Then, spend $350,000 staging every detail so that everything happened to him for real. Few episodes push the definition of truth quite like this one. Case in point: the magnitude of Canuck references on his New York City-set police comedy, which CBC Arts producer Eleanor Knowles decided to list in their entirety (at least through Season 4) in this article. Wow. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, 10 architectural wonders that put Canada on the map, the citys spent around $300,000 repairing the panes, replacing the light fixtures is a whole other matter, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry, one of the years most striking structures, was staged for three weeks in November 2017, Jim Carreys process is immortalized as documentary. Macis tactics, perhaps, are not so different. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. (The fact that that scene isnt already gay canon is, to me, a greater outrage than any Emmy snub.). When our director asked us to romantically nuzzle noses in a party scene, which we both felt was awkward and unnatural (I mean, what teenagers do that let alone in public, surrounded by their parents and their parents friends? Probably most important of all, his casting means that Asian children and Asian-Canadian children in particular will see someone who they can identify with on the silver screen. of 46-year-old artist Alexandra Grant, and the internet revelled in the knowledge that the actor was romantically linked to someone who was close to his age. It seems Carly Rae isnt always the type of girl for you, non-Canadians (and thats your loss). Grimess fourth full-length studio album blasted her previous incarnations away to create a space so uninhabitable, so comfortable, so off-putting and so compelling that Claire Bouchers reputation as an artist fixated on her/the future felt permanent. Were people interested in exercise tips or Jacks tales of jungle children? So Harris et al. Its no problem: the crew will focus on getting a cool drone shot, instead. David Altmejds Flux exhibit opens at the Muse dart contemporain de Montral, David Altmejd The Flux and The Puddle (James Ewing/Andrea Rosen Gallery). This is exactly what youd think Oscar voters would be looking for in their best original song category except Cut to the Feeling was deemed ineligible because Jepsen didnt record it specifically for the film, denying us what would have surely been an epic performance at the Oscars and leading my former employer Indiewire to demand the Academy reconsider its rules. Miles Dale shared his best picture win with director and writer (and honorary Torontonian) Guillermo del Toro, and he called it a watershed moment for the Canadian film industry. Because thats what made a song like Baby so easily digestible: where the magic of crushes and innocent heartbreak that accompany low-stakes relationships tend to fade the further into adulthood you go, Biebers premiere single served as a delightful time machine. A few examples: The next time Tat and I were together on set was 10 years later, when I directed her in a short film I wrote called Apart From Everything. She later took over the lead role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical from Tony winner Jessie Mueller, and has since played King in more than 1,000 performances between the Broadway and Toronto productions of the show and its U.S. national tour. Leonard Cohen releases You Want It Darker. Psyched as many of us may have been to ring in Canadas 150th, we also know that the land that makes up Canada is much older than that and belongs to Indigenous communities that our government has repeatedly tried to annihilate. Shes proved, by example, that we are all good and worthy and valuable even if we do less. Its arguably less memorable than all the stuff in space, but when else are the New York Yankees ever going to play in Okotoks? The song brought the superstar DJ to the top 40 in Canada, educating a generation of Canadians about Bradburys terrifying, dystopian storytelling along the way. After earning popularity on Vine (RIP) in 2013, the 15-year-old Pickering, Ont., native went on to release his debut single Life of the Party in June, which became a record-breaker when it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the youngest artist in history to chart in the Top 25 with a debut single. Since then, its become something to look forward to come (early, early) springtime (or late, late winter) in Canada, and its gotten even bigger thanks to the introduction of Canadian Screen Week, which allows for even more time and attention for well-deserved Canadian productions. And earlier this year, he starred alongside a slew of other queer actors in the Netflix reboot of Tales of the City, developed by lesbian writer Lauren Morelli. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. (Hi! Hell, even as a 2010s-era indie music snob, it only took a handful of listens for me to brand myself a Belieber and brag to anyone who would listen that Stratford, Ont., was only about half an hour away from my hometown. (Lets all go there. 'Perry Mason' Star Tatiana Maslany on the Balancing Act of Playing Sister Alice . This colonial mentality that Indigenous people are backward or uncivilized or a problem that needs to be solved directly resulted in the creation of government-mandated residential schools, drastically interrupting our nations cultural and artistic development. Beyond a few supremely bizarre moments (three words: naturopathic piss drinking), a fireside convo brings the group together and as Nathan says at the conclusion: By the end of the night, I felt like I had made new friends. (But also, nobody got the rebate. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries: softbois with fangs were bloody everywhere and The Twilight Saga started the frenzy. In the work, Xa and her husband and collaborator Benito Mayor Vellayo used masks, costumes and performance to conjure elements of Korean folklore and the orcas that are such an integral part of the Vancouver imaginary. Alanis has also written two brilliant new songs for the musical: Smiling and Predator., This decade, Alanis gave birth to her three children, Ever, Onyx and Winter (a.k.a. I felt confident in myself knowing that if I ever wanted to find love, I could just create a fake reality show all over again., The plan: Reach an untapped market: the 50 per cent of people who believe in ghosts.. Its an obvious delusion, but a romantic one the sort of beautiful lie you can build a story on. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. Whose advice can you believe? But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. Cheyenne Jacksons character, Danny, is from Ottawa and joins the cast of the show-within-a-show TGS with Tracy Jordan after starring in a movie about Canadian football, while Steve Martins Gavin Volure tries to evade house arrest by whisking Liz Lemon off to Toronto (Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff!). co-production. The Egyptian-Canadian actor worked with director Guy Ritchie to bring new life to an existing classic, and their efforts paid off: the film went on to surpass $1 billion US at the box office worldwide. But since the storys set in a near-future dystopia, spots including Nanton, Fort Macleod and Lethbridge got a dustbowl makeover. Guarantee listings that are 100 per cent ghost and demon free. Though delighted by her spooky new bench ads, Sue seems skeptical at first. Within the last decade, the entertainment industry has made wonderful yet long overdue strides in bringing attention to and representing Asian voices (thank you #OscarsSoWhite and Crazy Rich Asians). At the Canadian Screen Awards, we were awarded everything, including best motion picture, best feature-length documentary, best art direction/production design, best cinematography, achievement in direction, achievement in editing, best original screenplay and best original score. I was immediately struck by her confidence on set how she took the space she needed to do her work in a firm but friendly way. You Want It Darker was a game-changing exercise in listening as Cohen reconciles who hes become with who he once was, and reflects on the peace thats necessary in navigating even the final chapter of ones life a brave, insightful gift to us all. At the tail-end of this decade, right when we need it most, Alanis has turned Jagged Little Pill into a musical with a book written by Diablo Cody. Well, duh, because then he wouldnt be Buddy. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. Imagine having to follow up Visions, a record so obsessed over that surpassing it creatively mustve been, to say the least, daunting. Its trickier still when it comes to Quebec filmmakers. Here are 10 times the internet swooned over the musings and (apparent) misadventures of Keanu Reeves. Canadian pop no longer necessitated anybody saying Sorry? But was it enough? Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Profession Actor Actor 35 Credits Perry Mason 2023 Orphan Black 2021 Drunk History 2018 Heartland 2018 Parks and. Epilogue: Courage hits No. More than a decade after the release of Mordecai Richlers Giller Prizewinning novel Barneys Version, the story of a man, his three marriages and the disappearance of his friend Boogie was brought to the big screen on Dec. 24 by director Richard J. Lewis and screenwriter Michael Konyves. Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. Maybe I can make a difference to help others have an easier and more hopeful time. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 21, 2017 at 8:21pm PDT. It featured Mozarts Piano Concerto No. It reminded me of Sam Shepard.) From there, Nathans game plan explodes. Because from the very first frame, CBCs Schitts Creek established itself as a series rooted in family, in friendship and even in kindness, particularly since each character was painted as flawed and real but still inherently good. In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian . To say that alternative drag is in any way a new concept is not only misguided but a fundamentally flawed assessment. Pallett and Butler ended up earning an Academy Award nomination for best original score, and while they lost out to Gravity, not even Sandra Bullocks hair in that movie can make us cry the way Palletts music still can. Following 15 years of rants, jokes and biting political commentary, the Rick Mercer Report came to a close on April 10 and ended a distinctive era of Canadian television. (One sure sign that impact will carry on the National Gallery of Canada recently acquired six of his underwear pieces. Even if the story of a woman falling in love with a water monster/fish-man wasnt entirely up your alley (full disclosure: Id be more interested in it if he wore jeans), The Shape of Water became a point of Canadian pride after the crew cleaned up at the Academy Awards. Its also incredible how hungry Canadians have been for Indigenous art and stories once the government actually started to write us back into our collective history and institutions actually featured our work. The Canada-obsessed police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine premieres. There are no jade eggs involved, no sauna suits just a workout plan entirely focused on hauling boxes and furniture. But less so? 50 really is the new 21. A Facebook event titled Cheer Up Keanu Day even urged fans to send Reeves love letters and gifts on June 15. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. Jan Versweyveld Drag Race alone has had 11 regular seasons, four All-Stars seasons, two holiday specials and several spinoff series including Drag U (in which former contestants mentored and madeover new candidates every week), the Chilean show The Switch, two seasons of Drag Race Thailand and a newly finished season of Drag Race UK. Most of the time, getting stranded at an airport after an emergency landing is a stressful experience. When did he graduate to being a force to be reckoned with, a young artist whom you wanted to cradle and dance with and ultimately protect? How great to see our talented kids succeed!Are they going to come back? Plus $9.5 million is a lot of money the most a Canadian painting has ever commanded and this is a really good painting. Hes never married. Before 2013, Canadas primary film and television awards worked much like their American counterparts: the film-honouring Genies were our Oscars, while the television-centric Geminis were like the Canadian Emmys. Well, anyone who tuned into the pilot on Jan. 13, 2015, TBH. Justin Bieber appears on Despacito, the song of the summer. (Ive been waiting my whole life/the last two years to say that. Discussing homegrown artists who break out internationally is always tricky. And of course, this past year she was the very first Canadian contestant to compete on the ever popular RuPauls Drag Race. Just look at Sarah Polley, who made the Toronto romance Take This Waltz and NFB documentary Stories We Tell one year apart (2011 and 2012 respectively), and capped off the decade with the brilliant, multivalent CBC miniseries Alias Grace in 2017, tapping American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron to direct it. Hadestown begins its pre-Broadway run in Edmonton, Prior to earning 14 Tony nominations, Hadestown grew into itself at Edmontons Citadel Theatre, where the retelling of the Greek myth (in which Orpheus attempts to regain the favour of his love, Eurydice) was staged for three weeks in November 2017. It was born from the relatively new world of YouTube stars (of which Bieber was a pioneer), produced by industry heavyweights The-Dream and Tricky Stewart and performed alongside Ludacris. Tatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. Even as a performer who is considered such, its hard to sum up the ethos of what makes me alternative because it has historically been a label given by others rather than claimed by oneself. In 2012, this Degrassi: The Next Generation graduate made his Broadway debut in the now-infamous Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, acting as the alternate for the titular role. The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, The Imitation Game, Dallas Buyers Club and Philadelphia were all directed by straight men, while Modern Family and even Will & Grace definitely catered to straight audiences. went viral. She has a tattoo of James Stewart's silhouette on her wrist. As we approach the dawn of a new decade, I see the following future in my crystal ball/champagne flute: Canada is at the top of its onscreen game. (Six years later, the National Gallery saw its largest-ever opening crowd for Sakahn's followup, badakone.). But photogenic as it is, the bridge has had some issues. Scott (Michael Cera) falls for Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but before they can go on a semi-normal date, hell have to K.O. His win marked the fourth Polaris Prize win by an Indigenous artist in five years, following Lido Pimienta, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq. According to Citadels artistic director Daryl Cloran, the set and overall look of the play evolved thanks to its run at the theatre, and Hadestowns success has been a real boost for the city. With more than 28 billion streams, Drake is named Spotifys artist of the decade. It couldnt be more obvious than on mid-tempo anthem Imperfections, where Dion sings that she has her own you guessed it imperfections. The prize: a trip to Reynoldss hometown. Still, Dion is still more queen of corny than queen of cool. Thomas Leblanc is a Montral-based broadcaster, comedian and producer who co-hosts CBC Podcasts Chosen Family. She earned an Emmy for the role in September. More Gaga, less 90s Cline. ), and its music video spotlights Indigenous hoop dancers. It felt like a chance to relive the 90s and the young generation of pop stars it produced (Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys), but under an updated, improved Canadian lens. And he isn't showing any signs of slowing down: this year, McAnuff garnered a Tony nomination for directing the musical Aint Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Any ideas I had about how our relationship might affect the work that she might be a pushover or do whatever I told her, just because were friends were unfounded. Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. When their children come home unable to speak to them, their bodies covered with evidence of abuse they cant escape, their minds and spirits forever changed by abuse they dare not name? Xas Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation was performed at Londons Art Night before travelling, in various iterations, to Glasgow and Baku, Azerbaijan. On Conversation with Alanis Morissette, she gives us access to some of the greatest minds in the worlds of wellness, healing and recovery. We were all afraid of this project, but what we discovered in the process is a kind of joy in the act of creation, to make something out of such a tragic event. (The tour may be over, but the show lives on in a beautifully filmed BBC production, which you can watch on the streaming service Marquee TV.). With a few small exceptions, everything was shot in Alberta and B.C., and to capture those Rocky Mountain vistas, cinematographer Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki used nothing but natural light. When architect Fumihiko Maki got the assignment to build North Americas first museum of Islamic art and culture, capturing the concept of light was apparently the brief. Tatiana Maslany has revealed that guest starring in Parks and Recreation was "the scariest thing" that she has ever done. A meme was bornand Sad Keanu lived on for the rest of the decade. Their own shows seemed to incorporate Canadian references and plotlines with strange regularity in the 2010s, suggesting a lot of U.S. writers rooms have a bit of a crush on us (or maybe that those writers rooms just have a lot of Canadians working in them). In less than a decade, a 29-room hotel in a Newfoundland town most Canadians have never heard of became one of the worlds most talked-about tourist destinations. Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. Tatiana Maslany says she is a huge Catherine O'Hara fan as she reacts to the number of Canadian Emmy nominees which include O'Hara, Eugene and Dan Levy, Anni. But this album their leap into top 40 was proudly and publicly inspired by Taylor Swift (the genre-crossover queen who theyd perform with later the same year) and Rihanna, and their debut single, Closer, earned platinum status in Canada for the first time in their career. And whats even cooler (to me) is that it was eventually used as a Jeopardy! Though its polygonal shape is striking as can be, the dark colour scheme lets it fade into the trees, while the interior mimics the same dappled light as a forest canopy. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Psys Gangnam Style surpassed it in November of 2012. The National Gallery of Canada opens major retrospective on the work of artist Alex Janvier. Shot among a 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators in a football stadium (and a mosh pit made up of Bouchers brother and his friends), the video juxtaposed the tiny Boucher atop the shouting, shoving, shirtless masses and created a playful effect that also addressed themes of traditional masculinity. In a 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Reeves admitted that he had a schoolboy crush on co-star Sandra Bullock while they were filming the 1994 bus thriller. Her stories explore intergenerational relationships and the way baggage and bad habits get passed down in families. Noah 40 Shebib is nominated for two best rap song Grammys in the same year, Photographer Norman Wong talks about the impact music producer Noah 40 Shebib has had on crafting the Toronto sound., Nathan Fielder opens Dumb Starbucks in Los Angeles. I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. The result? He may be the internets boyfriend, but who knew he was also our greatest philosopher? And ultimately, it was like a mainline to being young again. And one of the greatest examples happens on top of a mountain, where a vanload of people desperate for as little as a $10.91 rebate subject themselves to a six-hour hike, an overnight camping trip and Nathans endless riddles. Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. Alice Munro becomes the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. While there are artists who emerged from the wreckage of these schools, I mourn the loss of the artists who may have been if theyd had the support, and the Indigenous artistic movements that could have flourished if only Canada hadnt marked our nations for destruction. Her second EP, Being Human in Public, was nominated for a Grammy, and shes penned songs for the likes of Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith. And while the subconscious-hopping takes the action to sets all over the world, from England to Morocco to Los Angeles, the movies big final action sequence a ski chase straight out of James Bond was shot in Alberta. In addition to announcing her new album, Alanis kicked off the final month of this decade by giving us all second offering of what doesnt always come easy these days: excitement for the future. Girls. Are they still OURS? As some were hitting the Hollywood big-time, artists like Denis Ct, Anne mond, Sbastien Pilote, Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie were also becoming international festival darlings embraced by out-of-province and out-of-country audiences alike. But when youre Keanu Reeves, you get headlines praising you for dating someone your own age a feat rarely replicated by your actor contemporaries. Fielder is a comedian a dry one. Before he was the internets darling, Reeves was just a beloved actor in his own right. The record took risks, aligned itself with strange, unique visuals and featured lyrics that were introspective, angry and unafraid of what anybody might think. Xavier Dolan is hot off of proving hes no one-hit wonder with his sophomore feature Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), the stylish followup to his sensational debut Jai tu ma mre (I Killed My Mother). Happy to leave the big isms (racism, sexism, classism) and epic period pieces for other storytellers to tackle, Meghies interests are in the everyday lives of Black women today. ! in the faces of unsuspecting strangers. Clearly to be filed under this should happen all the time, 2015 saw Canadian Mtis artist Christi Belcourt collaborate with Valentino for the fashion houses 2016 Resort collection. Like, say, his Giller Prize nomination for last years French Exit, which included a cat inhabited by the spirit of a womans late husband a character every book should have, IMHO. Tranna Wintour is a comedian, singer, writer and the co-host of Chosen Family on CBC Podcasts. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. Tatiana Maslany on how 'She-Hulk' became one of Marvel's funniest shows. In Nathan, theres no doubt were dealing with an emotional midget. (His words, not mine.) Well, he nailed it. It also helped launch her into the art-pop stratosphere from which she has yet to return. In her pivotal 1991 paper The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada, Mohawk curator Lee-Ann Martin named the ultimate effect of this erasure: The exclusion of the arts of Native peoples implies that the artistic and cultural contributions to Canadian history by Canadas First Nations [Inuit, and Mtis] are non-existent. Because our art and literature were not acknowledged, as far as the Canadian public was concerned, it didnt exist.

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