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The Big Idea: Defend Drag Shows
“I’d love it if these bubbles started popping up across the country, in drag capitals like Toronto and in small towns alike. I’d love it even more if we didn’t need to use them.” (Illustration by Pete...
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Dead Ringers’ Britne Oldford is stuck in a twisty twin love triangle
(Photos courtesy of Heather Dapaah) Any Canadian cinephile worth their salt has seen the original Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg’s 1988 body horror film about unhinged twin gynecologists played by...
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A new Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit looks at the beauty and culture of the...
“The Hair Appointment,” by Jeremy Rodney-Hall, 2018 (All images courtesy of Sunday School) At 24 years old, Josef Adamu was an aspiring model struggling to gain traction in his career. Then he had an...
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Q&A: BlackBerry’s Jay Baruchel loves movies, weed and his now-obsolete phone
(Photography by Erin Leydon) Jay Baruchel is everywhere: in slashers, sex farces and sports movies; opposite mythical lizards in Disney’s How to Train Your Dragon franchise; and he’s worked with...
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BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on creating the buzziest new film in...
(Photography by Elevation Pictures) BlackBerry tells the story of Canadian tech founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, an opposites attract duo who turned a tech innovation (the world’s first...
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Preston Pablo is the Canadian R&B crooner on everyone’s Spotify playlist
(Photograph by William Ukoh, styling by Chad Burton/Cadre Artists; grooming by Kristjan Hayden/Cadre Artists. Cardigan/Jacquemus; tank /stylist’s own; pants/Martine Rose; shoes/Vans) Preston Pablo has...
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A lot has changed at restaurants since the pandemic—starting with how much it...
Nuttall-Smith and friends feasting on Hong Kong–style lobster at Fishman Lobster Clubhouse, a Chinese party spot in Scarborough, Ontario (Photography by John Cullen) It’s funny what happens when you...
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The Best Places to Eat in Canada
Canada’sBest Placesto Eat Now The country’s 20 most magical restaurants, from the tip of Vancouver Island to the edge of Newfoundland By CHRIS NUTTALL-SMITHPhotography by JOHN CULLEN The List this...
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Mississauga’s Laeticia Amihere is the next WNBA star
“In 2017, she went viral as the first Canadian woman ever to dunk during gameplay at an Amateur Athletic Union tournament.” (Photograph by Brinson and Banks; Hair and Makeup by Kimberly Acevedo) When...
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Never Have I Ever star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan doesn’t know what’s next. She...
If you believe the early hype, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan rolled off her parents’ couch in Mississauga, Ontario, and into a star-making lead role in Netflix’s hit high school rom-dram Never Have I Ever. It...
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How Celine Song’s Past Lives became the surprise indie hit of the year
(Photograph by Getty Images) Past Lives, a new film from indie hitmaker A24, has been wowing critics with its intercontinental love story, told on an intimate scale. The movie, set mostly in Seoul and...
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“Over the top and gross and funny”: Annie Murphy on that Black Mirror...
(Nick Wall/Netflix © 2023) After four years off the air, Black Mirror fans will finally get their long-awaited fix with a brand new season this week. For Annie Murphy—best known as reformed celebutante...
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Where to eat, drink, play and stay in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley
Nestled between the Cascade and Columbia Mountains, the Okanagan Valley deals in dazzling culinary and outdoor adventures. The region’s sunny and dry microclimates are ripe with all sorts of...
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A look inside the new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown
“The very things that we hated—these objects of control and surveillance—are the things that help us trace back the story of exclusion.” (Photography by Ian Kobylanski) Last week, Canada’s first and...
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These vintage photos celebrate Black communities in Canada through the decades
Growing up, it was rare for Aaron T. Francis to see his grandfather Roy without a camera in hand. “He was one of the most influential people in my life,” says Aaron. “He would go out of his way to...
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Why this Canadian author wants AI companies to pay up
(Photograph by Ellis Parrinder) More than 10,000 members of the Authors Guild, America’s largest organization for writers, recently co-signed an open letter urging AI leaders at tech companies like...
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This old-timey museum on Cape Breton Island got a 21st-century upgrade
The museum’s cedar cladding, thatched steel roof and pointed gables reimagine architectural touches seen on original Highland dwellings. (Photography by Maxime Brouillet) During the Highland clearances...
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I started a drag camp for kids. Soon I was receiving thousands of hateful...
Jennica Grienke, co-artistic director of Carousel Theatre for Kids, in the company’s costume room in Vancouver, B.C. (Photography by Jackie Dives.) Early in my acting career, I performed at local grade...
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I started working at the Pacific National Exhibition when I was 12. It was a...
A crowd on the Gayway, which is what the midway at the PNE was called, in 1950. (Photograph courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives 180-5075.) In 1980, when I was 12 years old, I got my first job...
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I’m a Canadian actor on the SAG-AFTRA picket line. Here’s why I’m striking.
(Photograph by Anna Kennan) Acting is something I was destined to do. I’ve known this was my calling since I was a toddler, when my family moved from Nigeria to Canada. At an early age I could be found...
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