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Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Canada's federal food, animal, and plant health regulator established 1 April 1997 under the CFIA Act; administers the Safe Food for Canadians Act and related statutes, conducts inspections, and manages about 300 food recalls yearly.

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is Billboard's weekly Canadian singles chart, launched in 2007 with Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" at No. 1. Data from Luminate combine streaming, airplay and sales; Shaboozey holds the record 22 weeks at No. 1.

Canadian modernism

Canadian modernism is the body of modernist art and literature produced in Canada from roughly the 1910s to the mid-twentieth century, importing avant-garde techniques like free verse.

Canadian Screen Awards

Canadian Screen Awards (Les prix Écrans canadiens), annual awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Canadian film, English-language TV, and digital media; created 2012 from the Gemini and Genie Awards, first held 2013, presented during Canadian Screen Week in Toronto.

Canadian whisky

Canadian whisky, colloquially "rye" in Canada, is whisky mashed, distilled, and aged at least three years in small wood in Canada, blended from base and flavoring whiskies, with no minimum rye content and a 9.09% flavoring allowance.

Çanakkale Destanı

Çanakkale Destanı, meaning "The Epic of Çanakkale," is a verse epic on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by Turkish poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, published in İstanbul in 1965.

Canal Bank Walk

"Canal Bank Walk" is a 1955 sonnet by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, written while he recovered from lung cancer surgery on the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal.

Canal Boat Diaries

Canal Boat Diaries is a British travel documentary series following Robbie Cumming aboard his narrowboat Naughty Lass across the UK canal network, first on BBC Four from 2019, later U&Yesterday.

Canaletto

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768), Venetian veduta painter of Venice, Rome, and London views; trained as a scene painter, patronized via Joseph Smith, linked to the camera obscura, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1765.

Canapé

Canapé: a single-bite appetizer of bread, toast, or cracker with a savory topping; French for "couch". Distinguished from hors d'oeuvres by its required edible base; culinary use since late 18th-century France.

Canarian traditional dress

Canarian traditional dress, the traje canario, is the folk dress of the Canary Islands, where each island has its own typical costume worn at festivals and by folkloric groups.

Canção do Exílio

Canção do Exílio ("Song of Exile") is a poem by Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, written in Coimbra in 1843 and published in 1846 in Primeiros Cantos.

Canceled Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik documentary series

Untitled three-part Netflix docuseries announced October 2025 following former One Direction members Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson on a US road trip, directed by Nicola Marsh for Campfire Studios; reportedly scrapped in April 2026 after an alleged on-set altercation in Wyoming, though never officially confirmed.

Cancelled!

Cancelled! is a 2025 Taylor Swift song, track 10 on The Life of a Showgirl, written and produced with Max Martin and Shellback; it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the ARIA chart.

Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward (Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in 1968 and set in the cancer ward of a hospital in Soviet Central Asia.

Canción de autor

Canción de autor is the Spanish-language singer-songwriter tradition of the cantautor, a performer who composes and sings their own songs, with poetic or critical lyrics, prominent from the late 1950s.

Canción de otoño en primavera

"Canción de otoño en primavera" ("Song of Autumn in Spring") is a poem by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in his 1905 collection Cantos de vida y esperanza.

Cancioneiro

A cancioneiro (Portuguese for "songbook") is a printed or manuscript book collecting songs, above all the medieval manuscripts preserving Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, and, by extension, recordings of those songs.

Cancioneiro da Ajuda

The Cancioneiro da Ajuda (Songbook of Ajuda) is a late 13th-century illuminated parchment manuscript kept in the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon, the oldest surviving collection of Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry.

Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional

The Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, also called Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti, is the largest manuscript collection of secular Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, with about 1,560 cantigas by roughly 150 poets.

Cancioneiro Geral

The Cancioneiro Geral is an anthology of Portuguese court poetry compiled by Garcia de Resende and printed in Lisbon in 1516, gathering about one thousand poems.

Cancionero de Baena

The Cancionero de Baena is a Castilian poetry anthology compiled by Juan Alfonso de Baena around 1430 and dedicated to King Juan II of Castile.

Cancionero general

The Cancionero general is a Castilian poetry anthology compiled by Hernando del Castillo, first printed in Valencia in 1511 with over 1,000 poems by more than 200 poets.

Cancionero poetry

Cancionero poetry (poesía cancioneril) is the courtly lyric of 15th-century Castile, transmitted in anthologies called cancioneros, from the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General of 1511.

Canciones de mi Padre (Mariachi Divas album)

Canciones de mi Padre is the title under which Mariachi Divas' 2009 Grammy-winning album is commonly sought, though the Academy records it as Canciones de Amor.

Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell, American author and columnist (born Connecticut, 1958 or c. 1959), creator of Sex and the City: 1994 New York Observer column, 1996 book, HBO series 1998–2004; ten books including The Carrie Diaries.

Candace Cameron Bure

Candace Cameron Bure (born 1976) is an American actress best known for playing D.J. Tanner on Full House and its sequel Fuller House, and for Hallmark Christmas movies.

Candace Nelson

Candace Nelson (born 1974, Indonesia) is an Indonesian-born American pastry chef and entrepreneur who co-founded Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM, and later Pizzana; judge on Cupcake Wars and Sugar Rush.

Candace Wheeler

Candace Thurber Wheeler (1827–1923), American textile and interior designer, America's first important woman in both fields; founded the Society of Decorative Art (1877), partnered with Louis Comfort Tiffany, ran the all-woman firm Associated Artists, and decorated the 1893 Woman's Building.

Candeia

Candeia, full name Antônio Candeia Filho (1935–1978), was a Brazilian samba composer and singer from Rio de Janeiro who led the Portela samba school and founded the Quilombo.