Year in Review: 2001
For the third time, it's year in review. We look at the events that shaped Canada. Oh by the way, Merry Christmas.
January
It's the beginning of the new millennium. At least we know that now it is in fact the 21st century, for sure. Lucien Bouchard leaves the Parti Quebecois and political life. The Bank of Canada issues its new ten-dollar bill with the promise of more to come. Prime Minister Chrétien is constantly hounded about the Affaire Grand-Mère, or Shawinigate, in which there may have been conflict of interest. The Montreal Canadiens are sold to Mr. Gillet, an American businessman. Robert Latimer, who pity-killed his daughter, begins his ten-year prison term.
February
Erika Nordby, the miracle baby, recovers after being found in sub-zero temperatures in Edmonton. Two thousand dollars are given to each citizen of Walkerton as compensation from the Government of Ontario after the E. coli outbreak last year. Meningitis is vaccinated in schools around the Province de Québec after four teens are diagnosed with the disease.
March
Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party and the Canadian Alliance, retires from political life. Elections in Alberta prove that the popularity of Ralph Klein hasn't disappeared; he leads his Tories to another majority government. Liberal MP Hedy Fry made headlines when she claimed that in the little town of Prince George there were cross burnings, creating loads of controversy and demands of resignations by Alliance members and British Columbians.
April
The summit of the Americas is held in Québec amidst much protest, some violent, most peaceful. For the second time in ten years, Algoma Steels is granted bankruptcy protection. Alliance leader Day gets in trouble when controversy surrounds the question of his meeting of a former undercover agent to spy on the Prime Minister or something.
May
May sees British Columbia shun its socialist tendencies after years of scandals and problems in the New Democratic Party as the BC Liberals sweep the province in its elections. Statistics Canada makes May 15th Census Day, five years after the last one took place, in 1996.
June
The Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup against the defending champions, the New Jersey Devils, after which French-Canadian Raymond Bourque retires after 1,825 Stanley Cup-less games. Two snowbirds, Canadian air show planes, crash and fall into Lake Erie. Mayor Mel Lastman acts the fool again as he says something stupid again: "I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me", referring to Africa. Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne Quints, dies.
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