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National Canadian Film Day returns with record-breaking number of free screenings
Boosted by "elbows up" enthusiasm, the annual event returns Wednesday. Nearly 2,000 watch parties are scheduled. Find celebrations in every province and territory.
Arts 2 hours ago
Jasmeet Raina questions the meaning of success in Season 2 of Late Bloomer
Former YouTuber Jus Reign explores divisions in Canada’s Punjabi community in second season of his TV dramedy and tries his hand at directing
Chris Dart
Arts April 14
Holding Space
Now, more than ever, let's come together as a country and hold space for Canadian movies
We're all buying Canadian. But we should watch Canadian, too! And Peter Knegt and Anne T. Donahue have many suggestions for what films to get you started.
Peter Knegt
Arts April 10
DESTINATION: ART
People love these giant Screaming Heads, but how did they get here?
How a high school art teacher turned a broken down farmhouse into the monument of ‘art and creation’ known as Midlothian Castle
Chris Dart
Arts April 9
Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
Leah Collins
Arts April 7
Calgary filmmaker dreams up a big gay Bollywood wedding in new rom-com
Aparita Bhandari
Arts April 4

At Regard it's more than OK to be a 'little freak'

Nationalism at the ballet? On mounting a very Canadian Swan Lake

Severance star Britt Lower takes a new job as a Toronto librarian

Marriska Fernandes

Destination: Art

Inside Yellowknife's fairytale Snowcastle, a photo festival that pictures the North differently

How this Juno-nominated music video director captured the feeling of losing a loved one

The garbage artist who will make you rethink trash

Brandon Kaufman

New play asks what happens when technology comes for all our jobs

DESTINATION: ART

In Halifax, you'll find amazing art where you least expect it

DESTINATION: ART

From poems in stone to a chime that plays Loverboy, Vancouver is full of great public art

She's thought to be Canada's first Black woman painter. Now the public can finally see her art

To write her new novel, Emma Hooper chose a desk near a frigid lake

If you're confused by this YouTube soap opera, that's kind of the point

We needed an open and trusting space to write this sometimes harrowing story

Mary Louisa Plummer

'My brother has worked on a job where it's him, an ex-priest and an ex-con'

The first time author Samantha M. Bailey walked into her backyard studio, she cried with relief

Samantha M. Bailey

Night of the Zoopocalypse pushes Canadian animation into the weird and wild

Marriska Fernandes

Like 'if the Muppets were trying to put on a seminar about ADHD and everything keeps getting worse'

We could not be more here for the Parker Posey party The White Lotus is serving us

Anne T. Donahue

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