Cobie Smulders on How I Met Your Mother’s Canadian obsession, her Much VJ...
Growing up in Vancouver, How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders would spend countless hours watching MuchMusic, daydreaming of her future. “That to me was the holy grail,” she says over the phone...
View ArticleTim Hortons creates The Priestley after How I Met Your Mother joke
[UPDATE: For the breakdown of how Tim Hortons pulled off this social media marketing mastery, click here.] Savvy marketing and timely humour has landed Tim Hortons some feel-good publicity. Hoping to...
View Article8 hardest bands to Google
As the search engine of record, Google is a very strange beast. For independent minded bands, it represents both ‘The Man’ and a necessary evil in order to get their music to the masses, leading some...
View ArticleBarenaked Ladies premiere Toronto-centric ‘Boomerang’ video
Toronto’s SEO-baiting (before SEO-baiting was cool) songsmiths Barenaked Ladies are returning home. Don’t know what we mean? You soon will: In the video for upcoming single, “Boomerang,” Chris Hadfield...
View ArticleCanadian Identity
Now that the first quarter of 2013 is history, Canada.com takes a look back at the most unpredictable political stories, along with your chance to vote which one raised your eyebrows the highest. Find...
View ArticleStream Barenaked Ladies’ new album, Grinning Streak
It’s been three years since the Barenaked Ladies released their last album, All in Good Time. According to drummer Tyler Stewart, this passage of time signified one thing: ”It was time to make a new...
View ArticleChris Hadfield back in Canada
Astronaut Chris Hadfield is finally back on Canadian soil. Since landing back on Earth on May 13 after a six-month stay on board the International Space Station, Hadfield has hardly had a moment’s...
View ArticleTV Monday: Stephen King miniseries Under the Dome good, solid entertainment...
Brace yourself. Under the Dome, the new 13-episode summer popcorn cruncher adapted from a 2009 novel by Stephen King, is hellzapoppin’ entertainment, based on Monday’s opening hour, anyway. The tale of...
View ArticleCanada.com – Happy Birthday to us!
In the late afternoon of Thursday June 28, 2012, we held a meeting in the windowless space 11 of us had called “home” for about three months. On the agenda: Are we go or no-go for launch of the new,...
View ArticleTV Monday: Veep marathon fosters Canadian pride
A few short years ago, TV marathons and binge viewing would have been unthinkable. Now, they’re a long-weekend tradition. From five back-to-back episodes of Simon Barry’s homegrown sci-fi thriller...
View ArticleWe Day takes over the Air Canada Centre
Over 20,000 students and educators from over 950 Toronto-area schools filled the Air Canada Centre for We Day 2013 in Toronto on Friday. Before the festivities began, Free the Children Co-founder Craig...
View ArticleEvery Canadian celebrity and James Van Der Beek to appear on How I Met Your...
How I Met Your Mother is giving fictional Canadian teen pop celebrity Robin Sparkles a Canuck star-studded farewell. Canadian icons Alan Thicke, Alex Trebek, Jason Priestley, musicians Geddy Lee...
View ArticleBarenaked Ladies aim to debut new album in late spring
By Nick Patch TORONTO — Three years after releasing All in Good Time, it’s time once again for the Barenaked Ladies to head back to the studio. Frontman Ed Robertson has confirmed that the Toronto band...
View ArticleCobie Smulders on How I Met Your Mother’s Canadian obsession, her Much VJ...
Growing up in Vancouver, How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders would spend countless hours watching MuchMusic, daydreaming of her future. “That to me was the holy grail,” she says over the phone...
View Article“Odds Are we’re going to be alright,” Ed Robertson sings in music video spoof...
“The odds are that we will probably be all right,” Ed Robertson mouths to the camera as the feed cuts to a “live” feed of a reporter caught in the apocalypse, while Robertson and his co-anchor laugh on...
View ArticleAustralia crushes Canada in soccer friendly
LONDON — Josh Kennedy, Dario Vidosic and Matt Leckie scored to give World Cup-bound Australia an easy 3-0 win over Canada in an international soccer friendly Tuesday. The Canadian defence was ripped...
View ArticleSteven Page debuts food travel series The Illegal Eater (with video)
Tucked inside a pop-up Filipino restaurant in New Orleans, Steven Page readies himself to eat a fully grown duck embryo, boiled and still in its shell. The delicacy called balut doesn’t turn him off,...
View ArticleTrend Report: Prince George, new Apple gadgets and Steven Page’s food show
At Canada.com, we always try to bring you stories that are fun, quirky or weird that people will talk about with their friends and family. In that spirit, we have launched a daily Trend Report to be...
View ArticleWatch Hayden debut brand new song ‘No Happy Birthday’
Dream Serenade is a benefit concert put on by Hayden (Paul Hayden Desser) and his wife Christie Greyerbiehl in support of children with developmental disabilities. The show, this Saturday at Toronto’s...
View Article6 bands that survived without their lead singer
The Barenaked Ladies new album, Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions, is the fourth album the band has released since the departure of co-founder Steven Page in 2009. That got us...
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