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Airport staff inspect the wreckage of the Air Canada aircraft, with the remains of the fire truck shown to the left.

Controller cleared fire truck to cross runway seconds before fatal LaGuardia crash

Investigators are also probing why the controller on duty returned to work immediately after mistakenly sending a fire truck into the path of the Air Canada flight.

  • Josh Funk, John Seewer and Michael Sisak

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Air Canada plane hits fire truck at LaGuardia Airport, New York

‘I messed up’: Footage shows Air Canada jet hit fire truck as controller panicked

Audio reveals a controller desperately telling a fire truck to stop moments before the New York runway collision which claimed the lives of a pilot and co-pilot.

  • Allyson Versprille and Danny Lee
Style forward… the front desk.

This redesigned flagship property showcases French-style luxury

A stylish renovation, a terrific French restaurant and the introduction of a cool new cocktail bar are good reasons to book this hotel for a Montreal stay.

  • Kristie Kellahan
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney at Parliament House in Canberra.

A political rock star comes to Canberra. Did he match the hype?

The Canadian prime minister set the foreign policy world alight with a speech early this year. He arrived in Australia on a mission to show that middle powers matter.

  • Matthew Knott
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the Australian parliament.

Carney: Australia and Canada must ‘combine for strength’ or face domination

The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue “greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.

  • Matthew Knott
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, with Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino,

‘The world needs us’: Carney pushes Australia and Canada to deepen trade, defence ties

Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other’s facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
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Classmates said Maya Gebala was trying to lock the door to the school library when she was shot.

Girl, 12, shot in head trying to save classmates in Canada attack

Maya Gebala was wounded twice when she hid under a table after attempting to lock the school’s library to prevent the shooter from entering.

  • Max Stephens
Police at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Wednesday.

Canadian school shooting suspect identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar

Police said there was a history of police attendance at the family home of the killer, whom they described as a biological male identifying as female.

  • David Ljunggren
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Ten dead, including suspect, after mass school shooting in Canada

Ten people are dead and another 25 are being assessed for injuries after a shooting at a high school in north-eastern British Columbia.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge has become the latest trigger in an ongoing war of words between US president Donald Trump and the Canadian government.

‘Completely lost the plot’: Why has a bridge got Trump so angry?

The US president’s war of words with the Canadian government has edged up a notch, thanks to a project meant to help Americans.

  • Joey Cappelletti and Seung Min Kim