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The Conservative Party win a plurality of the popular vote for the second consecutive election.
2021-09-20

The Senate of Canada passes the Cannabis Act 52–29 which legalizes cannabis for recreational use.
2018-06-19

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

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

The minority of the Conservative Party of Canada led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper is defeated in a no confidence motion in the House of Commons with an election to be held in early May.
2011-03-25

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

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal rules against the Conservative Party of Canada on ad spending prior to the Canadian federal election, 2006, while the Harper government reaches 43% support and announces cuts to the budget.
2011-03-1

The Canadian federal by-elections fills two vacant House seats in ridings for Manitoba and one in Ontario, resulting in one Conservative gain, one Conservative hold and one Liberal gain.
2010-11-29

A Federal Court of Canada judge rejects a request by francophone groups outside Quebec to overturn the Conservative government's decision to scrap the longform census.
2010-10-6