CBC News: Breaking & Local

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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About this app

From breaking news and now even more sports coverage, the CBC News App is a fast and easy way to catch up on what’s happening in your local area, in Canada, and the world.

Features:

News Alerts - Subscribe to push notifications for news stories that interest you and are relevant to your life.

In-Depth Coverage - Get trusted insights and in-depth analysis from our award-winning journalists.

Breadth of Coverage - Local, National & World news.

Live Coverage - Stream news as it happens and shows, including Canada's Nightly Newscast, The National.

Regional Coverage - Get the latest news headlines in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax and Calgary.

Personalization - Select your platform layout and the regional news you want to follow.

Save & Share Stories - Save stories to read later, even offline and share your favourite stories with friends.

If you’d like to report an issue or request a feature, please contact us at https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-us.

Ratings and reviews

Good news app, but its return to the start of an article any time I go back after looking at a picture or switch to landscape and back to portrait mode (whether deliberately or by accident). Very annoying. Also, my so-called local news feed is half full of international or national news. not sure if this is an algorithm thing, or just lazy editors of the local BC page.

Great content but I'm lowering my rating to one star because video hasn't worked for ages; I can only watch videos if I "share" the content with my browser and watch from there. Also, my phone's password manager can't distinguish between the Radio-Canada and CBC apps, making logins difficult. I contacted CBC about this and they basically told me to get lost. I found that unacceptable; they should have addressed the issue or at least explained it. The Radio-Canada app works flawlessly.

Good news source - bad app. Pinch to zoom disabled in app. Mobile website works better as ads can be better controlled. However, app has to be deleted from your device or the CBC mobile website will open in the app instead of your browser. App wants way too much information when signing up, and default cookie preferences and tracking are wide open. To their credit, most can be turned off, but the defaults are horribly permissive. Uninstalled.

What’s new

Hoping for a smoother and newer news experience? So were we and that's why we're introducing CBC News Android 4.14.0: a simpler and smarter way to savour the CBC News app.
And as always, we'd love to receive your feedback. Please share it with us on the CBC News app by accessing Settings > General > Send us your Feedback