I've compared the Sci-Fi Channel and CBC airings of this episode to see how much difference there is between them. Here's a summary of what I found. No guarantee you couldn't find something else.

SFC is shown in letterbox format; CBC isn't.

tease:

No differences.

CBC: 1:40 SFC: 1:43

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Act 1:

CBC viewers got a couple seconds looking down on the funeral procession.

SFC skipped that, but showed Jules' landing in lift from the Aurora.

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CBC: we see the waitress get and bring the drink over to the table where Jules and Monique are sitting.

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Also in the CBC version, after Phileas asks Monique to sit down, it cuts to Jules and Passepartout in the crypt. As they lift the casket out of the tomb, they groan.

Jules: Now I know why they had so many pallbearers.

Passepartout: Do you think, that, dead people, are watching us?

And he lets out a startled noise as he feels something at his back.

Jules: It's an angel, Passepartout. A stone one.

Priest (calling from the top of stairs): Who's there? Who's there?

Jules and Passepartout move to replace the casket in the tomb as the priest comes down stairs. When he reaches the bottom and looks around, they are not in sight.

Priest: Someone here? I could have sworn I...

He turns around and goes back up the stairs.

The top of the tomb slowly slides opens and Jules and Passepartout sit up.

Passepartout: I am, I am feeling very close to death.

Jules: Too close.

Cuts to them in the lift to the Aurora with the coffin tied below.

CBC: 8:47 SFC: 7:21

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Act 2:

After Monique says "A lonely refuge for a lonely soul"

SFC gives us:

Phileas: One chooses loneliness. Other choices are possible.

Monique: Perhaps

Then Passepartout opens the door.

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After Phileas' line "Not to mention a decent tailor."

CBC continues the scene with:

Monique: They desperately wanted me to bring Father back home. You've done us a, a great service, Phileas.

Phileas: Oh, it's.. um

Monique: But I mustn't keep you any longer. Godspeed.

She leans forward to kiss his cheek.

Jules: Would it be possible to stay for the reburial?

Phileas: Yes, it, it does, does seem a little disrespectful just to... The professor. Dash off.

Monique: But I thought you... But, of course you must stay. What was I thinking of?

Monique: Please. Please come inside. Perhaps you'd like to rest?

They move up stairs to the house then it rejoins the SFC version inside.

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SFC:

After Philes and Jules leave and Monique goes to the lab and they open the coffin, we see the professor lifted out of it.

Monique: Please. Treat him gently.

One assistant lifts him up and the other has the apparatus to hook him up to the machine.

Back to Rebecca riding thru the woods as in the CBC version.

CBC: 11:54 SFC: 11:49

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Act 3:

After the scene in the Aurora and Phileas' line "She intends to kill herself"

SFC has more of Monique and Professor Marechal:

Monique: I still can't believe it, Father. Look at you. Here sit. It's a miracle.

Marechal: No, Monique, no. An abomination.

Monique: Listen to you. Your voice. Your beautiful voice. I thought I would never hear it again.

Marechal: Listen to me.

Monique (to the assistant): Leave us. Please. We need to be alone.

Then it rejoins the CBC version.

CBC: 9:41 SFC: 10:18

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Act 4:

CBC version opens with a long shot of the castle at night, then cuts to Passepartout huddled in the Aurora, shivering and sneezing. Then goes to Phileas and Jules below.

Phileas: Ten to 1, Verne, he's curled up in bed with a bottle of my best claret.

Jules: I say we go back.

Phileas: Yup.

They go back up the stairs to the house.

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About 30 seconds longer in the fight scene in the CBC version.

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CBC's last commercial break is after Monique pulls the first lever and it goes to the close up of Jules

SFC's last commercial is after Phileas destroys Count Gregory's portal

CBC: 12:15 SFC: 11:57

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Overall running time:
CBC 44:17 SFC: 43:09

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