Events from the year 2015 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant Governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Premiers
Events
January to April
- January 1 - A shooting results in the death of one person and injuries to six people in Killarney, Calgary with police making no arrests.
- January 15 - Target Corporation announces they will discontinue operations in Canada. Over 130 stores and over 17,000 workers are affected.
- February 14 - A 100-car train carrying crude oil derails approximately 30 kilometres from Gogama, Ontario.
- February 15 - 50th anniversary of the National Flag of Canada
- 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 five others were hospitalized. A second child died in hospital.
- February 25 - A house burned to the ground near Kane, which is about 25 km west of Morris, Manitoba. Four children under the age of 15 were killed in the fire.
- March 8 - Three weeks after the February 14 train derailment near Gogama, Ontario, 35 Canadian National Railway cars derail at a site four kilometres from the town, spilling crude into the Makami River and igniting a fire that takes several days to extinguish. The two incidents spark renewed debate on the effectiveness of Canada's rail safety regulations in the wake of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013.
- March 16 - John Baird, the former Conservative cabinet minister and the MP for Ottawa WestâÂÂNepean, resigns his seat.
- March 26 - With the enactment of the United Kingdom's Succession to the Crown Act 2013, and assent from Canada's Succession to the Throne Act, 2013, the succession to the Canadian throne is changed from eldest son to eldest child for royals born after October 28, 2011.
- March 30 - Canadian Parliament votes to extend the mission to targets in Syria.
- March 31 - James Lunney, Conservative MP for NanaimoâÂÂAlberni leaves the Conservative Party caucus to sit as an independent, citing concerns about religious freedom.
- April 8 - Canadian airstrike operations in Syria begin, with an airstrikes on ISIL garrison near Raqqa.
May to November
Sport
- December 26, 2014, to January 5 â 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Montreal and Toronto
- January 19 to 25 â 2015 Canadian Figure Skating Championships â Kingston, Ontario
- January 24 to February 1 â 2015 Canadian Junior Curling Championships â Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
- February 14 to 22 â 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts â Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- February 13 to March 1 â 2015 Canada Winter Games â Prince George, British Columbia
- February 28 to March 8 â 2015 Tim Hortons Brier â Calgary, Alberta
- March 28 to April 5 â 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship â Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 2015 CFL draft
- May 31 - Oshawa Generals won their Fifth Memorial Cup by defeating the Kelowna Rockets 2 to 1. The Tournament was played at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Quebec
- 2015 Canadian Grand Prix
- June 6 to July 5 â 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Edmonton, Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Winnipeg
- June 15 - Winnipeg's Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
- June 20 â David Lemieux becomes the first Canadian to win the International Boxing Federation middleweight Championship by defeating Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
- June 26 to July 5 â 2015 ISF Men's World Championship â Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- July 10 to 26 â 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto amongst others
- 2015 SportsCar Grand Prix
- July 26 â Canadian Open â Quebec
- 2015 Honda Indy Toronto
- 2015 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships â Edmonton
- August 7 to 14 â 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto amongst others
- August 22 to 30 â Canada at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China
- November 28 - UBC Thunderbirds won their Fourth Vanier Cup by defeating the Montreal Carabins 31 to 26 in the 52nd Grey Cup played at Telus Stadium in Quebec City
- November 29 â Edmonton Eskimos won their Fourteenth Grey Cup by defeating the Ottawa Redblacks 26 to 20 in the 103rd Grey Cup played at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg. Markham, Ontario's Shamawd Chambers is awarded Most Outstanding Canadian
Arts and literature
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- January 1 - Eric Cunningham, 65, politician, Ontario MPP for Wentworth North (1975âÂÂ1984) (born 1949).
- January 5
- Jim Burton, 53, ice hockey player (Hershey Bears) and coach, heart attack (born 1951).
- Dan Held, 53, ice hockey player (born 1951).
- January 7
- Gilbert Finn, 94, businessman, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1987âÂÂ1994) (born 1920).
- J. P. Parisé, 73, ice hockey player, (Minnesota North Stars), lung cancer (born 1941).
- January 10 - Francis Simard, 67, revolution activist and criminal, aneurism (born 1947).
- January 16 - Ted Harrison, 88, painter (born 1926).
- January 17 - Don Harron, 90, comedian (born 1924).
- January 24 - Link Byfield, Canadian journalist and author (born 1951)
- January 27 - Joseph Rotman, 80, businessman and philanthropist
- January 31 - Vic Howe, 85, ice hockey player (New York Rangers), dementia and cardiac arrest (born 1929).
- April 4 - Elmer Lach, 97, ice hockey player (born 1918)
- April 6 - Dollard St. Laurent, 85, ice hockey player (born 1929)
- April 9 - Jurgen Gothe, 70 or 71, CBC Radio broadcaster (born 1944)
- April 26 - Marcel Pronovost, 84, ice hockey player, Hockey Hall of Famer
- April 30 - Steven Goldmann, 53, music video director and producer
- June 1 - Jacques Parizeau, 84, politician, Premier of Quebec 1994–1996 (born 1930)
- June 6 - John Coleman Laidlaw, 94, endocrinologist
- June 8 - Archie Alleyne, 82, jazz musician
- June 15 - Jean Doré, 70, politician, 39th Mayor of Montreal
- June 21 - Dave Godfrey, 76, writer and publisher
- June 23 - Domenico Moschella, 67, Montreal City Councillor
- August 2 - Phyllis Grosskurth, 91, biographer
- August 4 - Chris Hyndman, 49, television talk show host (Steven and Chris)
- August 14 - Joseph Reid, 97, politician
- August 15 - Derwyn Shea, 77, former Ontario MPP
- August 16 - Joan Fawcett, 78, former Ontario MPP
- August 24 - Marguerite McDonald, 73, CBC radio and television journalist
- August 28 - Al Arbour, ice hockey player, coach and executive, Hockey Hall of Famer
- August 29
- Graham Leggat, Scottish-Canadian soccer player and manager (b. 1934)
- Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1919)
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