Style Sandra and Nora go shopping We’re taking a break from the couples updates to spotlight a couple of a different kind. Sandra Oh and Awkwafina aren’t romantically involved but this might be the couple I’m most excited about today. Sandra and Awkwafina! Together in London! It was announced last year that Sandra By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 11:19 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, We started the week in this space by spotlighting two artists, Lesley Hampton and Joe Buffalo to mark National Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, June 21. And now the week is ending with another devastating discovery that’s putting Canada in the news around the world, yet By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 09:43 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, Sasha produced me yesterday for an etalk interview with Joe Buffalo. He’s a legend on the skateboarding scene in Canada, and he’s the subject of a documentary short film, JOE BUFFALO, making the festival rounds this year, most recently at the Tribeca Film Festival where it By Lainey • Jun 22, 2021 09:50 am
Style Intro for June 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Designer Lesley Hampton is the 2021 Youth Recipient for the Inspire Awards which will be presented tomorrow on CBC and APTN at 8pm and streaming at the same time for free on the CBC Gem app. Lesley is being recognised for being “a role model to Indigenous youth” By Lainey • Jun 21, 2021 09:12 am
Royals Dr Biden Meets Duchess Kate The G7 Summit is happening in the UK today and leaders of all seven member countries posed for a photo by the sea and I have a question about standing. Since I’m Canadian, my eyes go first to the Prime Minister of my country, Justin Trudeau, and you’ll By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 01:09 pm
Maple Leaf Shamier Anderson will square off with John Wick It seems incredible to me that we already have three John Wick movies. It feels like the first one just came out. It’s been seven years, though, since John Wick dropped (and six years since everyone discovered it on demand). Maybe it’s the Keanu time warp—we see By Sarah • Jun 07, 2021 12:39 pm
Equality Issues Intro for June 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Juno Awards are considered the top music prizes in Canada, last night was the 50th anniversary. The top headline here in Canada, however, is still the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 09:41 am
Music Drake’s Playoff Plus One Drake’s son Adonis has been with him in LA for at least a couple of weeks now as Adonis was with him on stage at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23 when he accepted the Artist of the Decade title. This the kind of moment a parent would By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 11:58 am
Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
TV Updates Friends…in Canada Yesterday in What Else?, I wrote that in Canada there wasn’t word yet on whether or not we’d be getting the Friends reunion. Today, super fresh, Crave has confirmed it: the Friends reunion will stream exclusively day and date a week from today on Thursday May 27th. Friends By Lainey • May 20, 2021 11:09 am
Maple Leaf My Unwilling Mar-A-Lago Connection I am often the one crowing that ‘specificity is universal!’ – stories with small and personal details can and will spark something in a larger audience, even if the specifics of their situations are different. I’m really hoping that’s true here. One of the best decisions of my life By Duana • May 04, 2021 01:25 pm
Maple Leaf Blake, Ryan, Boots, and Hats Now that New York is opening up, there have been more and more celebrity sightings. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were seen a couple of times last week out with their kids and the dog and here they are, on their own, out for a coffee run this weekend. I By Lainey • May 03, 2021 11:10 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Hot Docs Festival, based in Toronto, is the largest documentary film festival in North America. Artificial Immortality, by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Ann Shin, opened Hot Docs 2021 yesterday. The film is about how technological advancement is making it possible for humans to achieve digital immortality. We can’ By Lainey • Apr 30, 2021 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor is the Canadian Let’s keep this Canadian energy going… In the previous post about Chris Pratt’s new movie, The Tomorrow War, which has nothing to do with Canada, I made it about Canada because it sounds like they’re playing our national anthem in the trailer. The Tomorrow War comes out By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 02:11 pm
Maple Leaf Chris Pratt Fights for Canada?! The answer to that question is probably no. But Canada is what I thought about when Sarah sent over this teaser trailer for The Tomorrow War, an upcoming movie starring Chris Pratt that’s coming out on Amazon Prime on July 2, one day after Canada Day, but also two By Lainey • Apr 28, 2021 12:59 pm
Maple Leaf Joshua Jackson: Chosen by Jodie Everybody’s favourite Joshua Jackson stepped out with his daughter yesterday in the rain in New York, like a true Vancouver boy. That’s what we do in Vancouver since it rains so much – we get on with it, as you see Josh doing here. He also went out with By Lainey • Apr 22, 2021 09:26 am
