Arts Entertainments

Usher accepted the lifetime achievement award at the 2024 BET Awards — even if the superstar mused it might be a bit early. The Grammy winner stayed on his feet as a parade of artists performed his hits — Childish Gambino kicked it off with U Don’t Have to Call, joined by Keke Palmer, who took […]

Canadian actor Michael J. Fox joined Coldplay on stage for an emotional performance at England’s Glastonbury Festival Saturday. The Back to the Future star, who lives with Parkinson’s disease, came out on stage in a wheelchair and joined on guitar for the British band’s hits Humankind and Fix You. A sea of fans sang along. “The main reason […]

Canadian artist Robert Bateman is known for his realistic paintings of wildlife and nature, every feather and each twig a reflection of what one would see.  But he hasn’t always painted that way. In his many years as an artist, he’s experimented with other styles.  Some of his work, from the 1940s until now, is being showcased […]

Need a good book to relax with this season? Check out this list of buzzworthy Canadian titles out right now. Do You Remember Being Born? is a novel by Sean Michaels. (Random House Canada) Do You Remember Being Born? follows a famous poet named Marian Ffarmer, who after years of dedicating herself singularly to her art has started […]

Vic Michaelis has places to be.  Not least of all, right next door at the aquarium — the host of the internet talk show Very Important People has a two-year-old in tow, and hasn’t been back in Toronto to show off the city in over three years. That long absence makes a certain sense: the improv comedian and actor is on […]

2 days ago News Duration 2:23 While his signature style could be seen on the city’s buildings for decades before his death in 2023, Zilon never achieved the status of some other famous international street artists. Those who knew him are trying to change that.

Stand-up comedy is booming as Netflix specials and social media make the art form more accessible than ever.  Grosses from stand-up shows have nearly tripled over the last decade, generating more than $900 million US last year according to Pollstar, with Kevin Hart topping that list at $68.3 million between October 2022 and 2023. In Canada, […]

A Quiet Place: Day One, the third movie in the franchise, takes the story of aliens hunting humans by sound back to its beginning: the invasion of the noisiest city on Earth.

1 day ago News Duration 2:11 Family, friends and colleagues remember Ray St. Germain, whose voice and music became woven into Manitoba’s cultural fabric. The proud Métis singer died Tuesday at the age of 83 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Alijan Alijanpour met Arash Missaghi when Missaghi commissioned a Persian miniature painting of his late mother for $50,000 a decade ago. Missaghi paid for that commission and a few more — earning the internationally renowned Iranian Canadian artist’s trust. But since then, Alijanpour, 68, alleges Missaghi stole his life’s work: 38 paintings, worth more than a million dollars combined and […]

Neil Young and Crazy Horse have cancelled upcoming shows of their Love Earth Tour. The Canadian rock legend and his longtime backing band announced Wednesday the U.S.-Canada tour will go on a “big unplanned break” as some members of the band recover from an unspecified illness. “When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s […]

Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90. Cobbs died Tuesday at his home in the Inland Empire, Calif., surrounded by family and friends, his publicist Chuck I. Jones said. Natural causes is the likely cause of death, Jones said. […]

It’s a muggy Thursday morning in downtown Toronto, and writer Nick Green greets an eager group. About 40 social media influencers are crammed around him in a rehearsal space at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres. Many are holding the same thing: A red cardboard box of Timbits.  The snack choice was no coincidence: All these people — and a […]

A Nevada judge is being asked to decide Tuesday if a former Los Angeles-area gang leader will be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Duane (Keffe D) Davis, now 61, has sought to be released since shortly after […]

Dave Grohl incurred the infamous wrath of Taylor Swift fans on the weekend, after the rocker seemingly took a jab at the chart-topping singer while playing on stage with the Foo Fighters. The veteran musician made the off-the-cuff remarks while performing in Manchester, England, on June 15. Grohl said during the Foo Fighters show, “I’m feeling […]

Rapper Julio Foolio was killed in a Sunday morning shooting outside a Tampa, Fla., hotel.  The rapper, whose legal name is Charles Jones, had been out celebrating his 26th birthday at locations he had publicly announced on social media before he and three others were shot in a parking lot. Tampa police say they received a 911 […]

Rapper Travis Scott was arrested by Miami Beach police early Thursday on misdemeanour charges of trespassing and public intoxication. Miami Beach police confirmed the arrest, but did not immediately provide any details. Scott, 33, posted his $650 bond, which means he will be released later Thursday, Miami-Dade County jail records show. His publicists, Jamie Sward […]

Donald Sutherland, the towering Canadian actor whose acclaimed career spanned more than six decades, has died at the age of 88. His son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, confirmed his death on Thursday. “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” read the post on X. “I personally think one of the most […]

It’s been more than 50 years since Paul Dean’s old band, once called Canada, also called The Fox, were together.  Now, they’ve returned to the Canadian music scene with a new name and their old music. Canada-Fox has just released a self-titled album recorded about 54 years ago.  The group, which formed in 1969, toured around […]

Josephine Mandamin, an environmentalist from Wikwemikong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, is one of three inspirational individuals featured in Canada Post’s 2024 Indigenous Leaders Stamp Series.  The postal service unveiled the Mandamin stamp in Thunder Bay, Ont., this week, the latest in the three-stamp set to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21. “She never did this […]

Ashley Callingbull is a woman of many faces. She’s an actress, model and pageant winner, will soon be an author and is getting ready to compete in Miss Universe Canada for the second time. She’s been in the pageant world since she was 18 years old. The 34-year-old has faced racism and other barriers but has accomplished […]

Denise Robert, a Canadian film producer, remembers when Quebec director Denys Arcand tapped Donald Sutherland for a role in a film they were working on. “It wasn’t a big role,” Robert told Radio-Canada. “He said that he accepted with great pleasure because his dream was to shoot with Denys Arcand.” When the late actor arrived […]

Yorgos Lanthimos’s new movie with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons is not the comedy-drama audiences might be expecting — instead, it’s an extremely dark, extremely funny horror-comedy. Kinds of Kindness will alienate audiences looking for a light romp, but horror fans will have a great time with this anthology film.  The movie runs two hours and 45 minutes and […]

Now 94 years old, Maxwell Smart recounts his ordeal of escaping the Holocaust on his own as a Jewish 11-year-old. The Montrealer praises the filmmaker who managed to portray his experience in The Boy in the Woods while speaking with CBC’s Brittany Henriques.

When Leonardo DiCaprio was promoting The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s debauchery-filled story of insider trading, unflagging self-interest and corruption, the actor was forced to shadowbox against a seeming tidal wave of young people he saw as misinterpreting the critique against greed as an endorsement of it. He was fighting a group so wrapped […]

11 hours ago News Duration 2:24 Language is an important and vital part of Indigenous culture. Over the years, efforts have been ongoing to revitalize it. There have been books, workshops, games and in Thunder Bay, it can also come in the form of a puppet show. The CBC’s Jasmine Kabatay caught up with Charlotte […]

Singer Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York’s Long Island, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat. The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor was driving a 2025 BMW in Sag Harbor around […]

A documentary about Elton John and an Amy Adams-led horror comedy about a stay-at-home mom whose life turns surreal will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. Elton John: Never Too Late promises to “pull the back the curtain” on the superstar’s life and is co-directed by R.J Cutler and Toronto’s David Furnish, […]

Quebec filmmaker Érik Canuel, who directed several notable films, including La loi du cochon, Nez rouge, Le dernier tunnel and Bon cop, bad cop, died Saturday. He was 63 years old.  Annexe, a Montreal-based communications firm, confirmed Canuel’s death on Monday. The director was diagnosed with multiple myeloma seven years ago and died following complications related to secondary plasma cell leukemia.  Canuel […]

To say the least, I did not approach Inside Out 2 in the right frame of mind.  It has been the summer of sequels. Faced with fears of a shrinking appetite for the big-screen experience, studios have been playing it safe with a festival of the familiar. The 10th Planet of the Apes. Bad Boys No. 4. […]

The members of R.E.M. had joked only hours before that it would take “a comet” to get the band to perform together one last time. Yet there they were at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday night, reunited during the gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The annual […]

There was a time when people were shamed for reading smutty books, whether for the steaminess factor or the misconception that romance wasn’t real literature. But now, thanks to the surging popularity of books by authors like Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros, readers are loudly and proudly embracing the genre — and even appear to be naming […]

“When this whole thing started, if you put yourself in my shoes, I didn’t have a [diagnosis],” says pop icon Céline Dion.  It is spring in Las Vegas, and she’s speaking to CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault in an exclusive English Canadian interview. The topic that brought them together is, of course, what she is referring to now: […]

Ben Potter, a popular YouTube content creator known by his handle Comicstorian, died after an “unfortunate accident,” according to his wife. He was 40. Nathalie Potter said her husband died June 8. Police in Colorado, where Potter lived, said his car rolled several times after leaving a highway; he died at the scene. “His channel was […]

Nicola Coughlan says it’s tough having perfect breasts. The actress who plays Penelope Featherington in Season 3 of Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton admitted as much during a Q&A in Dublin last week. A male member of the audience had just told Coughlan he thought she was “very brave for this role.” In the second half of the season, which comes out Thursday, Coughlan, […]

Animal rights activists have defaced the first official portrait of King Charles with a cut-out face of a cartoon character at a gallery in London. Two activists with Animal Rising stuck a poster from the Wallace and Gromit animated series over the bright red painting on display at the Philip Mould Gallery on Tuesday. The activists were criticising the […]

Drag queens are bringing a splash of colour to Canada’s biggest theatre festival, in a classic play with modern relevance. Some of Canada’s most prominent drag queens consulted on Stratford Festivals’ La Cage aux Folles, which features an all-male chorus made up of nine men performing in 10 different drag outfits.  The musical is based on a French play of the same […]

A new film festival in Saskatoon is showcasing the next generation of Indigenous filmmakers and paying tribute to cinema trailblazers. The inaugural Ācimowin Film Festival started Wednesday night and runs through Saturday, with screenings and events throughout the city. The festival is showing local and international movies by Indigenous filmmakers — its name, Ācimowin, is Cree for storytelling. Tristin […]

After 41 years and more than 8,000 episodes, Pat Sajak’s final turn as the renowned host of Wheel of Fortune will air on Friday. Sajak’s co-host and letter-turner Vanna White paid an emotional tribute to her partner on Thursday’s episode, calling him “like a brother” and a “true lifelong friend.” In the pre-recorded video, which featured […]

Nostalgia tours have come for millennials, and they’re they’re no longer confined to big cities.  Halifax star Sarah McLachlan is touring North America this month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her classic album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, while Belleville, Ont., rocker Avril Lavigne is in the midst of a “greatest hits” run celebrating her early 2000s […]

A controversial pitch for movie lovers this weekend: Go see a small-budget Canadian indie instead of the big-budget fourth sequel of Bad Boys. Canadian filmmaker Ally Pankiw’s debut feature film I Used to be Funny hits theatres this weekend.  After Pankiw directed a buzzy 2023 episode of Black Mirror starring Annie Murphy and Salma Hayek, the big question became, […]

A woman who says she is the inspiration for the relentless stalker at the centre of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer sued the streaming giant on Thursday for defamation and is seeking at least $170 million US in damages. Fiona Harvey, a Scottish attorney living in England who says the character Martha on the widely viewed limited series is […]

Heading into the theatre for Bad Boys: Ride or Die, I do not arrive unprepared.  Aside from virtually growing up alongside the buddy-cop movies, I come with something bordering on a mania: as a young, explosions-obsessed child in the early 2000s, I once spent a summer rewatching Bad Boys II. At final count, I think I […]

Nunavut filmmakers Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald are known for tackling difficult issues in their work about life in Inuit Nunangat, such as in The Grizzlies, Twice Colonized and Throat Song.  But they wanted to show there can be warmth in the Arctic too, which is why they set out five years ago to […]

Halsey has been privately battling illness, the singer revealed Tuesday. She shared the news on Instagram in a series of videos that appear to document the singer receiving infusions. “Long story short, I’m lucky to be alive,” she wrote in the caption. “Short story long, I wrote an album.” In the initial post, an exact […]

Toronto’s famed Phoenix Concert Theatre is closing its doors after more than 33 years. Owners of the downtown venue, which has hosted Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Billie Eilish, said Wednesday they’ve marked Jan. 15, 2025, for the final show as plans go ahead to transform the grounds into residential housing. In the coming […]

You never want to head into an interview unprepared. But walking up to my conversation with Manny Jacinto, for the first time, I think I had the opposite problem.  Because while the actor has already more than made the rounds — first turning heads as a loveable doofus in the NBC sitcom The Good Place before […]

Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system, the country’s telecoms regulator said on Tuesday. The money will be used to boost funding for local and Indigenous broadcasting, officials from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said in a briefing. “Today’s decision […]

6 days ago News Duration 0:44 Actor Robert De Niro had strong words when asked about a character he would never choose to play. His answer was former U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he is ‘not even a human,’ and went further by refusing to call him a pig, because doing so would be a […]

Entertainment The Jonas Brothers will provide the halftime entertainment at the 2024 Grey Cup game in Vancouver. The CFL and B.C. Lions made the joint announcement on Monday. The Grey Cup will take place on Nov. 17 at B.C. Place Stadium The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 03, 2024 11:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: […]

A gaunt, pallid-faced man relentlessly stalks, torments and terrifies his victims. He is cursed with a sociopathic lack of feeling, driven by seriously traumatic mommy issues — and seems to be a real fan of trees. But enough about Dear Evan Hansen. We’re here to talk about In a Violent Nature, a horror whose social […]

A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online. “Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society,” Sam Forster, who is white, posted Tuesday on […]

2 days ago News Duration 3:15 Les Grands Ballets and the National Centre for Dance Therapy recently performed their fourth ‘relaxed’ ballet, a show adapted and performed for autistic children and adults, single mothers, mentally impaired and marginalized people and others who may otherwise not be able to access traditional ballet shows.

Jennifer Lopez said on Friday that her This Is Me… Live summer concert tour has been cancelled so she can take time to be with her family. Lopez wrote on her website that she is “completely heartsick and devastated” about letting her fans down. “Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that […]

Canada has had a steady stream of internationally renowned drag queens in recent years.  The Ru Paul’s Drag Race franchises are in part responsible for creating Canadian mega-stars in the drag world.  There are now several seasons of Canada’s Drag Race, and Canadian queens have been cast in popular spinoffs such as UK vs. The World […]

In an echo of last year’s duel record-breaking performance by dramas The Porter and Brother, both BlackBerry and Little Bird shattered records at the final night of the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards. But while those first two titles both became the most ever awarded at the CSAs last year with 12 wins apiece, there was one […]

The Canadian Screen Awards doled out some of its top trophies last night. BlackBerry was Thursday’s top winner, with 11 awards in a week-long ceremony honouring film, television and almost everything else we watch on our screens.  But perhaps more than anyone else, Canadian filmmakers are learning that not everything that glitters is gold. Because […]

When co-writers Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz were writing their latest comedy film, Babes, they were both about to become parents for the first time with their respective partners. Naive to the massive life changes that were about to occur, they put together a list of the surprising and absurd things they started experiencing on […]

Shub Karman was out for a recent walk in Calgary, when he passed a car full of kids singing along to the music of his favourite Punjabi rapper. “The car was buzzing, the bass was on and there were all sorts of people sitting inside who were jamming to Sidhu Moose Wala,” said Karman, a […]

It’s a moment of pride for Jim Scott to hear the sounds of bagpipes made in his London, Ont., shop when he travels abroad. His handcrafted bagpipes are found in more than 30 countries worldwide, including Scotland, where it’s the national instrument. Scott’s Highland Services — co-owned by Scott and his wife Bev — has been around since 1979 and is […]

This story is part of a series from CBC Saskatchewan, featuring four stories from the 18 pavilions that are part of Mosaic 2024. For more, visit our Mosaic home page.  Kamil Smela is one busy 11-year-old, juggling hockey, football and baseball like many other kids in his class. But he figures there’s something that he does […]

1 day ago News Duration 2:23 Wild is part of the Cat Pack on Paw Patrol, and he’s voiced by Hawthorne Fowler, originally from Bay Roberts. Fowler, who now lives in Oakville, Ontario, along with his dad, Calvin Powell, talked to the CBC’s Jen White about the gig, and the show’s popularity.

A random phone call from an art lover in New Brunswick was all it took to finally solve the mystery of a missing painting for Julia Veenstra. The Hamilton artist thought the large 3-by-5 foot painting she had shipped from her home to a customer at an art gallery in Kelowna, B.C., was lost for good. […]

Bell Media could lose its bid to have former television personality Patricia Jaggernauth’s human rights case thrown out, after a Canadian Human Rights Commission report noting her complaint raises “serious human rights issues that are systemic in nature.” In a confidential report seen by CBC News, the commission said it found “reasonable basis” to support […]

When superstar Taylor Swift added her voice to the outrage over soaring concert prices, the U.S. government took notice. CBC’s Eli Glasner breaks down the move to possibly break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation and whether it might bring down ticket prices.

Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — as well as the most-played tune on Earth, It’s a Small World (After All) — has died. He was 95. Sherman, together with […]

Sean Baker’s Anora, a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday. The win […]

Canadians are hopeful that a U.S. lawsuit against concert promoter Live Nation will provide some relief to cash-strapped fans and musicians.  The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert […]

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee who ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family. “It was a sad day, as we said […]

Even in the face of the murder, explosions, subterranean cannibals and more murder, writer and director George Miller says Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a hopeful movie — one with a question it intended to answer.  “Are we doomed to keep fighting wars, and [to] have aggression against each other? Are we? Or is there […]

CBC’s upcoming scripted lineup is full of familiar faces, with hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids, writer-actor Allan Hawco and comedy collaborators Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill leading new series. The public broadcaster announced a fall and winter slate Thursday that includes the half-hour scripted show Snotty Nose Rez Kids, bound for early 2025. It tells […]

The beleaguered Hot Docs Film Festival says it’s closing its flagship Toronto theatre for about three months and laying off staff amid financial difficulties. Canada’s largest film festival says it will temporarily shutter the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema starting June 12. A statement from the festival says that will result in temporary layoffs as […]

Let the debate begin: What are the best music albums ever? Apple Music certainly has an idea. On Wednesday, the music streaming giant announced its 10 greatest albums of all time, with Lauryn Hill’s iconic The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill from 1998 claiming the top spot. The record, Hill’s debut, outranked other classics from Beyoncé, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Prince, […]

About 30 years ago, Canadian singer songwriter Sarah McLachlan released Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, her third studio album. Now, she’s going on tour to pay tribute to the album that brought her so much success, but most of all, was written during a pivotal time in her life, and has made such an impact on her fans.  “I […]

An investigation has been opened into the death of Matthew Perry and how the Friends actor received the anesthetic ketamine, which was ruled a contributing factor in his death. Los Angeles Police Capt. Scot Williams said in an email Tuesday that the police department was working with the Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Postal Inspection Service […]

OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users said it sounded like Scarlett Johansson, who famously voiced a fictional, and at the time futuristic, AI assistant in the 2013 film Her. In a post on the social media platform X Monday, OpenAI said it is “working […]

Emile Jenkinson-Ramirez, a 24-year-old freelance makeup artist from Ajax, Ont., says she was forced to re-examine her fashion choices about five years ago after watching a video on YouTube that explored the circumstances of underpaid employees in Bangladesh working in the fashion industry. That was when she realized she needed to be smarter about the clothing […]

Critics of Israel’s military operations in Gaza are taking aim at celebrity culture. Some social media users are calling out celebrities who have not spoken out about the ongoing war in Gaza, and are blocking the stars in an attempt to undermine their revenue from brand partnerships. The “blockout” trend was triggered by the May 6 […]

WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence. Sean (Diddy) Combs admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016 after CNN released video of the attack, saying in a video apology he was “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable.” “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. […]

The quaint, pastoral setting for Anne of Green Gables may not be what comes to mind when you imagine a steamy, sex-filled romance novel. Same goes for a coffee shop on the busy streets of Toronto, or a lakeside cottage in Barry’s Bay, Ont. But that’s exactly what buzzy Toronto author Carley Fortune has done with three […]

Dabney Coleman, the moustached character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in 9 to 5 and the nasty TV director in Tootsie, has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said in a statement to The Associated Press. She said he “took his […]

Over two decades ago, Michel Rabagliati first introduced his close friends and family to Paul — a teenage boy growing up in Montreal in the 1970s. Paul was Rabagliati’s creation: a comic that illustrated childhood, first loves, his first apartment and even divorce. The tender snapshots of daily life packed with cultural references and rich […]

WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence. Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, physically assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.  The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer, who […]

“It feels like someone took a shovel and dug out all my insides. I know there’s nothing there, but I’m still too nervous to open myself up to check,” says Owen, one of the many lost characters in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow. “I know there’s something wrong with me — my parents know it too, […]

Newly-crowned Canada’s Got Talent champion Rebecca Strong is confident the win will bring her more opportunities to expand her career. The Indigenous singer from Prince Albert, Sask., took home the competition’s first $1 million prize at the end of the show’s third season. Viewers across Canada voted on a winner of what Citytv’s parent company, Rogers, […]

Chances are you’ve heard of Baby Reindeer, even if you haven’t watched it yet. Netflix’s dark and buzzy series spent four weeks as the most popular show on the streaming service globally, and it was also the top show in Canada. The mini-series by Scottish comedian Richard Gadd centres on the main character’s harrowing experience of being relentlessly stalked by a woman, […]

Alice Munro, a Canadian author who was revered worldwide as master of the short story and one of few women to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 92. Her publisher said she died at her home in Port Hope, Ont., on Monday evening. “Alice Munro is a national treasure — […]

After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. “I arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey,” Rasoulof said in a statement dated Sunday and distributed by […]

Entertainment Michael Bublé is taking his seat at The Voice this fall. The Spicy Margarita singer has been announced as a judge on the upcoming season of the singing competition series, alongside fellow newcomer Snoop Dogg. Burnaby singer will be first Canadian to hold judging spot on popular U.S. singing competition David Friend · The Canadian Press […]

The World Video Game Hall of Fame inducted its 10th class of honourees Thursday, recognizing Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity and Ultima for their impacts on the video game industry and popular culture. The inductees debuted across decades, advancing technologies along the way and expanding not only the number of players, but the ages and […]

Low-budget cinema maestro Roger Corman, who cranked out hundreds of outrageous films over six decades and helped launch the careers of acclaimed directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron and Ron Howard, died on Thursday at age 98, family members said. Corman, a producer and director hailed as the “king of B movies,” died […]

World Get out the glitter ball and put on your dancing shoes: it’s nearly time to find out who will be crowned the 68th Eurovision Song Contest champion. But first, check out these scenes from the final dress rehearsal. Posted: May 10, 2024 3:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago Corrections and clarifications|Submit […]

The final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Saturday in the Swedish city of Malmo after days of protests and offstage drama that have tipped the feel-good musical celebration into a chaotic pressure cooker overshadowed by the war in Gaza. A raucous Croatian rocker, a non-binary Swiss performer with a soaring voice and […]

Ncuti Gatwa’s time has, in fact, been a long time coming. That’s partially because the Sex Education star was first cast as the new lead in the long-running Doctor Who series back in 2022. But it’s also because his own trajectory — when he was a child, Gatwa’s family immigrated to Scotland to flee Rwanda’s civil […]

Rex Murphy, the controversial Newfoundland-born pundit and wordsmith whose writing and often-blistering commentaries were the focus of a decades-long career in Canadian media, has died at the age of 77, according to the National Post. “You might not agree with what Rex had to say, but oh, boy, could he ever say it,” said comedian […]

When I was young, my mom’s friend’s kids came over to watch DreamWorks’ 1998 classic The Prince of Egypt. Less than 10 minutes in, they tearily demanded we turn it off. It wasn’t the violence against the enslaved people that was getting to them. When they watched those people’s backs cut up by whips, they weren’t […]

Cue up his 2010 megahit Baby. Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber (nee Baldwin) are expecting their first child together. A representative for Hailey Bieber confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the model is just over six months pregnant. The couple announced the news on their respective Instagram pages with corresponding posts. Both begin with […]

Actor Jared Leto carrying around his own head as an accessory? Real. Rapper Lil Nas X, painted head to toe in silver, his body encrusted with pearls and crystals, wearing only a metallic Dior thong? It happened. Actor and singer Billy Porter, wearing a catsuit, carried into the event by six shirtless men in gold pants? Yes.  If there’s any event where it might be […]

Steve Albini, an alternative-rock pioneer and legendary producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died. He was 61. Brian Fox, an engineer at Albini’s studio, Electrical Audio Recording, said Wednesday that Albini died after a heart attack Tuesday night. In addition to his work […]

A security guard was shot and seriously injured outside Canadian rap star Drake’s mega-mansion in Toronto early Tuesday, police say. The entrance to the sprawling property on Park Lane Circle in the ritzy Bridle Path neighbourhood was taped off by officers and there was a heavy police presence in the area throughout the morning. The shooting happened […]

In the history of television, few episodes have been as controversial as the Seinfeld finale. Written by series co-creator Larry David, the two-part finale originally aired in 1998 to an audience of more than 76 million viewers — but the beloved sitcom failed to stick the landing. “A lot of people didn’t like it,” Jerry […]

Legendary Canadian band The Tragically Hip are celebrating their 40th anniversary with an official anthology called This is Our Life.  Told in the band’s own words, This is Our Life shares the band’s story from their early beginnings in Kingston, Ont. as high schoolers to their success as a Juno-winning rock band. The book draws from hours of […]

Actor Bernard Hill, who delivered a rousing cry before leading his people into battle in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and went down with the ship as the captain in Titanic, has died. Hill, 79, passed away Sunday morning, agent Lou Coulson said. Hill joined The Lord Of The Rings franchise in the […]

Two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical Hell’s Kitchen powered by Alicia Keys songs, and the play Stereophonic about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, a list that also saw a record number of women nominated for […]

An LP spins on a turntable while a man proudly holds up its cover: the 1979 self-titled album by the Whispers. “And the beat goes on… Just like my love: Everlasting,” the legendary R&B group croons on their hit single. All of the posts on the Instagram account @vinyl_nights_ follow this formula: Quick cuts of slow motion […]

Rapper and actor Ice Cube has collected a few gifts from Indigenous people in Canada in his travels and he got another one this week at a stop on his “Straight into Canada” tour. Eleesha Papin from Enoch Cree Nation near Edmonton presented him with a starblanket on behalf of her community during his show at their River Cree Resort Casino. “Our people are […]

There’s a perilous stunt at the heart of The Fall Guy.  More dangerous than the record-breaking truck roll, or surfing a metal trash bin across the streets of Sydney. This is a movie torn between two tracks.  Part is a super-charged satire on the excesses of Hollywood. Much of The Fall Guy takes place on the set of […]

Explosions. Death-defying falls. Swords, guns, car crashes and balls of fire.  For some, those are terrifying possibilities of a day gone very wrong. But for the new film The Fall Guy, and the stunt performers it seeks to celebrate, it’s just another day at the office. The new film, starring Ryan Gosling and helmed by […]

Hip-hop heavyweights Drake and Kendrick Lamar are sparring in an exchange of diss tracks that has sent music fans into furious debates on social media.  The feud has roped in a slew of hip-hop stars, almost all of whom seem to be coming for Toronto native Drake.  “Hip-hop hasn’t seen a beef like this since Nas […]

With a month to go before the kickoff of Pride Month, Toronto’s premier queer theatre space is facing a city order that limits access to its main stage area. Buddies in Bad Times is in the midst of doing structural work in that part of its century-old building near Yonge and Alexander streets — work that it […]

The farcical Céline Dion jukebox musical Titanique is setting its course for Canada. Producers of the off-Broadway smash say the show will make its maiden voyage to Montreal later this year, followed by dates in Toronto. Titanique is a musical parody of James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic. It’s centred on a Dion character who crashes a tour group […]

A misunderstood and mistreated killer whale. An investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and American gun culture at large. An inconvenient truth about the future of planet Earth in the face of devastating climate change. If you go by overwhelmingly successful films like Blackfish, Bowling for Columbine and An Inconvenient Truth, it might seem like documentaries are […]

Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as The New York Trilogy and 4321, has died at age 77. Auster’s death was confirmed on May 1 by his literary representatives, the Carol Mann Agency, which did not immediately provide additional details. Auster had been diagnosed […]

The Current24:10Lucy Lawless on ‘warrior princess’ Margaret Moth A new documentary looks at the late photojournalist Margaret Moth’s unflinching work as a war correspondent — even after a sniper’s bullet shattered her jaw at the Siege of Sarajevo. “She lost part of her tongue, her teeth, her beauty, her ability to speak, her standing in […]

Entertainment Cityline is coming to an end. Tracy Moore, who’s been hosting the show since 2008, will move to a live, national hour-long lifestyle news and features segment as a part of Citytv’s Breakfast Television. Tracy Moore, Cityline host since 2008, moving to segment on Breakfast Television The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 30, 2024 […]

Singer-songwriter superstar Billie Eilish is launching a massive concert tour — with both good and bad news for her Quebec fans. The Grammy-winning musician will kick off her upcoming tour in Quebec City on Sept. 29 in support of her soon-to-released album Hit Me Hard and Soft.  But despite moving on to Toronto with shows on both […]

Throughout the course of his 50 years in the broadcast booth, Bob Cole made friendships with some of the greatest players in the game of hockey and was the voice of their biggest accomplishments. He was there when Wayne Gretzky won his first Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers in 1984, proclaiming: “Folks, there’s a […]

A six-year-old Bhangra dancer from Surrey saw his dreams come true — and became part of history — when he danced onstage with Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh in front of a sold-out crowd at B.C. Place on Saturday. Aanakh Bhullar was sitting on his father’s shoulders when Dosanjh pointed and called him up on stage […]

2 days ago News Duration 2:11 Two years after performing to a sold out crowd at Rogers Arena, Punjabi hip-hop artist Diljit Dosanjh is back in Vancouver. As CBC’s Sohrab Sandhu reports, this time Dosanjh is taking it a step further, by performing to a bigger crowd at the B.C. Place stadium this weekend.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Jay Baruchel feels fine. On the second season of his Crave series We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel), which launched last week, the host and namesake explores several possible apocalyptic scenarios, from insect extinction to a world ruled by artificial intelligence. “I think we are all understandably […]

WARNING: This article contains mention of sexual assault. 919 dollars and 57 cents.  That’s the critical sum at the centre of the new film I Don’t Know Who You Are, the feature film debut from director M.H. Murray. Every day, the news is filled with those living their lives on the margins. People battling soaring rent, […]

The way concert tickets are sold is “broken,” according to a new letter signed by more than 250 major recording artists including Billie Eilish, Blue Rodeo and Fall Out Boy. The letter, signed Thursday, voiced support for the Fans First Act, a bill pending in the U.S. Senate that would prevent speculative ticket sales when a seller does not have […]

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself again declaring after New […]

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. A Vancouver woman has filed a civil lawsuit against Paramount Pictures Corp. and punk rocker Stephen Jones of The Sex Pistols alleging he sexually assaulted her as a teenager while she was a movie extra more than […]

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, reversing a landmark ruling of the #MeToo era in determining the trial judge improperly allowed women to testify about allegations against the ex-movie mogul that weren’t part of the case. Weinstein, 72, will remain imprisoned because he was convicted in Los Angeles in […]

A photographer who worked for Megan Thee Stallion said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was abused as her employee. In the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Emilio Garcia said that after a night out in 2022 in Ibiza, […]

Late to look up what’s hot at Hot Docs this year? Or are you unable to attend the Ontario festival that cut out its popular at-home streaming option?  Have no fear. CBC News has compiled some of the the best documentaries at the festival that are most worth your time. That includes some films that, as of […]

As It Happens6:36Bluey’s surprise new episode was based on this dad’s chaotic family camping trip When Stuart Heritage agreed to play two separate games with each of his children simultaneously, it left him exhausted, confused, and hiding in the bathroom.  But that misguided decision — and the chaos that ensued — landed him a credit on […]

WARNING: This story contains language that some may find offensive. Jay Baruchel has always defined himself by his love for Canada. The Ottawa-born, Montreal-bred actor lives in Toronto now, where he intends to stay, but even when he started building his career in Hollywood at 18, he was known for his unabashed patriotism. “I went […]

Andrew Davis, the acclaimed British conductor who led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 13 years, has died. He was 80. Davis died Saturday at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia, his manager, Jonathan Brill of Opus 3 Artists, said Sunday. Davis had been managing the disease for nearly two years, but it became acute shortly […]

Mary J. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton. Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton earned the Musical Influence Award, while the […]

Unreserved45:38Reclaiming Inuit Throat Singing Sisters Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk McKay were children when they first learned the Inuit cultural practice of throat singing.   “If you ask a kid when they first learn to do ABC’s, they probably wouldn’t be able to tell you exactly when. It was just a normal part of childhood for us,” […]

There is something insufferably satisfying about David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset. From the time the bizarre sasquatch family drama made news for scarring and scaring audiences at Sundance Film Festival, it was destined to become the kind of media circus that overshadowed Beau is Afraid, Skinamarink and I’m Still Here, the Joaquin Phoenix documentary about that time he tricked us into […]

Over the years, 60 Canadian artists have won the honour of showing their work in a small, angular, wood-and-glass pavilion that sits on the end of the Venice lagoon. But this is the first time an artist has draped the pavilion in luscious strings of cobalt-blue beads that shift and soften the outline of the […]

It’s only April, but it’s hard to imagine any album will be heard more this year than Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. The album took less than 12 hours to break this year’s record for most single-day Spotify streams, and is projected to sell two million units in its first week. On Thursday, Spotify […]

When Noah Kahan wrote the song Growing Sideways off his hit album Stick Season, he had just gotten off Zoloft for the first time. The antidepressant helped improve his mental health, but it also dulled his creativity, he found. “That’s my fundamental struggle with antidepressants,” Kahan tells Q‘s Tom Power in an interview. “A lot […]

One of the accused in the Norval Morrisseau art fraud ring case has reached a resolution with his community.  Benjamin Morrisseau, Norval’s nephew, appeared in court in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Thursday on forgery charges. After meeting with elders, an agreement was reached that will see him undertake reparation measures, which can be part of the […]

The hype for Taylor Swift’s new album went into overdrive as it appeared to leak online two days ahead of its Friday release. Swifties started sharing tracks on X that they claimed were from the singer’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, saying they came from a Google Drive link containing all 17 songs. Some fans […]

The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale announced Tuesday they won’t open the Israeli pavilion exhibition until there is a ceasefire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages. Their decision was posted on a sign in the window of the Israeli national pavilion on the first day of media previews, […]

Q21:49Deryck Whibley: Why Sum 41 is disbanding after 27 years Deryck Whibley had a nagging feeling for the past five years. He wanted to leave Sum 41 — the band he formed with his buddies from Ajax, Ont., in 1996 — but he didn’t want to be ungrateful. “I’ve always had these thoughts and desires, […]

Looking for your next read? Check out all our lists of Canadian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics and children’s books to read in the first half of 2024! Death By A Thousand Cuts is a short story collection by Shashi Bhat. (McClelland & Stewart, Olivia Li) Our top pick: Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat Death by a […]

A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust, at a sentencing hearing Monday in a New Mexico state court. Movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary […]

The most popular movie on Netflix Canada has resurfaced a dramatic murder-for-hire plot that shook an Ontario city in 2010. The documentary What Jennifer Did explores the life of Jennifer Pan and the complicated events that led to her mother being killed and her father severely wounded in a Markham, Ont., case that was granted a […]

On the surface, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer is the perfect target for adaptation. First off, it’s a novel — one of the more lucrative source materials for an industry perpetually hungry for existing IP and a built-in audience.  Second, it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, a badge of honour that already proved a boon for similar adaptees like Spotlight, Driving Miss […]

Burton Cummings’s latest blow in his legal battle against the current lineup of the Guess Who is tarnishing the legacy of the famous Winnipeg rock band, a local music historian says — and could set the stage for similar rifts between bands and former members. The band’s ex-frontman has terminated agreements with performing-rights organizations for […]

The highly anticipated film Civil War lands in theatres this week. Acclaimed filmmaker Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men) wrote and directed the film, set in the imagined near future during a fictional civil war in the United States of America.  The film stars big-name talent including Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Wagner Moura, […]

Day 69:34A small business owner resists Momofuku’s bid to trademark Chili Crunch Celebrity chef David Chang says he will no longer enforce the trademark for his chili crunch condiment.  The reversal comes after days of criticism, as some said his company, Momofuku, had attempted to bully business owners from selling their own version of the […]

In his filmmaking career, Alex Garland has terrified us with zombies, infectious alien hybrids, murderous men and A.I. run amuck. Civil War, the writer and director’s latest film, is not only his most ambitious entry but also his most plausible. The press notes for Civil War describe the setting as “near-future America,” but it feels like […]

John Kinnear was motivated by a heartfelt desire to help when he sat down in his London, Ont., home to write a letter to Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis.  It was 1965 and Kinnear — an artist himself — had just read a profile of Lewis in Star Weekly magazine, which was included in his weekend edition of the London […]

O.J. Simpson, the football star, actor and pitchman whose shocking arrest for double murder and subsequent acquittal at trial shone a light on American race relations, has died. He was 76. “On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer,” the family said in a statement posted to Simpson’s X […]

Jazz clarinettist, composer and bandleader Phil Nimmons, known as the “dean of Canadian jazz,” has died at the age of 100. A statement released by his family confirmed that Nimmons died at home in Toronto on April 5. “As Phil would say, he has ‘gone to the land of 2 ‘n’ 4,’” it said. During his long […]

Cousins and collaborators Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki have been nominated for the 2024 Doug Wright Award for their YA graphic novel Roaming. Founded in 2005, the Doug Wright Awards have been awarded annually to celebrate the best in comics across Canada. They are named after influential Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright. This year, 200 entries were submitted to be considered […]

Maud Lewis’s simple scenes of rural life are selling for tens — and sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars. But Halifax art dealer Chad Brown says putting down that kind of money can be risky with the number of forgeries out there.

Eleanor Catton is among the five North American authors shortlisted for the second iteration of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.  The $150,000 USD ($203,971.50 Cdn) prize recognizes the best fiction book by a woman or non-binary writer from the U.S. and Canada. It is presently the largest international literary prize for women writers. Each of the four remaining finalists will […]

Renowned Prism drummer Gary Wanstall, known as Rocket Norton, passed away last week after a two-year-long battle with cancer. Bill Allman, president with B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame, confirmed Wanstall died in Vancouver on April 5. He was 73.  “He was a truly remarkable human being, and you would follow him anywhere,” Allman told CBC News.  “His […]

Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a year-long counselling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s career. The 34-year-old star of Creed III and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault by […]

A 20-year-old ballet teacher in Saskatchewan is the first person in Canada to pass one national organization’s top dance exam and prove her moves are en pointe. Brianna Dash completed the Advanced Solo Award Ballet exam — the highest ballet level offered by the Canadian Dance Teachers’ Association (CDTA) — in March. The award was introduced five […]

Day 68:3041 years after she topped the charts, Bonnie Tyler still loves singing Total Eclipse of the Heart Every time there’s an eclipse, Bonnie Tyler’s phone rings off the hook.  “My emails are coming in like Fast and Furious every time there’s an eclipse,” she told Day 6 host Brent Bambury.  That’s because the Welsh […]

Who Carly Simon is singing about in the iconic 1972 song, You’re So Vain, is a question that has long fascinated people. But there’s another mystery. Why does she mention Nova Scotia in the song? While Simon has said the song is about three men, one of whom is actor Warren Beatty, the question of who […]

Some of Canada’s most iconic festivals are cancelling or scaling back this year as they weather financial struggles. Festival organizers say they are still recouping losses from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns while they contend with inflation, increased competition and a loss of corporate sponsors. It costs 30 to 40 per cent more to organize a festival […]

Musicians are confronting artificial intelligence as digital copycats flood the internet.  The Artist Rights Alliance, a non-profit advocacy organization, issued an open letter this week calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms and digital music services to stop using AI to “infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists.” “This assault on human […]

It’s something of a miracle that Monkey Man exists.  It’s an action-drama made by a lesser-known actor when — according to some — the traditional leading man and action hero has already started to disappear from the cultural landscape. A movie held in post-production hell by Netflix for years until being saved by a sympathetic Jordan Peele. And […]

2 days ago News Duration 2:53 The man known to many as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride is coming to Halifax. Beloved entertainer Mandy Patinkin will perform his favourite Broadway and classic American tunes at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in his concert show called Being Alive on April 4. He spoke with Information Morning’s […]

Disney’s streaming service will start cracking down on password-sharing in June, chief executive Bob Iger said on Thursday, as the entertainment conglomerate looks to boost subscriber growth and profitability at the business. Iger also said there was a need for some consolidation in the streaming industry and Disney was eventually looking at double-digit margins in […]

Vancouver-based costume designer Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh collaborated with Inuit artists to create cultural pieces for Netflix’s live-action show Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Joe Flaherty, the comedian and writer known for his roles on shows like Freaks and Geeks and SCTV, has died. He was 82. “After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss,” daughter Gudrun Flaherty shared with CBC News via SCTV producer and close […]

Sisters Leanne and Natasha Manikavasagar are no strangers to seeing AI-generated content on TikTok. But an AI-generated deepfake video of Drake teaching trigonometry took them by surprise. “I was shocked,” said Natasha, a Grade 9 student in Brampton Ont.  “Drake looked kind of weird, like his mouth did not match … the way he was […]

More than 400 Canadian artists from the worlds of music, film and literature are denouncing what they describe as “alarming and destructive” anti-trans legislation in an open letter released Sunday by music superstars Tegan and Sara. The list of stars who signed the letter includes actor Elliot Page, Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle, actress […]

Actor Chance Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Gen V, has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash. “On behalf of the family and his representatives, it is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Chance Perdomo’s untimely passing as a result of a motorcycle accident,” […]

On the surface, Beyoncé and Sacha have little in common. Where Beyoncé was born in Houston, Sacha grew up in the tiny town of Warkworth, Ont. While the former was inspired to become a musician by a larger-than-life Michael Jackson concert, the latter credits her passion to the soulful Patsy Cline records her mother would play on repeat.  And […]

Hot Wheelz is just one of the many extraordinary subjects featured in the fourth season of Canada’s a Drag, a docu-series from CBC Arts that shines a light on some of this country’s drag heroes. “I’m trying to make the corporate ladder a ramp,” drag performer Hot Wheelz slyly says upon introducing themselves in their episode […]

Plains Cree musician Joel Wood cracks up his wife as he describes how he emerged from his mother’s womb. “I kind of came out singing — Waahh Yaaahh Hoka hey,” Wood says. Despite a lifetime of performing, Wood was caught off-guard as he danced his way to the stage in Halifax Saturday with his wife, album […]

Famously private about his personal life, acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland is finally ready to let the public in on his story. He’ll share behind-the-scenes moments from 60 years in the spotlight in his memoir Made Up, But Still True. Born in Saint John, Sutherland rose to stardom from early roles in Dirty Dozen and M.A.S.H. and has since received […]

Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations, union members with OPSEU Local 535 voted to reject the gallery’s latest contract offer, saying it doesn’t address wage increases, protections for part-time workers and contracting out positions.  Assistant curators, archivists, food and […]

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation […]

In the last decade, Ryan Duchoeny has worn many hats — firefighter, police officer, construction worker and even convict. Such is the life of a background actor.  But his real dream is to land a lead speaking role in a movie or TV show.  For the deaf actor, who also works at an Ottawa Costco, that means […]

There is a scene at the end of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire that is, for the most part, exactly the same as every Ghostbusters finale. But where the 1984 original concluded with only four ‘busters in a late-night faceoff with the glowing-eyed final ghost-boss, Ghostbusters II and the ill-fated 2016 reboot upped the total to five, while the […]

3 days ago News Duration 5:19 Aysanabee, an Oji-Cree musician from Northwestern Ontario, is nominated for three Juno Awards. Ahead of the ceremony, the singer-songwriter sat down with CBC’s Shannon Martin to discuss what the nominations mean to him and his upcoming tribute performance to Gordon Lightfoot and Robbie Robertson.

12:36Amrit Kaur lands her first leading film role in the queer, Bollywood-inspired The Queen of My Dreams For Fawzia Mirza, making The Queen of My Dreams her feature film debut was cathartic. “It saved my life,” said the writer-director. The film, which began its life as an art installation and then a 2012 short film, […]

Entertainment Nelly Furtado is set to host the 53rd Juno Awards in Halifax on Sunday, as some of the biggest names in Canadian music gather to celebrate the past year’s achievements. 10-time winner Nelly Furtado to host in Halifax on Sunday CBC News · Posted: Mar 23, 2024 4:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours […]

Nelly Furtado will get the party started this weekend as some of the biggest names in Canadian music gather in Halifax for the 53rd Juno Awards. The 10-time Juno-winning pop singer, who has an album on the way this year, will open with a medley of her hits and host Sunday’s main event at Scotiabank […]

Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with cancer, a surprise disclosure that follows an extended period of frenzied public speculation on the state of her health. In a video statement, Catherine, 42, shared that her cancer had been discovered following a “major abdominal surgery” she underwent in January. She said that the […]

On March 21, Joni Mitchell’s entire musical catalogue reappeared on Spotify. Two years ago, she removed her music from the streaming platform in solidarity with Neil Young, who boycotted Spotify over his concerns around the spreading of COVID-19 misinformation on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast.  In a message posted to her website on Jan. 28, 2022 she […]

As It Happens6:21An Oscar changed everything for this public school instrument repair shop Steve Bagmanyan is putting retirement on hold — and he couldn’t be more thrilled about it. Bagmanyan is the supervisor at a warehouse in Los Angeles, where a small, but mighty, team of music lovers repair musical instruments for thousands of public […]

A new ballet opening Wednesday is the first work by an Asian choreographer commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada for its main stage at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. UtopiVerse, by choreographer William Yong, explores the concept of utopia in the age of technology. Yong — who also dances, acts, designs and directs — uses […]

M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unsettling presence to films including Blood Simple and Blade Runner, has died at age 88, his manager said Wednesday. Walsh died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital in St. Albans, Vt., his longtime manager Sandy Joseph said. The ham-faced, heavyset Walsh often […]

If you’ve spent one too many hours binge-watching old seasons of Heartland, there’s an auction with your name on it.  The popular television show is based on a fictional book series of the same name by Lauren Brooke. It follows Amy Fleming, her sister, Lou, and the rest of their family through the ups and downs of living […]

It was a night of surprises and upsets at Sunday’s Academy Awards — especially for what were arguably the year’s two biggest films.  That was perhaps most clear with Oppenheimer, which took home seven wins — the most of all nominated movies. The period piece won for film editing, cinematography, score, best supporting actor for Robert Downey […]

A company that owns nearly two dozen newspapers in Atlantic Canada has debts of almost $100 million and is filing for creditor protection. SaltWire Network made the application in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, according to court documents filed on Monday. The court documents said SaltWire has assets of almost $33 million and more than $94 […]

Q23:12Denis Villeneuve: Dune 2, his vision for the sci-fi epic, and how the film reflects issues in the world today Denis Villeneuve grew up in the small village of Gentilly, near Trois-Rivières, Que., where he could see two structures from his home: the church and the nuclear power plant. That image is key to understanding […]

6 days ago News Duration 1:56 Indigenous actor Lily Gladstone may not have won an Oscar for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, but she did make history this award season. Gladstone was the first Indigenous woman to be nominated for best actress at the Academy Awards, and she shared the spotlight with […]

What was intended as a simple family photo has become a royal headache for Princess Catherine and her family, after social media users and photo experts pointed out numerous inconsistencies that suggest the photo was heavily manipulated. A disappearing sleeve, a misaligned zipper and green summertime leaves are just a few details that have raised questions […]

Where many modern romantic comedies falter is a laser-focus on the romance and a weak commitment to the comedy — French Girl, a Canadian indie out this weekend, does not have that problem. Starring Zach Braff, Vanessa Hudgens and Québécois actress Évelyne Brochu, the rom-com is laugh-out-loud funny and never short on charm. It was shot on-location […]

Canada’s independent cinema industry is in crisis, its owners say, as they face mounting challenges from streaming services and restrictive Hollywood studio rules. Sixty per cent of independent movie theatre operators were at a loss at the end of their most recent fiscal year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Network of Independent […]

Where Love Lies Bleeding ends up — full of psychedelic visions, blood-covered bodies and more than a fair amount of screaming — is very different from where the movie starts out.  That’s because the Kristen Stewart-led, Rose Glass-directed bodybuilding crime epic is a genre send-up in just about every way. The film follows Lou (Stewart), a 20-something gym manager […]

The U.S. Congress has moved a big step closer to a crackdown on a popular platform that could have far-reaching implications for social media in the country. It involves a bill with major implications for the fast-growing site TikTok, renowned for addictive videos and used by hundreds of millions around the world, including millions in […]

The Vancouver Fringe Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary not with a triumphant bow but with a plea for more cash. The festival, a staple of Vancouver’s performing arts calendar since 1985, says inflationary pressures are hurting its bottom line, hiking the prices of labour, venues and equipment. The organization has launched an appeal for […]

Olivia Munn has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, thanking her doctors and urging fans to calculate their own risk assessment. “I’m lucky. We caught it with enough time that I had options. I want the same for any woman who might have to face this one day,” the […]

A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sexual predator. “It was terrible. The whole thing was like pure nightmare and hell,” Frederik Durand said in an interview from Montreal. “I […]