Shes proved that it is possible to disconnect from greed, the need for validation and the harmful idea that our worth is based on our productivity. The outfit, put together by celebrity stylist Law Roach, was a radical move for Dion because it hinted that after years of tastemakers making fun of her, she might actually be in on the joke. Earned It by Torontos The Weeknd is one of the more notable cuts. ), Scott Thompson brings Aprs le Dluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues to Toronto. Sci-fi TV thriller Orphan Black, comedies Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience, . Were all for his relationship with Alexandra Grant, but its hard not to dream about a Sandanu. But connect it did. (I caught the show in Portland, Ore., where the local alt weeklys admiring preview was headlined Whats German for WTF?), Its been the most incredible, profound and powerful experience of my artistic career, Pite said in an interview with La Presse before the tour wrapped up in Montreal last summer. 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. Iran-born and Ontario-raised, Ramin Karimloo is a bona fide superstar of the stage. And it includes names like Elle-Mij Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn, Jeff Barnaby, Albert Shin, Johnny Ma, Jasmin Mozaffari, Andrew Cividino, Stephen Dunn, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Matt Johnson and Kazik Radwanski (to name just a few). 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. (The number of panel discussions and essays centred around the question What makes Cancon Cancon? speaks to this.) Nope. When I spoke to Meghie about that decision on The Filmmakers in 2018, she wisely noted, Its better to be scared than unhappy.. I wish I was adding to the canon instead of helping to create it.. Torontos Buddies in Bad Times Theatre which bills itself as the largest and longest-running queer theatre in the world rang in its 40th season in September 2018. This Toronto-born Second City alum took a Tony home in 2006 for co-writing the book for the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, but he didnt stop there. But the #MeToo movement has made me re-contextualize one of Alaniss bigger hits, which I now cant help but see as a precursor to the movement. Philippe Falardeau is finishing up Monsieur Lazhar, which would go on to get its own Oscar nod, Louise Archambault is writing Gabrielle and Jean-Marc Valle is preparing to release Caf de Flore. The painting is an indictment and in 2018, a reminder of the truth thats supposed to precede any reconciliation. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. And while Inside The Solar Temple would be his last show, it was emblematic of his incredible energy and a prophecy of his impact on future artists. Think of Ari Asters Hereditary and Midsommar both, incidentally, produced by A24, the same company that distributed The Witch. Over the next six years, that would very much change. And Thompsons seemingly fine with all of it. Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany was born September 22, 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Renate, a translator, and Dan, a woodworker. 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. Time hasnt announced who 2019s Person of the Year will be, but if almost 200,000 fans have anything to say about it, Reeves might stand a fighting chance at the title. But BoJack Horseman, an animated show about a famous actor/horse and his peers, managed to evolve into a touchstone for anyone acquainted with unhappiness. Hosted by Martin Short, the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards offered prizes for film, television and digital storytelling (which hadnt been covered by the Geminis or the Genies), and raked in 756,000 viewers, which is around double the number of people who watched the Geminis or Genies the previous year. Showing Editorial results for tatiana maslany. It couldnt be more obvious than on mid-tempo anthem Imperfections, where Dion sings that she has her own you guessed it imperfections. Starring Canadian besties Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, This Is the End a Rogen/Evan Goldbergwritten/directed/produced joint took the terror and hilarity of the apocalypse to new heights with their version of what might happen when the world finally ends. In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian . It debuted at No. Add to this the Leacock Medal, the Giller Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and its no wonder deWitt continues to earn accolades for his dark humour and fiction work. (In unrelated news, space seems terrifying. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. Dobson never quite reached the same echelon of stardom outside of Canada that these songs brought her here, but they remain carved into this decades Canadian pop consciousness. From there, Meghies journey becomes a bit of a filmmaker fairytale. Jeremy Dutcher wins the Polaris Music Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourts poem Love is a Moontime Teaching appeared here before it ended up in his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning book This Wound is a World. Because regardless of whether the Emmys take notice, its going to make great TV. Tatiana Maslany to Star in 6-Episode All-Girls Boarding School Thriller, Marking Return to AMC By Michael Ausiello / August 10 2022, 1:00 PM PDT Getty Images Orphan Black vet Tatiana. Since premiering in the fall of 2016, Kims Convenience has proven that writing Asian characters can be funny without relying on clichs. It also shines its comedic light on gaps in communication that result from existing in a culture that often doesnt understand the nuances of Asian family dynamics. Maslany got married in 2022 to fellow actor, Brendan Hines. Swiss Chalet, the Ottawa Senators and the SNC-Lavalin scandal are all also mentioned (seriously). Following the decade-long obsession with Yann Martels 2001 novel Life of Pi, the story was finally released in film form in November 2012. What can you believe, period? Supposedly hired for a scheme that never plays out, Nathan keeps calling her, and she is, in a way, an ideal match. 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. Alanis has done a lot of therapy, not only for her own benefit but for ours as well! We were too, Stephen. That I would be good even if I did nothing, she sang. Follow every pedantic rule in the social media playbook, and theres still no formula for going viral. She . But every now and then, there was still room for an original, standalone story to squeeze into blockbuster territory. Just 26 years old at the time, Halifax-born Page became one of only a handful of folks at his level of celebrity to make the decision to come out publicly as gay. The same could be said of the movie, filmed at a time when indie rock ruled (Broken Social Scene and Metric appear on the soundtrack), the Sonic Boom record store was still on Bloor Street and 20-something dirtbags shared basement apartments in the Annex. 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. I am here today because I am gay, he announced. 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. You look like Cher, she said to me into the microphone from the very front of the stage, the height of which added an easy three to four feet onto an already impressive figure. On Nov. 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). Released in September, it went on to win the 2019 Man Booker Prize alongside Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, because of course. From those first notes on the keyboard to the then-15-year-olds angelic coo, Baby stepped out of the rock n roll-heavy Canadian musical landscape and began to build a bridge between the pop world and the rest of us, offering a much-needed reprieve from the default offering of mainstream-beloved dudes holding guitars and wearing plaid shirts. Search instead in Creative? Well, anybody who read it, obviously. 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. During her time on the show, Maslany miraculously made time to act in other projects, with a focus on indie films. Adapted for the screen by David Magee and directed by Ang Lee, it went on to win four Oscars, including the awards for best director and best cinematography. It included the first excerpt of Joshua Whiteheads Jonny Appleseed. Hows that for an English lesson? ), The plan: Nathan will beat his fear of the opposite sex by dating not one, but 10 women at the same time.. And in the fall of 2012, NFY (accidentally?) 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. All these years, weve watched Nathan engineer business opportunities as a means to an end (re: a platonic hang). Three of the five premiered in the 2010s: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2. In July of 2012, we all set out on a journey: after four seasons of action, adventure, the Albuquerque underworld and Heisenberg, Breaking Bads fifth and last season premiered and brought with it an intensity I cant possibly describe in a simple paragraph. As for the colour, the dresss near-black/navy shade reflected the occasions sombre tone. It soon became exactly the TV show we needed to survive the rest of the decade. 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. Before the Hulu series premiered (and before this years sequel novel The Testaments was released, for that matter), the Royal Winnipeg Ballet debuted a rendition of The Handmaids Tale that saw the story depicted in a truly unique way. 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. The islands rugged natural beauty is an obvious part of the draw, what with its promise of whale (and iceberg) watching by day and northern lights chasing by night. Chandler Levack is a writer and a filmmaker who is currently existing in Toronto. (while they themselves borrowed from Scandinavian landscapes) gave us a truly modern language for the Canadian wild that has become a signature of our own art history. Youre like one of those ladies who go to Montreal and then, suddenly, everything is about Montreal. Be careful, Lilllian. In the shows final scene, the pair reunite, but Macis suddenly uncomfortable around the cameras. "Peter Moosebridge" steals scenes in Zootopia. Its the Bentall 5 building downtown. Montreal chef Chuck Hughes wins Iron Chef America. So if I asked her to do something that felt unnatural or dishonest (like, say, nose nuzzling), I had to justify why I needed it and more often than not, I realized that I didnt. Canada has been heavily featured in South Park since it started back in 1997 (even more than in The Simpsons). 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. In October 2013, Clinton, Ont.s Alice Munro earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Canadian and 13th woman to do so. But in the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that it was indeed possible. At the Oscars of fashion (which is a bad comparison because the event is a fundraiser and a vernissage, not an award ceremony, but we digress), Dion easily wins best newcomer with her performance in the celebrity video booth. Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. 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. Were here for it. Jennifer Walters, the titular attorney in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, ultimately crushed Maslany's "reticence" about joining the packed Marvel Cinematic Universe. Writer-director Robert Eggers turned Kiosk, Ont. Speaking of la belle province, its played quite the role in the plots of this decades most zeitgeisty drama series, including the arguable reigning champ in that regard: HBOs Succession. 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.