2000 in Canada

Events from the year 2000 in Canada.

Incumbents

Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

Governor General - Adrienne Clarkson
Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien
Chief Justice - Antonio Lamer then Beverley McLachlin
Parliament - 36th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon - Judy Gingell then Jack Cable
Commissioner of Northwest Territories - Daniel Joseph Marion then Glenna Hansen
Commissioner of Nunavut - Helen Maksagak then Peter Irniq

Premiers

Premier of the Northwest Territories - Jim Antoine then Stephen Kakfwi
Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik
Premier of Yukon - Piers McDonald then Pat Duncan

Events

January to June

January 1 - The magnitude 5.2 Kipawa earthquake occurs in Ontario and Quebec.
January 7 - Beverley Mclachlin is sworn in as the 17th chief justice of Canada, and first woman to be appointed to that role.
January 15 - CTV News Channel mistakenly airs tape of Avery Haines flubbing a line and joking about it in terms many viewers find offensive.
January 19
* Stephen Kakfwi becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing James Antoine.
* HRDC scandal hits the public as a result of an internal audit.
February 7 - Rogers Communications buys Quebec's Vidéotron.
February 15 - Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other than The Globe and Mail.
February 24 - Ujjal Dosanjh becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Dan Miller.
March 15 - The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum.
March 25 - The Reform Party of Canada is dissolved and replaced with the Canadian Alliance.
April 19 - Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing.
May 6 - Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald.
May 11
* Effective date of the first modern-day treaty between a First Nation and Canada: the Nisga'a Final Agreement.
* The Alberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care.
May 12 - The Bank of Canada withdraws the $1,000 bill from circulation to fight against money laundering and organized crime.
May 24 - E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario. It will eventually kill nine people.
May 25 - The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier killed in France in World War I are brought back to Canada and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.
June 17 - Seagram announces plans to merge with France's Vivendi.
June 29 - Canada passes the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.

July to December

July 8 - Stockwell Day is elected the first leader of the Canadian Alliance party.
July 12 - Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of the Assembly of First Nations.
July 14 - A tornado near Pine Lake, Alberta, kills eleven people.
July 31 - Conrad Black's Hollinger sells almost all its Canadian newspaper holdings to Izzy Asper's CanWest.
August - The prohibition of marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court.
August 15 - Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO of Corel.
August 26 - Sponsorship scandal: Minister of Public Works Alfonso Gagliano is criticized for giving contracts to a firm that employs his son.
September 9 - Star Ray TV, a pirate television station in Toronto, begins broadcasting.
September 26 - Long-serving Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow announces his plans to retire.
September 28 to October 3 - Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister.
October 16 - Beaton Tulk becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Tobin.
October 27 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in connection with the bombing of Air India Flight 182.
November 21 - Launch of Anik F1 Canada's most powerful communications satellite to date.
November 27 - In the 2000 Canadian election Jean Chrétien's Liberals increase their majority in the House of Commons.
November 30 - Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time.
December - The federal government opens a marijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine in Manitoba.

Arts and literature

New works

The Blind Assassin: Margaret Atwood
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond: Michael Ignatieff
Star-Spangled Canadians: Jeffrey Simpson
Island: Alistair MacLeod
The Farfarers, Before the Norse: Farley Mowat
No Logo: Naomi Klein
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland
Before You're a Stranger: Raymond Fraser

Plays

Elizabeth Rex - Timothy Findley

Literary awards

Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
Michael Ondaatje wins the Prix Médicis for Anil's Ghost
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards: Mercy Among the Children
See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Nega Mezlekia's non-fiction win for Notes from the Hyena's Belly becomes a subject of controversy when poet Anne Stone alleges that she ghostwrote the majority of the book. Stone was subsequently sued for defamation by Mezlekia, who stated that Stone's role in the book's publication was strictly that of a copy editor.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
Gerald Lampert Award: Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
Griffin Poetry Prize: Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Marian Engel Award: Anita Rau Badami
Norma Fleck Award: Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman, The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North
Pat Lowther Award: Esta Spalding, Lost August
Stephen Leacock Award: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
Trillium Book Award English: Don Coles, Kurgan
Trillium Book Award French: Didier Leclair, Toronto, je t'aime
Vicky Metcalf Award: Sheree Fitch

Television

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Canadian Edition shows for two episodes

Music

Sport

May 28 - Rimouski Océanic wins their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Barrie Colts 6 to 2. The entire tournament is played at Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 10 - Kitchener, Ontario's Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
November 26 - BC Lions win their fourth Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 28 to 26 in the 88th Grey Cup played at McMahon Stadium in Calgary. Vancouver's Sean Millington is awarded the game's Most Valuable Canadian
December 2 - Ottawa Gee-Gees win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the Regina Rams 42 to 39 in the 36th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto

Births

February - Erika Nordby
February 8 - Chase Wouters, ice hockey player
February 23 - Christian Martyn, actor
February 25 - Daniel Benoit, Canadian-American son of Chris Benoit
March 27 - Sophie Nélisse, actress
May 18 - Addison Holley, actress
May 23 - Evan Bird, actor
May 23 - Leah John, golfer
June 13 - Penny Oleksiak, swimmer
June 14 - RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player
June 16 - Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
July 15 - Victoria Stafford, murder victim
July 17 - Maria Aragon, singer
August 8 - Félix Auger-Aliassime, tennis player
August 26 - Noah Ryan Scott, actor
September 1 - Jacob Ewaniuk, actor
November 2 - Alphonso Davies, football player
November 21 - Megan Roberts, artistic gymnast
December 17 - Twomad, YouTuber

Deaths

January to March

January 15 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist
January 22 - Anne Hébert, author and poet
January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author
February 5 - Barbara Pentland, composer
February 7
*Sid Abel, ice hockey player and coach
*Doug Henning, magician, illusionist and escape artist
*Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion
February 11 - Wilfred Sénéchal, lawyer, a decorated World War II soldier, and politician
February 18 - Sheldon Turcott, journalist
February 21 - Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist
March 3 - Sandra Schmirler, curler, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion
March 5 - Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster
March 6 - John Colicos, actor
March 9 - Jean Coulthard, composer and academic
March 16 - Michael Starr, politician and first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent
March 20 - Gene Eugene, actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician

April to June

April 23 - Al Purdy, poet
May 22 - Davie Fulton, politician and judge
May 27 - Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
June 21 - Claude Bissell, author and educator

July to December

Image:Pierre Trudeau.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Pierre Trudeau died September 28

July 12 - Charles Merritt, recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament
July 21 - Frank Miller, politician and 19th Premier of Ontario
August 1 - Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor
September 10 - Ben Wicks, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author
September 21 - Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator
September 24 - Marcel Lambert, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada
September 29 - Myles Ferguson, actor
October 4 - Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
October 27 - Tim Ralfe, journalist