The Canadian Podcast Awards have unveiled the nominees for their fifth annual celebration of Canadian podcasters, editors, and producers.

Established in 2018 by Podcamp Toronto to showcase the best in Canadian on-demand digital audio production, this year’s awards feature the return of the People’s Choice Award, comprised of the top nominated podcasts across all categories.

Nominees for this year’s People’s Choice Award include Sonar Network’s Belief It Or Not; Putting It Together, a podcast about Stephen Sondheim’s body of work; F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast; Frequency Network horror-fiction podcast, Parkdale Haunt; Positively Positive Podcast – Herpes & Sexual Health; Sonar Network’s You Made Me Queer!; Frequency’s Teach Me How To Adult; Later That Same Life, hosted by former Niagara radio personality Larry Fedoruk; QUB Radio French-language podcast, au voleur; and Sonar Network’s Bites and Bits, combining cuisine and comedy.

The award is open to voting by the general public until Aug. 10, while the other categories are adjudicated by Canadian podcasters registered with the site.

Other multiple nominees include Curiouscast podcasts 13 Hours: Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre and Ongoing History of New Music; CBC Podcasts’ The Next Call with David Ridgen; Talk from Superheroes, hosted by comedians Andrew Ivimey and Diana McCallum; Sonar improvised true crime pod, Killed to Death; as well as branded content offerings like RBC thought leader podcast, Disruptors; and Moneris Insights’ Yes, We Are Open.

Find the full list of nominees here:

Outstanding Adult Series

F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast

Positively Positive Podcast – Herpes & Sexual Health

Teach Me How To Adult

The Venus Cuckoldress Podcast

Meet the Kramers

Outstanding Arts Series

Original Science Fiction – Makeshift Stories

Putting It Together

Getting Lit with Linda – The Canadian Literature Podcast

Tales From The Bridge: All Things Sci-Fi

Bites and Bits

Outstanding Artwork for a Series

F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast

Parkdale Haunt

The Walrus Was Paul

The Town Whispers

Au voleur

Outstanding Branded Series

Disruptors

Yes, We Are Open!

Water We Doing?

CIBC Innovation Banking Podcast

Go the Distance

Outstanding Business Series

Waves Social Podcast

Making A Living Show

Disruptors

Yes, We Are Open!

More Than Social Podcast

Outstanding Comedy Series

Killed to Death

Doctor DC Podcast

The Smile Syndicate Music Hour

Taggart and Torrens

Bites and Bits

Outstanding Debut for a Series

You Made Me Queer!

Later That Same Life

Lullaby: The Fear Podcast

Spencer Wants To Know

The Next Call with David Ridgen

Outstanding Documentary

Belief It Or Not

Crime Beat

13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre

Au voleur

Ce n’est qu’une théorie

Outstanding Education Series

Our Fake History

F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast

Teach Me How To Adult

Getting Lit with Linda – The Canadian Literature Podcast

Spencer Wants To Know

Outstanding Fiction Series

Original Science Fiction – Makeshift Stories

On a Dark, Cold Night

Tavern Tales Junior

Real Legitimate Anthology

Malevolent

Outstanding Foreign Series

My Brother, My Brother And Me

Behind the Bastards

Player Player: A Video Game Podcast

Famous This Week with Priyanka

Chameleon

Exceptionnelle Francophone Series

Les Ficelles

Faisez vos recherches!

J’ai fait un humain – Gabrielle Caron

Les Pires Moments de l’Histoire

Relation toxique : portraits d’une dépendance

Outstanding Health & Fitness Series

Behind the Breakthrough

F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast

PsychEd: educational psychiatry podcast

Positively Positive Podcast – Herpes & Sexual Health

Loving Goliath

Best Host in a Series

Trevor Campbell

Dain Miller

Paul Bates

Marc-André Carignan

Alex Nursall

Outstanding Indigenous Series

Still Here Still Healing

MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

Our Native Land

Telling Our Twisted Histories

Nation to Nation

Outstanding Kids & Family Series

Super Awesome Science Show (SASS)

The Story Store

1923 Main Street: The Disney Travel Podcast

Warrior Kids Podcast

40 Weeks to Forever

Outstanding Leisure Series

Dumbgeons & Dragons

Left Behind Game Club: A Video Game Podcast

Cyberpunk Independence

Quantum Kickflip

The Pick Up – A WNBA Podcast

Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for a Series

Killed to Death

Talk From Superheroes

You Made Me Queer!

Quantum Kickflip

Relation toxique : portraits d’une dépendance

Outstanding Music Series

Ongoing History of New Music

The Sound Podcast with Ira Haberman

The Walrus Was Paul

The Heavy with Andrew and Don

Behind The Christmas Hits with Drew Savage

Outstanding News & Current Affairs Series

Speaking Municipally

Front Burner

Canadian History Ehx

13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre

Kootenay Time

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for a Series

Killed to Death

You Made Me Queer!

Big Shiny Takes

Darts and Letters

Relation toxique : portraits d’une dépendance

Outstanding Personal Series

Confessions of a New Grad

En privé SVP

You Made Me Queer!

Later That Same Life

Remember This

Outstanding Production for a Series

Talk From Superheroes

Belief It Or Not

Ongoing History of New Music

Putting It Together

Parkdale Haunt

Outstanding Science Series

Behind the Breakthrough

Songbirding

THIS IS MINING: THE PODCAST

Anthropomania

Water We Doing?

Outstanding Society & Culture Series

History of the 90s

Belief It Or Not

Canadian History Ehx

Later That Same Life

Relation toxique : portraits d’une dépendance

Outstanding Sports Series

2 and Out CFL Podcast

Scuderia F1: a Formula 1 podcast

Below The Hardwood

The Pick Up – A WNBA Podcast

Book It Vince!

Outstanding Technology Series

Mon Carnet, l’actu numérique

Big Tech

The BetaKit Podcast Channel

The Great Indoors

The Feed with Amber Mac & Michael B

Outstanding Television & Film Series

Talk From Superheroes

I Hate It But I Love It

Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast

Ghostfacers: A Supernatural Rewatch

Tales From The Bridge: All Things Sci-Fi

Outstanding True Crime Series

Canadian True Crime

Island Crime: Gone Boys

13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre

The Next Call with David Ridgen

CAPTIVES

Nominees for the People’s Choice Award are:

Belief It Or Not

Putting It Together

F*ck Buddies: A Sex and Dating Advice Podcast

Parkdale Haunt

Positively Positive Podcast – Herpes & Sexual Health

You Made Me Queer!

Teach Me How To Adult

Later That Same Life

Au voleur

Bites and Bits

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