Events NAFTA is introduced March 20 - Alberta election: Don Getty's PCs win a sixth consecutive majority March 22 - Thomas Rideout becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Peckford May 5 - Clyde Wells becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Thomas Rideout November 21 - Federal election: Brian Mulroney's PCs win a second consecutive majority December 6 - École Polytechnique Massacre - A gunman murders fourteen women at the École Polytechnique of the University of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec. The event proves a spur to both the Canadian feminist and gun control movements. Births Deaths
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