01-08-00
Céline Dion and René Angélil renew their wedding vows in an extravagant Las Vegas ceremony.

02-15-00
SUVs now outsell standard cars.

02-01-00
Rumours persist that Québec Premier Lucien Bouchard will step down and retire to California.

03-09-00
Corporate mega-mergers seem to be the latest business trend.

02-16-00
Dot.com companies continue to produce staggering stock market returns.

03-07-00
Multi-challenged George W. Bush emerges as President of the United States.

03-30-00
Louise Beaudoin flies off the handle over the use of English at the airport — in Paris.

04-18-00
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has a gaffe-ridden trip to the Middle East.

05-27-00
A suggested new logo for the feuding Canadian Alliance Party.

05-31-00
Montreal Canadiens’ hockey legend Maurice “The Rocket” Richard dies.

06-22
Suspicions persist that the new American owner of the Expos, Jeffrey Loria, may be a carpetbagger.

07-07-00
Pottermania is everywhere.

08-15-00
A dispute over native lobster fishing rights attracts the national media to Burnt Church, New Brunswick.

09-14 -00
Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, the cartoon character of the year, turns up for a press conference on a Seadoo.

09-29-00
2000 saw the passing of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

10-13-00
Western Montreal communities react to Pierre Bourque’s talk of city-wide amalgamation.

10-26-00
Alliance leader Stockwell Day gets the directional flow of Ontario’s Niagara Falls wrong.

11-18-00
The year ended with the emergence of “one island, one city”, a team effort by Mayor Bourque and the Parti Québécois.

11-28-00
To almost everyone’s surprise, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien came out of the 2000 federal election with a larger majority.

11-30-00
All talk of Quebec sovereignty seems to have moved to the back burner.