CBC News

CBC News Free App

Rated 3.32/5 (5,039) —  Free Android application by CBC Mobile

About CBC News

Welcome to CBC News for Android

Get news and analysis that matters to you, when you need it. Customize your menu to get the local news headlines you want. Subscribe to push alerts from your choice of our newsrooms across the country and find out about breaking news as it happens. Watch video from CBC News including The National live or on demand.

Features:
- Read national, international and local news and analysis
- Customize your app to get the local news that matters to you
- Subscribe to breaking news alerts from your choice of newsrooms across Canada
- Use our special section dedicated to breaking news to see headlines as they happen
- Watch high-quality news videos, including The National on Chromecast or Android TV

We plan to continually improve this product and want your feedback! If you wish to report an issue or request a feature, please contact us at http://www.cbc.ca/contact/.
On behalf of everyone at CBC News, thank you for downloading our app.

How to Download / Install

Download and install CBC News version Varies with device on your Android device!
Downloaded 500,000+ times, content rating: Not rated
Android package: ca.cbc.mobile.android.cbcnewsandroidwebview, download CBC News.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Version 3.9
- app links
Version update CBC News was updated to version 3.0.5
More downloads  CBC News reached 500 000 - 1 000 000 downloads
Version update CBC News was updated to version 2.0.2
More downloads  CBC News reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads

What are users saying about CBC News

R70%
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Widget not working properly. Most of the time it remains blank instead of displaying the news.

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Most one sided coverage imaginable. Can hardly call it a news app. Not worth the time to download.

R70%
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Great app! Hd quality images and video. Easy to navigate and has built in ChromeCast!

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BBC initiated chromecast support months ago. Let's get on it! Can't be that difficult to do and would make this app much more useful!

R70%
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I love news 24 hour's keep showings US all kind of info

R70%
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Loads slow and no comments allowed

R70%
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Thank you CBC for the Chromecast support!

T70%
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Chromecast support is spotty.

R70%
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What a bunch of garage, with a rating of 3.3 says a lot.

C70%
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Under videos tab, you can not share videos?

R70%
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I use this app daily to keep up with current events.

R70%
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Your bias is showing

W70%
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Pop-up ads.

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Great reporting world's ahead. Gary Turvry

R70%
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Excellent news source

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W70%
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Awesome

R70%
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From January 3rd onwards, this app has improved tremendously. It seems as if the dev's really kicked it up a notch. The previous versions of this app are simply incomparable to its current perfection. I am glad Cbc finally made this big move in their app for the better, they should cherish what they have accomplished and ensure that it remains and continues to grow. Absolutely amazing app 10/10 good job dev's.

R70%
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Mostly annoyed that there's no place for feedback within the app and no way to rate the type of articles you want to see/like/don't like. No customization. And the articles themselves are only half decent.

B70%
by B####:

If you want alerts to wake you up at ungodly hours. Install this app. Even though you turn notifications off they still send push messages. Almost every morning between 1 and 3am I get a message from them. FIX IT.

O70%
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Does CBC knows it is a google os that does not play flash? Cbc forward links to other browser, yet fail to play contents. pls try use html5...btw still Can, t read on line reader comments..

R70%
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I want breaking national news. I don't include how the Ottawa Senators did in their last game. There is no place in the app to give feedback.

R70%
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Needs the ability to increase the font size of stories

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Having product ads in a news app for our national broadcaster that exists through our federal taxes is offensive. No, you cannot see that news about your federal house of commons until you watch this ad for Activia. Guess what product I won't buy? The one standing in the way from news content that my taxes paid for.

R70%
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I want to encourage the development staff as they work on this app. While there are still some problems, you've come a long way. I hope the CBC will continue to make it a priority.

R70%
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Why is this app pushing sports scores like major news headlines? If I cared about what is going on with the Maple Leafs, I'd get the sports app. So annoying!

X70%
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I don't like to use my expensive data for CBC News stories that are only half minute to 1 minute long preceded with commercials that are the same length. Smarten up CBC! Cut the video adds.

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Problem. After an ad is played the video shows as 0 mins and does not play.

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only plays ad does not continue to news clip on Galaxy Tab S3

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This app doesn't allow me to comment or respond, making it seem like CBC doesn't want a dialogue, and simply wants to tell people what to think. This app will unpredictability open some articles in my web browser, for no apparent reason other than to be annoying. There is no way to disable this. Also, the ads are a data hog. If CBC wants to devour my data to try to sell me crap I don't want or need, that reflects on my opinion of them as a whole.

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Having to watch adds is bad enough. But when the add is 30 sec and the clips are under a min that is insulting. I've installed multiple news apps and by far Jazeera World is the best. And before you say anything their reporting is fair and neutral.

R70%
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Major terrorist attack in London and I am getting the same repetitive ad over and over. Frustrating and annoying and immediately sends me to other news apps. We can do better.

K70%
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CBC NEWS APP has very good coverage of the general world news all the way down to decent coverage at the regional level. I like the world news better than the BBC - CBC has more frequent refreshes & higher number of stories. Though the CBC does need a few unintrusive adverts. Now the bad part, CBC should do a better job of time stamping their stories - there are not listed first to last timewise; some stories appear again the next day with a new recent time stamp. I don't need to spend the time going through the story again looking for follow-up, only to find their are no changes !

R70%
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You win by virtue of the fact that your service is free and well maintained. The commentary could be better quality, but I'll take it. Edit: your content prioritization is terrible. Dropped a star

O70%
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App generally works but features a baffling bug where if you attempt to load a story that has a video element (even if you have not opened the video or even realized it may be there farther down the page) and then you quickly hit back, because you'd selected the wrong story or whatever else, the video will often begin playing ads. It does this despite not being on the page you are viewing, so there are no controls to mute the volume (hardware controls don't recognize there's media playback happening either) and no way to stop the playback, which can be heard but not seen and will go on until the app is fully restarted. Extremely annoying and I wonder if it's tied to inflating ad revenue. 3/5 for that BS, and too many opinion pieces

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This news station is absolutely biased and corrupte.. Alternative media is the only trust worthy news. MSM is done and they know it!!pure propaganda!!

R70%
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I have a dream that one day CBC News will rise up to the task and program an app in which we can copy bits of text from news articles.

K70%
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Good app. Unfortunately it keeps notifying me of news even though I turned off notifications for all regions. This is super annoying and I hope it gets fixed soon.

R70%
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Still missing the ability to comment. Also the video player often doesn't work. Good for your daily dose of taxpayer funded Liberally biased news.

S70%
by S####:

Can't turn off notifications on app. Can get 4 of the same notification in a row please fix.


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