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Incumbents

Stephen Harper gives his victory speech to party faithful in Calgary after winning the 2006 federal election.

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• 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

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• Prime Minister - Paul Martin then Stephen Harper
• Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein
• 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

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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.

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February

• February 1: Justice John Gomery releases the final report of a federal 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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August

• August 2: The day after record-breaking heat in Ontario and Quebec, powerful 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.
• 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

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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 Quebec Autoroute 19 in Laval collapses, killing five people and injuring six others.

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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 CRTC 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 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... John Garth Turner, PC, MP, BA (born March 14, 1949) is a Canadian business journalist, broadcaster, and politician. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Rona Ambrose, PC, MP, MA (born March 15, 1969 in Valleyview, Alberta) is Canadas Minister of the Environment. ... A Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution in general. ... Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, BA, LL.B, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canadas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. ... Belinda Caroline Stronach, PC, MP (born May 2, 1966 in Newmarket, Ontario) is a Canadian businesswoman, politician, and a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... CHOI-FM is a French language FM radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 98. ... Radio-Nord is a Canadian broadcasting group based in Gatineau, Quebec, with offices in Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Inco Limited (TSX: N) (NYSE: N) is a Canadian mining and metals company, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. ... Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - CVRD is a global diversified mining company and is also the largest logistics operator in Brazil. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... The Ontario Court of Appeal is headquartered in downtown Toronto, in historic Osgoode Hall. ... Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ... The Charter, signed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1981. ...

November

• November 25: First round of balloting in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election, 2006.
• November 27: Byelections are scheduled in the ridings of London North Centre and Repentigny.

November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta will hold a leadership election on November 25, 2006 and December 2, 2006 (if a second ballot is needed). ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... London North Centre is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. ... Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. ...

December

• December 2: Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006 to be held. Also the second round of balloting, if needed, in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election, 2006.

December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention of 2006 was prompted by Paul Martins announcement that he would not lead the Liberal Party of Canada into another election, following his partys defeat in the 2006 federal election in Canada. ... The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta will hold a leadership election on November 25, 2006 and December 2, 2006 (if a second ballot is needed). ...

Unknown dates

• Rogers Wireless to begin deployment of Canada's first 3G Wireless Network.

Rogers Wireless, previously known as Rogers AT&T Wireless, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications. ... 3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation technology. ...

Arts and literature

• 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
• 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 to be announced

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Sports

• 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 ladie's 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 ladie's 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: 94th Grey Cup to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Anouck Leblanc-Boucher (born on October 21, 1984 in Prévost, Quebec) is a Canadian Short track speed skating athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics. ... 500 metres short track heat at the 2004 World Cup in Saguenay Short track speed skating (also Shorttrack speedskating) is a form of competitive ice skating similar to speed skating. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jeffrey Buttle (born September 1, 1982 in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian figure skater. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Speed skating or speedskating is a form of skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance as quickly as possible on ice skates. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 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A human skeleton - (endoskeleton) In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing physical support in living organisms. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dominique Maltais (born on November 9, 1980 in Charlevoix, Quebec) is a Canadian snowboarder. ... A snowboard with boot bindings A snowboard is a board ridden by a rider in the sport of snowboarding. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeff Pain (born on December 14, 1970 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a Canadian male skeleton racer, who takes part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup. ... A human skeleton - (endoskeleton) In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing physical support in living organisms. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Pierre Lueders (born 26th September 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a top-level bobsledder. ... Lascelles Brown is a bobsleigh athlete. ... Historic bobteam from Davos around 1910 Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-02-04, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canadas all-time most decorated Olympian. ... Speed skating or speedskating is a form of skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance as quickly as possible on ice skates. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Kristina Groves (born on December 4, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian athlete. ... 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Births

Deaths

January

• January 4 - Irving Layton, poet and two-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for literature (b. Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, 1912)

January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet. ... Nobel Prize medal. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

February

• February 24 - John Martin, television programmer
• February 25 - Margaret Gibson, novelist and short story writer

February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... John Martin (1947 – February 24, 2006) was a Canadian broadcaster, credited with almost single-handedly creating music television in Canada. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Margaret Gibson (born 1948, died 2006) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. ...

March

• March 11 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey player

March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... Finlay Landon Drake (November 11, 1931 – March 11, 2006), nicknamed The Minute Man, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. ...

April

• April 25 - Jane Jacobs, urban theorist

April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, OC , O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist. ...

May

• May 6 - Lorne Saxberg, CBC Newsworld anchor
• May 10 - A.M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born editor of the New York Times

May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... Lorne Saxberg (August 6, 1958 – May 6, 2006) was a Canadian television journalist and one of many on-air anchors on CBC Newsworld. ... CBC Newsworld is a Canadian 24-hour cable news television channel operated by the CBC. It broadcasts into over 10 million homes nation-wide, as well as into some northern states in the U.S. It is the worlds third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... Abraham Michael A.M. Rosenthal (May 2, 1922 – May 10, 2006), born in Sault Ste. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

August

• August 28 - Benoît Sauvageau, Member of Parliament for Repentigny

August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... Benoît Sauvageau (born November 22, 1963) is a Canadian politician. ... Repentigny is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. ...

September

• September 16 - Floyd Curry, hockey player

September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... Floyd James Curry (August 11, 1925 in Chapleau, Ontario, Canada - September 16, 2006 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Canadian ice hockey right winger. ...

October

• October 16 - Lister Sinclair, playwright and CBC broadcaster

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... Lister S. Sinclair, OC, MA , LL.D (1921 - October 16, 2006) was a Canadian broadcaster and playwright. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...

November

• November 4 - Frank Arthur Calder, first aboriginal person elected to a Canadian legislature
• November 7 - Jackie Parker, football player
• November 22 - John Allan Cameron, folk singer