2000 in Canada

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Incumbents

Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

Events

* January 1: The magnitude 5.2 Kipawa earthquake occurs in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
* January 15: CTV Newsnet 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
* 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 17: Chris Jericho wins World Wrestling Entertainment (then called WWF) World Title only to have it stripped away 15 minutes later
* April 19: Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing
* May 11: The Alberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care
* May 6: Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald
* May 24: An "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
* 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 26: In the 88th Grey Cup game the B.C. Lions win 28–26 over the Montreal Alouettes
* 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
* December 2: In the Vanier Cup game the Ottawa Gee-Gees win 42–39 over the Regina Rams
* 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.
* The Bank of Canada withdraws the $1,000 currency from circulation to fight against money laundering and organized crime.

Arts and literature

Books

* "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

* Barenaked Ladies, "Maroon"
* Nelly Furtado, "Whoa, Nelly!"
* Sarah Harmer, "You Were Here"
* King Cobb Steelie, "Mayday"
* The Tragically Hip, "Music at Work"
* The Weakerthans, "Left and Leaving"

Births

Deaths

* January 22: Anne Hébert, writer
* January 26: A. E. van Vogt, author
* February 7: Sid Abel, hockey player
* February 7: Doug Henning, magician
* February 7: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, scholar
* March 3: Sandra Schmirler, curler
* March 5: Daniel Yanofsky, chess player
* March 16: Michael Starr, politician
* March 20: Gene Eugene, actor
* May 22: E. Davie Fulton, politician and jurist
* May 27: Maurice Richard, hockey player
* August 1: Hugh Hood, author
* September 10: Ben Wicks, cartoonist
* September 21: Jacques Flynn, politician
* September 24: Marcel Lambert, politician
* September 28: Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister
* October 4: Michael Smith, chemist
* October 27: Tim Ralfe, journalist