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Mercy Ships Canada recognized as the Most Dedicated International Healthcare Organization in the Canadian Business Awards 2024.

Looking for a book to read before summer ends? Check out the CBC Books reading lists for mystery and crime, historical fiction, sci-fi and fantasy, rom-com, comics and graphic novels, middle-grade & YA and picture books!

Looking for a good summer read? Transport yourself with these historical fiction books by Canadian and international authors.

Books make great gifts. From history to fantasy and everything in between, here are some suggestions for your mom on Mother's Day.

A DECADE AGO, while living in Houston, Texas, I volunteered as a patient escort at the city’s Planned Parenthood downtown office. Then located on a busy street, the reproductive-care clinic’s public location attracted a diverse cross-section of the anti-choice movement. The scenes outside the office ranged from the bizarre to the ghoulish. In a modern interpretation of the Battle of Jericho, one man circled the building seven times every afternoon and blew on a shofar, in hopes that the clin...

It's time once again for Canada Reads! This year's panellists and the books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 26.

, won the  Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor Generals Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont. The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books) The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English,  The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Ind...