🍁 How to Watch & Listen to CBC’s Canada Day 2026 Live Coverage 🍁
🍁Your Complete Guide to Cross-Country Specials, Interactive Local Community Events & Live Performances 🍁
Get ready to celebrate! On Canada Day, join us for an unforgettable, coast-to-coast-to-coast party across every CBC platform. Dive into our complete guide below to discover exactly where and when to tune in for all the action.
CBC Canada Day 2026 Concert:
Lineup and how to watch
Beginning at 8/9:30 NT live from Ottawa at LeBreton Flats, Isabelle Racicot will host the evening concert special Celebrating our Canada!, featuring memorable performances from across the country.
🎵Canadian artists and special guests who will rock the stage include: Alessia Cara, Barenaked Ladies, Beatrice Deer, MICO, Paul Langlois (The Tragically Hip), Adam Baldwin, Andrina Turenne (Winnipeg), Begonia (Winnipeg), Diane Dufresne, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Gabs Bouchard, Isabelle Boulay, Lisa LeBlanc (Moncton), 🎶 Noeline Hofmann, Pierre Lapointe, P’tit Belliveau, and Sylvia Cloutier. 🎤
🎆The show will be presented in English, French and American and Quebec Sign Language and will be followed by fireworks to close out the night at 10 pm ET. 🎆
You can find it everywhere you watch CBC including CBC TV. 👇👇
CBC Gem:
gem.cbc.ca/
CBC’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/user/CBCtv
Live CBC coverage, all day long
Start the day early with CBC News live coverage at 6 am ET on CBC News Network, CBC Gem and CBC News streaming platforms (8 am ET on CBC TV) with David Common live from Halifax.
Adrienne Arsenault and Omar Dabaghi-Pacheco take over from LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa at 10 am ET with reporters and special guests.
📻 On CBC Radio and CBC Listen, live coverage from LeBreton Flats starts at 11 am ET with hosts Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Catherine Cullen. *also available with ASL 🫲👌🫶
🤔Share your thoughts on what it means to be Canadian in 2026 on Call-In Canada, a live Canada Day call-in show hosted by Saroja Coelho at 2 pm ET, available on all CBC platforms.
Ian Hanomansing and Gloria Macarenko take over from Banff at 4 pm ET to connect with Canadians celebrating across the country. 🍁
WATCH | Give someone a national shoutout on Canada Day: 👇 👇
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📢 This Canada Day, we're handing CBC over for your shout outs — so we can celebrate all the people who make this country a better place. Send your video to ask@cbc.ca | Be sure to say the name of the person and why you are giving them a shout out. ~
🍁At 7 pm (8 AT, 8:30 NT) a special concert pre-show hosted by Arsenault and Abdelmahmoud will feature interviews with performers and highlight how Canadians from coast to coast to coast are celebrating Canada.
This programming can be found on CBC Radio, CBC Listen, CBC TV, CBC News Network and CBC Gem.
On CBC Music 🎶
Join
CBCMusic.ca with 10 Songs with Surprising Canadian Connections 👇👇
cbc.ca/music/bts-rihanna-the… and live coverage from the Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa.
Mornings guest-host Grant Lawrence will present a special Trans-Canada Playlist of songs, while Julie Nesrallah will present the best in Canadian classical music on Tempo. About Time’s Tim Allen will share music by composers from every province and territory, and Drive with host Rich Terfry celebrates with an all-Canadian road trip show, paying homage to the exhilarating and exhausting life on the road for Canadian musicians.
Following the Celebrating our Canada!
concert hosted by Terfry, Afterdark with Odario Williams brings an all-Canadian line up of moody grooves and tunes for late-night celebrations.
In-person CBC Canada Day events
CBC also kicks off It’s a Canada Thing Summer Tour with colorful in-person kiosks in four cities:
1. Bower Ponds in Red Deer, Alta.,
bowerponds.ca/
2. Wascana Park in Regina, Sask.
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3. The Forks in Winnipeg, Man.
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4. Chinguacousy Park in Brampton, Ont.
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Where they can participate in a “My Canada Thing is…” photo opp, compete in Canadiana trivia, and win fun CBC prizes.
You can also celebrate Canada Day in-person at Victoria Park
cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-ed… in Charlottetown. Strike a pose in the photo booth, meet CBC P.E.I. personalities and CBC Kids’ lovable Daniel Tiger.
🍁 Celebrate Canada Day on our FAST channels 🍁
The Murdoch Mysteries FAST channel 👇
gem.cbc.ca/live/41508 will be highlighting episodes of the long-running drama series that feature real-life historic Canadians, while CBC Comedy 👇
gem.cbc.ca/live/41508 will be offering a Still Standing marathon, showcasing the beauty of Canada and the hidden comedy found in its small towns.
Find out more about CBC’s Canada Day programming at
cbc.ca/canadaday
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