Cancon is also an abbreviation for Canadian content, or CAN-CON, a Science Fiction Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and for the annual gaming convention conducted by the Canberra Games Society in Australia.

Canadian content (CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. It also refers to that content itself, and, more generally, to cultural and creative content that is Canadian in nature.