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 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
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 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 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
