Sources: Rolling Stone
K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young receives a six-year prison term and former boy band member Choi Jong-hoon is sentenced to a five-year term for having sex with a woman who was unable to consent, as well as other sex crimes including filming women without consent. 2019-11-29
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
Canadian singer Justin Bieber surrenders to Toronto Police to face assault charges. 2014-01-29
English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. 2013-02-18
Rio Tinto Alcan locks out hundreds of workers from a smelter in the Canadian town of Alma, Quebec. 2012-01-1
200,000 Canadian college and university students vote in favour of boycotting classes in Quebec. Thousands are expected to participate in a protest march against tuition fee increases in Montreal. 2011-11-10
Voters in the Canadian province of Manitoba go to the polls for a general election, with the NDP led by Greg Selinger being elected to a fourth term. 2011-10-4
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