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Events for the year 2022 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

The Crown[]

  • Monarch – Elizabeth II
  • Crown Prince - Prince Charles

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – Mary Simon
  • Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau
  • Parliament – 44th

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[]

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]

Scheduled events[]

Unspecified date[]

  • 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[]

Main article: Deaths in 2022
Further information: Category:2022 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
  • 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)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Aiello, Rachel (January 7, 2022). "Conversion therapy is now illegal in Canada". CTV News. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Human remains located at site of explosion on Merivale Road, officials say - Ottawa". Global News. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  4. ^ "Eastway explosion: A timeline of a disaster and the days that followed". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  5. ^ Cousins, Ben (February 2, 2022). "Conservatives name Candice Bergen as interim leader after O'Toole voted out". CTV News. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  6. ^ "Trudeau revokes emergency powers after Canada blockades end". NPR. Associated Press. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  7. ^ https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6381234[bare URL]
  8. ^ "Digital Television (DTV) Transition Schedule" (PDF). Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. April 2017.
  9. ^ "Liberals release long-awaited regulations to ban single-use plastics, but there's a loophole - National | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  10. ^ 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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