Toronto, ON – The Canadian Opera Company (COC) has just an announced it will be expanding its youth rates to under-65. The COC had expanded its youth rate to under 30s almost a decade ago. …
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The Beaverton Guide to Toronto for Americans who swiped all the Taylor Swift tickets
Congrats American Swifties! You guys managed to buy a huge amount of the tickets for Taylor’s only appearance in the entire country of Canada! You could have got tickets to literally any of…
Marvel executives say it is unfair for audiences to expect entertaining content
Disney+, California – Marvel executives at Disney are fuming that viewers of their content expected entertainment from their content. “When did we ever say our content had to entertain view…
Taylor Swift confirms Toronto is Canada’s Only City
TORONTO – Yesterday Taylor Swift announced plans to bring her Eras Tour to Canada with a 6 night run in the country’s only city. “I’m so excited to bring my show to THE ci…
Classic Canadian indie rock albums ranked by how old it makes you feel to see them called ‘classic’
For many years Canada has been at the forefront of the indie rock scene. So much so that, without you noticing, many of the albums you consider modern, relevant examples of the country’s mu…
Quiz: Should you watch Barbie, Oppenheimer or 2008 Canadian WWI drama Passchendaele
It’s the box office battle that has already launched a thousand memes: Barbie v. Oppenheimer v. Paul Gross’ 15 year old First World War melodrama Passchendaele. But how do you know wh…
5 Concerned Children’s Advertisers commercials that still give you nightmares even as you rapidly approach middle age
If you were a child in the 90s who spent a lot of time watching television (so basically 100% of children in the 90s), you probably still remember that feeling when Ninja Turtles, Reboot or Road …
Canadians looking for entertainment during actors’ strike desperate enough to briefly consider CBC Gem
TORONTO – The Screen Actors Guild has joined the Writer’s Guild of America in striking, halting the vast majority of Hollywood’s output and leaving Canadians so desperate for entertainment that e…
One man show plays to one man audience
TORONTO – This Friday’s performance of local independent thespian Grant Issac’s one man Fringe show The Dollarama Dialogues was attended by one audience member. The play sees Issac perform …
Swifties single-handedly preventing US recession
UNITED STATES – With the US leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour about to end, economists are haunted because they discovered the ultimate easter egg – that Swifties has been single-handed…