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Events from the year 1995 in Canada.

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[edit] January to March

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)

[edit] April to June

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

[edit] July to September

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

[edit] October to December

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.

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[edit] Television

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

[edit] Film

Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is released.

[edit] Sport

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.

[edit] Births

February 8 - Jordan Todosey, actress

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[edit] January to June

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)

[edit] July to September

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)

[edit] October to December

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)

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

Contents

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[edit] April to June

[edit] July to September

[edit] October to December

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

[edit] Awards

[edit] Music

[edit] Television

[edit] Film

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

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