Nathan, of course, manufactures a few bizarre schemes in the hunt for information. Tatiana Maslany, Eugene and Dan Levy among presenters at Canadian - CBC In a decade defined by the relentless noise of content creation and everyone doing everything they can to get likes and followers, silence is rare and precious. Sarah Anne Johnsons Arctic Wonderland opens at New Yorks Julie Saul Projects, Sarah Anne Johnson Arctic Wonderland (Sarah Anne Johnson). You wont be sorry. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. And it was so easy to sing and dance to, and as a result, easier still to defend to naysayers whose problems with the song seemed rooted in cynicism and bitterness. . Although Reeves has never officially confirmed this story, it seems so Keanu-esque that we might as well believe it. And of course, we were in luck: two more mixtapes followed the same year, which completed a trilogy. And starting in 2017, Lees hilarious work paid off when he won back-to-back Canadian Screen Awards, reaffirming that when minority creatives have space to tell their own stories, the world responds positively and audiences are left wanting more. Maslany's in-limbo Perry Mason status appeared to come into greater focus back in December when the Emmy winner formally signed on to play the title role Disney+'s upcoming She-Hulk series . But starting with The Witch in 2015, another trend emerged. The song brought the superstar DJ to the top 40 in Canada, educating a generation of Canadians about Bradburys terrifying, dystopian storytelling along the way. The Tragically Hip perform their final concert in Kingston, Ont. OK, so this one isnt a building though the idea of camping under a fibreglass ziggurat isnt entirely terrible, especially if you compare the experience to the average Toronto apartment. As for that YouTube video, it has more than 10 million views as of writing, and however it was made, it remains, per the description, simply amazing., The plan: Attract customers with cheap gas by offering a completely legal rebate that absolutely no one claims.. As Martha Schabas put it in her Globe and Mail review, I texted friends the following morning and told them to drop everything and go see it., Over the next three years, it toured stages from Seattle to Santa Monica to Saddlers Wells in London, collecting raves and accolades along the way, including the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. The architect, Todd Saunders, is a Newfoundland native who lives and works in Norway. Just look at Sarah Polley, who made the Toronto romance Take This Waltz and NFB documentary Stories We Tell one year apart (2011 and 2012 respectively), and capped off the decade with the brilliant, multivalent CBC miniseries Alias Grace in 2017, tapping American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron to direct it. But in the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that it was indeed possible. In her seminal book Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Margaret Atwood theorized that the central symbol in Canada, and therefore Canadian literature, was survival. Never a critical hit, the series was a pop culture titan, bolstered by legions of Twihards. Stan culture came to dominate the decade, and the acolytes of this schlocky supernatural romance more or less signalled the first wave. Since Drag Race, we have seen countless new artists start performing because of the show. Famous names like Sam Smith and David Guetta also contribute to the songwriting effort. This was based on early settlers experiences of bare survival in the face of hostile elements and/or Natives. Though they did exist, Indigenous writers were not considered; we only ever appear in the book as hostile Natives that white Canadians must survive. But as we bid farewell to the 2010s, thats all changed: Cline Dion is the new queen of cool. On Dec. 2, 2019, she announced that she would go on a 31-date (though unfortunately only one of those is in Canada) tour in 2020 to celebrate Jagged Little Pills 25th anniversary. From 2013 to 2017, she embodied over a dozen clones on the sci-fi series "Orphan Black," and won an Emmy for it All these years, weve watched Nathan engineer business opportunities as a means to an end (re: a platonic hang). Keanu Reeves may be loved by the internet, but for some fans, he deserves more than some tweets singing his praises. Family patriarch Logan Roy was partially raised in Quebec, and his brother Ewan still lives there. And you hope to hell that hell find his way out of it for both your sakes. Just hold on, three of them are going home: In this episode of Stan Wars, host Amanda Parris gives four members of Team Drizzy the chance to compete for the title of Drakes ultimate stan. Plus $9.5 million is a lot of money the most a Canadian painting has ever commanded and this is a really good painting. Comedy Central wants him to promote the new season, he explains, but unlike other celebrities, he doesnt have a wild and fabulous story to share. Andrew DCruz is the executive producer of CBC Arts. 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!) Sometime around 2012, the superhero genre swallowed the Infinity Gauntlet or something metastasising into an endless string of monster franchises, each farting million-dollar bills and licensing deals. As Youngs voiceover has it: Youre trapped in a room. It quickly became the job of anyone who had just discovered him to find out everything we could about him. The film follows a family dominated by Black women who are forced to confront secrets that have been hidden for decades when a man shows up at their door and promptly falls dead. Psyched as many of us may have been to ring in Canadas 150th, we also know that the land that makes up Canada is much older than that and belongs to Indigenous communities that our government has repeatedly tried to annihilate. Off they went with their new beautiful-people families, while we stood in the window waving lovingly and slightly nervously. Tatiana Maslany on taking Orphan Black back: 'It was surprising how Shawn Mendes releases Life of the Party (also: meet Shawn Mendes! Following this, they launched their first world tour, released two more albums and three EPs, and took home the award for group of the year at the 2018 Juno Awards. With highlights like the premiere of the sitcom Kims Convenience, Manny Jacintos stereotype-breaking role on The Good Place, Sandra Oh becoming the first Asian person to host the Golden Globes, and the announcement of Simu Liu as Marvels first Asian superhero, the last decade was full of watershed moments. Tina Feys NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, was obsessed with Canada since it premiered in 2006 (which may or may not have had something to do with Canada-born executive producer Lorne Michaels). (See: Arkells, The Sheepdogs.) Par exemple: Regina King deservedly won an Oscar for her work in Barry Jenkinss If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, but somehow she was the films only acting nominee. Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with Barneys Version. This answer and the Vegas-inspired gold dress with a chandelier-sized headpiece make her a winner of the night, topping her fantastic 2017 appearance. Marketing tactics have infiltrated ordinary life in ways that are increasingly absurd, and every time a NFY stunt went viral, it was like the universe clicking the like button, as if to say, yes, nothing you were taught makes sense anymore. Brooke Lynn Hytes would go on that next year to win Miss Continental, one of the most prestigious pageant titles in the world of drag. While in Arkansas, Nathan starts seeing an escort named Maci. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. Well, duh, because then he wouldnt be Buddy. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time in 17 years. 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. It seems Carly Rae isnt always the type of girl for you, non-Canadians (and thats your loss). It wasnt too long ago that what little LGBTQ representation did make its way into the mainstream was largely created by straight folks. The win came on the heels of her 2012 short story collection, Dear Life, and the news was initially met with silence since the Swedish Academy was unable to locate the author and was forced to make its announcement public after leaving her a message on her answering machine. This fall, the Guardian crowned Betroffenheit the best dance show of the 21st century so far. By showing something as little as a flick on the forehead, Kims Convenience has helped the rest of the world understand Asian family dynamics better. After years of hearing the same five or six male names bandied about in casual conversation as the beardy definition of Canadian auteur-dom (Valle, Maddin, Egoyan, McDonald, Cronenberg, Dolan; then Johnson, Shin, Radwanski and Cividino, the latter quartet representing the so-called new Toronto New Wave), festivals and critics started to take notice of female voices. She pushed and challenged me to be a smarter, more economical filmmaker in the most caring, collaborative way. Will Munros final show opens at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Will Munro Spider Sex Sling (Paul Petro Contemporary Art), While he was in the last months of a terminal illness, Will Munro was working on his final exhibition for Paul Petro Contemporary Art. In every episode, clients react with a moment or two of slack-jawed silence and then, they invariably let him at it. For what artistic culture can thrive when its peoples children have been stolen from their arms? 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. The album is titled the most Alanis-y title possible: Such Pretty Forks in the Road. 1 on the Billboard 200. Patriotism and pride come into play, and inevitably, questions are raised around what it means to be Canadian and make Canadian content. There will never be a large audience for marginalized art if arts institutions, publishers and galleries dont financially back that art, exposing our work to Canadians on a large scale and thus creating an audience. Theres nobody quite like Nathan (and the shows cringiest scenes prove it). Here are nine other reasons why Alanis still matters: And nothing anyone at Jezebel can say will ever diminish the cultural significance and magnitude of this album. After premiering on Netflix in August, the dark comedy drew attention for its biting humour and social commentary on the ways we frame success and community. Alessia Caras debut single, released on both her debut EP Four Pink Walls and debut full-length Know-It-All, Here is a song about wanting to leave parties and the splendour of doing just that. In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. The thing is, the Globes were Ohs to own entirely. And among those strides, Canada created its own spot for Asian representation in ways that the country had never witnessed before, allowing us to claim our place on the world stage as an example of what representation can look like and do. On November 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the U.S. It featured Mozarts Piano Concerto No. (In a 2018 episode of In The Making, Pite says her movements took a cue from a description of PTSD: this feeling of having the accelerator and the brake both to the floor.). And all three of those were shot in B.C. The song performed best in Furtados homeland, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. Alternative scenes in particular have exploded in Canada over the last 10 years, with huge epicentres in Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, and my beloved Toronto. Whatever the answer, if the 2010s have been a time of all-purpose confusion, few shows have nailed the decade quite like this one, and these are just 10 of its finest moments. Who among us really thought that Schitts Creek a 30-minute comedy series created by and starring Canadian treasures Dan and Eugene Levy (and co-starring the equally treasured likes of Catherine OHara and Annie Murphy) would go on to earn a (still) growing international fanbase, a slew of Emmy nominations and praise for its inclusive and heartwarming storylines? Its glass walls, for instance, are no match against Calgary vandals (or Calgary weather), and according to the local CBC News outlet, the citys spent around $300,000 repairing the panes. 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. The actress told ET Canada that she'd "love" to be involved in a movie, if it was done in the. Women of Canada, I will see you all at the movies! 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. has a leading 14 nominations including best TV drama series and best actress in a continuing drama series for star Tatiana Maslany, who appears as a host of cloned characters on the hit show. Gone were the days where Will & Grace was literally all that there was; in its place, we were blessed with a seemingly endless array of high-quality shows representing all walks of queer life. From Monkman to Margaret (Atwood), Bieber to ballet, Keanu to Come from Away, CBC Arts presents an unapologetic celebration of a decade of outsized achievement. Leading the Television nominees once again is ORPHAN BLACK with a stellar 14 nominations (and wins in the past three consecutive years) including Best Dramatic Series and Actress (Tatiana Maslany). 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. Imagine having to follow up Visions, a record so obsessed over that surpassing it creatively mustve been, to say the least, daunting. Since her television debut, shes been praised for her interview style and evolving approach to monologues, and now the only barrier left is for viewers like me to learn how to stay up until 1:35 a.m. More women than ever before win Governor Generals Literary Awards. The strategy was to exit public consciousness for a little while so that she and her husband Ren 26 years her senior could have a child together. Its one of the finest things Kims Convenience has given us. Nathan pitches the client, Sue Stanford, on a rebrand: become a ghost realtor! The true story has been heralded as a reminder of human kindness and the way we tend to rally together even in times of fear, anger and tragedy. It ruminated on histories, ruins and water itself, and it was a moving tribute to the site. But what both Deadpool and its sequel are probably most regarded for is the thing that differentiated them from Marvel and DCs usual onslaught of cinematic offerings: they both ended up earning R-ratings for language and violence something The Avengers would never dare. a boyfriend. Browse Aaron Poole movies and TV shows available on Prime Video and begin streaming right away to your favorite device. The future looks even more promising thanks to the December 2018 announcement that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is getting its first lead Asian superhero. Epilogue: Courage hits No. (Hawkinss character lives above a gilded cinema the real-life Elgin Theatre, where The Shape of Water screened at TIFF.). It was born from the relatively new world of YouTube stars (of which Bieber was a pioneer), produced by industry heavyweights The-Dream and Tricky Stewart and performed alongside Ludacris. Well, anybody who read it, obviously. (Come back to us, Claire. It may seem unlikely that such an abstract and formally inventive work, without a conventional narrative, would connect so deeply with audiences. Darlene Naponses short story She is Water became a finalist for the 2017 Journey Prize after appearing in this issue. (At least, they sure seem genuine.) Jeremy Dutcher wins the Polaris Music Prize. What do you get when you combine Canadas premier EDM DJ/producer and a classic short story by celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury? The live-action Aladdin comes out in theatres. Dancer Greta Hodgkinson reflects on the rise and achievements of National Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain over the 2010s. Macis tactics, perhaps, are not so different. And thats a really big deal. The phenomenal success of productions like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen launched the continents premier stage destination into a bold new era. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries: softbois with fangs were bloody everywhere and The Twilight Saga started the frenzy. Sarah Polleys Stories We Tell is released in Canadian cinemas. Versatile film and television actor Tatiana Maslany is perhaps best known for her multiple performances as various clones in the hit sci-fi series Orphan Black (2013-17). As a current resident of Cambridge, Ont., its important for me to inform all of you that parts of The Handmaids Tale were filmed a stones throw from my apartment, and for a small fee I would be delighted to show you around or sneak us on set. The story about a single mother (played powerfully by Anne Dorval) trying to raise her troubled son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) was praised as a cinematic tour de force, or even better: a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. As a result, Mommy went on to become Dolans highest grossing feature, and the following year, the writer/director/producer directed Adeles video for Hello (which would go on to get over 2.5 billion views on YouTube). Sarah Manning and her many clones make their debut in Orphan Black. Before it was a critically acclaimed 2018 western film starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, The Sisters Brothers was a critically acclaimed 2011 novel written by author Patrick deWitt, whose dark comedy takes readers on an adventure alongside Eli Sisters and his brother Charlie in Oregon and California. Furthering the lasting mark of Offreds dystopian nightmare, the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwoods novel cleaned up at the 2017 Emmys, earning trophies for outstanding drama series, supporting actress (drama), lead actress (drama) and writing (drama). And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. As a working mom and Cirque du Soleil enthusiast, Dion then wanted to balance her career and her family life. This decade, Canada established itself as a gold mine for internationally renowned music. Chandler Levack is a writer and a filmmaker who is currently existing in Toronto. 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. The structures 1,800 beams were re-assembled on King Street, where visitors could walk beneath the rolling form. Sooner or later, a Lawren Harris painting had to sell for $9.5 million. So here goes: heralded as the No. (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.) In fact, if you live in Winnipeg, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020. Probably most important of all, his casting means that Asian children and Asian-Canadian children in particular will see someone who they can identify with on the silver screen. His win marked the fourth Polaris Prize win by an Indigenous artist in five years, following Lido Pimienta, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq. And ultimately, it was like a mainline to being young again. Its a riff on the wooden buildings where fishers would process a catch. Zadie Xa brings her Korean-Canadian diasporic mythologies to Londons Art Night, Zadie Xa Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation (Keith Hunter). The Venice Biennale is important (as I argued in a recent episode of Art 101). Lawren Harriss Mountain Forms sells for a record-breaking $9.5 million, Lawren Harris Mountain Forms (Heffel Fine Art Auction House). What is more heartening is their relatively recent acknowledgment of the role Indigenous art has played and continues to play in historical and contemporary culture. And for Black Canadian female filmmakers, it can feel virtually impossible.