Mar 24 2023 — The Canadian Press — Alt-rockerAlanis Morissette is one of the headliners this year’s concert series at the annual RBC Canadian Open golf tournament. The seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter will close out the two-night concert seriesJune 10 at the Oakdale Golf and Country Club in Toronto. Additional performers will be announced at a later date. In previous years, artists Maroon […]
Mar 14 2023 — The Canadian Press — A wildly unpredictable Juno Awards unfolded on Monday as a topless protester charged the stage, leading to some feisty words from Avril Lavigne, while an absent the Weeknd emerged the top winner this year. With a few twists and turns, Canada’s biggest celebration of music did away with its typically tame proceedings shortly after the […]
Mar 13 2023 — CBC — Everything Everywhere All At Once entered the 2023 Oscars on Sunday with a leading 11 nominations and took home seven after an intense awards season, and an evening far removed from the drama-filled one last year. The German anti-war drama All Quiet on the Western Front — another ambitious epic, albeit of wildly different stripe […]
Mar 11 2023 — The Canadian Press — Some of Canada’s brightest music stars will be toasted in Edmonton tonight as a pre-telecast Juno Awards celebration gets underway. More than 40 Juno categories will be handed out at the Juno Opening Night Awards, which stream live on YouTube and CBC Gem from the Edmonton Convention Centre, co-hosted by “Run the Burbs” star Andrew […]
Mar 10 2023 — Associated Press — Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89. A statement released on behalf of his niece, Noreen Austin, said Blake died from heart disease, surrounded by family at home in Los […]
Mar 8 2023 — The Canadian Press — The Juno Awards are returning to Halifax next year. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the awards will be held in the port city for the first time since 2006, when Pamela Anderson hosted the ceremony. Halifax will host Juno Week events starting March 20, 2024, leading up to the awards show […]
Mar 7 2023 — The Canadian Press — Anthony Shim’s semi-autobiographical film “Riceboy Sleeps” about a Korean single mother who moves to Canada to raise her son, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2022 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The film, shot in the Vancouver area and in South Korea, premiered at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the Busan International […]
Mar 7 2023 — The Canadian Press — Canadians will have another chance to swallow a “Jagged Little Pill” this autumn as the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s album of the same name returns to Toronto. Mirvish Productions says the musical made its Toronto premiere off-season last year, but it will now play as part of the regular 2023/2024 season, starting in October. […]
Mar 6 2023 — Associated Press — Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” […]
Mar 4 2023 — Associated Press — Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday at age 61. The actor had suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep Friday at a hospital in […]
Mar 2 2023 — The Canadian Press — Mitchell is the 1st Canadian to be honoured with the prize from the U.S. Library of Congress. Alberta-born songstress Joni Mitchell headed up a procession of musical luminaries past and present Wednesday at a gala celebration of her latest lifetime achievement: the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. A roster of performers including […]
Mar 1 2023 — The Canadian Press — Global has announced a new crop of houseguests for season 11 of “Big Brother Canada” hosted by Arisa Cox. This season will introduce a special whodunit edition of the reality competition show that will test and challenge houseguests until the season’s mystery is solved. The new lineup of 16 players include a yoga instructor mom […]
Feb 27 2023 — The Canadian Press — Two of Canada’s largest newspapers have dropped the Dilbert comic strip over recent remarks by its creator. The Toronto Star published a note in today’s edition stating the strip will no longer appear in its weekend comic section because “recent racist comments by the cartoonist, Scott Adams, are not in line with the Star’s journalistic […]
Feb 26 2023 — The Canadian Press — Gordon Pinsent, the adored Canadian actor whose career hit its peak well into his 70s with an award-winning performance as the heartbroken husband in “Away From Her,” has died. Pinset died on Saturday evening at age 92, his friend actor Mark Critch confirmed. The Newfoundland native, a household name in Canada for decades after his […]
Feb 24 2023 — The Canadian Press — Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Eugene Levy has appeared in scores of film and TV projects to date,but what scares him the most is being himself in front of the camera. “It’s frightening — I’ve done character work my entire life and the further the characters are from me, the more comfortable I am,” says […]