* 1941 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

* 1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

* 1932 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest ( d. 2003 )

Young also co-founded Linux Journal in 1994, and in 2003, he purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a Canadian Football League franchise.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

* 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

* 2003 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1947 )

* 1978 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2003 )

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ( CCTA ) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U. S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada ( a combination of U. S. and Canadian news ).

The Canadian commitment was originally planned to last to October 2003.

* 2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist ( b. 1926 )

* 1907 – Donald Coxeter, British-born Canadian geometer ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1921 – Émile Genest, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1934 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach ( d. 2003 )

* 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic ( d. 2003 )

* 1986 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist ( b. 1909 )

* 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer ( d. 2003 )

* 1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

The CIA's Special Activities Division created successful guerrilla forces from the Hmong tribe during the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan in 2001, and from the Kurdish Peshmerga against Ansar al-Islam and the forces of Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

After the merger of the PCs with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, there was debate as to whether the " Tory " appellation should survive at the federal level.

In 2003 Arianespace joined with Boeing Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create the Launch Services Alliance.

The Canadian Alliance (), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003.

In December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to disband and merge into the Conservative Party of Canada.

On October 15, 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party ( under its new leader Peter MacKay ) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative Party of Canada.

The union was ratified on December 5, 2003, with 96 % support of the membership of the Canadian Alliance, and on December 6, 90. 04 % support of elected delegates in the PC Party.

Also in 2003, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists awarded him the ACTRA Award of Excellence.

It won majorities of the seats in Western Canada in repeated elections, but was unable to break through in Eastern Canada, though it became the official opposition from 1997 to 2003 ( Reform was renamed the Canadian Alliance in 2000 ).

Mulroney joined the Conservative Party of Canada following its creation in 2003 by the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

The Canadian right was not reunited until they merged with Reform's successor, the Canadian Alliance, in December 2003 to form the new Conservative Party of Canada.

* Canadian Alliance, Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003

In 2003, the party membership voted to dissolve the party and join the new Conservative Party of Canada being formed with the members of the Canadian Alliance.

The party suffered a decade-long decline following the 1993 federal election, and was formally dissolved on December 7, 2003, when it merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party.

*" Mr. Perfect " Curt Hennig ( 1958 – 2003 )-Former professional wrestling champion with American Wrestling Association ( AWA ), National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ), World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).

The new central building, Arlanda North, opened late 2003, connecting terminal 5 with the newly built Pier F. All international flights handled by SAS and its Star Alliance partners use the new central building.

* Distinguished Arts and Humanities Medal for Literature of the Germantown Arts Alliance of Tennessee in 2003

Lord was again courted for federal politics in late 2003 when the PC Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged into the Conservative Party of Canada.

By the end of 2003, the party was polling higher than both the Canadian Alliance or the Progressive Conservatives and it was even suggested that the next election could see the NDP in place as official opposition.