A bomb warning was telephoned to a downtown hotel shortly before Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson was to speak at a luncheon at the hotel. The building was searched and non bomb was found.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

1er octobre 1987 : Vancouver

Solicitor General James Kelleher told a conference of police chiefs that there had been “early warning of a number of potential threats against participants (in the October 1987 Vancouver meeting of Commonwealth heads of government). These threats were nullified by the implementation of effective protective procedures. Police are now investigating three separate terrorist criminal conspiracies”.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

Janvier à mars 1986 : St-John’s, Nfld

A St-John’s man was convicted in the fall of 1988 of making death threats against Premier Brian Peckford in telephone calls to police.

At the time, Newfoundland was facing a violent civil service strike.

The man was given a suspended sentence, but was sentenced to 60 days in jail on related charges, including making harassing telephone calls to the RCMP.

The threats were labour-related.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

1er février 1985 : Muskoka, Ont

A bomb threat against Ontario premier-designate Frank Miller was telephoned to an Orilla radio station and a Bracebridge newspaper during a tour by Miller after he had won the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party. He was in Gravenhurst at the time.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

21 octobre 1983 : Victoria, BC

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the BC Legislature. A search failed to locate a bomb and the session resumed sitting about 20 minutes later.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

22 juillet 1983 : Ottawa

While registered as a researcher at the Public Archives, a 24-year old Toronto man poured red ink on a original copy of the 1982 Constitution Act, in protest against the government’s approval of United States cruise missile testing in Canada one week earlier.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

7 août 1982 : Thunder Bay, Ont

3 sticks of dynamite, adressed to Prime Minister Trudeau, were found by postal workers. One was found in a mail box while the others turned up in a sorting station. Police said that the dynamite was not accompanied by caps or fuses and so was in no danger of exploding.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

6 novembre 1981 : Ottawa

A man was arrested after police received a tip-off. He was carrying bomb components, and was planning to detonate them in the House of Commons to express his anger at the Prime Minister and to save the country (the Constitution debate was underway).

He had earlier reconnoitered the House and returned to Toronto to assemble the bomb. He was subsequently ordered to be held indefinitely in a psychiatric institution.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

20 octobre 1981 : Vancouver

A senior fire department official linked an arson attack on a welfare administration office to protest over government welfare cutbacks. Police did not rule out the possibility of the fire being a diversion to cover up a robbery.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

11 février 1980 : Saskatoon, Sask

More than 200 people were forced to evacuate an auditorium after a bomb warning was received, the second such threat during Clark election campaign.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

5 février 1980 : Charlottetown, PEI

Prime Minister Joe Clark’s plane was forced to return to Charlottetown when Air Canada officials received a threat that a bomb was hidden on the plane. No bomb was found.

Clark was campaigning for re-election at the time.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

15 mars 1979 : Vancouver

A man threw a brick, followed by a Molotov cocktail, through the window of a Canada Manpower office. The bomber walked away, but was stopped and handed over to the local police by a local citizen who was patrolling the premises.

Série d’incidents similaires en CB au début 1979.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

12 décembre 1978 : Vancouver

A Molotov cocktail was tossed against the rear wall of the Parole Board office on Commercial.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

2 février 1978 : St. Quentin, NB

A firebomb attack damaged the federal building housing a Canada Manpower office.

Acting on an anonymous telephone tip, reporters found a letter, signed the « Beaubassin Cell », which claimed responsibility for the act and denounced manpower centres as symbols of the exploitation of Acadia. The CBC and the newspaper « L’Évangéline » were warned that if they did not publicize the attack they would be the next targets of the group.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

23 janvier 1977 : Ottawa

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a window of a building housing several federal government offices in Ottawa. The window did not break and the firebomb failed to ignite. Some 2 hours later a 2nd Molotov cocktail was thrown. This one ignited, but was quickly extinguished by a security guard.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

21 janvier 1976 : Montréal

2 men were killed after a bomb exploded inside a station wagon on rue Berri opposite the Voyageur Bus Terminus. A letter found near the scene was addressed to a radio reporter and was intended to explain why the terminal had been targeted. The 3-page note demanded changes in conditions for inmates in QC penitentiaries, the closure of St-Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and threatened an escalation of bomb attacks if these demands were not met.

A police source noted that the design of the bomb was similar to that typically used by the underworld.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

6 décembre 1975 : Victoria

A bomb warning was telephoned to Victoria police headquarters at 8:13 p.m., just as a Social Credit election rally was getting underway in Victoria high school auditorium. The caller warned that a bomb had been planted underneath the auditorium. No bomb was found. The meeting was being addressed by opposition leader Bill Bennett.

Source : Kellett et al (1991)

18 avril 1975 : Ottawa

Appel anonyme. La police et le personnel militaire désactivent une bombe qui avait été déposée au National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ). Le NDHQ avait reçu une menace de bombe la soirée précédente, mais n’avait pas trouvé de colis douteux.

On dit que la bombe avait été placée là par le Weather Underground (ÉU).

Source : Kellett et al (1991)