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Gordon Lightfoot passed away this evening in a Toronto hospital at 7:30 p.m. More info to come..Posted by Gordon Lightfoot on Monday, May 1, 2023Lightfoot’s death comes less than a month after he announced the cancellation of his 2023 United States and Canada tour.

official Facebook page and confirmed to media by his publicist, Victoria Lord. Lightfoot’s cause of death was not mentioned.

Glenn Howerton doesn’t have the fondest memory of Toronto.

BreAnna Bell SWV has finished the first season of its reality series “The Queens of R&B” and, if there’s one takeaway fans can gather from the show, it’s that it was never about social media hype for the Sisters With Voices. After its March debut, a series that began as a chance to capitalize on the female empowerment of SWV and Xscape’s clash transformed into a social status competition, as the two groups went toe-to-toe for the title of headliners. The added drama of Xscape’s internal issues also took center stage as fans attempted to keep up with the building tension between sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott. The season concluded Sunday night, as the groups finally came together to perform in Ontario, Calif. Despite being on a time crunch with several issues unresolved, the two sets of singers put together a performance that left their audience and each other satisfied.

“The Bachelor”s Kaity Biggar is a proud Canadian, but she doesn’t necessarily want to have her wedding to Zach Shallcross in her home country.

HYBE Labels subsidiary ADOR, home to K-pop girl group NewJeans, have opened online auditions for a potential new boyband.Today (March 28), ADOR unveiled several posters and videos on social media and YouTube announcing its ‘The Real Hype Boys’ audition. The label will be accepting online auditions on ador.world from now until 1pm KST on April 14.An unnamed male trainee as well as the members of NewJeans feature in the promotional video for the auditions, which details the online application period and host countries where in-person auditions will take place.Per ADOR’s guidelines, the auditions are open to boys born between 2004-2012.

The second houseguest from the “Big Brother Canada” season 11 house has just been evicted.

The Sopranos inspired season two of Yellowjackets, showrunners have claimed.Yellowjackets tells the story of a team of talented female high-school soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they have attempted to piece back together.The series became Showtimes’ highest-viewed new series in six years, with over five million viewers weekly.In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, creators of the show Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickelson discussed how normalising cannibalism, murder, and trauma is connected back to the Italian mob boss.

know a thing or two about survival onscreen — and off. In the breakout Showtime series, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell each play the adult versions of members of the Wiskayok High School girls soccer team, who survived a horrific plane crash that left them stranded in the Ontario wilderness. ET's Deidre Behar spoke with each of the actresses -- who have all successfully navigated their careers -- and asked them about their secrets to surviving and thriving in Hollywood. «When I first started, and still as adults, this career has always been an escape for me,» Ricci told ET.

know a thing or two about survival onscreen — and off. In the breakout Showtime series, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell each play the adult versions of members of the Wiskayok High School girls soccer team, who survived a horrific plane crash that left them stranded in the Ontario wilderness. ET's Deidre Behar spoke with each of the actresses -- who have all successfully navigated their careers -- and asked them about their secrets to surviving and thriving in Hollywood. «When I first started, and still as adults, this career has always been an escape for me,» Ricci told ET.

A new made-in-Canada science fiction thriller is on the horizon, and ET Canada has an exclusive clip and a first look at the posters for “Simulant”.

Justin Bieber's family friend Clayton Soyka has died suddenly - with the singer's father Jeremy paying an emotional tribute to the young sales executive. Jeremy, 47, posted a throwback snap of the pair attending a UFC match in December 2018, while revealing Clayton - who was believed to be in his mid 20s - had 'struggled' before his death. Jeremy wrote: 'Always had a soft spot for you.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International A Canadian documentary maker whose film helped police crack one of the art world’s biggest fraud cases has been forced to surrender his source material to the Ontario Provincial Police as part of a production order. Jamie Kastner is the director of “There Are No Fakes,” a 2019 documentary that uncovered an art fraud ring that passed off fake paintings as originals by the celebrated Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau, known for his vibrant paintings of the natural world and First Nations mythology. The eye-opening film, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto, revealed there were up to 10 times more Morrisseau forgeries on the market as there were real works, and that the artist’s own nephew may have been complicit in helping to produce the fakes.

Naman Ramachandran Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nominee Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) has joined the cast of D.W. Waterson’s feature directorial debut “Backspot.” Executive produced by Elliot Page and starring Devery Jacobs and Kudakwashe Rutendo in lead roles as queer young athletes, the film has wrapped principal production after weeks of filming in the Toronto area. Wood stars as professional cheer coach Eileen McNamara, head coach of the high-performance Thunderhawks squad who pulls Riley (Jacobs) and Amanda (Rutendo) from their mid-level cheer team to be a part of her group of intensely competitive athletes. Matthew Jordan Smith, J.C.Davidson and Katisha Shaw serve as executive producers alongside page. The film is produced by Alona Metzer, Waterson, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Martin Katz.

The first “Big Brother Canada” season 11 housemate has been evicted.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor MindGeek, the embattled parent company of Pornhub, has a new owner. Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), a private-equity firm based on Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, announced that it has acquired MindGeek. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ECP says it is managed by a “multidisciplinary team with regulatory, law enforcement, public engagement and finance experience.” Founded in 2004, MindGeek operates a large portfolio of adult entertainment sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, Brazzers, Men.com, Sean Cody, Trans Angels and Nutaku. The company says it has “industry-leading compliance and content moderation practices” that “set the standard for trust and safety,” claiming it institutes compliance measures “that surpass those of other platforms on the internet.”

Room, the stage adaptation of the bestselling novel and 2015 film, will not come to Broadway this spring as planned: Producers announced today that the show has been postponed indefinitely “due to a shortfall in capitalization” following the withdrawal of a Lead Producer.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Room,” a stage version of the Oscar-winning movie, will no longer open on Broadway due to insufficient financing and the withdrawal of a lead producer. The production was scheduled to begin performances on April 3 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, but it has been postponed indefinitely. “Room,” which was in rehearsal, has shut down as of Thursday, March 16. “In the midst of our rehearsals we were informed by one of our lead producers that due to personal reasons, they did not intend to fulfill their obligations to the production,” said producer Hunter Arnold. “Since being notified, the rest of the producing team has exhausted all possible avenues to keep the show on track, but the narrow timeline and economic shortfall created by this series of events has proven to be insurmountable.”

The topless protester that stormed the stage while Avril Lavigne presented an award at the 2023 Junos on Monday is speaking out.

The new trailer for “BlackBerry” tells the tale of the nostalgic phone invented in Waterloo, Ontario, that revolutionized the world and the story of the two men who brought its tech domination to fruition before its eventual demise.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Who am I? Where do I fit in? Am I some kind of misfit? Will I ever be an ex-virgin? Such questions surely occur to every adolescent at one point or another. But only one out of approximately every 5,000 female ones arrive at them for the same diagnostic reason as the heroine of “Bloody Hell.” Molly McGlynn’s second feature focuses on a 16-year-old distressed to discover she has a rare congenital disorder that considerably complicates her nascent sex life, formative sexual identity and indeed basic sexual plumbing. This SXSW-premiering Canadian seriocomedy is a bit less focused and effective than the writer-director’s prior “Mary Goes Round,” but it’s still accomplished, and similarly renders relatable the sometimes self-defeating behaviors of a protagonist who’s got a lot of issues on her plate.

On Monday night, Avril Lavigne had herself a little What The Hell moment!

Avril Lavigne confronted a topless protester onstage at Canada’s Juno Awards this week – see what unfolded below.During the ceremony on Monday (March 13), Lavigne was introducing a performance when a topless protestor appeared behind her.Facing away from Lavigne and the camera, the protestor’s back was emblazoned with a message. It read “save the green belt” in protest of a new housing development plan by government in Ontario, which would build houses on protected land.As CBC News report, Lavigne said to the protestor: “Get the fuck off,” later referencing the incident again when accepting the award.She said: “Now nobody try anything this time.

Karen Bliss Juno Awards host Simu Liu ended the two-hour broadcast from Edmonton’s Rogers Place on March 13 with these immortal lines: “Sorry for the boobs.” Not something one would expect to hear at a Canadian music awards show and the “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star didn’t need to apologize; they weren’t his boobs. Near the start of the show, a topless environmentalist avoided security and managed to get on stage as Avril Lavigne was introducing rapper AP Dhillon, the first Punjabi act to perform on the Junos. “I’m introducing an artist who’s blown up on the global music scene with the new wave of R&B, hip hop and pop records, fused…” she said, as the woman suddenly appeared onstage wearing only pink pants with matching durag and scribbled slogans on her back and arms.

Avril Lavigne got hot-headed while performing in Canada on Monday night as the singer was interrupted by a topless environmental campaigner. The princess of pop-punk confronted the protester on stage at the Juno Awards.

Avril Lavigne deals with a topless protester who rushed the stage while she was introducing a musical performance at the 2023 Juno Awards on Monday (March 13) in Edmonton, Canada.

“King of Smut” and Capricorn novelist Henry Miller mused, “When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.”Two such mortals dwelling in that paradise are Scorpio rapper Tyga, 33 and Libra songstress Avril Lavigne, 38 who have been seen out and about and all over each other in the city of light this week. Fresh off Lavigne’s broken engagement (to Mod Sun just last month), the musicians who have been platonic friends for years were first spotted hugging it out at Nobu in Malibu in late February (ah, to be rich) before making the rounds and making out at Paris Fashion Week.“Avril and Tyga never imagined a romance would happen and this was totally unexpected,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly. “They have no idea where things are going but they’re enjoying spending time together.

A woman who decided to stop using shampoo five years ago now uses a much more natural method to wash her hair, saying it's made her locks "healthier than ever". Kelsi Giroux, 27, ditched the popular hair product after noticing how much product was building up in her scalp, and began to look for alternative ways to get the job done.

EXCLUSIVE: Enrico Colantoni and Mindy Cohn have been announced as key cast members in the Canadian dark comedy Mother Father Sister Brother Frank as it begins principal photography in Ontario.

Ryan Reynolds is investing in his roots.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Ryan Reynolds is setting up a production hub in his home country of Canada. Maximum Effort, the production and advertising company the “Deadpool” star co-founded and leads with George Dewey, is part of an ownership group for a new 1.2 million-square-foot studio being built in Markham, Ontario, Canada, just outside of Toronto. The studio is one of the first projects for a $1.5 billion private-equity fund that will focus on real estate, sports, media and venture capital. Real-estate development firm Watford Group, based in Markham, is leading the investment raise, which is already halfway committed.

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Cumming (The Traitors), Charlie Creed-Miles (Giri/Haji) and Clare Coulter (Three Pines) are leading feature road movie Drive Back Home, which is underway in Northern Ontario.

The official trailer for the upcoming Canadian comedy film “I Like Movies” has arrived.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Richard J. Anobile, a noted author of film books and post production supervisor and producer, died Feb. 10 in Toronto after a brief illness. He was 76. Born in New York, Anobile wrote more than 30 film books. His started out with books about the Marx brothers, including “Why a Duck” in 1971, followed by “The Marx Brothers Scrapbook,” Anobile co-authored the book with Groucho Marx, and it featured interviews with the then-octogenarian and never-before-seen photos and documents. Anobile’s other classic comedy works included books about W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. His books covered every facet of entertainment, from “Mork and Mindy” and James Whale’s “Frankenstein” to “The Maltese Falcon” and “Psycho.”

you. So at this moment, you have to ask yourself, are you happy?'" she relayed. "And you know what, he was right.

George R. Robertson, who played Chief Hurst (later Commissioner) in the first six Police Academy films during a half-century screen career, has died. He was 89. His family said he died January 29 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto but did not give other details.