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The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2] [3] By early May, large wildfires had broken out in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba.
Three days of meetings between the hereditary chiefs, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and BC Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser began on February 27 in Smithers, British Columbia. The RCMP agreed to stop all patrols on the Morice West Forest Service Road and to shut down their mobile detachment (CISO) during the ...
January 2 – Gordon Daniel Conant, lawyer, politician and 12th Premier of Ontario (b.1885) January 5 – Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th Premier of Ontario (b.1896) February 16 – Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (b.1890) March 20 – John Livingstone Brown, politician (b.1867) Mitchell Hepburn
4 February 2019: Field Hill, British Columbia: 3: 0: A CP freight train being operated by a relief crew derailed on Field Hill near Field, British Columbia, on a section of track with a steep descending grade and several sharp curves. The 3 crew members were fatally injured in the derailment. [68] Levack truck-train collision: 22 May 2020: near ...
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February – Erika Nordby; February 23 – Christian Martyn, actor [4] February 25 – Daniel Benoit, Canadian-American son of Chris Benoit (died 2007) March 27 – Sophie Nélisse, actress; May 18 – Addison Holley, actress [5] May 23 – Evan Bird, actor; June 13 – Penny Oleksiak, swimmer [6] June 14 – RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player
February 7 – Joe Clark is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, replacing Robert Stanfield. March 23 – The Norman Bethune Memorial unveiled in Montreal April 1 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is given the power to regulate Canadian television and radio.
February 14 - A 100-car train carrying crude oil derails approximately 30 kilometres from Gogama, Ontario. [5] February 15 - 50th anniversary of the National Flag of Canada [6] February 23 - A Fort McMurray, Alberta family was poisoned after attempting to kill bedbugs using illegally imported phosphine tablets. An eight-month-old child died and ...