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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at the age of 82.
2016-11-10

Abu Sayyaf militants, who threatened to kill three foreigners kidnapped from a "high-end" Philippine resort in September 2015, unless they were paid 900 million pesos (17 mil Euros) by midnight today (15:00 UTC), have beheaded one of the hostages, Canadian John Ridsdel. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III had ordered an all-out effort to rescue the hostages, including a Philippine woman, kidnapped by the Daesh-linked group.
2016-04-25

Gunmen abduct a Norwegian resort manager, two Canadians, and a Filipino from a resort in the southern Philippines.
2015-09-21

Canadian academic William Schabas resigns as the head of a United Nations committee investigating alleged Israeli war crimes in an offensive in the Gaza Strip during 2014 due to Israel alleging bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
2015-02-2

Fast food giant Burger King agrees to acquire Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion and move its headquarters to Canada.
2014-08-26

Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen have been released.
2014-06-1

More than 100 students are arrested at a protest in the Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec.
2012-03-15

Rio Tinto Alcan locks out hundreds of workers from a smelter in the Canadian town of Alma, Quebec.
2012-01-1

An out-of-control forest fire near the Canadian town of Fort McMurray in Alberta causes the closure of Highway 63.
2011-09-25

United States nurse William Francis Melchert-Dinkel is convicted of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman.
2011-03-15