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2020: A Year in Review

MOMENTS FROM 2020

Here's What Canadians Searched For In 2020

There are many ways to define 2020 and these 10 topics give us a good start. COVID-19 surely made its imprint in Canada, with officials such as Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford and Dr. Theresa Tam constantly in the spotlight. Their every move was judged as Canadians looked for answers in a year that created so many questions. But our national interest spread beyond those who were making moves at home; Donald Trump was the most common search topic in 2020, dominating headlines from start to finish by playing a crucial role in WW3 rumours to making this year's U.S. presidential election unlike any other. We know the world's attention was also on Canada, following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision to move to British Columbia. Royals drama served as a much needed distraction this year, with so many Canadians constantly worried about staying afloat with programs from the Canada Revenue Agency. With so much going on, these 10 most searched topics on Yahoo Canada helped frame a year that's been nothing but unpredictable.
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2020: HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS

  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in July 2023

    A look at news events in July 2023: 1 – Scores of forest fires burn in Ontario and Quebec, and the smoke drifts hundreds of kilometres into the southern reaches of the provinces and into the central and northeastern U.S. Environment Canada issues smog warnings for northern and western Quebec, and parts of eastern and southern Ontario. 1 – Port workers across British Columbia go on strike. Negotiations supported by federal mediators fail to come up with a deal throughout the night to keep more th

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in June 2023

    A look at news events in June 2023. 01 - Civil servants in Quebec are now required to speak and write exclusively in French while on the job except in certain cases, such as access to health care and social services in English, or situations where health, public safety or principles of natural justice require the use of languages other than French. 02 - A shortage of lifeguards prompts Ontario to lower the minimum age requirement to 15 years old, from 16. The province says the change aligns with

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in May 2023

    A look at news events in May 2023: 1 – Legendary Canadian folk singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies of natural causes at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital at the age of 84. 1 – The largest public servant strike in Canadian history ends for most of the more than 120,000 federal public servants who spent 12 days on picket lines. The Public Service Alliance of Canada reaches a tentative contract agreement with the government. About 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees remain on strike as negot

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at events in April 2023

    A look at events in April 2023: 01 - The family of Vancouver radio personality Red Robinson says he died after a brief illness. Robinson began his radio career in 1954 at Vancouver's CJOR, and his website credits him as the first DJ in Canada to play rock 'n' roll music on a regular basis. He was 86. 03 - Dennis King leads the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservatives to a second majority government, securing 22 of the island's 27 legislative seats and 56 per cent of the popular vote. 03 -

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in March 2023

    A look at news events in March 2023: 1 – The government of Greece declares three days of national mourning after a deadly train crash in the northern part of the country the night before. The country's prime minister and president both visit the crash site, where 57 people died after a passenger train and freight train collided. 2 – Geri Smith, whose voice became familiar to listeners across the country over nearly 35 years as a newscaster with The Canadian Press, dies at 60. Smith was on leave

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in February 2023

    A look at news events in February 2023: 4 – The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tracking it for about a week as it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. They say the large balloon went into Canadian airspace before crossing back into U.S. territory over northern Idaho. China says it was a weather research "airship'' that had been blown off course and denied

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Year in review: A look at news events in January 2023

    A look at news events in January 2023: 4 – Canada marks the first National Ribbon Skirt Day, after a bill to recognize the event every Jan. 4 passed in Parliament late last year. It was inspired by a 10-year-old girl who wore a ribbon skirt to her rural Saskatchewan school in December 2020. Isabella Kulak wore the colourful garment as part of a formal day, but her family said at the time that a staff member told her the outfit wasn't formal enough. The school division later apologized. 5 – Despi

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  • NewsThe Weather Network

    Year in review: Ontario's summer marred by wildfires and unhealthy smoke

    The wildfire season of 2023 was the worst on record in Canada. We take a look at some of the impacts in Ontario, specifically, below.

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  • LifestyleThe Weather Network

    2023 year in review: Top 5 photos that caught our attention in 2023

    The Weather Network receives so many incredible photos from its talented audience. It was hard to pick just five.

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  • NewsCBC

    Nicolas Brazeau-D'Avignon sentenced to life in prison for 2020 Gatineau murder

    Warning: There are disturbing details in this story.Nicolas Brazeau-D'Avignon was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the 2020 murder of a man in Gatineau.The other accused in the case, Danny Hamel-Racine, was also sentenced in a Gatineau courthouse Thursday and received six-years behind bars.Brazeau-D'Avignon, 33, had been found guilty of second-murder in the violent death of Matthew Francis O'Heron and will not be eligible for parole for 15 years. Hamel-Racine was found guilty of mansl

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