Patriotism and pride come into play, and inevitably, questions are raised around what it means to be Canadian and make Canadian content. To balance making millions, raising twins and mayyyyybe also to rescue Las Vegas tourism after the catastrophic crash of the Great Recession, Dion launches a second residency on the Strip. If a tactic bombs, hell call it a success or hire an actress wholl tell him she loved it. From the outside, the museum is almost blinding. Its an incubus which is way less surprising than Sues reaction. Seven Tony Award nominations later, its still playing in Toronto, New York City and London, and notably surpassed The Drowsy Chaperones record to become the longest-running Canadian musical on Broadway in October 2018. Most of the time, getting stranded at an airport after an emergency landing is a stressful experience. The tragic story behind the show was well-known in the arts community when it debuted in 2015. Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany, actor (born 22 September 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan). Just hold on, three of them are going home: In this episode of Stan Wars, host Amanda Parris gives four members of Team Drizzy the chance to compete for the title of Drakes ultimate stan. making him the youngest artist in history to chart in the Top 25 with a debut single, Justin Trudeau to spend an evening with Ivanka Trump, drew inspiration from Belcourts painting, this year marked the close of a seven-year tour, 10 songs that should have been bigger outside of Canada, Beck + Call by July Talk feat. The final season of Breaking Bad premieres. For the Season 3 finale, NFY takes that swindle to the extreme, with Nathan orchestrating a high-wire spectacle. The Golden Globes were another shining moment for Asian-Canadian pride as Oh won the award for best actress in a TV drama for her portrayal of Eve Polastri on Killing Eve, sweeping the stage in a glitzy white dress with gold sequined sleeves (fully living out a Crazy Rich Asians fantasy that I 100 per cent mega-swooned at). Miss Chief Eagle Testickle unveils Kent Monkmans latest searing indictment on Facebook. I love drag. But the show went on: videos depicting Canadas glorious landscape and flawless performances by k.d. Thankfully, Page ended up being far from alone in his quest to try and make a difference through the work that he did. Des McAnuff is a Broadway legacy name at this point. The Handmaids Tale wins big at the Emmys. Are we human, or are we Navi? In a travel reversal, the tense second season finale of Homeland (I guess I should say spoiler alert, but seriously, folks) sees Carrie take Brody to the Quebec border so he can escape on foot to Montreal. Canadians Paul Austerberry, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Vieau also nabbed the Oscar for best production design thanks to their work making Ontario stand in for 1960s-era Baltimore. What Do You Mean? becomes Justin Biebers first No. Stephan Jamess star ascends with If Beale Street Could Talk. The Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis stands in for a snowy nightmare maze. Five days before turning 35, Dion opened A New Day, a live residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, a specially built venue attached to Anglils natural habitat: a casino (he was a notorious poker player). In one episode, Cousin Greg even drives from New York to Quebec to pick up a very grumpy Ewan and bring him to his brother. Before landing the role of Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek, she was in consideration of quitting acting. CAA a.k.a. As a result, the 20142015 season proved joyous as it shone a spotlight on the past, bringing back beloved characters and guests, and culminating in a 40th-anniversary spectacular in February 2015. Discussing homegrown artists who break out internationally is always tricky. How great to see our talented kids succeed!Are they going to come back? I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. Throughout the second half of the decade since its release, its influence has been undeniable and will no doubt continue to reverberate in the years to come as the Indigenous renaissance stretches far into the future. Kaurs vulnerability, honesty and seamless ability to convey feelings that so many struggle to articulate helped Milk and Honey find its way onto the New York Times Bestseller list (for more than 77 weeks) and sell approximately 2.5 million copies in 25 languages. The teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was only Meghies second feature film, but it made Hollywood and the rest of the world sit up and pay attention to this visionary from the north as she broke barriers for Black Canadian female filmmakers. It featured Mozarts Piano Concerto No. The film adaptation of Life of Pi comes out in theatres. Starring (then) real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the franchise spun four books into five movies. Grimess fourth full-length studio album blasted her previous incarnations away to create a space so uninhabitable, so comfortable, so off-putting and so compelling that Claire Bouchers reputation as an artist fixated on her/the future felt permanent. Insiders are starting to take notes. Instead, hes the cool, confident, hot one, and kind of a rebel and it is everything to see an Asian actor cast this way on a comedy show, unabashedly making mistakes and fumbling through life. It was a triumphant moment of international recognition for Canadian television so triumphant that its easy to forget that at the same awards show only five years prior, Billy Eichner was screaming TATIANA MASLANY WAS SNUBBED!! In 2014, Karimloo made his Broadway debut as Jean Valjean in Les Misrables, earning a Tony nomination for best actor in a musical representing Canada in one the most iconic roles in the history of the Great White Way. The exhibit opened at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in January and then toured across Canada. I was immediately taken back to moments when I was a child and my parents probably wanted to flick me on the head for doing something trivial in public (Asian kid problems). Its hard to be a filmmaker. Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Profession Actor Actor 35 Credits Perry Mason 2023 Orphan Black 2021 Drunk History 2018 Heartland 2018 Parks and. With her Asian glow jokes and speaking Korean on stage, she oh-so solidified her spot as a Canadian queen I will forever stan. Or about the pleasure she gets from looking out the window during a transcontinental flight on a private jet? Never a critical hit, the series was a pop culture titan, bolstered by legions of Twihards. Stan culture came to dominate the decade, and the acolytes of this schlocky supernatural romance more or less signalled the first wave. Shes proved, by example, that we are all good and worthy and valuable even if we do less. But its Nathans arc that really messes with truth and fiction. It seems Carly Rae isnt always the type of girl for you, non-Canadians (and thats your loss). The sixth novel written by the late Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse was released in January and garnered overwhelming acclaim for its heart-wrenching depiction of Canadas residential school system and the egregious abuses suffered by students. Although its not strictly autobiographical, the shock, grief and bewilderment that follow such a tragedy are at the heart of the show (indeed, the word betroffenheit" in German means just that finding yourself in a state of shock or trauma). Revolving around the women of Monterey, Calif.'s upper crust, the show uncovers the backstories and hidden truths of each character, ending its first season in a culmination of events that creates an impenetrable bond (not that Im about to spoil it). Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. The emotional track showcases Reyezs powerful vocal and lyrical ability. Sarah Anne Johnsons Arctic Wonderland opens at New Yorks Julie Saul Projects, Sarah Anne Johnson Arctic Wonderland (Sarah Anne Johnson). Love, Canada.) But when youre Keanu Reeves, you get headlines praising you for dating someone your own age a feat rarely replicated by your actor contemporaries. A meme was bornand Sad Keanu lived on for the rest of the decade. Thats why Cree artist Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience art exhibit was so crucial. Comedy Central wants him to promote the new season, he explains, but unlike other celebrities, he doesnt have a wild and fabulous story to share. Imagine having to follow up Visions, a record so obsessed over that surpassing it creatively mustve been, to say the least, daunting. Trailblazers like Patricia Rozema and Mina Shum also collaborated with Ellen Page and Sandra Oh on their excellent features Into the Forest and Meditation Park. Ten years ago she made the decision that so many of us dream about: she quit her day job and decided to pursue her passion. This was based on early settlers experiences of bare survival in the face of hostile elements and/or Natives. Though they did exist, Indigenous writers were not considered; we only ever appear in the book as hostile Natives that white Canadians must survive. Par exemple: Regina King deservedly won an Oscar for her work in Barry Jenkinss If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, but somehow she was the films only acting nominee. Montreal chef Chuck Hughes wins Iron Chef America. Geoffrey Jamess chilling look inside Kingston Pen opens 2 km away from the prison at Queens Universitys Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Geoffrey James Armed guard outside Tower 3 (TrpanierBaer Gallery). Women in the film industry went from being a thing? Sometime around 2012, the superhero genre swallowed the Infinity Gauntlet or something metastasising into an endless string of monster franchises, each farting million-dollar bills and licensing deals. One of the many quests in the third season of The Good Place is for the gang (which includes our very own Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza) to find Doug Forcett, a former stoner from Calgary who has gained fame among those in the Good Place by making a very accurate prediction (92 per cent) about the afterlife and its points system when he was high on mushrooms in the 1970s. But connect it did. I suppose its what makes this segment one of the more powerful moments in NFYs run: its just candid enough to shake your grasp of whats genuine or scripted, fact or fiction. The series is packed with moments of human connection that are as unexpected as they are genuine. Still, Dion is still more queen of corny than queen of cool. And whats even cooler (to me) is that it was eventually used as a Jeopardy! (Some of us miss the graffiti. To protect and promote its culture, Quebec projects have also, on average, been better funded and have gone through longer gestation periods than projects in the rest of the country. The petition has garnered more than 170,000 signatures to date. largely in the Vancouver area, where fans were known to mob sets (and sign up for location tours). Meanwhile, Dolan became mind-bogglingly prolific and had his arthouse blockbuster moment with Mommy, then produced Adeles Hello music video and directed in Europe and the U.S. As a francophone Qubcoise living in Toronto and working in the film industry, this decade felt like watching the kids we had cared for and supported emotionally and financially for years suddenly fly the coop and leave home. TOP STORY The Orphan Black Star Lined Up to Star as the Marvel Attorney/Superheroine (Photo by Marvel Comics; Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) The MCU's TV wing just got a little more badass: Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been tapped by Marvel to star in its Disney+ She-Hulk series, playing the leading lady who snagged super powers after sharing some of cousin Bruce Banner's . If it was before June 15 the day Drizzys debut album dropped congratulations, you (for many reasons, I imagine) are better than me and most people. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, Courage. Sympathy for Reeves started pouring in. But photogenic as it is, the bridge has had some issues. By playing atypical Asians, both Liu and Jacinto have moved beyond being viewed as Asian actors because at the end of the day, they simply provide good comedy, showing that when actors are cast beyond racial profiles, we have more inclusive and positively entertaining TV. Its a riff on the wooden buildings where fishers would process a catch. ! in the faces of unsuspecting strangers. True, the song and Bieber obviously followed the formula that pop music has long been built on (a young star sings about puppy love as a means to launch a brand hell inevitably abandon in a handful of years as he grows up). We didnt know back then, but the years 2008 to 2015 (roughly from Lady Gagas The Fame to Adeles 25) were decidedly a golden age for female pop. Theres no easy epiphany at the end of Betroffenheit only the promise of engaging once again with the world. One of the shows epic works featured a sort of temple hung with plants and a hammock fashioned from an afghan. And one million of those were me. She later took over the lead role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical from Tony winner Jessie Mueller, and has since played King in more than 1,000 performances between the Broadway and Toronto productions of the show and its U.S. national tour. Tanya Tagaq, Inner Ninja by Classified feat. Still, few could have anticipated how quickly Atwoods latest instalment would break sales records, selling more print copies in its first week than any other Canadian book has since BookNet Canada began tracking sales in 2005. Since the 90s, she has been synonymous with syrupy power ballads, questionable fashion choices and a passion for golfing. Since her television debut, shes been praised for her interview style and evolving approach to monologues, and now the only barrier left is for viewers like me to learn how to stay up until 1:35 a.m. More women than ever before win Governor Generals Literary Awards. It was the most fun. By creating an audience section for the bar, the rest of the patrons will become de facto performers in his slice of life showSmokers Allowed. And it struck a chord: Montreals Xavier Dolan went on to adapt the play for cinema, premiering the film at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival. Subscribe, Valentino releases a 2016 collection featuring artwork by Christi Belcourt. For her titular role in Killing Eve, Oh became the first Asian woman in 39 years to win the prize for best actress in a TV drama. Nope. The result? Magali Simard is the City of Torontos Film Sector Development Officer and spent years as a Canadian and International film programmer at TIFF. Its humbling to think that on a beautiful, balmy August night, anyone even slightly acquainted with the Tragically Hip arguably one of the most important bands in Canadian music, whose ability to blend poetry, politics and incredible hooks have left them untouchable wept openly as lead singer Gord Downie performed for the last time following a terminal cancer diagnosis. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. In Canada, Qubcois filmmakers have a fertile onscreen history of non-conformity, risk-taking and unabashedly high levels of emotions. Culture shock ensues. Instead, she celebrates the release at a drag club in New York City. Twain fan: lifes about to get good. "Orphan Black" star Tatiana Maslany, "Schitt's Creek" leads Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy, and "Sons of Anarchy" alumnus Kim Coates wi. (The winner of the contest, by the way, got the chance to visit both spots on a special Deadpool tour. But in the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that it was indeed possible. And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. And it reflected not only his own headspace, but the dark, sad feelings that became synonymous with a year that ended with the election of U.S. President Trump and all that he stood for. Cline, thank you for the moments of gold and the flashes of light. But just because no one outside this country has been hearing our fabulous trees fall in the woods doesnt mean that Canadian drag hasnt been making all sorts of sounds for years. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. That particular outdoor playgrounds been there for ages, but the funicular project, designed by architecture firm DIALOG, makes it even more accessible to citizens with the bonus of some very scenic touches. The fact that were not still celebrating the majesty of Despacito is an egregious oversight one I hope we can right at the close of this blurb. A few facts stood out: the then 24-year-old was from Toronto, Ont., had already appeared in Selma, Race and Homecoming (not to mention Degrassi: The Next Generation, a rite of passage for every Toronto actor), and is the younger brother of Shamier Anderson, whose resume is similarly stacked. After posting his efforts on YouTube, the astronauts version of David Bowies Space Oddity became the first music video ever performed in space and has since earned over 44.6 million views. Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 2, 2017 at 8:32am PDT. The title single, written by Sia, is no Titanium, but its probably her most current-sounding track since Thats the Way It Is, her iconic contribution to late-90s pop. Before the Group of Seven (and others of their ilk) started trying to make visual sense of our forests and waters, too many Canadian artists vision of our landscape was borrowed from European painting tradition and idealized our surroundings while making colonialism look romantic. Now this is how you close out a decade. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) It evoked emotions many of us hadnt felt since junior high and tapped into a nostalgia that ended up defining the decade in its own way. Spoiler? David Ly is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn and the poetry collection Mythical Man. Werbung. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). 1 on the Billboard 200. Representation matters and if theres anything we can do even more in the following decade, its ensuring inclusion, equality and the end of old practices that have been holding all of us back. Add to this the Leacock Medal, the Giller Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and its no wonder deWitt continues to earn accolades for his dark humour and fiction work. This decade alone, she produced six feature-long documentaries and a short film serving as a powerful inspiration for Canadian women to keep going, even when it feels like the hardest thing in the world. Following the benefit singles release on March 12, the song topped the Canadian charts for seven weeks. Since the 90s, she has been synonymous with syrupy power ballads, questionable fashion choices and a passion for golfing. While shes now a mainstay on the landscape of Canadian publishing, in 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published her first book, God Loves Hair a collection of 21 short stories that follow a child who navigates topics like gender, racial politics, sexuality and religion. Canadas got your back. Prisons are terrifying its hard for me to even watch the caricatured version you see in Orange is the New Black. But progress made toward better representation, no matter how slow (sigh), is still progress in the right direction. There will never be a large audience for marginalized art if arts institutions, publishers and galleries dont financially back that art, exposing our work to Canadians on a large scale and thus creating an audience. If you drew a Venn diagram of yoga and rad buildings and bonkers natural beauty, Instagram would definitely be the term in the middle. at the Telluride FIlm Festival. In a world where many rebel against gender through drag entertainment, those of us labelled alternative essentially rebel against that rebellion. In 2019 two years after it dropped on Netflix, four years after it premiered on CBC and with 18 Canadian Screen Awards to its name Schitts Creek was finally recognized by the Emmys with four nominations, including an outstanding comedy series nod. We were too, Stephen. The heartwarming show went on to earn seven Tony nominations, winning one for best direction of a musical. It played proudly at parties, in cars and in our homes as we got ready, and then it morphed into what felt like an anthem for a decade, one that would become further defined by Canadian artists who were exciting and new and who made listening to their music feel like we were having the best time on Earth even when J-Biebs released a single called Sorry.. stands in for Washington as The Twilight Saga begins its two-part conclusion. into the grey woods of 17th-century New England in this Canada/U.S. TORONTO - Catherine O'Hara, Sidney Crosby and Tatiana Maslany are among the stars set to appear at the Canadian Screen Awards. The show was powerful, touching, heartbreaking and beautiful, as Downies gifts as a showman and speaker were put on display, and united everyone paying witness.
