1995 in Canada

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II (consort – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Federal government

• Governor general – Ray Hnatyshyn (until February 8) then Roméo LeBlanc (viceregal consort – Gerda Hnatyshyn then Diana Fowler)
• Prime minister – Jean Chrétien
• Chief Justice – Antonio Lamer (Quebec)
• Parliament – 35th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

January to March

• January 5 – Rogers Communications withdraws the unpopular negative option billing system after wide-scale consumer protest.
• January 7 – The opening of Parliament is televised for the first time.
• January 18 – A video of the Canadian Airborne Regiment's brutal hazing rituals is made public.
• January 23 – As a result of the Somalia Affair and the hazing video, the Airborne Regiment is disbanded.
• January 23 – Guy Paul Morin's conviction for murder that had seen him jailed for 11 years is overturned.
• February 21 – The inquiry into the April 1994 uprising in the Kingston Prison For Women rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down.
• February 23 – American President Bill Clinton addresses Parliament.
• March 9 – As part of Brian Tobin's Turbot War Canadian officials seize the Spanish trawler the Estai.
• March 15 – Former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan is charged with child abuse.
• March 18 – March 27 – A major rail strike occurs; the workers are eventually legislated back to work.
• March 20 – Erichs Tobias is accused of war crimes.
• March 27 – Bell Canada announces major job cuts.
• March 31 – Perrin Beatty appointed head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

April to June

• April – Chapters is officially incorporated.
• April 9 – Steve Stavro buys Maple Leaf Gardens from Harold Ballard's estate.
• April 16 – The Turbot War ends as Canada and the European Union reach an agreement.
• April 20 – A pipe bomb explodes outside Province House in Prince Edward Island.^[1]
• May 18 – The trial of Paul Bernardo begins.
• May 31 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announce a $1 million reward in Air India flight 182 case and restarts its investigation.
• June 6 – Labatt is sold to a Belgian company.
• June 8 – Ontario election: Mike Harris's PCs win a majority, defeating Bob Rae's NDP.
• June 9 – Floods in Medicine Hat, Alberta force the evacuation of over 5000 people.
• June 13 – A strict new gun control law is passed banning most handguns and forcing all rifles to be registered.
• June 15 – June 17 – The G7 meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• June 21 – Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a second consecutive majority.
• June 28 – Mike Harris becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Bob Rae.

July to September

• July 17 – Christine Silverberg becomes Canada's first female police chief when she is promoted to that position in Calgary.
• July 20 – In Hill v. Church of Scientology of mexico the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award.
• July 27 – Thomson Corp. agrees to sell 27 Canadian newspapers to Hollinger Inc..
• August 1 – Popular Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith is shot in the parking lot of CJOH by escaped mental patient Jeffrey Arenburg; Smith dies in hospital the following day.
• August 11 – The first fatal accident aboard a Toronto Transit Commission subway kills three.
• September 1 – Paul Bernardo is found guilty of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
• September 6 – The government announces plans to sell off most of its remaining holdings in Petro-Canada.

October to December

• October 14 – Alexa McDonough is elected head of the New Democratic Party, replacing Audrey McLaughlin.
• October 24 – The James Bay Cree vote 96.3% in favour of their territory remaining part of Canada in the event of Quebec sovereignty.
• October 27 – A massive rally is held in Montreal by the No side in the referendum.
• October 30 – The 1995 Quebec referendum is held on sovereignty. The No side narrowly wins.
• October 31 – Newfoundland passes a constitutional amendment to overhaul its school system.
• November 4 – Radarsat, Canada's first observation satellite is launched.
• November 5 – André Dallaire breaks into 24 Sussex Drive and the Prime Minister fends him off with an Inuit sculpture.
• November 5 – Paul Bernardo is declared a dangerous offender, meaning he will be ineligible for parole.
• November 11 – Journalist Judy Steed, in a conference speech, attacks the chair of Ryerson University's journalism program for employing Gerald Hannon as a part-time instructor; the controversy spans the next three weeks.
• November 15 – British Columbia premier announces his resignation because of the bingogate scandal.
• November 20 – Former PM Brian Mulroney sues the government over the Airbus Affair.
• November 22 – Don Morin becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing Nellie Cournoyea.
• November 23 – Jean Chrétien unveils a law that would give each of Canada's four regions a constitutional veto. The West complains that it deserves more than one.
• November 28 – Canadian National Railway, the nation's largest Crown corporation and one of the largest state-run enterprises in the industrialized world is privatized.
• December – Representatives of aboriginal peoples gather and issue the Sacred Assembly Proclamation; from this was developed the Reconciliation Proclamation and the Statement of Principles and Priorities.
• December 6 – Canada agrees to send 1000 peacekeepers to Bosnia.
• December 11 – Voters in what will become Nunavut select Iqaluit as the capital of the new territory.
• December 20 – Lieutenant General Jean Boyle becomes Chief of the Defence Staff.
• December 21 – The Krever Commission holds its final hearings.
• December 28 – Premier of Newfoundland Clyde Wells announces his retirement.

New books

• bill bissett – Th influenza uv logik
• Ann-Marie MacDonald – The Arab's Mouth
• Douglas Coupland – Microserfs
• Stevie Cameron – On the Take
• Dave Duncan – The Hunters' Haunt
• Antonine Maillet – La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux
• Farley Mowat – Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World
• Timothy Findley – The Piano Man's Daughter

Music

• Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill released
• Shania Twain's The Woman in Me released
• Ashley MacIsaac, Hi™ How Are You Today?
• Susan Aglukark, This Child
• Art Bergmann, What Fresh Hell is This?

Television

• April 26 – Direct-to-home satellite television is made legal in Canada.
• Long running quiz show Front Page Challenge is cancelled by the CBC

Film

• Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is released.

January to March

• January 3 – Victoria Duffield, singer, actress and dancer
• January 18 – Margaret Purdy, pair skater
• January 24 – Dylan Everett, actor
• January 27 – Madeline Gardiner, artistic gymnast
• February 2
  • Fraser Aird, footballer
  • Curtis Lazar, ice hockey player
  • Darnell Nurse, ice hockey defenceman
• February 8 – Jordan Todosey, actress
• February 23 – Andrew Wiggins, high school basketball player
• March 2
  • Max Domi, ice hockey player
  • Matthew Di Leo, racing driver
  • Morgan Klimchuk, ice hockey player
• March 5 – Zhao Kai Pang, ice dancer
• March 8 – Avery Tiplady, actor
• March 22 – Nicolas Petan, ice hockey player
• March 23 – Jan Lisiecki, pianist
• March 27 – Laurent Dauphin, ice hockey player
• March 28
  • Jonathan Drouin, ice hockey forward
  • Josh Morrissey, ice hockey defenceman

April to June

• April 5 – Bo Horvat, ice hockey player
• April 11 – Erin Routliffe, New Zealand-born tennis player
• April 13 – Shavon John-Brown, footballer
• April 16 – Remi Elie, ice hockey player
• April 22 – Madison Bowey, ice hockey defenceman
• April 26
  • Frederik Gauthier, ice hockey player
  • Andréanne Poulin, ice dancer
• April 29 – Tristan Jarry, ice hockey goaltender
• May 9 – Dillon Heatherington, ice hockey defenceman
• May 12 – Talia Chiarelli, artistic gymnast
• May 28 – Zachary Fucale, ice hockey goalie
• May 29 – Jordan Ju, figure skater
• June 6 – Sadi Jalali, Indian-born soccer player
• June 5 – Natasha Purich, figure skater
• June 13 – Mikaela Gerber, artistic gymnast
• June 20 – Carol Zhao, Chinese-born tennis player
• June 29 – Nicholas Latifi, racing driver

July to September

• July 4 – Jason Dickinson, ice hockey player
• July 6 – Eric Comrie, ice hockey goaltender
• July 11 – Tyler Medeiros, dancer, singer and songwriter
• July 12 – Samuel Morin, ice hockey defenceman
• July 17 – Austin MacDonald, actor
• August 5 – Shea Theodore, ice hockey defenceman
• August 26 – Anthony Duclair, ice hockey player
• August 27 – Cainan Wiebe, actor
• September 1 – Nathan MacKinnon, ice hockey forward
• September 6 – Ty Wood, actor
• September 8 – Ellie Black, artistic gymnast

October to December

• October 12 – Lauren Dixon, actress
• October 25 – Conchita Campbell, actress
• November 6 – Sam Reinhart, ice hockey centre
• November 27 – Ricardo Hoyos, actor
• December 5 – Kaetlyn Osmond, figure skater

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Maillé, actor
• James Valitchka, novelist
• Sammy Yatim, murder victim (d. 2013)

January to June

• January 19 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
• January 28 – George Woodcock, poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historian (born 1912)
• February 23 – Murray Cotterill, trade union activist
• March 14 – John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar, jurist and human rights advocate (born 1905)
• April 23 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (born 1895)
• April 25 – Stuart Trueman, journalist and writer
• May 6 – John Black Aird, lawyer, politician and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1923)

July to September

• July 8 – George Johnson, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (born 1920)
• August 2 – Brian Smith, ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1940)
• August 25 – Francis Lawrence Jobin, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (born 1914)
• September 3 – Earle Birney, poet (born 1904)
• September 23 – Philip Gaglardi, politician (born 1913)
• September 30 – Jean-Luc Pépin, academic, politician and Minister (born 1924)

October to December

• October 17 – Herbert J. Smith, president of General Electric Canada
• October 26 – Lucie Cavoukian, photographer
• October 27 – Artin Cavoukian, photographer
• November 3 – Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (born 1887)
• November 11 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (born 1898)
• November 21 – Bruno Gerussi, actor and television presenter (born 1928)
• November 30 – Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (born 1922)
• December 2 – Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (born 1913)
• December 3 – Elsie Knott, first female band chief
• December 4 – Lionel Giroux, midget wrestler (born 1935)

Full date unknown

• Paul Collins, long-distance runner (born 1926)