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1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

Scene inside Notre-Dame Basilica during the state funeral of Pierre Trudeau

Main article: 2000 Canadian incumbents

Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

[edit] Events

January 15: CTV Newsnet mistakenly airs tape of Avery Haines flubbing a line and joking about it in terms many viewers find offensive
January 19: Stephen Kakfwi becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing James Antoine
February 7: Rogers Communications buys Quebec's Vidéotron
February 15: Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other than the Globe and Mail.
February 24: Ujjal Dosanjh becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Dan Miller
March 15: The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum
March 25: The Reform Party of Canada is dissolved and replaced with the Canadian Alliance
April 17: Chris Jericho wins World Wrestling Entertainment (then called WWF) World Title only to have it stripped away 15 minutes later
April 19: Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing
May 11: The Alberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care
May 6: Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald
May 24: An E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario. It will eventually kill nine people.
May 25: The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier killed in France in World War I are brought back to Canada and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa
June 17: Seagram announces plans to merge with France's Vivendi
July 8: Stockwell Day is elected the first leader of the Canadian Alliance party.
July 12: Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of the Assembly of First Nations
July 14: A tornado near Pine Lake, Alberta, kills eleven people
July 31: Conrad Black's Hollinger sells almost all its Canadian newspaper holdings to Izzy Asper's CanWest
August: The prohibition of marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court
August 15: Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO of Corel
August 26: Sponsorship scandal: Minister of Public Works Alfonso Gagliano is criticized for giving contracts to a firm that employs his son
September 9: Star Ray TV, a pirate television station in Toronto, begins broadcasting
September 26: Long-serving Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow announces his plans to retire
September 28 to October 3: Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister
October 16: Beaton Tulk becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Tobin
October 27: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in connection with the bombing of Air India flight 182
November 21: launch of Anik F1 Canada's most powerful Communications satellite to date
November 27: In the 2000 Canadian election Jean Chrétien's Liberals increase their majority in the House of Commons
November 26: In the 88th Grey Cup game the B.C. Lions win 28–26 over the Montreal Alouettes
November 30: Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time
December: the federal government opens a marijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine in Manitoba
December 2: In the Vanier Cup game the Ottawa Gee-Gees win 42–39 over the Regina Rams
Canada passes the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Books

The Blind Assassin: Margaret Atwood
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond: Michael Ignatieff
Star-Spangled Canadians: Jeffrey Simpson
Island: Alistair MacLeod
The Farfarers, Before the Norse: Farley Mowat
No Logo: Naomi Klein
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland
Before You're a Stranger: Raymond Fraser

[edit] Plays

Elizabeth Rex: Timothy Findley

[edit] Literary awards

Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
Michael Ondaatje wins the Prix Médicis for Anil's Ghost
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards: Mercy Among the Children
See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Nega Mezlekia's non-fiction win for Notes from the Hyena's Belly becomes a subject of controversy when poet Anne Stone alleges that she ghostwrote the majority of the book. Stone was subsequently sued for defamation by Mezlekia, who stated that Stone's role in the book's publication was strictly that of a copy editor.