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Canada's first regularly operating television station, CBFT in Montréal, officially began service on September 6, 1952

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.

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.

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.

Jay Whitehead was backstage in Sackville, New Brunswick, this summer, preparing for a performance of his play 333: The Toronto Bathhouse Raids, when word reached him about a man at the theatre.

Six comedians are scheduled to take the stage at Toronto’s Comedy Bar on Friday, Oct. 23, for Whose Land Is It Anyways?, a showcase featuring Indigenous and South Asian stand-up performers.

Toronto-based Beverly Valley Productions is developing its first feature film and two comedy series, with all three projects set outside the fictional world that brought YouTube creators Daniel Kipnis and Riya Malik their audience.

Works spanning nearly six decades by Saskatchewan painter Dorothy Knowles are on display at Toronto’s Rukaj Gallery in Big Sky, a survey exhibition running from October 8 to November 5.

Toronto-based baritone saxophonist and composer Shirantha Beddage will release his fourth album as a bandleader, Departures, on October 16 through Rhea Records, following a Toronto CD-release concert at Jazz Bistro on October 15.

Akin Dupont Studios is marking its 10th anniversary with Tenfold, a three-day exhibition bringing work by 16 studio artists to Remote Gallery in Toronto from Oct. 8 to 10.

Bad Dog Theatre’s Roses & Thorns is back for four Friday performances in October at Comedy Bar Bloor, beginning Oct 9, 2026 and continuing Oct 16, 2026, Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026. All four shows begin at 7 p.m.

SOCAN has named the Special Achievement Award recipients who will be honoured at the 2026 SOCAN Awards on Oct. 26 at REBEL in Toronto, with this year’s list spanning pop, hip-hop, songwriting and screen composition.

Toronto’s Gardiner Museum opens After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics on Oct. 9, bringing together work by PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu and Sharon Norwood.

Daniel Gawthrop’s Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture gets a new release on Oct 13, 2026, when ECW Press’s Bespeak Audio Editions publishes an audiobook narrated by Ivan Lo.

Toronto-shot feature Her Last Supper will screen at the Forest City Film Festival in London, Ont., on Oct 21, 2026, giving Canadian filmmaker Becca-Willow Moss a confirmed fall festival date for her first feature as writer-director.

Canadian filmmaker and stage director Atom Egoyan’s revival of Così fan tutte is underway at the Canadian Opera Company, with six performances remaining at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

Angine de Poitrine are Khn de Poitrine and Klek de Poitrine, a two-person instrumental rock project from Saguenay, Quebec.

MOCA Toronto reopened Sunday, Oct 4, 2026, after its installation closure, bringing three presentations into the museum for the fall season: Bharti Kher’s Bones, Delcy Morelos’s Ombligo and Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Light of the Heavens.

Toronto designer George Sully’s memoir, Designing in the Dark: A Memoir of Vision, Resilience, and Redefining Canadian Design, arrives Oct. 6 from ECW Press.

The Art Gallery of Ontario will give Toronto the first look at Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black Style when member access begins Oct. 7, ahead of the exhibition’s public opening Oct. 13.

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.

Angine de Poitrine left Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 22 with both of Polaris’s major 2026 awards.

An independent artist accepted into Toronto’s Artist Project next spring can take the smallest available booth for $3,250 before HST.

When John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet opens the National Ballet of Canada’s 75th-anniversary season on Oct. 31, the company will be returning to a ballet that has followed it through much of its history.