Sport
- February 16 - Police recover the Grey Cup after it was stolen the previous December.
- April 5 - Bobby Orr becomes the first National Hockey League (NHL) defencemen to win the scoring title.
- May 2 - Montreal is awarded the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- May 22 - The Vancouver Canucks join the National Hockey League.
- The first Arctic Winter Games commence in Yellowknife.
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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