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
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 Senator and former Conservative Party campaign director Doug Finley dies of cancer. 2013-05-11
English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. 2013-02-18
Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta go to the polls for a general election with the incumbent Progressive Conservatives being reelected. 2012-04-23
Alison Redford of the Progressive Conservatives is sworn in as the first female Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. 2011-10-7
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
The Government of Somalia claims to have killed a Canadian member of the al-Shabab terrorist organization. 2011-06-9