Streaming platforms in Canada

APTN+ is the subscription streaming service of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, the Winnipeg non-profit that has carried Indigenous programming across Canada since 1999. It launched in 2019 as APTN lumi and took the name APTN+ in November 2025. The catalogue gathers Indigenous drama, documentaries and children’s shows, with titles in English, French and Indigenous languages such as Cree and Inuktitut. It runs without ads, supports offline downloads, streams up to 1080p and is sold only 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.

Citytv+ is the streaming arm of Rogers Sports and Media, and it is closer to a cable package than to a film library. One subscription opens the live feeds and on-demand catalogues of fourteen Canadian channels at once, from Citytv, Bravo and FX to HGTV, Food Network, Discovery, ID, Magnolia Network and OWN, with the multilingual OMNI service alongside them. It began life inside Prime Video and only became a standalone product in late 2025, which is why its apps still feel newer than the brands they carry. Licensing keeps the whole thing inside Canada, so the account travels only as far as the connection behind it does.

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.

Hollywood Suite is a Canadian movie service that has been running since November 2011. Four decade channels cover the 1970s to today, backed by an on-demand library, and everything plays uncut with no ad breaks alongside exclusive series. Anthem Sports & Entertainment took ownership in June 2025, and the channels reach roughly ten million Canadian homes through Rogers, Bell, TELUS, Cogeco, Eastlink and others. You can subscribe directly via Amazon Prime Video Channels; the Hollywood Suite Go app needs a TV provider login, and the service is available in Canada only.

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.

StackTV is a Canadian streaming bundle that Toronto broadcaster Corus Entertainment launched in June 2019. One subscription covers fifteen live channels, including Global, Flavour Network, Home Network, W Network, The HISTORY Channel, YTV and Treehouse, each backed by an on-demand catalogue. It has no app and no checkout of its own: you subscribe through Amazon Prime Video Channels, which needs a Prime membership, through Rogers Xfinity TV or in the Bell Fibe TV app. Viewing is restricted to Canada, quality tops out at 1080p and offline downloads are not available.

Super Channel+ is the streaming arm of Super Channel, the premium network run by Edmonton-based Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc., and it works in Canada only. It landed on Roku in September 2023 as a pure on-demand library: movies, series and documentaries drawn from the Fuse, Heart & Home, Vault and Quest brands, all commercial-free and uncut. The live channels stay with cable operators rather than the app, which you can open on phones, browsers, smart TVs and streaming boxes. Canadian originals such as TOOTOO and Bif Naked sit alongside the imported titles.

TFO is the free streaming service of Ontario’s French-language public educational media, run from Toronto by Groupe Média TFO. The channel began in 1987 as TVOntario’s French service, took the TFO name in 1997 and became a separate Crown corporation in 2007. tfo.org gathers educational and children’s programming under the Mini TFO and Flip TFO labels, youth drama, in-house originals, documentaries and Canadian cinema. Streaming runs up to 1080p and the video library stops at the Canadian border.

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.

TV5+ is the free streaming platform of TV5 Québec Canada, the Montréal non-profit consortium that has run the TV5 channel since 1988 alongside Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec and TFO. It pools the catch-up catalogues of TV5 and TV5 Unis, roughly 3,000 hours of Québec and Canadian originals, series from across the francophone world, documentaries, stand-up, films and international news. Viewing costs nothing but requires an account, advertising funds part of the service, kids content carries none, and access is limited to Canada.

TVA Sports is the French-language sports channel Groupe TVA, part of Québecor, has run from Québec since 2011. Its standalone subscription, TVA Sports Direct, arrived in 2019 and streams only for viewers in Canada. Hockey drives the schedule: in 2026/27 the channel carries 32 Canadiens regular season games, ten more than last season, plus exclusive French-language rights to their playoff games. Blue Jays baseball, WTA tennis, UFC, Formula E and university football fill the rest; because the stream simulcasts a commercial channel, live coverage carries ad breaks.

TVA+ is the free streaming service of Groupe TVA, the Montreal broadcaster owned by Québecor, and it works inside Canada only. Advertising pays for the whole catalogue, and signing in is optional: an account only adds a watchlist and a resume point. What you get is French-language Québec television, from drama series, comedies and travel, cooking or home renovation shows to films across every genre, documentaries, variety, stand-up, newscasts and live events. You can watch on the web, mobile, Apple TV, Google TV, Fire TV and Roku, in up to 1080p, though without offline downloads.

Télé-Québec is the free streaming platform of Québec’s public educational broadcaster, created by the province in 1968 and run by the Société de télédiffusion du Québec. telequebec.tv pairs a live channel with on-demand documentaries, films, drama, current affairs, cooking and culture shows, plus a Jeunesse children’s section led by the Coucou brand. It is ad-supported, though the operator states the advertising is not personalised. Streaming runs up to 1080p, offline downloads are not offered and the catalogue is available only in Canada.

illico+ is the Québec subscription service of Vidéotron, part of the Québecor group. It was created in October 2024 by merging Club illico, launched in 2013, with the factual platform Vrai. The catalogue passed 8,500 titles at the merger and mixes Québec originals, American and international series, recent films, documentaries, kids programming and live events. Profiles, offline downloads and resume are all supported, streaming runs up to 1080p and the service is sold only in Canada.

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.