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May 6, 2026 | Airbus Canada has secured a multibillion-dollar deal with AirAsia. Three patients have been evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship. And, a new report shows OpenAI exposed Canadians to potential privacy risks.Welcome to The National, the flagship nightly newscast of CBC News.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans was able to assess the animal for injuries on Tuesday.

It's unknown how many people may have been able to access an online database with the personal information of millions of Albertans. The CEO of a domestic violence organization in Calgary calls the situation "disturbing" and says it puts victims at risk.

Anthropic on Wednesday said it reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk's SpaceX, marking a détente with its one-time critic and ‌a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is facing mounting calls — including from the maker of the iPhone — to amend his lawful access bill amid concerns it will weaken digital encryption and introduce cyber-vulnerabilities.

Japanese news media reported that Honda Motor plans to indefinitely halt the development of its $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Canada, though Honda Canada said they had nothing to report at this time. Ottawa acknowledged automakers face "significant challenges," but did not say whether the company had updated them on those plans.

Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight.

Hoping to see the Stanley Cup return to the country, Canadian fans from other teams are shifting their allegiance to the Montreal Habs, the only team north of the border that advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs.

Bell parent BCE said the employees were let go for “clear violations of our code of conduct” following an internal review.

The Andes hantavirus, identified aboard the MV Hondius, can spread through person-to-person contact. The ship is now headed to the Canary Islands.

The Carney government is being pulled in opposite directions on the industrial carbon price anchoring its delayed agreement with Alberta, with environmentalists looking for a quick ramp up and the industry arguing any carbon price is too steep.

Canada is willing to let foreign investors buy stakes in Canadian airports, Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Wednesday, as the federal government considers trying to raise money to fuel its economic growth agenda through the privatization of public assets.

The artificial intelligence company behind the hugely popular ChatGPT collected "vast amounts" of Canadians' personal information and failed to obtain appropriate consent for doing so, a three-year probe from four Canadian privacy watchdogs has found.

Nate Erskine-Smith is accusing Liberal staff from the Ontario legislature of working for a key rival in a heated race for the party's nomination to run in an upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection.

Facing mounting pressure to stop the looming expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone, the Carney government is refusing to outline its plans.

A council committee on Wednesday approved spending $54 million more over the next three years to haul snow from city streets.

The suspect, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, is facing multiple charges.

Azuri Bacchas was just four months old. On Wednesday, his mother was found not criminally responsible for murder due to her schizophrenia.

Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he discovered the note after the incident in July 2019

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, trying to explain to lawmakers his contact with the financier after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak left for Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated, a Reuters witness said. While many residents say they fear its arrival, public health experts are urging calm.

The U.S. and Iran are speaking with each other, around each other and past each other

Russia’s participation in the first Biennale since the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine led to Russian punk group Pussy Riot and members of Ukrainian feminist organization FEMEN rushing the exhibition area.

Elon Musk sued OpenAI in 2024, seeking $150-billion on the grounds that it improperly became a for-profit company

Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reported on Wednesday citing a press release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

The Foreign Ministry says Moscow would retaliate if Ukraine attempted to disrupt Russia’s May 9 commemorations

The battle to see who runs in the fall is heating up. Here are six things to know

WHO says hantavirus risk remains low globally, confirms eight cases and three deaths.

Airbus says the agreement with the low-cost Malaysian airline marks the largest single firm order for A220 planes in the Quebec-based manufacturer's history.

'It’s very much a response to the many attacks against Mexico from Trump,' the club's owner said in an interview with The Guardian.

The World Health Organization has identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person, in passengers who were on the cruise ship.

The Chinese minister’s comments followed an earlier statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he was pausing his effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment for further detail on the progress in negotiations that Trump mentioned.

Blown-out walls, columns, and a collapsed roof left the site in ruins, people trapped without access to exit routes and at risk from further explosions.

An emergency response team was deployed after a bystander reported a vessel in distress near the South Ballina break wall in northern New South Wales.

A World Health Organization official said that the cruise stopped at several islands off the coast of Africa, some of which 'have a lot of rodents.'

Photos from the scene showed a car with a battered front and a shattered windshield after the incident, which killed two people and seriously injured three others.

Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf accused the U.S. of undermining regional security with the effort to end Iran’s hold on the strait, warned Tehran will respond.

A Massachusetts State Police cadet, already hobbled from a previous bout, raised his hand to take on a more skilled fighter, and investigators say no one stopped him. Four people face charges.

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.

Here’s what to know about the virus, how it spreads and the risk to the general public.

Three people with possible symptoms of the disease were evacuated on Wednesday morning from the MV Hondius before it headed to the Canary Islands.

The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone Democratic district.

People in at least three states are being monitored after being on the ship. None have shown symptoms, officials said.

Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.

The administration’s latest shifts on the status of the conflict show how treacherous it is to speak for a president who cultivates an erratic style.

The former New York City mayor, who is improving after a serious case of pneumonia, suffers from a respiratory condition linked to his exposure to toxins at ground zero, his spokesman says.

A federal judge released the note on Wednesday, which Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel. The New York Times has not authenticated that Mr. Epstein wrote it.

Asia-Pacific markets jumped, shrugging off renewed tensions in the Middle East.

The U.S. and Iran are close to a memorandum of understanding that would end the war and establish a framework for further negotiations, Axios reported.

Oil prices rose Thursday, as investors continue to assess the latest developments in the Middle East amid concerns over renewed tensions between Iran and the U.S.

Social media influencers are urging consumers to read labels and pushing traditional companies to make healthier products or risk being replaced by newer entrants.

China called for a "prompt resumption of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz," though that point was absent in Iran's statement.

At Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the company is 'working as quickly as possible' to provide additional compute.

Uber said its net income took a $1.5 billion hit in the first quarter of 2026 due to the revaluation of the company's equity investments.

Stocks rose and oil prices plunged on news reports signaling the U.S. and Iran could soon strike an agreement to end the war.

Oil executives have warned that the supply disruption in the Middle East will soon cause actual fuel shortages in some parts of the world.

Apollo CEO Marc Rowan warned that markets face an elevated risk of unexpected shocks, saying he is positioning the firm defensively for an expected correction.

The airstrike on the Haret Hreik neighborhood targeted the leader of the Radwan forces, Hezbollah’s elite and battle-hardened fighting unit, Israeli authorities said.

As talks continue and proposals are exchanged, Washington and Tehran still disagree on what has been agreed.

More than 140 people remain on the Hondius, which will take about three days to reach the Spanish archipelago for screening. A local official has criticized the plan.

It’s the third consecutive month that multiple models have predicted that a potentially record-breaking El Niño could drive global temperatures to new highs.

The criticism of the pontiff’s stance on Iran highlighted what Vatican officials have described as an unprecedented low in relations with the United States.

Ilya Remeslo was put in a psychiatric hospital after criticizing Vladimir Putin. Now free, he said that he will not stop his crusade against the Russian president.

A cluster of cases aboard the ship off Cape Verde may be linked to a type of hantavirus found in Argentina that can spread from person to person, the World Health Organization said.

Iran’s foreign minister warned the U.S. should be wary of being dragged into a “quagmire” after tensions flared in the Strait of Hormuz.

The president has repeatedly suggested that the conflict was nearing a conclusion while simultaneously escalating threats against Tehran.

A letter from 30 lawmakers calls on the U.S. to expose Israel’s weapons program, which it doesn’t acknowledge and was built in secret beginning in the late 1950s.

The man sued his tour operator for allowing people to reserve sun loungers with towels despite a hotel ban on the practice.

The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.

The road crossing is the latest sign of the deepening relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow.

The unmanned aircraft can drop off 100 parcels a day within a 12km radius of Amazon's hub.

The polls on Thursday will be the biggest test of public opinion since the general election in 2024.

With reports of abuse and deaths fuelling concern among parents, questions are growing over whether CCTV can offer real protection for children - or not.

Luis Enrique's expertise at rebuilding a culture as well as a team means Arsenal will confront the complete package when they meet holders PSG in the Champions League final.

Luis Enrique's expertise at rebuilding a culture as well as a team means Arsenal will confront the complete package when they meet holders PSG in the Champions League final.

With Paris St-Germain waiting in the Champions League final, will Arsenal withstand the firepower of one of Europe's most formidable attacks and lift the trophy for the first time on 30 May?

Protests have taken place at the prestigious arts fair over the inclusion of Russia for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A judge says Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing bears as part of a plan to help recover a herd of caribou that was once an important source of food for Alaska Native hunters

The Justice Department has gone after several of Trump’s perceived political enemies, most recently with the fresh indictment of former FBI Director James Comey

The Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law, according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen allegedly criticized the Iran war before the attack on the Correspondents’ Dinner

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch

Israel has continued to carry out strikes in southern Lebanon since a ceasefire was agreed last month

The New York Times petitioned to unseal the document, after Epstein’s cellmate publicly described the contents of the message

"The Book of Mormon" will close through May 17 after a fire shut down the musical

Craig Berry died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities

Shivon Zilis, 40, insisted her relationship with Musk never influenced her judgment as an OpenAI board member