January 10 – The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Canada exceeds 55,350 people for the first time since the pandemic begin, fueled by highly transmissible Deltacron hybrid variant.[citation needed]
February 23 – The Emergencies Act is revoked by Justin Trudeau as the Freedom Convoy movement ends.[13]
March
March 10 – In a data published by Statistics Canada, around 337,000 jobs have been added in February 2022, dropping the jobless rate down to 5.5 per cent, the lowest in Canada since February 2020, a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.[14]
May 6 – After a 23-game winning streak, Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, loses on Jeopardy! to Danielle Maurer. Roach won a total of $560,983 (US).[16] As of May 2022[update], she was the most successful Canadian to play on the show and ranks 5th in all-time regular season wins.[17][18]
May 12 – An official death toll from COVID-19 in Canada exceeds 40,000 people since the start of the pandemic.
June 13 – Alek Minassian, the perpetrator of the Toronto van attack, is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.[26]
June 14 – Canada and Denmark end their competing claims for Hans Island by dividing the island roughly in half ending what was referred to as the Whisky War.[27]
June 28 – A shootout occurs between two suspects and responding police officers following a botched robbery of a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, British Columbia. Both suspects are killed by police, while six officers are injured.[29][30]
September 19 – A national day of mourning occurs in Canada for the late Queen Elizabeth II with a federal holiday and a National Commemorative Service in Ottawa.[40]
September 19 – Canadian representatives attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London.[41]
October 20 – Travis Patron, former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, is sentenced to one year in jail for wilfully promoting hatred against Jewish people and ordered to refrain from posting about them for a year after the sentence ends.[46]
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