Sources: BBC
Canadian airlines Air Transat and WestJet suspend all flights to Cuba amid a shortage of fuel for commercial aviation, and say efforts are underway to return Canadians stranded on the island. 2026-02-10
A month-long legionnaires' disease outbreak that started on July 8 in London, Ontario, Canada, ends after 70 cases and three deaths. 2025-08-6
Four people are killed and another is injured after a man drives his truck into a Pakistani Muslim family in London, Ontario, Canada. The suspect is identified by police as Nathaniel Veltman, a local 20-year-old motivated by Islamophobia. He has been arrested and facing four charges of first-degree murder and one charge of attempted murder. 2021-06-6
Canadian tourist Kristian Lee Baxter, who had been held in Syrian detention since 2018, is released in Lebanon. 2019-08-9
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian in China, is sentenced to death after a one-day retrial for attempting to smuggle over 222 kilograms (489.4 pounds) of methamphetamine through the country. Schellenberg's new sentence comes amid increasing tensions between Canada and China. 2019-01-14
A Canadian judge denies former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr's request for relaxed bail conditions and a Canadian passport. 2018-12-21
Jack Letts, a British-Canadian Islamic State fighter held in Syria, faces deportion from Syria to Canada instead of the United Kingdom. 2018-10-6
Canadian-American billionaire Edgar M. Bronfman, who ran Seagram until 1994, dies in Manhattan at age 84. 2013-12-21
In Illinois, United States, 2-year-old Korean-Canadian Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, becomes the youngest patient to receive a bioengineered organ made from stem cells. 2013-04-30
Canada's Foreign Minister, Lawrence Cannon, urges Iran to improve the country's human rights record and denounces Iran for imposing "draconian death sentences and unfair jail terms," while expressing particular concern for the fate of two Canadians of dual nationality imprisoned in Iran. [http:--www.google.com-hostednews-afp-article-ALeqM5hg6LajnBbTwW85xEd5V0h6h56rog?docId=CNG.99e856a0fb5a9fea7bf35be7ef15b71d.a21 (AFP)] [https:--edmontonjournal.com-news-Canada+calls+Iran+over+human+rights+abuses-4048844-story.html ("Edmonton Journal")]date=May 2020 2011-01-1