Jun 15 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — B.C. doctor-turned-writer Tolu Oloruntoba says he feels "seen" after winning the Griffin Poetry Prize for a debut book that's been years in the making. Oloruntoba was named the Canadian winner of the $65,000 honour at an online ceremony Wednesday for "The Junta of Happenstance." The Surrey-based wordsmith said the announcement came in the […]
Jun 12 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Fiona Fairbairn had a lot on her mind. Then she realized: that was the problem. She thought too much, so she decided to stop. "I'm sick of perceiving. I'm sick of being observational. I'm sick of being self-aware," Fairbairn told her 8,000 TikTok followers on Dec. 23. "Just let me be dumb, because […]
Jun 9 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Kelly Potter Scott has been looking forward to taking her 10-year-old daughter across the Canadian border for the first time for a girls' getaway in Upstate New York in a couple of weeks. But as she spent hours waiting outside a Toronto passport office, Potter Scott said she had to trust an official's […]
Jun 6 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — The sexual assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard turned on one central issue: consent. The Hedley frontman was found guilty of one count of sexual assault causing bodily harm against one of two complainants on Sunday, but acquitted of the same charge plus a count of sexual interference related to a teenage […]
Jun 6 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — The sexual assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard turned on one central issue: consent. The Hedley frontman was found guilty of one count of sexual assault causing bodily harm against one of two complainants on Sunday, but acquitted of the same charge plus a count of sexual interference related to a teenage […]
May 19 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Experts and advocates anticipate that more Canadians could be at risk of going hungry as inflation continues to outpace many consumers' grocery budgets. Valerie Tarasuk, a professor of nutritional sciences at University of Toronto, said steepening inflation rates are likely to increase the prevalence and severity of food insecurity in Canada. That could […]
May 16 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The Prince of Wales is set to be greeted by a sheepish figure when he arrives in Canada on Tuesday: his own "woolly doppelgänger." Prince Charles will lock eyes with a life-size, hand-needle-felted bust of his own visage as he meets with Canadian wool enthusiasts in St. John's, N.L., at one of the first stops […]
May 12 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — When the red recording light flashed on at Hollywood's storied Roxy Theatre, the pressure was on the Tragically Hip to put on a good show, guitarist Paul Langlois recalls. It wasn't long before those nerves receded into the background, said Langlois, as frontman Gord Downie punctuated the rollicking set list with ad libbed […]
May 12 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — When the red recording light flashed on at Hollywood's storied Roxy Theatre, the pressure was on the Tragically Hip to put on a good show, guitarist Paul Langlois recalls. It wasn't long before those nerves receded into the background, said Langlois, as frontman Gord Downie punctuated the rollicking set list with ad libbed […]
May 5 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — "Are you OK?" the TikTok commenter asked. "Like really?" It was a reasonable question. Since joining TikTok in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, Toronto hip-hop artist Akintoye Asalu has built a name for himself on TikTok with his candid songs about dealing with anxiety and depression. When Asalu saw this expression […]
Apr 30 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — A sense of unease is percolating in some pockets of Twitter over concerns that Elon Musk's pending takeover could amplify toxic elements on the platform and drown out marginalized voices. Musk's US$44-billion bid to buy Twitter has spurred speculation that the tech mogul's promises to foster "free speech" on the social network could […]
Apr 22 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — The directors of "Charlotte" say they see the animated biopic as an extension of its subject's mission to render her Holocaust-era coming of age storyas an epic visual memoir. The Canadian co-production traces the true story of German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon as she chronicles her life in hundreds of gouaches entitled "Life? […]
Apr 21 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Late blues legend Salome Bey is getting the star treatment she deserves as the face of a new Canada Post stamp, her daughter says. SATE Bey and her sister tUkU, born Jacintha Tuku Matthews, were among those to attend Thursday's launch of a commemorative stamp of the singer, songwriter, composer and actress known […]
Apr 13 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — A dramedy series inspired by Quebec's "maple syrup heist" and a documentary project on the Tragically Hip are among the original Canadian productions set to stream on Prime Video. Amazon's streaming arm detailed its Canadian slate at an event at Toronto's Massey Hall on Wednesday that included appearances from the Kids in the […]
Apr 13 2022 — Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Few people have had a better front-row view of the Tragically Hip's rock 'n' roll journey than Mike Downie. But as he set out to make the "definitive documentary" on the band, the brother of late frontman Gord Downie says he found that even he didn't have the full story. The filmmaker will […]