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When the Chinese Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923, it didn’t just effectively halt Chinese immigration to Canada — it extinguished the family lines of thousands of labourers already here. Many were condemned to bachelorhood or cut off from loved ones in China, said Catherine Clement, curator of the inaugural exhibition for the Chinese

When Lady Diana Spencer announced her engagement to the future King Charles III in 1981, it wasn’t obvious that she was about to become a generational fashion icon. Her outfits were followed and even emulated from the time of her first mention in the tabloids as a friend of the then-Prince of Wales the previous

View gallery Image Credit: Arthur Mola/Shutterstock Having starred in The Greatest Showman, Zac Efron knows what happens under the Bigtop, so he made sure to catch the circus when it rolled into town on Jun. 29. He also made sure to take his three-year-old sister, Olivia, and his youngest brother, Henry. “Showtime,” Zac, 35, captioned

Sue Johanson, Canada’s most beloved and celebrated sex educator, has died. She was 93. Johanson rose to fame first in Canada with her call-in radio and television programs, both titled Sunday Night Sex Show. A U.S. spinoff followed, called Talk Sex With Sue Johanson. 5:26 New Doc Explores Life and Work of Sex Educator Sue

Expect career officials purged and MAGA loyalists in charge if Trump returns to the White House, warns Miles Taylor. The ex-DHS chief of staff spoke out as “Anonymous” during the first term and, in an excerpt from his new book, Blowback, is sounding the alarm ahead of 2024. By Miles Taylor June 29, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Gregory Pace/Shutterstock Tamra Judge wants to live the life of a cowgirl, so she took The Real Housewives of Orange County to a ranch in Montana during the June 28 episode. She was hoping to reignite her friendship with Shannon Beador, but tensions arose when Heather Dubrow learned that her career

Lewis Capaldi has decided he’ll take a break from touring, announcing this week that he’s cancelling all of his upcoming shows to focus on his mental health. But, as witnessed over the weekend, the Scottish singer can rest assured that his fans have his back. Capaldi, who announced recently that he’s been diagnosed with Tourette’s

What do Disneyland and performer Pink have in common? Neither is super psyched about the idea of cremated remains on or around them. At the British Summer Time festival in London this weekend, a fan captured video of the singer crouching down to pick up a plastic baggie that had evidently been tossed onstage by

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock Frankie Valli, 89, is a married man for the fourth time. The Four Seasons singer tied the knot with his girlfriend of eight years, Jackie Jacobs, 60, at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas on June 26, according to PEOPLE. The couple, who met in 2007, but didn’t start dating

Descrease article font size Increase article font size One of Edmonton’s most high-profile couples is getting married. Hockey superstar Connor McDavid proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lauren Kyle last Thursday. “I cannot put into words how happy I am to be spending the rest of our lives together,” Kyle wrote in a post announcing the

Haven’t you heard? Everyone’s in therapy now, or, at least, they’re acting like it—on TikTok, on TV, in the countless group chats turned book clubs unpacking newly iconic tomes like Attached and The Body Keeps the Score. We’re living in a golden age of mainstreamed mental health awareness, in which the trauma plot reigns supreme

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Anna Osceola chose a jaw dropping gown as she married Jon Hamm, 52. The 35-year-old actress went for a plunging white dress with a strapless bustier style top, channeling the 1950s (perhaps a nod do the pairs’ Mad Men past) in images obtained by Page Six. The dress flowed into a long skirt

Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have settled nearly a decade of lawsuits and countersuits over her accusation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him. The singer and producer separately announced the settlement on Thursday, with Kesha saying that “only God knows what happened

View gallery Challengers will be released in September. Zendaya stars alongside Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. Luca Guadagnino directed Challengers. Zendaya is officially taking over cinemas in 2023! She’s coming out swinging with Challengers, a new dramedy set in the world of tennis. From the footage we’ve seen so far, Challengers is going to be

James Cameron, director of the blockbuster film Titanic, has criticized the engineering of the lost Titan submersible, calling its design “fundamentally flawed.” In an interview with ABC News, Cameron — who designs submersibles himself, some able to dive to depths three times below the Titanic site — said OceanGate Expedition’s vessel should not have been

View gallery Image Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Kevin McKidd and Arielle Goldrath finalized their divorce just under one year after announcing their separation. The Grey’s Anatomy actor, 49, and Arielle became legally single on Tuesday, June 20, per court documents PEOPLE claimed to have obtained on June 22. The outlet also reported that they had a

Fifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job security. Speakers at the Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract on Wednesday emphasized the broad support for

Donald Trump has been in steady litigation for the greater part of his career, and it’s fairly clear he’s the consummate nightmare client: stiffing lawyers, apparently pressuring them to break legal and ethical rules, and gleefully ignoring their advice. There was that time his lawyers told him to refrain from tweeting about the then ongoing

View gallery Image Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock The June 21 episode of The Family Stallone was all about Sylvester Stallone‘s daughters, Sophia and Sistine, pursuing writing careers. Sophia is currently writing a novel and Sistine is finding success with a horror movie script, but one is further along than the other, and that led to some

Pop singer Bebe Rexha was rushed off the stage during her concert in New York on Sunday after she was hit in the face with a fan’s cellphone. In a video clip shared to social media, Rexha is seen performing in a pink, sparkly corset with matching trousers when a phone is hurled from the

The first time Dewayne Perkins watched Candyman with his family as a child in Chicago, the power went out. “My father, being a big Black man, was standing in the hallway with just his silhouette,” Perkins tells me while sipping a watermelon margarita at the 1 Hotel Central Park. “I was like, “Oh, it’s Candyman.

View gallery Image Credit: ENT / SplashNews Actress Jennifer Garner, 51, made sure to send some love to her ex, Ben Affleck, 50, on Father’s Day with a subtle tribute post. Although the brunette beauty, who shares three kids Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel, 11, with the Air star, split from Ben over five years ago, she still acknowledged him

I still remember the Delco AM radio in my dad’s 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that sat smack in the middle of the dash with its two knobs. The one on the left set the volume as well as turned it off and on. It had an inner ring on the same knob stalk that controlled

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock Lorde, 26, reminisced on the release of her second album, Melodrama, by sharing a sweet text message Taylor Swift, 33, sent her six years ago. The singer took to her Instagram story and showed off a cut-off photo of the text, which can be seen below, and it appeared

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry‘s Spotify podcast deal is no more. A joint statement from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex‘s production company Archewell Audio and Spotify said: “Spotify and Archewell Audio have mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together.” The royal couple signed the lucrative, $20-million deal

Bonnie Milligan does not currently have the Tony that she won for best featured actress in a musical this past Sunday. “Somebody comes and gets it the next morning to have it engraved,” Milligan tells me over the phone. “So, I don’t have it with me anymore. I’m like, ‘Is it a dream? Was that

View gallery Image Credit: Apple TV+ A blackout plunged New York City into darkness in the City on Fire season finale, which aired July 16 on Apple TV+. As the day went on and the light dwindled, secrets were revealed and Sam’s fate was decided. Chase Sui Wonders as Sam. (Apple TV+) HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY

Live Nation and Ticketmaster will soon offer consumers all-in pricing on their popular ticket platforms, the White House announced as it convenes a meeting on Thursday to highlight efforts crack down on so-called junk fees. President Joe Biden President is hosting a meeting at the White House of private companies – including Ticketmaster, SeatGeek and