A look at news events in August 2024 1 - The Israeli military confirms the death of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif. Deif was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July, knocking another leader of the militant terror group off Israel's hit list.
1 - The Israeli military confirms the death of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif. Deif was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July, knocking another leader of the militant terror group off Israel's hit list. Israel says it targeted Deif in a July 13 strike on the outskirts of Khan Younis, but hasn't been able to confirm the kill for weeks. The Israeli confirmation came a day after an apparent Israeli airstrike in Tehran killed Hamas' top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh.
2 - Tech giant Google responds to Ottawa's digital services tax with a fee of its own. Starting in October, the company will implement a 2.5 per cent surcharge to its advertisers for ads displayed in Canada. That's in response to a 3 per cent levy on foreign tech giants generating revenue from Canadian users -- which was approved by Parliament in June.
3 - Canadian swimming phenom Summer McIntosh becomes Canada's first triple gold medallist in an Olympic Games with a win in the 200-metre individual medley in Paris. The Toronto teen also won gold medals in the 200 butterfly and 400 I-M, plus a silver in the 400 freestyle. 5 - U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris secures the Democratic presidential nomination. The Democratic National Committee announced the formal results of online voting by delegates on Monday night. The nomination became official after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic National Convention delegates. The party says 99 per cent of delegates cast their ballots for Harris. It caps a rocky period for the party after U.S.
6 - Hamas chooses Yahya Sinwar as its new leader. Sinwar is the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and rises to the head of the militant group replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran the previous week in a presumed Israeli strike. Sinwar is at the top of Israel's kill list. 9 - Officials in Brazil say 62 people are dead after passenger plane flight 2283 crashed into a gated residential community in Sao Paulo. The airline VOE-PASS says 57 passengers and four crew members were aboard when it crashed. A Brazilian television network showed aerial footage of an area with smoke coming out of an obliterated plane fuselage, while other footage showed the plane drifting downward in a flat spin.
12 - A trove of ancient artifacts from Egypt's last dynasty is discovered in 63 tombs. Artifacts include gold pieces and jewelry dating back to Egypt's Late and Ptolemaic periods. The Ptolemaic dynasty was Egypt's last before it became part of the Roman Empire. Experts were working to restore and classify the finds as some items could be displayed at one of Egypt's museums.
14 - The United Auto Workers union files unfair labour-practice charges against Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The move came after the two discussed on the social media platform X about Musk supposedly firing striking workers. In documents filed with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, the UAW alleges both men interfered with workers who may want to exercise their right to join a union.
15 - Ontario's Marineland has to pay $85,000 in fines and restitution over animal cruelty charges. The Niagara theme park was found guilty in March of keeping three blackbears, Slash, Toad and Lizzy, in small enclosures without sufficient access to water. The ruling calls for the theme park to pay out $15,000 for each of the bears, and restitution for the cost of care of the animals after they were seized.
16 - Montreal issues a boil-water advisory for about 150,000 homes after a major water main broke, flooding streets and buildings. Witnesses described a"wall of water" 10 metres high bursting through the ground and flooding the densely populated neighbourhood near the Jacques Cartier Bridge. The source of the flooding is a pipe more than two metres in diameter that was installed in 1985.
19 - Phil Donahue, who was dubbed"the king of daytime talk," dies at 88."The Phil Donahue Show" show ran for 26 years and won 20 Emmy Awards. It was the first to incorporate audience participation in a talk show and that set it apart from other interview shows. It influenced a format that made household names of Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams and Ellen DeGeneres.
21 - The man who created Newfoundland and Labrador's famed Screech-in ceremony dies at age 85. Myrle Vokey's lively performances began in 1974 as he was travelling the province as a director and speaker with the provincial teachers association. He used it as a way to instil pride in Newfoundland's unique dialect, music and humour.
23 - New Brunswick declares a provincewide outbreak of whooping cough. They say there has been a"higher number" of cases than usual in multiple parts of the province. So far, the Department of Health says 141 cases have been reported this year, well exceeding the annual average of 34. 25 - The jersey Babe Ruth wore during his famous"called shot" home run in the 1932 World Series sells at auction for more than US$24,000,000. Heritage Auctions says an anonymous buyer took home the New York Yankee slugger's jersey following a roughly six-hour-long bidding war in Dallas. The record-breaking amount the jersey sold for topped fellow Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1952 rookie card, which sold for $12.6 million a couple of years ago.
27 - The Israeli military says it has rescued a hostage in Gaza who was kidnapped during Hamas' deadly attack on Israel last October. The military says Qaid Farhan Alkadi was rescued"in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip" but provided no further details. The 52-year-old was working as a guard at a packing factory in a farming community attacked by Hamas. Hamas is still holding around 110 hostages, about a third of whom are believed to be dead.
28 - British Columbia Opposition Leader Kevin Falcon suspends BC United's election campaign. He's now encouraging supporters to instead back the rival BC Conservative Party. Falcon says nominations of BC United candidates will be withdrawn to allow the Conservatives to draw from them for its election slate, less than two months before the province goes to the polls.
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