1995 In Canada

Events from the year 1995 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

* Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government

* Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn (until February 8) then Roméo LeBlanc
* Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
* Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
* Parliament – 35th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

*Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
*Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – David Lam (until April 21) then Garde Gardom
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
*Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret McCain
*Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Frederick Russell
*Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
*Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
*Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid (until August 30) then Gilbert Clements
*Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
*Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Premiers

*Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
*Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt
*Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
*Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
*Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells
*Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
*Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae (until June 26) then Mike Harris
*Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck
*Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau
*Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow

Territorial governments

Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – John Kenneth McKinnon (until June 23) then Judy Gingell
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Daniel L. Norris (until January 16) then Helen Maksagak

Premiers

*Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nellie Cournoyea (until November 22) then Don Morin
*Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek

Events

January to March

*January 5 – Rogers Communications withdraws the unpopular negative option billing system after wide-scale consumer protest.
*January 7 – The opening of Parliament is televised for the first time.
*January 18 – A video of the Canadian Airborne Regiment's brutal hazing rituals is made public.
*January 23 – As a result of the Somalia Affair and the hazing video, it is announced that the Airborne Regiment will disband.
*January 23 – Guy Paul Morin's conviction for murder that had seen him jailed for 11 years is overturned.
*February 21 – The inquiry into the April 1994 uprising in the Kingston Prison For Women rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down.
*February 23 – American President Bill Clinton addresses Parliament.
*March 9 – As part of Brian Tobin's Turbot War Canadian officials seize the Spanish trawler the '' Estai''.
*March 15 – Former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan is charged with child abuse.
*March 18 – March 27 – A major rail strike occurs; the workers are eventually legislated back to work.
*March 20 – Erichs Tobias is accused of war crimes.
*March 27 – Bell Canada announces major job cuts.
*March 31 – Perrin Beatty appointed head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

April to June

*April – Chapters is officially incorporated.
*April 9 – Steve Stavro buys Maple Leaf Gardens from Harold Ballard's estate.
*April 16 – The Turbot War ends as Canada and the European Union reach an agreement.
*April 20 – A pipe bomb explodes outside Province House in Prince Edward Island.
*May 18 – The trial of Paul Bernardo begins.
*May 31 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announce a $1 million reward in Air India flight 182 case and restarts its investigation.
*June 6 – Labatt is sold to a Belgian company.
*June 8 – Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a majority, defeating Bob Rae's NDP.
*June 9 – Floods in Medicine Hat, Alberta force the evacuation of over 5000 people.
*June 13 – A strict new gun control law is passed banning most handguns and forcing all rifles to be registered.
*June 15 – June 17 – The G7 meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
*June 21 – Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a second consecutive majority.
*June 28 – Mike Harris becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Bob Rae.

July to September

*July 17 – Christine E. Silverberg becomes Canada's first female police chief when she is promoted to that position in Calgary.
*July 20 – In Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award.
*July 27 – Thomson Corp. agrees to sell 27 Canadian newspapers to Hollinger Inc.
*August 1 – Popular Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith is shot in the parking lot of CJOH by escaped mental patient Jeffrey Arenburg; Smith dies in hospital the following day.
*August 11 – The first fatal accident aboard a Toronto Transit Commission subway kills three.
*August 18–September 17: Gustafsen Lake standoff
*September 1
** Paul Bernardo is found guilty of the kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
** The Canadian Airborne Regiment disbands.
*September 6 – The government announces plans to sell off most of its remaining holdings in Petro-Canada.

October to December

*October 14 – Alexa McDonough is elected head of the New Democratic Party, replacing Audrey McLaughlin.
*October 24 – The James Bay Creebr>
vote 96.3% in favour of their territory remaining part of Canada in the event of Quebec sovereignty movement, Quebec sovereignty.
*October 27 – A massive rally is held in Montreal by the No side in the referendum.
*October 30 – The 1995 Quebec referendum is held on sovereignty. The No side narrowly wins.
*October 31 – Newfoundland passes a constitutional amendment to overhaul its school system.
*November 4 – Radarsat, Canada's first observation satellite is launched.
*November 5 – André Dallaire breaks into 24 Sussex Drive and the Prime Minister fends him off with an Inuit sculpture.
*November 5 – Paul Bernardo is declared a dangerous offender, meaning he will be ineligible for parole.
*November 11 – Journalist Judy Steed, in a conference speech, attacks the chair of Ryerson University's journalism program for employing Gerald Hannon as a part-time instructor; the controversy spans the next three weeks.
*November 15 – British Columbia premier announces his resignation because of the bingogate scandal.
*November 20 – Former PM Brian Mulroney sues the government over the Airbus Affair.
*November 22 – Don Morin becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nellie Cournoyea.
*November 23 – Jean Chrétien unveils a law that would give each of Canada's four regions a constitutional veto. The West complains that it deserves more than one.
*November 28 – Canadian National Railway, the nation's largest Crown corporation and one of the largest state-run enterprises in the industrialized world is privatized.
*December – Representatives of aboriginal peoples gather and issue the Sacred Assembly Proclamation; from this was developed the Reconciliation Proclamation and the Statement of Principles and Priorities.
*December 6 – Canada agrees to send 1000 peacekeepers to Bosnia.
*December 11 – Voters in what will become Nunavut select Iqaluit as the capital of the new territory.
*December 20 – Lieutenant-General Jean Boyle becomes Chief of the Defence Staff.
*December 21 – The Krever Commission holds its final hearings.
*December 28 – Premier of Newfoundland Clyde Wells announces his retirement.

Arts and literature

New books

* bill bissett – '' Th influenza uv logik''
*Ann-Marie MacDonald – '' The Arab's Mouth''
*Douglas Coupland – ''Microserfs''
* Stevie Cameron – '' On the Take''
* Dave Duncan – '' The Hunters' Haunt''
*Antonine Maillet – '' La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux''
*Farley Mowat – '' Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World''
*Timothy Findley

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