2014 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Federal government

• Governor General – David Johnston
• Prime Minister – Stephen Harper
• Chief Justice – Beverley McLachlin
• Parliament – 41st

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Donald Ethell
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Judith Guichon
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Philip S. Lee
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Graydon Nicholas, Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frank Fagan
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – John James Grant
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – David Onley then Elizabeth Dowdeswell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Frank Lewis
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Pierre Duchesne
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Vaughn Solomon Schofield

  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

• Commissioner of Yukon – Doug Phillips
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – George Tuccaro
• Commissioner of Nunavut – Edna Elias

  Premiers

• Premier of the Northwest Territories – Bob McLeod
• Premier of Nunavut – Peter Taptuna
• Premier of Yukon – Darrell Pasloski

  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 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 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 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 Progressive 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.