POLITICS
1. Manitoba, in January 1916.
2. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was accused of receiving kickbacks over the sale of Airbus jets to Air Canada. The investigation was dropped in 2003, eight years after it began. Mulroney is also the only former prime minister to sue the federal government. He received an apology from then justice minister Allan Rock and a $2 million out-of-court settlement.
3. Alexander Mackenzie of Sarnia, Ontario.
4. Equalization, described by the Department of Finance as the federal government’s most important program for reducing fiscal disparities among provinces, transferred on average almost $10 billion a year between 1999-2000 and 2003-04. Equalization payments for 2005-06 will be $10.9 billion. Ontario and Alberta are the only provinces that do not receive Equalization payments.
5. Robert Borden.
6. A corruption scandal, triggered by the minister of customs and excise, Jacques Bureau, who was in charge of making sure liquor did not cross the Canada-U.S. border during prohibition. Bureau promoted a known bootlegger to a top customs enforcement position and defended other customs officials believed to be involved in bootlegging. Bureau eventually pulled all RCMP officers off border patrols in Ontario and Quebec, letting liquor flow freely. The scandal split King’s coalition government, leading him to ask Byng to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Byng refused and asked Conservative leader Arthur Meighen to form a government. Meighen’s government fell apart within a week.
7. b, Auditor General Sheila Fraser.
8. At age 75.
9. 1871.
10. The British North America Act, 1867. In 1982 its name was changed to the Constitution Act, 1867.
OLYMPICS
11: Etienne Desmarteau, a Montreal policeman, won Gold for throwing a 56-pound weight in the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis.
12: At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Canadians took home a total of 44 medals – 10 gold, 18 silver and 16 bronze. Interestingly at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada failed to win a single gold medal.
13: Donovan Bailey. He continues to hold that record of 100 metres in 9.84 seconds. He is the fastest Olympian in the world.
14: Daniel Igali won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
15: Becky Scott won a gold medal at the 2002 Olympics for the 5 kilometre cross-country pursuit. She originally won a bronze medal but was upgraded to silver then to gold following doping investigations in 2003. She is the only person in Olympic history to be awarded all three medals in the same single event.
16: They have appeared at 17 Olympic Games over the years and taken home a total of 13 medals. They are the only team to ever win four gold medals in four successive Games – 1920 to 1932. Canada also won gold in 1948 and 1952. Exactly 50 years later Canada won its most recent Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating the USA at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
17: 1998 in Nagano. Canada has won 2 Olympic medals. They won silver in 1998 and gold at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City beating the U.S. team both times.
18: Chantel Peticlerc. She also won five gold medals, one of which was in the demonstration sport, the 800 metre Wheelchair race.
19: 2004 at the Athens Summer Games.
20: Alexandre Despatie won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
POP CULTURE
21. George Stroumboulopoulos
22. Blue Man Group
23. Scott Young
24. Linda Evangelista
25. Ryan
26. ZZ Top
27. Natalie Glebova
28. It’s All Gone Pete Tong
29. Britney Spears
30. Adbusters
SPORTS
31. Shaquille O’Neal
32. Trevor Linden
33. Francois Boivin (silver in snowboardcross); Maelle Ricker (bronze in snowboardcross); Jaysey Jay Anderson (first in parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom) and Justin Lamoureux (second in halfpipe).
34. The London Knights finished the Memorial Cup tournament with a perfect record, edging out the Rimouski Oceanic of Quebec in the finals.
35. Own the Podium.
36. Marie-Helene Premont.
37. The Toronto Rock.
38. Team Canada 1972, winners of the infamous Summit Series against the Soviet Union.
39. Jack Nicklaus, Vijay Singh, John Daly and Stephen Ames (Ames was from Trinidad and Tobago, but became a Canadian citizen in 2001).
40. A rouge happens when a team misses a field goal attempt or makes a kick that is downed in the end zone by a tackle, or passes through the back or the side of the end zone after touching down over the goal line.
HISTORY
41. Jacques Cartier.
42. Four – Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
43. Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949.
44. Lester B. Pearson.
45. The Halifax Gazette.
46. That was Joe Clark from June 1979 to March 1980 for a total of eight months and 30 days.
47. He wrote In Flanders Fields in 1915, the sonnet commemorating the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the First World War.
48. The discovery of insulin, and he shared it with his assistant Charles Best.
49. Gordon Lightfoot
50. Tommy Douglas. He is Canada’s "father of Medicare."
