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. Karen Kain tours the National Ballet of Canada to Los Angeles for the first time in 35 years. It won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canadas International Prize in 2019. He starred in the critically acclaimed play This Is Our Youth in 2014, and then earned a Tony nomination in 2018 for his role as Jeff in Lobby Hero. So here goes: heralded as the No. Xas Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation was performed at Londons Art Night before travelling, in various iterations, to Glasgow and Baku, Azerbaijan. Its my opinion that non-dominant cultures tend to be more observant and their cultural outputs often richer than dominant ones. (Lets all go there. It wasnt too long ago that what little LGBTQ representation did make its way into the mainstream was largely created by straight folks. Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. The 2010s were a huge decade for Broadway. Its incredible how quickly these same institutions that shut us out changed their tunes and got on board once they realized we could not only get them awards recognition but also make them money. 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. He might not say it out loud, but the characters real KPI is friendship, and what, besides money, is a bigger motivation than the power of love? If NFY has a fourth wall, this was the first scam to smash it. Superheroes, reboots, blockbuster franchises: that was the 2000s. Whod have thought it would be the start of a career equally as prolific and powerful? Youve got your reboots, your action franchises and a bunch of G-rated Disney extravaganzas. Catharsis, Im telling ya. lang and Sarah McLachlan were heralded as ceremonial triumphs. ), she went for it with me. 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. Tatiana Maslany scores Golden Globe nomination | CP24.com Massoud has recently claimed that since portraying Aladdin, he hasnt been on a single audition, so may casting directors sit up and take notice for 2020. Featuring half of Hollywood including their fellow Canadians Jay Baruchel and Michael Cera the apocalypse-themed film is audacious, fearless and endlessly hilarious. And fortunately, shes still thriving: in November 2019, Full Frontal was renewed for a fifth season but its up to all of us to ensure it continues well past the term of the next U.S. president. Tatiana Maslany Explains the Softer Side of Marvel's She-Hulk - Yahoo! Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany in Network. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World hits cinemas in all its Toronto-set glory. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. I have yet to be asked to guest star. The 2010s saw screen industries worldwide experience a fundamental metamorphosis: streaming services changed the game in terms of the ways audiences watch content and how creators compete in the marketplace. Because sometimes life actually is beautiful, Owen Pallett joined forces with Arcade Fires Win Butler to compose the score for Her, the Spike Jonze futuristic drama about love and loneliness. And after debuting at 95 on the Billboard Hot 100, it found its way to the top of the charts and became Caras first top-five single (marking the beginning of her ascension through the pop ranks). A Prologue: The 2000s or Clines Lost Decade, Before we dig into Dions 2010s, lets take a quick look at the previous decade a strange one for Dion. Tegan and Sara used Heartthrob, their (quite amazing) seventh album, to wade further into the waters of pop and earned the praise of fans, critics and anyone lucky enough to hear it as a result. Epilogue: Courage hits No. 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. Ill never forget the night I first saw Brooke Lynn Hytes. I like David Altmejd but I dont want to meet him, like, ever? Hes convinced hell reach a happy ending, erasing a lifetime of misery. The Golden Globes were another shining moment for Asian-Canadian pride as Oh won the award for best actress in a TV drama for her portrayal of Eve Polastri on Killing Eve, sweeping the stage in a glitzy white dress with gold sequined sleeves (fully living out a Crazy Rich Asians fantasy that I 100 per cent mega-swooned at). Her second EP, Being Human in Public, was nominated for a Grammy, and shes penned songs for the likes of Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith. To the untrained eye (read: mine), the main building is a little like a modernist Imperial walker, rising above a cliff on tall, spindly legs. The book earned Wagamese the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Mtis Young Adult Literature (then known as the Burt Award for First Nations, Mtis and Inuit Literature), and in 2017, the film adaptation premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This year alone, Canadian female filmmakers Alexandra Lazarowich and Grace Glowicki won top prizes at Sundance and SXSW respectively. She also got a jump-start on 2016s mannequin challenge via the corresponding video, where she worked her way through a party chock-full of attendees standing completely still or, as I like to call it, an ideal party if I have to stay past nine. Frankly, few of us will ever see anything like it again. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. Is he at fault? Well, anyone who tuned into the pilot on Jan. 13, 2015, TBH. In customary Monkman fashion, the figures in this canvas spread through every quadrant an echo of the desperation of all of the family members trying to keep their children close. Which, like, obviously: on top of Canadas always-uncanny ability to produce larger-than-life pop stars (need I remind any of us of Cline Dion, especially circa 1997? Behold, introverts, for here is your queen! To protect and promote its culture, Quebec projects have also, on average, been better funded and have gone through longer gestation periods than projects in the rest of the country. In Switzerland. Were here for it. 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). Since then, its become something to look forward to come (early, early) springtime (or late, late winter) in Canada, and its gotten even bigger thanks to the introduction of Canadian Screen Week, which allows for even more time and attention for well-deserved Canadian productions. 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. Shes even seen wearing no makeup in the music video! By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. Shot among a 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators in a football stadium (and a mosh pit made up of Bouchers brother and his friends), the video juxtaposed the tiny Boucher atop the shouting, shoving, shirtless masses and created a playful effect that also addressed themes of traditional masculinity. What do you get when you combine Canadas premier EDM DJ/producer and a classic short story by celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury? co-production. When one actor paraded around bare-assed (boxers pulled up into his butt crack for comedic effect) between takes of Tats big crying scene, she like any great Canadian artist, pre-2010 took her bottled-up biliousness and put it into the work, delivering a performance (real tears!) At the tail-end of this decade, right when we need it most, Alanis has turned Jagged Little Pill into a musical with a book written by Diablo Cody. Maybe theyre just that spectacular. Sarah Manning and her many clones make their debut in Orphan Black. Jeremy Dutcher wins the Polaris Music Prize. In one episode, Cousin Greg even drives from New York to Quebec to pick up a very grumpy Ewan and bring him to his brother. And that futuristic design, by international firm Snhetta and Canadas DIALOG, is packed with regional references. And when she tells Nathan she likes him, she acts like she means it nevermind the $350/hour fee. They really, really, really, really, really, really like her: In this episode of Stan Wars, host Peter Knegt gives four Carly Rae Jepsen diehards the chance to compete for the title of her ultimate stan. 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. Geoffrey Farmer reimagines Canadas home at the Venice Biennale, Geoffrey Farmer A way out of the mirror (Francesco Barasciutti). Throughout, the dancers move like caged animals to Pites inspired choreography, their bodies deformed and released according to the logic of the protagonists tortured journey. He later wrote and starred in a one-man cabaret at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival called Boy Falls From the Sky, which detailed his experience during that production. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 21, 2017 at 8:21pm PDT. Written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the musical Come From Away is set in Gander, N.L., in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, when 38 planes containing nearly 7,000 passengers were forced to land as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon (in which Canada helped ensure air traffic was cleared from U.S. airspace). KC Hoard edits the Arts and Culture section of Carleton Universitys the Charlatan, and has written for The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Its early 2011, and Denis Villeneuves Incendies is up for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. But if youve seen photos of the main building, youve likely had a pang of envy: Dang, I want to go to thereeven if it takes two connecting flights, a ferry trip, plus an overnighter in Gander. things get even more real at least for Sue, who experiences an emotional breakdown while the exorcist does his thing. 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. Also designed by Vancouvers Patkau Architects, the Temple of Light at the Yasodhara Ashram yoga retreat was given an AZ Award by Azure magazine in 2019. Thats nearly double the 38 we managed in the previous decade (though in terms of wins, its even, at 11 each) and representative of some incredible work both in front of the camera (including Christopher Plummer, who became the first Canadian male to win an acting Oscar in 64 years when he won for Beginners) and behind it (10 of those nominations came from the best production design category). If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. In March of 2016, the veteran news anchor morphed into the iconic Peter Moosebridge, Zootopias beloved newscaster, at the behest of Chris Williams, the Waterloo, Ont., native who worked on the film alongside co-director Byron Howard and convinced him that Mansbridge was (is) the Canadian Walter Cronkite. In related news, I would trust Peter Moosebridge with my life. But just because no one outside this country has been hearing our fabulous trees fall in the woods doesnt mean that Canadian drag hasnt been making all sorts of sounds for years. The story of a child-murdering clown alien, its one of Stephen Kings best-known creations, but this particular adaptation which shot several scenes in and around Toronto is now the highest grossing horror movie ever made. Alice Munro becomes the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. With the decade coming to a close, I couldnt be prouder of this nation of queer artists and performers continuing to constantly push the boundaries of art and gender. I am now 34. She has a passion for romance and seems intrigued by the way it ignites vulnerability and inspires transformation. She didnt take up a lot of space. Chilina Kennedys Broadway star reached the stratosphere this decade. (The fact that that scene isnt already gay canon is, to me, a greater outrage than any Emmy snub.). Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. Before he was the internets darling, Reeves was just a beloved actor in his own right. But the show went on: videos depicting Canadas glorious landscape and flawless performances by k.d. 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. What can you believe, period? 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. In the 2010s, it isnt that we earned the right to voice our opinion, stand up for our work and stop saying sorry its that we realized wed had that right all along. 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. Amy Harrity for The New York Times. There was a big reason to celebrate Domee Shis Oscar win on Feb. 24, and not only because her animated short about an aging Chinese-Canadian woman and a little dumpling that comes to life was the perfect way to spend eight minutes. Instead of Washington State University, nave heroine Anastasia Steele hangs out on the University of British Columbia campus. 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. 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. On November 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the U.S. Tatiana Maslany says she is a huge Catherine O'Hara fan as she reacts to the number of Canadian Emmy nominees which include O'Hara, Eugene and Dan Levy, Anni. As we move out of a decade that has seen immense progress in LGBTQ representation, its important to remember that despite this, the world remains a dangerous place for many LGBTQ people which is why its imperative more celebrities take a page from Page and use their platform in a more aggressive manner. Zadie Xa brings her Korean-Canadian diasporic mythologies to Londons Art Night, Zadie Xa Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation (Keith Hunter). 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Women in the film industry went from being a thing? She seems fascinated by the way these characters grow and change through their relationships, their passions, their career woes and their secrets. Schitts Creek actress Annie Murphy shares her admiration for author Margaret Atwood and how her books have been turned into successful TV projects over the last decade. Frankly, Toronto should always be depicted as exactly this cool. He was, of course, referring to the global uproar over the Television Academys failure to nominate her for her breakout role(s) in the first season of Orphan Black. Dions husband and former manager Ren Anglil dies of cancer on Jan. 14, 2016. Back in 1998, Alanis gave us a song called That I Would Be Good, which became a mantra. 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? As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She's Angry But while a couple of her songs have crossed borders and become international hits Call Me Maybe being the most obvious example Your Type, with its shimmering chords and lovesick lyrics, failed to perform commercially outside of Canada. Maybe you bought your ticket to the show with the funny-sounding German title on the strength of the cabaret dancers on the poster, expecting a droll night out in Weimar Berlin. So I encountered Inside Kingston Penitentiary, a series of photographs by Geoffrey James, with some trepidation. Drakes debut studio album Thank Me Later is released. that, frankly, belonged in a much better movie. She doubles down on that claim with a second iconic look that month when she performs My Heart Will Go On in a puffy white dress with a plunging neckline at the Billboard Music Awards a surprising nod to the reverse pantsuit (with a plunging back) that she wore to the 1999 Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Dolan became mind-bogglingly prolific and had his arthouse blockbuster moment with Mommy, then produced Adeles Hello music video and directed in Europe and the U.S. As a francophone Qubcoise living in Toronto and working in the film industry, this decade felt like watching the kids we had cared for and supported emotionally and financially for years suddenly fly the coop and leave home. On NFY, truth is a lie you have the confidence to believe. Kent Monkmans The Scoop borrows from the scale and pomp of European (and Canadian) history paintings to viscerally depict the kidnapping of Indigenous children from their parents in the 1960s. Ren-Charles, the couples first son, was born on Jan. 25, 2001. But 30 Rocks peak interest in Canada came in the 2011 episode Double-Edged Sword, when Alec Baldwin and Elizabeth Bankss characters travel to Toronto and then, to their chagrin, end up having their baby there. Richard Wagameses Indian Horse is published. In her pivotal 1991 paper The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada, Mohawk curator Lee-Ann Martin named the ultimate effect of this erasure: The exclusion of the arts of Native peoples implies that the artistic and cultural contributions to Canadian history by Canadas First Nations [Inuit, and Mtis] are non-existent. Because our art and literature were not acknowledged, as far as the Canadian public was concerned, it didnt exist. And whats even cooler (to me) is that it was eventually used as a Jeopardy! A Facebook event titled Cheer Up Keanu Day even urged fans to send Reeves love letters and gifts on June 15. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. He's good." His talent deserves a platform. 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. Are they still OURS? As some were hitting the Hollywood big-time, artists like Denis Ct, Anne mond, Sbastien Pilote, Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie were also becoming international festival darlings embraced by out-of-province and out-of-country audiences alike. Its humbling to think that on a beautiful, balmy August night, anyone even slightly acquainted with the Tragically Hip arguably one of the most important bands in Canadian music, whose ability to blend poetry, politics and incredible hooks have left them untouchable wept openly as lead singer Gord Downie performed for the last time following a terminal cancer diagnosis. "Orphan Black" star Tatiana Maslany, "Schitt's Creek" leads Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy, and "Sons of Anarchy" alumnus Kim Coates wi. Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. Tanya Talaga wins the RBC Taylor Prize for her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. While shes now a mainstay on the landscape of Canadian publishing, in 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published her first book, God Loves Hair a collection of 21 short stories that follow a child who navigates topics like gender, racial politics, sexuality and religion. at the Telluride FIlm Festival. By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite her global success, Dion was never cool. 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). 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. After helping arrange alternative travel for his fellow passengers, he joined a group headed to L.A. by van, playing music on his phone. Browse Aaron Poole movies and TV shows available on Prime Video and begin streaming right away to your favorite device. With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. And if it means more Asian-Canadians can cross stages in fancy gowns and suits to accept awards, then I look forward to swooning more. On top of being the first person of Asian descent to host the awards, she was also the first person of Asian descent to win multiple Globes. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. How great to see our talented kids succeed!Are they going to come back? It looks like something out of an Avengers flick: a steel double helix-like structure painted firetruck red. Andrew DCruz is the executive producer of CBC Arts. Schitt's Creek: Created by Dan Levy, Eugene Levy. We were too, Stephen. Martin is currently working on musical adaptations of The Princess Bride and Night at the Museum, a sequel to The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as the Netflix film adaptation of The Prom starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. In a travel reversal, the tense second season finale of Homeland (I guess I should say spoiler alert, but seriously, folks) sees Carrie take Brody to the Quebec border so he can escape on foot to Montreal. The song performed best in Furtados homeland, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. In November of 2014, Brampton, Ont.s Rupi Kaur released Milk and Honey, a collection of poems and prose that tackle subjects like sexual assault, violence, love and loss. 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. TORONTO - Catherine O'Hara, Sidney Crosby and Tatiana Maslany are among the stars set to appear at the Canadian Screen Awards. The Speed love affair that almost was. First, though, some backstory. Women dominated at this years Governor Generals Literary Awards, with winners including: Joan Thomas for fiction (Five Wives); Gwen Benaway for poetry, the first trans woman to take the prize (Holy Wild); Erin Bow for young peoples literature (Stand on the Sky); and CBC Artss very own Amanda Parris for drama (Other Side of the Game), which should incite serious chants of HELL, YES! from all of us. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. 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. Trailblazers like Patricia Rozema and Mina Shum also collaborated with Ellen Page and Sandra Oh on their excellent features Into the Forest and Meditation Park. (Years later, I would sit on the Avon Theatre steps where Justin used to play his acoustic guitar and fight back the urge to tell anybody who passed me that he was my son.) Based on the iconic graphic novel series by Bryan Lee OMalley, director Edgar Wrights Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a love letter to a city that often plays dress-up. Possibly! to a serious issue we should definitely have approximately 8,000 panels about until, finally, we were given the resources we deserved to thrive and succeed (thanks in part to gender parity initiatives set by the CBC and Telefilm Canada). Producing the thing was a technical feat just a shade less tricky than wrestling a grizzly bear. Canada kicked off the 2010s with three straight nominations for best foreign language film (Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar and War Witch), but it very much deserved one more in 2014 when it submitted Xavier Dolans Mommy. I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. 20 and No. Not a child actor, not yet a woman, she was a model of Canadian kindness and patience. She pushed and challenged me to be a smarter, more economical filmmaker in the most caring, collaborative way. When drag performers are left to their own devices in a decade-long cultural boom, the only thing that can happen is greatness. Munro was a celebrated visual artist known not only for his provocative (and endearing) works centered around handmade Y-front briefs but also for his creation of spaces like Vazaleen and Torontos The Beaver, which became safe hubs for the LGBTQ+ community. Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. She ended the aughts like she ended the 90s: telling the world how much being a mother was her real calling. There are few films in Hollywood and almost none in Canada that have a family of Black women at their centre; as Meghie noted when I interviewed her, its a strange and unsettling privilege to be one of the first. dollars.) 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. The series took home the Golden Globe for best television limited series and led to individual wins for stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgrd, as well as a plethora of Emmys. Youre welcome, world. Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. She acted opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Dane DeHaan, and was dubbed The Millennial Meryl Streep. And ultimately, the quality (and quantity) of her work on Orphan Black boosted by the support of critics and Clone Clubbers alike won her an Emmy in 2016, making her the first Canadian actor in a Canadian series ever to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category. It helped turn Marianas Trench into stadium-filling rock stars in Canada, but barely made a splash outside the country. The third single off Carly Rae Jepsens 2015 album E MO TION, Your Type is just one of Jepsens many pop diamonds. Wow. Patriotism and pride come into play, and inevitably, questions are raised around what it means to be Canadian and make Canadian content. As promised, he inspires the public with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity., The plan: Construct the ultimate talk show anecdote.. (Hes the handsome star. Instead, she celebrates the release at a drag club in New York City. Maslany got married in 2022 to fellow actor, Brendan Hines. Enter Jeremy Dutcher, whose win for Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa beat out contemporaries like Alvvays and U.S. Hes 78 and lives alone. By the end of the 2010s, The Simpsons will have aired 678 episodes, making it by far the longest-running American sitcom. She-Hulk was born in . Tanya Talaga wins the RBC Taylor Prize for her first book, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Youngs dance sensation, This dance-theatre hybrid born from tragedy became the decades most unlikely global hit, 10 Canadians who killed it on Broadway in the 2010s, lending space to 40 folks whose ties with Buddies run deep, Dutchers victory was historic for a few reasons, went on to surpass $1 billion US at the box office worldwide, Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of, In the 2010s, drag wasn't a race in Canada we ran together (and slayed). And while the subconscious-hopping takes the action to sets all over the world, from England to Morocco to Los Angeles, the movies big final action sequence a ski chase straight out of James Bond was shot in Alberta.