Best Comedy Program

• Material World
  Material World (TV series)
  Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a comedy-drama format.The show starred Laura Bruneau as Kitty,...
  
  
• Mosquito Lake
  Mosquito Lake (TV series)
  Mosquito Lake was a short-lived Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in the 1989-90 television season. The show, a family sitcom, starred comedian Mike MacDonald as the father of a family spending the summer in a dilapidated cottage on Mosquito Lake. The cast also included Mary...
  
  

Best Dramatic Series

• E.N.G.
  E.N.G.
  E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...
  
  
• Danger Bay
  Danger Bay
  Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television starting October 18, 1984 and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985...
  
  
• Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
  
  
• Street Legal
  Street Legal (TV series)
  Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...
  
  

Best Information Program or Series

• The Journal
• Marketplace
  Marketplace (TV series)
  Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to...
  
  
• Monitor
• Venture
  Venture (TV series)
  Venture is a weekly Canadian business television series that aired on CBC Television from 1985 to 2007. The show focused mostly on business documentaries, but also aired business-related news pieces...
  
  
• W-FIVE
  W-FIVE
  W5 is a Canadian news magazine television series produced by CTV News. The program is currently initially broadcast Saturday nights at 7 p.m...
  
  

Best Children's Series

• Raffi in Concert with The Rise and Shine Band
• Dear Aunt Agnes
  Dear Aunt Agnes
  Created in 1985, Dear Aunt Agnes was a children's show that aired on TV Ontario. The show debuted on Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986. The show's premise was that a divorced mother called her Aunt Agnes to come and take care of her children so that she could take a job in another country. Agnes Peabody was a...
  
  
• Fred Penner's Place
• Under the Umbrella Tree
  Under the Umbrella Tree
  Under the Umbrella Tree is a Canadian children's television series created by Noreen Young that originally aired on CBC from 1986–1993. The show was produced by CBC and Noreen Young Productions, and also later by The Disney Channel....
  
  

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program

• E.N.G.
  E.N.G.
  E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...
  
  
• Friday the 13th: The Series
  Friday the 13th: The Series
  Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication....
  
  
• My Secret Identity
  My Secret Identity
  My Secret Identity is a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from September 1, 1988 to May 1, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States.-Synopsis:...
  
  

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• The Kids in the Hall
  The Kids in the Hall
  The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States...
  
  
• Material World
  Material World (TV series)
  Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a comedy-drama format.The show starred Laura Bruneau as Kitty,...
  
  
• Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country...
  
  
• 1989 Gemini Awards
  1989 Gemini Awards
  The 4th Gemini Awards were held in 1989 to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was broadcast on CBC.-Best Comedy Program or Variety Series:* Codco* Pilot One* The Comedy Mill* The Tommy Hunter Show-Best Dramatic Series:...
  
  
• The Tommy Hunter Show
  Tommy Hunter
  Thomas James "Tommy" Hunter, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian country music performer, known as "Canada's Country Gentleman".-Career:...
  
  

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series or Comedy Series

• Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
  
  
• Diamonds
  Diamonds (TV series)
  Diamonds is a Canadian television series, which aired from 1987 to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, a divorced couple who continued to work together as private investigators...
  
  
• Friday the 13th: The Series
  Friday the 13th: The Series
  Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication....
  
  
• Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Series

• Art Hindle
  Art Hindle
  Arthur Hindle is a Canadian actor and director.Hindle was born in Halifax. His family moved to Toronto while he was a child. Although shy as a youngster, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager...
  
  , E.N.G.
  E.N.G.
  E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...
  
  
• Bruno Gerussi
  Bruno Gerussi
  Bruno Gerussi was a Canadian television actor born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, best known for the lead role in the CBC Television series The Beachcombers...
  
  , The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...
  
  
• C. David Johnson
  C. David Johnson
  C. David Johnson is a Canadian actor.Born Christopher David Johnson in Montreal, Quebec, Canada he attended Stanstead College, the University of New Brunswick , and the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School and currently lives in Toronto.Johnson began his career with Theatre New Brunswick, and he has...
  
  , Street Legal
  Street Legal (TV series)
  Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...
  
  
• Pat Mastroianni
  Pat Mastroianni
  Pasquale "Pat" Mastroianni is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Joey Jeremiah on the Degrassi series of television shows.- Biography :...
  
  , Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  
• Duncan Waugh, Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  

• Jackie Burroughs
  Jackie Burroughs
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...
  
  , Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
  
  
• Angela Deiseach, Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  
• Stacie Mistysyn
  Stacie Mistysyn
  Stacie Mo'ana Mistysyn is an American-born Canadian actress best known for her work as Caitlin Ryan on Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High, which ran from 1987 to 1991, and for reprising her role as Caitlin on Degrassi: The Next Generation, which has been on the air since 2001 and which she joined...
  
  , Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  
• Marsha Moreau, My Secret Identity
  My Secret Identity
  My Secret Identity is a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from September 1, 1988 to May 1, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  , Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
  
  

Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist

• Norm Perry
  Norm Perry
  Norm Perry is a retired broadcast journalist. He worked for CBC Radio affiliate CKOY in Ottawa as a reporter and interviewer in the late 1950s with some of his work being picked up by the main network on programs such as Assignment. By the early 1960s he was working for the CBC in Toronto...
  
  
• Ken Dryden
  Ken Dryden
  Kenneth Wayne Dryden, PC, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender. Dryden is married with two children and four grandchildren and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame...
  
  
• Valerie Pringle
  Valerie Pringle
  Valerie Pringle, CM is a Canadian television host and journalist.Pringle began her career in broadcasting as a summer student with Toronto radio station CFRB in 1973, and became a fulltime reporter for the station the following year...
  
  
• Wayne Rostad
  Wayne Rostad
  Wayne Victor Rostad, CM is a Canadian musician and television presenter.In 1969, he became a radio host for CJET in Smiths Falls, Ontario...
  
  
• Shirley Solomon
  Shirley Solomon
  Shirley Solomon is a Canadian television talk show host.She hosted The Shirley Show, a daily afternoon talk show on CTV from September 1989-1995...
  
  

The John Labatt Entertainment Award for Most Popular Program

• Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...