Events
- January 24 - Cosmos 954 a Soviet satellite breaks up over northern Canada.
- June 26 - Air Canada DC-9 overruns runway in Toronto, 2 people die.
- August 4 - 41 are killed when a bus plunges into a lake near Eastman, Quebec.
- September 15 - The Sudbury Strike of 1978 begins.
- September 18 - Bennett Campbell becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Alexander B. Campbell
- October 5 - John MacLennan Buchanan becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Gerald Regan
- October 16 - Fifteen federal by-elections are held across the country. The governing Liberals lose five seats, which leads to a general election the following May.
- October 18 - Saskatchewan election: Allan Blakeney's NDP win a third consecutive majority
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