The following content is sourced from external partners. We cannot guarantee that it is suitable for the visually or hearing impaired. By Ethan Lou EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) – A Somali refugee who had been on a watch list over extremist views faced five counts of attempted murder and terror charges on Sunday after Canadian police said he stabbed a police ...
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A list of Canada’s terror incidents and attacks
By The Canadian Press Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 Edmonton police say an attack on an officer outside a football game Saturday night and a high-speed chase of a cube van that left four people injured are being investigated as acts of terrorism. Police have one man in custody and say they think he acted alone, but they aren’t ruling out ...
Read More »Edmonton attack: Man ploughs car into pedestrians in Canada before stabbing officer
A MANHUNT is under way for a suspect who reportedly ploughed into pedestrians before stabbing a police officer in Canada. NC Officers said the policeman was on duty at a Edmonton Eskimos game before a car rammed into a police vehicle. Reports suggest the car ploughed into pedestrians before the collision. The suspect then got out of the ...
Read More »A380 makes emergency landing in Canada
Paris: An Air France A380 passenger jet travelling from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday in eastern Canada following “serious damage” to one of its four engines, the airline said. “Flight 066 landed without further damage at the Goose Bay military airport in Canada and all of the 520 people on board were ...
Read More »Will Donald Trump’s latest travel restrictions push more asylum seekers into Canada? – Manitoba
In conversations at coffee shops in border towns across Canada, the talk inevitably turns to the latest political move by an unpredictable president to the south and what that means for the flow of people into this country. The stream of refugees across the Canada-U.S. border increased after the election of Donald Trump last November, and grew even larger following ...
Read More »Nuit Blanche will be very cool, says Environment Canada, so bring a sweater – Toronto
Environment Canada says Nuit Blanche is going to be pretty cool on Saturday night in Toronto but the federal agency is not talking about the art. Ryan Rozinskis, severe weather meteorologist for Environment Canada, said the low will be a cool 5 C. The high is forecast to be 15 C. Rozinskis said art lovers who plan to go to ...
Read More »Barack Obama in Toronto to give speech – Canada
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is visiting Toronto on Friday for an event that is expected to attract thousands of fans and political observers. Obama’s visit comes just hours after Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the woman who tried to succeed him, landed in Toronto as part of her book tour. Clinton shared her post-election feelings and ...
Read More »Hillary Clinton warns Canadians ‘democracy is under attack’ – Canada
Hillary Clinton warned Canadians that “democracy is under attack” not just in the United States, but in Canada and around the world, and she told a Toronto audience Thursday night that she will do everything she can to fight against the forces trying to undermine it. “Democracy is under attack everywhere. It’s not only my country,” Clinton told a packed hall ...
Read More »More than 100 athletes to represent Canada at world karate championships – British Columbia
More than 100 athletes will represent team Canada at a global karate championship in Richmond, B.C., this week. The Karate-do Goju-kai Global Championships take place every four years. This is the seventh time the martial arts event has been held and the first time the tournament is in North America. Team Canada only sent three competitors to the 2013 championships in Mumbai and still ...
Read More »Mercosur could seek trade deals with NZ, Canada, Aus
The South American trade bloc Mercosur could seek trade deals with Canada, Australia and New Zealand this year, an Argentine official said on Wednesday, as largest members Brazil and Argentina seek to open their economies. Mercosur, which also includes Uruguay and Paraguay, is working with the European Union to finalise the political framework for a trade deal this year, at ...
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