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Canada: Front de libération du Québec: Victory. FLQ guerrillas are disbanded in 1973, after collapse in 1971. Unknown: Unknown: Oka Crisis (1990) Canada: Mohawk Warrior Society: Victory. End of Mohawk blockade; Federal government purchased the Pines from Municipality of Oka to prevent further development; 1 [10] 30 [11] Persian Gulf War (1990 ...
1990 2022 DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey Turkey: DHKP-C: 1990 1995 Eelam War II. Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers: 1990 1991 Gulf War Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Italy Canada Australia Egypt Syria Qatar Coalition Forces: Iraq: 1990 1994 Rwandan Civil War: FPR: Government of Rwanda France Zaire
After the end of the Cold War, the frequency of international peacekeeping missions and humanitarian interventions grew dramatically and Canadian participation grew along with it. In the 1990s, Canadians were active in United Nations peacekeeping missions in Western Sahara, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, East Timor and Sierra Leone.
February 27 – Gulf War: Iraq agrees to a cease-fire ending the conflict. April 2 – Rita Johnston becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Vander Zalm. She is the first woman premier in Canada. April 22 – Joe Clark is appointed Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs.
February 12 – 1990 Chambly by-election. March 9 – Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord . March 15 – The federal government decides that Sikhs may wear turbans while serving as Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers following the Baltej Singh Dhillon case.
Canada News Headlines The Latest: The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more troops to the southern border The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday
Canada withdraws from the War in Afghanistan at the end of the first phase. [133] [134] [143] 2018: 17 October The Cannabis Act becomes law, making recreational cannabis use legal throughout the country. Canada is the second country (after Uruguay in 2013) to legalize recreational cannabis use nationwide. [144] 2020: 7 January - March
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]