2020 in Canada

Incumbents

The Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Federal government

• Governor General – Julie Payette
• Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau
• Parliament – 43rd

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant Governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Mitchell
• 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 – Brian Pallister
• Premier of New Brunswick – Blaine Higgs
• Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Dwight Ball
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Stephen McNeil
• 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 – Nellie Kusugak
• Commissioner of Nunavut – Margaret Thom
• Commissioner of Yukon – Angélique Bernard

  Premiers

• Premier of Northwest Territories – Caroline Cochrane
• Premier of Nunavut – Joe Savikataaq
• Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver

  Events

January–February

• January 5 – Canada defeats Russia 4–3 to win gold at the 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
• January 8 – 57 Canadians, and approximately 80 others ultimately travelling to Canada, are killed after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by Iran shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport.
• January 12 – a nuclear alert is erroneously sent out to all Ontario residents, after the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station experiences anomalies.
• January 17 – January 2020 North American storm complex: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador goes into a state of emergency after 76 centimeters of snow fell during a bomb cyclone. The Canadian Armed Forces were called in to help with the cleanup.
• January 20 – Start of national pipeline protests across the country.
• January 25 – Canada's confirms its first COVID-19 case in Toronto.
• February 21 – Ontario teachers holds a one-day province wide strike.

  March–April

• March 6 – Canada's first COVID-19 death is recorded in North Vancouver.
• March 8 – Yukon permanently ends Daylight Saving Time.
• April 18 – April 19 – A series of shootings and arson attacks takes place in various Nova Scotia locations, with 23 people killed.
• April 26 – A large flood hits Fort McMurray, forcing 13,000 people to evacuate.

  May–June

• May 30 – Protests across Canada begin in solidarity with Americans protesting the death of George Floyd, and against police issues and racism in Canada.

  Predicted and scheduled events

September

• 2020 Polaris Music Prize
• 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

  October

• 2020 Governor General's Awards

  November

• November 11 - Remembrance Day
• November 22 – 108th Grey Cup at Mosaic Stadium in Regina

  Unspecified date

• 2020 Saskatchewan general election, no later than October 26

  Deaths

January

• January 1
• *János Aczél, mathematician
• *Peter Neumann, gridiron football player
• January 2
• *Bill Graham, gridiron football player
• *Tom Hickey, politician
• January 3
• *Harvey Reti, boxer
• *Douglas N. Walton, academic and author
• January 4
• *Russell Bannock, test pilot and World War II fighter ace
• *Bonnie Burstow, psychotherapist
• *John R. Cunningham, medical physicist
• January 5
• *Peter Dyck, Manitoba politician
• *Walter Learning, actor and theatre director
• *John Migneault, ice hockey player
• January 6 – Reva Gerstein, psychologist and educator
• January 7 – Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Rush
• January 9 – Leo Kolber, businessman and Senator
• January 10
• *John Crosbie, provincial and federal politician
• *Bud Fowler, gridiron football player
• *Michael Posluns, journalist
• January 14 – Eville Gorham, scientist
• January 15 – Rocky Johnson, wrestler
• January 16 – William J. Samarin, linguist
• January 17
• *Thérèse Dion, television personality
• *Rhona Wurtele, skier
• *Bobby Kay, wrestler
• January 18
• *John Burke, composer
• *Steve Gillespie, wrestler
• *Norm Hill, Canadian football player
• *Roger Nicolet, engineer
• *Gordon A. Smith, artist
• *Jim Smith, politician
• January 18 – John Gibson, ice hockey player
• January 20 – Kit Hood, television editor
• January 21 – Norman Amadio, jazz pianist
• January 23
• *Fernand Daoust, trade unionist
• *Jean-Noël Tremblay, politician
• January 25
• *Siegfried Enns, politician
• *Clifford Wiens, architect
• January 26 – Louis Nirenberg, mathematician
• January 29 – Alfred John Ellis, banker
• January 30
• *Jake MacDonald, writer
• *Raymond Reierson, politician

  February

• February 1 – Roger Landry, businessman
• February 2 – Bernard Ebbers, businessman and convicted fraudster
• February 3 – John Edward Brockelbank, instrument technician and politician
• February 4
• *Peter Hogg, legal scholar and lawyer
• *L. Jacques Ménard, businessman
• *Frank Plummer, scientist
• February 5
• *Diane Cailhier, filmmaker and director
• *Ian Cushenan, ice hockey player
• February 7
• *Ron Calhoun, executive
• *Brian Glennie, ice hockey player
• *Larry Popein, ice hockey player
• February 8 – Bill Robinson, basketball player
• February 11
• *Maurice Byblow, politician
• *Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geographer
• *Timothy Porteous, administrator
• February 12
• *Christie Blatchford, newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster
• *Charles Hubbard, politician
• February 13 – Ralph Mercier, politician
• February 14 – Masao Takahashi, judoka
• February 17 – Georges Villeneuve, politician
• February 19
• *Pete Babando, ice hockey player
• *Robert H. Lee, businessman
• *Hubert B. MacNeill, physician and politician
• *John Robertson, sailor
• February 21 – Phil Maloney, ice hockey player and coach
• February 22 – Mark Zanna, social psychologist
• February 23 – Norene Gilletz, author and cooking instructor
• February 25 – Bob Steiner, Canadian football player
• February 26 – David Smith, senator
• February 26 – Craig Mackay, speed skater

  March

• March 1 – William MacEachern, politician
• March 2
• *René Coicou, politician
• *William Johnson, author
• *Laird Stirling, politician
• March 3 – Réginald Bélair, politician
• March 4
• *Serge Deslières, politician and teacher
• *Jean Payne, politician
• March 6
• *Norm Fieldgate, Canadian football player
• *Henri Richard, ice hockey player
• March 7
• *Earl Pomerantz, screenwriter
• *Laura Smith, singer-songwriter
• March 9 – John Havelock Parker, politician
• March 11 – Ken King, ice hockey player
• March 13 – Dorothy Maclean, educator and writer
• March 14 – Galen Head, ice hockey player
• March 15 – Phil Olsen, athlete
• March 18 – Wray Downes, jazz pianist
• March 19 – Herbert Marx, politician
• March 20 – Claude Bennett, politician
• March 23
• *JR Shaw, businessman
• *Giles Walker, film director
• March 30
• *Joe Clark, businessman
• *Tim Petros, Canadian football player

  April

• April 4
• *Barry Allen, musician
• *Marguerite Lescop, writer
• April 5 – Shirley Douglas, actress and activist
• April 6 – Jean Little, author, primarily of children's fiction
• *John Dossetor, physician
• *Art Paleczny, politician
• April 7
• *Peter Cory, Supreme Court of Canada judge
• *Ghyslain Tremblay, actor and comedian
• April 8
• *John Hughes, ice hockey player
• *Pat Stapleton, ice hockey player
• April 9
• *Jim Conacher, ice hockey player
• *Mark Golden, historian
• *Ho Kam Ming, martial artist
• April 10
• *Marke Raines, politician
• *Tom Webster, ice hockey player and coach
• April 11
• *Colby Cave, ice hockey player
• *Paul Haddad, actor
• April 12
• *Claude Beauchamp, journalist and political activist
• *William H. Langille, farmer and politician,
• *Henry G. Schogt, linguist
• April 13 – Pierre Ébert, actor
• April 16 – Kenneth Gilbert, musician
• April 18 – Allan Gotlieb, public servant and Ambassador
• April 19
• *Aileen Carroll, politician
• *Claude Lafortune, television presenter
• April 20 – Hezakiah Oshutapik, politician

  May

June

• June 10 – Eppie Wietzes, Dutch-born Canadian racing driver

  July

• July 5 – Nick Cordero, actor
• July 25 – Eddie Shack, ice hockey player

  August

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