2022 in Canada
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Events for the year 2022 in Canada.
Incumbents[edit]
The Crown[edit]
Federal government[edit]
Provincial governments[edit]
Lieutenant Governors[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Commissioners[edit]
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Margaret Thom
- Commissioner of Nunavut – Eva Aariak
- Commissioner of Yukon – Angélique Bernard
Premiers[edit]
- Premier of Northwest Territories – Caroline Cochrane
- Premier of Nunavut – P. J. Akeeagok
- Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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.
Scheduled events[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Digital television in Canada: All remaining analog terrestrial television signals will shut down no later than 2022.[8]
- Single-use plastic ban: Certain kinds of single-use plastics will be banned from sale or use in Canada sometime in 2022.[9]
Deaths[edit]
January[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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)[10]
- 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)
See also[edit]
- 2022 Canadian electoral calendar
- 2022 in Canadian soccer
- 2022 in Canadian music
- 2022 in Canadian television
References[edit]
- ^ 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]
- ^ "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.
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