5-year-old B.C. boy celebrates birthday at recycling centre | CBC News For most people, recycling is a chore. But for Himmat Rai, a five-year-old living in Maple Ridge, B.C., he says it's his "favourite thing to do." And to celebrate his passion for recycling, Rai and ov...

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Internal files show CTA to reduce $790 fee for passenger complaints after pressure from airlines, minister | CBC News Internal documents show airlines and then Transport Minister Anita Anand pressed the Canadian Transportation Agency to scale back a proposed complaints fee — raising concerns about political interfere...

We looked at ATIP documents to see just how effective lobbying can be: airlines pushed back against a fee, and now it's being slashed
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Civic Searchlight is now free to use You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...

CivicSearchlight is now available for free for everyone, built by the amazing @rorywh.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com. It allows you to search municipal meetings across the country with keywords, and is really helpful for understanding how a topic has moved through time and jurisdictions. ❗☺️❗

The American streamer and political commentator recently at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in early February, where CBC’s Erica Johnson met up with him to ask about his massive popula... TikTok video by CBC News

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Victim of growing tuition scam knew exactly where her $37K went — but no one would help her get it back | CBC News A new scam is emerging across Canada: fraudsters who claim to give students a tuition break, but rip them off using stolen credit cards. When a Vancouver woman discovered $37,000 in fraudulent charges...

It's Fraud Prevention Month 💰 Here's one you probably haven't heard of...

Internal documents show Ottawa pushed to delay airline complaint fee — as taxpayers foot $30M for system | CBC News Over two and a half years ago, Parliament ordered the Canadian Transportation Agency to create a fee airlines would pay to cover some of the roughly $30-million taxpayer cost to process air passenger ...

"Public lobbying records show representatives from Canada’s major airlines and associations have held almost 150 meetings with government officials since Parliament directed the CTA to create the cost-recovery fee."

89-year-old scammed out of $1.7M in life savings — blames RBC and CIBC for not protecting him | CBC News A Victoria man says two of Canada’s biggest banks failed miserably in protecting him from one of the largest bank investigator scams ever reported. Royal Bank and CIBC claim they have robust protectio...

89-year-old loses $1.7M to scammers; advocates say Canada needs to hold banks liable for not doing enough to prevent fraud -- our latest from Go Public

A one-page statement with the header 'CJJP, Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine' followed by 'Our Statement on the Targeted Killing of Journalists in Gaza by Israel, Monday August 25, 2025'

🚨 Israel has just killed five more journalists in Gaza. 🚨

We call on Canada, a founding member of the Media Freedom Coalition, to fulfill its obligations under international law. The only way is a full two way arms embargo and sanctions against Israel now

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Constitutional challenge launched over rules preventing air passengers from speaking about complaints | CBC News The Air Passenger Rights group is taking the federal government to court over rules preventing passengers from talking publicly about complaints filed with Canada’s airline watchdog, saying they are u...

"The only entities that benefit from this are the airlines" www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

Canadian universities increasingly relying on admissions test which experts say lacks evidence | CBC News Most Canadian medical schools are screening future physicians with something called the Casper test — marketed as being able to assess people skills and predict future success. But critics say there’s...

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Ontario judge calls out WestJet's attempt to muzzle passenger in dispute negotiations | CBC News In what’s believed to be a landmark decision, an Ontario small claims court judge has condemned WestJet for including a gag order in a settlement offer with a customer. An air passenger rights advocat...

"Beware of seniors, they have a lot of time on their hands" our latest from Go Public www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

Safety concerns raised after Air Canada had no record these passengers were on its flights | CBC News Go Public heard from six people on four different flights who had their return tickets cancelled after Air Canada incorrectly deemed them “no-shows” on earlier flights, requiring them to buy new ticke...

"It feels like I'm in a Franz Kafka novel"

Air Canada passengers repeatedly overcharged for baggage, but airline faces no fines | CBC News An Ottawa man says Air Canada was ‘misleading’ when it sold his family tickets that included one bag each, only to be charged for baggage again upon check-in. An aviation analyst says Air Canada is br...

Travelling with multiple airlines, but on one itinerary? There should only be one set of baggage rules www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

Air Canada must pay $10,000 to mistreated passengers, Yukon judge says

"[Passengers] who saved for three years for their-one-week vacation were treated shamefully, being moved around without any thought of the effect of this experience [...]."

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during a canada post strike is when you really see the consequences of having virtually no labour journalists at major publications in canada, but a load of business journalists ready to parrot the corporate line

Two months ago, CBC Go Public began publishing a series of stories about telco customers outraged over price increases during contracts. Today, the CEO of Rogers appeared before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about that. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

"They think we're stupid" ... MPs reacting after Rogers CEO doesn't show up to a committee hearing -- our latest from CBC Go Public

If you have a dispute with an airline in Canada, you may be surprised by how much secrecy is involved in resolving the issue...

Trudeau says Canada will 'abide by all regulations, rulings of the international courts.'

"...doctors and other health professionals who are called out for shoddy testimony face no consequences and there's nothing stopping them from appearing in court again"

Two stories about John Horgan John Horgan loved his family, his province, a good dad joke, and trying his level best every day.

Anyone who interacted with John Horgan probably has a couple of stories they’re thinking of today.

Here are two of mine.

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