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Canada pledges $132.2 million dollars to Sudan to help people affected by the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis.
2024-04-12

Canada expels a top Indian diplomat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are credible allegations linking the government of India to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh Khalistani activist and naturalised Canadian citizen shot to death outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, in June.
2023-09-18

A killing spree occurs in the small coastal town of Portapique, near Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. At least 17 people are dead, including the perpetrator and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, making it the deadliest rampage in Canadian history.
2020-04-19

Canadian citizens residing in Ontario go to the polls to elect a new provincial government.
2018-06-7

At least five people are dead, one missing, and 21 rescued, from a tour boat carrying 27 people that sinks west of Vargas Island, off the coast of Tofino on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The RCMP is responsible for the missing person now that the search has been called off.
2015-10-25

Canadian police arrest Justin Bourque, wanted for the alleged murders of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and for shooting two others in Moncton, New Brunswick.
2014-06-6

Royal Canadian Mounted Police extend a national manhunt for a 24-year-old gunman who killed three police officers and wounded two others in a shootout in Moncton.
2014-06-5

Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old Canadian gang-rape victim from Halifax, Novia Scotia, is taken off of life support and dies three days after a suicide attempt. Parson's claimed to have been raped when she was 15, she had been bullied ever since the alleged incident; officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the justice system are deciding whether to file charges.
2013-04-7

Voters in Canada's most populous province Ontario go to the polls for a general election with the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty, winning another term under a slight minority government.
2011-10-6

Up to 7,000 police march on Yonge Street in Newmarket, Ontario, including some Royal Canadian Mounted Police and American officers, accompanied by thousands of spectators for the funeral procession for Canadian YRP police Constable Garrett Styles, killed when a 15-year-old underage driver accelerated during a traffic stop.
2011-07-5