August 2005 in Canada

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Deaths August 3: Ernest Alvia Smith Ongoing events U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute Sponsorship scandal 2005 Canada Games Holidays August 1: Civic Holiday1 1 exc. QC, NL & YT

August 30, 2005

• The Supreme Court of British Columbia amends the definition of adultery under the Divorce Act after a woman contested the definition after her husband was caught with another man.(CTV)
• Mayor of Toronto David Miller and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler meet to discuss the recent surge in gun-related violence in Toronto.(CTV)
• Governor General Adrienne Clarkson announces 82 new members of the Order of Canada.(CTV)
• Hurricane Katrina could hit Ontario Wednesday.(CTV)
• World Trade Organization deals setback for Canada in US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• Two Toronto men dead from West Nile virus.(CTV)

August 27, 2005

• The Canadian government to ask Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to rescind satellite radio licences.(CTV)
• Rona shuts down Karla Homolka's boss.(CTV)
• Conservative leader Stephen Harper calls United States Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins' comments on lumber 'out of line'.(CTV)
• Animal rights agencies fear pit bulls will be abandoned or deserted when the new Ontario law banning pitbulls comes into effect.(CTV)
• Newfoundland and Labrador bait service loses millions of dollars.(CTV)

August 26, 2005

• The Snowbirds are grounded after the August 24 crash in Thunder Bay, Ontario.(CTV)
• Crew extinguishes fire in vessel off Nova Scotia coast.(CTV)
• An anti-violence activist is gunned down in Toronto.(CTV)
• Canada joins NASA's underwater mission.(CTV)
• Rising fuel prices boosting interest in Smart cars.(CTV)
• A statue is unveiled in honour of four Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers killed in a Mayerthorpe, Alberta incident.(CTV)
• Canada, U.S. wage war of words over U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• Dutch shipping company Biglift Goedkoop B.V. is fined $70,000 dollars for violating the Canada Shipping Act.(CBC)
• The British Columbia Marijuana Party leader says if he goes to jail in the United States, he will die there.(CBC)

August 25, 2005

• Prime Minister Martin vows Quebec will not be ignored in the next election.(CTV)
• The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from terrorist suspect Adil Charkaoui.(CTV)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other police raid Norbourg Asset Management Inc. offices in Toronto and Montreal after allegations of fraud. (CTV)
• A Sikh group files a complaint over hard hat wearing, with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, against the Canadian Pacific Railway.(CTV)
• A gas leak prompts an emergency evacuation in Saint John, New Brunswick.(CTV)
• Governor General-designate Michaëlle Jean popularity slips due to the Quebec sovereignty controversy.(CTV)
• Ontario's Ministry of Community and Social Services pledges $2.5 million dollars to domestic violence agencies.(CTV)

August 24, 2005

• A Snowbirds pilot ejects safely after his plane crashes, in Thunder Bay, Ontario.(CTV)
• Karla Homolka's former employer claims to have proof she violated her court ordered conditions.(CTV)
• Prime Minister Martin waits to challenge U.S. President George W. Bush on the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• The Prime Minister apologizes for the treatment of Ukrainian Canadians during the First World War when about 5,000 were placed in internment camps.(CTV)
• Top police officers call for greater sharing of intelligence.(CTV)
• Anger mounts in New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine as plans by two American companies are to build two natural gas processing plants.(CTV)

August 23, 2005

• Two lawsuits against the Ontario government regarding its handling of the 2003 SARS outbreak, is approved to go ahead by Ontario Superior Court of Justice Justice Maurice Cullity.(CBC)

August 21, 2005

• Liberals meet in Western Canada at caucus meeting.(CTV)
• Former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada James Jerome, dies.(CTV)
• British Columbia mortgages alleged serial killer Robert Pickton's land for $10 million dollars.(CTV)

August 20, 2005

• A Canadian man is killed in Haiti while trying to flee from kidnappers.(CBC)
• United States Vice President Dick Cheney to attend Fraser Institute dinner in Calgary.(CBC)
• Airport security workers security system debuts, after three years.(CBC)

August 19, 2005

• Ottawa appoints 10 new Ambassadors from Canada.(CBC)
• Former New Brunswick cabinet minister Vaughn Blaney leads team into CFB Gagetown to investigate claims of Agent Orange being used.(CBC)
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police decides not to press criminal charges against former employees of Hollinger International.(CBC)
• Canadian Forces in Khandahar open-fire on a vehicle.(CBC)
• The Ontario government announces funding for 50 additional midwives.(CBC)

August 18, 2005

• Assaulted daughter pleads to keep her father out of jail.(CBC)
• The Canadian Medical Association announces its support for a two-tiered healthcare system.(CBC)
• The Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear a case brought forth by four fathers forced to pay back child support.(CTV)
• The United States Ambassador to Canada urges more talks in the US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)
• HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337) is deployed to the Canadian Arctic to prohibit illegal fishing and to reassert sovereignty in the North.(CTV)
• Alberta police make record ecstasy drug bust.(CTV)
• Ottawa police begin issuing e-tickets.(CTV)

August 17, 2005

• Two dead after police chase in London, Ontario.(CBC)
• A Nova Scotia man appears in court on double murder charges in an August 15 arrest.(CBC)
• A Canadian man is arrested on an American Amtrak train in Ohio after exposing himself and going through passengers' luggage.(CBC)

August 15, 2005

• A lockout of 5,500 CBC employees, represented by the Canadian Media Guild, goes into effect at 12:01 AM.(CBC)
• A Canadian man is abducted and killed in Iraq.(CBC)
• A man convicted in the April 1999 Taber, Alberta school shootings escapes from open custody in Toronto.(CBC)
• The inquiry into the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard is extended into 2006.(CBC)
• Canadian Blood Services drops restrictions on blood donors from Britain and France.(CBC)
• WestJet follows Air Canada by putting a fuel tax on airfares.(CTV)
• Police investigate a double murder near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia.(CTV)
• Two Canadian women are injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the Sinai region of Egypt.(CTV)
• Conservative leader Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff becomes another casualty to be forced out of the party.(CTV)
• Pre-trial hearings resume in Robert Pickton case.(CTV)

August 14, 2005

• CN Rail is given a Monday deadline to clean up the Wabamun Lake oil spill.(CBC)

• Fisheries and Oceans Canada approves bowhead whale hunting in Nunavut community.(CBC)

August 12, 2005

• Hundreds pay last respects to Smokey Smith.(CTV)
• The RCMP decides there will be no criminal investigation into the actions of Gurmant Grewal.(CTV)
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali urges Canadian Muslims to reject Islamic law, Sharia. (CTV)
• Canada threatens sanctions against the United States for ignoring the decision by the NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee which favoured Canada.(CTV)
• Canada's Premiers demand the Governor General-designate express her views regarding Quebec sovereignty.(CTV)
• A 15-year-old murder is solved but the killer's identity is kept secret from victim's family - family outraged.(CTV)
• Ontario to help hire 1,500 new police officers in response to recent surge in Toronto violent crimes rise.(CTV)

August 11, 2005

• Justice Canada stiffens penalty against crystal meth, increasing the maximum penalty from 10 years in prison to a life sentence.(CBC)
• StatCan: Significantly fewer Canadian women are smoking.(CBC)

August 10, 2005

• The Canada Revenue Agency will spend $30 million more to capture foreign tax haven users.(CBC)
• 1 person killed in southern Alberta oil well explosion,(CTV)
• A bus collides with trucks in Alberta, 8 injured.(CTV)
• The Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan begin patrol of Kandahar streets.(CTV)
• NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee panel sides with Canada in US - Canada softwood lumber dispute.(CTV)

August 8, 2005

• The Transportation Safety Board investigation into the cause of the Air France Flight 358 crash rules out mechanical failure.(CBC)
• Northwestern Ontario records 57 new forest fires, bringing total to 130.(CBC)
• Montreal Transit Corporation increases security by installing 1,200 new surveillance cameras in the Montreal Metro System. (CBC)
• Canada and Denmark plan September 2005 to discuss Hans Island territorial dispute.(CBC)

August 6, 2005

• A train derailment causes sodium hydroxide to spill into the Cheakamus River, just north of Vancouver,(CBC)

August 5, 2005

• A memorial for the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.(CBC)
• Data is retrieved from the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 358.(CBC)
• Canada develops its own no-fly list.(CBC)

August 2, 2005

• Air France Flight 358 slides off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport and bursts into flames in a nearby ravine. All 309 passengers and crew on board survive.
• Five new Senators are appointed, including: former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Chief of Staff Hugh Segal, former Quebec MP Andrée Champagne, Dennis Dawson of Quebec and Winnipeg businessman Rod Zimmer.(CTV)

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