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Events from the year2002 in Canada.

Estimated Canadian population: 31,413,990

• Monarch –Elizabeth II^[1]

• Governor General –Adrienne Clarkson
• Prime Minister –Jean Chrétien
• Chief Justice –Beverley McLachlin (British Columbia)
• Parliament –37th

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –Lois Hole
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Iona Campagnolo
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Peter Liba
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador –Arthur Maxwell House (until November 1) thenEdward Roberts
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –Myra Freeman
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Hillary Weston (until March 7) thenJames Bartleman
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Léonce Bernard
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Lise Thibault
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –Lynda Haverstock

• Premier of Alberta –Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia –Gordon Campbell
• Premier of Manitoba –Gary Doer
• Premier of New Brunswick –Bernard Lord
• Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador –Roger Grimes
• Premier of Nova Scotia –John Hamm
• Premier of Ontario –Mike Harris (until April 15) thenErnie Eves
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –Pat Binns
• Premier of Quebec –Bernard Landry
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Lorne Calvert

• Commissioner of Yukon –Jack Cable
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Glenna Hansen
• Commissioner of Nunavut –Peter Irniq

• Premier of the Northwest Territories –Stephen Kakfwi
• Premier of Nunavut –Paul Okalik
• Premier of Yukon –Pat Duncan (until November 30) thenDennis Fentie

• January 11 –Ford Motor Co. announces the closing of the truck assembly plant inOakville, Ontario.
• January 14 –Industry Minister andLiberal leadership hopefulBrian Tobin announces that he is leaving politics.
• January 15 –Jean Chrétien shuffles the cabinet mostly to remove the scandal-taintedAlfonso Gagliano.
• January 18 –Walkerton Report released: it puts partial blame for the water tragedy on the provincial government.
• January 25 – Canada officially re-establishes diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.
• February 6 –Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II's accession asQueen of Canada.
• February 18 – The towns ofChicoutimi,Jonquière andLa Baie consolidated into a new city officially calledSaguenay.
• March 4 – Federal government allowsstem cell research using human embryos.
• March 7 –James Bartleman appointedLieutenant Governor of Ontario.
• March 11 – Six children die when their home burns down inQuatsino, British Columbia.
• March 20 –Stephen Harper defeatsStockwell Day to become leader of theCanadian Alliance.
• March 23 –Ernie Eves is elected to replaceMike Harris as party leader at theOntario Progressive Conservative leadership convention.
• March 26 –Supreme Court of British Columbia rules that works of the imagination are notchild pornography.

• April 1 – TheCanadian Air Transport Security Authority is established.
• April 15 – Ernie Eves becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mike Harris.
• April 16 – TheNew York Sun, partially owned by former CanadianConrad Black, is launched.
• April 17 –Tarnak Farm incident. Four Canadian infantrymen are killed, and eight injured, inAfghanistan byfriendly fire from two U.S.F-16s, dropping a 230-kilogram bomb.
• May 5 –Hells Angels leaderMaurice Boucher is convicted inMontreal of two counts of first-degree murder.
• May 7 – A court injunction is granted toMarc Hall, permitting him to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom.
• May 26 –Jean Chrétien shuffles the Cabinet again, removingArt Eggleton andDon Boudria, who were both embroiled in scandals.
• June 2 – Governor GeneralAdrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime MinisterJean Chrétien, dismissesFinance MinisterPaul Martin and replaces him withJohn Manley.
• June 5 –Alexa McDonough announces her resignation as leader of the federalNew Democratic Party.
• June 7 –Quebec becomes the first province to grant homosexual couples full parental rights.
• June 26 –G8 leaders meet inKananaskis, Alberta.

• July 14 – DuringBastille Day celebrations,Jacques Chirac is saved from an assassination attempt by aCanadian tourist.
• July 23 –Pope John Paul II arrives in Toronto forWorld Youth Day.
• August 6 –Joe Clark announces decision to resign as leader of theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada.
• August 21 – Facing pressure from Martin loyalistsJean Chrétien announces he will step down as prime minister in February 2004.
• September – ASenate special committee recommends thatmarijuana should be legalized in Canada.
• September 9 –A riot breaks out at Concordia University in Montreal, by protesters against a scheduled talk by Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon and Canadian Prime MinisterJean Chrétien; a Holocaust survivor and a rabbi are assaulted.^[2]

• October 4 – The Queen arrives in Canada to start of 12-day tour to mark herGolden Jubilee asQueen of Canada.
• October 7 – American officials deport Canadian citizenMaher Arar toSyria.
• October 29 – Canada issues a travel advisory for all those of Middle Eastern descent travelling to the United States.
• October 31 –Pat Buchanan calls CanadaSoviet Canuckistan.
• October 31 – InSauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), theSupreme Court rules that all prisoners have the right to vote underSection Three of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, regardless of the stipulation in theCanada Elections Act that prisoners serving sentences of two years or more may not vote.
• November 22 - TheSheppard Subway (Later renamed Line 4 Sheppard) opens on theToronto Subway.^[3]
• November 26 –Françoise Ducros, the Prime Minister's communication director resigns over her comment that U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush is a "moron".
• November 28 – TheRoyal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission) recommends a $15-billion infusion into the health care system.
• November 30 –Dennis Fentie becomes premier ofYukon Territory, replacingPat Duncan.
• December 16 – Canada signs theKyoto Accord, limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
• December 17 – TheService de police de la Ville de Québec arrest many people in achild prostitution bust that includes many well-known people of the city.

• July 10 – At aSotheby's auction,Peter Paul Rubens's painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to CanadianKenneth Thomson.

• Family Matters:Rohinton Mistry
• In Search of America:Peter Jennings
• The Last Crossing:Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Lucky Man:Michael J. Fox
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World:Margaret MacMillan
• Unless:Carol Shields
• Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing:Margaret Atwood
• Fences and Windows:Naomi Klein
• School Spirit:Douglas Coupland
• High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey:Farley Mowat

• October 22 –Yann Martel wins theBooker Prize for his novelLife of Pi
• November 5 –Austin Clarke wins theGiller Prize for his novelThe Polished Hoe
• Margaret MacMillan wins theSamuel Johnson Prize forParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
• Books in Canada First Novel Award:Mary Lawson,Crow Lake
• See2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Geoffrey Bilson Award:Virginia Frances Schwartz,If I Just Had Two Wings
• Gerald Lampert Award:
• Griffin Poetry Prize:Christian Bök,Eunoia
• Marian Engel Award:Terry Griggs
• Matt Cohen Prize:Norman Levine
• Norma Fleck Award:Gena K. Gorrell,Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
• Pat Lowther Award:
• Stephen Leacock Award:Will Ferguson,Generica
• Timothy Findley Award: Bill Gaston
• Trillium Book Award English:Austin Clarke,The Polished Hoe andNino Ricci,Testament
• Trillium Book Award French:Michel Ouellette,Le testament du couturier andÉric Charlebois,Faux-fuyants

• Joni Mitchell wins aGrammy for lifetime achievement

• A New Day Has Come:Céline Dion
• Let Go:Avril Lavigne
• Acoustic Kitty:John Mann
• Under Rug Swept:Alanis Morissette
• Vapor Trails:Rush
• Does This Look Infected?:Sum 41
• Up!:Shania Twain
• What If It All Means Something:Chantal Kreviazuk

• Atom Egoyan's,Ararat is released.
• April 12 –Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, first movie inInuktitut, the language of theInuit.

• September 30 –CBC starts an uproar when it announcesRon MacLean will not be returning as host ofHockey Night in Canada. The CBC later agrees to MacLean's salary demands.
• Sesame Park, a Canadian spin-off of the American showSesame Street, is cancelled due to low ratings, after more than three decades of airing onCBC Television.
• The CBC celebrates its 50th anniversary as a television broadcaster.

• February 8 – February 24 – 2002 Winter Olympics inSalt Lake City, Utah. Canada wins gold for men's and women's hockey. Controversy erupts whenJamie Salé andDavid Pelletier are given only silver for the pairs' figure skating (later upgraded to gold after a judging controversy.
• May 26 – TheKootenay Ice win their onlyMemorial Cup by defeatingVictoriaville Tigres 6 to 3. The tournament was played atGuelph Sports and Entertainment Centre inGuelph, Ontario
• November 23 – TheSaint Mary's Huskies win their second (consecutive)Vanier Cup by defeating theSaskatchewan Huskies 33 to 21 in the38th Vanier Cup played at Skydome in Toronto
• November 24 – TheMontreal Alouettes win their fifth (and first since 1977)Grey Cup by defeating theEdmonton Eskimos 25 to 16 in the90th Grey Cup played atCommonwealth Stadium in Edmonton

• February 4 –Graham Verchere, actor
• April 6 –Andrea Botez, chess player
• May 10 –Sophia Ewaniuk, actress
• July 30 –Zachary Turner, murder victim (died2003)^[4]
• September 6 –Leylah Fernandez, tennis player
• September 19 –Isaac Kragten, actor
• December 23 –Finn Wolfhard, actor

• January 4 –Douglas Jung, politician and firstChinese CanadianMP in theHouse of Commons of Canada (born1924)
• January 5 –Christie Harris, children's author (born1907)
• January 13 –Frank Shuster, comedian (born1916)
• January 24 –Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer and reporter (born1933)
• February 3 –Lucien Rivard, criminal and prison escapee (born1914)
• February 14 –Bud Olson, politician, Minister and Senator (born1925)
• February 26 –Harry Rankin, lawyer and politician (born1920)
• March 12 –Jean-Paul Riopelle, painter and sculptor (born1923)
• March 18
  • Dalton Camp, journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator (born1920)
  • Johnny Lombardi,CHIN-TV television personality (born1915)

• April 14 –Gustave Blouin, politician (born1912)
• April 17 –Richard Green, soldier killed in Afghanistan (born1980)
• April 19 –Ross Whicher, politician and businessman (born1918)
• May 9 –Robert Layton, politician (born1925)
• May 17 –Edwin Alonzo Boyd, criminal and leader of theBoyd Gang (born1914)
• June 21 –Timothy Findley, novelist and playwright (born1930)

• July 8 –Sidney Spivak, politician and Minister (born1928)
• July 13 –Yousuf Karsh, photographer (born1908)
• September 13 –George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the currentCanadian flag (born1907)
• November 24 –Harry Gunning, scientist and administrator (born1916)
• November 30 –Jeffrey Baldwin, murder victim (born1997)
• December 5 –Prosper Boulanger, politician and businessman (born1918)
• December 10 –Les Costello, ice hockey player andCatholic priest (born1928)
• December 13 –Zal Yanovsky, rock musician (born1944)
• December 16 –Bill Hunter, ice hockey player, general manager and coach (born1920)
• December 18 –Ray Hnatyshyn, politician and 24thGovernor General of Canada (born1934)

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