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An explosion caused by two planes colliding at Toronto's Pearson Airport worried passengers and delayed flights.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, canada
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| UpdatedTwo planes collide on the ground at a Toronto airport, causing a fire on one and sending passengers into a panic on the other.
Topics: air-and-space, canada
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| UpdatedNiagara Falls is one place the deep freeze affecting the US and Canada is as much seen as it is felt. Mist from the surging waters has been freezing instantly on everything it touches, coating trees, walkways and cliffs in a brilliant white.
Topics: snowfall, weather, united-states, canada
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The cold snap gripping North America has seen Niagara Falls, on the US-Canada border, partially freeze over.
Topics: weather, snowfall, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedCanadian man Joshua Boyle, who along with his wife was kidnapped and held captive in the Middle East for five years, is charged with a number of offences including sexual assault and forcible confinement only months after returning home.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, canada
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| UpdatedA record-shattering arctic cold in the United States reaches as far south as Florida, with freeze warnings in place from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, while tourists visiting Niagara Falls snap photos of flowing water that has turned to icicles.
Topics: snowfall, weather, united-states, canada
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Thanasi Kokkinakis and Daria Gavrilova win their singles matches to guide Australia to victory over Canada at the Hopman Cup.
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An Australian warship operating in the Middle East seizes drugs believed to be worth more than $400 million after intercepting and boarding three ships in the Arabian sea.
Topics: navy, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, australia, canada
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| UpdatedResidents of areas of North America hit by a cold snap have taken to social media to show how they're coping with the icy weather, in sometimes extreme ways.
Topics: snowfall, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedBitter cold blankets the northern United States and Canada, with forecasters warning of the dangers of frostbite and hypothermia as the deep freeze continues into the new year.
Topics: snowfall, weather, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedFormer U.S. president Barack Obama spoke to Britain's Prince Harry in an interview conducted by the prince as a guest editor for BBC radio's daily morning news show and focused on their shared interest in promoting causes.
Topics: radio, obama-barack, royal-and-imperial-matters, canada, united-kingdom, united-states
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| UpdatedActress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film The Sound of Music, dies at age 68.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, canada
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The investigation into the mysterious deaths of pharmaceuticals billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey, one of Canada's richest couples, will be led by homicide detectives.
Topics: police, pharmaceuticals, death, law-crime-and-justice, canada
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| UpdatedThe bodies of Barry and Honey Sherman, one of Canada's wealthiest couples, were found in their mansion, and police say there were no signs of forced entry.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, police, canada
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| UpdatedAnother human foot is found on British Columbia's coastline, the latest in more than a dozen such grim discoveries over the past decade.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, canada
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| UpdatedShe walked out of a bar into the cold night air and vanished. Mystery continues to shroud the fate of Australian woman Alison Raspa in the wild Canadian party town of Whistler.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, australia, canada, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAustralia and Canada have a lot in common when it comes to property, with mammoth household debt and surging prices in key cities. But there are some key differences that make Australia more vulnerable to a housing crash.
Topics: housing-industry, banking, economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia, canada
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| UpdatedThe search for a young Australian woman who went missing in a Canadian ski resort town is suspended, after it emerged she texted friends on the night of her disappearance, saying she was lost.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, wa, perth-6000, canada
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| UpdatedRescue crews are working through freezing conditions to find 25-year-old Perth woman missing from the Canadian ski resort town of Whistler for almost a week, as a colleague expresses disbelief at "quiet, shy" Alison Raspa's disappearance.
Topics: missing-person, canada, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAlison Raspa, 25, hasn't been seen since she left a bar in the Canadian ski resort town of Whistler last Thursday and her family is extremely concerned as police divers prepare to search a nearby lake.
Topics: missing-person, canada, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedEleven Pacific Rim countries reach a "fundamental agreement" on continuing with a free trade pact as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin cross paths during the APEC forum.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, donald-trump, vietnam, united-states, canada, australia, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau infuriates leaders of 10 other Asia-Pacific countries by pulling a sudden "no show" for the signing of a lucrative trade deal.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, foreign-affairs, trade, international-aid-and-trade, australia, canada, united-states
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| UpdatedA massive leak of documents being called the Paradise Papers provides fresh evidence of links between the highest levels of Donald Trump's administration and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Topics: tax, fraud-and-corporate-crime, multinationals, donald-trump, person, australia, united-states, canada, bermuda
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| UpdatedIt's probably the most famous chord in popular music — but for decades, no-one could figure out exactly how to play the opening chord of A Hard Day's Night.
Topics: science-and-technology, mathematics, music, canada, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA Canadian angler's appeal for people to clean up after themselves goes global after he shares photographs of a wild fish deformed by a plastic ring from a bottle of sports drink.
Topics: animal-welfare, animals, water-pollution, canada