My year as a refugee: A 13-year-old girl in a foreign land
I will always love Syria because it is where I came from, but I want to live in Canada, especially now that my sister, Yaman, is here too.
I will always love Syria because it is where I came from, but I want to live in Canada, especially now that my sister, Yaman, is here too.
A former national security adviser to two prime ministers says he was concerned about leaks of classified information at National Defence and occasionally ordered RCMP investigations. But Richard Fadden declined to answer questions about the RCMP probe into the military's second-in-command.
Don't worry too much about a strong Canadian dollar, experts say. A Trump-led currency war would be far more dangerous.
Confidential briefing notes prepared by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office for President Donald Trump’s transition team and obtained by CBC News flagged Canada’s dairy policies and the “deeply rooted” softwood lumber dispute as trade issues to watch.
A quadriplegic woman says the home-support service she received in Surrey, B.C., often left her having to choose between being fed or having her diaper changed.
While some of the actions taken by U.S. President Donald Trump have sparked outrage and demonstrations across the country, many of his supporters seem very pleased indeed. CBC News spoke with some of them in western New York.
Almost 115 years ago, Abraham and Camelia George left the small Syrian village of Mattan Arnouk.
A French police officer has been charged with the rape of a youth in a high-rise Paris suburb who was severely injured after allegedly being sodomized with a baton.
The family of a severely disabled girl who died last month marked what would have been her fifth birthday by releasing balloons.
The founder of the Hydrant Club talks about protecting K9 police officers, the damage that can be caused by dog parks and what she has learned about human interaction by studying the behavior of dogs.
Find out about women- and minority-owned businesses. We rank them by the number of local employees as of Jan. 1.
The right answer always comes from a robust dialogue, which is driven by constructive and well-intentioned disagreement.
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Humanity has been preparing for the worst for millennia. Whether it’s man-made, divine retribution or a calamitous natural disaster, “the end has pretty much always been just around the corner,” Sam Sheridan wrote in “The Disaster Diaries.” Survivalism is now a movement and an industry, and Las Vegans are in on it.
The Bundy family’s rejection of the Bureau of Land Management’s control of public lands goes back decades and more than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees, but it was the confrontation at an overpass near their Bunkerville ranch that resulted in the 16-count indictment that soon will be settled in court. Federal trials related to the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville begin Feb. 6 in Las Vegas ...
The next hire for UNLV’s athletics director is hugely important, considering the state of the school’s sports programs and the impending changes in the Las Vegas market (hello, Vegas Golden Knights and Las Vegas Raiders!), so the pressure is on the Rebels to get this one right. So, who’s in the running, and who’s doing the hiring? ...
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Gerome Sapp had an hour to come up with a business concept during a class break at Harvard Business School. He was hungry but he didn’t want to eat from a vending machine. And that’s how his fast-food concept came to be.
Like private insurance, Medicare spreads its costs across a pool of insured people. Late-enrollment penalties are meant to ensure that people join the risk pool when they’re healthy, not just when they get sick. Thus, premiums paid by healthy people help offset the costs of those with illnesses, keeping the program’s overall expenses as low as possible for everyone.
The spines on those succulents are just waiting to dive into your skin if you get too close, and the same caution should be exercised around snakes, scorpions and the occasional Gila monster. The desert is beautiful to visit, but you need to be prepared in case it attacks (hint: not all water worries have to do with dehydration).
Some say the gap — a simple Census Bureau ratio of the difference in median earnings — is a myth, or at least misleading. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker emphasizes the significant effect of life choices tied to gender, and the fact that the gap narrows going from median to weekly wages, or that women on average have less work experience than men and favor flexible hours over higher pay.
