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Canada and the Philippines conclude negotiations on a visiting forces agreement.
2025-03-7

Canada's two largest freight railroads Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway announce a complete shutdown of services due to a contract dispute, shutting out its Teamsters-represented union workers.
2024-08-21

In an official joint statement, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, agree to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT. The group also commits to "imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions."
2022-02-26

Canada announces that it will deploy 1,000 soldiers of the Canadian Armed Forces to Latvia to bolster one of the four NATO battalions stationed there.
2016-07-1

At least 60 vehicles are involved in two chain-reaction crashes on Ontario Highway 401 about 80 kilometres east of Toronto, Canada, leaving at least five people injured, two critically.
2013-01-25

One person is killed, three people declared missing, and three people rescued after a sailboat sinks off the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
2012-03-26

More than a thousand people are evacuated from the Canadian town of Slave Lake, Alberta, due to a wildfire.
2011-05-15

The London Stock Exchange in the United Kingdom is in advanced talks to merge with the TMX Group that operates Canada's two stock exchanges in Montreal and Toronto.
2011-02-8

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge officially closes the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Canada finishes in first place in the medal table with a record 14 gold medals, while the United States wins a record total of 37 medals.
2010-02-28

Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men's freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil.
2010-02-14