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The annual Canada Day event in Ottawa will be virtual for a second year in a row amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the government department in charge of the annual event confirmed Friday. Typical years see crowds of Canadians and tourists to the nation’s capital flood Parliament Hill for performances and special guests on July 1.

Moms! Dads! Bicoastal soul mates! By Kenzie Bryant June 11, 2021 Blink and you would have missed a whole work of narrative nonfiction written about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck this week. It’s like a novel by Charles Dickens or the podcast Serial, in the sense that it’s a serial. You simply gotta keep up. 

Lorde is back! After a four-year hiatus the New Zealand singer-songwriter is ready to share her latest studio album. Lorde, 24, just dropped the new music video for her latest single “Solar Power” off her album of the same name! In the video, which dropped on Thursday, June 10, she is seen relaxing on the

When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met in 1940, few could have guessed they’d someday be America’s most beloved married couple, epitomizing the patriarchal ideals of the 1950s. As Ball later admitted, they were “no angels”: she had already dated George Raft, Broderick Crawford and Henry Fonda, while Desi had racked up passionate affairs with

Gracie McGraw showed off a short new haircut and channelled Wednesday Addams in a video she shared to her Instagram page on June 9. Could Gracie McGraw be gunning for a part on Tim Burton‘s upcoming Addams Family spinoff series about Wednesday Addams, appropriately titled Wednesday? Tim McGraw and Faith Hill‘s 24-year-old daughter belted out “Pulled,” a song

Just as things looked to be calming down between Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and the Royal Family, another potential scandal is looming. Following the couple’s announcement over the weekend that they had welcomed their second child, a daughter, on Friday and named her Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor — the first name a long-held nickname for the

The royal released a video teasing the big news after having to delay the games due to the pandemic. By Emily Kirkpatrick June 9, 2021 Prince Harry took a quick break from baby duty on Wednesday to announce that the Invictus Games will be returning in 2023 and, for the first time ever, will be

Loki crossed paths with Agent Mobius in the first episode of ‘Loki,’ and now we need to know everything. Here are 5 things you need to know about Owen Wilson’s character. There’s a new Marvel character to love: Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius. The lovable TVA agent is introduced in the first episode of the Disney+ series Loki.

In The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It — the third Conjuring movie, and the seventh in an ongoing horror franchise — we’re back with the Warrens. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren, real-life paranormal investigators, and this time they’re looking into the case of “possessed” eight-year-old

The report details massive security and intelligence failures in the lead-up to the attack on the Capitol. But thanks to the Republicans involved, it doesn’t cast blame where it belongs.  By Eric Lutz June 8, 2021 In December 2020, just a couple weeks before armed insurrectionists laid siege to the halls of Congress as lawmakers

In a new series of photos, Britney Spears channeled one of her most iconic performances of all time and became a ‘snake.’ Britney Spears mesmerized the world two decades ago when she danced on stage at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards with a live Burmese python draped around her neck, while singing her hit ‘I’m a Slave

Even without a red carpet, the Juno Awards found ways to march generations of Canadian stars through their 50th anniversary celebration on Sunday night. From Shania Twain and Celine Dion to Kaytranada and Justin Bieber, many of the country’s most successful acts paid tribute to Canada’s biggest night in music by sharing music and memories

Get ready to hop through time with the god of mischief.  By Joanna Robinson June 7, 2021 After successfully conquering the TV world with WandaVision, and garnering mixed-positive feedback for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Kevin Feige’s Marvel universe is moving to Wednesdays on Disney+ with its new show, Loki, on June 9. Like

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik have been seen driving around New York City — the first sighting of the pair since Zayn’s dust-up outside a bar. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik have been spotted together for the first time since the former One Direction hitmaker was involved in an altercation outside of a New York City bar.

Last week in this space, I spent about 1,100 words whingeing about how so much of today’s music isn’t very good. This concerns me because it shows that I’m backsliding into music snobbery, something that I’ve been trying to leave behind. I realize kvetching about the state of popular music makes me sound like the

The 65-year-old actress is in critical condition. By Jordan Hoffman June 6, 2021 Stage, film, and television actress Lisa Banes is reported to be in critical condition following a hit-and-run on Friday evening in New York City. She was reportedly struck by a scooter while crossing the street to stop at her alma mater, the

Bethenny Frankel shared an adorable pic of her and her daughter Bryn happily hugging each other while wearing ‘pinkalicious’ dresses. Bethenny Frankel, 50, gave her fans a rare glimpse of her incredibly cute daughter Bryn in her latest Instagram pic. The Real Housewives of New York City star posed with the 11-year-old, whom she shares

Paramount Pictures on Thursday temporarily shut down production on the British set of Tom Cruise‘s seventh Mission: Impossible film after someone tested positive for coronavirus. “We have temporarily halted production on Mission: Impossible 7 until June 14th, due to positive coronavirus test results during routine testing,” a Paramount spokesperson said in a statement. “We are

A win 46 years in the making! By Jordan Hoffman June 5, 2021 After 46 years, the late-night sketch comedy show and pop culture incubator Saturday Night Live has won a contest that would have been inconceivable when it launched in 1974: It crossed the finish line this season as the number-one entertainment show in

Jonathan Bennett, who became everyone’s favorite crush thanks to his break-out role in ‘Mean Girls,’ feared losing his legions of female fans when he came out. Jonathan Bennett is proudly living his truth these days. He’s engaged to Jaymes Vaughan and the couple have teamed up with KAY Jewelers to design ‘Our Ring by Jaymes & Jonathan’, one

It’s been almost three years to the day since the world lost iconic chef, writer and provocateur Anthony Bourdain. Now, director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) is releasing a documentary about Bourdain, titled Roadrunner, and the movie is described as “an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef

Tom Hanks has long been regarded as America’s dad—more national treasure than actor with each passing year. He and wife Rita Wilson’s coronavirus diagnosis led to a reckoning with the pandemic’s severity (and a string of mask-wearing PSAs). He delivered a soaring speech at the Joe Biden inauguration. And onscreen, Hanks has played heroic figures

Chelsea Handler looks as though she took a cue from ‘Baywatch’ star Pamela Anderson in this red swimsuit, which she received from tennis star Sloane Stephens. “Don’t I look hot in this swimsuit?,” Chelsea Handler asked underneath a photo of herself in a red swimsuit fit for a lifeguard in Baywatch, and the answer was

Queen Elizabeth will meet U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at her Windsor Castle home at the conclusion of the G7 summit which begins in Britain next week, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. Biden will become the 13th U.S. president that the 95-year-old monarch has met during her record-breaking reign, and it will

The prestigious French film festival is roaring back into the spotlight after closing up shop last year due to the pandemic.  By Yohana Desta June 3, 2021 The lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival has been announced, ushering in a slew of highly awaited films like Wes Anderson’s delayed The French Dispatch and Leos

In an attempt to defend her podcast, Kailyn Lowry insisted she invited Chris Lopez onto ‘Coffee Convos’ to tell his side of the story but was ‘unable’ to air the episode. It looks like Kailyn Lowry is reigniting her feud with her ex, Chris Lopez. The Teen Mom 2 star voiced her latest diss while responding to

By David Friend The Canadian Press Posted June 2, 2021 2:29 pm     Updated June 2, 2021 2:36 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Netflix subscribers will be marking Canada Day with a federal tax on their monthly bills. The streaming giant told its Canadian

Kimmel blasted Trumpers like Matt Gaetz, Michael Flynn, and even Vanilla Ice during his opening monologue on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! By Chris Murphy June 2, 2021 Ted Cruz must be breathing a sigh of relief. After dragging the Republican Senator on multiple occasions last week, Kimmel lit into Donald Trump and a slew of

Matthew Perry revealed that ‘sometimes things just don’t work out’ while announcing that he split from Molly Hurwitz. Here are five things you should know about her. “Sometimes things just don’t work out and this is one of them. I wish Molly the best,” Matthew Perry revealed in a statement (obtained by PEOPLE) to announce

A Nova Scotia tidal bore rafter who’s long admired bald eagles from afar got up close and personal with one after rescuing it from the Shubenacadie River over the weekend. As an owner and tour guide with the Shubie River Wranglers, Emmett Blois is no stranger to seeing eagles, many of whom live and hunt