July 13 – Conrad Black is found guilty on three charges of fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in Chicago. July 19 – Jesse Imeson begins a murderous rampage in Ontario, prompting an international manhunt. August – ditch, an on-line literary periodical is launched. August 8 – A suspect, Gaétan Bissonnette, was arrested in relation to the business Denise Morelle, an actress who was murdered in Montreal in 1984. He later pleaded guilty to murder. August 11 – World War 2 veteran James Silcox becomes the first victim of serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer in Woodstock, Ontario. Wettlaufer murdered her patients by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin. August 20 – First incident of severed feet finding on British Columbia coast. August 23 – Quebec Provincial Police admit to inserting "agents provocateurs" into the group protesting against the Montebello meeting. August 28 – Steven Truscott is acquitted by the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a hearing to review his 1959 conviction for the murder of Lynne Harper. September 5 – The Governor General appoints David Onley as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, replacing James Bartleman September 11 – Stephen Harper becomes the first Canadian Prime Minister since Confederation to address the Parliament of Australia. September 17 – Three by-elections in Quebec in Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, and Outremont. October to December October 1 – General election in Northwest Territories. October 1 – The Governor General appoints Steven Point as Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, replacing Iona Campagnolo October 9 – The general election in Newfoundland and Labrador is won by the governing Progressive Conservatives. October 9 – A series of small earthquakes start in the British Columbia Interior that expressed interest in the adjacent 7,200-year-old Nazko Cone. October 10 – The general election in Ontario is won by the governing Liberals. October 13 – Roger Duguay is chosen as the new leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party at the party's leadership convention. October 14 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) taser a man, who died shortly thereafter, at the Vancouver Airport. The incident is videotaped and eventually released to the public. October 17 – Floyd Roland is selected as the new Premier of the Northwest Territories. October 19 – In Surrey, British Columbia, six people are murdered in a highrise apartment. Chris Mohan, and Ed Schellenburg, were innocent victims in the murder. The other four were