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JANUARY

1: Anti-government protests continue to spread in Iran, leading to multiple deaths in the ensuing crackdown.

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1: California becomes the sixth and largest U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana.

3: Excerpts from the book Fire and Fury by journalist Michael Wolff on the Trump administration depict a deeply dysfunctional White House, with backstabbing by former senior adviser Steve Bannon and a statement that the president didn’t want the job.

4: An icy so-called bomb cyclone clobbers North America’s eastern seaboard causing severe flooding and other destruction.

4: The Trump administration says it’s revoking the Obama-era policy not to federally intervene in states’ legalization of recreational marijuana.

5: StatCan reports nearly 79,000 jobs were created in our country the previous month with the unemployment rate falling to 5.7 per cent, adding to the most bullish employment picture in four decades.