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American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2016-10-13

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

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

Canadian Senator and former Conservative Party campaign director Doug Finley dies of cancer.
2013-05-11

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

The Government of Somalia claims to have killed a Canadian member of the al-Shabab terrorist organization.
2011-06-9

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