Scott (Michael Cera) falls for Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but before they can go on a semi-normal date, hell have to K.O. When did Justin Bieber, a wee baby maestro, evolve into a national treasure? Montreal chef Chuck Hughes wins Iron Chef America. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). After several failed IVF cycles and a miscarriage, Dion and Anglil welcome their twin sons Nelson and Eddy to the world. With highlights like the premiere of the sitcom Kims Convenience, Manny Jacintos stereotype-breaking role on The Good Place, Sandra Oh becoming the first Asian person to host the Golden Globes, and the announcement of Simu Liu as Marvels first Asian superhero, the last decade was full of watershed moments. The prize: a trip to Reynoldss hometown. In what is perhaps his quirkiest career move since 47 Ronin, Keanu Reeves will voice a leading character in Cyberpunk 2077, a video game set in a dystopian future. 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. The Vancouver Winter Olympic Games help kick off a new decade. With more than 28 billion streams, Drake is named Spotifys artist of the decade. The result? The strategy was to exit public consciousness for a little while so that she and her husband Ren 26 years her senior could have a child together. The big secret is that all drag has always been alternative. Its an incubus which is way less surprising than Sues reaction. The film went on to become a box office triumph and, notably, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination for best picture at the Golden Globes. But much like Speed protagonist Jack Traven, Reeves kept a cool head. July Talks hook-laden, heavy approach to alternative rock made the Toronto band into chart-topping successes in Canada. Thats iconic behaviour, but his presentation about the game at E3 a major video game expo was even more so. Of course, what stoked the fires of obsession even more was the release of House of Balloons, the first mixtape from Torontos Abel Tesfaye a release that wowed listeners with its nearly seven-minute title track (co-produced by Doc McKinney) and made listeners even thirstier for The Weeknds urgent vocals, poetic lyrics and incredible beats. By the end of the 2010s, The Simpsons will have aired 678 episodes, making it by far the longest-running American sitcom. Suddenly there were two groups of drag queens in the world: the ones who could get on TV, and the ones who couldnt or, more accurately in many circles, the ones who wanted to get on, and the ones who didnt. (Fielder famously donated $150,000 of the profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 150,000 U.S. (Float on down to 450 Pape Avenue if you dare to see it in person. Maybe theyre just that spectacular. Martin also co-wrote the book for The Prom, a musical about four Broadway actors who help a lesbian student who has been banned from bringing her girlfriend to their prom (it landed him a Tony nomination in 2019). Read: theyre friendly! When it opened at the National Gallery of Canada in 2013, Sakahn: International Indigenous Art was billed as offering the largest-ever global survey of contemporary Indigenous art and included work from Rebecca Belmore, Brian Jungen and the now late Annie Pootoogook, as well as artists from other regions like Finland, India and New Zealand. James took six months to complete the series, shot inside the mysterious and foreboding walls of Kingston Pen, and he did it in the company of the guards and inmates of the institution. It played proudly at parties, in cars and in our homes as we got ready, and then it morphed into what felt like an anthem for a decade, one that would become further defined by Canadian artists who were exciting and new and who made listening to their music feel like we were having the best time on Earth even when J-Biebs released a single called Sorry.. The National Gallery of Canada opens major retrospective on the work of artist Alex Janvier. Inside, more decorative shadows are employed. online, leading many to proclaim their further adoration for the already widely adored actor. And since Indigenous peoples supposed lack of history, art, politics, science, medicine and culture was often used to excuse Canadas systematic attempts to wipe out our nations, this sort of erasure had concrete effects on our lives. Macis tactics, perhaps, are not so different. One is named after Nelson Mandela, whom Dion met while performing in South Africa during her Taking Chances tour, and the other after the more obscure songwriter Eddy Marnay, who gave her her first hits in Qubec and France. Ten years ago she made the decision that so many of us dream about: she quit her day job and decided to pursue her passion. Now in its 41st year, Buddies is gearing up for a collaboration with Theatre Rusticle for their version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, while the community continues to evolve and grow thanks to the theatres support of (and consistent call for) new talent. government was telling the arts community they wouldnt get as much funding if they didnt try harder to include us.) That first Las Vegas residency wrapped in 2007, before Dion and her family embarked on the Taking Chances world tour. (Maslany's legions of adoring fans call themselves #CloneClub on Twitter and contend that the credits on "Orphan Black" should say "Tatiana Maslany" nine or more times, once per clone . She revealed that she got married during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and joked that it was a secret and no one really knew about it. Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. (The number of panel discussions and essays centred around the question What makes Cancon Cancon? speaks to this.) her squad of superstars). The waxy ashen faces of nuns, RCMP officers and priests are in ghastly contrast to the pained expressions of the women and children. Its our topsy-turvy reality that makes any given episode of NFY more confoundingly hilarious. Comedy Central wants him to promote the new season, he explains, but unlike other celebrities, he doesnt have a wild and fabulous story to share. Leah Collins is the senior writer at CBC Arts. As Martha Schabas put it in her Globe and Mail review, I texted friends the following morning and told them to drop everything and go see it., Over the next three years, it toured stages from Seattle to Santa Monica to Saddlers Wells in London, collecting raves and accolades along the way, including the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Amy Harrity for The New York Times. But between you and I, Ive never seen it, because I refuse to believe Ryan Gosling saved jazz. Through vivid storytelling at the hands of his gender-fluid, time-travelling alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkmans work used historical events to celebrate the resilience of Indigenous people despite the onslaught of colonialism. Five days before turning 35, Dion opened A New Day, a live residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, a specially built venue attached to Anglils natural habitat: a casino (he was a notorious poker player). Youll need a passport to visit this otherworldly temple, a Canadian-led project designed by Torontos Hariri Pontarini Architects. During her time on the show, Maslany miraculously made time to act in other projects, with a focus on indie films. It was only the latest of countless accolades for the Grammy-winning Waverley, N.S.-born singer, who has become a singular force in classical music, the rare soprano to also take on the male-dominated world of conducting (and yes, she sometimes does both at the same time). Wallpaper magazine raved about the project in 2018, calling it one of the years most striking structures from around the globe, and in 2019, it was the only Canadian winner of an International Architecture Award. Girls. The reality is that, despite the success of Indigenous artists prior to 2015, there wasnt a national push to both recognize and, more importantly, fund Indigenous artists until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released its final report in December of that year. My essay A Mind Spread Out on the Ground won a Gold medal at the National Magazine Awards that year, which helped me land an agent, and that piece eventually became the title essay of my essay collection. Today, Canadian libraries and museums even a pedestrian bridge are earning international attention. Its not a race here. She . Alas, a star was born. Twin pop stars Tegan and Sara followed up their smash 2013 album Heartthrob with this single, an upbeat 80s throwback about having a same-sex affair with a girl that has gasp! With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. Die Besetzungsangaben basieren auf unterschiedlichen Quellen und bieten insbesondere vor der Erstauffhrung keinerlei Garantie auf Vollstndigkeit oder Korrektheit. (Lets all go there. Sophie Deraspes Antigone a modern update of Sophocles Greek tragedy thats centered on an immigrant family living in Montreal became Canadas official entry for best international feature film at the 2020 Academy Awards. one of the hottest Hollywood agencies to have in your corner), was approached by Warner Bros. and MGM to direct Everything, Everything and began booking gigs directing episodes of Insecure, Grown-ish and First Wives Club. Well never know. Stompa, a storm of a song, catapulted Millbrook, Ont., singer-songwriter Serena Ryder to national and, to a certain extent, international stardom. When Everything, Everything was released on May 19, 2017, it made Canadian director Stella Meghie the only Black woman to have a wide release studio-backed feature film for the year. It was inevitable. Halfway through 2019, a series of pictures of the actor holding his hand inches away from the backs of women he took pictures with (including Dolly Parton!) Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. ; Elvis Stojko; Manitoba Sauce Cake; suburban Ottawa; and, of course, maple syrup and poutine. Peter Knegt is a writer and producer at CBC Arts, writing the award-winning weekly column Queeries and spearheading projects like Canadas a Drag, Super Queeroes and what youre reading right now. Its early 2011, and Denis Villeneuves Incendies is up for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. You can make good money having people smoke here, he tells the owner. After launching a questionable handbag collection in 2017 (one of the rare misses of Dions renaissance, if you ask me), she unveils a very surprising fashion endeavour: a gender neutral line for kids. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada releases 94 calls to action in their final report, You are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance. And I have a ton of affection for the Canada Pavilion there, which reminds me a lot of what its like to find a really nice bathroom in any Canadian park. Even reading the words Wavin Flag is enough to get Knaans 2009 hit remade by Young Artists for Haiti in 2010 stuck in your head. Sci-fi TV thriller Orphan Black, comedies Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience, . The future looks even more promising thanks to the December 2018 announcement that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is getting its first lead Asian superhero. [5] Maslany also appeared in television series such as Heartland (2008-2010), The Nativity (2010), Being Erica (2009-2011), Perry Mason (2020), and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) in the lead role of Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. But as we soon learn, he has taken care of everything: the wake is televised and in May, Dion releases a cover of the Queen song The Show Must Go On to emphasize that she will keep working, whatever happens. Now, the revamped Talent to Watch program has greenlit more than 40 first features from female-identified filmmakers across the country (though Telefilm Canada should consider how crucial it is to provide marginalized voices with more than just $125,000). But every now and then, there was still room for an original, standalone story to squeeze into blockbuster territory. And this decade, she actually proved it. As promised, he inspires the public with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity., The plan: Construct the ultimate talk show anecdote.. For anyone who doubted whether the CBCs Peter Mansbridge (or Uncle Peter, as he deserves to be called) would find his way into the Disney canon: how dare you/I wont forget it. She is credited for reinventing what was once a late career move into a lucrative and zeigeist-y affair (hello, Britney and Lady Gaga). The roadblocks are even more momentous for Canadian female filmmakers. TOP STORY The Orphan Black Star Lined Up to Star as the Marvel Attorney/Superheroine (Photo by Marvel Comics; Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) The MCU's TV wing just got a little more badass: Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been tapped by Marvel to star in its Disney+ She-Hulk series, playing the leading lady who snagged super powers after sharing some of cousin Bruce Banner's . Shot in Toronto, the film racked up a slew of accolades including the award for best motion picture at the Canadian Screen Awards and a best actress Oscar for star Brie Larson and anointed Vancouvers young Jacob Tremblay as a wee star to watch. Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. 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!). According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. Although the songs both peaked within the top 10 on the Canadian charts, they didnt have the same impact in other countries. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. Thats why Cree artist Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience art exhibit was so crucial. She graduated from Dr. Martin LeBoldus High school in 2003. With the seemingly unstoppable one-two punch of Ghost and Stuttering both pieces of pop perfection in their own right Dobson built an incredible foundation for herself. Jean-Marc Valles Big Little Lies premieres. typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. Of course, the Damien Chazelle romantic musical was destined to be a hit after opening to almost unanimous praise at the Venice Film Festival (spoiler: it did go on to earn over $400 million US worldwide). Maybe I can make a difference to help others have an easier and more hopeful time. In the episode, Nathan reveals his involvement at a press conference, and its the happiest hes ever been: My business was not only a bona fide success, but for the first time in my life it felt like people actually wanted to be around me. Margaret Atwood concludes a dystopian trilogy with the release of MaddAddam. Theres barely an episode where Nathan isnt putting himself out there, trying to turn an awkward encounter with a client (or an actor he found on Craigslist) into something more. His win marked the fourth Polaris Prize win by an Indigenous artist in five years, following Lido Pimienta, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq. 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. The Hamilton native scored a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical for his portrayal of Cheech in the 2014 production of Bullets Over Broadway. Unfortunately, because these works didnt fit colonial ideas of what constituted art, they were labeled either crafts or anthropological artifacts for centuries not art worthy of examining, studying and displaying in art museums. And similar to the Temple of Light in Santiago, this structure is a light-filled dome in the wilderness. This move was also exciting for a couple other reasons: on top of being the first bisexual late-night host, Singhs also the first woman of colour to host a late-night show on broadcast TV (a fact she made sure to joke about in her first episode). Industry heavyweights like DallasK (Fifth Harmony), Lauv (Charli XCX), Greg Kurstin (Sia, Adele) and Jrgen Elofsson (Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson) are on board to help Dion sound as cool as her newfound fashion sense, while not alienating her base (a tall order). (That, and the many GIFs circulating on Twitter of Jung either being adorable or taking his shirt off. If a tactic bombs, hell call it a success or hire an actress wholl tell him she loved it. La La Land premieres at the Venice Film Festival. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. ), 57 artists come together to raise money for Haiti with Wavin Flag. In the episode Kimmy Goes To School! the Montreal Expos are brought up multiple times, and in the following season, Titus threatens to abandon New York because he hears Montreal has a vibrant theatre scene. My favourite mention, though, is a line from Lillian after Kimmy once agains brings up the bunker (in case youre unaware, the initial premise of the series is that Kimmy has just emerged from a bunker where she has been held captive for 15 years). But was it enough? Post-truth might have a political whiff to it, but few terms define the decade quite like it. Liu, whose casting was announced in July 2019, will be playing the titular role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021, alongside Crazy Rich Asians and The Farewell star Awkwafina (yaaas!). And when she tells Nathan she likes him, she acts like she means it nevermind the $350/hour fee. ), A year into the Trump presidency, as pop culture was increasingly reflecting the social #issues of the moment, Guillermo del Toros The Shape of Water told a story just as critical of the worlds various injustices and systemic ickiness but it served it up as a Cold War fairy tale. 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? The solution: spend nearly six hours analyzing late-night interviews and write the perfect story. Baroness von Sketch Shows Aurora Browne talks about how Tanya Talagas investigative book Seven Fallen Feathers opened her eyes to Thunder Bays past and present treatment of Indigenous communities. 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. A meme was bornand Sad Keanu lived on for the rest of the decade. It was a whole new reality to me an outlet for an entire bank of repressed queerness. Back in 2011, The Weeknd was an enigma. Spoiler? Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany, Schitt's Creek leads Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy, and Sons of Anarchy alumnus Kim Coates will be among the presenters at this year's. When it premiered in 2009, the now ubiquitous Drag Race without many even noticing decisively split the world of drag like a lightning bolt thrown by Zeus and sung about by Hedwig. Women like pUNK Films Ingrid Veninger, who produced six low-budget features over the decade, took microbudgets and ran with them. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. Karen Kain tours the National Ballet of Canada to Los Angeles for the first time in 35 years. In fact, if you live in Winnipeg, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020. The Times piece called it a centrepiece of Saskatoons redeveloping riverfront, and that growth has earned the city a more recent mention: Architectural Digest named the city a top travel destination for 2019. On April 16 just weeks after his 17th birthday Calgary-bred pianist Jan Lisiecki released his album of Mozart concertos as a debut for the label Deutsche Grammophon. The Illinois-born, Ontario-raised director won his first Tony Award in 1985 for directing Big River and has had a storied career ever since. Still, Dion is still more queen of corny than queen of cool. Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. The show is simply titled Celine and one of the posters shows her exposed back with the unsubtle tagline: Celines Back. Her fashion choices, supervised by longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, prove of better taste than the marketing campaign and include Lanvin and Versace. David Myles, Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) by Nelly Furtado, The Veldt by Deadmau5 feat. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) Canadians Paul Austerberry, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Vieau also nabbed the Oscar for best production design thanks to their work making Ontario stand in for 1960s-era Baltimore. It ruminated on histories, ruins and water itself, and it was a moving tribute to the site. And yet voters overlooked this, oh-so-questionably deciding to nominate the vastly inferior performance Rami Malek gave in Bohemian Rhapsody instead and hand him the trophy. Following the decade-long obsession with Yann Martels 2001 novel Life of Pi, the story was finally released in film form in November 2012. And whats even cooler (to me) is that it was eventually used as a Jeopardy! Cheap scares were out, swapped for a far more chilling brand of storytelling: slow-festering, existential despair. In the last decade, Jung has been one of the best examples of how to have Asian-Canadian representation on TV without resorting to stereotypes for entertainment. After all, it took 75 years before the first Asian person hosted the Globes. things get even more real at least for Sue, who experiences an emotional breakdown while the exorcist does his thing. Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany was born September 22, 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Renate, a translator, and Dan, a woodworker. Magali Simard is the City of Torontos Film Sector Development Officer and spent years as a Canadian and International film programmer at TIFF. You might have noticed a little trend on your TV screens (or laptops or phones) in the past 10 years: our neighbours to the south seem really into us. The mere fact that someone was able to light the internet on fire in 2019 by writing a review of a record thats almost 25 years old tells you just how powerful this album is. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. Like so many NFY mysteries, we may never know. She turns heads in her Atelier Versace dress, but a picture of her eating a New York hot dog after the event (posted to her Instagram) sends a clear signal: Cline Dion is cool now. Not a child actor, not yet a woman, she was a model of Canadian kindness and patience. 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. Chandler Levack is a writer and a filmmaker who is currently existing in Toronto. Her desire and determination to tell these stories is its own subversively political and transformative act: shes taken the characters who, for decades, had been relegated to the best friend in the romantic comedy and readjusted the lens to focus on them. Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany in Network. After Meghie moved to London, England, and got her masters degree in screenwriting, she wrote the first draft of what would become her debut feature film Jean of the Joneses. Instead of relying on non-Indigenous editors, Barton made the smart decision to invite Philip Kevin Paul, Richard Van Camp and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to edit the issue. And all three of those were shot in B.C. And that vision is, in many cases, true Ive known artists whove lived temporarily in Iceland, explored the ocean on freighters or casked whisky at the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland. The score accompanied the story of Joaquin Phoenixs characters evolution from heartbroken man to even more of a heartbroken man after he falls in love with his operating systems virtual assistant (Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) which, in 2019, doesnt seem like a stretch. I fantasize regularly about the Oscars not just retrospectively giving Mommy a best foreign language film nomination, but Dorval and Clment acting nominations as well. (Hes the handsome star. But he is, nevertheless, an imposter playing an imposter: a comedian posing as a business consultantposing as whatever suits his plan. Its a thrill to see the common themes, patterns and interests of these artists emerge in their work to find the guiding tropes of love and living fully with the ones closest to you in Dolans work; the fascination with existential mysteries on Earth and beyond in Villeneuves; the exploration of personal differences and uneasy human reconciliations in Valles; and the deep humanism in Falardeaus and Archambaults. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. Follow the promenade at the bottom of the funicular, and youll reach a cantilevered lookout tower which stretches over the North Saskatchewan River. Before he was the internets darling, Reeves was just a beloved actor in his own right. What can you believe, period? In the weeks before his death, Leonard Cohen gave us You Want It Darker, his 14th studio album. The 2010s: How 11 Tatiana Maslanys walked so Schitt's Creek could run | CBC Arts Over the last 10 years, Canadian artists have been storming the world stage like never before in music,. Many provincial arts councils have done the same: the arts councils in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec all made funding Indigenous arts one of their key priorities. With the help of 5,000 volunteers, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games opened to much fanfare and only slight technical setbacks like when one of four pillars failed to rise from the stadium floor to surround the cauldron housing the Olympic flame. (Actually, that last bit is still true.). When the New York Times named Saskatoon one of the 52 places to go in 2018, the Remai Modern was tipped as the main attraction. And it all began with Justin Biebers Baby.. On Dec. 2, 2019, she announced that she would go on a 31-date (though unfortunately only one of those is in Canada) tour in 2020 to celebrate Jagged Little Pills 25th anniversary. She was choked, she says. Her, featuring a score by Owen Pallett and Win Butler, premieres at New York Film Festival. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. Fielder is a comedian a dry one. However, while the decade was surely a win for Asian-Canadians, and every moment was more than deserving of those headlines, as I look back, I cant help but imagine a decade when Asians being cast, asked to host award shows or just being on good television isnt such a spectacle when we are just seen. 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. Since Drag Race, we have seen countless new artists start performing because of the show. There are no jade eggs involved, no sauna suits just a workout plan entirely focused on hauling boxes and furniture. 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. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. Revolving around the women of Monterey, Calif.'s upper crust, the show uncovers the backstories and hidden truths of each character, ending its first season in a culmination of events that creates an impenetrable bond (not that Im about to spoil it).
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