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Decoys (web Series)
''Decoys'' is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Gem. The series centres on a group of duck decoy carvers who are competing for the top award at the Northern Alberta Carving Cup. The cast includes David Pelech, Rup Magon, Kelly Van der Burg, Nelu Handa, Alice Moran, Brian Paul, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Brandon Oakes, Tracey Hoyt and Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll. Pelech was the creator of the series. The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for Best Fiction Web Program or Series and Best Supporting Performance in Web Program or Series (Hoyt).Brent Furdyk"Television Nominees Announced For 2021 Canadian Screen Awards, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Leads The Pack With 21 Nominations" ''ET Canada ''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Gem
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Decoy (model)
A duck decoy (or decoy duck) is a man-made object resembling a real duck. Duck decoys are sometimes used in waterfowl hunting to attract real ducks. Duck decoys were historically carved from wood, often Atlantic white cedar wood on the east coast of the US from Maine to South Carolina, or cork. Modern ones may also be made of canvas and plastic. They are usually painted, often elaborately and very accurately, to resemble various kinds of waterfowl. History Decoy ducks have been used in traditional hunting by Indigenous Australian peoples of the Murray River in South Australia. The current world record price for an antique duck decoy at auction is a red-breasted merganser hen by Lothrop Holmes for $856,000. Guyette & Deeter and Christie's New York. January 2007. The first million dollar price was achieved when two decoys (Canada goose and a preening pintail drake) by A. Elmer Crowell of East Harwich, MA were said to have sold for US$1.13 million each in a private sale, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg Free Press
The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis. The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba had joined Confederation (1870), and predated Winnipeg's own incorporation (1873). The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' has since become the oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active. Though there is competition, primarily with the print daily tabloid ''Winnipeg Sun'', the WFP has the largest readership of any newspaper in the province and is regarded as the newspaper of record for Winnipeg and the rest of Manitoba. Timeline November 30, 1872: The ''Manitoba Free Press'' was launched by William Fisher Luxton and John A. Kenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rup Magon
Rupinder "Rup" Singh Magon ( Punjabi: ਰੁਪਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਗੋਨ) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, actor and author born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He is a co-lead singer of JoSH, a South Asian fusion band. Music career Rup founded Josh in 1996 with his brother, Rik Magon, and good friend Shiraz 'Shazi' Hussain. They were joined by Qurram 'q' Hussein, Rup's current band-mate, in 1998, and two years later Rup and Q embarked on their own path for JoSH without Rik and Shiraz. Rup's love and drive for music and the arts, and his unquestioned belief that he could make a career for himself singing South Asian Fusion music, despite being based in Canada, was initially met with doubt and skepticism from friends and family, who wanted him to pursue a more traditional 'North American' career not based in the arts. Rup never relented, working tirelessly with Q to produce their first compositions for Josh, "Main Hoon Tanha", which also ended up being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Moran
Alice Moran is a British-Canadian actress and writer. Moran has appeared or starred in several Canadian television series, including the CBC Television series ''Crawford''. Career Moran grew up in St. Albert, Alberta and later Red Deer, Alberta. When her family moved to Ontario, she began performing improv and competed in the Canadian Improv Games. At the age of 18, Moran began working for The Second City, first as a member of their educational company and later in the national touring company. With Second City, she created several videos for their YouTube channel, including "Hogwarts: Which House are you?". On March 13, 2016, she won a Canadian Screen Award with the cast of ''Sunnyside'' in the category of Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series. In 2018, Moran won a Canadian Comedy Award for her performance in ''Crawford.'' Personal life Moran is a lifelong supporter of the Edmonton Oilers and the Toronto Blue Jays. Moran currently resides in Toro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keram Malicki-Sánchez
Keram Malicki-Sánchez is an actor, musician, writer, filmmaker, interactive media and virtual reality developer, multimedia artist, and event producer. Acting career Malicki-Sánchez debuted in musical theatre at the age of seven in the title role of ''Oliver!'' at the Limelight Dinner Theatre in Toronto. He later starred in the original musical version of Mordecai Richler's ''Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang'' (1984) which won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Revue or Musical, directed by Peter Moss. In 2013, in the role of Kenny, he was chainsawed in half by Leatherface in ''Texas Chainsaw 3D'', a film that MTV wrote "shocked the box office with #1 debut, topping both ''Django Unchained'' and ''The Hobbit''." In 2020 Malicki-Sanchez starred in the role of eccentric artist Zeke in a comedic web series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called 'Decoys' whose ensemble cast was nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Web Series. Musical career In 1987, at ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Oakes
Brandon A. Oakes (born July 03, 1972) is an Akwesasne actor, artist, and dancer. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. Career Oakes is known for his role in the film '' Through Black Spruce'', for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. '''', February 7, 2019. He has also appeared in the films '''', '' |
Tracey Hoyt
Tracey Hoyt (born January 14, 1964 in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian voice actress and alumna of York University and the Second City National Touring Company (Toronto), possessing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance. She played the first North American voice of Rini in the ''Sailor Moon R'' series and the three ''Sailor Moon'' movies. Hoyt played the voice of Me Bear in 2005's ''The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie''. Currently, she appears as Ms. Deeds in ''Delilah & Julius'' ( Family Channel Canada) and as Guinivere in Bob and Margaret. (YTV Canada). Tracey is a double Gemini nominee for her work on CBC TV's comedy series '' The Tournament''. She has voiced hundreds of radio and TV commercials. She was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Filmography *''Bob and Margaret'' – Guinivere *'' Outcast'' – Lisa *'' Street Legal'' – Immigration Officer #2 *''Keroppi'' – Keroleen, Meroleen ("The Frog's Secret House") (English dub) *'' Super Jem Duo'' – Jem *''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll
Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll is a Canadian actor and comedian. He was a dual Canadian Screen Award nominee at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, receiving nods for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series for '' Save Me'' and Best Supporting Performance in a Web Program or Series for ''How to Buy a Baby''. He had a recurring role in ''Kim's Convenience'' as Enrique, a regular customer of the convenience store, and has a regular supporting role in ''Detention Adventure ''Detention Adventure'' is a Canadian children's web series, which premiered May 3, 2019 on CBC Gem. Created by Carmen Albano and Joe Kicak, the series centres on a group of children who stage elaborate pranks every day at school in the hopes of g ...''. His short film ''Job Interview'' won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Comedy Special or Short Film at the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2015.Greg David"22 Minutes and Samantha Bee among Canadian Comedy Award winners" ''TV, eh?'', September 14, 2015. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Canadian Screen Awards
The 9th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held in the week of May 17 to 20, 2021, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2020.Barry Hertz, "How one Canadian arts institution is rebuilding amid the pandemic". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 5, 2020. Due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, and the partial but incomplete progress of public vaccination, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced that the ceremony would proceed virtually, but Academy CEO Beth Janson stated that "it’s not going to be just a Zoom call of an awards show. We have a lot of exciting and creative things in store." Most nominations were announced on March 30, 2021;Victoria Ahearn"‘Blood Quantum,’ ‘Schitt’s Creek’ top Canadian Screen Award nominations" ''Toronto Star'', March 30, 2021. however, the nominations and winners in sports broadcasting categories were announced at a later date. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ET Canada
''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadcast show that airs back-to-back with the American version on most of Global's stations. ''ET Canada'' is hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and presented by reporters Roz Weston, Sangita Patel, Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. ''ETC Live'' is an online show in connection with ET Canada, that airs weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It is an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. In 2021, Global announced the launch of a weekend edition of ''ET Canada;'' this version aired on Saturdays with host Sangita Patel and premiered on 18 September 2021. The weekend edition wasn't renewed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
