1996 in Canada

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Events from the year 1996 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Events

[edit] January to March

January 14 - A free trade agreement with Israel is announced
January 15 - The Corel Centre opens in Ottawa
January 25 - Jean Chrétien launches a major cabinet shuffle. Pierre Pettigrew and Stéphane Dion are brought in, despite not having seats in Parliament.
January 26 - Brian Tobin becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Clyde Wells
January 29 - Lucien Bouchard becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Jacques Parizeau
February 7 - Bob Rae, former premier of Ontario leaves politics
February 14 - Mr. Dressup does his last show
February 15 - Chrétien throttles a protester in Ottawa, launching a small controversy over the "Shawinigan Handshake"
February 17 - Michel Gauthier is elected new leader of the Bloc Québécois
February 22 - Glen Clark becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Michael Harcourt
February 22 - Brian Tobin leads the Newfoundland Liberal Party to victory in the 1996 Newfoundland election

[edit] March to June

March 6 - The federal budget continues the assault on the deficit
March 26- The Anik E-1 satellite malfunctions
March 27 - The Quebec budget proposes sweeping cuts to government funding
April 3 - All members of the Canadian Forces are ordered to spend the entire day searching for documents that may aid the Somalia inquiry
April 5 - Gunman Mark Chahal kills nine relatives in Vernon, British Columbia before killing himself
April 11 - The Ontario government announce a 15 per cent reduction in the civil service
April 22 - John Nunziata is expelled from the Liberal caucus for voting against the budget
April 23 - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland agree to replace their provincial sales taxes and the Goods and Services Tax with a Harmonized Sales Tax.
May 7 - The Ontario government cuts provincial income taxes by 30 per cent
May 10 - Member of Parliament Jan Brown resigns from the Reform Party of Canada
May 19 - Marc Garneau flies on a second space mission
May 24 - Conrad Black's Hollinger takes over the Southam newspaper chain
May 28 - The British Columbia New Democratic Party wins a surprise re-election
June 10 - The Quebec government reintroduces the "Language police"
June 17 - Sheila Copps, who had resigned over the GST, wins back her Hamilton–Wentworth seat in a by-election
June 20 - Robert Thirsk flies aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
June 24 - A riot in Quebec City causes a million dollars in damage

[edit] July to September

July 7-July 11 - A major AIDS conference is held in Vancouver
July 20-July 21 - Floods in Quebec kill ten
July 25 - Coach House Press closes
August 8 - Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell is named consul general to Los Angeles
August 8 - Jean-Louis Roux appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
August 29 - Former B.C. Premier W.R. Bennett is found guilty of insider trading

[edit] October to December

October 4 - Defence Minister David Collenette resigns
October 10 - Keith Milligan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Catherine Callbeck
October 19 - Piers McDonald becomes government leader of Yukon, replacing John Ostashek
November - SaskTel becomes the first Canadian Internet Service Provider to roll out ADSL
November 5 - Jean-Louis Roux forced to resign as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec when pictures of him at Nazi rallies in the 1930s are published
November 27 - Pat Binns becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Keith Milligan
December 16 - Chrétien formally apologizes for lying about the GST

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Karen Kain becomes the first Canadian to win the Cartier Lifetime Achievement Award
General Jean Boyle resigns over Somalia Affair controversy
Dalton McGuinty is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
Canada sends over a thousand troops to take part in IFOR

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

John Ralston Saul: The Unconscious Civilization
Nancy Huston: Slow Emergencies of my dick
Pierre Berton: Farewell to the Twentieth Century
Elisabeth Harvor: Let Me Be the One
Yann Martel: Self
Timothy Findley: You Went Away
Di Brandt: Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries
Douglas Coupland: Polaroids from the Dead
Guy Vanderhaeghe: The Englishman's Boy

[edit] Awards

Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy
Geoffrey Bilson Award: Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada
Gerald Lampert Award: Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
Marian Engel Award: Barbara Gowdy
Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
Stephen Leacock Award: Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country
Trillium Book Award English: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Trillium Book Award French: Nancy Vickers, Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
Vicky Metcalf Award: Margaret Buffie

[edit] New music

Barenaked Ladies: Born on a Pirate Ship
Bruce Cockburn: The Charity of Night
The Tragically Hip: Trouble at the Henhouse
Various artists: 20 Years of Stony Plain

[edit] Sport

February 27 - The Los Angeles Kings trade Wayne Gretzky to the St. Louis Blues.
March 16- The Montreal Canadiens play their first game at the Molson Centre against the New York Rangers.
July 1 - The Winnipeg Jets leave Canada and become the Phoenix Coyotes.
July 19 - The Atlanta Olympics open, Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey wins the 100-metre dash.
July 26 - Gretzky signs with the New York Rangers.

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[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to March

January 26 - Sally Gribble, founder of MADD Canada
January 26 - Yvonne Housser, painter
January 27 - Brian Kelleher, journalist
January 31 - Beth Amos, actress
February 2 - Phyliss Marshall, actor
February 7 - Lucien Maynard, leader of Alberta francophones
February 19 - Ernest Manning, politician and Premier of Alberta (b.1908)
February 29 - Robert O'Driscoll, scholar
February 29 - Sinclair Ross, banker and author (b.1908)
March 28 - Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (b.1913)

[edit] April to June

April 13 - Stewart McLean, politician (b.1913)
April 23 - Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (b.1913)
May 5 - Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (b.1922)
May 11 - Hilda Grant, author
May 22 - Robert Christie, actor and director (b.1913)
June 11 - George Hees, politician and Minister (b.1910)

[edit] July to September

July 1 - Harold Greenberg, film producer (b.1930)
July 5 - Fred Davis, broadcaster and moderator of Front Page Challenge (b.1921)
July 5 - Bob Southam, newspaper publisher
July 18 - Robert Needham, journalist
July 20 - Ronald Buick, scientist
July 22 - Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (b.1907)
August 10 - Walter MacNutt, organist
August 21 - Mary Earley, Aboriginal rights campaigner
September 22 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer and director (b.1924)
September 23 - Joe Borowski, politician and activist (b.1933)

[edit] October to December

Robert Bourassa during his second appointment as Premier of Quebec (1985–1994)

October 2 - Robert Bourassa, politician and 22nd Premier of Quebec (b.1933)
October 9 - Colleen Peterson, singer (b.1950)
October 11 - Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (b.1913)
October 11 - William Vickrey, professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (b.1914)
October 14 - Marcel Bourbonnais, politician (b.1918)
October 17 - Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (b.1916)
October 19 - James Bourque, First Nations activist (b.1935)
October 21 - Rejean Boily, horse racer
October 22 - Ed Kubin, AIDS activist for hemophiliacs
October 22 - Jan Verdun, designed 3 quart (2.8 L) milk jug, pioneered sale of milk in stores
October 23 - Kurt Freund, physician and sexologist (b.1914)
October 23 - Mervin Good Eagle, actor

Joe Ghiz

October 23 - Thomas Ide, educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario (b.1919)
October 27 - Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator (b.1917)
October 28 - Reuben Baetz, politician (b.1923)
October 28 - Jack Reitman, chairman of the board of Reitmans
November 9 - Joe Ghiz, politician and 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1945)
November 18 - John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (b.1906)
December 1 - Peter Bronfman, businessman (b.1928)
December 5 - Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (b.1904)
December 13 - Ear Walls, boxer
December 17 - Nancy Malloy, Red Cross nurse, murdered in Chechnya
December 21 - Douglas Fullerton, headed National Capital Commission
December 21 - Clarence Gosse, physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b.1912)
December 24 - Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (b.1929)
December 29 - Dorothy Livesay, poet (b.1909)

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Leo Landreville, politician and judge implicated in the Northern Ontario Natural Gas scandal (b.1910)

1996 in Canada

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Contents

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Events

[edit] January to March

[edit] March to June

[edit] July to September

[edit] October to December

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[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

[edit] Awards

[edit] New music

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to March

[edit] April to June

[edit] July to September

[edit] October to December

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