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Eric Bauza (1979–2026): The Scarborough Artist Who Became the Voice of Looney Tunes
Growing up in Scarborough, Eric Bauza recorded The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show on VHS tapes so he could pause the cartoons and copy the characters into a notepad.
YAGA Episode 1 recap: A missing heir, an identical roommate and a flaming chicken
Baba Yaga has heard what people say about her: she's old and wicked, lives in a hut on chicken feet and eats children.
Shadow Theatre’s Yaga turns Slavic folklore into a wickedly funny mystery
Generations of storytellers have described Baba Yaga as a hideous, child-eating witch who flies through forests in a mortar and lives in a hut on chicken legs.
Frank Moher brings Boy Player home to Edmonton, where his theatre story began
During rehearsals for Boy Player, director Jonathan Greenway began throwing crumpled paper at Frank Moher while the playwright-performer worked through a scene in which he watches himself in crisis.
Review: Death steals the show in Alberta Ballet's surreal Peer Gynt
Death takes the long way around the stage in Alberta Ballet's Peer Gynt. He has plenty of time to spare, and given the life of the man he's following, he might need it.
Ancestral Beasts Review: What We Acknowledge and What We Leave Behind
A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.
Alyssa Martin and Rock Bottom Movement close Fall for Dance North with new Canadian commission
Toronto choreographer Alyssa Martin and her company Rock Bottom Movement are closing Fall for Dance North with a world-premiere dance-theatre work about parenthood.
Who Were Canada's First Filmmakers?
On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.
SCTV at 50: How a Canadian Comedy Series Went from Toronto to Edmonton to American Television
When Second City Television premiered on Global on September 21, 1976, its comedians were playing the people who owned, operated and appeared on an imaginary television station.
What Makes a Film an International Co-Production? How Canada’s Treaty Rules Work
Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.
The History of Independent Filmmaking in Canada
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
Netflix’s Below reaches 38.2 million views as Newfoundland weighs its success — and a possible Season 2
Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.
YAGA episode release schedule: When do new episodes arrive on Crave?
Crave’s YAGA premieres in Canada on Friday, October 23, 2026, with two episodes. The eight-part mystery thriller will then release one episode each Friday before ending with another two-episode drop on November 27.
Below Episode 6 finale recap: “The Unfathering Deep” brings Calvin back to the sea
After everything that happened at Little Pot Rock, Calvin and Wade are back on a boat together, surrounded by blue water beneath a blue sky.
Alberta Kills review: Seven Alberta horror shorts bring revenge, paranoia and sleepless nights to NorthwestFEARFest
Seven Alberta-made horror shorts screened under the title Alberta Kills at NorthwestFEARFest on October 18, with a program that moved from a two-minute comedy to a teenage revenge ritual and the nightmares of a young man caught in sleep paralysis.
The North Sound’s ‘Young Soul’ questions the pressure to keep working
Forrest and Nevada Eaglespeaker have spent years writing songs about addiction and the work of recovery.
Sami Tsang Brings Ink, Porcelain and Silver to The Power Plant’s First Smokestack Commission
Small porcelain figures of girls appear throughout Sami Tsang’s What We Carry Forward, a site-specific work combining a large-scale ink mural with porcelain and silver.
What Is an Independent Film in Canada?
Denis Villeneuve's Incendies had one distributor in Canada and another in the United States.
Below Episode 5 recap: “Little Pot Rock” reveals the cost of staying behind
Below opens on a beautiful, peaceful sunrise, with Calvin Penney apparently waking from a dream about being underwater.
From Hostage Negotiations to Fiction: Gordon Black on The Epsilon Protocol
In September 1999, seven Canadians and one American were kidnapped in Ecuador.