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Kevin (Probably) Saves the World is uplifting — with an edge
You can’t judge a TV show by its synopsis. So says Jason Ritter, who stars in the angelically themed dramedy Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, debuting Tuesday on ABC and CTV. It centres on a...
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Craig Robinson’s new show Ghosted plumbs paranormal for laughs
It doesn’t take much to get Craig Robinson to show off his mellifluous voice onscreen. As a warehouse foreman on The Office, he taught Steve Carrell’s character to sing the blues. In Hot Tub Time...
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Books for Kids: There’s more to The Prince of Pot than marijuana
Bernie Goedhart The Prince of Pot By Tanya Lloyd Kyi Groundwood Books Age 13 and older We’re told never to judge a book by its cover, but any honest reviewer who receives a host of unsolicited books...
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Global Voices: X Prizes changing lives
In engineering labs, home garages and makeshift workshops around the world, innovators drew up plans, designed and tinkered in a race to get to space. Teams of former NASA engineers competed with...
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Reality Check: Dancing With the Stars, The Voice and more
Last dance(s) Dancing With the Stars wasted no time booting two couples off the floor this week, but did one of them have to be singer Debbie Gibson and her pro partner Alan Bersten? Gibson’s struggle...
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Pop Forecast for Oct. 2: Blade Runner 2049, The Mayor 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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Pop Forecast for Oct. 9: The Foreigner, Dynasty 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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Global Voices: Mental health treatment a human right
Two years after South Sudan gained independence, Dr. Inka Weissbecker toured the young country’s only mental health facility. The hospital looked more like a prison ward. Patients were sedated, living...
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Interrupt This Program shows how protest art can bring global change
The revolution won’t just be televised — it will be painted, sculpted, danced and written. And when it is, the reverberations will be global. Those aren’t the musings of some pie-in-the-sky dreamer of...
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The Bachelor Canada’s Chris Leroux learns to open up
Chris Leroux is ready to settle down — and he doesn’t want to do it alone. After six seasons as a Major League Baseball pitcher, Montreal-born Leroux, 33, is on the hunt for a home close to his parents...
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Silver Muse sets new direction for Silversea
I was in Quebec City a few weeks ago to hop aboard Silversea’s new Silver Muse for the day. The 596-guest luxury ship was making its inaugural call on Quebec before heading to Montreal at the end of...
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Riverdale pop-up diners hit Canada
Pop-up diners set up like Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe in the teen drama Riverdale are landing in Canada. Fans of the series, which is based on the Archie comic books, will get to choose from two milkshakes:...
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PBS miniseries The Collection re-imagines 1940s fashion
French women don’t get fat. According to common belief, they also don’t eat tofu, wear sneakers or dribble Chardonnay down their chins. What they do, instead, is look witheringly chic. And while there...
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Reality Check: The Bachelor Canada, The Voice
Love and dirt bikes There was a mermaid, a pageant queen and a woman who jumped out of a cake — but no one on The Bachelor Canada’s season premiere stood out quite like Dee from Kitchener, Ont. The...
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Pop Forecast for Oct. 16: Geostorm, The Walking Dead 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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Global Voices: Artificial intelligence sparks debate about justice
Brisha Borden was walking through her suburban Florida neighbourhood when she spotted an unlocked bike. She took it for a block-long joy ride before dropping it. It was too late. The cops were already...
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Canada tops list of Netflix’s binge-racing countries
When a new season of a show is set to drop on Netflix, do you clear your schedule for the day to watch it? Book the day off work, plan to have all your meals delivered and limit bathroom breaks to a...
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Steve Smith writes books as his alter ego, Red Green
Eric Volmers Over the years, Steve Smith has developed a system for writing books as his alter-ego Red Green. “I start with just a list of ideas and I don’t write anything until I have 100 ideas,” says...
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Royal Caribbean enticing cruisers back to Caribbean
Despite the devastation caused to many parts of the Eastern Caribbean, the Caribbean as a whole is still open for business — and Royal Caribbean has ships of all shapes and sizes plying its...
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Surprises abound in Alberta’s Drumheller region
“Good morning!” A cheery voice comes from the other end of the line at the hotel front desk. “We’re going to have a surprise visitor in the lobby in five minutes, if you want to bring the kids.” It’s 8...
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