Maple Leaf The JBC Hate Has Gone Too Far Have you been watching Canada’s Drag Race? And if you have, what are your thoughts on it? I think this cast has been amazing so far, and now that we’re at the Top 4, I’m not sure who I think is going to win it all. They’ By Prem • Aug 24, 2020 01:53 pm
Maple Leaf The Biebers and Shawn Mendes Justin and Hailey Bieber and Shawn Mendes were all seen at a home recording studio in LA yesterday leading to speculation that the two will be collaborating. There’s the Canadian connection, of course, but there’s also a gossip connection because, you’ll recall, Shawn and Hailey then-Baldwin went By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 11:29 am
TV Updates Intro for July 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, Jimmy Fallon returned to the studio for The Tonight Show last night. They made a point of showing the audience the safety precautions they were taking to make this happen. Everyone first tested negative for COVID-19 and temperature checks were administered upon entering the building, office spaces have By Lainey • Jul 14, 2020 09:22 am
Maple Leaf Canada’s Drag Race Week: Meet Four of Canada’s Best Queens It’s here! Tonight is the premiere of Canada’s Drag Race. Canada’s Drag Race will be premiering tonight on Crave TV at 9pm EST! In case you missed it, I’ve been spotlighting the judges and the competition all week, and you can access all of that content By Prem • Jul 02, 2020 01:18 pm
Maple Leaf The Weeknd is a chatterbox? Many things come to mind when I think of The Weeknd: vocals… iconic hair… elusive… Canadian! I don’t, however, think of him as somebody who’d want to talk for hours. But apparently, I am mistaken. The singer recently spoke to Variety for a piece they called The Weeknd By Cody • Jul 02, 2020 09:21 am
Maple Leaf Canada’s Drag Race Week: Spilling the T(immies) on Canadian Drag In case you missed it, all week leading up to the premiere of Canada’s Drag Race on Thursday on Crave, I’ll be spotlighting the judges and the competition. To access our Drag Race main page, where all Drag Race articles are collected, please click here. Representing RuPaul Andre By Prem • Jun 30, 2020 02:28 pm
Maple Leaf Canada’s Drag Race Week: Brooke Lynn Hytes Our Canada’s Drag Race Week coverage continues – if you missed our previous posts, please visit the Drag Race main page for profiles of Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Stacey McKenzie. Today we focus on our third judge, Brooke Lynn Hytes. The very same club where Stacey went to her first drag By Prem • Jun 30, 2020 11:28 am
Maple Leaf Canada’s Drag Race Week: Stacey McKenzie In case you missed it, all week leading up to the premiere of Canada’s Drag Race on Thursday on Crave, I’ll be spotlighting the judges and the competition. To access our Drag Race main page, where all Drag Race articles are collected, please click here. Earlier I wrote By Prem • Jun 29, 2020 02:35 pm
Maple Leaf Canada’s Drag Race Week: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman We’re officially t-minus three days until the premiere of Canada’s Drag Race, arriving just in time for Canada Day. Happy Dragtastic Birthday Canada! This week, we’ll be counting down with some very special content including interviews with the judges, spotlights on the queens, and an in depth By Prem • Jun 29, 2020 01:47 pm
Equality Issues What about the other Pop Justin? There have been a lot of problematic celebrities during the COVID-19 lockdown and in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery joining the long list of Black people dying because of anti-Black racism. Tell me if I’m out of line here but… you By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 12:15 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for May 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew! WHAT IS By Lainey • May 28, 2020 08:46 am
Maple Leaf Drake stayed for the lake (but Justin didn’t) By now we all know about Drake’s Toronto home, right? He calls it The Embassy and it was featured recently in Architectural Digest. After the spread in AD, there were all kinds of other stories about the extravagance of Drake’s … palace. From the bed, which cost several hundreds By Lainey • May 25, 2020 03:17 pm
Maple Leaf Justin & Hailey: Newlyweds 2020 Justin and Hailey Bieber launched a new show on Facebook yesterday, The Biebers on Watch. Interesting to me that this is happening on FB as opposed to YouTube, where JB got his start and where his most recent docuseries aired to promote his album Changes. The Biebers are currently in By Lainey • May 05, 2020 11:26 am
Maple Leaf Is Lilly Singh listening? (This is the latest installment in our Long Reads series. Previous entries can be accessed here). Last Monday, Lilly Singh, late night talk show host, YouTuber, comedian, and relentless cultural appropriator of Caribbean culture dropped a “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up” by Ding Dong with this By Melayna • May 05, 2020 10:43 am
Music Intro for May 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, Drake was productive before the pandemic lockdown. So it’s not surprising that he continues to be productive now that there are no parties to fly to, no basketball games to fly to, no impromptu holidays to fly to. This might be the longest stretch that Drake’s By Lainey • May 01, 2020 08:38 am
Maple Leaf Amy and Will are #StrongerTogether Last Friday, when I posted about the Stronger Together broadcast in Canada, I mentioned that Amy Poehler was on the entertainers who were confirmed to be part of the event. A few of you messaged me all like… but Amy isn’t Canadian, was that a typo, or were you By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 09:04 am
