2014 in Canada

Events from the year 2014 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Alison Redford, Dave Hancock then Jim Prentice
Premier of British Columbia – Christy Clark
Premier of Manitoba – Greg Selinger
Premier of New Brunswick – David Alward then Brian Gallant
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Kathy Dunderdale, Tom Marshall then Paul Davis
Premier of Nova Scotia – Stephen McNeil
Premier of Ontario – Kathleen Wynne
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Robert Ghiz
Premier of Quebec – Pauline Marois then Philippe Couillard
Premier of Saskatchewan – Brad Wall

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Premiers

Events

January to March

January 1 – Hobbema, Alberta, is renamed Maskwacis.
January 5 – The centennial celebrations of Amos, Quebec, begin.
January 8 – A Canadian National Railway train from Toronto carrying crude oil and propane derails and catches fire in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, in the northwest part of the province, causing 45 homes to be evacuated in a rural area. No one was injured, and the fire was extinguished without the propane exploding.
January 17 – Brian Jean, the Conservative MP for Fort McMurray—Athabasca, resigns his seat.
January 23 – The L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire kills several people.
January 24 – Kathy Dunderdale resigns as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Tom Marshall is sworn in as Premier.
January 29 – Singer Justin Bieber surrenders to Toronto Police to face assault charges.
February 12 – Two teenagers age 17 are accused of premeditated murder of two women and a man in Trois-Rivières.
February 28 – Two are killed and six are injured in a stabbing rampage at a Loblaw grocery warehouse in Edmonton, Alberta.
March 9 – 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto
March 12 – Olivia Chow, the NDP MP for Trinity—Spadina and widow of Jack Layton, resigns her seat to run in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election.
March 18 – Jim Flaherty, the Conservative MP for Whitby-Oshawa, resigns as finance minister to return to the private sector. He remains a backbench MP.
March 23 – Alison Redford resigns as premier of Alberta. Deputy Premier and Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Dave Hancock is sworn in as premier.
March 30 – Juno Awards of 2014 in Winnipeg

April to June

April 1 – Jim Karygiannis, the Liberal MP for Scarborough—Agincourt, resigns his seat to enter Toronto municipal politics.
April 7 – In a 2014 [Quebec general election|Quebec general election] the Parti Québécois loses its minority to a Quebec Liberal Party majority.
April 10 – Former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty dies at age 64.
April 15 – Five students 2014 [Calgary stabbing|are murdered] at an end-of-semester university house party in Calgary; the person charged in the crime is the son of a high ranking city police officer.
April 23 –
* Philippe Couillard is sworn in as premier of Quebec.
* A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits 94 km south of Port Hardy in British Columbia at around 8:10 pm PDT. Seismic activity was felt as far as Kamloops.
April 30 –
* A shooting occurs at a sawmill in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, killing two people and injuring two others. A former employee is arrested.
* The Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford takes a leave of absence to help with substance abuse, according to his lawyer.
June 4 – A police manhunt occurs in Moncton, New Brunswick, after the deaths of three RCMP officers.
June 6 – Montcalm MP Manon Perreault is suspended from the NDP caucus following allegations she misled police.
June 12 – In an 2014 [Ontario general election|Ontario general election] the Ontario Liberal Party gain a majority.
June 14 – At a Bloc Québécois leadership election Mario Beaulieu is elected leader.
June 17 – A tornado hits southern Ontario causing extensive damage in the corridor from Angus to Barrie.
June 30 –
* Federal by-elections in Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta, Macleod, Alberta, Scarborough—Agincourt, Ontario and Trinity—Spadina, Ontario
* 3 people are abducted and murdered from their home in Calgary

July to September

August 23 to 31 – Arpad Horvath becomes the last victim of serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer after being murdered in London, Ontario. Wettlaufer killed her patients by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin.
August 26 – Fast food giant Burger King agrees to acquire Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion and move its headquarters to Canada.
August 28 – A tour bus crashes near Merritt, British Columbia. 56 people were injured in the incident.
August 31 contracts for Ontario teachers and education workers expires
September 4 – The Canadian government announced that it would deploy up to 100 Canadian special forces to Iraq in a non-combat advisory role. This was Canada first roll in the United States led Operation Inherent Resolve. Operation Impact is Canada's contribution to the military intervention against the Islamic State of [Iraq and the Levant].
September 6 – Jim Prentice is elected leader of the Conservative Association of Alberta">Conservative Party of Canada">Conservative Association of Alberta.
September 15 – Dave Hancock resigns as premier of Alberta and is replaced by Jim Prentice.
September 17 – Rob Merrifield, the Conservative MP for Yellowhead, resigns his seat to accept an appointment from Alberta Premier Jim Prentice as the province's envoy to the United States.
September 22 – 2014 New Brunswick general election
September 26 – Tom Marshall resigns as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and is replaced by Paul Davis.

October to December

October 3 – Canada's role in the intervention increased when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada would be deploying 9 total aircraft, including 6 combat aircraft to Iraq. Steven Harper also did not rule out Canadian involvement in the American-led intervention in Syria
October 7 – David Alward resigns as premier of New Brunswick and is replaced by Brian Gallant.
October 18 – Rachel Notley is elected as the new leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.
October 19 – Jean-Paul St. Pierre, the incumbent mayor of Russell, dies in office, necessitating a by-election to be held in three months. The township's regular council election will proceed normally on October 27, with only the mayoral election delayed.
October 20 – Martin Rouleau, a radical Islamist and convert to Islam, ran over two members of the Canadian Armed Forces in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, killing one of them. He was then pursued in a car chase which resulted in a crash. Rouleau died after being shot by police.
October 21 – Repentigny MP Jean-François Larose leaves the NDP caucus to, along with independent Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia MP Jean-François Fortin, form Strength in Democracy, a new Quebec-centred political party.
October 22 –
* In the shootings at Parliament Hill, a gunman shot a Canadian Forces soldier dead at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, then entered the Parliament buildings where he was killed by security forces. Ottawa's downtown core was put under lockdown during the search for a potential second shooter.
* A motorist along the Ingraham Trail on the outskirts of Yellowknife sees Atsumi Yoshikubo, a visiting Japanese tourist, walking north in an undeveloped area of bush. It turns out to be the last time anyone sees her; after an intensive week-long search covered both nationally and in Japan the RCMP announces that its investigation has found she deliberately went missing to end her life.
October 27 – John Tory is elected 65th mayor of Toronto.
November 2 – Canadian airstrikes in Iraq began.
November 5 –
* Avalon MP Scott Andrews and Saint-Leonard—Saint-Michel MP Massimo Pacetti are suspended from the Liberal caucus following allegations of sexual harassment.
* Dean Del Mastro, the independent MP for Peterborough, resigns his seat after being found guilty on three counts of violating election spending limits. Prior to Del Mastro's resignation, the House of Commons was expected to vote in favour of an NDP proposal to suspend Del Mastro without pay, effective immediately.
November 17 – Federal by-elections are held in Whitby—Oshawa and Yellowhead. The Conservatives hold both ridings, under candidates Pat Perkins and Jim Eglinski respectively.
December 1 - John Tory is sworn in as the 65th mayor of Toronto.
December 10 – Perry Bellegarde is elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
December 23 – Luka Magnotta is convicted of the murder of Jun Lin in Montreal. Magnotta recorded and uploaded a video of Lin's murder, dismemberment and necrophilic acts, and later mailed Lin's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political party offices. He received a mandatory life sentence for the murder and a further 19 years for four other charges.
December 29 – A man kills eight people in Edmonton, then commits suicide in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Sport

January 9 to 15 – 2014 Canadian Figure Skating Championships – Ottawa, Ontario
January 18 to 26 – 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships – Liverpool, Nova Scotia
January 25 – Jean Pascal vs. Lucian Bute – Montreal, Quebec
February 1 to 9 – 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts – Montreal, Quebec
February 7 to 23 – Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
February 20 – Canada's women's hockey team wins the Olympic gold medal, beating the American team 3–2.
March 2 – 2014 Heritage Classic – Vancouver, British Columbia
March 1 to 9 – 2014 Tim Hortons Brier – Kamloops, British Columbia
March 7 to 16 – Canada at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia
March 15 to 23 – 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship – Saint John, New Brunswick
May 13 – 2014 CFL draft
May 25 – The Edmonton Oil Kings win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Guelph Storm 6 to 3. The tournament was played at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario
June 8 – 2014 Canadian Grand Prix – Montreal, Quebec
June 13 – Cobourg, Ontario's Justin Williams of the Los Angeles Kings is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
July 21 to 27 – Canadian Open – L'Île-Bizard, Quebec
July 23 to August 3 – Canada at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland
August 5 to 24 – 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Edmonton, Moncton, Montreal, and Toronto
November 29 – The Montreal Carabins win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the McMaster Marauders 20 to 19 in the 50th Vanier Cup played at Molson Stadium in Montreal
November 30 – The Calgary Stampeders win their seventh Grey Cup by defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 20 to 16 in the 102nd Grey Cup played at BC Place in Vancouver
December 1 to 6 – 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships – Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
December 26 to January 5, 2015 – 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Toronto and Montreal

Arts and literature

March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins the 2014 edition of Canada Reads
March 10 – Thomas King wins the RBC Taylor Prize for The Inconvenient Indian
April 22 – The Writers' Trust of Canada announces the new Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.
April 24 – Bill Conall wins the Stephen Leacock Award for The Promised Land.
June 23 – Tamai Kobayashi wins the Dayne Ogilvie Prize.
September 22 – Tanya Tagaq wins the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism.
October 14 – Naomi Klein wins the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
November 4 – Miriam Toews wins the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for All My Puny Sorrows, and Ken Babstock wins the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.
November 10 – Sean Michaels wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Us Conductors.
November 13 – Winners of the 2014 Governor General's Awards include Thomas King's The Back of the Turtle for English fiction and Andrée A. Michaud's Bondrée for French fiction.

Deaths in 2014

January

January 6 –
* Larry D. Mann, 91, actor .
* Don Ward, 78, ice hockey player.
January 12 – William Feindel, 95, neurosurgeon.
January 14 –
* Pierre F. Brault, 74, composer.
* Bernie Morelli, 70, politician, Hamilton, Ontario City Councillor .
* Eric Paterson, 84, Olympic champion ice hockey player .
January 16 – Dave Madden, 82, actor .
January 17
* Francine Lalonde, 73, politician, MP of Mercier and La Pointe-de-l'Île
* Sunanda Pushkar, 51, Indian-born businesswoman and entrepreneur, drug overdose.
January 18 – Gertrude Story, 84, writer and broadcaster
January 19
* Tim Jones, 57, advanced Life Support Paramedic and Search and Rescue Technician
* Udo Kasemets, 94, Estonian-born composer.
January 20 – George Scott, 84, Scottish-born wrestler, lung cancer.
January 22 – Pierre Jalbert, 89, actor and skier, heart attack.
January 23 – Wando, 14, thoroughbred racehorse
January 25 – John Robertson, 79, journalist.
January 26 – Doris Witiuk, 84, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
January 28
* John Bothwell, 87, Anglican bishop.
* Fernand Leduc, 97, abstract painter, cancer.
January 29
* Zoe MacKinnon, 55, Olympic field hockey player, cancer.
* Jack Stoddard, 87, ice hockey player .
January 30
* Campbell Lane, 78, actor.
* Cornelius Pasichny, 86, Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Saskatoon and Toronto .

February

February 2 – Yves Ryan, 85, politician, Mayor of Montreal North, heart disease.
February 4
* Keith Allen, 90, ice hockey player and executive, dementia.
* Ed McKitka, 75, politician, Mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, traffic collision.
February 7 – Doug Mohns, 80, ice hockey player .
February 10 – Doug Jarrett, 69, ice hockey player, cancer.
February 11 –
* Aslan, 83, French-born painter, sculptor and pin-up artist
* Peter Desbarats, 80, journalist and Global News anchor.
February 14 – Chris Pearson, 82, politician, Premier of Yukon .
February 12 – Jean-Louis Giasson, 74, Canadian-born Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yoro .
February 17 –
* Joe Bell, 90, ice hockey player .
* Ian Kagedan, 58, public servant.
February 18 – Mavis Gallant, 91, writer
February 23 – K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, 70, developmental psychologist.
February 24 – Neil Harrison, 64, Hall of Fame curler, world champion .
February 25 – Angèle Arsenault, 70, singer-songwriter, cancer.
February 26 –
* Sorel Etrog, 80, Romanian-born sculptor, recipient of the Order of Canada .
* Georges Hamel, 66, country music singer and songwriter.
February 27 – Assad Kotaite, 89, Lebanese-born administrator, Secretary-General and Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization .
February 28 – Lee Lorch, 98, American-born desegregation activist.

March

March 1 –
* Nancy Charest, 54, politician, Quebec MNA for Matane .
* Andy Gilpin, 93, Olympic champion ice hockey player .
March 2 –
* Molly Bobak, 92, war artist, recipient of the Order of Canada .
* Gail Gilmore, 76, actress, lung cancer.
* Scott Vanstone, 66, cryptographer.
March 5 – Alexander Macdonald, 95, politician, MP .
March 6 – Ron Murphy, 80, ice hockey player .
March 12 – John Cullen Nugent, 93, artist, sculptor and photographer.
March 13 – Bill Ballard, 67, concert promoter and sport franchise owner, cancer.
March 14 – Hans Fogh, 76, Danish-born Olympic sailor.
March 16
* Al Oeming, 88, conservationist and television personality, complications from heart surgery.
* Chuck Scherza, 91, ice hockey player .
March 18 – Jeffrey Anderson, 85, broadcaster, journalist and producer, CBC London bureau chief.
March 19 –
* Heather Robertson, 72, journalist and author, cancer.
* Lawrence Walsh, 102, lawyer and judge.
March 20 – Marc-Adélard Tremblay, 91, anthropologist.
March 23 –
* Dave Brockie, 50, heavy metal singer .
* Bobby Croft, 68, basketball player, first Canadian to get a full scholarship to NCAA school for basketball.
March 25
* Jon Lord, 57, politician, Alberta MLA for Calgary-Currie, heart attack.
* Bill Merritt, 66, rock bassist and festival director, director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, co-founder of the Winnipeg International Children's Festival, cancer.
March 27 – Kent Cochrane, 62, amnesiac, had one of the most studied human brains.
March 29 – Dave Gregg, 54, punk guitarist, heart attack.

April

April 1 – William Mitchell, 85, hockey player, kidney failure.
April 2
*Michael Pearse Lacey, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto .
*Norman Warner, 70, politician and insurance broker, cancer.
April 3 – Bernard Daines, 69, computer engineer and technology executive.
April 7 – Noel Knockwood, 81, Mi'kmaq spiritual leader and civil servant, Sergeant-at-Arms for Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, National Aboriginal Achievement Award, stroke.
April 10 – Jim Flaherty, 64, Finance Minister
April 20 – Alistair MacLeod, writer

May

May 6 – Farley Mowat, 92, author
May 24 – Knowlton Nash, 86, journalist
May 30 – Yaëla Hertz, 84, Israeli-Canadian teacher and violinist

August

August 31 – Carol Vadnais, 68, hockey player

September

September 21
*Jim Deva, 65, activist and co-owner of Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium
*Linda Griffiths, 60, actress and playwright

October

October 18 – Jean-Paul Saint-Pierre, 65, politician, Mayor of Russell, Ontario .
October 28 – J. Ross Mackay, Canadian geographer and academic

November

November 22 – Merle Barwis, 113, American-Canadian supercentenarian
November 23 – Pat Quinn, 71, ice hockey player, coach and executive
November 26 – Gilles Tremblay, 75, hockey player
November 29 – Brian Macdonald, 86, choreographer, Companion of the Order of Canada
November 30 – Muriel Millard, actress, dancer, painter, singer-songwriter

December

December 2 – Jean Béliveau, 83, hockey player and executive
December 10 – Bob Solinger, ice hockey player