Meanwhile, some of us will be awaiting that Titanic sequel about Rose Dawsons acting career in which we find out where Bill Paxton (RIP) bought his sweaters, which is the only James Cameron sequel we really need. Dutchers victory was historic for a few reasons: a member of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, he was the first East Coast artist ever to take home the Polaris and he recorded the album using 100-year-old wax cylinder recordings of songs in traditional Wolastoq, which is a language spoken by fewer than 100 people. She seems fascinated by the way these characters grow and change through their relationships, their passions, their career woes and their secrets. But in March 2013, two became one. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. When our director asked us to romantically nuzzle noses in a party scene, which we both felt was awkward and unnatural (I mean, what teenagers do that let alone in public, surrounded by their parents and their parents friends? 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. In 2012, the New Brunswickborn performer made her debut on the Great White Way in fellow Canadian and former Stratford Festival artistic director Des McAnuffs revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, where she starred as Mary Magdalene. Throughout the second half of the decade since its release, its influence has been undeniable and will no doubt continue to reverberate in the years to come as the Indigenous renaissance stretches far into the future. But before it even premiered in 2013, Tatiana was already a veteran of Canadian film and TV, having started her career at age nine in her hometown of Regina. 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. Elliot Page is living proof of that. To balance making millions, raising twins and mayyyyybe also to rescue Las Vegas tourism after the catastrophic crash of the Great Recession, Dion launches a second residency on the Strip. The lyrics are classic, straightforward Cline, referencing her ongoing claim that she is now the boss of her career: Im flying on my own / On the wings of your love () / The warmer winds will carry me / Anywhere I want them to / If you could see what I can see / That nothing's blocking my view. Is she singing about her late husband and manager no longer controlling all aspects of her life? The launch video has to be seen to be believed. And this decade, she actually proved it. Kaurs vulnerability, honesty and seamless ability to convey feelings that so many struggle to articulate helped Milk and Honey find its way onto the New York Times Bestseller list (for more than 77 weeks) and sell approximately 2.5 million copies in 25 languages. Operatic soprano Barbara Hannigan achieved a professional and life milestone when she was awarded the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts at a ceremony in Stockholm in October. Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of Everything, Everything. Iran-born and Ontario-raised, Ramin Karimloo is a bona fide superstar of the stage. Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany, Schitt's Creek leads Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy, and Sons of Anarchy alumnus Kim Coates will be among the presenters at this year's. (Remember lip dubs?!) After all, it took 75 years before the first Asian person hosted the Globes. 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. The star is Bill Heath, a Bill Gates impersonator who first appears in Season 2. Alanis Morissette releases her eighth studio album, 10 reasons you oughta know Alanis Morissette still mattered in the 2010s, Stories we told: Women were finally given space in Canadian film in the 2010s and we thrived, opted to trust Lees ability to tell the story, who theyd perform with later the same year, Sarah Manning and her many clones make their debut in, and you are aboard the International Space Station, some legal issues stemming from the tracks publishing rights, Margaret Atwood concludes a dystopian trilogy with the release of, 10 American TV shows that were obsessed with Canada in the 2010s, has written 14 collections of short stories, LGBTQ folks took a page from Elliot Page and took control of their own stories in the 2010s, LGBTQ representation had exploded into the mainstream. 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. The journey begins near one of Edmontons favourite landmarks: the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald. Thomas Leblanc is a Montral-based broadcaster, comedian and producer who co-hosts CBC Podcasts Chosen Family. Tatiana Maslany, the star of "Orphan Black," talks about creating different body movements for the myrid of characters she plays and not getting a moment to reset between gear shifts. Should we cut their allowances? Thankfully, Canadians get the band all to ourselves. Lawren Harriss Mountain Forms sells for a record-breaking $9.5 million, Lawren Harris Mountain Forms (Heffel Fine Art Auction House). And earlier this year, he starred alongside a slew of other queer actors in the Netflix reboot of Tales of the City, developed by lesbian writer Lauren Morelli. During her rise, her voice was as powerful as her bad taste (or that of her entourage), and she was dismissed as the most bland person on the stage of 1998s VH1 Divas Live concert. 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. When it comes to the top-grossing movies of the decade, theres not much in the way of variety. dollars.) 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. Released in September, it went on to win the 2019 Man Booker Prize alongside Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, because of course. Tatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. Hop a funicular car, and in less than a minute, a sleek glass cube will drop you in the river valley home to an extremely extensive network of trails. Thats where The Hunk cracks the show open. This year alone, Canadian female filmmakers Alexandra Lazarowich and Grace Glowicki won top prizes at Sundance and SXSW respectively. But when youre Keanu Reeves, you get headlines praising you for dating someone your own age a feat rarely replicated by your actor contemporaries. In a country as ethnically diverse as ours, we can use film and television to move away from our so-called cultural silos. Shortly after the birth of Winter this year, Alanis posted a raw and honest blog on her website, in which she described PPD as a sneaky monkey with a machete working its way through my psyche.. I, along with all of her truest fans, have been waiting seven years for this moment. But just two episodes into the series, the Petting Zoo bit proved the brilliance of NFYs marketing satire. And it struck a chord: Montreals Xavier Dolan went on to adapt the play for cinema, premiering the film at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival. Torontos Buddies in Bad Times Theatre which bills itself as the largest and longest-running queer theatre in the world rang in its 40th season in September 2018. ), Jim Carreys process is immortalized as documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond hits Netflix. Then, spend $350,000 staging every detail so that everything happened to him for real. Few episodes push the definition of truth quite like this one. 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. 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. stands in for Washington as The Twilight Saga begins its two-part conclusion. So what happened to Tat in that decade between sets? Both actors have been exceptional across Dolans filmography (in particular, Dorval in I Killed My Mother and Clment in Laurence, Anyways), but Mommy was everybodys finest hour (or two and a half hours, as it were). Her look that evening leaves fashion observers shook, but its her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment later that month that confirms to the world that Dion is now a full-time meme. In the next year, well see an Australian offshoot, a celebrity makeover version and, of course, our very own Drag Race Canada. They dont exist. Im not sure whether the series quite takes a position on issues like solitary confinement or the death penalty, or whether it functions as an investigation into a real part of this country that many of us are lucky enough to never see but either way, its chilling. We didnt know back then, but the years 2008 to 2015 (roughly from Lady Gagas The Fame to Adeles 25) were decidedly a golden age for female pop. And in the fall of 2012, NFY (accidentally?) Where were you when you accepted Drake as your personal saviour? At what point did you realize that he was no longer that kid from Degrassi but a legitimate rapper and poet whose talent would go on to challenge any and all existing artists on the 2010 charts? Wow. She was polite. It soon became exactly the TV show we needed to survive the rest of the decade. Hes since lived his life according to that system, and the Good Place gang in a mission to find out if Doug is a model example for mankind travel to Alberta to talk to him. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. (One sure sign that impact will carry on the National Gallery of Canada recently acquired six of his underwear pieces. So if I asked her to do something that felt unnatural or dishonest (like, say, nose nuzzling), I had to justify why I needed it and more often than not, I realized that I didnt. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. Catharsis, Im telling ya. And yet, then came Art Angels. Happy to leave the big isms (racism, sexism, classism) and epic period pieces for other storytellers to tackle, Meghies interests are in the everyday lives of Black women today. In 2019 two years after it dropped on Netflix, four years after it premiered on CBC and with 18 Canadian Screen Awards to its name Schitts Creek was finally recognized by the Emmys with four nominations, including an outstanding comedy series nod. Well, duh, because then he wouldnt be Buddy. Because Tat is, first and foremost, a defender of the truth. In what is perhaps his quirkiest career move since 47 Ronin, Keanu Reeves will voice a leading character in Cyberpunk 2077, a video game set in a dystopian future. By the shows final season, it wasnt just ignoring the line between the NFY universe and our own it was erasing it entirely. To all the nerdy girls out there who hide behind their sketchbooks: dont be afraid to tell your stories to the world, she said. Tat was sweet. Still, its rightfully grown to be considered a classic by film critics, with Paquins devastating performance as a 17-year-old struggling in the wake of a deadly traffic accident being one of the reasons why. But between you and I, Ive never seen it, because I refuse to believe Ryan Gosling saved jazz. These butt-covering details can turn a Byzantine act of deception into a Byzantine act of deception thats legal and over four seasons of semantic manipulation, Dumb Starbucks remains NFYs most celebrated moment. Theres nobody quite like Nathan (and the shows cringiest scenes prove it). 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. And while Inside The Solar Temple would be his last show, it was emblematic of his incredible energy and a prophecy of his impact on future artists. SCHITT'S CREEK, also a multi-CSA winner which just premiered in its third season, follows closely in second with 13 nominations, while KIM'S . 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. (Actually, that last bit is still true.). Maslany got married in 2022 to fellow actor, Brendan Hines. Not quite yet, but there is hope. (That gleaming white exterior is sandblasted granite.) For a city to latch on to a movie franchise like that a movie franchise that shut down the Georgia Viaduct for two weeksthats got to say something about its mass appeal. (It was so intense, as you remember, that it was split into two sub-seasons and officially wrapped in the fall of 2013.) After establishing herself as a queen of quick wit and cutting observations during her 12 years as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Bee drew even more cultural clout as the American election came to a close and attracted her ire. 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. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. But much like Speed protagonist Jack Traven, Reeves kept a cool head. Chris James, banner years, dominating the Billboard charts, How 94 calls to action finally allowed Indigenous artists the space to cultivate a renaissance, Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for, 10 Canadians who should have been nominated for Oscars in the 2010s, another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named, leading my former employer Indiewire to demand the Academy reconsider its rules, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination, convinced him that Mansbridge was (is) the Canadian Walter Cronkite., William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill opted to close Videofag, Having hosted several hundred performances, more than 11 million fans who tuned in to join them, Asian-Canadian representation exploded on the world stage in the 2010sand that's a very big deal, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020, Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of, In the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that Canadian women of colour can take over Hollywood, debuted at No. Though most identify her as a New Zealander, Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and spent the first four years of her life there, so its more than fair that we claim her as our own especially since it allows us to take pride in one of the greatest cinematic performances of the decade: Paquins in Kenneth Lonergans 2011 masterpiece Margaret. No wonder she was exalted accordingly. Miss Chief Eagle Testickle unveils Kent Monkmans latest searing indictment on Facebook. I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.. Clearly to be filed under this should happen all the time, 2015 saw Canadian Mtis artist Christi Belcourt collaborate with Valentino for the fashion houses 2016 Resort collection. You can make good money having people smoke here, he tells the owner. 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. Turns out, the then-82-year-old was away staying with her daughter in Victoria at the time of the revelation. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. After wrapping her 16-year on/off Vegas gig this past June (a fact: the residency was only supposed to last three years), shes gone on to embark on a 50-plus city tour across North America in support of her new album, Courage, and win the affections of anyone with an affinity for couture fashion, eccentricity and stirring renditions of My Heart Will Go On (in other words, anybody with a pulse). One hilarious early example comes in the first-season episode Rude Kid, when the five-year-old son of Janets white professor is misbehaving and Appa (Jung and Janets father, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) instinctively flicks the boys forehead and is quickly scolded for it. It was such an easy song to like. Shell return to star as Judy Robinson in the second season of the Netflix remake of Lost in Space. And to essentially copy/paste the spiel from the opening credits, heres the premise: Nathan Fielder (the shows star and co-creator) graduated from one of Canadas top business schools (University of Victoria) with really good grades (B average). For what artistic culture can thrive when its peoples children have been stolen from their arms? Ryan Goslings heartbreaking performance in Blue Valentine hits cinemas. Six years earlier, Youngs 14-year-old daughter and her two cousins died in a cabin fire on a family vacation in the B.C. Geoffrey Farmer reimagines Canadas home at the Venice Biennale, Geoffrey Farmer A way out of the mirror (Francesco Barasciutti). With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. Ten years ago, none of these places existed and neither did Instagram an app that would go on to invent an extremely 2010s activity: liking pics of the worlds coolest-looking cool stuff. And while the client (a moving company) was ultimately reluctant to use Nathans idea, the book he published for the episode The Movement: How I Got This Body by Never Going to the Gym in My Life was an Amazon bestseller. (Come back to us, Claire. Michel Marc Bouchards Tom la ferme debuts at Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui, Playwright Michel Marc Bouchards Tom on the Farm (Tom la ferme) made its debut at the Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui in Montreal in January, which clearly kicked the year off right. 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. Bao wins the Oscar for best animated short. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian . 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. I love drag. Twin pop stars Tegan and Sara followed up their smash 2013 album Heartthrob with this single, an upbeat 80s throwback about having a same-sex affair with a girl that has gasp! Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. (If youre in Toronto, be sure to take in something from their current program). This other moment of viral gold comes a few short weeks after Dion turns 50, and her new embrace of fun and individuality make her appear more youthful than she has since, like, 1989. Theres no easy epiphany at the end of Betroffenheit only the promise of engaging once again with the world. Canadian drag much like much Canadian pop culture has often occupied a smaller sibling position next to the general epicentre that is the United States. The Toronto comedian seemed to fear no one, brought receipts to every argument and created a safe place for like minds who were as angry, confused and scared as she appeared to be. Here are 10 examples. Dobson never quite reached the same echelon of stardom outside of Canada that these songs brought her here, but they remain carved into this decades Canadian pop consciousness. The prize: a trip to Reynoldss hometown. It was only the latest of countless accolades for the Grammy-winning Waverley, N.S.-born singer, who has become a singular force in classical music, the rare soprano to also take on the male-dominated world of conducting (and yes, she sometimes does both at the same time). Ren-Charles, the couples first son, was born on Jan. 25, 2001. In 2010, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway who was without a functioning car or cell phone percolated around the web. Nathan tells her theyll stop filming. Theres barely an episode where Nathan isnt putting himself out there, trying to turn an awkward encounter with a client (or an actor he found on Craigslist) into something more. 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. While the awards have had a tendency to be hosted by white actors, Oh made history as she delivered the opening monologue onstage in a blazing red dress that Villanelle would have definitely killed for. Of course, the sisters had already broken into the mainstream thanks to an abundance of So Jealous tracks being featured on Greys Anatomy. Comic book movies were getting cranked out faster than the Flash on Adderall, the reboots kept rebooting, and at the same time, a resurgence of cerebral sci-fi and horror was getting love from audiences and critics alike. Hell, even as a 2010s-era indie music snob, it only took a handful of listens for me to brand myself a Belieber and brag to anyone who would listen that Stratford, Ont., was only about half an hour away from my hometown. Cheyenne Jacksons character, Danny, is from Ottawa and joins the cast of the show-within-a-show TGS with Tracy Jordan after starring in a movie about Canadian football, while Steve Martins Gavin Volure tries to evade house arrest by whisking Liz Lemon off to Toronto (Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff!). 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. 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. Shes proved that it is possible to disconnect from greed, the need for validation and the harmful idea that our worth is based on our productivity. (Fielder famously donated $150,000 of the profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 150,000 U.S. Because while so many hits hinged on at least a little navel-gazing (heres looking at you, Drake), the decade was still largely defined by abandoning traditional Canadian humility by jams about love, lust and not being able to feel ones face, set to beats even more addictive than the hooks theyre anchored to. After many rumors and delays, Cline Dion closes the 2010s by launching her most hyped album in decades, Courage. Her Disney Plus series, which ends its first season this week, found ways to combine comedy with superhero romance. I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. Starring Dolans muses Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clment as the mother and tutor of a troubled teen with violent tendencies (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), its Dolans magnum opus: hilarious, heartbreaking and extremely well acted. Richardson sets her video on Mars during a dust storm among detritus from previous explorations of the planet. From those first notes on the keyboard to the then-15-year-olds angelic coo, Baby stepped out of the rock n roll-heavy Canadian musical landscape and began to build a bridge between the pop world and the rest of us, offering a much-needed reprieve from the default offering of mainstream-beloved dudes holding guitars and wearing plaid shirts. A solid dozen jokes at our expense occur in the process, including this zinger: Your milk comes in bags, your pavilion at Epcot doesnt have a ride, and if Canada is so nice and friendly, why does most of our meth come from your Asian drug gangs?. Like, say, his Giller Prize nomination for last years French Exit, which included a cat inhabited by the spirit of a womans late husband a character every book should have, IMHO. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. Plus, where the movies only scored Razzies, their soundtracks were winners. But was it enough? Sympathy for Reeves started pouring in. But parallel to this momentous business-model transformation, Canadian films were busy solidifying their indisputable place in the arthouse world. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, (Getty Images: Mark Metcalfe/Rebecca Sapp/Ethan Miller). David Myles, Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) by Nelly Furtado, The Veldt by Deadmau5 feat. A change.org petition to name Reeves Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year was launched midway through the year an honour that has previously been bestowed on Barack Obama and Pope John Paul II. Emily Kai Bock directs Grimess iconic video for Oblivion, When Montreal-based director Emily Kai Bock joined forces with Grimes (born Claire Boucher) and cinematographer Evan Prosofsky for the video for Oblivion, the trio likely had no idea that their limited budget and simple premise would garner 200,000 views in just a few days.