Nell Smith, the B.C. teenager known for her collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips, has had her first solo album announced, four months after she died in a car crash.

Israel’s defence minister has ordered the army to prepare a plan to allow the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew widespread condemnation over U.S. plans to take over the strip.

A different kind of shopping experience is seeing an increasing number of bargain hunters up to their elbows in plastic bins and boxes, rooting for deals on items that others have returned or have gone unsold.

A man who helped start a class-action lawsuit claiming systemic racism in the Canadian Armed Forces is opting out of the final agreement. Wallace Fowler says the individual payments up to $35,000 don’t go far enough.

The PCs promised to build 1.5 million new homes by 2031, but economic headwinds have seen housing starts stall. Now Ontario’s major parties are pitching their own plans to boost home construction and bring down the cost of housing.

Canada’s national mail carrier is laying off nearly 50 managers to save money, CBC News has learned. The job cuts include firing the company’s chief financial officer last month — and dozens of layoff notices are going out this week.

While questions remain about how the sculptures ended up for sale, the teacher and the artist say theirs is a story about friendship — and the kindness of strangers.

Look at it this way — there’s almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won’t hit the Earth in eight years. Still, there’s up to a two per cent chance it will, according to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Shireen Talaba and her brother, Khaled, were displaced from their Gaza City home to Khan Younis when the war began. When Khaled and two of their cousins were killed, Shireen vowed that when the war ended, she would find a way to bring their bodies home.

The reaction in Washington to the Canada-U.S. deal to pause tariffs is as polarized as the politics. To those on the U.S. right, Trump is a negotiating genius who achieved big wins. To the left, he’s a self-obsessed sucker who got duped by old promises in fresh paint. But most don’t know what’s in the plan. Canadians should.

American refineries still rely on Canada’s supply, while OPEC+ nations can manipulate global markets to undercut U.S. producers. Ramping up shale and offshore drilling isn’t a sure bet, given investor reluctance, infrastructure challenges and local opposition.