Streaming platforms in Canada

CBC Gem is the English-language streaming service of CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s public broadcaster, launched in 2018. It pairs a free, ad-supported library of Canadian and British series, films, documentaries and kids’ shows with a Premium tier that drops the ads and adds the live CBC News Network. Highlights include Schitt’s Creek, Murdoch Mysteries and Heartland. It streams in up to 1080p and is available only in Canada.

Global TV is the free, ad-supported streaming app of Corus Entertainment, home to one of Canada’s main private broadcast networks. It offers on-demand episodes of Global shows, 24/7 Global News feeds, free live FAST channels and a catalogue of series and films. Hits aired on Global include Survivor, NCIS and the Chicago franchise. Many specialty channels require a Canadian TV-provider sign-in. It streams in up to 1080p and is available only in Canada.

ICI Tou.tv is the French-language streaming service of Radio-Canada, the French arm of public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada, and the francophone counterpart to CBC Gem. Launched in 2010, it offers Quebec series, films, documentaries, kids’ programming and live TV, with a free ad-supported tier and a paid plan, ICI Tou.tv EXTRA, that removes ads and unlocks exclusive originals and early releases. Titles include Lakay Nou and Bedaine. It streams in up to 1080p and is available only in Canada.

RDS, or Réseau des sports, is Canada’s leading French-language sports network and the francophone sister of TSN, owned by Bell Media (80%) with ESPN (20%). Across RDS, RDS2 and RDS Info plus the RDS app it carries the Montreal Canadiens, Formula 1, the Super Bowl in French, NASCAR, the Tour de France, MLS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The stream is sold only to Canadian subscribers, so abroad it geo-blocks. A VPN with a Canadian IP address brings it back.

Sportsnet+ is the subscription sports streaming service of Rogers Sports & Media, the national home of the NHL in Canada. Formerly Sportsnet NOW, it carries live hockey, Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Toronto Raptors basketball, UFC, soccer and tennis, plus on-demand replays. The Standard plan covers national and regional games, while the pricier Premium tier adds out-of-market NHL matchups. It is paid-only, streams in up to 1080p, and works solely within Canada.

TSN, short for The Sports Network, is Canada’s leading English-language sports network, owned by Bell Media (80%) with ESPN (20%). Across five national channels and the TSN streaming app it carries the CFL and Grey Cup, NFL, Formula 1, tennis Grand Slams, NBA, regional NHL and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The stream is sold only to Canadian subscribers, so abroad it geo-blocks. A VPN with a Canadian IP address restores your feed.

Crave is Bell Media’s Canadian streaming service, launched in 2014. It bundles HBO and Max content, Showtime, and Crave Originals alongside Hollywood films, all in one library available only in Canada (across 1 markets in our coverage). Since late 2025 it offers two tiers: Standard with Ads and an ad-free Premium plan with 4K and household streaming. Starz is sold as a separate add-on.

DAZN is a sports-first streaming service built to compete with traditional pay-TV sports channels. The schedule shifts dramatically from country to country: in Germany it carries the Bundesliga and Champions League matches, in Italy it owns the majority of Serie A, in Japan it runs baseball and boxing. The global side of DAZN remains its combat sports division, where it has become one of the biggest buyers of marquee boxing pay-per-view events.

Netflix didn’t invent streaming but it set the rules everyone else now plays by. With 325 million paying subscribers across 190 countries and a stable of shows like Squid Game, Stranger Things and Wednesday, it still defines what mainstream streaming looks like. Recent pushes into live sports and ad-supported plans show the company is willing to bend its own playbook when the market demands it.

Max is Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempt to keep everything important in one app: HBO’s prestige catalogue, the DC Universe, Warner Bros. theatrical slate and the reality-heavy Discovery library. The product still leans on HBO’s reputation for Sunday-night event TV (Succession, The Last of Us, House of the Dragon) but the expanded library means there is something for almost every household.

Apple TV+ takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else: no licensed back catalogue, only original productions. The result is a comparatively small library where misses are rare and hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses and For All Mankind have picked up Emmys. A single tier covers 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos, and the service is bundled into Apple One for households already invested in the Apple ecosystem.

Prime Video lives inside the wider Prime bundle, so streaming is only part of what you’re paying for. The content mix is unusual: splashy originals (The Boys, The Rings of Power, Reacher) sit next to a huge catalogue of movies available to rent or buy and a growing set of optional add-on Channels. Prime has also turned into a heavyweight in live sports, from Thursday Night Football to Champions League in select markets.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is Taylor Sheridan’s growing slate of originals (the Yellowstone spin-offs 1923 and Lawman: Bass Reeves, plus Tulsa King), with Star Trek carrying the sci-fi side and South Park providing the decades-old evergreen. In select regions the service also carries NFL games and UEFA Champions League, blurring the line with traditional sports packages.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic sit alongside the general-entertainment hub Star. It launched globally in November 2019 and reached the Czech Republic in June 2022. Most markets now offer three tiers: an ad-supported entry plan plus the ad-free Standard (Full HD) and Premium (4K HDR with Dolby Atmos), while a few countries such as the Czech Republic keep only the two ad-free plans. Annual billing trims roughly two months off the yearly cost.

FIAWEC+ is the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the global stage for long-distance motorsport. It is run jointly by the championship and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the ACO in Le Mans, France, which means the feeds come straight from the people behind the racing. The service carries every WEC session and the complete 24 Hours of Le Mans, with onboard cameras, Live Timing Pro and a multi-season archive on top. You also get WEC Originals and the behind-the-scenes WEC Insider documentaries, all in crisp 1080p HD. There is no built-in smart-TV app, but Chromecast and AirPlay push it to the big screen.

FIFA+ is FIFA’s free, ad-supported football platform, and since June 2026 it lives inside DAZN after the standalone FIFA+ app was retired. At no cost it opens up the complete men’s and women’s World Cup archive, the original FIFA+ documentaries, and, in selected territories, thousands of live grassroots, women’s and lower-division matches. Note that FIFA+ does not carry the main 2026 World Cup fixtures, which stay with national broadcasters.

MotoGP VideoPass is the official streaming service of the road racing world championship, operated by Dorna Sports (renamed MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group in 2026, majority-owned by Liberty Media and headquartered in Madrid). It carries every MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE session live, from practice and qualifying through sprints to the races themselves, across all 22 Grands Prix of the 2026 season. A six-angle Multifeed lets you switch between camera views, including onboard shots, while Multiview stacks several feeds on one screen and a deep archive reaches back to 1992. Everything streams in 1080p on the web, mobiles, tablets, and the major connected-TV platforms.

NWSL+ is the National Women’s Soccer League’s own free, ad-supported streaming app, built on Endeavor Streaming technology. Sign up with an email and you can watch live matches, replays and highlights from every game across more than 130 countries. The 2026 season grew to 16 teams, including new clubs Denver Summit FC and Boston Legacy FC. In the United States many marquee fixtures sit with partners like Prime Video and ESPN, so NWSL+ carries only the leftover live games at home. A VPN simply changes your location.

Rally.TV is the official streaming home of the FIA World Rally Championship, operated by Germany’s WRC Promoter. It started life in 2014 as WRC+ and took on its current name in August 2023. Alongside the WRC itself you get the European Rally Championship, World Rallycross and the support classes WRC2, WRC3 and Junior WRC. Every special stage runs live, backed by real-time GPS tracking, onboard cameras from every car, condensed highlights and a deep archive. The 2026 season spans fourteen rounds. It works on the web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV and Chromecast, plus there’s a free ad-supported channel, Rally.TV FAST+, on Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Rakuten TV and Pluto TV.

RugbyPass TV is World Rugby’s own free, ad-supported streaming service, run out of the governing body’s Dublin headquarters and launched back in August 2023, a fortnight before that year’s World Cup kicked off. There’s no fee at all; you just create a free account and start watching. The catalogue spans the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup, WXV, the Pacific Nations Cup, the U20 Championship and HSBC SVNS sevens plus qualifiers, topped up with more than 10,000 hours of archive and World Rugby Studios originals. One catch: individual fixtures get blacked out wherever a local broadcaster holds the rights, such as Stan in Australia or Peacock in the States.

Tennis TV is the official live streaming home of the ATP Tour, men’s professional tennis, run by ATP Media out of Wimbledon in London. It carries every ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500 and ATP 250 event, plus the Nitto ATP Finals and the Next Gen ATP Finals, adding up to more than 2,500 matches a year and over 40,000 hours of replays in the archive. One subscription works across 200 plus territories, everything streams in HD, and a spoiler-free mode keeps results hidden until you press play. What you won’t find here are the four Grand Slams or the women’s WTA tour.

TrillerTV, the service once known as FITE, is a global home for combat sports and professional wrestling. It carries boxing, including the bare-knuckle promotion BKFC, which it streams exclusively, alongside MMA and the striking action of Muay Thai and kickboxing through GLORY. Wrestling fans get GCW, NJPW, TNA, MLW and ROH, most of it live as it happens. The platform runs more than 1,000 live events a year. Operated by Flipps Media under Triller Group, it is available almost anywhere, though individual cards can carry regional blackouts. You choose how to watch: a free ad-supported tier, the TrillerTV+ subscription, or a one-off pay-per-view.

UEFA.tv is UEFA’s official free streaming service, available worldwide once you create a free account. Be clear on one thing: the big live games (Champions League, Europa League, the Euros) are not shown live here, only post-match highlights. What you can watch live for free are the youth competitions (U17, U19, U21 and the Youth League), selected women’s football, futsal and the live draws, alongside an archive of classic finals, documentaries and magazine shows. The 2024 revamp brought DVR, picture-in-picture and offline downloads in up to 1080p.

VBTV (Volleyball World TV) is the official streaming service of Volleyball World, the joint venture between the FIVB and CVC Capital Partners. It carries international volleyball live and on demand: the Volleyball Nations League for men and women, the FIVB World Championships, the Beach Pro Tour, and a clutch of domestic leagues, among them Italy’s SuperLega, Poland’s PlusLiga, Japan’s SV.LEAGUE and Brazil’s Superliga. The app first launched in 2018 and was relaunched in September 2024. It is available worldwide, but matches are blacked out in markets where local broadcasters hold the rights, such as DAZN in Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan, Polsat in Poland and Globo in Brazil.