Events from the year 1989 in Canada .
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January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
January 21: Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford announces his resignation from politics, giving the PC Party 2 months to find a replacement as party leader and premier.
January 30: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet , appointing 6 new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of 19 others.
February 10: President of the United States George H. W. Bush Prime Minister Mulroney in Ottawa , laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991 .
February 20: In the Yukon Territory , the ruling New Democrats narrowly maintain control of the Yukon Legislative Assembly , winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive Conservative Party 's 7.
March 1: The Canadian Space Agency is created.
March 10: An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario , killing 24.
March 13: 2:44 AM ET : A solar coronal mass ejection causes a blackout across all of Quebec , as it hits the Hydro-Québec power grid , affecting 6 million people for more than 9 hours.[3]
March 13: Deborah Grey wins a by-election to become the first Reform Party Member of Parliament.[4]
March 19: LGBT activist Joe Rose is murdered on public transit in Montreal.[5]
March 20: Alberta election: Don Getty 's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority.
March 22: Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford.
April 20: The Liberal Party of Newfoundland , led by Clyde Wells , wins the Newfoundland general election .
May 3: John Turner resigns as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada .
May 5: Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, defeating Thomas Rideout in a general election.
May 25: The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the 1989 Stanley Cup Finals .
May 29: The Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island , led by Joe Ghiz , remains in power following the Prince Edward Island general election .
June 3: The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto .
June 5: The federal government announces sweeping cuts to Via Rail .
July 31: Cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
August 2: Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Bernard Valcourt resigns after he is convicted of drunk driving.
September 1: French cable sports network, RDS , signs on.
September 25: In the Quebec general election , the Quebec Liberal Party , led by Robert Bourassa , is reelected with a large Liberal majority.
October 6: Prime Minister Mulroney nominates Ray Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as Governor General of Canada .
October 8: The Cormier Village hayride accident kills 13 people and injures 45.
October 15 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League .
December 2: Audrey McLaughlin is elected head of the NDP replacing Ed Broadbent becoming the first female major party leader in Canadian history.
December 6: École Polytechnique massacre : Marc Lépine murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the Université de Montréal in Montreal , Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements.
December 21: Quebec uses the notwithstanding clause for the first time.
December 31: All rail service is terminated in Prince Edward Island after CN Rail abandons its historic rail lines in the province.
January 9 – Nina Dobrev , actress
January 14 – Karine Thomas , synchronized swimmer
February 11 – Jesse Rath , actor
February 13 – Carly McKillip , actress
February 14 – Emma Miskew , curler
February 20 – Melanie Leishman , actress
March 3 – Andrea Brooks , actress
March 19 – Stephanie Horner , swimmer
April 5 - Rachel Homan , curler
April 13 – Mallory Deluce , ice hockey player
April 19 – Simu Liu , actor
April 25 – Marie-Michèle Gagnon , skier[6]
April 28 – Steffi DiDomenicantonio , singer
May 11 – Alyssa Brown , artistic gymnast[7]
May 17 – Tessa Virtue , ice dancer
May 23 – Grace Mahary , model
June 11 – Keith Aulie , ice hockey player
June 17 – Brandon Jones , singer
July 27 – Charlotte Arnold , actress
July 31 – Marshall Williams , actor
August 2 – Dominic Jalbert , ice hockey player
September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs , artistic gymnast
September 23 – Craig Sharpe , singer
September 25 – Jordan Gavaris , actor
October 20 – Colin Wilson , Canadian-American ice hockey player
October 24 – Shenae Grimes , actress
November 3 – Nav , rapper
November 5 – Joey Lawrence , photographer
November 24 – Nicole Sassine , sprinter
December 2 – Cassie Steele , actress and singer-songwriter
January 20 – Beatrice Lillie , comic actress (b. 1894 )
January 22 – Farquhar Oliver , politician (b. 1904 )
January 31 – William Stephenson , soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor and spymaster (b. 1897 )
February 9 – Ken Adachi , writer and literary critic (b. 1929 )
May 14 – Joe Primeau , ice hockey player (b. 1906 )
May 14 – E. P. Taylor , business tycoon and race horse breeder (b. 1901 )
June 14 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger , politician (b. 1907 )
June 26 – Howard Charles Green , politician and Minister (b. 1895 ) July 3 – Peter Fox , politician (b. 1921 )
July 13 – Samuel Boulanger , politician (b. 1909 )
July 24 – Michael Estok , poet
August 10 – George Ignatieff , diplomat (b. 1913 )
November 11 – Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. , minister and librarian (b. 1912 )
September 12 – Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs , gymnast
November 13 – Victor Davis , swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion (b. 1964 )
November 15 – George Manuel , Aboriginal leader (b. 1921 )
November 29 – Nancy Bell , senator (b. 1924 )
December 6 – Marc Lépine , murderer responsible for the École Polytechnique massacre (b. 1964 )
December 26 – Doug Harvey , ice hockey player (b. 1924 )
December 26 – Maryon Pearson , wife of Lester B. Pearson , 14th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1901 ) 
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