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Brazil-born, Toronto-based artist Diogo Snow, a.k.a. D-Snow, has an imagination as vivid as his colourful graffiti canvases. This month at Miami’s Art Basel, the Brazilian Canadian mounted an art installation that seemed all but guaranteed to go viral—an over-the-top live art show that saw him paint a Lamborghini Super Trofeo as it was suspended vertically in the […]
Toronto’s Preme is back with a new single “Hopscotch” and he’s enlisted Swae Lee for some sharp verses on the high-energy track. We last caught up with the rapper and producer when he dropped “Lost Hope” back in June, which focused on systemic racism. “Hopscotch” on the other hand is much lighter, and is an ode […]
Montreality’s YouTube channel has become a go-to spot for intimate and earnest interviews with some of today’s biggest rap stars, but starting this month, it’ll play host a new cypher series starring the best up-and-coming talent from the city that gave the channel its name. There’s two already that just dropped: one in English with […]
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. […]
Kal Penn, most famous for the Harold and Kumar franchise, Designated Survivor, and working in the Obama administration, has signed on to star and produce in an inspiring and culturally unifying biopic about Nav Bhatia, Canada’s most famous superfan. Nav Bhatia, who escaped to Canada from India’s war and destruction and arrived as a penniless Sikh immigrant, drew […]
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 Canadian government is reacting to word of a new COVID-19 variant on the rise in parts of southern Africa with a number of restrictions limiting travel to and from the regions. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatiniall fall under the new travel rules implemented after today’s announcement. This means the Canadian […]
Montreal’s known more for its solitudes than scenes, but that doesn’t mean the city is a bilingual bucket full of fighting crabs. Variety is the spice of life, and it’s also the special sauce that goes on Montreal rap’s steamé hot dog. To an outsider, the lack of interlocking parts may look like a lack […]
Based out of Canada’s capital city, Andy Akangah transforms rappers like The Weeknd and Drake into art ripped from a comic strip. With his brand AKARTS, he turns those pieces into product drops featuring tees, hoodies, bottoms and other accessories. His work’s so impressive it caught the eye of Timothée Chalamet, who wore the AKARTS Frank […]
Avan Jogia speaks like a man with range. Over the last few decades, the 29-year-old actor, writer, and newly minted director has appeared on TV as a shaggy-haired, much thirsted-after heartthrob (Nickelodeon’s tween sitcom Victorious), a cool-tempered 14th-century king (Spike TV’s Tut), and a sexually fluid actor turned stoner (Starz’s Now Apocalypse), among other parts. […]
