1995 in Canada

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Events from the year 1995 in Canada.

• Monarch - Elizabeth II
• Governor General - Ray Hnatyshyn then Roméo LeBlanc
• Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien
• Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia - Mike Harcourt
• Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon
• Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna
• Premier of Newfoundland - Clyde Wells
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Savage
• Premier of Ontario - Bob Rae then Mike Harris
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Catherine Callbeck
• Premier of Quebec - Jacques Parizeau
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Roy Romanow

• January 5 - Rogers Communications withdraws the unpopular negative option billing system after widescale consumer protest
• January 7 - The opening of Parliament is televised for the first time
• January 18 - A video of the Canadian Airborne Regiment's brutal hazing rituals is made public
• January 23 - As a result of the Somalia Affair and the video the Airborne Regiment is disbanded
• January 23 - Guy Paul Morin's conviction for murder that had seen him jailed for 11 years is overturned
• February 21 - The inquiry into the April 1994 uprising in the Kingston Prison For Women rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down
• February 23 - American President Bill Clinton addresses Parliament
• March 9 - As part of Brian Tobin's Turbot War Canadian officials seize the Spanish trawler the Estai

• March 15 - Former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan is charged with child abuse
• March 18-March 27 - A major rail strike occurs; the workers are eventually legislated back to work
• March 20 - Erichs Tobias is accused of war crimes
• March 27 - Bell Canada announces major job cuts
• March 31 - Perrin Beatty appointed head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

• April - Chapters is officially incorporated
• April 9 - Steve Stavro buys Maple Leaf Gardens from Harold Ballard's estate
• April 16 - The Turbot War ends as Canada and the European Union reach an agreement

• May 18 - The trial of Paul Bernardo begins

• May 31 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announce a $1 million reward in Air India flight 182 case and restarts its investigation.
• June 6 - Labatt is sold to a Belgian company
• June 8 - Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a majority, defeating Bob Rae's NDP
• June 9 - Floods in Medicine Hat, Alberta force the evacuation of over 5000 people
• June 13 - A strict new gun control law is passed banning most handguns and forcing all rifles to be registered
• June 15-June 17 - The G7 meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• June 21 - Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a second consecutive majority
• June 28 - Mike Harris becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Bob Rae

• July 17 - Christine Silverberg becomes Canada's first female police chief when she is promoted to that position in Calgary
• July 20 - In Hill v. Church of Scientology of mexico the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award
• July 27 - Thomson Corp. agrees to sell 27 Canadian newspapers to Hollinger Inc.
• August 1 - Popular Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith is shot in the parking lot of CJOH by escaped mental patient Jeffrey Arenburg; Smith dies in hospital the following day.
• August 11 - The first ever fatal accident aboard a Toronto Transit Commission subway kills three
• September 1 - Paul Bernardo is found guilty of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French
• September 6 - The government announces plans to sell off most of its remaining holdings in Petro-Canada

• October 14 - Alexa McDonough is elected head of the New Democratic Party, replacing Audrey McLaughlin
• October 24 - The James Bay Cree [1] vote 96.3% in favour of their territory remaining part of Canada in the event of Quebec Separation.
• October 27 - A massive rally is held in Montreal by the No side in the referendum
• October 30 - The 1995 Quebec referendum is held on separation. The No side narrowly wins.
• October 31 - Newfoundland passes a constitutional amendment to overhaul its school system
• November 4 - Radarsat, Canada's first observation satellite is launched
• November 5 - André Dallaire breaks into 24 Sussex Drive and the Prime Minister fends him off with an Inuit sculpture
• November 5 - Paul Bernardo is declared a dangerous offender, meaning he will be ineligible for parole
• November 11 - Journalist Judy Steed, in a conference speech, attacks the chair of Ryerson University's journalism program for employing Gerald Hannon as a part-time instructor; the controversy spans the next three weeks.
• November 15 - British Columbia premier announces his resignation because of the bingogate scandal.
• November 20 - Former PM Brian Mulroney sues the government over the Airbus Affair
• November 22 - Don Morin becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nellie Cournoyea
• November 23 - Jean Chrétien unveils a law that would give each of Canada's four regions a constitutional veto. The West complains that it deserves more than one.
• November 28 - Canadian National Railway, the nation's largest Crown corporation and one of the largest state-run enterprises in the industrialized world is privatized
• December - Representatives of aboriginal peoples gather and issue the Sacred Assembly Proclamation; from this was developed the Reconciliation Proclamation and the Statement of Principles and Priorities.
• December 6 - The toonie is introduced
• December 6 - Canada agrees to send 1000 peacekeepers to Bosnia
• December 11 - Voters in what will become Nunavut select Iqaluit as the capital of the new territory
• December 20 - Lieutenant General Jean Boyle becomes Chief of the Defence Staff
• December 21 - The Krever Commission holds its final hearings
• December 28 - Premier of Newfoundland Clyde Wells announces his retirement.

• Bill Bissett - Th influenza uv logik
• Ann-Marie MacDonald - The Arab's Mouth
• Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
• Stevie Cameron - On the Take
• Dave Duncan - The Hunters' Haunt
• Antonine Maillet - La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux
• Farley Mowat - Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World
• Timothy Findley - The Piano Man's Daughter
• J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

• Carol Shields wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Stone Diaries
• Robert J. Sawyer wins the Nebula Award for his work The Terminal Experiment
• Giller Prize: Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
• See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Books in Canada First Novel Award: Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
• Geoffrey Bilson Award: Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers
• Gerald Lampert Award: Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
• Marian Engel Award: Bonnie Burnard
• Pat Lowther Award: Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
• Stephen Leacock Award: Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life
• Trillium Book Award English: - Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House and Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
• Trillium Book Award French: - Maurice Henrie, Le Balcon dans le ciel
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Sarah Ellis

• Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill released
• Shania Twain's The Woman in Me released
• Ashley MacIsaac, Hi™ How Are You Today?
• Susan Aglukark, This Child
• Art Bergmann, What Fresh Hell is This?

• April 26 - Direct-to-home satellite television is made legal in Canada.
• Long running quiz show Front Page Challenge is cancelled by the CBC

• Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is released.

• 28 May - Jacques Villeneuve becomes first Canadian to win the Indianapolis 500; Canadian Scott Goodyear is third.
• December 7 - The Montreal Canadiens trade Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche.

• February 8 - Jordan Todosey, actress
• October 12 - Lauren Dixon, actress
• October 25 - Conchita Campbell, actress

• January 28 - George Woodcock, poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historian (b.1912)
• February 23 - Murray Cotterill, trade union activist
• March 14 - John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar, jurist and human rights advocate (b.1905)
• April 23 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (b.1895)
• May 6 - John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1923)

• July 8 - George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1920)
• August 2 - Brian Smith, ice hockey player and sportscaster (b.1940)
• August 25 - Francis Lawrence Jobin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1914)
• September 3 - Earle Birney, poet (b.1904)
• September 23 - Philip Gaglardi, politician (b.1913)
• September 30 - Jean-Luc Pépin, academic, politician and Minister (b.1924)

• October 17 - Herbert J. Smith, president of General Electric Canada
• October 26 - Lucie Cavoukian, photographer
• October 27 - Artin Cavoukian, photographer
• November 3 - Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (b.1887)
• November 11 - Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (b.1898)
• November 21 - Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (b.1928)
• November 30 - Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (b.1922)
• December 2 - Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (b.1913)
• December 3 - Elsie Knott, first female band chief
• December 4 - Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (b.1935)

• Paul Collins, long-distance runner (b.1926)