From Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald:

• Little Mosque on the Prairie finally closes its doors
  “I’m so glad that it’s finally over,” says Brandon Firla dryly, on the phone from his new home in Los Angeles. “I’ve been trying to end this show for three seasons, and I’ve finally succeeded.” Read more.

From Sonya Bell of The National:

• From humble beginnings to global success for Muslim sitcom
  The concept was radical in its non-radicalness: a television series about Muslims who were neither extremist nor oppressed. Five years ago this January, the writer Zarqa Nawaz created something no one had seen before: a sitcom about ordinary Muslims living alongside non-Muslims in North America. They laughed. They cried. They got interrogated at airports. Read more.

From Gayle MacDonald of the Globe and Mail:

• Little Mosque leaves the Prairies
  When Sheila McCarthy got the call asking if she’d be up for a part in CBC’s quirky comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie, the veteran actress first thought her agent was pulling her leg. “I remember thinking is that title for real?,” laughs McCarthy, lounging on a sofa in a makeshift mayor’s office during a break last June while filming the sixth, and final, season of the show. “Then I read the script, which struck me as a fun, sweet Lucy-Desi-type comedy. So I thought, sure, this’ll be a fun little job. I’ll go and hang out in Regina for a few weeks. But I really believed it would be a one-off.” Read more.

From Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press:

• CBC’s ‘Little Mosque’ cast says sixth and final season marked by tears, laughs
  There were tears, smiles and laughs as the cast of the groundbreaking series “Little Mosque on the Prairie” wrapped shooting of its final season, marking the end of one of CBC-TV’s biggest success stories. Wistful cast members including star Zaib Shaikh, Manoj Sood, Deb McGrath and Arlene Duncan say their last day on the set of the Muslim comedy was both touching and satisfying. Read more.

From Omar Mosleh of My Town Crier:

• Change in the cards
  “I find that if I put anything around my head, people recognize me immediately,” said Duncan, who is best known for playing the hijab-wearing cafe owner Fatima Dinssa in the CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie. Read more.