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Streaming in Canada on Crave, Disney+ and Netflix [Dec. 27-Jan. 2]

Every week, MobileSyrup outlines some of the most notable movies and TV shows that recently hit Canadian streaming platforms.

Our ‘Streaming in Canada’ column typically focuses on new content from Amazon Prime Video, Crave and Netflix, but other services like Apple TV+ and Disney+ will be mentioned when relevant.

We’ll also highlight shows or movies that are made by Canadian companies, involve notable Canadian cast or crew and/or are filmed in Canada.

Crave

Doctor Who — Eve of the Daleks

ELF storage owner Sarah (Living With Yourself‘s Aisling Bea) and Nick (Dreaming Whilst Black‘s Adjani Salmon), her customer, join the TARDIS crew to fight the Daleks.

Jodie Whitaker (The Doctor), Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) and Yaz (John Bishop) also reprise their roles.

Crave premiere date: January 1st, 2022
Genre: Sci-fi
Runtime: TBA

Stream Doctor Who — Eve of the Daleks here.

Harry Potter: 20th Anniversary Return to Hogwarts

To celebrate 20 years since the North American theatrical release of The Philosopher’s Stone, the cast and crew of the Harry Potter series have finally reunited.

Join Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron), Emma Watson (Hermione), Christopher Columbus (director of the first two films), Tom Felton (Malfoy), Gary Oldman (Sirius), Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) and more as they reflect on two decades of the beloved Potter films.

Crave/HBO Max premiere date: January 1st, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: TBA

Stream Harry Potter: 20th Anniversary Return to Hogwarts here. It’s worth noting that all eight Harry Potter films are also streaming on Crave.

A standard Crave subscription is priced at $19.99/month, with Starz costing an additional $5.99/month. A mobile-only subscription is also available for $9.99/month.

The full list of movies and shows that hit Crave in December can be found here.

Disney+

The Book of Boba Fett [Disney+ Original]

Boba Fett and Fennec Shand vie for control of the territory once controlled by Jabba the Hutt.

The series is a spin-off of The Mandalorian that sees Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen reprising their roles of Boba and Fennec, respectively.

Disney+ Canada premiere date: December 29th, 2021 (first episode, new episodes weekly)
Genre: Sci-fi
Runtime: Seven episodes (around 30-40 minutes each)

Stream The Book of Boba Fett here.

A Disney+ subscription costs $11.99/month or $119.99/year in Canada.

The full list of movies and shows that hit Disney+ in December can be found here.

Netflix

Cobra Kai (Season 4) [Netflix Original]

Daniel LaRusso’s Miyagi-do and Johnny Lawrence’s Eagle Fang face off against John Kreese and Terry Silver.

Cobra Kai was created by Josh Heald (Hot Tub Time Machine), Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (Harold & Kumar series) and features Ralph Maccio, William Zabka and John Cove reprising their respective Karate Kid roles of Danny, Johnny and Kreese, while Courtney Henggeler (The Big Bang Theory), Xolo Maridueña (Parenthood) and Tanner Buchanan (Designated Survivor) co-star.

Netflix Canada release date: December 31st, 2021
Genre: Comedy-drama
Runtime: 10 episodes (30 to 41 minutes each)

Stream Cobra Kai here.

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer [Netflix Original]

Director Joe Berlinger (Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel) takes a look at the “Torso Killer” who preyed on women in 1970s New York City.

Netflix Canada premiere date: December 29th, 2021
Genre: True crime documentary
Runtime: Five episodes (individual length TBA)

Stream Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer here.

The Lost Daughter [Netflix Original]

After becoming obsessed with another woman and her daughter, Leda Caruso begins to unravel memories of her own mother.

Based on Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, The Lost Daughter was written and directed (directorial debut) by Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Deuce) and stars Olivia Colman (The Father), Dakota Johnson (The Peanut Butter Falcon), Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass) and Ed Harris (The Hours).

Netflix Canada premiere date: December 31st, 2021
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute

Stream The Lost Daughter here.

Queer Eye (Season 6) [Netflix Original]

The Fab 5 takes its signature feed-good brand to Texas.

Netflix Canada premiere date: December 31st, 2021
Genre: Reality
Runtime: TBA

Stream Queer Eye here.

A ‘Basic’ Netflix subscription costs $9.99/month, a ‘Standard’ subscription (HD-supported) costs $14.99/month and a ‘Premium’ membership is priced at $18.99/month (4K-supported).

The full list of movies and shows that hit Netflix Canada in December can be found here.

What are you planning on streaming this week? Let us know in the comments.

Image credit: Lucasfilm

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Fido offering 35GB of data for $60 to select customers

Fido is offering a pretty sweet deal to some of its existing customers, according to a RedFlagDeals user.

Select customers will see some pretty sick deals on their accounts.

  • $80/40GB
  • $70/40GB
  • $55/30GB
  • $60/35GB
  • $45/20GB

The plans come to offer unlimited Canada-wide calling and unlimited international SMS/MMS, as well as caller ID, voicemail, etc.

If you don’t see these plans, Fido and the other subbrands are offering 17GB of data for $55 per month deals, which isn’t as good as $55 for 30GB, but still not a bad deal.

Source: RedFlagDeals, Via: iPhone in Canada 

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Fido offering 35GB of data for $60 to select customers

Fido is offering a pretty sweet deal to some of its existing customers, according to a RedFlagDeals user.

Select customers will see some pretty sick deals on their accounts.

  • $80/40GB
  • $70/40GB
  • $55/30GB
  • $60/35GB
  • $45/20GB

The plans come to offer unlimited Canada-wide calling and unlimited international SMS/MMS, as well as caller ID, voicemail, etc.

If you don’t see these plans, Fido and the other subbrands are offering 17GB of data for $55 per month deals, which isn’t as good as $55 for 30GB, but still not a bad deal.

Source: RedFlagDeals, Via: iPhone in Canada 

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Fido offering 35GB of data for $60 to select customers

Fido is offering a pretty sweet deal to some of its existing customers, according to a RedFlagDeals user.

Select customers will see some pretty sick deals on their accounts.

  • $80/40GB
  • $70/40GB
  • $55/30GB
  • $60/35GB
  • $45/20GB

The plans come to offer unlimited Canada-wide calling and unlimited international SMS/MMS, as well as caller ID, voicemail, etc.

If you don’t see these plans, Fido and the other subbrands are offering 17GB of data for $55 per month deals, which isn’t as good as $55 for 30GB, but still not a bad deal.

Source: RedFlagDeals, Via: iPhone in Canada 

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Mobile Syrup

Fido offering 35GB of data for $60 to select customers

Fido is offering a pretty sweet deal to some of its existing customers, according to a RedFlagDeals user.

Select customers will see some pretty sick deals on their accounts.

  • $80/40GB
  • $70/40GB
  • $55/30GB
  • $60/35GB
  • $45/20GB

The plans come to offer unlimited Canada-wide calling and unlimited international SMS/MMS, as well as caller ID, voicemail, etc.

If you don’t see these plans, Fido and the other subbrands are offering 17GB of data for $55 per month deals, which isn’t as good as $55 for 30GB, but still not a bad deal.

Source: RedFlagDeals, Via: iPhone in Canada 

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Nida Zafar’s favourite things of 2021

2021 was an eventful year.

Vaccines were made available to anyone who wanted one, and Ontario’s reopening this past summer reminded me of what life was like prior to the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean the past year wasn’t difficult.

With thousands of COVID-19 cases being reported each day, and the emergence of one variant after another, my anxiety around the virus never waivered. It was the limitations, and small ounces of freedom, presented by the pandemic that dictated what I did over the year and, surprisingly, shaped my list of favourites.

The vaccine

Image credit: ShutterStock

The various vaccines against COVID-19 are at the top of my list as they created a safety net against the virus, and for the first time since March 2020, gave me hope that things might get back to normal.

Although that’s far from the truth at this point in time, given the spread of Omicron and the very little that’s known about it, the fact that something was created to fight COVID-19 is pretty amazing.

If you’re like me and follow a lot of health professionals on social media, you may have heard them say “thank you science” whenever they got vaccinated. As someone who feels strongly about getting vaccinated, science is indeed the thing to thank.

Netflix’s Lupin

A “gentleman thief” trying to clear his dead father’s name, is there a better storyline than that? Netflix was full of amazing shows this year — You, Money Heist, and Squid Games, just to name a few — but Lupin was the most memorable for me during the multiple lockdowns in Ontario.

The show retells the story of Arsene Lupin, a French thief who’s a master of disguise, through the character of Assane Diop, the only child of his immigrant father from Senegal. His father is framed for stealing an expensive jewel from his former employer. He eventually hangs himself after being wrongly imprisoned. Diop uses Lupin’s tricks to avenge his father and prove the real thief.

The best food app

Food waste is a major problem in Canada. According to Second Harvest, 35.5 million metric tonnes of food is wasted every year. This is about 60 percent of the food produced in the country. Considering the rising number of foodbank use during the pandemic, and the larger issue of food insecurity in Canada and around the world, coming across these numbers from Second Harvest left a pit in my stomach. It made me reevaluate my shopping habits and the food that gets wasted in my household and I learned there are a number of initiatives that fight this.

My favourite, and most used, is Too Good To Go. The app connects people to restaurants and markets that have extra food that would be thrown out if not consumed. Each location makes up “surprise bags” with whatever they have leftover and sells them at discounted prices. I’ve found most bags to be around the $5 mark. I’ve come across restaurants, coffee shops, juice bars, and grocers offering these bags and found I’m trying places I normally wouldn’t frequent.

It can be a little tricky if you have certain dietary restrictions, but there is an option for customers to call the store they want a bag from before they pay to try and get more information.

Favourite book

Like most, I’ve worked the entirety of the past year at home, staring at a screen for upwards of 12-hours a day at times. So when it came time to take a breather, I often turned to a book to give my eyes a little break from the searing light of the screen.

One of my favourites this year was The Killer Inside by Cass Green. I’m one of those people who enjoys reading and watching crime-related content in my free time, and this book is right up my alley. It features lies, mysteries, and one plot twist after another, making for a perfect read.

Otter.ai

The transcription app is tried and true for most in the journalism industry. It allows users to upload recorded interviews into a database to be transcribed. I can honestly say that it has saved me hours of time this past year. The best part is the search feature, which allows me to look up certain words in the interview.

This is especially useful in longer interviews as I don’t have to go through the entire transcript to find a specific quote I need, and can just search for a key term instead.

Here’s to hoping next year’s list involves more outdoor favourites!

Image credits: ShutterStock and Netflix

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Barely anyone is using the COVID Alert app

Canadians are not using the COVID Alert app as cases surge across the country.

During November, there were 18,900 new cases in Ontario, but the COVID Alert app was only used 869 times to report cases, according to CityNews. It’s still unclear if this falls on people for not inputting codes into the app or public health units for not giving out and explaining the codes, but as cases explode moving towards 2022, this isn’t a great thing to see.

While, in theory, the app should help limit the spread of the virus, it had a rocky run ever since it was announced.

The app cost around $20 million to develop and advertise, yet it still did;t pick up mass adoption amongst Canadians. As far as we can tell around six and a half million people downloaded the app, but that’s not a huge amount compared to Canada’s population.

It’s worth noting that these numbers are from November, and it’s likely more people are using the app in December considering how high these numbers are.

If you want to download the app, you can get it on Android here and iOS here. You can learn more about the app and how it works here.

Source: CityNews

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Nest Hub Max may soon switch over to Fuchsia OS

While Google quietly released Fuchsia OS to the first-generation Nest Hub earlier this year, the operating system is now heading to the Nest Hub Max.

According to a comment that was posted to the Fuchsia code change, Google is prepping an update for the Nest Hub Max that will change its system from the Linux-based Cast OS to Fuchsia OS.

Spotted by 9to5Google, Fuchsia is in its final stage of internal testing for the smart home device. Considering the change wasn’t very noticeable on the Nest Hub, it’s unlikely to be all that big of a deal on this larger variant.

Fuschia is Google’s own operating system that is made for its smart home devices. However, not a lot is known about it yet and it could amount to more in the future.

Source: 9to5Google

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Nest Hub Max may soon switch over to Fuchsia OS

While Google quietly released Fuchsia OS to the first-generation Nest Hub earlier this year, the operating system is now heading to the Nest Hub Max.

According to a comment that was posted to the Fuchsia code change, Google is prepping an update for the Nest Hub Max that will change its system from the Linux-based Cast OS to Fuchsia OS.

Spotted by 9to5Google, Fuchsia is in its final stage of internal testing for the smart home device. Considering the change wasn’t very noticeable on the Nest Hub, it’s unlikely to be all that big of a deal on this larger variant.

Fuschia is Google’s own operating system that is made for its smart home devices. However, not a lot is known about it yet and it could amount to more in the future.

Source: 9to5Google

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Steam’s Winter Sale is available until January 5

Steam’s Winter Sale is on now.

Now through January 5th at 1pm ET, you’ll be able to save money on top games for PC including Deathloop, Battlefield 2042, and Hades.

Here are some of the notable games on sale below:

There are a lot more games on sale, you can check them out here.