What's making news on March 18NewsDuration 1:21Edmonton's police chief is standing by his decision to travel to Israel, Canada could see an AI and culture advisory council and rising fuel prices could start impacting the cost of other goods.

A Saskatoon medical clinic has introduced a 'three strikes and you're out' policy for people who fail to show up for doctors' appointments. Under the new policy that started Jan. 1, Lakeside Medical Clinic gives no-show patients a warning the first time, then levies a $50 fee for the second offence, according to the clinic's website. The clinic charges $20 or $40 for missed appointments, which are generally scheduled for either 15 minutes or 30 minutes. Like Lakeside, Erindale introduced a three-strikes policy that warned patients they could lose their doctor after three straight missed appointments. Erindale's no-show policy was introduced after the clinic started using an online notification system called Medeo.

What’s the wildfire risk in Nova Scotia this year? NewsDuration 2:59Wildfire season has started in Nova Scotia and preparations at Natural Resources are well underway. The CBC’s Aly Thomson visited the department's headquarters to find out what’s new this year and what Nova Scotians can expect from this fire season.

PGA Tour rookie sensation learned the game in WinnipegNewsDuration 2:10Sudarshan Yellamaraju, who tied for fifth place in the Players Championship over the weekend, was born in India but moved to Winnipeg as a preschooler, where the now 24-year-old pro was introduced to the game of golf.

A St. John’s house tied to an alleged homicide that happened three months ago was scorched by fire in the early hours of Wednesday. Firefighters were called to 243 Empire Avenue at around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a St. John’s Regional Fire Department’s report. House site of December homicideThe residence is also the site of a recent death. In December 2025, police discovered a deceased 41-year-old male in this same home on Empire Avenue in St. John's. Download our free CBC News app to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.

A Nova Scotia Community College culinary instructor in Cape Breton is teaching his students to cook and kill lobsters more humanely. Adam White, who works at the NSCC Sydney Waterfront Campus, was a chef for 15 years and has been a culinary instructor for 20 years. Adam White is a culinary instructor at NSCC. (Submitted by Adam White)Chefs used to cook lobsters by boiling them alive in heavily salted water for about 11 to 14 minutes, White said. Boiling lobsters alive is against the law in a number of countries, including Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand.

Trump’s top counterterrorism official resigns over war in IranNewsDuration 2:58U.S. President Donald Trump again lashed out at NATO for not helping out in the Strait of Hormuz on a day where his top counterterrorism official quit over the Middle East war and two more high-ranking Iranian leaders were confirmed killed.

When the authors looked at research on self-reported self-harm, they found a 2.5 per cent yearly increase across both girls and boys. She says the increasing trend of self-harm that her research found, is what she sees playing out at the hospital. Research also finds that adolescents who self-harm are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression or a substance use disorder as young adults. While this latest research doesn’t explore what’s behind the increase, the study's authors suggest that social media is partly to blame. While social media didn’t encourage her, Pauli says she remembers when self-harm content was more easily available and shared online.

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There was never any question what Prime Minister Mark Carney thought about the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa. In their leave application, the government argues that the Federal Court of Appeal decision “hamstrings governments’ ability to respond effectively to future crises,” but this is simply not true. The Emergencies Act is explicit that governments can take extraordinary measures to deal with situations that pose a serious risk of violence and that cannot be dealt with using existing laws. It turns out Carney is not so different from Trudeau after all. Josh Dehaas is Counsel with the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a legal charity that challenged the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the rules made under it in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal.

The owner of an Old Montreal building that caught fire in 2023, killing seven people, is being charged with seven counts of manslaughter. The charges against Benamor come nearly three years to the day since the building, a more than 100-year-old heritage property on Place D’Youville, went up in flames. Seven people died when a fire broke out at a heritage building in Old Montreal on March 16, 2023. Photo: Radio-CanadaThe fire, which began in the early hours of the morning on March 16, 2023, left seven people dead. The charges against Benamor allege he committed manslaughter in connection with the deaths of all seven victims.

Two Sudbury domes used for various sports during the winter months collapsed after a winter storm dropped upwards of 40 centimetres of snow. The dome covered an artificial turf which some soccer clubs and school sports teams use to play year-round. The Sudbury Indoor Tennis Centre had to deflate its bubble which protects tennis and pickleball courts for year-round play. (Jonathan Migneault/CBC)The smaller Sudbury Indoor Tennis Centre bubble, located at Sudbury’s Queen’s Athletic Field, also collapsed from the weight of the snow and ice. She said the centre has around 400 members who use the bubble to play tennis and pickleball year-round.

What Hezbollah wanted us to see in this villageNewsDuration 5:33As the Israeli military and Hezbollah continue to exchange strikes, analysts say the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon is losing fighters, infrastructure and some of its ability to re-arm. For The National, CBC’s Susan Ormiston examines its control and visits a village in the Bekaa Valley to find out why people still support the group, despite years of fighting.

The federal government is bringing its case to justify use of the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points to the country's highest court. In the 2024 decision, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, since retired, said the government's decision lacked justification, transparency and intelligibility. The government has long argued the protests posed a security threat and the measures it took under the Emergencies Act were targeted, proportional and temporary. WATCH | Federal government met threshold to invoke Emergencies Act, commissioner says: Federal government met threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: report | Duration 3:24 The final report out of the Emergencies Act inquiry found the federal government met the threshold to use it, as convoy protesters choked downtown Ottawa and blocked border crossings in early 2022. Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu criticized the government's decision to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

In the provincial budget released on Tuesday, tourism funding increased overall, but a few individual sites ended up on a list of cuts. Last fiscal year, the province spent $87.8 million on tourism, and under the new budget, $92.8 million is budgeted. But while the budget overall grew for tourism, a memo distributed to reporters from the province said that 10 “underutilized” provincially-owned tourism and heritage sites that saw under 5,000 annual visitors would be divested. Grand Manan Mayor Bonnie Morse said Anchorage Provincial Park is popular with locals as well as tourists. Clouston said she understands that governments have to make hard decisions about funding, but she said the budget for tourism is already small to begin with.