A look at news events in January 2024: 1 - Former world cycling champion Rohan Dennis is charged in connection with the death of his wife, 32-year-old Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins. She died late Dec.
1 - Former world cycling champion Rohan Dennis is charged in connection with the death of his wife, 32-year-old Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins. She died late Dec. 30 after being struck by a vehicle while riding in suburban Adelaide, Australia. Dennis is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, endangering life and driving without due care.
2 - Czechia scored with just 11.7 seconds left in the third period to break a tie and knock Canada out of the World Junior Hockey Championship in Sweden. Czechia was down 2-0 before scoring three goals in the come-from-behind win to advance to the semifinals at the under-20 tournament. 3 - An unnamed school district in British Columbia has been ordered by the province's human rights tribunal to pay $5,000 to a student for failing to accommodate her anxiety disorder. Tribunal vice-chair Devyn Cousineau wrote in a decision released in December that the school district"failed to take reasonable steps'' to investigate and address the student's anxiety.
3 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office clarifies comments it made about the cost of his family's vacation in Jamaica. After initially saying the family was paying for their stay, the Prime Minister's Office says they are vacationing"at no cost at a location owned by family friends." In a statement, the PMO's office also says the federal ethics commissioner was consulted on the details of the trip prior to it to ensure that the rules were being followed.
4 - A B.C. conservation group buys the hunting rights in part of a provincial rainforest in an effort to protect the wildlife there. The Raincoast Conservation Foundation says it took two years to raise $1.92 million to buy a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest on the province's north and central coast. The group has been buying hunting rights in B.C. since 2005, four years after a moratorium on grizzly bear hunting was overturned.
4 - The Islamic State group claims responsibility for two suicide bombings Wednesday at a ceremony honouring an Iranian general killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike in Iraq. 4 - Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson is identified as the first player to officially defeat the original Tetris Nintendo version of the game. Late last month, Gibson -- who has the streaming handle"blue scuti" -- made it to what gamers call a"kill screen," where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. It's a highly coveted achievement in the world of video games, especially in Tetris, which doesn't actually have a scripted ending.
6 - U.S. federal officials order the immediate grounding of all Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners a day after a mid-air fuselage blow-out on an Alaska Airlines plane shortly after takeoff above Oregon, forcing pilots to make an emergency landing. The required inspections will take around four to eight hours per aircraft and will affect about 171 airplanes worldwide.
9 - Quebec's public-school students are back to class after an FAE teachers' strike shut down 800 schools, keeping 368,000 students home for 22 days. 9 - The European climate agency Copernicus reports 2023 was the hottest year on planet Earth. It says the year was 1.48 C above pre-industrial times. 10 - Four provinces have now signed a new federal health accord Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered to premiers early last year. Nova Scotia will receive $355 million to improve access to health care after signing the one-on-one-deal with Ottawa, joining B.C., P.E.I. and Alberta.
10 - L.A. Lakers superstar LeBron James and his son, Bronny, will appear together on a unique sports trading card to mark his new multi-year partnership with Fanatics Collectibles. 11 - Six-time Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft confirm reports Belichick is leaving the team but don't take any questions. The 71-year-old's departure ends his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league's Super Bowl era. Belichick teamed up with quarterback Tom Brady to lead the Patriots to six Super Bowl victories, nine AFC titles and 17 division championships.
11 - The United States and British militaries launch a massive retaliatory strike against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, attacking more than a dozen sites used by the group. In a statement, U.S. President Joe Biden says Canada, along with other countries, supported the strikes. Biden says the strikes are in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.
13 - Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te emerges the winner in Taiwan's presidential election after Lai's opponents concede the race. The president-elect vows to safeguard the Asian island's de facto independence from China while further aligning it with other democracies. 14 - Actor Joyce Randolph of the TV show"The Honeymooners" dies at the age of 99 of natural causes at her home in New York City. Randolph – who played Ed Norton's sarcastic wife Trixie – was the last surviving main character of the 1950s comedy.
16 - New York architect Rex Heuermann, accused in the Gilgo Beach killings, is formally charged in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, a Connecticut woman who vanished in 2007. Her remains were found more than three years later along a coastal highway in New York. Heuermann, arrested in July in the deaths of three other women, insists he is innocent of all charges.
17 - A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages still held by Hamas arrives in Gaza after France and Qatar arrange the delivery by brokering the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong ceasefire broke down in November. The deal also includes the delivery of additional medicine and humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
18 - Canada's financial intelligence agency sounds the alarm over illicit cash getting laundered through online gambling sites. In a newly published bulletin, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada says prospective money launderers have been buying prepaid cards with their shady cash and depositing the funds into gambling accounts.
18 - A 22-year-old man from Villagedale, N.S., faces three charges under the Forests Act for allegedly lighting the largest wildfire in the province's recorded history. The Barrington Lake fire that started southwest of Shelburne last May torched 23,000 hectares of land. RD 18 - Space-X launches Turkey's first astronaut along with astronauts from Sweden and Italy to the International Space Station. The Falcon rocket blasted off from Florida, carrying the three aviators and their escort, a former NASA astronaut. The two-week mission will cost each of their countries an estimated $55 million or more.
19 - Settlement agencies prepare for the arrival of tens of thousands of Ukrainians before the end-of-March deadline for those fleeing the Russian invasion to enter Canada on emergency visas. Operation Ukraine Safe Haven says pre-arrival surveys show as many as 90,000 more emergency visa holders are thinking of coming before the deadline.
19 - Nova Scotia announces an investment of $3 million a year into its first screening program for lung cancer, which will include CT scans. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Nova Scotia and the province has the highest rates of the disease in the country. RD 20 - Iran launches a satellite, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran's ballistic missiles. The announcement, on state television, says the launch is part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' space program.
20 - Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy is the new head coach of the New York Islanders after the firing of coach Lane Lambert. Roy, 58, is a four-time Stanley Cup champion who has spent the past five seasons coaching and serving as general manager for the junior Quebec Remparts. 21 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspends his Republican presidential campaign, ending his White House bid, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary and endorses Donald Trump, saying in a video online that it's clear to him that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Trump another chance.
22 - Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announces plans to cap international student visas for the next two years, saying there will be a 35-per-cent reduction in new study visas issued this year as part of the government's efforts to deal with the housing crisis. Miller says new visas in 2024 will be capped at 364,000, down from nearly 560,000 in 2023.
22 - The American and British militaries bomb multiple sites in Yemen that the Iranian-backed Houthis are using to attack shipping in the Red Sea, marking the eighth set of U.S. strikes on the rebel's missile launching and storage capabilities. 23 - Hamas rejects an Israeli proposal for a two-month ceasefire, and the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians being held by Israel, according to a senior Egyptian official. Hamas is insisting on a permanent ceasefire before any further release of hostages and the Egyptian official says Hamas leaders are refusing to leave Gaza.
24 - The Bank of Canada keeps its key interest rate at five per cent. But Governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank's talks are now shifting from whether the rate is high enough to how long it needs to keep it there. After about 18 months of steady declines, inflation rose to 3.4 per cent in December.
25 - North Korea says it has conducted the first flight test of a new cruise missile, expanding its military capabilities in the face of deepening tensions with the United States and neighbours. 25 - A judge in Prince Albert, Sask., finds 55-year-old RCMP officer Bernie Herman guilty of a lesser offence of manslaughter in the shooting death of his 26-year-old lover. Herman had pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the 2021 shooting death of Braden Herman.
25 - Former New Orleans district attorney Harry Connick Sr., 97, dies peacefully at home surrounded by family. Connick Sr., father to famous singer Harry Connick Jr., was popular as a prosecutor and as a part-time crooner who moonlighted in New Orleans cabarets.
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