May 12 - Holly Jones, a ten-year-old girl, disappears in Toronto. The next parts of her body are found floating in Lake Ontario
May 20 - An Alberta cow is found to have been infected with BSE, the United States, Japan, and a number of other nations halt all imports of Canadian beef
September 23 - The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, 443 square kilometres in size, in the Arctic fractures, releasing all water within a freshwater lake it contained.
November 28 - Type A influenza kills a boy in southern Ontario. The third victim in the province killed by the same strain of the virus. Numerous influenza-related deaths also reported in the United States and United Kingdom. [1]
December 8 - The United States awards Bronze Stars to 26 Canadian soldiers of 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group who distinguished themselves serving alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2002. The four who were killed in the friendly fire incident are awarded the medal posthumously. Canadian Chief of staff General Ray Henault gives a Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation on behalf of Governor GeneralAdrienne Clarkson. The event takes place in Edmonton.
December 24 - Canada's Ministry of Agriculture places partial ban on imported beef from United States due to single case of mad cow disease in Washington. Many other countries have made a similar move against US beef.
