It's peak summer festival season across Canada, and the music scene is delivering everything from Guinness World Records and surprise pop-star café visits to very public reckonings about what "inclusive spaces" actually mean.

The Players

• Ariana Grande: Spent Wednesday strolling Montreal and stopping by Café Meekha in the Gay Village, then debuted the title track "Petal" off her new album at the Bell Centre — her only Canadian stop on The Eternal Sunshine...