To protect and promote its culture, Quebec projects have also, on average, been better funded and have gone through longer gestation periods than projects in the rest of the country. But as we soon learn, he has taken care of everything: the wake is televised and in May, Dion releases a cover of the Queen song The Show Must Go On to emphasize that she will keep working, whatever happens. The exhibition was a moment to talk about identity and the impact and trauma of colonialism while celebrating the artists featured, a number of whom made work specifically for the show. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. And I loved every minute of iteven if I had no idea who the fuck she was. On Nov. 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). Michelle Obama wears Jason Wu dress for farewell speech, Despite the feelings of sorrow many felt as then-U.S. President Barack Obama gave his farewell address, one bright silver lining emerged (at least for Canadians tuning in): Michelle Obama wore a dress by Vancouver-raised Jason Wu, who had also designed the first ladys dresses for the inaugural balls in 2009 and 2013. Your renaissance is complete. Time hasnt announced who 2019s Person of the Year will be, but if almost 200,000 fans have anything to say about it, Reeves might stand a fighting chance at the title. Canada has been heavily featured in South Park since it started back in 1997 (even more than in The Simpsons). And it includes names like Elle-Mij Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn, Jeff Barnaby, Albert Shin, Johnny Ma, Jasmin Mozaffari, Andrew Cividino, Stephen Dunn, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Matt Johnson and Kazik Radwanski (to name just a few). Jean of the Joneses was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Best First Screenplay). But in 2010, it felt brand new and newer still for Canada, a nation thats global musical offerings at the time felt far removed from the majesty of a young pop singer whod used the internet to earn the attention of Usher and, subsequently, the audiences Usher had placed him in front of. That first Las Vegas residency wrapped in 2007, before Dion and her family embarked on the Taking Chances world tour. 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 . Instead of relying on non-Indigenous editors, Barton made the smart decision to invite Philip Kevin Paul, Richard Van Camp and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to edit the issue. Karen Kain tours the National Ballet of Canada to Los Angeles for the first time in 35 years. 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. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. 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. But her biggest hit, Figures, didnt really perform commercially outside of the Toronto singer-songwriters home country. Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Profession Actor Actor 35 Credits Perry Mason 2023 Orphan Black 2021 Drunk History 2018 Heartland 2018 Parks and. If you drew a Venn diagram of yoga and rad buildings and bonkers natural beauty, Instagram would definitely be the term in the middle. For what artistic culture can thrive when its peoples children have been stolen from their arms? All of us are destined to be Taylor Russell superfans, and truly, I am ready. However, while the decade was surely a win for Asian-Canadians, and every moment was more than deserving of those headlines, as I look back, I cant help but imagine a decade when Asians being cast, asked to host award shows or just being on good television isnt such a spectacle when we are just seen. Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the genius who convinced Dion to sing the theme song for Deadpool 2. They also announced in their 2016-2021 Strategic Plan that supporting Indigenous arts would be a key priority. Acclaimed but never a smash, its the rarest of comic book adaptations: a movie thats lovingly faithful to the source material. Let there be light so, so much light. And for Black Canadian female filmmakers, it can feel virtually impossible. In 2015, he produced and starred in Freeheld, a docudrama based on the story of a lesbian police officers fight for relationship recognition after her partner is diagnosed with cancer. (Some of us miss the graffiti. At the end of the decade, Dion wanted to take time off again to have another child, but getting pregnant proved to be more difficult for her than the first time. Montreal chef Chuck Hughes wins Iron Chef America. Villeneuve also dove into sci-fi with Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, while Valle went on to participate in giving television its current Golden Age status with Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Theres no easy epiphany at the end of Betroffenheit only the promise of engaging once again with the world. . Both July Talk and Tagaq have more than proven their capacity to craft challenging, beautiful music and still reach the masses, and its about time they each get international recognition. 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. 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. The teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was only Meghies second feature film, but it made Hollywood and the rest of the world sit up and pay attention to this visionary from the north as she broke barriers for Black Canadian female filmmakers. Take that, The Notebook. Barbara Hannigan receives Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts. The exhibit opened at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in January and then toured across Canada. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? It was a tiny boy singing about how much he liked someone and how much he hoped they could be together despite knowing it might never be so. How did this dutiful Regina girl stop apologizing so much and become the force that she still is today? ! Naturally, this led anybody who prided themselves on being well-versed in Canadian indie (see: me, nine years ago) to bask in a sense of superiority fuelled by the knowledge that theyd been Arcade Fire fans since Funeral came out back in 2004. Alicia Elliott is the author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. Unsurprisingly, it resonated: in September, Tagaq took home the Polaris Music Prize (where she also performed in front of a backdrop listing the names of missing and murdered Indigenous women, which was incredible, heartbreaking and rage-inducing since this crisis continues). (If youre in Toronto, be sure to take in something from their current program). So I encountered Inside Kingston Penitentiary, a series of photographs by Geoffrey James, with some trepidation. It probably started with a late morning after performing a farewell show on Dec. 31, 1999, in Montral. 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. In October 2013, Clinton, Ont.s Alice Munro earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Canadian and 13th woman to do so. Cheered on by the entire country, she would even be tweeted about by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Before the Group of Seven (and others of their ilk) started trying to make visual sense of our forests and waters, too many Canadian artists vision of our landscape was borrowed from European painting tradition and idealized our surroundings while making colonialism look romantic. As Buddy Cole, the iconic (and infamous) character from The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson has earned everything from fans praise to critics vitriol. Performers have been allowed to grow into exactly who they need to be not who they make think a television audience needs them to be. 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. Its been exceptionally exciting to witness the international success of our Quebec filmmakers like Villeneuve and Valle, who, in the last 10 years, have leapt from their acclaimed francophone work to helm major American studio projects like Prisoners, Dallas Buyers Club, Sicario and Wild. Looking back, I realize that regardless of the set, if theres one time Tat has never said sorry, its between action and cut. Shes always been a fucking savage in the work itself, from her raw performance in 2010s Grown Up Movie Star to beating the shit out of Nicole Kidman in last years Destroyer. Since I wrote a piece examining the Indigenous renaissance Dutcher identified, even more Indigenous artists have been given the national attention they deserve. Meanwhile, the films produced in Quebec this decade by great French-Canadian auteurs like Monia Chokri, Anne mond, Sophie Goyette, Myriam Verreault, Genevive Dulude-De Celles, Louise Archambault and Chlo Robichaud should mean that we never have to speak of Jean-Marc Valle again after what he did to poor Andrea Arnold. Youve got your reboots, your action franchises and a bunch of G-rated Disney extravaganzas. Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of Everything, Everything. Keanu Reeves may be loved by the internet, but for some fans, he deserves more than some tweets singing his praises. Kent Monkmans The Scoop borrows from the scale and pomp of European (and Canadian) history paintings to viscerally depict the kidnapping of Indigenous children from their parents in the 1960s. The age of a celebritys S.O. Writer/director Christopher Nolan hopped back to Alberta for his next sci-fi adventure. Of course, being the obedient little 20-year-olds we were, not only did we do it, we head-butted each other on the first take and then profusely apologized. Amy Harrity for The New York Times. With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. Nathan pitches the client, Sue Stanford, on a rebrand: become a ghost realtor! The resulting video for the power ballad Ashes shows a heavily retouched Dion prancing on The Colosseum stage with dancer Yanis Marshall in heels and a Deadpool costume. Directed by Claude Poissant, the play revolves around a young man whose companion dies and leaves its titular character to navigate the heartbreaking familial dynamics his late partner was forced to endure.