Rob Gillies

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Mike Tyson directs vulgarities at Canadian TV host

Mike Tyson directs vulgarities at Canadian TV host

Rob Gillies · September 11, 2014 3:47 am

John Geiger, president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, holds an iron fitting from a Royal Navy ship, identified as a davit, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Ottawa. The artifact is being noted as the key piece of evidence that led to the discovery of a ship believed to be one of two fabled British explorer ships the Franklin Expedition. THe HMS Erebus and HMS Terror disappeared in the Arctic more 160 years ago. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

Canada finds 1 of 2 explorer ships lost in Arctic

Rob Gillies · September 9, 2014 10:18 pm

Canadian navy ship buzzed by 3 Russian jets

Canadian navy ship buzzed by 3 Russian jets

Rob Gillies · September 8, 2014 10:52 pm

FILE - In this May 11, 2014, file photo, singer Justin Bieber watches the Los Angeles Clippers play the Oklahoma City Thunder during Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series in Los Angeles. Toronto prosecutors on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, told a court they have dropped assault charges against Bieber in connection with an incident involving a Toronto limousine driver. The charge withdrawn Monday stemmed from an early-morning incident late last December, when Bieber and five other people were picked up by a limousine from a Toronto nightclub. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Bieber assault charge dropped over limo incident

Rob Gillies · September 8, 2014 3:59 pm

France's President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hands with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a bilateral meeting on the second day of the NATO 2014 Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. NATO leaders are expected to announce a raft of fresh sanctions against Russia on Friday over its actions in Ukraine, although hopes remain that a ceasefire can be forged at peace talks in Minsk on the same day. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Canada to send military advisers to Iraq

Rob Gillies · September 5, 2014 6:06 pm

Toronto Board of Trade crowd laughs at Rob Ford

Toronto Board of Trade crowd laughs at Rob Ford

Rob Gillies · September 4, 2014 7:53 pm

FILE - In this March 19, 2013, file photo, singer Justin Bieber performs during a concert at Bercy Arena in Paris. Canadian police say the pop star has been charged Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, with dangerous driving and assault after a collision between a minivan and an ATV led to a physical altercation in southwestern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say that the incident happened Friday afternoon, Aug. 29, near Bieber's hometown of Stratford and that he was released on a promise to appear in court Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Bieber charged with assault over photo incident

Rob Gillies · September 2, 2014 9:04 pm

Signs for a Tim Hortons restaurant, foreground, and a Burger King restaurant are displayed along Peach Street Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, in Erie, Penn. Burger King struck an $11 billion deal to buy Tim Hortons that would create the world's third largest fast-food company and could make the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain more of a household name around the world. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Christopher Millette)

Tim Hortons a big part of Canadian identity

Rob Gillies · August 28, 2014 6:09 pm

Canada pulling Ebola lab team from Sierra Leone

Canada pulling Ebola lab team from Sierra Leone

Rob Gillies · August 27, 2014 3:53 am

In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 photo, Li Xue Jiang, of the People's Daily, China's largest newspaper, is hauled to the back of the room by Royal Canadian Mounted Police as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper answers questions while visiting Xstrata Nickel's Raglan Mine in the northern Nunavik region of Quebec. When staff did not recognize Li's request to answer a question he tried to take the microphone and a tussle erupted. Canada said Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, "past incidents and behaviors" are to blame for China's official news agency and the Communist Party newspaper being banned from an Arctic trip with Harper. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

Canadian PM bans Chinese media from Arctic trip

Rob Gillies · August 22, 2014 11:27 pm

Canada's Transport Minister Lisa Raitt speaks to the media asth Minister of Public Safety Steven Blaney listens during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2014, following the release of the Transportation Safety Board's report on the deadly Lac-Megantic train derailment in July 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Patrick Doyle)

Investigators release Quebec train disaster report

Rob Gillies · August 19, 2014 7:27 pm

Canada to donate experimental Ebola vaccine

Canada to donate experimental Ebola vaccine

Rob Gillies · August 12, 2014 10:17 pm