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The future Queen, Princess Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip visit Toronto as part of a cross-Canada tour. [28] December 1: The Toronto-Barrie Highway opens. 1952: July 1: The Toronto-Barrie Highway is renamed as Highway 400: September 8: Ontario's first television station, CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto. November 1
January 1 – The inaugural game of the Professional Women's Hockey League is held at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto. New York played against Toronto and won 4–0. Ella Shelton of New York scored the first goal in the league's history. [4] January 2 – A Mississauga Transit bus collides with another vehicle and ends up in a ditch ...
On January 23, the first presumptive case in Canada was admitted to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and placed into a negative pressure chamber. [1] [2] The patient, a male in his 50s who travelled between Wuhan and Guangzhou before returning to Toronto on January 22, contacted emergency services following rapid onset symptoms. [16]
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed or destroyed as a result of protests and riots between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system (Alexander Wood, Egerton Ryerson and Joseph Hugonard), two of Canadian monarchs (Queen ...
April 1 – The community of Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories, is renamed to Tsiigehtchic. April 5 – The Just Desserts shooting occurs in Toronto, May 10 – Annular solar eclipse happened in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. June – An Ontario farmer is allowed to grow 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of marijuana for research purposes.
The average monthly social assistance caseload for January to October 2014 was 92,771. The number of impoverished seniors increased from 10.5 percent in 2011 to 12.1 percent in 2014. Toronto's 2013 child poverty rate was 28.6 percent, the highest among large Canadian cities of 500,000 or more residents. [173]
Canadians woke up Tuesday to an uncertain future, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would resign and bring his near-decade in power to an end.. Trudeau's announcement came just days into ...
In 1982, the Canada Act was passed by the British parliament and granted Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II on March 29. The corresponding Constitution Act was passed by the Canadian parliament and granted Royal Assent by the Queen on April 17, thus patriating the Constitution of Canada, and marking one of Trudeau's last major acts before his resignation in 1984.