2000 In Canada , Other Events Of 2001 , 2002 In Canada and the Timeline Of Canadian History .
See also: 2001 Canadian Incumbents
Estimated Canadian Population : 31,110,565
- January 1 - The Ontario cities of Ottawa , Hamilton and Sudbury officially merge with their suburban municipalities to create new "megacities" (Sudbury, now Greater Sudbury , was the only one of the three to change its name. Toronto had been similarly merged in 1998 .)
- January 17 - The Bank Of Canada unveils a new $10 Bill with enhanced security features.
- January 18 - MafiaBoy pleads guilty to 56 of 66 mischief charges in a Montreal courtroom. The other 10 charges were withdrawn.
- January 21 - Chris Jericho wins Intercontinental Championship from Chris Benoit
- January 27 - Lorne Calvert becomes the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party after winning the fourth ballot at the party's 2001 Leadership Convention .
- January 29 - Peter Milliken is elected as the new Speaker of the House Of Commons after five rounds of voting.
- January 29 - The Toronto Stock Exchange allows Stock s greater than $5 in value to trade at 1-cent increments instead of at 5-cent increments.
- January 30 - The Speech From The Throne was read by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson at the beginning of the 37th Canadian Parliament . {Link without Title}
- January 30 - An envelope mailed to Citizenship And Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan containing a mysterious blue powder caused the Immigration Canada building to be sealed off. A Winnipeg Laboratory on February 1 said the powder posed no health risk.
- January 31 - George N. Gillett Jr. buys 80% of the Montreal Canadiens and 100% of the Molson Centre in Montreal for USD $275 million.
- February 2 - Canada begins banning imports of Beef and beef products from Brazil due to concerns of Mad Cow Disease .
- February 2 - Ontario Minister Of Finance Ernie Eves quits to become vice-chair and senior adviser at Credit Suisse First Boston Canada.
- February 3 - Roger Grimes becomes leader of the Liberal Party Of Newfoundland And Labrador after winning the second ballot at the party's leadership convention.
- February 3 - Catriona LeMay Doan wins Gold in the 500m and 1000m Speed Skating races in Heerenveen , Netherlands .
- February 5 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien becomes the first foreign leader to visit the newly elected President Of The United States George W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
- February 8 - Lorne Calvert becomes premier of Saskatchewan , replacing Roy Romanow
- February 13 - Roger Grimes becomes premier of Newfoundland , replacing Beaton Tulk
- March 8 - Bernard Landry becomes premier of Quebec , replacing Lucien Bouchard
- 's PCs win a ninth consecutive majority
- April 20 - Summit Of The Americas is held in Quebec City to discuss the FTAA ; the city, which has been divided by a high fence around much of the downtown core, also hosts the People's Summit and is wracked by the Quebec City Protests .
- May 4 - Chrétien's longtime Chief of Staff, Jean Pelletier , is made the head of VIA Rail
- s win a landslide victory over Premier Ujjal Dosanjh 's NDP .
- May 18 - Conrad Black renounces his Canadian citizenship
- May 21 - Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit win WWF Tag Team Championship
- May 23 - Federal Ethics Commissioner releases a report which clears Alfonso Gagliano of any wrongdoing in the Sponsorship Scandal
- June 5 - Gordon Campbell becomes premier of British Columbia , replacing Ujjal Dosanjh
- July - Canada becomes the first country in the world to legalize Medical Marijuana
- July 17 - Infighting in the Canadian Alliance forces out leader Stockwell Day
- August 24 - Conrad Black sells '' The National Post '' to Izzy Asper 's CanWest
- Alistair MacLeod 's ''No Great Mischief'' wins the lucrative IMPAC Award
- - ''Clara Callan''
- See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- , ''Martin Sloane''
- , ''Charlie Wilcox''
- , ''Light Falls Through You''
- , ''Men in the Off Hours''
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- , ''Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale''
- , ''A Pair of Scissors''
- , ''Vinyl Café Unplugged''
- , ''Clara Callan''
- , ''Cognac et Porto''
- January 17 - Al Waxman , actor
- January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson , author
- February 5 - David Iftody , former Liberal MP
- February 28 - Gildas Molgat , politician
- March 23 - David McTaggart , environmentalist
- April 2 - Charles Daudelin , painter, sculptor
- May 5 - Aba Bayefsky , artist
- June 7 - Charles Templeton
- June 23 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets
- July 3 - Mordecai Richler , author
- September 18 - Ernie Coombs , children's entertainer
- November 19 - Marcelle Ferron , sculptor
- Jack Harman , sculptor
- Louis Dudek , poet
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