Is The Amazing Race Canada Coming Back? CTV Has Ordered Season 13 for 2027

Correction (Nov. 3): The Traitors Canada time is now stated as 10 p.m. ET only; CTV's station schedule feed lists different local hours in the West from Nov. 2.

The confetti at Spruce Meadows had barely settled before the next question started trending: is that it for a year, or is that it full stop? CTV answered on Wednesday, Sept. 16, a day after the Season 12 finale, and the answer is short.

The race is coming back. What CTV has not said is when in 2027, who is running, or where they are going — so here is the full split between what is confirmed and what is still guesswork.

• Short version: CTV has ordered Season 13 of The Amazing Race Canada, announced Sept. 16, 2026.
• It returns in 2027 as part of CTV's 2026/27 broadcast year. No premiere date yet. Casting opened on Oct. 6, and no teams have been announced.
• Jon Montgomery hosts again, and the season will air on CTV and stream on Crave, same as Season 12.

Is The Amazing Race Canada coming back for Season 13?

Yes. Bell Media put out the order on Sept. 16 under the headline “Lucky 13”, one day after Tina and Liz Liao crossed the final mat in Calgary. Justin Stockman, Bell Media's vice-president of global content, called the show “one of the country's most beloved franchises” in the release.

That table is the honest shape of things right now. A renewal in September with the premiere not due until 2027 leaves a long quiet stretch, and most of what circulates in it will be speculation.

When will Season 13 air?

Sometime in 2027, and summer is the safe bet. CTV's own release calls the show Canada's number one summer series and notes it has held that spot with adults 25-54 for twelve straight years, which is a reasonable signal it isn't about to become a winter show.

Season 12 ran from July 7 to Sept. 15 this year, a ten-week run finishing the week before the fall premieres. If Season 13 lands in the same window, the premiere date would surface around May or June. Treat that as pattern, not promise. Casting came sooner than that: Bell Media opened applications on Tuesday, Oct. 6, for teams of two at AmazingRaceCanadaCasting.ca. Our Canadian reality premiere-date tracker is rechecked every weekday morning against CTV, Corus, Crave and CBC, so a Season 13 date will land there first.

Who is hosting, and who makes the show?

Jon Montgomery is back, extending a run that started with the first season in 2013. He won skeleton gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has hosted every season since.

Behind the camera it's Insight Productions, now a Blue Ant Studios company, in association with CTV. John Brunton is executive producer, Mark Lysakowski is executive producer and showrunner, and Rachel Goldstein-Couto oversees it as Bell Media's head of development. Also on CTV this fall is MasterChef Canada, which started its ninth season on Sept. 22.

How big was Season 12?

Big enough that the renewal was never really in doubt. CTV puts the season average at 1.1 million viewers and ranks it the number one summer series both overall and with adults 25-54. It also sat in Crave's top ten programs week after week.

The awards column is fuller still: 55 Canadian Screen Award nominations across the run, 30 of them wins. For a format that has to rebuild its route and its cast from scratch every year, that is an unusual amount of consistency.

Where can you watch Season 12 now?

All of it sits on Crave. CTV also scheduled an encore of the finale for Saturday, Sept. 19.

If you missed how it ended, twin sisters Tina and Liz Liao won it at Spruce Meadows, and our finale preview lays out what the last three teams were racing for. For the wider picture of which service carries which Canadian series, there's our network-by-network guide.

What fills the gap until 2027?

Quite a lot, actually. The Traitors Canada has been back on CTV since Sept. 21, Mondays at 10 p.m. ET with 22 players, MasterChef Canada runs on Tuesdays, and our day-by-day schedule has the times for both in ET and PT.

Further out, Big Brother Canada is also due back in 2027, which would make next year unusually busy for Canadian reality. On the American side, readers heading to our sister site can check what time Survivor airs in Canada now that Season 51 has started (it premiered Sept. 23).

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Bell Media / CTV — “Lucky 13: CTV Orders Season 13” release, Sept. 16, 2026
• Playback — CTV renews The Amazing Race Canada for Season 13, Sept. 17, 2026
• Bell Media — Season 13 casting release, Oct. 6, 2026 (also carried by Channel Canada)
• Bell Media — The Amazing Race Canada show page (Season 12 finale encore, Sept. 19)

By the CA Reality On Air desk · Updated Nov. 3, 9:24 a.m. ET