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What is All Heart: A Rugby Story? Crave’s Canadian rugby docuseries arrives Oct. 9
Crave will release all four episodes of All Heart: A Rugby Story on Oct. 9, giving viewers the full four-part documentary at once rather than on a weekly schedule. Each episode runs 30 minutes.
Private Eyes West Coast Episode 1 recap: ‘Changing Tides’ brings Shade and Angie back to work
Global’s Private Eyes West Coast begins its new Victoria chapter with “Changing Tides,” the Sept. 30 premiere of the Private Eyes spinoff.
Toronto Film School alum Zain Duraie’s Sink returns to Toronto as Jordan’s Oscar submission
Zain Duraie’s debut feature Sink returns to Toronto on Oct. 1 after being selected as Jordan’s official submission for consideration in the International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards.
Thanksgiving 2026: What to watch, read, hear and see over the long weekend
The Thanksgiving long weekend lands in the middle of a busy stretch for entertainment this year, with new television, films, albums and books arriving just before the holiday and major festivals running from coast to coast.
Atwood Gibson Prize names five finalists for 2026 fiction award
Five books are in the running for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, with novels by Zak Jones, Téa Mutonji, Lisa Robertson, Blair Palmer Yoxall and Ashraf Zaghal making this year’s shortlist.
Quebec producer Roko Beats brings hosted-mixtape format to LEVELUP 4
Saint-Jérôme, Que., producer Roko Beats brings nine artists together on LEVELUP 4, the fourth project in a collaborative series he has used to track changes in his production and the artists he works with.
Russell Peters returns to Amman and Abu Dhabi for October shows
Canadian comedian Russell Peters is heading back to the Middle East later this month, with performances scheduled in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 23 and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Oct. 25. Peters’s official tour schedule lists an 8 p.m. show at Cultural Palace in Amman followed two nights later by an 8 p.m. performance at Etihad Arena on Yas Island, with the respective event listings also confirming the two appearances.
EIFF at 40: What’s still ahead before the festival closes Oct. 3
The 40th Edmonton International Film Festival heads into its final three days with several Canadian features still on the schedule, filmmaker Q&As, one of this year’s newly announced jury-award winners and a closing-night gala tied directly to Edmonton’s screen industry.
Eight recipients receive 2026 Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Awards
Eight artists and arts contributors from across Canada have received the 2026 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, with this year’s recipients working across textiles, film, installation, photography, digital media and art history.
Angine de Poitrine wins both Polaris prizes, with 11 ADISQ nominations ahead
Angine de Poitrine left Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 22 with both of Polaris’s major 2026 awards.
CMF says $345.5M in funding spurred $1.93B in Canadian screen production
The Canada Media Fund says $345.5 million in program funding supported 1,248 audiovisual and interactive digital media projects and 103 industry initiatives in 2025–2026, helping generate $1.93 billion in Canadian production volume.
Canadian sci-fi Part 1: The 2010s cluster
On Friday, June 19, 2015, Space premiered Killjoys at 9 p.m. The second episode of Dark Matter, which had debuted a week earlier, followed at 10.
Jody Chan’s Madness Belongs to the People turns to psychiatric-survivor histories and resistance
Jody Chan’s third poetry collection, Madness Belongs to the People, was published by Brick Books on Sept. 22.
Why Netflix Is Putting Canada On Screen
Cat Cahill’s Gilbert Girls romance novels take place in a Colorado mountain valley, where young women find work along a newly built railroad and at the fictional Crest Stone Hotel.
Could rescuing cancelled American sci-fi help Canadian producers grow?
Canada already knows how to make science fiction. Over the past 15 years, Canadian producers and broadcasters have put Orphan Black, Killjoys, Dark Matter and Continuum on television, alongside genre series such as Lost Girl and Bitten.
Narco Mennonites Episode 1 recap: “This Mennonite Is a Drug Dealer”
I knew almost nothing about Narco Mennonites before starting it.
Penguin Canada acquires Emma Knight’s Dolly after breakout debut
Penguin Canada has acquired Canadian rights to Dolly, the second novel from Toronto-based author Emma Knight, whose fiction debut became a Canadian and New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna selection and a Giller Prize finalist while also selling internationally and moving into television development.
Anna Pigeon Episode 3 Recap: ‘The Preacher’
Anna Pigeon Episode 3, “The Preacher,” opens with a bank robbery, but not the kind where someone storms in waving a gun and screaming at everyone to get on the floor.
Northern Ontario is building the workforce to keep film and TV production in the North
In the summer of 2022, Northern Ontario had a problem created partly by its own success.
Jay Odjick talks Indigenous representation as Amanda Strong’s Inkwo screens at Library and Archives Canada
Jay Odjick remembers looking for Indigenous people in the comics he read growing up and finding few characters who resembled anyone he knew.