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Beyond World Water Day
Tyler and Alex Mifflin spent summers in the water. Childhood memories of canoe trips and pristine waves contrast heavily with something they heard from adults time and again: “Don’t swim in Lake...
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Pop Forecast for March 13: Beauty and the Beast, Trial & Error and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Telly With Melly: Quirky comedy Trial & Error debuts
Minutes into NBC’s new comedy Trial & Error, a New York lawyer walks into a small-town firm to work on a case. The lawyer: “Do I have an office?” The local investigator: “Right past the albino...
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Annual cruise conference shows small-ship cruising back in a big way
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl.- If you’re planning to take a cruise this year, you’re not alone. That’s the theme of this year’s Seatrade Cruise Global Conference taking place this week at the Fort Lauderdale...
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Norwegian Cruise Line unveils Project Leonardo ships
Norwegian Cruise Line officially unveiled the name and first images of its next-generation cruise ships, the first of which is due to set sail in 2022: Project Leonardo. Carrying 3,300 passengers...
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No ports, no problem: crossing the Atlantic with Cunard Line
Normally in this space I’d tell you about a cruise that takes you to some far-flung ports of call, but today I want to talk about a cruise with absolutely no ports of call whatsoever – and why that’s a...
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Telly With Melly: Letterkenny, Marvel’s Iron Fist streaming online
This past Sunday was a red-letter day for Letterkenny, CraveTV’s sharp comedy about the dull events in the titular fictional Ontario town. Of its eight nominations, the series bagged three Canadian...
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The Drake factor: Canadian music industry in the spotlight
“I turn the Six upside down, it’s a Nine now.” — Drake Chris Lackner Everybody’s working for The Weeknd. To find — or be — the next one, that is. As the 2017 Juno Awards prepare to hit a high note on...
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CBC’s Keeping Canada Safe spotlights everyday heroes
Pat St. Germain To paraphrase a 1960s TV crime show, there are a million tales in the naked city. Eight-part CBC documentary series Keeping Canada Safe, premièring this Thursday, captures a few dozen...
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Women of Into the Badlands just as fierce as the men in Season 2
Front kick, back kick, roundhouse, a pair of swords rammed into the chest. The fight scenes in AMC’s martial arts drama Into the Badlands move at breakneck speed and are packed, literally, with...
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Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for Feb. 27-March 5
What happens when The Big Bang Theory takes a week off? It’s television ratings anarchy, that’s what. With no new episodes of the CBS comedy airing on March 2, Criminal Minds cozied into the No. 1 spot...
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AmaWaterways sails into spring through Amsterdam and Belgium
One of my favourite river cruise itineraries is one that most people don’t know exists. Everyone knows about the grand voyages that travel from Amsterdam to Budapest, and to be sure, they’re wonderful....
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Pop Forecast for March 20: Power Rangers, Life and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Telly With Melly: SNL to air Weekend Update specials
If at first you do succeed, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. Such is the truth in TV, a business in which three Chicago Fire spinoffs, two NCIS spinoffs and one Criminal Minds spinoff — plus all the...
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Telly With Melly: Charo vents about Dancing With the Stars casting
Charo’s getting ch-ch-cheeky about the new season of Dancing With the Stars, debuting tonight. The pint-sized pocketful of fun is paired with pro Keo Motsepe for this go-round, but she’s less than...
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Telly With Melly: Hockey Wives Season 3, how Rihanna got Bates Motel
Score! Season 3 of Hockey Wives will debut on April 19, W Network has confirmed. The docuseries about a group of women involved with professional hockey players will trek to Europe in this set of...
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Telly With Melly: Grace and Frankie, What Would Sal Do? streaming online
Grace and Frankie, that Netflix show about saucy septuagenarians, is about to get saucier. When it starts streaming its third season on Friday, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s characters will try to open...
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Chanie Wenjack finally gets a room of his own
If there’s one thing you don’t expect to find in the middle of a garden show, it’s a railroad track. Amidst the shrubbery and tool displays at this year’s Canada Blooms’ display held in Toronto at the...
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Telly With Melly: RuPaul teams up with J.J. Abrams, Heartland renewed
Grab your false eyelashes and your most fabulous wig — a show based on the rise of RuPaul is in the works. J.J. Abrams and RuPaul will executive-produce the half-hour dramedy, which will track RuPaul’s...
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Telly With Melly: Canadian TV ratings for March 6-12
Turning 500 can’t be easy, especially when you were once considered as fresh and exciting as a new set of emojis. You start to repeat yourself. Things start to sag. In the case of Survivor, which aired...
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