Maple Leaf Alessia Cara’s first Alessia Cara opened the JUNO Awards in Calgary last night. I’ve attached video below of what it sounded like not from the television broadcast but in the arena, her pure voice, live, and killing it. Impressive, right? SO impressive that by the time she won for Breakthrough Artist there By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 10:14 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 4, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Weeknd was the big winner last night at the JUNO Awards in Calgary going 4/5, accepting one of those awards from Buffy Sainte-Marie, the coolest ever. No one is cooler than Buffy Sainte-Marie. No f-cking one. The Weeknd’s performance was also simulcast at the iHeartRadio By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 07:33 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber feels too much It’s been exactly a year since Justin Bieber said sorry over and over again. It’s also been almost exactly a year since Where Are U Now was released, kicking off a major career restart that transitioned him from teen boy singing boy crush songs to young punk singing By Lainey • Mar 23, 2016 09:49 am
Maple Leaf Rihanna’s Miami grind Rihanna’s ANTI tour played Miami last night. And Drake joined her on stage for Work. And by joined her on stage I mean his groin had a meeting with her ass resulting in a song-long rub, just like they did in the Work video. So. Now we’re all By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 01:21 pm
Maple Leaf Your move, BB-8 Many people thought Jacob Tremblay deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance in Room. Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar for Room. And what she gave us in that film could not have happened without the other person in that room – Jacob. Jacob was named Best Actor (over Christopher By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Missy’s CSA hair What if you like your dress but you don’t love it? You make it about the hair. This is what I see happening here. The dress is fine. It’s black, it’s tight, it doesn’t offend but it doesn’t delight. The hair, however, is amazing. Especially By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 02:57 pm
TV Updates Schitt’s Creek at the CSAs Full re-disclosure: Dan Levy, who writes, produces, and stars in Schitt’s Creek is my friend. He’s now an award-winning showrunner because Schitt’s Creek was named Best Comedy at the Canadian Screen Awards last night. Earlier last week, Dan also won a CSA for writing. I am so By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 10:59 am
TV Updates The CSA Message Dress The Book Of Negroes is of the most important literary works to come out of Canada. It’s about a woman called Aminata, born in West Africa, kidnapped and sold to slavery in America – a difficult but necessary read. The story was turned into a miniseries airing in Canada on By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 09:51 am
Maple Leaf Intro for March 14, 2016 Dear Gossips, Martin Short was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian Screen Awards last night – now, maybe, nicknamed the “Candy”, by this year’s host Norm MacDonald. Like you know how the Academy Award is called the Oscar? The Canadian Screen Awards are Canada’s version of By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 09:08 am
Maple Leaf Ryan & Blake for Canada at the White House President Obama and Michelle Obama hosted a state dinner last night in honour of Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau. It’s not an overstatement to say that American media has paid more attention to Trudeau than previous Canadian politicians, is it? There was a cheeky By Lainey • Mar 11, 2016 12:00 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for March 9, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Canadian Screen Awards are happening this week, honouring Canadian achievements in film and television over several nights, culminating on Sunday with the live broadcast. Last night the television talk show, sports, and news programs were featured. The Marilyn Denis Show won for Best Direction and Best Talk By Lainey • Mar 09, 2016 09:21 am
Maple Leaf Rachel & Taylor still together? Rachel McAdams stepped out last night in LA with her family for dinner after celebrating her first Oscar nomination last weekend. Some of you have been wondering whether or not she and Taylor Kitsch are still together…? It was first reported that they were a thing last summer. And they By Lainey • Mar 04, 2016 10:45 am
Maple Leaf Intro for March 1, 2016 Dear Gossips, Thanks for all your emails and tweets and messages in response to our Oscar posts yesterday. Duana and I got yelled at a lot. You were mad at her about Naomi Watts (click here for a refresher) and you were mad at me about Olivias Munn and Wilde By Lainey • Mar 01, 2016 10:03 am
Maple Leaf Will Rachel be best dressed? Rachel McAdams will be at the Oscars on Sunday as a presenter and as a nominee – her first for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Spotlight. As previously noted, she won’t win. For her, the nomination really is the victory. Over the last year and a half, she’ By Lainey • Feb 26, 2016 03:49 pm
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber loves to win Justin Bieber performed on a great looking stage last night. Adele loved it. She mentioned him, I think twice, during one of her many acceptance speeches. Come on. You’re still not ready to admit that you sing along to Love Yourself? And that Sorry makes you happy? JB won By Lainey • Feb 25, 2016 10:41 am
Maple Leaf Rihanna & Drake at the BRITs There was a Page Six report earlier this week speculating that the real reason Rihanna bailed on the Grammys is because she saw the quality of the other performances and decided hers was sh-t and she was too embarrassed. Another Page Six source insists she really did have bronchitis. Sure. By Lainey • Feb 25, 2016 09:41 am
