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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

An Egyptian court orders the release from prison of Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy in Cairo.
2015-02-13

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

Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon.
2014-04-5

Canadian singer Justin Bieber surrenders to Toronto Police to face assault charges.
2014-01-29

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

Alison Redford of the Progressive Conservatives is sworn in as the first female Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta.
2011-10-7

Canadian business man Conrad Black is sentenced to another 13 months in jail in the United States for fraud.
2011-06-24

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

Former British soldier turned singer-songwriter James Blunt claims that he stopped what he believed would be World War III by disobeying a direct order for his troops to attack Russian soldiers given by American General Wesley Clark while he was in Kosovo with NATO in 1999.
2010-11-14