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Moviegoers looking for a healthy dose of comedy, chaos and Canadiana won’t have to look much further than BlackBerry, a hilarious new movie that tells the story of how Waterloo’s own Research in Motion took over the cellphone market and just as swiftly crashed and burned. From start to finish, BlackBerry takes you on a chaotic

View gallery Image Credit: ©ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection Jacklyn Zeman, who starred as Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital for more than 40 years, is dead. The actress was 70 years old. News of her death was confirmed by General Hospital’s executive producer, Frank Valentini, who took to Twitter on May 10 to share the devastating news. “On behalf of

Robert De Niro is a new dad, for the seventh time, at age 79. The Oscar-winning actor revealed that he’s welcomed a new child into the world in a Monday interview with ET Canada, promoting his appropriately named film About My Father. When De Niro was asked in the interview about being a dad to

Though Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are not working royals, they both occasionally step in to show their support for the monarchy, and that has not changed in the reign of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. On Saturday, they were two of the standout attendees at the Westminster Abbey coronation ceremony, arriving with and

View gallery Image Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Luann de Lesseps, 57, would love to be Kevin Costner‘s next love. The Real Housewives of New York star admitted the 68-year-old actor, who is currently going through a divorce, is just her “type,” when she was interviewed at the premiere of Book Club: The Next Chapter

By David Friend The Canadian Press Posted May 8, 2023 4:27 pm Updated May 8, 2023 4:28 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Close friends and family of Gordon Lightfoot came together for a small, private funeral on Monday held at the Orillia, Ont. church where he was once a choir boy.

View gallery Image Credit: Netflix Stranger Things season 5 will be the final season. Production on season 5 has been delayed. Filming was expected to get underway in May 2023. The release of Stranger Things 5 is still a ways off, and now that road may be getting a little longer. Production on Stranger Things

Last weekend, I spent a couple of hours at the semi-annual Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I brought along my usual amount of gambling money, $200, and started digging through the crates and boxes looking for … I don’t know, really. Treasure? Something I didn’t know I needed? A lost record from my youth? After

All eyes were on Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at King Charles III‘s coronation service on Saturday, with all three children carrying out their first official state occasion. Prince Louis arrived at Westminster Abbey with his parents Prince William and Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte while Prince George arrived at the abbey with

View gallery Image Credit: John Sommers II/UPI/Shutterstock The 2023 Kentucky Derby took place on May 6, 2023. Mage, ridden by Javier Castellano, won the race. The field dropped down to 18 after five horses were scratched from the race. The 149th Kentucky Derby will go down in the history books, for better or for worse.

Descrease article font size Increase article font size When Marion Portelance plays in King Charles’s coronation concert on Sunday, she’ll be playing a cello with a special connection to the monarch. The student from the Royal College of Music, who is originally from Montreal, will be playing on a William Forster cello from 1804 that

During the last years of my run at The New York Times, it seemed possible that digital news start-ups, like Vice and BuzzFeed, could eclipse old, legacy news organizations like us. The Gray Lady was looking every bit her age and she was stumbling in the age of social media. From its origins as punk magazine

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Nothing says date night like sitting courtside! Amid the exciting NBA playoffs on May 4, Zendaya, 26, and her boyfriend, Tom Holland, 26, were the cutest couple at the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Golden State Warriors game (watch the video HERE). While spotted in the crowd of fans, the brunette beauty

A jury has found Ed Sheeran not liable in a case of copyright infringement, determining that he did not plagiarize elements of Marvin Gaye’s soul classic Let’s Get It On. The unanimous verdict was reached Thursday, on the second day of deliberations. As the New York jury answered the single question of whether Sheeran proved

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Rachel Bilson, 41, is getting real with how she likes getting intimate. The actress opened up about her favorite and least favorite sex positions, during the latest episode of the Women On Top podcast. “I like missionary,” she told hosts Tammin Sursok and Roxy Manning. “I’ve learned that if you

The House of Commons held a moment of silence Tuesday in honour of Gordon Lightfoot, the iconic Canadian singer-songwriter who passed away on Monday. Lightfoot died at the age of 84 in a Toronto hospital on May 1, according to a representative for his family. A cause of death has not been revealed. The musician’s

When it comes to the details of the coronation of King Charles III, it seems like Princess Anne is going to be just as surprised as the rest of us come Saturday. In an interview with Adrienne Arsenault of the CBC, Anne said that Charles hasn’t given her too much information about the coronation because

View gallery Image Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock A true Met Gala momma! While wowing on the red carpet in a chic all-white ensemble on Monday, a pregnant Rihanna, 35, could not hold back when it came to gushing over her 11-month-old son and his sibling-to-be. When asked how her second pregnancy is going by Entertainment Tonight, the Fenty

Beloved Canadian actor Michael J. Fox has always been honest about his struggles with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning — teasing the upcoming documentary about his life, Still — Fox said the degenerative condition has made aging a challenge. He described Parkinson’s as a “gift that keeps on taking.” “It sucks,

View gallery Image Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Nick Jonas was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes The singer/actor detected it at age 13 when he was ‘close to a coma’ He’s an ambassador for a new medical device which lets diabetes patients easily monitor their glucose levels Nick Jonas hit stardom around the same time he was

Debates about the colour of Cleopatra’s skin have been reactivated, and this time it’s Egypt attempting to take Netflix to task. The country has accused the streaming giant of misrepresenting history by casting a mixed-race woman to play the titular character in their upcoming show Queen Cleopatra. Netflix released a trailer for the four-part docudrama

The two ousted cable stars are making the rounds—from walking the red carpet at Time100 to cruising around Florida in a golf cart—and have retained the same pitbull attorney. (They’re even texting each other!) It’s only a matter of time until they’re back on air.  By Brian Stelter April 28, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: CBS Fangirled too hard! When a fan named, Cyndi met pop sensation Harry Styles, 29, on the season finale of The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday, she seemingly fainted in her seat only to speak out a day later. The “Watermelon Sugar” hitmaker entered the staircase and was immediately

Social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been bombarded by hateful rhetoric online since she partnered with Bud Light earlier this month, prompting widespread backlash from right-wing, anti-transgender voices. Now, the 26-year-old TikToker is finally ready to talk about it. Following a several-week break from social media, Mulvaney reappeared online Thursday to discuss the controversy. Though

There were reports earlier this year that the team planning the coronation for King Charles III  had a hard time securing British talent for the concert taking place at Windsor Castle the next day. According to the Daily Mail, Charles hoped to see Adele and Ed Sheeran play the event, but they declined. Elton John

View gallery Image Credit: Rob Latour/Shutterstock Rihanna announced that a new ‘Smurfs’ movie is on the way at CinemaCon 2023 Rihanna will star as Smurfette and serve as a co-producer The talented artist will also write and record original songs for the film The movie will try to answer the question: What is a Smurf?

NOTE: The following article contains graphic descriptions. Please read at your own discretion. A former girlfriend of actor Danny Masterson testified Tuesday that he had grown increasingly abusive and controlling during their five-year relationship when he raped her in their bed in November of 2001. The woman, a model who had begun dating Masterson in 1996, shortly before

View gallery Image Credit: Jen Lowery / SplashNews.com Laguna Beach alum Kristin Cavallari, 36, pulled off lingerie as clothing in a sexy new photoshoot on Apr. 25. “coming soon,” she captioned the carousel of photos of her day on the set of the photoshoot, presumably for her jewelry line Uncommon James. For the stunning photos, the blonde

Eric Braeden, the actor best known for his role as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless, has announced he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In a video posted to Facebook late last week, the daytime soap star shared the symptoms that lead to his diagnosis. He first started undergoing health evaluations as he

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Don Lemon is a journalist and news anchor, who has been working in broadcasting  for over 2 decades. Don has hosted programs on CNN since 2014. He was fired from CNN on April 24, 2023. Don Lemon is one of the most recognizable faces in journalism. As an anchor on CNN