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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