Postmedia journalist Bill Kaufmann looks at social, political, cultural events and more that made news in the first four months of 2022.
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11: Amid an escalating surge in Omicron variant illnesses, the Quebec government announces it will levy a tax on the province’s unvaccinated population. It’s the first jurisdiction in Canada to do so. 16: Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia after a court rules the Serbian tennis superstar violated his visa requirements while being unvaccinated for COVID-19. He’s unable to vie for his 10th Australian Open crown.17: Alberta Justice Ministerin March 2021, and then called Edmonton’s police chief to discuss the matter.
30: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reveals he’s tested positive for COVID-19 after members of his family had contracted the virus. 13: After six days of a blockade by protesters opposing pandemic protections and federal governance, police clear demonstrators from the Ambassador Bridge border crossing with the U.S. at Windsor, Ont., and reopen it.
18: After three weeks of severely disrupting life in downtown Ottawa, anti-government occupiers are arrested en masse by swarms of police who begin to end the blockade involving dozens of transport trucks.Advertisement 820: Russia recognizes the independence of two breakaway east Ukraine regions and begins moving its troops into them, bringing an all-out war with Kyiv closer to reality.
2: In a court filing, the Congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol alleges former president Donald Trump was part of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Tensions ran high as “freedom rally” protesters and local residents clashed in the Beltline on 17th Avenue S.W. on Saturday, March 5, 2022.12: Police push back demonstrators facing off against anti-COVID-19 protection protesters in Calgary’s Beltline, provoking demands that city hall end the long-running and disruptive marches by the latter group. A week later, a court injunction banning much of the activity and a large police presence subdue the activities.
21: A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 crashes after taking off from Kunming, killing all 132 people aboard. Will Smith hits Chris Rock as Rock spoke on stage during the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 27, 2022.27: In one of the biggest flaps in Academy Awards show history, actor Will Smith slaps Chris Rock in the face onstage after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife.
31: The federal Transportation Safety Board issues a scathing report on the causes of the Feb. 4, 2019, CP Rail crash near Field, B.C., citing the company’s poor culture of safety.1: During a visit by Canadian Indigenous delegates at the Vatican, Pope Francis issues a long-awaited apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the abusive system of residential schools.
7: The U.S. Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman justice to sit on the American Supreme Court.
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