“How do I meet new people?” That question — especially for adults — is all over the internet. CBC News spoke to Calgarians about how they’re making friends, and an expert on the cost of loneliness and social isolation.

In late July 1990, in the waters off Nova Scotia and at a tiny Cape Breton wharf, a plot to unload around two-dozen tonnes of hash was foiled by RCMP, the coast guard and the military. A judge later called the plan “one of the largest conspiracies ever to import drugs through the Nova Scotia coast.”

Lisa Richardson had an unplanned pregnancy in her teens and gave up that child for adoption. She always assumed that getting pregnant and becoming a mom would be easy when she was ready. But life took an unexpected turn.

Iranians have faced a near-total blackout for more than 70 days straight. The shutdown has cost the Iranian economy an estimated $250-million US a day.

Francine Shimizu-Orgar has frequent nightmares when her mind replays moments from the recent inquest into her daughter’s death at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital. But if the inquiry, which the family pushed for, wasn’t held, what happened to 24-year-old Heather Winterstein “would never have come out,” Shimizu-Orgar tells CBC from the family home in the Niagara region city.

One hundred years after Winnie the Pooh was published, it continues to enchant. Its origins have a happy beginning in the bond between a Canadian veterinary soldier and the cub he named for his adopted hometown, but the story takes an unhappy turn as the Milnes struggled with the effects of fame.

Police in parts of Canada are warning high school students about the risks of playing a game that may have the public mistaking their water guns for real weapons. In one Ontario community, police are investigating students who appear to have targeted an unhoused Indigenous man.

In a Venice Biennale taking place at a time of wars, tension over migration and climate anxiety, the Canadian pavilion poses a quieter question: Who gets to live with nature, who gets to protect it and who is shut out from it?

The federal Liberals have said since 2021 they’ll restrict vaping flavours nationwide, but now Canada’s health minister won’t say when or even if it will still happen — despite widespread expert advice a ban could help curb the country’s staggering youth vaping rate.