Multiple Weekend Long Comicons
There will be two major, weekend long comicons / collector events this weekend:
Sudbury Ultracon with be held from Friday, the 24th of July to Sunday, the 26th of July, 2026 at the Radison Sudbury and ticket information can be found on the official event site.
This venue is serviced by bus stops on Xavier by Route 26, Elgin by Route 27 and Durham by Route 11 on Greater Sudbury Transit.
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VulCON is the weekend long Star Trek convention and collector event at the Vulcan Tourism & Trek Centre and this year it will be held from the 24th to the 26th of July, 2026.
Although many special events have been sold out, free admission events will occur through-out the community, like the collector’s market in the gymnasium at the County Central High School. And Flixbus services the venue itself but I suspect tickets have unfortunately already been sold out (but I would try anyway for last minute cancelations).
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events. Enjoy.
Paramount Minus
So, I got a three month preview of Paramount+ from McDonald’s and thought i’d be able to watch the new seasons of Star Trek : Pickard and Star Trek : Discovery, and the extended versions of the Naked Gun films. But due to rights issues none of the above mentioned Paramount and CBS distributed content is available to Canadians.
Apparently all we get are crumbs though that $5.99/month service, mainly CBS television programs and less than three dozen films. And now my choices are CTV Sci-Fi for $7/month for the Star Trek series, or $19/month for Crave because the $9.99/month rate is for mobile devices.
I could try broadcasting Crave from my tablet but i’m presuming that the contents will be 720p or 1800p, so i’m probably going with CTV Sci Fi to get these programs at a higher resolution. But I think Paramount+ overestimated the demand for their current services in Canada.
Yes, there is a new version of Behind The Music and a Madonna concert on there. But unless you’re a big police drama and Rugrats fan you won’t find much to watch on that streaming service.
I bet I could watch everything I could possibly be interested in within a month so they’re going to need to make significantly more content available to keep me as a subscriber. After all, I already get most of the films they offer on Netflix and Prime Video. And I get the latter free with Amazon Prime.
I’ll update you if I see any improvements but it looks like I won’t be keeping Paramount+ beyond mid January.