Events from the year 2022 in Canada.
Incumbents
The Crown Monarch – Elizabeth II (until September 8), then Charles III
Federal government Governor General – Mary Simon Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau Parliament – 44th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Salma Lakhani Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Janet Austin Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Janice Filmon (until October 24); then Anita Neville Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Brenda Murphy Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Judy Foote Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Arthur LeBlanc Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Elizabeth Dowdeswell Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Antoinette Perry Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – J. Michel Doyon Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Russell Mirasty
Premiers Premier of Alberta – Jason Kenney (until October 11); then Danielle Smith Premier of British Columbia – John Horgan (until November 18); then David Eby Premier of Manitoba – Heather Stefanson Premier of New Brunswick – Blaine Higgs Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Andrew Furey Premier of Nova Scotia – Tim Houston Premier of Ontario – Doug Ford Premier of Prince Edward Island – Dennis King Premier of Quebec – François Legault Premier of Saskatchewan – Scott Moe
Territorial governments
Commissioners Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Margaret Thom Commissioner of Nunavut – Eva Aariak Commissioner of Yukon – Angélique Bernard
Premiers Premier of Northwest Territories – Caroline Cochrane Premier of Nunavut – P. J. Akeeagok Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver
Events
January January 3–9 – The 2022 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts and 2022 Boston Pizza Cup are held in Grande Prairie, Alberta, with Laura Walker winning the former and Kevin Koe winning the latter. January 3 – An official death toll from COVID-19 in Canada exceeds 30,000 people. January 5–9 – The 2022 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts is held in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, with Penny Barker winning the competition. January 7 – Conversion therapy becomes illegal in the country. January 10 – The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Canada exceeds 55,350 people for the first time since the pandemic begin, fueled by highly transmissible Deltacron hybrid variant. January 13 – An explosion kills six people in an industrial suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. January 14: The number of daily COVID-19 Deltacron infections has peaked in Canada. Analog service is discontinued for all TV stations. January 19 – The four members of the Patel family froze to death near Emerson, Manitoba. January 22–February 23 – The Freedom Convoy, a series of protests over vaccination mandates, occurs throughout the country.
February February 2 – Erin O'Toole is removed as the leader of the Conservative Party. He was ousted after losing a leadership review from the party's MPs. Candice Bergen is chosen as the party's interim leader. February 5 – The 2022 British Columbia Liberal Party leadership election is held. Kevin Falcon is declared the winner. February 6 – The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Canada occurs. February 14 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history, in response to the Freedom Convoy. February 15: Villa de Pitanxo, a Spanish fishing trawler, capsizes off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, killing 21 people. 2022 Athabasca provincial by-election - The Saskatchewan Party wins a seat in Northern Saskatchewan for the first time. February 18 – Ryan Meili announces his pending resignation as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. He will stay on as leader, until his successor is chosen. February 23 – The Emergencies Act is revoked by Justin Trudeau as the Freedom Convoy movement ends.
March March 10 – In a data published by Statistics Canada, around 337,000 jobs have been added in February 2022, dropping the jobless rate down to 5.5 per cent, the lowest in Canada since February 2020, a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. March 27 – The Canada men's national soccer team defeated Jamaica to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, ending a 36-year drought since the first and only time Canada played in the FIFA World Cup, in 1986.
April April 12 – The National Hockey League announces that the upcoming Winnipeg Jets game against the Seattle Kraken, originally scheduled for April 13, has been postponed to May 1 as a winter storm sweeps through the southern area of Manitoba.
May May 6 – After a 23-game winning streak, Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, loses on Jeopardy! to Danielle Maurer. Roach won a total of $560,983 (US). , she was the most successful Canadian to play on the show and ranks 5th in all-time regular season wins. May 12 – An official death toll from COVID-19 in Canada exceeds 40,000 people since the start of the pandemic. May 14 – The Toronto Maple Leafs lose game 7, 2-1, to the Tampa Bay Lightning, extending the Stanley Cup championship drought to 55 years. The drought surpasses the New York Rangers 54-year drought. May 15 – The Juno Awards of 2022 are held in Toronto, Ontario. May 17–19 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall tour the country. The tour mainly focuses on reconciliation with Indigenous people. May 19 – The first case of monkeypox was confirmed in Toronto. May 21 – An extreme derecho formed in Sarnia, Ontario and continued through the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, causing widespread power outages and damage, affecting 900,000 people, and killing 11. May 24 – Quebec's French Language Bill 96 is adopted, with 78 MNAs in favour (from the CAQ and Québec solidaire) and 29 against (from the Liberal Party and Parti Québécois).
June June 2 – The 2022 Ontario general election is held, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a majority government. Andrea Horwath announces her pending resignation as the leader of the New Democratic Party. Steven Del Duca also announces his pending resignation as the leader of the Liberal Party. June 13 – Alek Minassian, the perpetrator of the Toronto van attack, is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. June 14 – Canada and Denmark end their competing claims for Hans Island by dividing the island roughly in half ending what was referred to as the Whisky War. June 16 – Two Canadian venues – BC Place in Vancouver and BMO Field in Toronto – were announced by FIFA as two of the sixteen venues for the 2026 World Cup. June 28 – A shootout occurs between two suspects and responding police officers following a botched robbery of a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, British Columbia. Both suspects are killed by police, while six officers are injured.
July July 8 – Telecom provider Rogers Communications experiences a major service outage, affecting more than 12 million users. July 24–29 – Pope Francis visits the country, stopping at Edmonton in Alberta, Quebec City in Quebec, and Iqaluit in Nunavut. July 25 – Multiple shootings occur in Langley, British Columbia. Three people were killed, including the perpetrator, while two others were injured.
August August 6 – Susan Holt wins the 2022 New Brunswick Liberal Association leadership election."Susan Holt elected as New Brunswick Liberal leader". CBC News New Brunswick, August 6, 2022.
September September 4 – A stabbing spree occurs in Saskatchewan, killing 11 people and injuring 18 others. September 8–18 – The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival is held. September 8 – Charles III becomes King of Canada following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. September 10 – Charles III is officially proclaimed King of Canada at a ceremony at Rideau Hall. September 10 – Pierre Poilievre wins the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, becoming the leader of the Conservative Party and the leader of the Official Opposition. September 19 – A national day of mourning occurs in Canada for the late Queen Elizabeth II with a federal holiday and a National Commemorative Service in Ottawa. September 19 – Canadian representatives attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London. September 26 – Nathaniel Teed wins the 2022 Saskatoon Meewasin provincial by-election.
October
October 3 – The Coalition Avenir Québec wins a majority government in the 2022 Quebec general election. October 13: Bill Hogan becomes Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development in the Executive Council of New Brunswick, replacing Dominic Cardy who resigned. The 2022 British Columbia municipal elections are held. October 20 – Travis Patron, former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, is sentenced to one year in jail for wilfully promoting hatred against Jewish people and ordered to refrain from posting about them for a year after the sentence ends. October 24 – The 2022 Ontario municipal elections are held.
November November 19 – Elizabeth May wins the 2022 Green Party of Canada leadership election, becoming the leader of the Green Party again since resigning in 2019. November 20 – The 109th Grey Cup Game in Regina, Saskatchewan, was won by the Toronto Argonauts, 24–23, against two-time defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
December December 6 – The Coalition Avenir Québec led by François Legault government tables a bill that would make Oath of Allegiance to the King optional for MNAs. December 8 – The Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, which grants the cabinet of Alberta the ability to nullify national laws, passes the Albertan legislature by a party line vote of 27–7, following significant opposition by the Alberta New Democratic Party and Indigenous chiefs. December 9 – The Coalition Avenir Québec government bill that would make the Oath of Allegiance optional for MNAs passes unanimously. December 18 A mass shooting occurs in a condominium tower in Vaughan, Ontario. Six people are killed, including the perpetrator.Victims in Vaughan, Ont., mass shooting include 3 members of condo board, police say Eight teenage girls fatally stab one man in Toronto. December 20 – Single-use plastics are banned from being manufactured or imported in the country.
Unspecified date 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution
Deaths
January January 1 – Barbara Chilcott, actress (b. 1922) January 2 – John Efford, politician (b. 1944) January 4 – Darwin Semotiuk, football coach and professor of kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario (b. 1945) January 6 Larry Haylor, football coach (b. 1946) Jo Manning, etcher, painter, and author (b. 1923) Murray Peden, Air Force pilot, lawyer, and author (b. 1923) January 7 Amanda Asay, baseball and ice hockey player (b. 1988) Harpdog Brown, vocalist and harmonica player (b. 1962) Tom Corston, Anglican bishop (b. 1949) Raymond Malenfant, businessman (b. 1930) Eberhard Zeidler, German-born architect (b. 1926) January 8 – Frank Hasenfratz, Hungarian-born businessman who founded and owned the car parts maker Linamar (b. 1935) January 10 – Ian Greenberg, businessman and media pioneer (b. 1942) January 11 Vince Fontaine, musician (b. 1962 or 1963) Phil Samis, ice hockey player (b. 1927) January 12 – William Hogan, politician (b. 1937) January 14 Sean Rice, figure skater (b. 1972) Edward Roberts, politician (b. 1940) January 15 Jean-Claude Lord, film director and screenwriter (b. 1943) Alexa McDonough, politician (b. 1944) January 16 – Michael Brecher, political scientist and teacher (b. 1925) January 17 – Karim Ouellet, Senegalese-born singer-songwriter (b. 1984) January 19 Sonya Biddle, actress and politician (b. 1957) Randy Boyd, ice hockey player (b. 1962) January 21 – Clark Gillies, ice hockey player (b. 1954) January 23 – Guy Saint-Pierre, politician and businessman (b. 1934) January 25 – Jean-Claude Corbeil, linguist and lexicographer (b. 1932) January 29