August 2005 in Canada

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[edit] Deaths in August August 3: Ernest Alvia Smith [edit] Ongoing events • U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute • Sponsorship scandal • 2005 Canada Games [edit] Upcoming events [edit] Upcoming holidays • August 1: Civic Holiday1 • September 1: Centennial Day2 • September 5: Labour Day • October 10: Thanksgiving • November 11: Remembrance Day • December 25: Christmas • December 26: Boxing Day • 1 exc. QC, NL & YT • 2 Alta. & Sask. held in 2005 only [edit] Upcoming elections • ?: 39th general election • ?: Yukon general election, 2006

[edit] August 30, 2005

• The Supreme Court of British Columbia amends the definition of adultery under the Divorce Act after a woman contested the definition after her husband was caught with another man.(CTV)
• Mayor of Toronto David Miller and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler meet to discuss the recent surge in gun-related violence in Toronto.(CTV)
• Governor General Adrienne Clarkson announces 82 new members of the Order of Canada.(CTV)
• Hurricane Katrina could hit Ontario Wednesday.(CTV)
• World Trade Organization deals setback for Canada in US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• Two Toronto men dead from West Nile virus.(CTV)

[edit] August 27, 2005

• The Canadian government to ask Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to rescind satellite radio licences.(CTV)
• Rona shuts down Karla Homolka's boss.(CTV)
• Conservative leader Stephen Harper calls United States Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins' comments on lumber 'out of line'.(CTV)
• Animal rights agencies fear pit bulls will be abandoned or deserted when the new Ontario law banning pitbulls comes into effect.(CTV)
• Newfoundland and Labrador bait service loses millions of dollars.(CTV)

[edit] August 26, 2005

• The Snowbirds are grounded after the August 24 crash in Thunder Bay, Ontario.(CTV)
• Crew extinguishes fire in vessel off Nova Scotia coast.(CTV)
• An anti-violence activist is gunned down in Toronto.(CTV)
• Canada joins NASA's underwater mission.(CTV)
• Rising fuel prices boosting interest in Smart cars.(CTV)
• A statue is unveiled in honour of four Alberta mounties killed in a Mayerthorpe, Alberta incident.(CTV)
• Canada, U.S. wage war of words over U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• Dutch shipping company Biglift Goedkoop B.V. is fined $70,000 dollars for violating the Canada Shipping Act.(CBC)
• The British Columbia Marijuana Party leader says if he goes to jail in the United States, he will die there.(CBC)

[edit] August 25, 2005

• Prime Minister Martin vows Quebec will not be ignored in the next election.(CTV)
• The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from terrorist suspect Adil Charkaoui.(CTV)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other police raid Norbourg Asset Management Inc. offices in Toronto and Montreal after allegations of fraud. (CTV)
• A Sikh group files a complaint over hard hat wearing, with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, against the Canadian Pacific Railway.(CTV)
• A gas leak prompts an emergency evacuation in Saint John, New Brunswick.(CTV)
• Governor General-designate Michaëlle Jean popularity slips due to the Quebec sovereignty controversy.(CTV)
• Ontario's Ministry of Community and Social Services pledges $2.5 million dollars to domestic violence agencies.(CTV)

[edit] August 24, 2005

• A Snowbirds pilot ejects safely after his plane crashes, in Thunder Bay, Ontario.(CTV)
• Karla Homolka's former employer claims to have proof she violated her court ordered conditions.(CTV)
• Prime Minister Martin waits to challenge U.S. President George W. Bush on the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• The Prime Minister apologizes for the treatment of Ukrainian Canadians during the First World War when about 5,000 were placed in internment camps.(CTV)
• Top police officers call for greater sharing of intelligence.(CTV)
• Anger mounts in New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine as plans by two American companies are to build two natural gas processing plants.(CTV)

[edit] August 23, 2005

• Two lawsuits against the Ontario government regarding its handling of the 2003 SARS outbreak, is approved to go ahead by Ontario Superior Court of Justice Justice Maurice Cullity.(CBC)

[edit] August 21, 2005

• Liberals meet in Western Canada at caucus meeting.(CTV)
• Former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada James Jerome, dies.(CTV)
• British Columbia mortgages alleged serial killer Robert Pickton's land for $10 million dollars.(CTV)

[edit] August 20, 2005

• A Canadian man is killed in Haiti while trying to flee from kidnappers.(CBC)
• United States Vice President Dick Cheney to attend Fraser Institute dinner in Calgary.(CBC)
• Airport security workers security system debuts, after three years.(CBC)

[edit] August 19, 2005

• Ottawa appoints 10 new Ambassadors from Canada.(CBC)
• Former New Brunswick cabinet minister Vaughn Blaney leads team into CFB Gagetown to investigate claims of Agent Orange being used.(CBC)
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police decides not to press criminal charges against former employees of Hollinger International.(CBC)
• Canadian Forces in Khandahar open-fire on a vehicle.(CBC)
• The Ontario government announces funding for 50 additional midwives.(CBC)

[edit] August 18, 2005

• Assaulted daughter pleads to keep her father out of jail.(CBC)
• The Canadian Medical Association announces its support for a two-tiered healthcare system.(CBC)
• The Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear a case brought forth by four fathers forced to pay back child support.(CTV)
• The United States Ambassador to Canada urges more talks in the US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337) is deployed to the Canadian Arctic to prohibit illegal fishing and to reassert sovereignty in the North.(CTV)
• Alberta police make record ecstasy drug bust.(CTV)
• Ottawa police begin issuing e-tickets.(CTV)

[edit] August 17, 2005

• Two dead after police chase in London, Ontario.(CBC)
• A Nova Scotia man appears in court on double murder charges in an August 15 arrest.(CBC)
• A Canadian man is arrested on an American Amtrak train in Ohio after exposing himself and going through passengers' luggage.(CBC)

[edit] August 15, 2005

• A lockout of 5,500 CBC employees, represented by the Canadian Media Guild, goes into effect at 12:01 AM.(CBC)
• A Canadian man is abducted and killed in Iraq.(CBC)
• A man convicted in the April 1999 Taber, Alberta school shootings escapes from open custody in Toronto.(CBC)
• The inquiry into the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard is extended into 2006.(CBC)
• Canadian Blood Services drops restrictions on blood donors from Britain and France.(CBC)
• WestJet follows Air Canada by putting a fuel tax on airfares.(CTV)
• Police investigate a double murder near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia.(CTV)
• Two Canadian women are injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the Sinai region of Egypt.(CTV)
• Conservative leader Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff becomes another casualty to be forced out of the party.(CTV)
• Pre-trial hearings resume in Robert Pickton case.(CTV)

[edit] August 14, 2005

• CN Rail is given a Monday deadline to clean up the Wabamun Lake oil spill.(CBC)

• Fisheries and Oceans Canada approves bowhead whale hunting in Nunavut community.(CBC)

[edit] August 12, 2005

• Hundreds pay last respects to Smokey Smith.(CTV)
• The RCMP decides there will be no criminal investigation into the actions of Gurmant Grewal.(CTV)
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali urges Canadian Muslims to reject Islamic law, Sharia. (CTV)
• Canada threatens sanctions against the United States for ignoring the decision by the NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee which favoured Canada.(CTV)
• Canada's Premiers demand the Governor General-designate express her views regarding Quebec sovereignty.(CTV)
• A 15 year old murder is solved but the killer's identity is kept secret from victim's family - family outraged.(CTV)
• Ontario to help hire 1,500 new police officers in response to recent surge in Toronto violent crimes rise.(CTV)

[edit] August 11, 2005

• Justice Canada stiffens penalty against crystal meth, increasing the maximum penalty from 10 years in prison to a life sentence.(CBC)
• StatCan: Significantly fewer Canadian women are smoking.(CBC)

[edit] August 10, 2005

• The Canada Revenue Agency will spend $30 million more to capture foreign tax haven users.(CBC)
• 1 person killed in southern Alberta oil well explosion,(CTV)
• A bus collides with trucks in Alberta, 8 injured.(CTV)
• The Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan begin patrol of Kandahar streets.(CTV)
• NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee panel sides with Canada in US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)

[edit] August 8, 2005

• The Transportation Safety Board investigation into the cause of the Air France Flight 358 crash rules out mechanical failure.(CBC)
• Northwestern Ontario records 57 new forest fires, bringing total to 130.(CBC)
• Montreal Transit Corporation increases security by installing 1,200 new surveillance cameras in the Montreal Metro System. (CBC)
• Canada and Denmark plan September 2005 to discuss Hans Island territorial dispute.(CBC)

[edit] August 6, 2005

• A train derailment causes sodium hydroxide to spill into the Cheakamus River, just north of Vancouver,(CBC)

[edit] August 5, 2005

• A memorial for the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.(CBC)
• Data is retrieved from the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 358.(CBC)
• Canada develops its own no-fly list.(CBC)

[edit] August 3, 2005

• Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will announce on Thursday that Michaëlle Jean has been chosen to succeed Adrienne Clarkson as Governor General of Canada. (CBC)

[edit] August 2, 2005

• Air France Flight 358 slides off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport and bursts into flames in a nearby ravine. All 309 passengers and crew on board survive.
• Five new Senators are appointed, including: former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Chief of Staff Hugh Segal, former Quebec MP Andrée Champagne, Dennis Dawson of Quebec and Winnipeg businessman Rod Zimmer.(CTV)

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