VANCOUVER — My nieces and nephews can barely credit it, but when my four brothers and I went to school in a small town in northwestern Ontario back in the 1950s and early 1960s, every morning began with God Save the Queen. As we stood at attention and sang our national anthem, we stared at
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On Monday, itself the sea of armed men kept the city in a kind of artificial stillness—not safety but fear. There is a difference between peace that consists of calm and security, and the false peace of being held under threat. One may be silent when held at gunpoint, but it is not the silence
By Global News Posted January 22, 2020 11:38 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ View link » On this episode of History of the ’90s, host Kathy Kenzora takes a second look at the murder trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez and asks the question: if
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(Photo: Getty) In the days since The New York Times and the New Yorker published investigations exposing Hollywood’s most open secret, multiple women have come forward accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and in some cases, rape. The incidents take place over nearly three decades in locations all over the globe, but they all seem to follow a
After keeping a relatively low profile over the last half decade, it seems Alicia Keys is making a massive comeback to the music industry. Not only did the much-beloved musician announce her upcoming album Alicia on Monday through Twitter, she followed it up with a humorous world tour announcement the following day — in which she
Considering the bizarre comments Greta Thunberg has fielded from Donald Trump, Piers Morgan, and more, the world would probably understand if she decided to never meet with another baby boomer until they finally do something real about climate change. But this week she went straight to the belly of the beast, to the World Economic
Emma McIntyreGetty Images A source would like People‘s readers to know—before they get too excited about any SAG reunion PDA—that Jennifer Aniston is just friends with her ex-husband Brad Pitt. Aniston “is not dating Brad,” the source explicitly said. “They are friends and happy for each other. They want nothing but happiness for each other.
Longtime Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer has filed a lawsuit against his bandmates after claiming they have excluded him from playing alongside them at some of their upcoming performances. The legal documents were filed in Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts last Friday, according to a representative of Kramer. If successful, Kramer’s suit will enable him to
[embedded content] Following the release of the Morbius trailer, there emerged a lot of speculation about Easter Eggs and other hints of what was to come. One piece of juicy speculation was that The Crown and Chernobyl actor, Jared Harris, might be playing Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus. Speaking with Variety at the 2020 SAG
The family of Love Island star Mike Boateng issued a statement defending him over claims he is currently under investigation by Greater Manchester Police. Boateng previously worked for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) as a police constable before resigning ahead of joining the Love Island cast in South Africa to film the hit reality series. In the statement posted
In defending President Donald Trump against impeachment, the president’s legal team has had to perform legal gymnastics to try and justify Trump’s innocence, using tactics from stonewalling to outright lies to fight back against Democrats’ allegations of Trump’s wrongdoing. In a memo released prior to Trump’s Senate trial, the president’s lawyers turned to a new
For over a decade, Robert Downey Jr. played MCU pillar Tony Stark, a billionaire superhero who would almost certainly consider Dolittle’s abysmal opening weekend earnings to be little more than pocket change. Despite opening on a holiday weekend, RDJ’s Dolittle made just $29.5 million over the four-day period, and only an additional $17 million internationally.
On Oct. 4, 2005, Canadian rock outfit Nickelback released its seminal, and perhaps most celebrated album, All the Right Reasons and changed the course of its career for the years to come. 15 years on, and the How You Remind Me rockers have just announced a 45-date North American tour to celebrate the albums. The news was confirmed through
After joining President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, constitutional scholar and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz is once again publicly sniveling about being bullied—but this time, his persecutors are not residents of Martha’s Vineyard. Instead they take the form of CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Jeffrey Toobin, who cruelly interrogated him on his convenient about-face
During his opening monologue on The Late Show Monday night, host Stephen Colbert decided it was time for him to weigh in on “Megxit”. Megxit of course, is the pun on Brexit which stemmed from the recent announcement that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be stepping down from their senior royal duties in order to leave
Chris JacksonGetty Images Prince Harry has finally returned to Meghan Markle and their son Archie after over a week of meetings regarding his and Meghan’s stepping back from their senior royal family positions. The Duke of Sussex was photographed arriving in Vancouver yesterday evening. The Mirror and Hello! have the photos of Harry stepping off
A week after confirming the death of their longtime bandmate Neil Peart, Canadian rock icons Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush thanked fans and supporters for an “outpouring of love” in a new heartfelt message. The message was shared to Lee’s official Instagram account on Friday along with a variety of images of the
Proving that absolutely nothing about the 2020 election can be normal, The New York Times has announced their endorsed candidate. Candidates, actually. In a move designed in a laboratory to please absolutely no one, they hedged their bets between, in their words, “realist” and “radical.” and selected both Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Brazilian musician Dan Vasc is back with another metal spin on music from The Witcher, which means we’re probably not going to listen to anything else for the rest of the week. Dan Vasc’s metal cover of “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher” is my favorite version of the song from the Netflix series—a song that
In October, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle launched a lawsuit against U.K. newspaper the Mail on Sunday and its parent company, Associated Newspapers. The royals claim the paper committed a misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018 when it printed a private letter reportedly written by Meghan to her
Other than a 13-minute single-shot music video for his avant-garde band Thought Gang, David Lynch hasn’t brought any new strangeness into the world since the end of 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, when Kyle MacLachlan asked “what year is this?” and Sheryl Lee let out and terrifying scream. (Don’t worry, that isn’t a spoiler. I
The following contains spoilers for the second season of Netflix’s Sex Education Netflix’s Sex Education is charming for the many weird choices it makes. It’s (in)famous for its anachronistic, Americanized visual style despite its very British accents. It apes high school comedies of the past, and everything from the costumes to the production design feels
You can Keep Up With the Kardashians and keep up with Kim Kardashian’s new career as well. The 39-year-old reality star debuted the trailer for her two-hour documentary, Justice Project, at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Saturday. Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project airs April 5 on Oxygen and the two-hour doc shows
Meghan Markle‘s estranged father, Thomas Markle, accused his daughter of “cheapening” the British royal family in part of an interview released a day after Buckingham Palace said Prince Harry and his wife would no longer be working members of the monarchy. The palace announced on Saturday that the couple would no longer use their “Royal
For the first time this awards season, Joaquin Phoenix used an acceptance speech to pay tribute to the late Heath Ledger. At Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Phoenix picked up the statuette for best actor for his performance in Joker, stopping to pay homage to Ledger, who died shortly after making an iconic turn
Emma McIntyreGetty Images Jennifer Aniston and her ex-husband Brad Pitt gave the people what they wanted tonight at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, having a joyful and affectionate reunion backstage that was captured on camera. But before that happened, Aniston spoke candidly about what she thinks about the obsession everyone has with her and Pitt
Prince Harry broke his silence and directly addressed his and his wife’s decision to step back from the Royal Family, in a speech delivered Sunday at a charity dinner in the U.K. “Before I begin, I must say that I can only imagine what you may have heard or perhaps read of the past few weeks,”
Alan Dershowitz appeared on CNN’s State of the Union to split hairs about whether the charges against President Donald Trump, for which he has already been, in Nancy Pelosi’s words, “impeached forever,” are actually impeachable. Once he started talking about Millard Fillmore’s Supreme Court appointee Benjamin R. Curtis (1809 – 1874) viewers were quickly reminded
[embedded content] A Chinese mother wins the family vacation of a lifetime. A French woman feels lost at a silent retreat. A Nigerian student embraces his inner cowboy. These are just three of the stories that make up Apple TV+’s new anthology series Little America, which brings intimate true stories of the immigrant experience to