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Unnerving Magazine Is Toast Of Toronto

4:30AM Hamilton Nolan | City Living, Toronto’s finest magazine, did not make this cover ironically! Rather, for elegance. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

90 Per Cent Of US Currency Laced With Cocaine

7:30PM the cajun boy | Americans love their cocaine! And apparently these same cocaine-loving Americans’ preferred method of snow ingestion is to snort it through rolled up cash bills, as a new analysis of currency in 18 US cities shows. More »
People

Megan Fox’s Shunned Flower Child Found!

9:37PM the cajun boy | Yesterday we told you Kodak was offering $US5,000 to anyone who could track down the boy with the rose who was shunned by Megan Fox recently. Well it looks as though one of our readers found him—On Facebook! More »
People

Perez Hilton Apologises For Being Perez Hilton

5:36PM the cajun boy | Perhaps he felt inspired by fears being charged with a hate crime, but something came over Perez Hilton tonight, as he took to his website and offered a self-congratulatory apology for being a heinous jackass. More »

Sandra Oh And Toronto Mayor Team To Devastate Hollywood

8:30AM STV | Toronto mayor enlists Sandra Oh in crippling Hollywood coup. [MyHogtown] More »

Canada: Your Friendly, ‘Dexter’-Obsessed, Decapitating Psychopaths To The North!

8:12AM Seth | You’ll have to forgive us for being a little too preoccupied with events going on in our own backyards and stateside to notice what’s been going on lately up in Canada. Let’s see: last we checked in, a Chinese immigrant on a Greyhound bus that boarded in Edmonton had decapitated and cannibalised another passenger on a desolate stretch of highway—definitely one of those instances where all the universal health care in the world isn’t really going to do much good. Now comes news of a Dexter-obsessed, suspected serial killer living in the same bloodcicle wasteland, named Mark Andrew Twitchell. More »

Daniel Radcliffe Tickled By Funny-Sounding Names

8:00AM Seth | · Yup, that’s it. And yet we can’t help but get caught up in all the silliness, too. Wolf Blitzer? That sounds like a WWI machine gun! LOL! [Late Night] · “Canada Remains Happily Mediocre,” says Canada’s official online presence. [Canada.com] · No Nuns on the Catwalk: Eurotrash dance single, or Vatican fashion scandal? [Reuters] · You really haven’t lived until you’ve heard Gwyneth Paltrow make an offhand joke about getting fat she knows will never, ever come to pass…in fluent Spanish! [BWE.tv] · “My dad’s not an idiot — he’s nothing short of a genius, in my opinion,” says Jack Osbourne, who’s making a movie to repair his father’s depiction on The Osbournes as the lovably addled Prince of Darkness and Allowance-Distribution. [RollingStone.com] · Nic Cage, in hair and pictures. [Latino Review] More »

Don’t Tremble The Earth Beneath Judge Judy’s Legs And Tell Her It’s Raining

11:00AM Seth | · Did we say we were done with earthquake stories? We lied. Shake it, Judge Judy! (And Judge Penny, whoever you are.) [Access Hollywood] · Were three dimensions not enough for you to enjoy the dead-eyed zombie children delights of The Polar Express? Well, all aboard! TOOT! TOOT! The Polar Express 4-D Experience is on its way. What does the additional D get you? “Upon your arrival at the North Pole…it actually begins to snow inside the 4-D Special FX Theatre and when the conductor sings ‘Hot Chocolate’ and the dancing waiters begin to pour, the audience can smell the delightful aroma of every cocoa cup!’” [NY Post] · Despite a hospitalization, Elizabeth Taylor’s flack insists she is nowhere near death: “Her hospital visit was precautionary. She will be returning home shortly. At present, she is surrounded by family, friends and fabulous jewels.” And Pepperoni & Bacon Pizza Pops—her favourite. [ET Online] · All hail Siaosi Tupou V, Tonga’s new king! [Yahoo/AFP] · Posters for The Canadian Filmmakers Festival feature some fine Canuckistanian send-ups of classic film images. [Super Punch] More »

Bob Yari Sets Three-Year Plan for Canadian Domination

5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Still smarting from his inglorious Oscar Night ‘06 jilting at the hands of fork-tongued Crash co-producers Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, real estate magnante-cum-film industry dilettante Bob Yari has a whole new territory to divide and not quite conquer. It’s called “Canada,” reports Adam Dawtry, where the would-be mogul this week locked up distribution for his slate of around 10 middlebrow indies per year through 2010. More »

7:55AM Defamer Hollywood | We share the following clip, a Canadian ad about workplace safety, for no other reason that no PSA has ever made us recoil in horror while screaming Holy. Fucking. Shit. You’ve been warned. [Deadspin] More »