Incumbents
'Executive':
★
Monarch -
Queen Elizabeth II
★
Governor General -
Michaëlle Jean
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta -
Norman Kwong
★
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia -
Iona Campagnolo
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba -
John Harvard
★
Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick -
Herménégilde Chiasson
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador -
Edward Roberts
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -
Myra Freeman then
Mayann E. Francis
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario -
James K. Bartleman
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island -
Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec -
Lise Thibault
★
Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan -
Lynda M. Haverstock then
Gordon Barnhart
'Legislative':
★
Prime Minister -
Paul Martin then
Stephen Harper
★
Premier of Alberta -
Ralph Klein then
Ed Stelmach
★
Premier of British Columbia -
Gordon Campbell
★
Premier of Manitoba -
Gary Doer
★
Premier of New Brunswick -
Bernard Lord then
Shawn Graham
★
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador -
Danny Williams
★
Premier of Nova Scotia -
John Hamm then
Rodney MacDonald
★
Premier of Ontario -
Dalton McGuinty
★
Premier of Prince Edward Island -
Pat Binns
★
Premier of Quebec -
Jean Charest
★
Premier of Saskatchewan -
Lorne Calvert
★
Premier of the Northwest Territories -
Joe Handley
★
Premier of Nunavut -
Paul Okalik
★
Premier of Yukon -
Dennis Fentie
Events
January
★
January 1: Thirty cities across the
province of
Quebec are
reconstituted as the result of a
referendum held on
June 20,
2004.
★
January 6: The
Canadian Junior Hockey Team wins its 12th gold medal in the 2006
World Junior Hockey Championship
★
January 8-
Kyle Nissen,
Jeff Bean,
Warren Shouldice and
Ryan Blais finish first, second, third, and fourth in men's Freestyle Grand Prix at the
World Cup Aerials.
★
January 10: 29 seniors injured in a
Toronto bus crash.
★
January 20: ''
Karla'', the controversial movie about the murders of two Canadian teens,
Leslie Mahaffy and
Kristen French, is released in
Canada.
★
January 23:
The 39th Canadian general election results in the
Conservative Party of Canada holding the largest number of seats in Parliament, meaning
Stephen Harper will become the first Conservative Prime Minister in 13 years.
February
★
February 1:
Justice John Gomery releases the final report of a
Royal Commission investigating the federal
sponsorship scandal.
★
February 6:
Stephen Harper is sworn in as the 22nd
Prime Minister of Canada.
★
February 11:
Rodney MacDonald wins the leadership of the
Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party.
★
February 24:
Rodney MacDonald is sworn in as the 32nd
Premier of Nova Scotia.
★
February 24:
Marshall Rothstein is nominated to the
Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Rothstein will be the first Supreme Court nominee to face an all-party committee hearing in Parliament before his appointment is confirmed.
★
February 24: An
earthquake of 4.5 in magnitude strikes the
Ottawa Valley ranging from Eastern
Ontario to Western
Quebec.
March
★
March 2: The
Supreme Court of Canada rules in favour of Gurbaj Singh Multani, saying that
kirpan can be worn in Canadian schools
★
March 23: a British led
multinational military operation involving American, British, Canadian and Iraqi forces results in the rescue of three
Christian Peacemaker hostages held in
Iraq for nearly four months; Briton
Norman Kember and Canadians
Harmeet Singh Sooden and
James Loney.
April
★ The
Caledonia land dispute ecalates when the
Ontario Provincial Police move in to remove the protesters but are stopped.
★
April 16: Hunter Jim Martell kills a
Grizzly-polar bear hybrid on
Banks Island in the
Northwest Territories.
May
★
May 15: The village of
Embrun, Ontario has its 150th anniversary.
★
May 16:
Canada 2006 Census day
★
May 29: A labour dispute leads to a one-day shutdown of the
Toronto Transit Commission, stranding commuters in
Toronto, Ontario.
★
May 31: 100 millimeters of rain in a few hours caused
landslides in and around the small town of
La Tuque, in central
Quebec, damaging roads and flooding houses. State emergency was decreted right away and people has been evacuated.
June
★
June 2:
Terrorism plot: more than 400 police officers raid homes in
Toronto and
Mississauga,
Ontario, and arrest 15 people (10 men and five youths), part of a
terrorist cell. All men were born in Canada and were reportedly planning to attack the Parliament in
Ottawa, the Bank of Toronto, some military installations, kidnap deputees and behead prime minister
Stephen Harper.
★
June 13: The
Nova Scotia general election, 2006 is won by Rodney MacDonald's Conservatives.
July
★
July 7: Two police officers are shot and killed in
Spiritwood, Saskatchewan. See
Spiritwood Incident.
★
July 17: A series of severe
thunderstorms hits
Ontario, causing the worst damage to the province's power grid since the
Ice Storm of 1998 and killing two people. Some communities in the
Sudbury,
Manitoulin and
Nipissing regions go without power for a week before it can be restored. See
Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast derecho.
August
★
August 2: The day after record-breaking heat in Ontario and Quebec and just two weeks following another series of powerful storms, severe thunderstorms hit a vast swath of
Cottage country in central and eastern Ontario. Eight confirmed tornadoes touch down, the single largest one-day outbreak in the province since 1985. The two strongest tornadoes are rated F2, one near
Bancroft and other a direct hit on the town of
Combermere in
Renfrew County. Close to 200,000 residents lose power in the storms and more than 20,000 remain without power for over one week after the event. Extensive property and forest damage results. Amazingly no fatalities result.
★
August 9: Journalist
Barbara Kay publishes a controversial piece in the ''
National Post'', "
The Rise of Quebecistan", which accuses several Quebec politicians of endorsing
terrorism and
anti-semitism.
★
August 13: The
XVI International AIDS Conference opens in Toronto. Prime Minister
Stephen Harper is widely criticized in the media for declining to attend.
★
August 26:
Elizabeth May is elected leader of the
Green Party of Canada
★
Falconbridge Ltd. is acquired by
Swiss mining company
Xstrata
September
★
September 13: Two people are killed and twenty injured in the
Dawson College shooting in
Montreal
★
September 16:
Jan Wong publishes a controversial piece in ''
The Globe and Mail'', "
Get under the desk", alleging that Dawson College shooter
Kimveer Gill was motivated by linguistic and cultural alienation from Quebec society. See also
Quebec bashing.
★
September 18: The
New Brunswick general election, 2006 is won by
Shawn Graham's
Liberal Party
★
September 30: A highway
overpass on
Autoroute 19 in
Laval collapses, killing five people and injuring six others.
October
★
October 18: MP
Garth Turner is suspended from the
Conservative caucus for criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his online blog
★
October 19: Environment Minister
Rona Ambrose introduces a controversial
Clean Air Act which is criticized by environmentalists and Opposition politicians for offering virtually no substantive action on climate change until at least 2011. During debate on the Act, several Opposition politicians allege that they hear External Affairs Minister
Peter MacKay refer to Liberal MP
Belinda Stronach as a
dog.
★
October 20: The
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approves the sale of controversial
Quebec City radio station
CHOI-FM to
Radio Nord.
★
October 23:
Inco Limited shareholders accept a takeover offer by
Brazilian mining corporation
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
★
October 24: An
Ontario Supreme Court judge strikes down part of the Canadian
counter-terrorism law as a violation of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
★
October 25:
Krista and Tatiana Hogan,
conjoined twins, are born in
Vancouver
November
★
November 25: First round of balloting in the
Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election, 2006. As no candidate achieved 50% of the votes, a runoff was held on
December 2 between top three finishers
Jim Dinning,
Ted Morton and
Ed Stelmach.
★
November 27: The House of Commons votes to recognise the
Québécois ethnic group as a nation within Canada in an informal motion.
★
November 27: Byelections are held in the ridings of
London North Centre and
Repentigny;
Glen Pearson retains London North Centre for the
Liberals, and
Raymond Gravel retains Repentigny for the
Bloc Québécois.
December
★
December 2:
Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006 was held. Liberal delegates select
Stéphane Dion as their new leader. Also the second round of balloting in the
Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election, 2006 selects
Ed Stelmach as their new leader.
★
December 14:
Ed Stelmach is sworn in as
Premier of
Alberta
Unknown dates
★
Rogers Wireless to begin deployment of Canada's first
3G Wireless Network.
Arts and literature
Albums
★
Susan Aglukark, I Will Return
★
Eva Avila,
Somewhere Else
★
Delerium,
Nuages du Monde
★
Nelly Furtado,
Loose
★
Pierre Lapointe,
La Forêt des Mal-Aimés
★
Antoine Gratton, Il était une fois dans l'est,
★
Malajube,
Trompe-l’oeil
★
Loreena McKennitt,
An Ancient Muse
★
Richard Séguin, Lettres ouvertes
★
Billy Talent,
Billy Talent II
★
Tragically Hip,
World Container
Books
★
Gordon Stewart Anderson, ''The Toronto You Are Leaving''
★
Margaret Atwood, ''
Moral Disorder''
★
Peter Behrens, ''
The Law of Dreams''
★
Douglas Coupland, ''
jPod''
★
Barbara Fradkin, Honour Among Men
★
Rawi Hage, ''De Niro's Game''
★
Anosh Irani, ''
The Song of Kahunsha''
★
Alice Munro, ''
The View from Castle Rock''
★
Heather O'Neill, ''
Lullabies for Little Criminals''
Awards
★
David Foster,
musical producer, is appointed to the
Order of Canada
★
Steve Smith,
comedian, is appointed to the Order of Canada
★
Judith Thompson,
playwright, is appointed to the Order of Canada
★
Ranee Lee,
musician, is appointed to the Order of Canada
★
Chantal duPont,
video artist, wins the
2005 Bell Canada Award in Video Art
★
Sylvia Legris's ''Nerve Squall'' is named winner of the Canadian
Griffin Poetry Prize
★ ''
C.R.A.Z.Y.'' is named Best Picture at the
26th Genie Awards
★
April 2:
Juno Awards of 2006
★
June 11: Canadian musical,
The Drowsy Chaperone, wins five
Tony Awards
★
September 2-
September 3: Inaugural
Osheaga Festival held in
Montreal
★
October 11: Media reports announce that ''
Bon Cop, Bad Cop'' has beat ''
Porky's'' to become the top-grossing Canadian film of all time in domestic box office; these are later disputed as not having taken
inflation into account.
★
Scotiabank Giller Prize:
Vincent Lam, ''
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures''
★
November 21:
2006 Governor General's Awards
Sports
★
January 9-15:
Canadian Figure Skating Championships[1]
★
★ Men's medalists:
Jeffrey Buttle, Gold;
Emanuel Sandhu, Silver;
Shawn Sawyer, Bronze.
★
★ Women's medalists:
Joannie Rochette, Gold;
Mira Leung, Silver;
Lesley Hawker, Bronze.
★
★ Pairs' medalists:
Valérie Marcoux /
Craig Buntin, Gold;
Jessica Dubé /
Bryce Davison, Silver;
Utako Wakamatsu /
Jean-Sebastien Fecteau, Bronze.
★
★ Dance:
Marie-France Dubreuil /
Patrice Lauzon, Gold;
Megan Wing /
Aaron Lowe, Silver;
Tessa Virtue /
Scott Moir, Bronze.
★
January 24:
Mario Lemieux announces his second retirement.
★
Winter Olympic Games held in
Turin,
Italy:
★
★
February 11:
Jennifer Heil wins gold in
free style skiing, women's monguls
★
★
February 12:
Cindy Klassen wins bronze in Ladies 3000 m
speed skating
★
★
February 14:
Sara Renner and
Beckie Scott win silver medals in Ladies' Team
Sprint in
Cross-Country Skiing
★
★
February 15:
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher wins bronze in the Ladies' 500 m in
Short Track Speed Skating.
★
★
February 16: Canadian
Jeff Buttle wins bronze medal for men's
figure skating solid free skate.
★
★
February 16: Canada's men's speed skating team wins silver for men's team pursuit in
speed skating
★
★
February 16: Canada's women's speed skating team wins silver for women's team pursuit in
speed skating
★
★
February 16:
Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards wins bronze in women's
skeleton.
★
★
February 17: Canadians
Duff Gibson and
Jeff Pain win gold and silver respectively in men's
skeleton.
★
★
February 17:
Dominique Maltais wins bronze in ladies'
snowboard cross.
★
★
February 17:
Jeff Pain wins silver in men's
skeleton.
★
★
February 19:
Pierre Lueders and
Lascelles Brown win silver for two-man competition in
bobsleigh.
★
★
February 19:
Cindy Klassen wins silver in the ladies' 1000 m for
speed skating.
★
★
February 20: The Canadian women's
Ice Hockey team win gold.
★
★
February 22:
Kristina Groves wins silver in the women's 1500 m in
speed skating.
★
★
February 22: Canada's women's speed skating team wins silver for women's 3000 m relay in
short track speed skating
★
★
February 22: Canadian
Cindy Klassen wins gold in the Ladies 1500 m in
Speed Skating.
★
★
February 22: Canadian
Chandra Crawford wins gold in the Ladies Sprint for Cross Country Skiing.
★
★
February 23: The Canadian women's
curling team wins bronze by beating
Norway 11-5.
★
★
February 24: The Canadian men's
curling team beats
Finland 10-4 and wins gold.
★
★
February 25: Canadian
Clara Hughes wins gold in the Ladies 5000 m in
speed skating.
★
★
February 25:
Francois-Louis Tremblay wins a
silver medal in
short track speed skating's men's 500 m.
★
★
February 25: The men's speed skating team wins silver in
short track speed skating's men's 5000 m
relay.
★
★
February 25: Canadian
Cindy Klassen wins bronze in the Ladies 5000 m in
speed skating, giving her a total of 5 medals making her the best Canadian Olympian ever.
★
May 7-
NBA: Canadian
Steve Nash is named NBA
MVP for the 2nd year in a row.
★
September 17-
WWE: Canadian
Trish Stratus retires from professional wrestling.
★
November 19-
CFL: The
94th Grey Cup is held in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba. The
B.C. Lions beat the
Montreal Alouettes 25-14.
Births
★ October 25 -
Krista and Tatiana Hogan,
conjoined twins
Deaths
January
★
January 4 -
Irving Layton, poet and two-time nominee for the
Nobel Prize for literature (b. Israel Pincu Lazarovitch,
1912)
February
★
February 24 -
John Martin, television programmer
★
February 25 -
Margaret Gibson, novelist and short story writer
March
★
March 11 -
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey player
April
★
April 25 -
Jane Jacobs, urban theorist
May
★
May 6 -
Lorne Saxberg,
CBC Newsworld anchor
★
May 10 -
A.M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born editor of the ''
New York Times''
August
★
August 28 -
Benoît Sauvageau, Member of Parliament for
Repentigny
September
★
September 16 -
Floyd Curry, hockey player
October
★
October 16 -
Lister Sinclair, playwright and
CBC broadcaster
November
★
November 4 -
Frank Arthur Calder, first
aboriginal person elected to a Canadian legislature
★
November 7 -
Jackie Parker, football player
★
November 14 -
Sydney Banks, broadcaster and television producer
★
November 22 -
John Allan Cameron, folk singer
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References
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