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Events for the year 2022 in Canada.
Incumbents
The Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant Governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Salma Lakhani
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Janet Austin
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Janice Filmon
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Brenda Murphy
- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Judy Foote
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Arthur LeBlanc
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Elizabeth Dowdeswell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Antoinette Perry
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – J. Michel Doyon
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Russell Mirasty
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Jason Kenney
- Premier of British Columbia – John Horgan
- Premier of Manitoba – Heather Stefanson
- Premier of New Brunswick – Blaine Higgs
- Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Andrew Furey
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Tim Houston
- Premier of Ontario – Doug Ford
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Dennis King
- Premier of Quebec – François Legault
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Scott Moe
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Margaret Thom
- Commissioner of Nunavut – Eva Aariak
- Commissioner of Yukon – Angélique Bernard
Premiers
- Premier of Northwest Territories – Caroline Cochrane
- Premier of Nunavut – P. J. Akeeagok
- Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver
Events
January
- January 3–9 – 2022 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, 2022 Boston Pizza Cup.
- January 5–9 – 2022 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
- January 7 – Conversion therapy is no longer legal in the country.[1]
- January 13 – An explosion in an industrial suburb of Ottawa, Ontario kills six people.[2][3][4]
- January 22–February 23 – Freedom Convoy, a series of protests over vaccination mandates.
February
- February 2 – Erin O'Toole is removed as the leader of the Conservative Party. He was ousted after losing a leadership review from the party's MPs. Candice Bergen is chosen as the party's interim leader.[5]
- February 5 – 2022 British Columbia Liberal Party leadership election.
- February 6 – Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Canada.
- February 14 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history, in response to the Freedom Convoy.
- February 15
- Capsizing of the Villa de Pitanxo.
- 2022 Athabasca provincial by-election - The Saskatchewan Party wins a seat in Northern Saskatchewan for the first time.
- February 18 – Ryan Meili announces his pending resignation as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. He will stay on as leader, until his successor is chosen.
- February 23 – The Emergencies Act is revoked by Justin Trudeau as the Freedom Convoy movement ends.[6]
March
- March 10 – In a data published by Statistics Canada, around 337,000 jobs have been added in February 2022, dropping the jobless rate down to 5.5 per cent, the lowest in Canada since February 2020, a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.[7]
- March 27 – The Canada men's national soccer team defeated Jamaica to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, ending a 36-year drought since the first and only time Canada played in the FIFA World Cup, in 1986.
April
- April 12 – The National Hockey League announces that the upcoming Winnipeg Jets game against the Seattle Kraken, originally scheduled for Apri 13, has been postponed to May 1 as a winter storm sweeps through the southern area of Manitoba.[8]
- April 16 – 2022 Scarborough shooting.
- April 17 – In Toronto, a woman was pushed onto subway tracks at Bloor–Yonge station. She was injured, but she rolled under the lip of the station's platform to avoid being hit by an oncoming train. Edith Frayne, a suspect, was arrested the next day and has been charged with attempted murder.[9][10]
Scheduled events
- June 2 – 2022 Ontario general election.
- October 3 – 2022 Quebec general election.
- October 15 – 2022 British Columbia municipal elections.
- October 24 – The city of Toronto will hold mayoral and municipal elections.
- 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution.
- November 20 – The 109th Grey Cup Game in Regina, Saskatchewan, which will decide the 2022 CFL season champions.
Unspecified date
- Digital television in Canada: All remaining analog terrestrial television signals will shut down no later than 2022.[11]
- Single-use plastic ban: Certain kinds of single-use plastics will be banned from sale or use in Canada sometime in 2022.[12]
Deaths
January
- January 1 – Barbara Chilcott, actress (b. 1922)
- January 2 – John Efford, politician (b. 1944)
- January 4 – Darwin Semotiuk, football coach and professor of kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario (b. 1945)
- January 6
- Larry Haylor, football coach (b. 1946)
- Jo Manning, etcher, painter, and author (b. 1923)
- Murray Peden, Air Force pilot, lawyer, and author (b. 1923)
- January 7
- Amanda Asay, baseball and ice hockey player (b. 1988)
- Harpdog Brown, vocalist and harmonica player (b. 1962)
- Tom Corston, Anglican bishop (b. 1949)
- Raymond Malenfant, businessman (b. 1930)
- Eberhard Zeidler, German-born architect (b. 1926)
- January 8 – Frank Hasenfratz, Hungarian-born businessman who founded and owned the car parts maker Linamar (b. 1935)
- January 10 – Ian Greenberg, businessman and media pioneer (b. 1942)
- January 11
- Vince Fontaine, musician (b. 1962 or 1963)
- Phil Samis, ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- January 12 – William Hogan, politician (b. 1937)
- January 14
- Sean Rice, figure skater (b. 1972)
- Edward Roberts, politician (b. 1940)
- January 15
- Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
- Alexa McDonough, politician (b. 1944)
- January 16 – Michael Brecher, political scientist and teacher (b. 1925)
- January 17 – Karim Ouellet, Senegalese-born singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
- January 19
- Sonya Biddle, actress and politician (b. 1957)
- Randy Boyd, ice hockey player (b. 1962)
- January 21 – Clark Gillies, ice hockey player (b. 1954)
- January 23 – Guy Saint-Pierre, politician and businessman (b. 1934)
- January 25 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (b. 1932)
- January 29
- Jean-Paul Bordeleau, politician (b. 1943)
- Ralph Mellanby, sportscaster and television producer (b. 1934)
- January 30 – Jeffrey A. Hutchings, fisheries scientist (b. 1958)
- January 31 – Mike Nykoluk, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1934)
February
- February 1 – Remi De Roo, Catholic bishop (b. 1924)
- February 3
- Donny Gerrard, singer (b. 1946)
- Erna Paris, non-fiction author (b. 1938)
- Bob Proctor, self-help author and lecturer (b. 1934)
- February 4
- Kerry Chater, musician (b. 1945)
- Don Johnston, lawyer, writer and politician (b. 1936)
- February 5
- Wayne Hankey, religious philosopher (b. 1944)
- John Honderich, businessman, journalist, and editor (b. 1946)
- February 7 – Bruce Owen, lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
- February 8 – Ricky Hunter, wrestler (b. 1936)
- February 9
- David Botwinik, Lithuanian-born composer and music teacher (b. 1920)
- Harold R. Johnson, lawyer and writer (b. c. 1957)
- February 11 – Jean-Marc Piotte, philosopher and sociologist (b. 1940)
- February 12 – Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born film director and producer (b. 1946)
- February 14 – Elliott Leyton, social-anthropologist, educator, and author (b. 1939)
- February 15 – Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
- February 17
- Marc Hamilton, singer (b. 1944)
- François Ricard, writer and academic (b. 1947)
- John Scott, multimedia painter, sculptor, and installation artist (b. 1950)
- February 18 – Steve Fonyo, runner (b. 1965)
- February 19
- Emile Francis, ice hockey player, coach, and general manager (b. 1926)
- Latjor Tuel, South Sudanese immigrant to Canada (b. 1980 or 1981)
- February 20 – Robert Silverman, cycling activist (b. 1933)
- February 23 – Bernard Langer, surgeon and educator (b. 1932)
- February 25 – Gérard-Joseph Deschamps, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
- February 27 – Brian Fawcett, writer and cultural analyst (b. 1944)
March
- March 2 – Evérard Daigle, politician (b. 1925)
- March 3
- John Duffy, political strategist and writer (b. 1963)
- Clément Richard, lawyer, businessman, and politician (b. 1939)
- March 4
- Iwan Edwards, Welsh-born choral conductor (b. 1937)[13]
- Jean-Guy Guilbault, businessman and politician (b. 1931)
- Bill Phipps, ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, lawyer, and social activist (b. 1942)
- March 9 – Ron Hansen, politician (b. 1943)
- March 10 – Gerry Goyer, ice hockey player (b. 1936)
- March 14 – Eric Mercury, musician, singer, and composer (b. 1944)
- March 15
- Joan Langdon, American-born competitive swimmer and breaststroker (b. 1922)
- Jean Potvin, ice hockey player (b. 1949)
- March 18
- Lenard Gustafson, politician (b. 1933)
- Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor and professional wrestler (b. 1936)
- March 21 – Lawrence Dane, actor (b. 1937)
- March 23 – James Downey, academic (b. 1939)
- March 24
- Johnny Fripp, skier and football player (b. 1921)
- Marty Martinello, football player (b. 1931)
- March 26 – Claudette Bradshaw, politician (b. 1949)
- March 28 – Eugene Melnyk, businessman, philanthropist, owner of the Ottawa Senators, and founder of Biovail (b. 1959)
- March 29 – Joyce Fairbairn, politician and senator (b. 1939)
- March 30
- Fred Markus, cyclist (b. 1937)
- John Zaritsky, documentary filmmaker (b. 1943)
April
- April 1 – Neil Stevens, sportswriter (b. 1947)
- April 5
- Sidney Altman, Canadian-American molecular biologist (b. 1939)
- Boris Brott, conductor and motivational speaker (b. 1944)
- David Kilgour, human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician (b. 1941)
- Bjarni Tryggvason, Icelandic-born engineer and astronaut (b. 1945)
- April 9 – Lawrence Poitras, judge (b. 1931)
- April 13 – Tom McCarthy, ice hockey player (b. 1960)
- April 15
- David G. Barber, environmental scientist and academic (b. 1960)
- Mike Bossy, ice hockey player (b. 1957)
- April 16 – Bill Bourne, musician (b. 1954)
- April 18 – Jerry Doucette, musician (b. 1952)
- April 19
- Steven Heighton, fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
- John McKay, British-Canadian mathematician (b. 1939)
- April 22
- Guy Lafleur, ice hockey player (b. 1951)
- Marcus Leatherdale, photographer (b. 1952)
- April 25
- Susan Jacks, musician and record producer (b. 1948)
- Shane Yellowbird, musician (b. 1979)
See also
- 2022 Canadian electoral calendar
- 2022 in Canadian soccer
- 2022 in Canadian music
- 2022 in Canadian television
References
- ^ Aiello, Rachel (January 7, 2022). "Conversion therapy is now illegal in Canada". CTV News. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
- ^ Pritchard, Trevor (January 21, 2022). "United in death, Ottawa explosion victims all stood out in life". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
- ^ "Human remains located at site of explosion on Merivale Road, officials say - Ottawa". Global News. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ "Eastway explosion: A timeline of a disaster and the days that followed". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ Cousins, Ben (February 2, 2022). "Conservatives name Candice Bergen as interim leader after O'Toole voted out". CTV News. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
- ^ "Trudeau revokes emergency powers after Canada blockades end". NPR. Associated Press. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6381234 [bare URL]
- ^ "Kraken-Jets game postponed due to winter storm". 12 April 2022.
- ^ Neufeld, Abby (April 18, 2022). "45-year-old woman charged with attempted murder in shoving incident at Toronto subway station". CTV News. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ^ Casaletto, Lucas (April 18, 2022). "Woman arrested after allegedly pushing another woman onto train tracks at Yonge station". CityNews. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ^ "Digital Television (DTV) Transition Schedule" (PDF). Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. April 2017.
- ^ "Liberals release long-awaited regulations to ban single-use plastics, but there's a loophole - National | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
- ^ Rowat, Robert (4 March 2022). "Iwan Edwards, Montreal choral conductor and teacher, dead at 84". CBC News. CBC. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
