Events
- January 1 - Canada's offshore exclusive economic zone is extended to 200 nautical miles (370 km).
- February 6 - René Lévesque is embroiled in scandal after he, while driving in a car with a woman who is not his wife, hits and kills a homeless man.
- February 27 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards's Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine, and narcotics paraphernalia.
- February 28 - Canadian passenger rail services are amalgamated into Via Rail.
- May 5 - Willie Adams becomes the first Inuk to enter Parliament when he is appointed to the Senate.
- May 9 - The final report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry is released.
- June: Elizabeth II tours Canada as part of her Silver Jubilee goodwill tour.
- June 9 - Ontario election: Bill Davis's PCs win a second consecutive minority.
- August - Murder of Emanuel Jaques.
- August 26 - The Charter of the French Language is passed by the Parti Québécois.
- September 3 - September 5 - All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units.
- October 18 - Deliberations of the House of Commons are televised for the first time making Canada the first country to broadcast the complete proceedings of its national legislature.
- November 21 - Gerald Hannon's controversial article "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" is published in The Body Politic
- November 24 - Sterling Lyon becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
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“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)