2018 in Canada

Incumbents

The Crown

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Federal government

• Governor General – Julie Payette
• Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau
• Parliament – 42nd

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Mitchell
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Judith Guichon, then Janet Austin
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Janice Filmon
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frank Fagan, then 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 – Vaughn Solomon Schofield, then W. Thomas Molloy

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Rachel Notley
• Premier of British Columbia – John Horgan
• Premier of Manitoba – Brian Pallister
• Premier of New Brunswick – Brian Gallant, then Blaine Higgs
• Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Dwight Ball
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Stephen McNeil
• Premier of Ontario – Kathleen Wynne, then Doug Ford
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Wade MacLauchlan
• Premier of Quebec – Philippe Couillard, then François Legault
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Brad Wall, then Scott Moe

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Nunavut – Nellie Kusugak
• Commissioner of the Northwest Territories – Margaret Thom
• Commissioner of Yukon – Doug Phillips, vacant, then Angélique Bernard

  Premiers

• Premier of Nunavut – Paul Quassa, then Joe Savikataaq
• Premier of the Northwest Territories – Bob McLeod
• Premier of Yukon – Sandy Silver

  Events

January

• January 13 to 21 – 2018 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
• January 21 – the New Democratic Party of Quebec leadership election resulted in Raphael Fortin being chosen as the new leader for the New Democratic Party of Quebec
• January 27 – the Saskatchewan Party leadership election resulted in Scott Moe being chosen as the new leader for the Saskatchewan Party

  February

• February 3 – the British Columbia Liberal Party leadership election resulted in Andrew Wilkinson being chosen as the new leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party

  March

• March 3 – the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election resulted in Ryan Meili being chosen as the new leader for the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party.
• March 5 York University strike starts
• March 10 – the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership election resulted in Doug Ford being chosen as the new leader for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
• March 17–25 – 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in North Bay

  April

• April 6 – 16 are killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash involving the team bus for the Humboldt Broncos, a junior hockey team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, and a semi-trailer truck
• April 7 – the New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election resulted in Joe Byrne being chosen as the new leader for the New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island.
• April 23 – A van strikes a group of pedestrians in Toronto, killing ten and injuring at least 15. The driver then flees the scene but is later arrested, according to Toronto Police, who are still handling the investigation. Terrorist involvement has not been ruled out.
• April 29 – the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election resulted in Ches Crosbie being chosen as the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

  May

• May 11- United Nations announces it is concerned Canada is not doing enough for Indigenous people's status.
• May 18 - A massive fire destroys several buildings in downtown Brandon, Manitoba.
• May 18 to 27 – 2018 Memorial Cup, was held at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.

  June

• June 7 – In the Ontario general election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario gain a majority, the NDP becoming the official opposition and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner won the first ever elected seat for that party in the Ontario parliament.
• June 8 and 9 – The 44th G7 summit is held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada.
• June 11 to 17 – 2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship were held in St. Catharines, Ontario.
• June 19 - The Parliament of Canada passes the final version of the Cannabis Act to legalize recreational use of cannabis. It will take effect on October 17.

  July

• July 5 - The 2018 North American heat wave took place.
• July 22 - A gunman kills two people and injures thirteen others in a shooting rampage in Toronto, Ontario.

  August

• August 6 – Saudi Arabia withdraws its Ambassador from Canada and orders the expulsion of the Canadian Ambassador, in response to Canadian criticism of its poor human rights record.
• August 10 – At least four people are killed in a mass shooting in Fredericton.

  September

• September 20–22 – 2018 CS Autumn Classic International in Oakville.
• September 24 – New Brunswick general election, Blaine Higgs and the Progressive Conservatives win the most seats, but not a majority. Premier Brian Gallant and the Liberals continue in power as a minority government at the invitation of the lieutenant governor.

  October

• October 1 – Quebec general election, Francois Legault and the Coalition Avenir Québec win a majority of seats, easily defeating Premier Philippe Couillard and the Liberals, Jean-Francois Lisee and the Parti Québécois. The CAQ is the first political party since 1970 to win a Quebec provincial election, that was neither Liberal or PQ.
• October 2 – Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, shares the award for the Nobel Prize in Physics for the co-invention of chirped pulse amplification.
• October 13–20 – 2018 World Mixed Curling Championship in Kelowna.
• October 16 – Yukon municipal elections.
• October 20 – British Columbia municipal elections.
• October 22 – Ontario municipal elections.
• October 24 – Manitoba municipal elections.
• October 26–28 – 2018 Skate Canada International in Laval

  November

• November 5 – Prince Edward Island municipal elections.

  December

• December 6–9 – 2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Vancouver.

  Deaths

• 5 January - Jacques Genest, physician and scientist
• 8 January - Donnelly Rhodes, actor
• 18 January - Nancy Richler, novelist
• 25 January - Tommy Banks, pianist and senator
• 31 January - Alf Humphreys, actor
• 1 February - William Whitehead, writer
• 3 February - Bert Brown, senator
• 17 February - Dorothy Rungeling, pilot
• 22 February - Richard E. Taylor, physicist
• 23 February - James Laxer, historian
• 1 March - Alexander Buchanan, hip hop artist known by stage name Bender
• 2 March - Ronnie Prophet, country singer
• 4 March - Moe Racine, football player
• 15 March - Bev Desjarlais, politician
• 25 March - André Bourbeau, politician
• 27 March - James "Quick" Parker, football player
• 22 April - Keith Ashfield, politician
• 2 May - Bill Torrey, hockey executive
• 2 May - Gord Brown, politician
• 2 May - Paul Dick, politician
• 13 May - Margot Kidder, actress
• 16 June - Josef Kates, engineer
• 15 July - Ray Emery, hockey player
• 18 July - Larry Robinson, football player
• 25 July - Bob Brady, football player
• 25 July - Sergio Marchionne, businessman
• 1 August - Rick Genest, artist known as Zombie Boy
• 19 August - Alastair Gillespie, politician
• 23 September - Eric Berntson, politician
• 14 October - Donald Stovel Macdonald, politician
• 3 November - Chris Bradshaw, politician