Maple Leaf Drake and the Kardashians There were several celebrities partying at Delilah in West Hollywood last night which… I guess clubbing has been reinstated in LA? Must be. And mask-less clubbing too? OK, then. I mean, who am I to side-eye? It is f-cked up now where I live. They’re about to release the By Lainey • Apr 16, 2021 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Canadian Screen Award nominations were announced this morning. The full list can be accessed here. The CSAs celebrate the best in Canadian film and television and on the film side, Tracey Deer’s Beans, which I profiled during TIFF last September, received five nominations. Beans is Tracey’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 09:08 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber’s Search for Justice Let’s rewind to June 2020. The conversation around racial injustice and systemic oppression is at an all-time high. Celebrities are posting black squares and messages in support of Black Lives Matter, and artists like Justin Bieber are getting called out for being so vocal about racial injustices while never By Cody • Mar 23, 2021 10:03 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s 1, 2, 3 Drake has just accomplished something that no other musical act has ever done – he is now the first artist ever to release three songs in the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. “What’s Next” is #1, followed by “Wants and Needs” ft Lil Baby in the #2 By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 01:50 pm
Maple Leaf Keanu’s Comic Did you know that Keanu Reeves has just released his own comic book? It’s called BRZRKR and I wouldn’t have known about it if I didn’t google his name just now because there are new pap shots of him on his bike, which I’ll get into By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 01:35 pm
Maple Leaf Are You There, Judy? Thanks! I’ve made a point of reading Judy Blume books to my kid. That wouldn’t have even been worthy of writing down 20 years ago, but now that there’s been an explosion of kid and YA- lit, these books are somehow not seen as essential extracurricular texts, never By Duana • Feb 19, 2021 03:26 pm
Equality Issues Intro for February 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week on The Social, we talked about a news story about the “massive drop in cancer screenings” due to the pandemic. Unfortunately it’s not because people have less cancer, it’s that they’re not going for regular checkups. Since then I’ve been thinking about By Lainey • Feb 17, 2021 09:19 am
Maple Leaf Keanu Goes For Ride An early Lunar New Year present – here’s Keanu Reeves, who is part Asian, in LA out for a ride, all smiles and pleasant, as usual, while talking to some friends. I don’t have much more to say. All I wanted to do with this post is to share By Lainey • Feb 10, 2021 11:48 am
Maple Leaf Super Bowl Weeknd The moment The Weeknd opened his mouth to scream “Tampa Bay,” as he kicked off his Super Bowl LV halftime performance, I thought to myself, I wonder who’s responsible for his audio levels because they’re about to lose their job. As he sung the first few bars of By Cody • Feb 08, 2021 09:43 am
Maple Leaf Intro for February 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, You know what I was stupidly naïve about heading into Super Bowl weekend? How many celebrities would be there… considering that, you know, it’s a pandemic. But celebrities have always been part of the big game – in the stands and in commercials so, I guess, why would By Lainey • Feb 08, 2021 08:55 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Lizzo in Lesley Hampton Lizzo posted a video on Instagram of herself on the treadmill yesterday…in a very, VERY cute workout outfit. She’s wearing Lesley Hampton, from Lesley’s athleisure line. Lesley is an Indigenous Canadian designer and during the pandemic, she has focused more on athleisure clothing – for every body type. By Lainey • Feb 05, 2021 11:41 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, When Shamier Anderson and Stephan James announced the launch of The Black Academy back in December, they shared that the initiative was about recognising and celebrating Black talent in arts and culture in Canada, and about measuring success on your own terms, reframing the benchmark of success in By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 08:53 am
Maple Leaf Pam is Married Last night Lainey texted me about Pamela Anderson, and for a solid two hours I was repeating “Pa-MEL-a” in a Borat accent to no one in particular. A sure sign something is broken, probably a combination of pandemic brain and social media gluttony fuelled by the Reddit stock party. In By Maria • Jan 28, 2021 10:14 am
Equality Issues Angelina Goes Back to Target Another week, another trip to Target – last week Angelina was shopping at Target with Zahara, this week she’s back at the store but with Knox. Which I would imagine is not unusual if you’re a parent, having to pick up supplies for either school or play or whatever, By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 12:46 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds and All His Bromances On the Pop Chat podcast earlier this week with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Sarah Hagi, one the questions that came up as a lookback on 2020 was…which celebrities did not do well in 2020 and which ones came out good? A lot of celebrities sucked in 2020 but there were By Lainey • Jan 15, 2021 02:04 pm
Top Reads Happy New Year, Keanu Reeves As we’ve said so many times in the past, where the big name movie stars are concerned, the ones who’ve been familiar to us for so long, it’s Keanu Reeves who we can be most confident will not be trending on Twitter for being problematic. I mean, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2021 03:22 pm
