Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig shaw.ca. NS
Answer
shaw.ca. 5 NS ns7nocg.shawcable.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS a1-220.akam.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS ns9htok.shawcable.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS a6-65.akam.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS a3-64.akam.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS a8-66.akam.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS a9-67.akam.net.
shaw.ca. 5 NS ns8socg.shawcable.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0