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Decade of Canada
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It's been a turbulent decade in Canada. From the drama of three consecutive minority governments to the pandemic fears from two international health crises to the rising death toll of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, headlines from coast-to-coast have been anything but dull. CTV.ca looks back at 50 of the people, places and events that left a lasting impression on Canadians since the millennium. Warning: Some images may disturb sensitive viewers.
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Female Chief Justice
Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, the first female to hold the position, laughs at comments made about her during her swearing-in ceremony at the Supreme Court in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 17, 2000.
Tom Hanson/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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E.coli outbreak
Five-year-old Tamara Smith lies with her teddy bear as she is taken to an evacuation helicopter at the South Grey Bruce Health Centre in Walkerton, Ont. on Thursday, May 25, 2000. Officials in charge of the contaminated water supply did not realize the potential danger of E. coli when they failed to warn residents of this small farming town not to drink the water. Seven people died.
Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Rocket Richard dies
A fan pays his respects to hockey legend Maurice “Rocket” Richard during the public viewing at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Tuesday, May 30, 2000. Richard died following a two-year battle with stomach cancer.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Trudeau dies
Justin Trudeau breaks down on his father's casket after reading the eulogy during the state funeral for former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000 in Montreal.
Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Violent protest
A masked bagpiper plays his way through water from police cannons as other protesters are sprayed outside the site of the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City on Saturday, April 21, 2001.
Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Dion's baby
Singer Celine Dion holds her six-month-old son Rene-Charles, her first child, after his baptism at Notre-Dame Bascilica in Montreal on Wednesday, July 25, 2001. The ceremony for six-month-old Rene-Charles combined a baptism, confirmation and first communion. It took place in the same church where Dion and Angelil were married in 1994.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Afghan mission begins
A Canadian sniper from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry stands with his equipment in full camouflage as he holds a C-3 rifle at the airbase in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2002. The precision marksmen are trained in the art of camouflage and movements in enemy territory.
Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Canada wins gold
Team Canada's goalie Martin Brodeur celebrates the team's fifth goal by fellow player Joe Sakic during the third period of the men’s hockey gold medal final at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in West Valley City, Utah, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002. Canada won 5-2.
Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Pope in Toronto
Pope John Paul II has his skull cap, right, blow off in the wind as he exits his plane upon his arrival at Pearson Airport in Toronto on Tuesday, July 23, 2002, as the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics arrived to take part in his beloved World Youth Day.
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Kyoto signed
Prime Minister Jean Chretien finishes putting his signature to Canada's instrument of the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol during a ceremony in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 16, 2002.
Fred Chartrand / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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SARS outbreak
A man wears a protective mask as he carries a bouquet of flowers at Women's College Hospital in Toronto on Friday, March 28, 2003.
Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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SARS Relief concert
An aerial view of the SARS relief concert at Downsview Park in Toronto on Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The large outdoor performance by 15 bands, headlined by the Rolling Stones, attracted over 400,000 people. The event was conceived to help kickstart the SARS ravaged Toronto economy.
J.P. Moczulski / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Same sex marriage
Same sex couple Heather Gass, right, and Lisa Lachance share a moment outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, June 10, 2003, following a news conference regarding the Ontario Court of Appeal judgment on same-sex marriage.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Marijuana protest
Don Appleby, a marijuana prescription holder, smokes a joint on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, July 29, 2003 as he protests the government's restrictions in its proposed marijuana legislation.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Toronto blackout
A couple enjoys a candlelight dinner at a downtown Toronto restaurant on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003, during a major power failure. Some 50 million North Americans suddenly lost their power and learned to briefly live without light, television and all the other energy-sucking conveniences that have become staples of modern life. Surprisingly, a great many found they loved living in the dark and vowed to change their lifestyles.
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B.C. fires
People gather at Marina Park near Kelowna, B.C. to watch flames across Lake Okanagan creeping closer to Mission area homes on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003. Thousands were forced to evacuate and more than 200 homes were destroyed as wildfires raged.
Kelowna Daily Courier, Gary Nylander / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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D-Day anniversary
A Canadian veteran marks the 60th anniversary the of D-Day landings on Juno Beach, Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, Sunday, June 6, 2004.
Mike Large / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Chicoutimi sub fire
HMCS Chicoutimi rests on the syncrolift after being removed from the harbour in Halifax, N.S., Canada on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2006. The One sailor died and eight others were injured as a result of the incident that left the used sub adrift for days on the stormy North Atlantic.
Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bush and Martin meet
U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Paul Martin look in opposite directions during a photo opportunity upon Bush's arrival at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004.
Tom Hanson/ THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Sponsorship scandal
Former prime minister Jean Chretien displays a golf ball during his testimony at the Gomery Inquiry in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Mayerthorpe
From left, RCMP Cpl. Joan Kuyp, RCMP Const. Joe Sangster, RCMP Const. Bethany Hoskin, and RCMP Const. Jason Lapointe, the headdress-bearers, cry during a national memorial service in Edmonton on Thursday, March 10, 2005 for four RCMP officers killed in Mayerthorpe, Alta. the line of duty.
Larry MacDougal / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Seal hunt
A seal hunter walks along a path of blood on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Friday, April 1, 2005.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Trudeau gets hitched
Justin Trudeau, son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, leaves with his new bride Sophie Gregoire in his father's 1959 Mercedes 300 SEL after their marriage ceremony in Montreal, Saturday, May 28, 2005.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Live8 concert
A fan is thrown in the air during the band Jet's performance at the Canadian Live8 concert in Barrie, Ont. on Saturday, July 2, 2005.
Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Karla Homolka
A salesman watches an interview with Karla Homolka on television station RDI in Montreal, Monday, July 4, 2005. Homolka, the notorious ex-wife of convicted serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, was whisked quietly away from the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines prison north of Montreal earlier Monday afternoon after serving her entire 12-year sentence for manslaughter in the sex slayings of two Ontario teenagers.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Toronto plane crash
Drivers watch as an Air France plane burns after sliding off the runway during a landing at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. More than 300 people escaped with their lives, some stumbling to a nearby highway to flag down passing commuters, after the jet skidded off the runway and then burst into flames during a fierce thunderstorm at the airport.
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Martin’s roast
Then Prime Minister Paul Martin gestures during his speech at the annual press gallery dinner in Gatineau, Que. on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Kashechewan evacuations
Kenny Wynne rides his bike along a road on the Kashechewan native reserve in northern Ontario, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the community due to poor water conditions.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Harper elected
Conservative leader Stephen Harper kisses his wife Laureen after winning the federal election, Monday, Jan.23, 2006 in Calgary.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Harper's handshake
Prime minister-designate Stephen Harper shakes hands with his son Ben while daughter Rachel looks on as he sees them off to school in Ottawa, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006.
Fred Chartrand / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bandidos biker murders
A body sits in the back of a car in the area where eight men were found dead inside four vehicles near Shedden, Ont. on Saturday, April 8, 2006. The grisly spectacle shattered the pastoral tranquility of this quiet village known as Ontario's rhubarb capital, about 30 kilometres southwest of London, near St. Thomas, and sent shocked residents in search of answers.
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Harper budget
Six-and-a-half-year-old Solomon Buster Sitar squeezes Prime Minister Stephen Harper's nose at the Willingdon Heights Community Centre in Burnaby, B.C. on Tuesday, April 18, 2006. The prime minister announced that his universal child care plan will be part of his government's budget.
Chuck Stoody / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Lebanon evacuation
Canadian nationals wait to be evacuated on six chartered passenger ships that were positioned off the coast, at Beirut seaport, in Lebanon, Wednesday, July 19, 2006. Over 14,000 Canadians stranded in the crossfire of Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities were rescued from the region.
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MacKay and Condi
Then Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay reaches for his wallet as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepares to pay at a Tim Horton's coffee shop in Pictou, Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006. The beverages were on the house.
Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Dawson College
Police evacuate students during a shooting incident at Dawson College in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. One person was killed and twenty wounded when a man dressed all in black began firing inside the Montreal college.
Peter McCabe / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Afghan casualty
Cpl. Dina Trussler, ex-wife of Cpl. Glen Harold Arnold, comforts her daughter Samantha Payne as his casket is carried to a hearse at the repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ont. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006. Four soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan.
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Laval overpass collapse
Rescue workers survey the site of an overpass that collapsed onto autoroute 19 in Laval, Que., Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006. Five people were killed.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Roadside bomb
A Canadian soldier who was injured in the same attack that killed his comrades salutes during ramp ceremonies for Master Cpl. Allan Stewart and Trooper Patrick James Pentland at the base in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Friday, April 13, 2007. A roadside bomb killed the two Canadians who were both from New Brunswick and based with the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Petawawa, Ont.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Conrad Black trial
Conrad Black gives the finger to a member of the media as he arrives at the courthouse for his fraud trial in Chicago, Tuesday, July 10, 2007. The judge in Black's fraud trial had to order a deadlocked jury back to work after they informed the court they couldn't reach a verdict on all the counts before them.
Dave Chidley / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bountiful, B.C.
Winston Blackmore, the religious leader of the polygamous community of Bountiful located near Creston, B.C. shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren, Monday, April 21, 2008 near Creston, B.C.
Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bus beheading
RCMP officers investigate a ‘major incident’ that occured on a Greyhound bus Thursday morning, July 31, 2008 about 18 kilometres west of Portage La Prairie, Man. A passenger was stabbed then decapitated onboard the bus late Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
John Woods / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Market crashes
News photographers shoot an electronic board displaying the closing value of the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. A rally at the end of the day somewhat reduced earlier gut-wrenching losses on the Toronto stock market Monday, with the S&P/TSX composite index closing down 572.92 points after earlier plunging almost 1,200 points.
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Dion resigns
Liberal leader Stephane Dion talks with reporters at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Dion announced he would resign as Liberal leader but stay on until a leadership convention was held to select a new leader.
Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Obama in Ottawa
U.S. President Barack Obama thanks shop workers after he got some Canadian Maple Leaf cookies, seen in display case, during an unannounced visit to a market in Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009.
AP / Charles Dharapak
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Highway of Heroes
Supporters stand on a bridge in Whitby, Ont. as limousines carrying the families four fallen soldiers pass on Monday, March 23, 2009. All four soldiers were based at CFB Petawawa.
Doug Ives / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tamil demonstration
Riot police stand in front of Tamil demonstrators after the protestors successfully blocked the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto on Sunday, May 10, 2009. They were holding a sit-down protest on the highway with many linking arms and chanting “No More Genocide,'' a reference to the civil war in their native Sri Lanka.
Darren Calabrese / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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GG eats seal meat
Governor General Michaelle Jean, middle, uses an ulu to skin a seal during a community feast in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, on Monday, May 25, 2009.
Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Canadians in space
Canadian Space Agency astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk pose for a photo in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station on July 28, 2009. The space shuttle Endeavour docked with the station on Friday, July 17, 2009, marking the first time two Canadian astronauts were in space at the same time.
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Stafford disappearance
Victoria Stafford's father Rodney Stafford walks in Victoria Park in Woodstock, Ont., after he spoke to the media on Monday, July 20, 2009. Police later confirmed that remains found in a rural area northeast of Woodstock, Ont., were those of eight-year-old ‘Tori,’ who went missing on April 8.
Dave Chidley / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Swine flu
People lineup to get their H1N1 vaccination Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 in St. Eustache, Que. Waiting times of seven hours were common as vaccination centres were overwhelmed by the demand.
Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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