's why
Coca Cola is introducing a line of prebiotic sodas, marking the legacy company's first foray into the "functional" soft drink market led by upstarts Olipop and Poppi — and further tightening competition as more Canadian brands launch their versions of the fizzy drinks.
Inflation rose to 1.9% in January, with low prices on GST-free goods offsetting high energy costs
Canada's consumer price index rose to 1.9 per cent in January, as higher energy prices weighing on overall inflation were partly offset by the federal government's tax holiday, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
The GST holiday ends on Saturday. Did it make a difference for shoppers and businesses?
With the two-month GST holiday wrapping on Saturday, shoppers and small businesses across Canada have weighed in on whether the tax break made a meaningful difference — and the results are mixed.
Why major countries can't agree on how to regulate artificial intelligence
More than 60 nations gathered in Paris this week to pledge a responsible approach to regulating artificial intelligence. The AI summit was meant to bring world powers together to set a global agenda on the rapidly developing technology — instead, it showed that some of them are diverging sharply.
Bell Canada offering severance packages to 1,200 unionized employees
Bell Canada is offering severance packages to 1,200 unionized employees, attributing the move to "unprecedented challenges" in the telecom industry, a spokesperson confirmed to CBC News on Tuesday.
Canadian businesses already feeling the effects of Trump's steel, aluminum tariff order
Canadian steel and aluminum businesses are already feeling the consequences — and the déjà vu — of Donald Trump's latest tariff promise, several years after he targeted the same industries with a punishing import tax.
Booze, language laws and maple syrup? Here's how interprovincial barriers impact your daily life
There's been a lot of chatter about interprovincial trade barriers lately — namely, that Canada should remove them, with federal and provincial officials saying that opening up domestic trade could soften the impact of potential U.S. tariffs. But what are these barriers, and how do they impact our daily lives?