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List of Canadian events in 2003
Events from the year 2003 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January to March
April to June
July to September
Aerial view of
Vancouver
October to December
October 2 –
Ontario Election .
Dalton McGuinty 's
Liberals defeats
Ernie Eves 's Tories.
October 5 –
Maher Arar is freed from jail in
Syria .
October 8 – After serving 19 years of his life sentence, a jury finds
Colin Thatcher eligible to apply for early parole.
October 21 –
Newfoundland and Labrador election : Premier
Roger Grimes 's Liberals are defeated by
Danny Williams 's Conservatives.
October 21 –
Marc Ouellet is elevated to the
Cardinalate .
October 23 – An
El Al Jet is diverted twice, first to
Montreal then to
Hamilton, Ontario , after a threat is made against
Toronto Pearson International Airport .
October 23 – Dalton McGuinty becomes premier of Ontario.
November 5 – In the
Saskatchewan election Premier
Lorne Calvert 's
NDP is re-elected to a thin majority.
November 6 –
Danny Williams becomes premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, replacing
Roger Grimes .
November 10 – Municipal elections occur
across Ontario ; In the
Toronto election ,
David Miller is elected
mayor .
November 13 – The Canadian dollar value closes at a 10-year high of US$0.7695.
November 18 – Canada offers
Ontario $330 million in relief of the past summer's
SARS virus impact.
November 19 – An interim report on the cause of the August 14,
blackout is released, which blames problems in
Ohio .
November 27 –
Canadian Alliance party leader
Stephen Harper fires CA
Member of Parliament
Larry Spencer as Family Values Critic after anti-gay remarks.
[1]
November 28 –
Liberal Party Member
John Manley announces his retirement from politics.
[4]
November 28 –
Type A influenza kills a boy in southern
Ontario , the third victim in the province killed by the same strain of the virus. Numerous influenza-related deaths also reported in the United States and United Kingdom.
[5]
November 30 –
Abdurahman Khadr returns to Canada from
Afghanistan after being imprisoned by the Americans at
Guantanamo Bay .
December 8 – In
Edmonton , the United States awards
Bronze Stars to 26 Canadian soldiers of 3rd Battalion
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group who distinguished themselves serving alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2002. The four who were killed in the friendly-fire
Tarnak Farm incident are awarded the medal posthumously. Canadian
Chief of Staff , General
Ray Henault gives a
Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation on behalf of Governor General
Adrienne Clarkson .
December 10 – A
strike paralyzes
BC Ferries .
December 10 –
Joe Handley becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing
Stephen Kakfwi .
December 12 –
Paul Martin is sworn in as Canada's 21st
prime minister .
December 14 –
Pamela Holopainen , a 22-year-old Inuk woman, disappears after leaving a house party in
Timmins , Ontario.
December 24 – Canada's
Department of Agriculture places a partial ban on imported beef from United States due to a single case of
mad cow disease in
Washington .
December 30 – Governor General
Adrienne Clarkson , with her husband
John Ralston Saul , arrives in
Afghanistan to meet with Canadian troops.
Date unknown
Arts and literature
Literary awards
Music
Television
Sport
Births
Tate McRae
Deaths
January to June
January 3 –
Henry Botterell , World War I fighter pilot (born
1896 )
January 20 –
Bill Werbeniuk , snooker player (born
1947 )
January 28 –
Elsie Gibbons , politician, first women to be elected mayor of a municipality in Quebec (born
1903 )
[7]
March 19 –
Émile Genest , actor (born
1921 )
March 31 –
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter , geometer (born
1907 )
April 8 –
Vatche Arslanian ,
Canadian Red Cross worker, killed in
Iraq (born
1955 )
April 9 –
Richard Doyle , journalist, editor and Senator (born
1923 )
April 26 –
Rosemary Brown , politician (born
1930 )
May 13 –
John Savage , politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia (born
1932 )
May 18 –
Barb Tarbox , anti-smoking activist (born
1961 )
June –
Donald Jack , novelist and playwright (born
1924 )
June 14 –
Jacob Froese , politician (born
1917 )
June 15 –
Hume Cronyn , actor (born
1911 )
June 16 –
Pierre Bourgault , politician and essayist (born
1934 )
June 21 –
Roger Neilson , ice hockey coach (born
1934 )
July to December
July 11 –
Zahra Kazemi , photographer, died in Iranian custody (born
1949 )
July 16 –
Carol Shields , author (born
1935 )
August 9 –
Daniel Ling , speech teacher and professor (1926–2003)
[8]
August 18 –
Zachary Turner , murder victim (born
2002 )
[3]
August 19 –
Chris Klein-Beekman , aid worker killed in
Iraq (born
1971 )
September 5 –
Gisele MacKenzie , singer (born
1927 )
September 8 –
Jaclyn Linetsky , actress (born
1986 )
September 20 –
Vernon Singer , politician (born
1919 )
October 7 –
Izzy Asper , tax lawyer and media magnate (born
1932 )
October 13 –
Bertram Brockhouse , physicist, shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 (born
1918 )
October 16 –
Stu Hart , wrestler, promoter and trainer (born
1915 )
October 20 –
Clarence Dunlap , Chief of Air Staff,
Royal Canadian Air Force (born
1908 )
November 15 –
Ray Lewis , track and field athlete, Olympic bronze medalist, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist (born
1910 )
November 24 –
Hugh Kenner , literary scholar, critic and professor (born
1923 )
November 25 –
Johnathon Robert Madden , murder victim (born
1991 )
December 16 –
Robert Stanfield , politician and 24th Premier of
Nova Scotia (born
1914 )
December 23 –
John Newlove , poet (born
1938 )
See also
References