January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the fact that the town has no immigrant population.[2] The mayor and the municipal council approved a code of behavior for immigrants, which occurred in the context of a debate on "reasonable accommodation" for other cultures in Quebec.[3][4][5]
February 20 – The Canadian government, along with American billionaire Bill Gates, announce the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, a $139 million dollar plan to fight the AIDS virus.
March 13 – Canada 2006 Census data is released; the population of Canada in 2006 was 31,612,897. Notably, the census also indicates that for the first time in Canadian history, the three territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut) have a combined population of over 100,000.
July 13 – Conrad Black is found guilty on three charges of fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in Chicago.
July 19 – Jesse Imeson begins a murderous rampage in Ontario, prompting an international manhunt.
August – ditch, an on-line literary periodical is launched.[6]
August 8 – A suspect, Gaétan Bissonnette, was arrested in relation to the business Denise Morelle, an actress who was murdered in Montreal in 1984. He later pleaded guilty to murder.
August 11 – World War 2 veteran James Silcox becomes the first victim of serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer in Woodstock, Ontario. Wettlaufer murdered her patients by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin.[7]
October 19 – In Surrey, British Columbia, six people are murdered in a highrise apartment. Chris Mohan, and Ed Schellenburg, were innocent victims in the murder. The other four were drug dealers. This is known as the Surrey Six slayings.
November 1 – A provincewide Amber Alert is issued in Ontario after a newborn baby is abducted from the Sudbury Regional Hospital in Greater Sudbury. A Kirkland Lake resident, Brenda Batisse, is arrested later the same evening; the baby is recovered safely.
January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (born 1922)
January 15
James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (born 1915)
Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first English-speaking weatherman in Canadian television history (born 1915)[9]
January 18 – Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (born 1891)
January 19 – Denny Doherty, singer and songwriter (born 1940)
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^"Bulgarians, Canadians 1–2 in ice dancing again". CBC News. March 23, 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2007.
^"Percy Saltzman, Canada's first TV weatherman, dies". CBC News. January 17, 2007. Archived from the original on January 18, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
^"Fleurette Huppé Beauchamp" (in French). Lepine Cloutier. 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
^"Mystery surrounds 'Degrassi' actor's death, 5 years ago". CTV News. February 16, 2012. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2012.