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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Narco Mennonites Episode 1, an undercover Ontario drug buy opens a much bigger story stretching from Leamington to Mexico and Oklahoma. #NarcoMennonites #Crave #CanadianTV www.scene49.ca/entertainment/narco-mennonites-episode-1-recap
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Narco Mennonites Episode 1 recap: “This Mennonite Is a Drug Dealer” — SCENE 49
Narco Mennonites Episode 1 traces an Ontario drug investigation into a trafficking network linking Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Netflix spent years using Canada as a production base. Now Canadian places are staying Canadian on screen — even when the source material was American. #Netflix #CanadianTV #CanCon www.scene49.ca/entertainment/netflix-canadian-content
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Why Netflix Is Putting Canada On Screen — SCENE 49
Netflix spent years filming international stories in Canada. Now its Canadian slate is putting Canadian places and identity on screen. Here’s why.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Northern Ontario has attracted hundreds of film and TV productions. A new $850,145 investment targets the crews and infrastructure needed to keep more of that work in the North. #CanadianFilm #NorthernOntario www.scene49.ca/entertainment/northern-ontario-film-tv-workforce-funding
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Northern Ontario is building the workforce to keep film and TV production in the North — SCENE 49
A new $850,145 FedNor investment in Cultural Industries Ontario North will support crew training, production attraction and music-industry development across the region.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Emma Knight’s debut became a Canadian bestseller, Read with Jenna pick and Giller finalist. Now Penguin Canada has acquired Canadian rights to her second novel, Dolly. #CanLit #CanadianBooks #EmmaKnight www.scene49.ca/entertainment/emma-knight-dolly-penguin-canada-second-novel
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Penguin Canada acquires Emma Knight’s Dolly after breakout debut — SCENE 49
Penguin Canada has acquired Canadian rights to Dolly, Emma Knight’s second novel, after The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus became a breakout bestseller.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Money rains from the sky, Manny becomes a suspect and Zach’s murder gets a new clue in Anna Pigeon Episode 3, “The Preacher.” #AnnaPigeon #CanadianTV www.scene49.ca/entertainment/anna-pigeon-episode-3-recap
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Anna Pigeon Episode 3 Recap: ‘The Preacher’ — SCENE 49
Anna Pigeon Episode 3, “The Preacher,” brings a bank robbery mystery, trouble for Manny and new clues about Zach’s unsolved murder.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jay Odjick and Amanda Strong’s Inkwo bring Indigenous-created storytelling into Library and Archives Canada’s Preservation Centre. #CanadianFilm #IndigenousArts #NFB www.scene49.ca/entertainment/jay-odjick-amanda-strong-inkwo-lac
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Jay Odjick talks Indigenous representation as Amanda Strong’s Inkwo screens at Library and Archives Canada — SCENE 49
Jay Odjick discusses Indigenous storytelling at Library and Archives Canada as Amanda Strong’s stop-motion short Inkwo for When the Starving Return screens at the Preservation Centre.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Sept. 24, 1976, Joyce Wieland’s The Far Shore brought Canadian landscape, art and the mythology surrounding Tom Thomson into her first commercial feature. #CanadianFilm #JoyceWieland #OnThisDay www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Four women take on Avonlea in Bridget Ryan’s OH, ANNE!, a new musical take on Anne of Green Gables now running at Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre. #CanadianTheatre #AnneOfGreenGables #Edmonton www.scene49.ca/entertainment/oh-anne-edmonton-bridget-ryan
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OH, ANNE! puts four women in charge of Avonlea — SCENE 49
Bridget Ryan’s OH, ANNE! reworks Anne of Green Gables for four women, Maritime-inspired music and inventive staging at Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First Métis Man of Odesa is back onstage in Calgary as Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova begin another Canadian tour of their autobiographical play. #CanadianTheatre #Calgary www.scene49.ca/entertainment/first-metis-man-of-odesa-calgary-2026
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First Métis Man of Odesa returns to the stage in Calgary — SCENE 49
Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova bring their award-winning autobiographical play First Métis Man of Odesa back to the stage in Calgary.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
R.F. Kuang’s Taipei Story tour is moving through Canadian literary festivals and independent bookstores, with sold-out events in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa. #RFKuang #TaipeiStory #CanLit www.scene49.ca/entertainment/rf-kuang-canada-taipei-story-tour
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R.F. Kuang’s Canadian book tour runs through festivals and independent bookstores — SCENE 49
R.F. Kuang’s Taipei Story tour is moving through Canadian literary festivals and independent bookstores, with sold-out events in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa. #RFKuang #TaipeiStory #CanLit
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What does 50 years of Canadian animation look like? OIAF chose 50 favourites from more than 700 Canadian films screened since 1976, with more than two dozen NFB productions making the list. #OIAF #CanadianAnimation #NFB www.scene49.ca/entertainment/oiaf-50-canadian-animation-nfb-retrospective
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OIAF at 50: More than two dozen of its Canadian favourites come from the NFB — SCENE 49
OIAF’s 50th-anniversary retrospective traces five decades of Canadian animation, with more than two dozen NFB films among its 50 selections.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Applications to Artist Project 2027 are free, but a standard booth starts at $3,250 before HST. #CanadianArt #ArtistProject #TorontoArts www.scene49.ca/entertainment/artist-project-2027-cost-independent-artists
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Free to apply, thousands to exhibit: the economics of Artist Project 2027 — SCENE 49
Artist Project 2027 applications are free, but standard booths start at $3,250. We examine the costs facing independent artists in Toronto.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OSAC is testing a one-year youth board position with Leader’s Logan Duchscherer, extending its youth mentorship work into provincial arts governance. #SaskatchewanArts #OSAC www.scene49.ca/entertainment/osac-youth-board-logan-duchscherer
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OSAC tests youth board role as Saskatchewan arts councils plan for succession — SCENE 49
OSAC is testing a one-year youth board position with Leader’s Logan Duchscherer as Saskatchewan arts councils focus on succession planning.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More than 60 artists, 20 cities and no single national lineup: Music Day in Canada is testing whether a countrywide music event can be built around the local scenes. #MusicDayInCanada #CanadianMusic #LiveMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/music-day-in-canada-2026-local-music-scenes
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Music Day in Canada is trying to build a national event without creating one national music scene — SCENE 49
Music Day in Canada connects more than 60 artists across 20 cities on Sept. 26, using local venues and programming to build a national music event.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tai Amy Grauman’s Where Have All the Buffalo Gone? brings Callihoo family history into Western Canadian classrooms this fall, including 17 SSK school stops from Oct. 15 - Nov. 3. #CanadianTheatre #MétisArts #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/tai-amy-grauman-where-have-all-the-buffalo-gone-tour
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Tai Amy Grauman brings Callihoo family history into Western Canadian classrooms — SCENE 49
Métis playwright Tai Amy Grauman brings Callihoo family history into Western Canadian schools with Axis Theatre’s Where Have All the Buffalo Gone?
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From Ice Cove in Nunavut to Snooks Arm in Newfoundland, North of North and Below put two very different pieces of Canadian geography on Netflix. #CanadianTV #Below #NorthOfNorth #Newfoundland #Nunavut www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What happens when a Canadian creature story moves into Newfoundland waters? Below joins a Canadian horror tradition while putting the North Atlantic at the centre of the story. #Below #CanadianTV #CanadianHorror #Newfoundland #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Newfoundland connections behind Netflix’s Below reach from Perry Chafe’s Petty Harbour roots to St. John’s filmmaker Stephen Dunn and creator Jesse McKeown. #Below #Netflix #Newfoundland #CanadianTV #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A cat named Mooz becomes a playful language lesson in Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley’s new picture book, translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. #CanadianBooks #Anishinaabemowin #ChildrensBooks www.scene49.ca/entertainment/mangeshig-pawis-steckley-mooz-moose-anishinaabemowin
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Iannicko N’Doua spent 15 years turning a journey to Côte d’Ivoire and decades of correspondence with his father into his first play, Neige sur Abidjan, coming to Ottawa Oct. 8–10. #CanadianTheatre #NeigeSurAbidjan #Ottawa www.scene49.ca/entertainment/iannicko-ndoua-neige-sur-abidjan-nac
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canadian comedians are renewing their push for formal recognition in Canadian arts policy, with a new Sandra Battaglini policy paper calling for dedicated comedy funding. #CanadianComedy #ComedyIsArt #ArtsFunding www.scene49.ca/entertainment/canadian-comedians-comedy-is-art-arts-funding
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The National Ballet of Canada turns 75 with a season that reaches from Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty to new work, Canadian creators and 40 years of Share the Magic. #NationalBalletOfCanada #CanadianDance #Ballet www.scene49.ca/entertainment/national-ballet-canada-75th-anniversary-season
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Decades before David Suzuki’s Playlist reached the NAC stage, Suzuki was already telling parts of his life through Beethoven, John Lennon and Leonard Cohen. #DavidSuzuki #NACOrchestra #CanadianMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/david-suzuki-playlist-music-life-nac
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kamloops-raised Chelsea Isenor is returning to Western Canada Theatre as executive director, helping form the company’s first all-woman leadership team. #CanadianTheatre #Kamloops #ArtsAndCulture www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Northern Ontario-shot werewolf western Last Moon, Brandon D. Cox’s first feature, heads to Cinéfest Sudbury for a Sept. 24 gala screening. #CanadianFilm #CinefestSudbury #NorthernOntario www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Filipino Canadian filmmaker Joella Cabalu takes the rom-com past the meet-cute in First Comes Love: Nakabingwit, exploring race, culture and communication across relationships in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. #VIFF #CanadianFilm #FilipinoCanadian www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Musqueam cousins Faith Sparrow-Crawford and Scarlett Sparrow-Felix bring a family story of grief and cultural protocols to the screen in Take Care, premiering at VIFF. #VIFF2026 #CanadianFilm #IndigenousFilm #Musqueam www.scene49.ca/entertainment/take-care-viff-2026
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Toronto filmmaker Samantha Chater makes her directing debut with With You, a five-minute 16mm Canadian short having its world premiere at VIFF 2026. #CanadianFilm #VIFF2026 #ShortFilm www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
North Bay-shot Canadian feature Foreign Tongue returns to Northern Ontario for Cinéfest Sudbury on Sept. 26. #CanadianFilm #CinefestSudbury #NorthernOntario www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vancouver ballet leader Chan Hon Goh has been appointed a vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dance, bringing decades in Canadian ballet and dance education to the international organization. #ChanHonGoh #CanadianDance #Ballet www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Sept. 21, 1957, CHBC-TV went on the air in Kelowna, where just 500 Okanagan homes had television sets. #OnThisDay #CanadianTV #Okanagan #BC www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Soran Mardookhi’s NFB documentary *The Flight* follows PS752 families pursuing accountability. It premieres Oct. 8 at VIFF. #CanadianFilm #VIFF2026 #PS752 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/the-flight-soran-mardookhi-ps752
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From Springdale to Fort McMurray, Species and now Below: Newfoundland-born Natasha Henstridge is back in creature territory 31 years after Sil. #NatashaHenstridge #Below #Species #CanadianTV #Newfoundland www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What does it actually mean to “choose Canadian” when it comes to the arts? Michelle Chawla’s Canada Council call puts access, affordability, public funding and international reach on the table. #CanadianArts #CanadianCulture #ArtsFunding #CanadaCouncil
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Victoria filmmaker Arnold Lim draws on his rural B.C. upbringing for The Bryce Lee Story, a 1990s-set Vancouver Island coming-of-age film premiering at VIFF on Oct. 5. #CanadianFilm #VIFF2026 #vancouverisland www.scene49.ca/entertainment/arnold-lim-bryce-lee-story-viff
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Arnold Lim brings rural B.C. experience to The Bryce Lee Story at VIFF — SCENE 49
Arnold Lim draws on his rural B.C. upbringing for The Bryce Lee Story, a Vancouver Island-set coming-of-age film making its world premiere at VIFF.
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
B.C. filmmakers Hayley Gray and Kaayla Whachell bring Send the Rain, their Okinawan-Canadian wildfire drama set in the Interior, to VIFF for its Oct. 2 world premiere. #VIFF #SendTheRain www.scene49.ca/entertainment/bc-filmmakers-hayley-gray-and-kaayla-whachell-bring-send-the-rain-to-viff
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What actually makes a TV show Canadian? Sterling Point, Anna Pigeon, North of North and Canada’s CanCon rules show why the answer can get complicated. #CanadianTV #CanCon #CanadianFilm www.scene49.ca/entertainment/what-makes-tv-show-canadian
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Catherine O’Hara’s Emmy tribute brought her screen children together and opened a look back at the Toronto-born performer’s five-decade career. #CatherineOHara #SchittsCreek #SCTV #CanadianTV www.scene49.ca/entertainment/catherine-ohara-emmys-tribute
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A missing child leads Anna to a family living under false names in the wilderness as Anna Pigeon settles into its case-of-the-week rhythm in Episode 2, “Hide + Seek.” #AnnaPigeon #CanadianTV #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/anna-pigeon-episode-2-recap
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Netflix’s Below arrives Oct. 8 with all 6 episodes at once. Here’s what we know about the Newfoundland-set thriller, from Canadian release times to the cast, story and filming locations. #BelowNetflix #CanadianTV #NetflixCanada www.scene49.ca/entertainment/below-netflix-release-date-cast-episodes
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Netflix’s Below brings a sea monster to Newfoundland, with Canadian writers, performers and production connections running through the six-episode thriller. #Below #NetflixCanada #Newfoundland #CanadianTV #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/below-newfoundland-netflix
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anna Lambe is ELLE Canada’s October cover star, arriving in the middle of a busy fall for the Iqaluit actor, from North of North Season 2 to In the Heart of the South. #AnnaLambe #NorthOfNorth #CanadianTV #InuitFilm www.scene49.ca/entertainment/anna-lambe-elle-canada-cover
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Before the records and JUNOs, Colin James was a Saskatchewan kid playing Prairie clubs he wasn’t old enough to enter. His new memoir Playing the Changes tells those early stories. #ColinJames #CanadianMusic #Saskatchewan www.scene49.ca/entertainment/colin-james-playing-changes
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hudson Williams wondered whether he was doing a “Shane impression” when he returned to Heated Rivalry Season 2. #HudsonWilliams #HeatedRivalry #CanadianTV #Crave www.scene49.ca/entertainment/hudson-williams-heated-rivalry-season-2
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cameron Whitcomb capped his breakout year with three major CCMA wins, including Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year for The Hard Way. #CameronWhitcomb #CCMAAwards #CanadianCountry #CanadianMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/cameron-whitcomb-2026-ccma-wins
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kathleen Robertson says growing up and working as a child actor in Canada helped prepare her for the sudden celebrity that came with Beverly Hills, 90210. #KathleenRobertson #CanadianTV #BeverlyHills90210 #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/kathleen-robertson-child-stardom
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’re starting Anna Pigeon from the beginning: Episode 1 brings a suspicious death, Alberta landscapes, Tracy Spiridakos, Tricia Helfer, Kim Coates and one very questionable cougar attack. #AnnaPigeon #CanadianTV #SCENE49 www.scene49.ca/entertainment/anna-pigeon-episode-1-recap
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On Sept. 21, 1957, CHBC-TV went on the air in Kelowna, where just 500 Okanagan homes had television sets. #OnThisDay #CanadianTV #Okanagan #BC www.scene49.ca/entertainmen...
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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On this day in 2011, Carly Rae Jepsen released “Call Me Maybe” in Canada — and the rest of the world would soon be calling. #OnThisDay #CarlyRaeJepsen #CallMeMaybe #CanadianMusic #CanadianPop www.scene49.ca/entertainment/carly-rae-jepsen-call-me-maybe
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ON THIS DAY: Canada got “Call Me Maybe” — then the world did — SCENE 49
Carly Rae Jepsen's “Call Me Maybe” was released in Canada on September 20, 2011, before becoming a global pop hit and nine-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.
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