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January January 26, 1977 | Kitimavik founded For more information, please see: January 1, 1976 | Petro-Canada begins operations http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/05/pol-trudeau-kati- For more information on the Petro-Canada Act, and Petro-Canada, mavik-budget-cuts.html. please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/petrocanada/, http://www.katimavik.org/our-history. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=t- ce&Params=A1ARTA0006250 and http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ January 28, 1916 | Manitoba women get the vote story/2004/07/06/petrocan_040706.html. For more information please consult, http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/ For more information on the Petro-Canada Public Participation Act, mb_history/32/womenwonthevote.shtml and http://winnipegti- please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/petrocanada/ memachine.com/wtm/?p=197. and http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/20703/publication.html. January 28, 1988 | Canada’s abortion laws repealed by Supreme January 1, 1994 | NAFTA comes into effect Court For a copy of the NAFTA agreement please consult http://www. For more information on abortion rights in Canada please consult international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/01/13/f-abortion-time- nafta-alena/texte/index.aspx. For more information on NAFTA, please line.html and http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/arti- consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgN- cles/canada.shtml. m=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003054. For information on the critique of NAFTA and the damage done by the agreement, please consult January 31, 1958 | James Gladstone, first Aboriginal appointed to http://www.policyalternatives.ca/search/apachesolr_search/nafta. the Senate http://modern-canadian-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/james_ January 10, 1920 | Canada a founding member of League of gladstone_canadas_first_indian_senator. Nations For more information on Canada’s entry to the League please consult January 31, 1973 | Calder v. Attorney-General of BC http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclope- For more information on the Calder case, please consult: http://www. dia/LeagueofNation.htm and http://worldatwar.net/timeline/other/ atns.net.au/agreement.asp?EntityID=2359, http://www.thecana- league18-46.html. For more information on the Treaty of Versailles, please dianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- consult http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm. TA0001169 and http://www.kermode.net/nisgaa/no_frames/calder. html. For a copy of the final agreement, please consult http://www. January 16, 1965 | Auto Pact signed ainc-inac.gc.ca/al/ldc/ccl/fagr/nsga/nis/nis-eng.asp. For more infor- For more information on Auto Pact, please consult http://ameri- mation on Frank Calder, please consult August 30. can-business.org/55-auto-pact.html and http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001245. For February information on the Canadian auto industry, see http://www.cbc.ca/ news/background/autos/. For a critical analysis on the decision to end February 1, 1890 | BC Miner and Mine Labourers Protective the Auto Pact, please consult http://www.caw.ca/en/3061.htm. Association founded For more information on the strike, the MMLPA and its repercussions, January 24, 2001 | Alberta Firewall Letter please consult http://www.sfu.ca/labour/StrikeOutline.htm and For a copy of the letter, please consult http://www.liberal.ca/news- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=T- room/in-the-news/firewall-letter/. For more information on the NCC CE&Params=A1ARTA0008309. please consult http://nationalcitizens.ca/index.html, and for a critique on the NCC, please consult http://www.nupge.ca/news_2004/ February 3, 2012 | Caterpillar closes Electro-Motive plant in n08no02a.htm. London after workers refuse 50% wage cut For more information, see: January 25, 1993 | Catherine Callbeck, first female Premier (PEI) http://www.caterpillar.com/cda/files/3276360/7/Cat+Finan- For more on Catherine Callbeck, see http://www.thecanadianencyclo- cial+4Q2011+Final.pdf. pedia.com/articles/catherine-callbeck. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1125718--electro-motive-to-close-london-locomotive-plant. January 25, 1996 | Leilani Muir wins forced sterilization case http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1126186--caterpil- http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/people/influ_eugenics.html lar-gives-ontario-harsh-lesson-in-union-busting-by-shutting-locomo- http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Par- tive-plant. ams=A1ARTFET_E126. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/business/caterpillar-profit-ris- es-44.html. January 26, 1918 | Mr. Reynolds, an African-Canadian, not permitted to sit in Lowe’s Montreal Theatre orchestra section February 5, 1833 | Beginning of Canadian movement for 10-hour For more information, please consult: http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/ work day timePortals/milestones/24mile.asp. For more information on the ever-changing concept of the “work

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week”, please consult http://www.cep298.com/news/nloct2005..pdf ious-science-journal-slams-harper-government-s-muzzle-on-feder- and http://oldsite.cep.ca/campaigns/sw_time/files/reduction_time_e. al-scientists. html. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/04/24/scientists-muzzling-canada.html. February 5, 1981 | Toronto bathhouse sweeps For more information on Operation Soap, please consult http://www. February 19, 1889 | Métis leader Gabriel Dumont pardoned thestar.com/news/article/933821--thirty-years-after-the-bathhouse- For more information, please consult http://library.usask.ca/north- raids; http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/5/stand_together/3/index.htm and west/background/dumont.htm. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/samesexrights/timeline_can- ada.html. For more information on the current state of Toronto Pride, February 19, 1973 | Heritage Canada Foundation is established. please consult http://www.pridetoronto.com/. For more information, see: http://www.heritagecanada.org/

February 10, 2004 | Harper v. Canada February 20, 1945 | Family Allowance cheques sent out to PEI as For more information on the case, please consult http://rabble.ca/ test-run news/stephen-harper-vs-canada, http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/Rels- http://www.suite101.com/content/the-family-allowance-in-cana- May1804.html and http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/FactumFeb1004. da-a202795, and http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index. html. For the Supreme Court documents, please consult http://www. cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002718. For an analysis of the Child canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2004/2004scc33/2004scc33.pdf. Tax Benefit, see www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/669ENG.pdf.

February 12, 2010 | 150 people rally in support of Insite February 23, 1914 | Quong Wing’s appeal to Supreme Court of For more information on Insite, please consult http://supervisedinjec- Canada overruled tion.vch.ca/ and http://canadianharmreduction.com/. For more infor- For more information, please consult http://www.chrcccdp.ca/en/ mation on the rally and the letter sent to PM Harper, please consult browseSubjects/quong.asp and http://www.chrcccdp.ca/en/timePor- http://www.canadaviews.ca/2010/02/12/supporters-rally-to-defend- tals/milestones/12mile.asp. insite-from-feds/. For more on the Supreme Court ruling: http://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/09/29/bc-insite-su- February 26, 1915 | Nellie McClung presents Alberta legislature preme-court-ruling-advancer.html. with a petition demanding women be given the right to vote For more information on Nellie McClung, please consult http://www. February 13, 2012 | Beginning of Quebec student strike thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- For more information, see: TA0004841. For more information on the Famous 5, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/06/22/stu- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?Params=A1AR- dent-demo-june-22.html. TA0009817&PgNm=TCE. For more information on the Persons Case, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/massive-montreal- please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index. rally-marks-100-days-of-student-protests/article4198301/. cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006236.

February 14, 1949 | Quebec Asbestos workers begin six month February 26, 1920 | Enfranchisement Amendment added to Indian strike Act For more information, see http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENT- For more information on Enfranchisement please consult http://www. SE1EP15CH2PA2LE.html. thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- TA0002615, and for more information on the amendments to the February 16, 1967 | Lester B. Pearson initiates Royal Commission Indian Act in 1920 please consult http://www.shannonthunderbird. on the Status of Women com/indian_act.htm. For more information, please consult http://www.ffaw.nf.ca/Docs/ royal%20commission%20Final.pdf. To learn more about the chang- February 27, 1995 | Finance Minister Paul Martin releases 1995 es to Status of Women, see http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sto- budget ry/2006/10/04/tory-funding.html. For more information on Cairine For more information on the Martin years, please consult http:// Wilson, please consult http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parlia- rabble.ca/news/paul-martin-he-has-record, and http://thetyee.ca/ mentarian.aspx?Item=176923a1-4b32-4b92-8bee-1d447764ec79& Views/2004/02/03/Martins_Slippery_Speech/. To see how history Language=E&Section=FederalExperience; http://www.heroines.ca/ could be repeating itself, please consult http://www.progressive-eco- people/wilson.html. nomics.ca/2011/03/22/budget-2011-smells-like-1995/. For more information on the Martin years, please consult the CCPA publication, February 16, 2012 | CSWA speaks out against ‘muzzling’ of Canadi- Hell and High Water. an scientists. For more information, see: March http://sciencewriters.ca/2012/02/16/prime-minister-please-unmuz- zle-the-scientists/. March 4, 1941 | Japanese Canadians are registered by government http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1139734--prestig- For more information, see http://www.explorasian.org/history_japa-

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nesecdn.html. For more information on the Japanese Internment, see March 22, 2011 | Harper Government found in contempt of Parlia- http://www.chrcccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/44mile.asp. ment For more information on the historic motion, please consult March 8 | International Women’s Day http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-govern- For more information, please consult http://www.un.org/women- ment-falls-in-historic-commons-showdown/article1956416/, http:// watch/feature/iwd/history.html and http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/ www.thetelegram.com/Elections/Local-news/2011-03-26/arti- geninfo/women/womday97.htm. cle-2368494/Harper-government-held-in-contempt-of-Parliament/1, http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/957379--com- March 8, 1957 | Quebec’s Padlock Law is ruled unconstitutional mittee-finds-harper-government-in-contempt and http://www. For more information on the law and its appeal, please consult http:// theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-government-in-con- www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/78mile.asp. tempt-of-parliament-draft-report-says/article1946464/.

March 9, 1901 | Japanese Canadians win the vote in BC March 24, 1937 | Act Respecting Communist Propaganda is passed Japanese Canadians were permitted to vote in BC elections; however, in Quebec they would not be allowed to vote federally or in other provinces until For more information, please consult http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/ 1948. For more information in this calendar on the gains and losses of timePortals/milestones/36mile.asp and http://www.historyofrights. Japanese Canadians’ rights, please consult February 24, March 4, and com/events/padlock.html. September 22. March 25, 1872 | Beginning of the Toronto Printers’ Strike for a March 10 | Bottled Water Free Day nine-hour work day For more information please visit http://www.bottledwaterfreeday.ca/. For more information, please consult http://www.torontohistory.org/ Pages_PQR/Printers_Strike_of_1872.html and http://www.thecana- March 14, 1944 | Ontario adopts Racial Discrimination Act dianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Par- For more information, please consult http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/ ams=A218. timePortals/milestones/45mile.asp. March 25, 1915 | Workman’s Compensation Act is passed in Ontario March 14, 1967 | Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 repealed and For a copy of the Meredith Report, please consult http://www.awcbc. replaced org/common/assets/english%20pdf/meredith_report.pdf. For a time- For more information about Canada’s immigration policies and secu- line of worker’s compensation, please consult http://www.awcbc.org/ rity changes post-9-11, please consult http://www.canadiana.ca/citm/ en/workerscompensationtimeline.asp. For more information on the specifique/immigration_e.html#1967. Ontario Act of 1915, please consult http://www.kellysantini.com/employment/e/guide-workerscomp.php, and http://www.thecanadianen- March 15, 1990 | Federal Government decides Sikhs may wear cyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008707. turbans while serving as RCMP officers For more information, please consult http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_ March 28, 1972 | Quebec General Strike starts day/03/15/. For more information, please consult http://libcom.org/history/1972-the-quebec-general-strike, http://www.generalstrike.ca/ March 16, 1993 | Somalia Affair Articles/1972-DEC-31_QUEBEC_GENERAL_STRIK.stm and http://www. For more information on the Somalia Affair, please consult http:// thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=a1AR- archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/peacekeeping/topics/723/, http:// TA0001796. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Par- ams=M1ARTM0011348, http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/waymac/Soci- March 31, 1949 | Newfoundland becomes a province ology/A%20Term%202/Obedience%20Power%20and%20Control/ For more information, please consult http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/ somalia_affair.htm, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/foreign_poli- heritage/archives/newton/celebrations/newfoundland_en.html. cy/2006/10/31/whose_trau.html. March 31, 1960 | Status Indians win right to vote March 21 | International Day for the Elimination of Racial For more information on PM Diefenbaker’s decision please consult Discrimination http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/rights_freedoms/clips/9556/ and for For more information, please consult: http://www.time.com/time/ more information on the history of voting — and disqualification magazine/article/0,9171,869441-3,00.html, http://www.unmultimedia. from voting — see http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?sec- org/photo/subjects/apartheid.html, and http://portal.unesco.org/shs/ tion=res&dir=his&document=chap3&lang=e. en/ev.phpURL_ID=1787&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201. html. April

March 22 | World Water Day April 1, 1999 | Creation of Nunavut For more information, please consult http://www.worldwaterday.org/ For more information on Nunavut and its creation, please consult, page/121. http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/provincial_territorial_politics/top-

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ics/108/, http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/delta/departments/Geography/ stration, now including even more workers and a sympathetic crowd, humgeog/nunavut/docnun2.htm. is considered one of the largest in Canadian history. For more information, please consult the Toronto Printers’ Strike of 1872 (March 25). April 2, 1998 | Delwin Vriend’s appeal to Supreme Court is accepted http://www.sgmlaw.com/en/about/Vriendv.Alberta.cfm. April 14, 1980 | Jeanne Sauvé, first female Speaker of the House of Commons April 3, 2001 | Romanow Commission approved by Governor For more information, please consult http://www.collectionscanada. General gc.ca/women/030001-1313-e.html. To read the Romanow Report, please consult http://dsp-psd.pwgsc. gc.ca/Collection/CP32-85-2002E.pdf. To learn more about where the April 15, 2007 | Canada introduces Public Servants Disclosure Report stands now, please consult http://healthcoalition.ca/main/ Protection Act resources/romanow-commission-on-the-future-of healthcare/, http:// For more information, consult http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/faq/pda-eng. www.cbc.ca/news/background/healthcare/index.html and http:// asp#q2, http://fairwhistleblower.ca/content/whistleblower-legisla- www.emerginghealthleaders.ca/resources/Post-mortem-on-Ro- tion-needs-more-work-say-critics; http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ manow.pdf. story/2010/12/09/auditor-general-integrity-commissioner.html http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsMay0411.html. April 4, 1949 | Canada joins NATO For more information on NATO, please consult http://www. April 21, 1972 | Alberta First Nations’ sit-in ends in victory thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Par- For more information, please consult http://clfns.com/im- ams=A1ARTA0005657, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sto- ages/people/documents/the%20dene%20suline%20of%20 ry/2009/04/03/f-nato-fast-facts.html and http://www.nato.int/cps/en/ cold%20lake-parchment.pdf and http://books.google.ca/ SID-0A17678B-D7D82B40/natolive/index.htm. books?id=GbbZRIOKclsC&pg=PA499&lpg=PA499&dq=Al- berta+Natives+and+six+month+sit-in+at+Indian+Affairs+of- April 5, 1951 | Fair Employment Practices Act and the Female fice+in+Edmonton&source=bl&ots=adCOGSGJZw&sig=GuJ_FSg- Employees Fair Remuneration Act introduced in Ontario wlSTXJB4hhu_dNnDqvhA&hl=en&ei=K5H_TcLnKMm_gQemq_Td- For more information on the Acts of 1951, please consult http://www. Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC4Q6A- chrc-ccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/59mile.asp. For a copy of EwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. the Acts, please consult http://www.historyofrights.com/statutes/ Provincial%20Statutes/Ontario%20Fair%20Employment%20Practic- April 22 | Earth Day es%20Act%201951.pdf and http://www.historyofrights.com/statutes/ For more information on Earth Day, please consult, http://www. Provincial%20Statutes/Ontario%20Female%20Employees%20Fair%20 earthday.ca/pub/, http://www.earthday.ca/pub/about/history.php and Renumeration%20Act%201951.pdf. For more information on the http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement. current pay equity legislation in Ontario, please consult http://www. workrights.ca/content.php?doc=141. April 23, 1956 | Founding of the Canadian Labour Congress For more information, please consult http://www.thecanadianency- April 9, 1981 | Big Stone Cree March clopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001303 and For pictures of the march, please consult http://contentdm.ucalgary. http://www.canadianlabour.ca/home. ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/emal&CISOPTR=1639, http:// contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/emal&- April 27, 1989 | Irwin Toy Ltd v. Quebec CISOPTR=1640, and http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/item_viewer. For more information on this landmark case, consult http://www.ojen. php?CISOROOT=/emal&CISOPTR=1643. ca/resource/579. For the Supreme Court’s decision, consult http://scc. lexum.org/en/1989/1989scr1-927/1989scr1-927.html. April 12, 2000 | Lieutenant-General Dallaire retires from Canadian Armed Forces April 28, 1991 | National Day of Mourning for those killed in the For more information on the Rwandan genocide and Romeo Dallaire, workplace please consult http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/ed020303. For more information on the Day of Mourning and its supporters, htm, http://www.romeodallaire.com/biography.html, http://www. please consult http://www.psacbc.com/2011/04/28/april-28-2011- rcamuseum.com/English/Great%20Gunners/Dallaire.htm, http://www. national-day-of-mourning/, http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem. thirdworldtraveler.com/Heroes/Gen_Romeo_Dallaire.html and http:// asp?siteid=15&menuid=21859&pageid=19038 and http://www.ccohs. www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm. ca/events/mourning/.

April 14, 1872 | 10,000 demonstrate at Queen’s Park in support of April 29, 1998 | Canada signs on to the Kyoto Protocol Toronto Printers For more information on Canada and the Kyoto Protocol, please consult, In the midst of the Toronto Printers’ strike of 1872 a demonstration was http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/kyoto/timeline.html, http://www. held to show the unity of Toronto’s workers. What started out as 2,000 thestar.com/news/insight/article/729155--why-canada-failed-on-kyoto- workers, headed by two marching bands, marching to Queen’s Park in and-how-to-make-amends, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110608/ Toronto grew to over 10,000 people by the time of arrival. The demon- wl_canada_nm/canada_us_climate_canada and http://unfccc.int/

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kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php. For more on Canada’s decision to pull May 11, 1970 | Abortion Caravan reaches Ottawa out of Kyoto: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/13/ For more information on the Caravan, see: canada-withdrawal-kyoto-protocol, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ http://cpha100.ca/12-great-achievements/fighting-good-fight-legal- story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html and http://www.washingtonpost. ized-abortion-canada com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201774.html. http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2007/07/risingup.php#caravan http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=T- May CE&Params=A1ARTA0005437 http://archives.cbc.ca/health/reproductive_issues/topics/107/ May 1, 1945 | Saskatchewan Government Insurance sells its first For more information on the Morgentaler Clinics please consult http:// policy www.morgentaler.ca/, and for more information on the famous trials For more information about SGI, please consult http://www.sgi.sk.ca/ please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index. sgi_pub/about_sgi/corporate_structure.htm. cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005437, http://archives.cbc.ca/ health/reproductive_issues/topics/107/, and http://www.thestar.com/ May 2, 2011 | NDP becomes Official Opposition under Jack Layton News/Canada/article/452487. For more information about the 2011 election results, see http://www. cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/05/02/cv-elec- May 13, 1875 | Jennie Trout becomes the first female M.D. in tion-leader-layton.html. For more about Jack Layton’s life, visit http:// Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/22/f-jack-layton-timeline. For more information, please consult http://www.histori.ca/minutes/ html. For a copy of the letter Jack Layton left Canadians, see http:// minute.do?id=10173 and http://healingandrevival.com/BioJTrout.htm. www.ndp.ca/letter-to-canadians-from-jack-layton. May 15, 1872 | First nationwide protest for nine-hour work day May 3, 1990 | Recognition of Battered Wife Syndrome as murder This marks Canada’s first nationwide protest: workers and sympathiz- defence ers gathered in various cities across the country in solidarity with the For more information on the case, please consult http://dsp-psd. Toronto Printers’ Strike taking place in Ontario, and to press for a nine- pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/MR/mr60-e.htm and http://www. hour work day (instead of the current 12 hours). For more information thestar.com/article/209065. on the strike that started the first nationwide labour protest, please consult March 25. May 3, 2006 | Bill C-16 (fixed election dates) given Royal Assent For a copy of Bill C-16, please consult http://www.parl.gc.ca/ May 15, 1919 | Winnipeg General Strike begins LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Bill=C16&Language=E&Mode=1&Par- For more information, please consult http://www.thecanadianency- l=39&Ses=1&View=0. For more information on the public reaction, clopedia.com/index.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0008649&PgNm=TCE and please consult http://www.mapleleafweb.com/blog/tom-bateman/ http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/05/15/. has-harper-violated-fixed-election-law-will-it-mattter, http://m. theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/we-dont-have-fixed- May 16, 2012 | UN criticizes Canada’s food security record election-datesandcant/article1960531/?service=mobile and http:// For more on the criticism and on the federal government’s response, www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.htm- see: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1179208-- l?id=11bdb4aa-32f4-4f41-8d04-6c6295e68d7f. jason-kenney-blasts-un-food-envoy. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/05/16/pol-un-cana- May 4, 1989 | Dianna Janzen and Tracy Govereau take sexual da-food-security.html harassment case to Supreme Court For more information, please consult http://www.hrcr.org/safrica/ May 17 | International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia equality/janzen_platy.html, and http://www.owjn.org/index.php?op- For more information, please consult http://www.stonewall.org.uk/ tion=com_content&view=article&id=119&Itemid=107. at_home/sexual_orientation_faqs/2701.asp.

May 5, 2000 | Clayoquot Sound made UN-protected site May 20, 1980 | Quebec votes against separation For more information on Clayoquot Sound please consult http://clay- For more information please consult http://www.thecanadianency- oquotbiosphere.org/web/, http://www.focs.ca/index.asp and http:// clopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007291 and www.for.gov.bc.ca/dsi/Clayoquot/clayoquot_sound.htm. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/quebec.htm.

May 10, 2002 | Marc Hall permitted to bring same-sex date to high May 24, 1918 | Canadian women win the right to vote in federal school prom elections For more information please consult http://www.samesexmarriage.ca/ For more information on the Suffrage movement, please consult advocacy/marc_hall.htm. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=T- CE&Params=A1ARTA0008687, http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Compila- May 11, 1911 | Foundation of Parks Canada tions/ProvinceTerritory/ProvincialWomenRightToVote.aspx and http:// For more information, please consult: http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/ archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450/. pages/23_architectural_history.aspx.

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May 25, 1998 | Montreal anti-MAI protests led by Operation and http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/statements/clc-sup- SalAMI ports-abousfian-abdelrazik-speaking-tour. For more information on the protest please consult http://www. pmm.qc.ca/salami/ENGLISH/opers.html. For more information on June 4, 2012 | The Black-out Speak-out Campaign the MAI please consult http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343, For more on the Campaign and the petition: en_2649_33783766_1894819_1_1_1_1,00.html. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/media/news/2012/05/thousands-join-national-black-out-speak-out-campaign/. May 28, 1927 | Old Age Pensions Act introduced http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/. For more information on the Old Age Pension and its evolution in http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/cms/uploads/budget-bill-top-10.pdf. Canada, please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005909 and http://www. June 6, 1919 | Incorporation of Canadian National Railway civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/pensions/1915-1927_e.pdf. For more information please consult: http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/ canadian_national_railway.html. May 28, 2012 | Canadian Archivists protest cuts to NADP For more on the cuts and the protest, see: June 9, 1982 | Access to information Act and the Privacy Act are http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/05/28/archivists-protest.html passed http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2012/06/cuts-canadi- For a timeline of the legislative events leading up to the passing of the an-archives-suit-harper-tories-more-ways-one. Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, along with post-1982 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2012/05/02/19708646.html. amendments, please consult http://www.atirtf-geai.gc.ca/report/ reportAnnex8-e.html. For more information on the specific details of May 29, 2012 | UNICEF criticizes Canada’s record on child poverty the Acts please consult http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/atip-aiprp/index-eng. For more on the criticism and on the federal government’s response, asp and http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/programs/ai/rti/imple- see http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/29/pol-cp-unicef- mentation/general/canada_ai_act_may05.pdf. For more information child-poverty.html. on the RCMP files on Tommy Douglas, please consult http://www. http://www.unicef.ca/en/discover/article/unicef-report-card-10. rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-spied-on-storied-politician-tommy-douglas- newly-released-files-show/. June June 11, 1925 | “Davis Day” in Cape Breton June 2, 1977 | Canadian Human Rights Act passed by Parliament For more information, please consult http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/ For more information, please consult http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/pdp- virtual/meninmines/davis.asp and http://www.minersmuseum.com/ hrp/canada/sxrnt-eng.cfm and http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/timePor- hof_unions_davis_day_1.htm. tals/mistones/110mile.asp. June 11, 2008 | Canadian government apologizes for Residential June 2, 2012 | Anti-fracking protests in Moncton School system For more on fracking and protests against this practice: For a copy of the Statement of Apology, please consult http://www. http://stopfrackingontario.wordpress.com/allies/. ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/rqpi/apo/index-eng.asp. For more information http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/06/02/ on Residential Schools, please consult http://www.albertasource. nb-anti-fracking-moncton-119.html. ca/treaty8/eng/1899_and_After/Implications_and_Contentions/ http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/fracking/index.html. residential_schools.html and http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sto- http://www.greatenergychallengeblog.com/2011/09/20/three-faces- ry/2008/05/16/f-faqs-residential-schools.html. For more information of-fracking-water/. about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada please see http://www.trc.ca. For more information on “Shannen’s Dream” and June 3, 1935 | “On to Ottawa Trek” “our Dreams Matter Too,” please see: For more information, please consult http://www.histori.ca/peace/ http://cupe.on.ca/a4819/National%20Aboriginal%20Day%2020%20 page.do?pageID=348. June%202012.pdf. http://www.fncaringsociety.com/shannensdream/. June 4, 1973 | Mincome Experiment http://www.kairoscanada.org/dignity-rights/indigenous-rights/our- For more information on the guaranteed minimum income experi- dreams-matter-too-2/. ment, please consult http://www.cihrirsc.gc.ca/e/40308.html, http:// www.livableincome.org/atrmincome.htm and http://www.cpj.ca/en/ June 12 | World Day against Child Labour blog/chandra/remembering-mincome. For more information, please consult http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Cam- paignandadvocacy/WDACL/lang-en/index.htm. June 4, 2009 | Ruling on Abdelrazik’s case For more information, please consult http://www.theglobeandmail. June 14, 1872 | Trade Union Act passed com/news/opinions/the-never-ending-ordeal-of-abousfian-abdel- For more information, please consult http://www.opirg-carleton.org/ razik/article1540808/, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/na- alt-khm/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TorontoPrintersStrikeOf1872 and tional/terror-claims-trap-canadian-in-khartoum/article680695/page1/ http://www.opseu.org/ops/bargaining/Frontlines30.pdf. For more

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information about the Trade Unions Act and other labour laws, please June 23, 1990 | Meech Lake Accord fails see http://www.law-faqs.org/wiki/index.php/History_and_Develop- For more details on the proposals included in the Accord, please con- ment_of_Unions_in_Canada/History_of_Unions_-_Pre_WWII. sult http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=260.

June 16, 1880 | The Royal Commission on Civil Service June 25, 1969 | Jean Chrétien’s White Paper on Indian Affairs For more information, see For a copy of the White Paper, please consult http://www.ainc-inac. http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/5040/la_id/1.htm. gc.ca/ai/arp/ls/pubs/cp1969/cp1969-eng.asp. For more infor- http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=4bb- mation on the White Paper and its implications, please consult 21fdf-02d3-45d9-9e31-83a7d6585ac6&Language=E&Section=ALL. http://64.26.129.156/article.asp?id=1425, and http://www.danielnpaul. com/Canada%27sWhitePaper1969.html. For more information on pro- June 17, 1999 | Canada introduces the new Extradition Act tests at the G8 and of the G20 held in Toronto, please see http://www. For more information, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/back- theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/the-g8g20-saturday- ground/crime/extradition.htm. evening-roundup/article1619828/. For more information about the G8 Legacy fund controversy and the Auditor General’s findings, see http:// June 18, 2012 | Conservative government passes ‘Omnibus Budget www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1005706--tories-re- Bill’ ject-suggestion-they-misled-parliament-on-g20-spending and for the For more on the Bill, see http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/ Report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and politics/the-tale-of-2012s-omnibus-budget-bill/article4249856/ Estimates see http://publications.gc.ca/pub?id=392013&sl=0. and http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1210359--ominous-omnibus-budget-bill-will-impact-millions. June 25, 2010 | “Muskoka Initiative” at G8 For more information on the Muskoka Initiative, please consult http:// June 19, 1938 | Vancouver’s “Bloody Sunday” www.theinterim.com/issues/abortion/g8-backs-abortion-free-ma- For more information, please consult http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/ ternal-health-initiative/, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sto- chronology1938.htm. ry/2010/06/25/g8-g20-huntsville-leaders.html and http://www. acdicida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/FRA-127113657-MH7#a3. June 20, 2011 |Back-to-Work legislation for locked-out postal workers June 27 | National Multicultural Day For more on the legislation, see For more information, please consult http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/12922 http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/1012441--tory- 65796693/1292265796695. bill-legislates-canada-post-wage-rates. For more information on the Federal government’s use of back-to- June 27, 1986 | Federal Employment Equity Act comes into force work legislation, see http://www.globalnews.ca/labour/6442649533/ For more information, please consult http://www.media-awareness.ca/ story.html, http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4254/ and http:// english/resources/legislation/canadian_law/federal/employment_eq- www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1182845--cp-rail-canada-la- uity/employ_equity_act.cfm and http://www.chrcccdp.ca/en/time- bour-minister-raitt-poised-to-order-end-to-cp-rail-strike. Portals/milestones/118mile.asp. For a copy of the Act, please consult http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-5.401/index.html. June 21 | National Aboriginal Day For more information on National Aboriginal Day, please consult June 27, 2012 | Tim Hudak presents “Paths to Prosperity” White http://www.aincinac.gc.ca/ach/ev/nad/his/index-eng.asp and http:// Paper www.aincinac.gc.ca/ach/ev/nad/index-eng.asp and http://www.afn.ca. For more information about the White Paper and “right-to-work”, see: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1217880--tim- June 21, 1944 | Tommy Douglas becomes premier of SK hudak-urges-sweeping-changes-to-strip-unions-of-power-help-busi- For more information on the CCF, please consult http://www.the- ness-create-jobs. canadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- http://www.ontariopc.com/media/2012/06/Hudak-White-Papers-La- TA0001902. For more information on the 1944 Saskatchewan election, bour-H.pdf. please consult http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/election/en/election.htm http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/arti- and http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/parties_leaders/clips/4957/. For a cle/1224559--conservative-tim-hudak-pushes-plan-for-pover- copy of the Regina Manifesto, please consult http://www.saskndp.ca/ ty-not-prosperity. assets/File/history/manifest.pdf. June 28, 1985 | Bill C-31, An Act to Amend the Indian Act is passed June 22, 2012 | Canada ranked 51st in public access to information For more information on Bill C-31, please consult http://www.laa.gov. For more on the report: nl.ca/laa/naws/pdf/nwac-billc-31.pdf and http://www.johnco.com/ http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1216231--cana- nativel/bill_c31.html. For the petition submitted by Sandra Love- da-ranked-51st-in-access-to-information-list. lace Nicholas, please consult http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/ http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Canada+lags+access+rank- cc245da4e1c73a55c1256a16003b21a8?Opendocument, and for more ings/6829405/story.html. information on Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, please consult http://wom- http://www.law-democracy.org/. ynsherstory.blogspot.com/2009/10/sandra-lovelace.html.

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June 30, 1981 | Canadian Union of Postal Workers strikes for paid July 12, 2002 | Ontario Divisional Court rules in favour of same-sex maternity leave marriage For more information please consult http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ On July 12, 2002, the Ontario Divisional Court determined that the ci_id/1301/la_id/1.htm. existing definition of marriage violates same-sex couples’ equality rights based on their sexual orientation. On June 10, 2003 the Ontario July Court of Appeals upheld the ruling, and hours following the decision, Michael Leshner and Michael Stark (“the Michaels”) were married in a July 1, 1962 | Saskatchewan launches Medicare ceremony in Toronto, making theirs the first legal same-sex marriage For more information on Medicare in SK, please consult http://www. in Canada. Both men played large roles in the court case. cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP15CH2PA4LE.html. For more information on the life and achievements of Tommy Douglas please consult July 14, 1974 | Death penalty is abolished in Canada http://www.tommydouglas.ca/?page_id=21. For more information on the death penalty in Canadian history, please consult http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/fs-fi/2003/ July 1, 1968 | Canadian Medicare begins doc_30896.html, http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/ For more information please consult July 1, 1962, and for more infor- clips/994/ and http://www.amnesty.ca/deathpenalty/canada.php. mation on Canada-wide Medicare please consult http://www.sasked. gov.sk.ca/docs/history30/fram3_17.html,http://esask.uregina.ca/ July 15, 1966 | Canada Assistance Plan passed into law entry/medicare.html and http://medicare.ca/main/the-facts/the-histo- For more information on the CAP, please consult http://bitbucket. ry-of-medicare. icaap.org/dict.pl?term=CANADA%20ASSISTANCE%20PLAN%20 %28CAP%29 and http://www.socialpolicy.ca/cush/m3/m3-t32.stm. July 2, 1974 | Ralph Steinhauer, first Aboriginal LG For a detailed assessment of CAP after 20 years of being established, For more information on LG Ralph Steinhauer please consult, http:// please consult http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/allanm.htm. www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/people/lt_steinhauer.html. July 19, 1933 | Regina Manifesto July 3, 1979: | “No Candu for Argentina” For more information on the CCF, please consult, http://www.the- For more information: canadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3289. TA0001902 and http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP13CH- http://www.lhtnb.ca/TH/en_projrech.cfm. 3PA1LE.html. For a copy of the Regina Manifesto, please consult http:// www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5373-ReginaManifesto.htm. July 9, 1793 | Upper Canada Abolition Act given Royal Assent For more information on the slavery in North America and the Un- July 20, 1885 | Chinese Immigration Act passed derground Railroad please consult http://www.osblackhistory.com/ For more information on the Chinese immigration laws of Canada, underground.php and for more information on the events leading the please consult http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/history.html, http://www. passing of the Upper Canada Abolition Act please consult http://www. cbc.ca/news/background/china/chinese_immigration.html and http:// uppercanadahistory.ca/lluc/lluc3.html. www.asian.ca/law/cia1923.htm. For more information on the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 please consult http://www.asian.ca/law/ July 10, 1970 | A. Murray MacKay Bridge opens where Africville cia1885.htm and http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/history.html. For more once stood on the official apology, please consult http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/ For more information on Africville please consult http://hrsbstaff. CTVNewsAt11/20060621/head_tax_060622/.b. ednet.ns.ca/waymac/African%20Canadian%20Studies/Unit%208.%20 Afro-Canada/africville.htm and http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ July 20, 1923 | Franklin v. Evans northern-star/033005-2600-e.html. For more information, please consult http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/ timePortals/milestones/28mile.asp. July 10, 2012 | ‘Death of Evidence’ demonstration on Parliament Hill July 20, 2012 | ‘Robo-Call’ lawsuit moves forward For more on the demonstration, see: For more on the lawsuit and the Conservative government’s challenge http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/07/10/pol-death-evi- to it, see: dence-protest-parliament-hill.html. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/19/pol-council-of-ca- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/scientists-take-aim- nadians-lawsuit.html. at-harper-cuts-with-death-of-evidence-protest-on-parliament-hill/ http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/07/20/marni-soupcoff- article4403233/. conservatives-make-themselves-look-bad-in-robocalls-case/. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Bravo+protest+death+evi- http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1167117--robo- dence/6932854/story.html. calls-up-to-50-000-voters-received-deceptive-calls-pollster. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/04/pol-robocalls-ip- July 11, 1990 | Oka Crisis address-traced.html. 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July 21, 1988 | Canada’s Multiculturalism Act is passed August 16, 1933 | Christie Pits Race Riot (Toronto) For more information on the Act and multiculturalism in Canada, For more information on the events of August 16, 1933 please please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index. consult http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/ar- cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005511 and http://laws-lois.justice. chive/2008/08/15/the-christie-pits-riot-and-the-birth-of-multicultural- gc.ca/eng/acts/C-18.7/page-1.html. toronto.aspx and http://www.boldts.net/TorCh.shtml.

July 21, 2010 | Head of Statistics Canada resigns over decision to August 19, 1998 | First unionized North American McDonald’s make long-form census voluntary (Squamish, BC) For more information, see: For more information please consult http://www.leftbusinessobserver. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/07/21/statistics-cana- com/McDonalds.html and the follow up http://www.leftbusinessob- da-quits.html. server.com/McDonalds2.html. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/838401--stats- can-chief-quits-over-census-furor. August 20, 2007 | Police infiltrate peaceful protest at Leaders’ Summit in Montebello QC July 23, 1894 | Government makes Labour Day an official holiday For more information, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/cana- For more information on the events leading to passage of this legis- da/story/2007/08/23/police-montebello.html?ref=rss and http://www. lation please consult http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_ davidgrant.ca/police_officers_pose_protestors_quebec. facts&lists/labour_day.html and http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=a218. August 22, 1914 | Canada’s War Measures Act For more information on Government decisions while enforcing the July 27, 2002 | Omar Khadr arrested War Measures Act, please consult http://www.vancouverisland.com/ For more information on Omar Khadr please consult http://www.cbc. general/details.asp?id=44. For more information on the use of the War ca/news/world/story/2009/01/13/f-omar-khadr.html, http://www. Measures Act in a time of peace, please consult October 16. For a copy theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/in-the-matter-of-omar-khadr- of the current Emergencies Act, please consult http://dsp-psd.pwgsc. shame-on-us/article1640305/, and http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0114-e.htm. story/2010/10/31/guantanamo-khadr-sentencing.html/. August 22, 1991 | Rape shield provision of the Criminal Code is July 30, 1967 | Toronto’s first Caribana struck down For more information on the history of the Caribana please con- For more information on the decision and reaction, please consult sult http://www.tgmag.ca/magic/mt56.html and for more infor- http://ca.vlex.com/vid/r-v-seaboyer-gayme-37667143 and http://pa- mation on recent Caribanas, http://blackhistorycanada.ca/arts. pers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1185581. php?themeid=22&id=4. August 24, 1988 | United Church begins ordaining gays and lesbi- August ans as ministers For more information on the decision, please consult http://archives. August 1, 1844 | Daniel O’Donoghue is born cbc.ca/society/religion_spirituality/clips/1398/. For more information For more information, please consult http://whccpo.ca/historytour/ on the United Church and its progressive movements, please consult daniel_o%27donoghue.html. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_ucc.htm.

August 7, 1940 | Unemployment Insurance introduced August 28, 1971 | Canada’s first gay rights demonstration For more information, please consult http://www.pcobcp.gc.ca/aia/ For more information on the man behind the movement, please index.asp?lang=eng&page=hist&sub=eip-pac&doc=eip-pac-eng.htm. consulthttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/george-his- lop-gay-activist-1927-2005/article744826/. Aug. 9, 1948 | Le Refus Global is signed For more on the document and on the movement, see http://www. August 30, 1972 | Frank Calder, first Native Cabinet Minister thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/les-automatistes For more information on Dr. Frank Arthur Calder and his achievements please consult http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/ August 10, 1960 | Canadian Bill of Rights given Royal Assent bcdocs/331684/2004/2004_fcalder.htm and for more information To obtain a copy of the Canadian Bill of Rights, please consult http:// on the Calder Case please consult http://www.kermode.net/nisgaa/ laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-12.3/ no_frames/calder.html.

August 13, 2012 | Canada has worst concentration of media own- August 31, 2005 | Gomery Inquiry ership in G8: study For more information on the Gomery Inquiry and Sponsorship Scandal, For more information: please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/in- http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/08/13/concentration-media-own- dex.html. For more information on the Accountability Act, please con- ership-canada_n_1773117.html. sulthttp://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/LegislativeSummaries/ bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c2&Parl=39&Ses=1&source=library_prb.Foe.

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For information on the inadequacies of the Accountability Act, please September 13, 2007 | Canada votes against UN Declaration on the consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2006/05/25/democra- Rights of Indigenous Peoples cy-watch.html and http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsDec1609.html. For a copy of the UN Declaration, please consult http://daccess-ddsny. un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/512/07/PDF/N0651207.pdf?Ope- September nElement. For information on why Canada originally voted against the declaration, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ September 1, 1997 | Quebec introduces $5/day child care story/2007/09/13/canada-indigenous.html and http://www.ainc-nac. For an overview of the Quebec childcare system, consult www.acpsge. gc.ca/ap/ia/pubs/ddr/ddr-eng.asp. For the Assembly of First Nations’ ca/PDF/research/QUE_CHILDCARE.pdf and www.cccabc.bc.ca/cccabc- response to Canada’s decision to sign the Declaration, consult http:// docs/governance/ggcc_quebec_model.pdf. For information about the www.afn.ca/index.php/en/webinar-the-united-nations-declara- Universal Child Care Benefit, see http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can- tion-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peo. adavotes2011/realitycheck/2011/03/the-liberal-national-child-care- plan-evolution-of-a-promise.html. For more about recent economic September 18, 2008 | Arar Inquiry released analysis of the impact of Quebec’s daycare system, consult http:// For more information on Maher Arar and his experiences, please con- www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/551329. For an overview sult http://maherarar.net/, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/ of child care in Canada, please see http://www.policyalternatives.ca/ national/how-canada-failed-citizen-maher-arar/article843751/singlep- publications/ourschools-ourselves/our-schoolsour-selves-spring-2009. age/#articlecontent, http://www.amnesty.ca/human_rights_issues/ maher_arar_overview.php and http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/ September 4, 1985 | Canadian Auto Workers founded arar/arar_statement.html. For more information, please consult http://www.caw.ca/en/about- the-caw.htm. For more information about CAW’s proposed “new September 20, 1985 | Lincoln Alexander becomes Ontario LG union” project with the Communications Energy and Paperworkers For more information, please consult http://www.thecanadianency- Union, see http://www.newunionproject.ca/. clopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000133 and http://www.canada-heros.com/alexander_lincoln.html. September 5, 1922 | Victoria School Board (BC) creates segregated school for Chinese population September 20, 2011 | Newfoundland continues tuition freeze, For more on the 1923 Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act, please giving the province the 2nd lowest tuition in the country consult July 1, and for more information on the Chinese student strike For more information: in Victoria please consult http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chap- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sto- ters/2011/ContestingWhiteSupremacy.pdf and http://library.queensu. ry/2011/09/20/nl-pcs-tuition-fee-freeze-920.html. ca/ojs/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/viewFile/1318/1458. http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2012/04/26/newfoundland-continues-tuition-freeze/. Sept 6, 1990 | Fred Upshaw becomes the first Black leader of a http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/1123958--ontario-s- major union (OPSEU) high-university-tuition-fees-spark-day-of-protest-at-campuses-in-to- For more information on Fred Upshaw, please consult http:// ronto-and-across-canada. www.nupge.ca/node/2079, http://www.opseu.org/organizing/ history_/1990.htm and http://www.opseu.org/committees/woc/ September 22, 1988 | Government apologizes for Japanese upshawprofile.pdf. For more information on OPSEU, please consult internment http://www.opseu.org/. For more information on the apology, please consult http://archives. cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/22/, http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/sec- Sept 6, 1995 | Dudley George killed by OPP at Ipperwash ond_world_war/clips/1621/ and http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multi- For more information on the Ipperwash land dispute and the death of culturalism/asian/20years-jap.asp. Dudley George, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/ ipperwash/, http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642296, September 23, 1873 | Canadian Labour Union is founded http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/mwebb/ipperwash_and_the_killing_of_ For more information, please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclo- dud.htm, and http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Specials/20060210/ipper- pedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001302. wash_inquiry_060210/. For a copy of the Inquiry report, please consult http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/li/pdf/ September 25, 2006 | Federal government cuts all funding to the Commissioner-s_Statement-May31_2007.pdf. Court Challenges Program For more information on the Court Challenges Program please consult September 12, 1945 | Windsor Ford workers go on 99-day strike http://www.ccppcj.ca/e/ccp.shtml, for more information on Harper v For more information on the Windsor Ford strike of 1945, please con- Canada (and the role played by the CCP), please consult February 10, and sult http://www.walkervilletimes.com/27/ford-strike.html and http:// for more information on Harper’s decision to cut funding to CCP and lat- www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_DEF/Plaque_Essex28.html. For er restore a small portion, please consult http://rabble.ca/news/2010/04/ more information on the Rand Formula, please consult http://www. harper%E2%80%99s-hitlist-human-rights-taken-out-commission, thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1AR- http://100reasons.ca/4/ and http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/ TA0006672. story.html?id=c826456d-22c3-425f-9491-7f5dc65776bc.

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September 26, 2011 | 117 arrested in anti-Keystone XL protest on October 15, 2011 |Occupy Movement reaches Canada Parliament Hill For more on Occupy, see: http://occupytogether.org/ For more information, see: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27102, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/18/pol-keystone-xl- http://carletonnow.carleton.ca/november-2011/the-process-is-the- pipeline.html. point-the-occupy-movement-in-canada/. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/28/ keystone-xl-pipeline-protest-canada. October 16, 1957 | Lester B. Pearson awarded Nobel Peace Prize http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/09/26/otta- For more information on the Suez Crisis and Pearson’s role, please wa-oilsands-protest-parliament-hill.html. consult http://www.suezcrisis.ca/summary.html and http://www.vet- erans.gc.ca/eng/sub.cfm?source=history/canadianforces/factsheets/ October egypt.

October 3, 1988 | FTA is signed October 16, 1970 | October Crisis For more information on subsequent free trade agreements, please For more information on the October Crisis, please consult http:// see the work of the Trade and Investment Research Project at the faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/readings/october. CCPA http://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/trade-and-invest- htm. For more information on the Quiet Revolution, please consult ment-research-project. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=T- CE&Params=A1ARTA0006619. For a famous interview with PM Trudeau October 4 | Sisters in Spirit Vigils at the beginning of the October Crisis, please consult http://archives. For more information, please see http://www.nwac.ca/octo- cbc.ca/war_conflict/civil_unrest/clips/610. ber-4th-2011-sisters-spirit-vigils. For more about Sisters in Spirit, please see November 15. October 16, 2000 | Walkerton Inquiry beings For a complete list of the recommendations made as a result of the October 5 | World Teachers’ Day inquiry, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/walk- For more information, consult Education International at http://www.ei- erton/walkerton_report.html#one and http://www.cbc.ca/news/ ie.org/ and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation at http://www.ctf-fce.ca. background/walkerton/walkerton_report2.html. For more information on the E. Coli contamination, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/ October 6, 1986 | Canada receives a UN award for sheltering background/walkerton/. To obtain to an official copy of the report, refugees please consult http://www.walkertoninquiry.com/. For more information on the Nansen Award and its winners, please consult http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c467-page1.html and October 17, 1968 | Official Languages Act enacted http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c461.html. (For more informa- For more information on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and tion on the federal government’s recent decision to cut health care for Biculturalism, please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia. refugees, see http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/doc- com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000741. For more infor- tors-will-monitor-cuts-to-refugee-health-care/article4375864/) mation on the Official Languages Act, please consult http://laws-lois. justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/O-3.01/, http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/html/histo- October 12, 2010 | Canada fails to win seat on UN Security Council ry_histoire_e.php and http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/html/act_loi_e.php. For more on Canada losing a seat on the Security Council see http:// For more information on the various revisions and additions to the Act, cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Poltics/2010/10/12/15662306.html. For a please consult http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/html/histo_e.php. Senate debate on CIDA’s changing priorities and the impact on NGOs like the Canadian Teachers’ Federation see: http://www.parl.gc. October 18, 1929 | “Persons Case” ca/Content/Sen/Chamber/403/Debates/084db_2011-02-09-e.htm. For For more information on the Famous Five, please consult http:// more on the controversial decision to cut funding to KAIROS, consult www.ncwc.ca/aboutUs_five.html. For more information on the http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/02/15/kairos-timeline. Person’s Case, please consult http://www.histori.ca/peace/page. html. do?pageID=276, http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/achievements/ persons_case.html and http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/publica- October 14, 1976 | Anti-Inflation Policy Protest tions/002/015002-2100-e.html. For more information on the strike and the anti-inflation legislation, please consult http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/labour_un- October 19, 1900 | Tomey Homma denied right to vote ions/clips/8001/http://cupe.ca/history/timelines and http://www. For more information on the Tomey Homma case, please consult cupe1975.ca/bursary/burs399.html. http://www.chrcccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/4mile.asp and http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/fr/browseSubjects/cunningham.asp. October 14, 1981 | Founding Assembly of the Canadian Federation of Students begins October 19, 2006 | Clean Air Act given first reading For more information on the Canadian Federation of Students, please For a copy of the Act please consult, http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/ consult http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/html/english/campaigns/g20inquiry. LegislativeSummaries/Bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c30&source=library_pr- php and http://www.gsacarleton.ca/index.php?section_id=30. b&Parl=39&Ses=1. For more information on environmental activists

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reactions to the act please consult http://www.climateactionnetwork. please consult http://www.cbc.ca/. ca/cleanairactstinks/background.html. For a timeline of Canada’s envi- For more information on the Morgentaler Clinics please consult http:// ronmental plans please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/ www.morgentaler.ca/, and for more information on the famous trials kyoto/timeline.html, and for information on Canada’s role in the Kyoto please consult http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index. Protocol please consult April 29 and December 17. cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005437, http://archives.cbc.ca/ health/reproductive_issues/topics/107/, and http://www.thestar.com/ October 26, 1992 | Referenda on the Charlottetown Accord News/Canada/article/452487. For more information on the Meech Lake Accord, please consult June 23. For more information on the details of the Charlottetown Accord, please November 15, 2005 | Government of Canada pledges to help fund consult http://www.factindex.com/c/ch/charlottetown_accord.html. Sisters in Spirit For more information about the work of Sisters in Spirit please consult October 26, 2009 | Powershift Protest disrupts House of Commons http://www.nwac.ca/programs/sisters-spirit and http://www.cbc.ca/ Question Period allinaday/2010/11/17/sisters-in-spirit-loses-funding. For more informa- For more on Powershift and the protest, please consult: tion about missing Aboriginal women and girls, please consult http:// http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/716324--protesters-dis- www.highwayoftears.ca/. rupt-commons-question-period. http://pre2010.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/1782. November 16, 1885 | Louis Riel is executed http://www.wearepowershift.org/about. For more information on Louis Riel and his shaping of Central/Western Canada and Quebec, please consult http://www.gov.mb.ca/february_ October 27, 1893 | First meeting of the National Council of Women holiday/biography.html, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ For more information, please consult http://www.ncwc.ca/index.html. index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=a1ARTA0006837 and http://library. usask.ca/northwest/background/riel.htm. October 27, 1997 | Ontario teachers strike For more information on Bill 160 and the teachers strike against it, November 18, 2009 | Diplomat Richard Colvin testifies about please consult http://bctf.ca/publications/NewsmagArticle.aspx- Afghan detainee abuse ?id=13724, http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/1997/October/23/default. For more information on Richard Colvin’s testimony and Committee, htm, http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/legacy/rsearch/edu20/moments/ please consult http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/ 1997bill160.html?cms_page=edu20/moments/1997bill160.html and article/727879--canada-shamed-on-torture, http://fairwhistleblower. http://www.ofl.ca/uploadslibrary/economy/tp1.pdf. ca/content/richard-colvins-testimony,http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/11/18/diplomat-afghan-detainees.html and http:// October 28, 1980 | National Energy Program is introduced www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/11/18/diplomat-afghan-detain- For more information on the National Energy Program, please consult, ees.html. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=T- CE&Params=A1ARTA0005618 and http://www.abheritage.ca/abpoli- November 20, 1989 | UN Convention on the Rights of the Child tics/events/issues_nep.html. ratified For the complete UN Convention please consult, http://www2.ohchr. October 28, 2011 | Attawapiskat First Nations community de- org/english/law/crc.htm. For an article looking at 20 years of a ratified clared a state of emergency convention, please consult http://www.thestar.com/comment/arti- For more information: cle/727122. http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/11/24/red-cross-stepping-into-attawapiskat-crisis/. November 20 | Trans Day of Remembrance http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/03/pol-attawap- For more information on NDP MP Bill Siksay’s attempt in 2010 to iskat-thehouse-strahl-fontaine.html. include “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the Canadian http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/12/01/attawap- Human Rights Act and the hate crime provisions of the Criminal Code: iskat-thursday.html. http://www.egale.ca.

October 31, 1996 | Strikers take over Oshawa Ontario GM plant November 22 | National Housing Day For more information, please consult http://www.thecanadianency- On Nov. 22, 1998 the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities endorsed a clopedia.com/index.cfm?pgnm=tce¶ms=m1artm0011018 and Toronto-led campaign to declare homelessness a national disaster; Na- http://www.caw.ca. tional Housing Day commemorates that event. There are an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 homeless in Canada, and millions more living in November inadequate housing, Canada is the only major industrialized country without a national housing program. November 2, 1936 | CBC established For more information on the creation of the CBC, please consult http:// November 24, 1989 | House of Commons resolves to eliminate www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Par- child poverty in Canada by 2000 ams=a1ARTA0001266. For more information on CBC as it is today, For more information on child poverty in Canada, please consult http://

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www.campaign2000.ca/index.html, http://www.campaign2000.ca/ information on the lifting of the ban, please consult http://www. reportCards/national/2010EnglishC2000NationalReportCard.pdf and canadaeast.com/front/article/832812 and http://www.caw.ca/en/ser- http://www.firstcallbc.org/pdfs/economicequality/3-reportcard2010.pdf. vices-departments-pride-canadian-pride-legalhistory.htm.

November 25, 1997 | APEC protests in Vancouver December 2, 1989 | Audrey McLaughlin, first female leader of a For more information on APEC, please consult http://www.apec.org/ Federal political party (NDP) en/About-Us/About-APEC.aspx. For news coverage of the event, Audrey Mclaughlin was born November 8, 1936 in Dutton ON. After please consult http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/11/25/. For more graduating from the University of Guelph she moved to the Yukon. information on the report released by the Commission for Public Com- In 1987 she ran in a by-election as a New Democratic Party candidate plaints Against the RCMP, please consult http://www.cpccpp.gc.ca/prr/ and became the first Federal NDP candidate to win in the Yukon. A rep/phr/apec/fr-rf-eng.aspx. Finally, for more information on the event year later she was appointed caucus chair and in 1989 at the NDP from the eyes of those on the ground, please see “Pepper in Our Eyes”, leadership convention McLaughlin became the first female leader of a a book published by UBCPress, which can be found at http://www. Federal political party. ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=1837. December 6, 1921 | Agnes MacPhail, first female MP November 25, 2005 | Bill C-331 receives Royal Assent For more information on Agnes MacPhail, please consult http://www. For more information on the internment of Ukrainian Canadians, histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10212. For more information on please consult http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/ and the Elizabeth Fry Society, please consult http://www.elizabethfry.ca/ http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/issues/ukrainianinternment. caefs_e.htm. For more information and analysis on recent proposed php. For more information on Bill C-331, please consult http://www. changes to the Criminal Justice System in Canada, see http://www. canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/sc-2005-c-52/latest/sc-2005-c-52.html and behindthenumbers.ca/2011/09/20/whats-wrong-with-harpers-om- http://laws- lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-20.8/page-1.html. nibus-crime-bill/ and http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/ reports/fear-factor. November 25, 2005 | Kelowna Accord signed For more information on the Kelowna Accord and the process of its December 6, 1989 | National Day of Remembrance & Action on undoing, please consult http://www.turtleisland.org/news/kelow- Violence Against Women naaccord.html, http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/ For more information on the registry: www.guncontrol.ca. For more undoing-kelowna.html and http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/QPeri- information on this date, please consult http://archives.cbc.ca/society/ od/20070321/kelowna_vote_070321/. For a copy of the Accord, please crime_justice/topics/398/, http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/ consult http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/researchpublications/ article/734817--lessons-of-the-montreal-massacre, and http://www. prb0604-e.htm. swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/vaw-vff/index-eng.html.

November 28, 1998 | Ontario passes Bill 22, “An Act to Prevent December 7, 2011 | “Turn your back on Canada” at UN Unionization” environmental talks For more information on Bill 22 and Workfare, please consult For more information please consult December 9, 2011 and also: http://home.cogeco.ca/~wcoppin/workfare.html, http://www. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1099726-- caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/10ENG.pdf, and http://www. standing-up-for-the-planet. isthatlegal.ca/index.php?name=overview.welfare_law_ontari- http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/7/canadian_activists_ o#Basic%20Eligibility%20Issues. For the UN Human Rights Com- barred_from_durban_summit. mittee report, please consult http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/ http://tcktcktck.org/2011/12/canadian-youth-ejected-from-cop17-for- e656258ac70f9bbb802567630046f2f2?Opendocument. For speaking standing-up-to-the-tar-sands/21860. notes on a Bill 22 debate, please consult http://www.ontla.on.ca/ web/committee-proceedings/committee_transcripts_details. December 9, 2011 | Canada wins fifth consecutive Colossal Fossil do?locale=en&Date=1998-08-17&ParlCommID=829&BillID=&Busi- Award ness=Bill+22%2C+Prevention+of+Unionization+Act+%28Ontari- For more information on Canada’s involvement in the UN Climate o+Works%29%2C+1998&DocumentID=19488#P55_2607. Talks, please see http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca and http:// www.climatenetwork.org/fossil-of-the-day. November 29, 1990 | Neil Stonechild’s body found For more information, please consult http://www.cbc.ca/news/back- December 10, 1948 | UN Declaration of Human Rights is signed ground/stonechild/. and accepted For more information on the Declaration, please consult http://www. December un.org/en/documents/udhr/ and http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/ udhr/udhr.html. For more information on John Humphrey, please con- December 1, 1992 | Judgment in Michelle Douglas’s case against sult http://www.markings.bc.ca/mind/peace/humanrights.html. Canadian Military adopted For more information on Captain Birch, please consult http://www. December 11, 1995 | First of 11 Days of Action in Ontario chrcccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/131mile.asp. For more For more information please consult http://www.troublemakershand-

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December 12, 2006 | Federal Accountability Act receives Royal Assent For more about the Federal Accountability Act: http://www.tbs-sct.gc. ca/faa-lfi/default.asp and the Parliamentary Budget Officer, see: http:// www.parl.gc.ca/PBO-DPB/index.aspx?Language=E. On Kevin Page not seeking reappointment to the PBO: http://www.theglobeandmail. com/news/opinions/a-sad-farewell-to-the-parliamentary-budget-officer/article1707530/. For a critique of the Accountability Act consult http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsDec1710.html.

December 15, 1977 | Quebec includes homosexual rights in its Charter For more information, please consult http://www.csq.qc.net/ sites/1676/documents/english/rappel_historique_ang.pdf.

December 19, 2006 | Adrian Measner dismissed as Canadian Wheat Board president For more about the Canadian Wheat Board see: http://www.cwb. ca/public/en/ and http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/canadian-wheat-board. For a perspective from the National Farmers’ Union, see www.nfu.ca/cwb.html. For the most recent farmers’ plebicite, see: http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/newsroom/releases/2011/news_release. jsp?news=091211.jsp. For Adrian Measner’s letter to the Agriculture Minister prior to his termination: www.theholmteam.ca/Measner. letter.pdf. Adrian Measner is not the only public servant who has been dismissed by this government; for more information on this trend, see: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/silenc- ing-dissent-conservative-record.

December 22, 1967 | Decriminalization of homosexuality For more information on the decriminalization of homosexuality, please consult December 22. For more information on the inclusion of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act, please consult http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/timePortals/milestones/131mile. asp, http://www.chrcccdp.ca/discrimination/sexual_orientation-eng. aspx and http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/pdp-hrp/canada/sxrnt-eng.cfm. For more information on the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada, please consult http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/The_de- criminalization_of_homosexuality-2057.aspx and http://archives.cbc. ca/politics/rights_freedoms/topics/538/.

December 31, 1998 | CARFAC becomes the certified bargaining agent for Canadian Artists For more information on CARFAC, please consult http://www.carfac.ca/.