

January 25, 2020
First recorded Covid case in Canada

May 3, 2020
Black Summer ends, Lake Clifton. 46,050,750 acres burnt

May 25, 2020
George Floyd murdered by Minneapolis police

March 11, 2020
Ontario’s first COVID-19 death

March 15, 2020
CERB benefits begin

March 23, 2020
Lockdown begins

March 18, 2020
Canadian border closes

May 18, 2020
130 countries sponsor first online World Health Assembly to combat COVID-19 together

March 12, 2020
Ontario schools shut down for two weeks

March 16, 2020
UofT moves classes online

May 26, 2020
BLM protests begin in America and spread to 60 countries

June 20, 2020
Peel Regional Police fatally shoot Ejaz Choudry

June 23, 2020
Canadian Art publishes Sean O’Neill’s article A Crisis of Whiteness in Canada’s Art Museums

July 2, 2020
Egyptian prisoner, Yasser Albaz returns to Canada

December 14, 2020
Canada’s first Covid vaccine administered (Quebec)

February 5, 2021
Kashmir Lockdown ends after 1 ½ years — longest in history

September 28, 2020
Racist nurses abuse and neglect Joyce Echaquan, causing her death (Quebec)

December 9, 2020
Health Canada authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

October 25, 2020
Ontario man dies after being shot over social distancing dispute

January 6, 2021
Trump supporters attack the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C

March 5, 2021
Mi'kmaq Chiefs denounce DFO regulations imposed on Indigenous fishery

August 9, 2020
First Day of Farmers' Protest, India

October 2, 2020
Ontario announces province-wide mask policy

March 16, 2021
String of Asian hate crimes begin with targeted shooting at three spas in Atlanta

June 6, 2021
Terrorist attack kills Muslim family in London, ON

May 15 2021
Palestinian movement in Toronto

June 1, 2021
750+ unmarked graves found at the Marieval Residential School

May 28, 2021
200 unmarked graves found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School

June 22, 2021
Homeless encampment clearings begin in Toronto

May 19, 2021
Texas bans abortion after 6 weeks

April 4, 2021
Hijab ban in Paris for girls under 18 years old

April 20, 2021
Quebec bans government workers from wearing religious symbols

May 1, 2021
Taliban takes control of Afghanistan

June 30, 2021
Town of Lytton, BC destroyed by wildfires

August 28, 2021
Toronto Tiny Shelters’s Khaleel Seivwright forced to step down due to legal fight with city

September 7, 2021
Ontario schools reopen with vaccination restrictions

September 20, 2021
Canadian Federal Election

September 22, 2021
Proof of vaccination is required to access certain settings in Ontario

November 19, 2021
Health Canada approves Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for children aged 5-11

December 28, 2021
41 Ontario long-term care homes with Covid outbreak

October 15, 2021
Premier Doug Ford announces plan to lift all Covid restrictions in March of 2022

November 17, 2021
B.C. government declares third state of emergency of 2021 due to extreme flooding

November 9, 2021
Climate Action Tracker report projects catastrophic 2.4°C rise in temperatures by 2030

November 26, 2021
WHO identifies and names Omicron as a variant of concern

September 30, 2021
Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Day

October 20, 2021
4 children killed by Syrian government on their way to school

December 31, 2021
Number of worldwide Covid-19 deaths reaches 5,456,645

January 22, 2022
DesignTO exhibition begins
