Manufacturers of birth control pills are required to provide labels of health risks for smokers and women over forty. Canada boycotts Moscow's Olympic games due to the invasion of Afghanistan. The Supreme Court recognizes the equal distribution of assets in failed common-law relationships. His example eventually raises about 25 million dollars. The worst recession since the Great Depression begins.
Public outcry opposes the government's approval of U.S. cruise missile testing in the west.
U.S. ice-breaker Polar Sea challenges Canada's Arctic sovereignty by travelling through the Northwest Passage. Ontario Liberals under David Peterson end forty years of Conservative Premiership. Lincoln Alexander becomes Ontario's first black lieutenant-governor. Canadian John Polanyi shares the Nobel prize for chemistry. Testing positive for steroids, he is stripped of his medal two days later.