1995 in Canada

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Contents

1 Incumbents

2 Events

3 Arts and Literature

3.1 New Books

3.1.1 Awards

3.2 Music
3.3 Television
3.4 Film

4 Births

5 Deaths

Incumbents

Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien
Governor General - Ray Hnatyshyn then Roméo LeBlanc

Events

January 5 - Rogers Communications withdraws an unpopular retroactive 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 Women's Prison rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down
February 23 - American President Bill Clinton address 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 CBC
April - Chapters is officially incorporated
April 5 - Mark Chahal kills 10 people in Vernon, British Columbia
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
April 26 - Direct to home satellite television is made legal in Canada
May 9 - The law against homosexual adoption is struck down
May 18 - The trial of Paul Bernardo begins
May 25 - Egan v. Canada - Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
May 31 - The RCMP announce a $1,000,000 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 evactuation of over 5000 people
June 13 - A strict new gun control law is paased banning most handguns and forcing all rifles to be registered
June 15-June 17 - The G-7 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 Toronto the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award
July 27 - Thomson Corp. agrees to sell 27 Canadian newspapers to Hollinger Inc.
August 2 - Popular Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith is shot and killed
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 NDP, replacing Audrey McLaughlin
October 26 - The Cree of Quebec hold a plebicite voting overwhelmingly to stay in Canada
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 - Andre Dallaire breaks into 24 Sussex Drive, 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 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 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 Twonie is introduced
December 6 - Canada agrees to send 1000 peacekeepers to Bosnia
December 7 - The Montreal Canadiens trade Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche
December 11 - Voters in what will become Nunavut select Iqaluit as the capital of the new territory
December 20 - Lt. Gen 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

Arts and Literature

New Books

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

Awards

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

Music

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill released
Shania Twain's The Woman in Me released

Television

Long running quiz show Front Page Challenge is canceled by the CBC

Film

Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is released

Births

Deaths

January 28 - George Woodcock, author
August 2 - Brian Smith, sportscaster
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, doctor
November 13 - Emmett Hall, Supreme Court Justice
November 21 - Bruno Gerussi, actor
December 2 - Robertson Davies, author
December 3 - Elsie Knott, first female band chief
December 4 - Little Beaver, wrestler
December 17 - Jean Fortier, head of Radio-Canada
Earle Birney, poet
John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar