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<\/p>\nLast year, the drag competition series netted eight wins, including best reality\/competition series.<\/p>\n
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This year, that honour went to \u201cThe Traitors Canada,\u201d its sole award of the night.<\/p>\n
And the love for drag didn\u2019t end with \u201cCanada\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d as the Crave series \u201cDrag Brunch Saved My Life\u201d picked up two Canadian Screen Awards on Friday.<\/p>\n
The drag makeover show won for best lifestyle program or series and best lifestyle host for Priyanka \u2014 who was the champion of the first season of \u201cCanada\u2019s Drag Race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday night\u2019s big winners also included \u201cBam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story,\u201d which took home five Canadian Screen Awards including best directing, writing, editing, sound and original music for a documentary program.<\/p>\n
The made-for-TV documentary, which streams on Crave, explores the history of Sister Nancy\u2019s reggae song \u201cBam Bam,\u201d which is one of the most sampled vocals ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Hour Has 22 Minutes\u201d took home three awards, including for best sketch comedy show and ensemble performance, and best direction and best writing for a variety or sketch comedy show.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, at a separate ceremony for broadcast news and sports, CityNews Toronto won two prizes \u2014 one for best local news anchor for Cynthia Mulligan and one for best local reporter for Afua Baah.<\/p>\n
CTV\u2019s investigative program \u201cW5\u201d won for best news or information series and best photography.<\/p>\n
And for the first time, APTN National News won for the best national newscast. <\/p>\n
Sportsnet\u2019s Dan Shulman won best sports play-by-play announcer for his work during Toronto Blue Jays games, while Kevin Bieksa of \u201cHockey Night in Canada\u201d won best sports analyst.<\/p>\n
Sportsnet\u2019s broadcast of the 4 Nations Face-off Championship: Canada vs. USA took home the award for best live sports event, and Franklin Rubinstein won best direction of a live sports event for TSN\u2019s broadcast of the 2025 World Junior Gold Medal Game.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Screen Awards broadcast will air Sunday evening on CBC, CTV and Global, as well as their streaming services.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2026.<\/p>\n
Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, the drag competition series netted eight wins, including best reality\/competition series. This year, that honour went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-248445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}