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
Maple Leaf Intro for April 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, Canada’s frontline workers were honoured last night during a historic broadcast, #StrongerTogether #TousEnsemble, across all major networks last night featuring some of our country’s greatest talent in support of Food Banks Canada. It was announced early in the day that Drake would be closing out the By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 08:49 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, History will be made in Canada on Sunday as STRONGER TOGETHER, TOUS ENSEMBLE will be simulcast on 15 Canadian networks and multiple online platforms in support of frontline workers and Food Banks Canada. The 90 minute show begins at 630pm April 26 across all markets featuring performances and/ By Lainey • Apr 24, 2020 08:39 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber: Quarantine Fashion Icon I just read an article about Justin Bieber that made me laugh and then I sent it to Sasha because a few months ago, on an episode of our What’s Your Drama? Podcast, I told her she and JB had the same style. She rejected this at first and By Lainey • Apr 15, 2020 10:19 am
Music Together at Home… with the Queen of All Feelings Lady Gaga’s collaboration with Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation, Together at Home, a worldwide concert event to celebrate those on the frontline, healthcare workers, and scientists who are all trying to get out through this pandemic, airs on Saturday. As previously mentioned, Gaga and the event coordinators By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 01:20 pm
Maple Leaf Chateau Drake Well he and OVO call it The Embassy and it’s featured in the new issue of Architectural Digest. The Embassy is Drake’s Toronto… mansion? Estate? That’s why I called it a “chateau” in the title. Because mansion and estate don’t seem extra enough for what we’ By Lainey • Apr 08, 2020 11:18 am
Maple Leaf JB + BTS Sasha and I meet at the intersection of Justin Bieber and BTS. This has come up a few times on our podcast, What’s Your Drama, which I shamelessly and highly recommend for your listen list during lockdown. Sasha is into Justin Bieber. She dresses like him, which she didn’ By Lainey • Apr 07, 2020 02:19 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations Intro for April 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, Tonight’s the night, the series finale of Schitt’s Creek. It’s been six seasons – and it’s ending now, when it’s more popular than it’s ever been. Schitt’s Creek has been namechecked by almost every celebrity you can think of. Carol Burnett mentions By Lainey • Apr 07, 2020 08:53 am
