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After an entire season played outside of Canada, specifically Tampa Bay, the city of parking lots as far as the eye can see and low-ceiling practice ballrooms, the Toronto Raptors seemed to have been as excited to return to the comforts of home as much as their fans were to have them back. A team […]
Don’t confuse this with bragging, but Canada has been crushing it in the pandemic Olympics lately. Daily-infection case records are being broken in provinces from Ontario to Quebec to B.C., and the country just registered its highest new infections figure of 14,456 on Wednesday, Dec. 22, according to Global News’ tally. Today in Ontario, where […]
After a tense and gruelling 120 minutes of action followed by several missed penalties in the shootout, Vancouver’s Julia Grosso stared down both the ball placed on the penalty spot and the opportunity to win her country its first-ever Olympic gold medal in soccer. The Canadian women had huffed and puffed their way past Brazil […]
Canadian films have been stealing the scene in recent years with gems that display the country in all its mosaic-y glory. From a beautifully crafted film like Scarborough, which was the first runner-up for the People’s Choice Award and won the won the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award at TIFF 2021, to Night Raiders, a […]
Among the many things that 2021 stood for, it was the year live sports returned in full effect. After COVID hit the world in March of 2020, canceling major sporting events and causing professional sports leagues to create “bubbles” in order to carry out their seasons, this year was much more normal. Better than normal, […]
If you don’t have to travel internationally, don’t. This is the latest direction from the Government of Canada as cases of the new COVID variant, Omicron, continue to rise globally. The announcement, which was made at a press conference on Dec. 15, couldn’t come at a worse time. The busiest travel days of the year are always […]
Fresh off his Amazon-streamed reunion with Kanye West as part of the visually indelible Free Larry Hoover benefit concert, Drake has turned his attention to matters of fragrance. On Friday, the Right Said Fred-interpolating Certified Lover Boy artist’s candle company Better World Fragrance House (word of which first started making the rounds back in 2020) dropped a limited edition new […]
Lockdown after lockdown, the Internet continued to remind us that the plague brought Europe out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. Whether or not that turned out to be an applicable adage nearly 700 years later, it made sense that the imposed isolation and unprecedentedly clear Google Cals would have some creative payoff. […]
The Ontario government has passed a new law that prioritizes employees’ work-life balance. Announced on Tuesday, the “Working for Workers Act” requires Ontario businesses with 25 people or more to have a written policy outlining employees’ rights when it comes to disconnecting from their job at the end of the work day. Businesses will be required to create […]
The Omicron COVID-19 variant has arrived in North America, after two cases were identified in Canada, NBC News reports. The two people recently traveled to Canada from Nigeria, according to Ontario health officials. “We continue to urge the federal government to take the necessary steps to mandate point-of-arrival testing for all travelers irrespective of where they’re coming […]
