CBC/Radio-Canada is honoured to be at the heart of Canada Day 2018 celebrations across the country, with extensive news coverage and entertainment programming on all English and French platforms.
“As the Canada Day broadcaster, we’re proud to bring together Canadians to enjoy live performances from the best in well-known and emerging artists from across the country,” said Hubert T. Lacroix, CBC/Radio-Canada’s President & CEO. “Canada is a world leader when it comes to developing diverse creative talent, whether it’s music, television, film or the performing arts. This July 1st, let’s all gather in our communities and celebrate together our nation’s creators, artists and performers and their contributions to making Canada the country it is today.”
CBC/Radio-Canada’s Canada Day lineup
Sunday, July 1, 11:00 a.m. ET – 2:00 p.m. ET (8 a.m. PT – 11 a.m. PT)
CBC NEWS SPECIAL PRESENTATION: CANADA DAY 2018
Hosted by Rosemary Barton, this three-hour CBC News special will air on CBC, CBC News Network and cbc.ca/watch. CBC reporters Tashauna Reid, Vassy Kapelos, Charlsie Agro, Renée Filippone and Kayla Hounsell will update Barton on Canada Day celebrations happening across the country.
Sunday, July 1, 12:00 p.m. ET
RADIO-CANADA : LA FÊTE DU CANADA SUR LA COLLINE DU PARLEMENT
Céline Galipeau hosts this special broadcast with Daniel Thibeault, live from Ottawa. In front of thousands of Canadians, Governor General Julie Payette, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will celebrate Canada Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The ceremony will feature a variety of performances, as singer Marième and writer Lisa Charleyboy welcome a lineup of artists onstage to join the celebration, including Arkells, Lights, Brigitte Boisjoli, Iskwé, Jean-Marc Couture, Rose Cousins and Martina Ortiz Luis. The program will be simulcast on ICI RADIO-CANADA TÉLÉ and ICI RDI from noon to 2 p.m. ET.
Also starting at 12:00 p.m. ET on radio, host Philippe Marcoux covers highlights from the ceremony with reporter Madeleine Blais-Morin as part of the special program LE CANADA EN FÊTE on ICI RADIO-CANADA PREMIÈRE.
Sunday, July 1, 9:00 p.m. ET – 10:00 p.m. ET (10:30 p.m. NT – 11:30 p.m. NT)
CANADA DAY IN THE CAPITAL/LA FÊTE DU CANADA DANS LA CAPITALE
This bilingual Canada Day special from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill features fireworks and electrifying musical performances by Arkells, DJ Shub, Lights, Klô Pelgag, Iskwé, Boogát, Jean-Marc Couture, Rose Cousins, Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine, Ruth B, The Dead South and Brigitte Boisjoli.
The special will broadcast on CBC, ICI RADIO-CANADA TÉLÉ, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, cbc.ca/watch and radio-canada.ca. A one-hour lead-in radio program hosted by Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe and Pete Morey will also air before the special at 8 p.m. ET (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC Radio One and CBC Music.
Was just listening to a CBC Canada Day program and was thrown back to Juniper School in Thompson, MB. They had given different songwriters the challenge to write a song from a randomly-chosen item from the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The last two songwriters had drawn the “Oh Canada” Bilingual Board Game. Boy, do I know THAT one!
Back in 1976 I was teaching Elementary Music in Juniper School. I saw an ad in a magazine where you could order – for FREE – a bilingual board game about Canada that had the game, colouring book, and floppy record. So I filled out the form and . . . ordered enough that all 645 students in my school could get one. I thought they’d be little, compact things.
Some time later, my Principal came up to my music room and said, “There’s a Transfer truck here with a shipment for you.” I thought there was some mistake. Nope. There were cartons – CARTONS full of the board games. I’m not certain, but I believe there were about 24 per carton. Anyway, the entire lobby was filled with about 30 large cartons! After enlisting the help of the Grade 7 and 8 students we managed to get them up the 18 very steep stairs to my music room, and I spent the rest of the week handing them out to the kids. And I taught every class the song on the record. It was great. Today when they said (amid much laughter) that they were going to play the song, I knew what it was going to be. I sang along, remembering every word. And you know what? I still think it’s a GREAT song!
I couldn’t help but wonder if any of the ‘kids’ from that year were listening to CBC today and thinking, “Hey – I think I remember that song!”
JUST ONE SONG
Chorus:
Come lift your voice, and lend your harmony
And we can sing this song together –
From the east and west, join a melody that’s strong –
“O Canada” will be one song
Fishing thru the frozen northern seas –
Sweating in the fields and factories –
Many songs we’re hummin’
Diff’rent drummers drummin’
Makes no difference what you sing –
Come lift your voice, and lend your harmony
And we can sing this song together –
From the east and west, join a melody that’s strong –
“O Canada” is just one song
Window shopping on a crowded street –
Strolling slowly through a field of what –
Any place you’re goin’
You can go there knowin’
You’ve got friends to sing along
Come lift your voice, and lend your harmony
And we can sing this song together –
From the east and west, join a melody that’s strong –
“O Canada” is just one song
Soaring swiftly up on wings of steel –
Rockin’, rollin’, bump-bump wagon wheels –
Anywhere you hear it
Feel it raise your spirit
Makes no difference who you are
Come lift your voice, and lend your harmony
And we can sing this song together –
From the east and west, join a melody that’s strong –
“O Canada” is just one song