Another year of incredible video has come and gone. As we look back at 2016, here’s a collection of the most memorable moments captured on video throughout the year.
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Escape from Fort McMurray
Many residents of Fort McMurray captured their desperate evacuation from the Alberta town as a wildfire raged around them. Resident Jason Edmondson’s video (see above) showed his terrifying escape, with the fire exploding right outside his car window. “[It’s] something I never want to go through again,” Edmondson told Global National anchor Dawna Friesen at the time. “It was like driving through a movie.”
Great white shark breaks into cage with divers
Dramatic video out of Guadalupe, Mexico showed the moment a great white shark broke through a diving cage with a diver still inside. Amazingly, the diver escaped the October 2016 incident without any injuries.
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Buses, cars, trucks slam into each other in icy Montreal pileup
Montreal is no stranger to winter weather, but a particularly icy morning in December caused some traffic chaos on one steep downtown street. The wild video of two buses, a police car, a snow plough and several cars spinning out of control and smashing into each other captured worldwide attention.
I doubt Global News’ traffic reporter Leslie Horton ever thought her poorly made artichoke dip would trend worldwide. But that’s what happened after the video of her co-anchors gagging and choking on her holiday concoction went viral.
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Dog says final goodbye to dying owner at his bedside
Tiger mauls woman to death at Beijing wildlife park
Shocking security camera video showed the moment a woman was pounced on by a Siberian tiger after she stepped out of her car while inside an enclosure at a Beijing wildlife park. The woman was dragged away and mauled to death.
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“Obama Out”
U.S. President Barack Obama’s final term comes to a close in a matter of weeks, but before he makes way for President-elect Donald Trump, sit back and enjoy the soon-to-be ex-president’s comedy stylings from his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Donald Trump’s Greatest Hits from the campaign trail
This collection wouldn’t be complete without a Donald Trump video. It was too hard to just include one moment, so here’s a compilation of the most shocking and memorable things Trump said while on the campaign trail.
–With files from Andrew Russell, Jenny Rodrigues, Emanuela Campanella, Alex Maveal, Melissa Gilligan, Jill Slattery, Alley Wilson, Rachel Lau