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Is my site blocked in Canada?
In Canada, internet providers block piracy sites on Federal Court orders: under a July 2026 order, Bell, Rogers, TELUS, Videotron and four others must block listed domains and, where practical, send visitors to a notice page. Live-sport orders have also made providers block the IP addresses (numeric server addresses) of pirate streams during games. A legitimate site sharing an address with such a server can be caught; the blocked addresses are not published, so, while a live-sport order is in force, a test on each provider's home internet during a game shows whether yours is (the latest order we found ran to 1 November 2026).
Sources: Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 · iPhone in Canada, 23 July 2026 · Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 · TorrentFreak, 24 July 2023
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Who can order a block in Canada?
The Federal Court. Rights holders such as Bell Media, Rogers Media, Groupe TVA, Netflix and Hollywood studios apply, and the providers named in the order must carry it out. The first order, against the pirate TV service GoldTV, came in November 2019; in March 2022 the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal against it.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 18 November 2019 · TorrentFreak, 29 March 2022 · Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 · Notice page for order T-1127-26, checked 11 November 2026
Other routes have failed. In October 2018 the CRTC, the telecom regulator, turned down FairPlay Canada's request for a system to block piracy sites, saying Parliament had given it no power over copyright. A 2016 Quebec law would have made providers block online gambling sites other than those of Loto-Québec, the province's own gambling operator. Courts declared those rules invalid before they ever applied; on 5 May 2021 the Quebec Court of Appeal confirmed that a province cannot make providers block gambling sites, as telecommunications is a federal matter.
Sources: CRTC, 2 October 2018 · Dickinson Wright, 26 May 2021 · McCarthy Tétrault, 29 June 2021
Adult sites may face a new kind of block. Bill S-209 would make it an offence for any organization to make porn available online to young people for commercial purposes, with an approved age check as a defence. A federal agency could ask the Federal Court to order providers to keep young people in Canada from material of organizations that ignore its notices. It passed the Senate on 15 April 2026 and was in a House of Commons committee as of 11 November 2026 (since 28 October 2026).
Sources: LEGISinfo, checked 11 November 2026 · Parliament of Canada, Bill S-209 as passed by the Senate, 15 April 2026 · Michael Geist, 29 October 2026
What does the July 2026 order block?
Federal Court File T-1127-26, dated 3 July 2026, was granted to Rogers, Groupe TVA, Netflix and five Hollywood studios. It names 13 pirate film and TV services, such as 123Movies and Putlocker; its first list has 13 domains and 5 subdomains (addresses under a domain, such as tv.example.com) and no IP addresses. Within 10 business days, Bell, Eastlink, Cogeco, Rogers, SaskTel, TekSavvy, TELUS and Videotron had to block, or attempt to block, these domains for at least their home internet customers on cable, phone line or fibre. Providers have to block an IP address added later only if, as far as the rights holders know, it hosts no other active website. The order runs for two years.
Sources: Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 (paras 2, 5 and 15, schedules 1 and 2) · TorrentFreak, list of blocked sites, 23 July 2026 · TorrentFreak, 23 July 2026 · iPhone in Canada, 23 July 2026 · Notice page, checked 11 November 2026
New sites can be added without a new hearing. The rights holders file evidence and an updated list, which takes effect unless a provider objects within five business days; this can happen every ten business days and can cover similar services under other brands. Where practical, providers redirect a blocked domain to a notice page in English and French that names the order. Providers may pause a block to deal with over-blocking or network problems.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 23 July 2026 · Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 (paras 3, 6, 7 and 10) · iPhone in Canada, 23 July 2026 · Notice page, checked 11 November 2026
Can a block on pirate NHL or NBA streams hit my site?
It can, if your site shares an IP address with the target, for example on a CDN (a shared network that serves many sites from the same addresses). Since 2022, live-sport orders have made providers block unpublished IP addresses of pirate streaming servers during games. A multi-sport order, Federal Court File T-743-24 of 9 July 2024, covered NHL, NBA, Premier League, MLB and UFC events, among others. Granted for two years, it was extended to 1 November 2026, the end of the baseball post-season. In June 2026 the rights holders told the court they would seek a renewal for the 2026/27 NHL and NBA seasons; we found none by 11 November 2026.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 31 March 2023 · TorrentFreak, 24 July 2023 · Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 (orders of 8 April and 18 June 2026) · Smart & Biggar, 14 August 2024 · Rogers, checked 11 November 2026
Despite confidential safeguards, mistakes are possible. For the first such order, for NHL games in 2022, two experts checked a random sample of 181 of the 568 blocked addresses and found 3 matched by mistake, which were corrected at once. No legitimate complaints were received about the blocking, they reported. Both experts had business ties to the rights holders, TorrentFreak noted.
Sources: Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 (para 6) · TorrentFreak, 31 March 2023
For the live-sport order, Rogers' page says anyone who believes it blocks legal content may email the rights holders' agent, Friend MTS, at ca_ipallocation@friendmts.com with the address they tried to reach and the date and time. Under either order, anyone affected can ask the Federal Court to change it if it blocks legal content, within 30 days of first being affected.
Sources: Rogers, disabled access to unauthorized live streams, checked 11 November 2026 · Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 (para 23) · Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 (para 12)
More cases from Europe: Collateral blocking in Europe.
Why does my site open for some Canadians and not others?
The orders require blocking for at least home wired connections, so providers do not have to block on mobile data. DNS, the internet's address book that turns a domain name into a server address, matters too: normally the provider runs it. Since 2021, Firefox on a computer in Canada has by default sent these lookups, encrypted, to Canadian Shield, a DNS service of CIRA (the Canadian Internet Registration Authority), which the July 2026 order does not name. Firefox uses the provider's DNS instead if the user opted out, a lookup fails, or it detects parental controls, a company policy or a network signal to turn it off. So a block in a provider's DNS may not reach Firefox users on Canadian Shield, while a block by IP address reaches everyone on that connection. For Shaw customers, Firefox uses Shaw's own encrypted service.
Sources: Federal Court, T-743-24 judgment and orders to 18 June 2026 (para 3) · Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 (para 2) · TorrentFreak, 24 July 2023 · Mozilla, 8 July 2021 · Mozilla, 6 September 2019 · Mozilla, 1 February 2022 · Firefox DNS settings, checked 11 November 2026
Is my domain under order T-1127-26?
If customers opening your site see a notice that access "has been disabled" under Federal Court File No. T-1127-26, your domain or its main domain is on that order's list, and the notice gives the rights holders' lawyers' email. Not seeing it proves nothing: providers redirect only where practical, and additions to the list are filed confidentially, so a domain can be blocked before any public list shows it. TorrentFreak published the order's first list.
Sources: Notice page for order T-1127-26, checked 11 November 2026 · Federal Court, order T-1127-26, 3 July 2026 (paras 3(d) and 7, schedule 1) · TorrentFreak, 23 July 2026
What has linkspect seen in Canada?
We have run first measurements in Canada. On 11 November 2026, Bell, TELUS, Videotron and Shaw (part of Rogers since April 2023) answered with DNS redirects for domains covered by a Federal Court blocking order: their DNS gave another server's address instead of the site's own. Canada is not open to customers yet; linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Source: Rogers, 3 April 2023
Last updated 11 November 2026.