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Friday Wrap on: Wake Up Dead Man, and Quentin Tarantino trash talks Paul Dano

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The best in Canadian music in 2025

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How Frank Gehry's love of art showed up in the buildings he created, and S2 of For The Culture

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Club Chalamet and can fandom actually go too far, and iHeartRadio stands up to AI

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50 Cent's new Diddy doc is wiiild, and what to make of Canada's revolving door of Heritage Ministers

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Friday Wrap on: Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Jay Kelly

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How Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) brings Inuit storytelling to the big screen, and Broadway shows at the movies

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How RapCity connected Canadians through hip-hop

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The gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry is lusty, horny, and real, and why Claire Danes' face has the internet talking

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Choclair’s first album in 20 years, Trump really wants Rush Hour 4

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Jesse Wente on Thomas King and finding hope in a hard moment

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Why you can't tell the story of reggae without Jimmy Cliff, and Stranger Things S5

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What happens when an author who claimed he was Indigenous, now says he isn't?

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What Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue says about masculinity in this moment, and Tobias Jesso Jr.'s new album

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How Trugoy the Dove shows up on De La Soul's new album, and the UK wants to ban for profit ticket resales

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FRIDAY WRAP on Wicked: For Good, Michelle Obama's comments on Black hair, and Mariah Carey

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Why this season of The Morning Show is the most outrageous yet, and the allure of Paul McCartney

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Nardwuar’s timeless appeal, and the magic of the Now You See Me franchise

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Should you read it before you watch it?

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Did The Grey Cup meet this Canadian moment? + new Eddie Murphy doc

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Friday wrap on The Running Man, The Office Movers and Christy

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Pluribus is the best thing on TV right now, and GTA 6 delay

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How Margaret Atwood's memoir changes the way we see her books

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How creative artists fight back after getting ripped off

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From the charts to podcasts, the state of rap in 2025

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Friday wrap on All's Fair, Die My Love, and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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BONUS Sombr and the debate over concert criticism

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The memes of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Canada in Eurovision?

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Canadian literary festivals are having urgent conversations, and Rosalia is redefining global pop stardom

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Halo is coming to PlayStation. Are the console wars over?

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The heartbreak of fandom and why it's about more than baseball

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Friday wrap on Welcome to Derry, Bugonia, and Dream Eater

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BONUS How Misty Copeland changed ballet

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Lily Allen goes all in on her divorce album

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How US politics shapes the discourse around what we see onscreen, and Daniel Caesar's new album

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Does ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ actually deliver?

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Why baseball isn't just 'America's game' and Vybz Kartel in Canada at last

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Friday wrap on 'Nobody Wants This' S2, 'Blue Moon' & Blue Jays World Series fever

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Why Gwyneth Paltrow’s reaction to a new biography is off-brand, and the surprising ennui of Pokemon Legends: Z to A

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The Perfect Neighbor does true crime differently, and Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

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ChatGPT turns to erotica, and why we love art heists

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How Trump's politics are shaping fashion, and Tame Impala's new album

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Weekend Listen | Forged: The true story behind the Norval Morrisseau art fraud

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Friday wrap on After The Hunt, Kiss of The Spider Woman, and Frankenstein

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How Marc Maron's WTF podcast changed the game? + Why is Rush back!

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D'Angelo's impact on music and pop culture, and the new podcast -- Forged

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Controversial 'Slave Play' production hits Toronto + Sora 2 backlash

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We like you too, John Candy

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Roofman, Lurker, and how believable is the dog in the thriller Good Boy?

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The doubt surrounding Amy Griffin’s memoir The Tell, and what MTV’s Catfish taught us about the Internet

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Mariah Carey's new album, and why she's still one of the most iconic singers of our time

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The pressure on writers to write the next bestseller, and the Japanese film Demon Slayer

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The Riyadh Comedy Festival, Electronic Arts, and why Saudi Arabia is investing in culture

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Taylor Swift beefs with Charlie XCX on Life of a Showgirl, and Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl

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Only Murders in the Building, Hacks -- is Hollywood getting aging right?

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Mae Martin's twisty new series Wayward & Patrick Watson's album Uh Oh

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How Kent Monkman creates new conversations about art and Canada's past

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Heavyweight returns, the Williams sisters' new podcast & Sweden leaves Abba out of its cultural canon

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One Battle After Another, and the release of the thriller series The Savant is delayed

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What does the end of Bad Bunny's residency mean for Puerto Rico? And a new Fela Kuti graphic novel

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Kimmel retuns to late night, what did he say?

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Football/horror film Him, Black Rabbit, and MJ The Musical

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Cardi B is back with Am I The Drama?, and Waiting for Godot is having a moment

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How Kimmel's suspension over Charlie Kirk comments sparked a debate about free speech

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Does Task have what it takes to become HBO's Sunday night hit?

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BONUS: Yves Jarvis, and the Polaris Music Prize at 20

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Remembering Robert Redford, and the uncertain future of Ssense

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Why Lilith Fair's legacy still matters today

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TIFF IN 12: Hamnet wins People's Choice and is TIFF too celebrity focused?

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The Pitt and The Studio win big at the Emmys, and TikTok's The Great Lock In

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TIFF IN 12 big performances, and It Was Just An Accident and No Other Choice have their moment

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Ed Sheeran's new album Play, and the Spinal Tap reunion

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Is the cyberbullying doc Unknown Number exploiting its young subjects, and DC's Peacemaker

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TIFF in 12: Blue Heron, Modern Whore, and more from the Canadian line up

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TIFF in 12: The Road Between Us - a controversial film gets its world premiere

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How does TIFF build on its legacy?

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TIFF in 12: Is Tuner a People's Choice pick, Frankenstein, and awkward Q&As

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Joni Mitchell's new jazz compilation, and Roy Jones Jr. posts about his returned gold medal

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TIFF IN 12: Big surprises, Elvis Presley in Concert, and Oscar buzz for Sydney Sweeney

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Giorgio Armani, Chloe Malle, and why New York Fashion Week will be unlike any other

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TIFF IN 12: John Candy, Chandler Levack's moment, and Sydney Sweeney

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Why divorce movies are lightening up

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SNL's cast shakeup, and Canadian animation company Nelvana shuts down new studio productions

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TIFF IN 12: The festival turns 50. Where's all the buzz?

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Alberta pauses its book ban, so now what? and the reality series KPOPPED

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Remembering Graham Greene, and fall TV shows you need to watch

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What our shrinking attention span means for art and entertainment

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Sabrina Carpenter and The Beaches are back, Taylor Swift's engaged

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Can you really be in love with ChatGPT? And CBC's French-English remakes

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What does the show Surrounded tell us about rage bait culture

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How the shutdown of TikTok Canada affects artists, and the buzz around Tell Tale Harbour

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Can a dating show bring new fans to the U.S. Open, and Mac DeMarco's new album

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KPop Demon Hunters sing-along takes over theatres, and Ne Zha 2 is here

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Spike and Denzel reunite on Highest 2 Lowest, and Oasis cover bands

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Edinburgh Fringe breakdancing hit parodies one Olympian's journey

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Jaws turns 50

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Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION turned her into an icon

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Howard Stern's notorious shock jock legacy

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What Sex and the City's legacy tells us about ourselves

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South Park, Marc Maron & Trump-era comedy + the buzz around Maria Reva's Booker Prize longlisted novel