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Chelsea Muirhead knows how to play an overworked surgical intern, because she was once a struggling actor
The Mississauga, Ont., actor says all of the late-night bartending shifts and early-morning call times helped prepare her for the role of Dr. Sophie Chan on the Netflix medical procedural, Pulse.
Arts 6 hours ago
Canadian Film
'I wanted to make an October crisis film meets Alice in Wonderland'
Death Does Not Exist is a richly-animated film from Quebec appearing at Cannes 2025. We talked to the director Félix Dufour-Laperrière about the paradox of political violence and the unbearableness of reality.
Radheyan Simonpillai
Arts May 15
Killer filmmaking: Meet the Vancouver-based duo who made the new Final Destination 'a classier affair'
The filmmakers behind Final Destination: Bloodlines, Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, tell us about embracing death and cinematic details
Radheyan Simonpillai
Arts May 14
Canada brings living experiment to the Venice Architecture Biennale
These 3D-printed structures, which are capable of capturing greenhouse gas, will grow and change over the course of the exhibition.
Leah Collins
Arts May 14
Kurdish refugee artist paints 'stories that need to be told'
Diary Marif
Arts May 12
When chronic illness is your full-time job
Morgan Mullin
Arts May 9

This new book explores the Art of Dancehall, and features Toronto in a massive way

Let's hear it for all the mothers (and aunts!) who raised us — including the ones onscreen

Anne T. Donahue

Srutika Sabu graduated medical school. Then she became a clown

He had his 1st solo show months before he died. Now, friends are making sure his art lives on

Hillary LeBlanc

Love You Wrong Time uncovers the horrors of dating as an Asian woman

Re-introducing Judi Singh. New doc tells the very Canadian story of a Black-Punjabi jazz sensation

Rainy days don't have to be gloomy. Just look at this joyful CBC Arts logo by Evelyn Tan

Art of Letting Go

In this creative experiment, we ask artists to make pieces they know will be destroyed

Why I needed to tell the story of Pernell Bad Arm, the extraordinary man behind the #skoden meme

Damien Eagle Bear

Our film uncovers over 140 years of lost stories from the incredible women who lived in the same house

Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh

How I learned the beauty of a simple life from my 90-year-old aunt who lives alone in rural Manitoba

How do you let out your raw emotions? This artist has made a room that screams

Rosemary Flutur

I needed to make a film about Palestinian women persevering

Elizabeth Vibert

Her brother vanished at sea. But there's a bigger mystery at the heart of this doc

What the anxious hero of my documentary can teach us all about happiness

Destination: Art

The Alberta artist building a fence that keeps pipelines away

The fight for 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada is a story of love and resistance

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