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Maripier Morin
Maripier Morin (born July 7, 1986) is a Québécoise television presenter, businesswoman and actress. Career Early career (2006–2009) In 2006, Morin made her first appearance on television as a participant in the reality series ''Occupation Double''. Following her elimination, she appeared as a model on ''Le Banquier'', the Quebec adaptation of ''Deal or No Deal''. At the same time, she became a presenter for TVA, appearing on ''Sucré salé'', ''Salut Bonjour Week-end'' and ''Deux Filles le matin''. V, ''Code F'' and business ventures (2010-2014) In 2010, Morin joined the V network as host of the web series ''Planète V'' and after a few months became a reporter for ''C'est extra''. In 2012, she became a reporter on cultural events on the show ''District V''. In the fall of 2012, she became anchor of ''Ça commence bien'', the V network's morning show, where she also reported on the artistic world and the weather. After the end of the series ''District V'' and changes to ''à ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of the largest cities in Bas-Saint-Laurent. History The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means ''Wolf's River'' in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" ("The Wolves") or from the many seals, known in French as ''loup-marin'' (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth. Rivière-du-Loup was established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early Scottish settler Alexander Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919. Between 1850 and 1919, the city saw large increases in its anglophone population. Most of them left the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face Au Mur
''Face au Mur'' (''Facing the Wall'') is a Canadian game show which premiered on January 18, 2018 on TVA. The show, an adaptation of the American game show '' The Wall'' and a Tagline in France, is hosted by Québécois host Maripier Morin. The show ran for one season and the main sponsors are Vidéotron and Nissan. Gameplay The Wall is a four-story-tall (12m) pegboard, similar to a pachinko game or bean machine; it also is similar to the Plinko board used for the pricing game of the same name on '' Price Is Right: À vous de jouer''. The bottom of the board is divided into 15 slots marked with various canadian dollar amounts; eight of these range from $1 to $100 and remain constant throughout the game, while the others have higher values and increase from round to round. Seven numbered "drop zones" are centred at the top of the board (above the centre seven slots), from which balls can be dropped into play. A team of two contestants plays each game, with a potential top priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safia Nolin
Safia Nolin is a French Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Quebec City, Quebec."Safia Nolin: un diamant brut" '' La Presse'', September 13, 2015. Her debut album ''Limoilou'' was released in 2015 via Bonsound. Modestly successful at first, her album sales increased significantly in 2016 after she appeared on '' Tout le monde en parle'', opening up about her teenage struggles with |
Le Journal De Montréal
''Le Journal de Montréal'' is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by Quebecor Media, and is hence a sister publication of TVA flagship CFTM-DT. It is also Canada's largest tabloid newspaper. Its head office is located on 4545 Frontenac Street in Montreal. ''Le Journal de Montréal'' covers mostly local and provincial news, as well as sports, arts and justice. It is known for its sensationalist news, and its columnists who are often public figures. Since 2013 the newspaper also has an investigation desk that published several major news about Quebec's politics, businesses, crime and national security. It is the only Montreal newspaper that prints on Sundays since '' La Presse'' and ''The Gazette'' dropped their Sunday editions (La Presse has had an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlette (2022 Film)
''Arlette'' is a Canadian political satire comedy-drama film, directed by Mariloup Wolfe and released in 2022. The film stars Maripier Morin as Arlette Saint-Amour, a fashion magazine editor who is invited by the Premier of Quebec (Gilbert Sicotte) to join the cabinet as minister of culture despite her lack of political experience; her unconventional approach to politics reinvigorates the public's engagement with arts and culture, but places her in the crosshairs of finance minister Paul Girouard (David La Haye), who wants to cut $100 million from her departmental budget. The film's cast also includes Claudia Ferri, Patrick Caux, Sandrine Bisson, Lara Fabian, Alex Bisping, Paul Ahmarani, Alexandre Nachi, Benoît Brière, Alexandrine Agostini, Kathleen Fortin, Pascal Cameron, Daniel Gosselin, Sophie Caron, Gabriel Dagenais and Carmen Sylvestre. The film opened theatrically in Quebec on August 5, 2022. It was also screened in France at the Angoulême Film Festival on August 24. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Journal De Québec
''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... Printed in tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being ''Le Soleil (Quebec), Le Soleil''. It was founded March 6, 1967, by Pierre Péladeau, founder of Quebecor. Like its sister paper, the much more widely-read ''Le Journal de Montréal'', it was established by Pierre Péladeau and is owned by Quebecor Média. A lockout of unionized employees (members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees) began in April 2007 and continued until July 2008. It was the longest-running lockout in the history of the Québec media until then. As an answer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Faille
''La Faille'' (English: ''The Flaw'') or ''The Wall'' (French: ''Le Mur'') is a French Canadian television crime drama series of three seasons, with a total of 25 episodes, which started broadcasting on Club Illico in 2019. The series is written by Frédéric Ouellet, directed by (first two seasons) and Daniel Roby (third season), and produced by Dominique Veillet for / Quebecor Content. The first season of eight episodes was broadcast in Canada from December 12, 2019 and in France as ''The Wall: Cover Your Tracks'' from April 26, 2020 via 13ème Rue. The second season, ''La Faille 2'' or ''The Wall: The Chateau Murder'' (French: Le meurtre du château), of nine episodes was broadcast from October 17, 2021. ''La Faille 3'', the third and final season of eight episodes, was aired on November 16, 2022. The first season is set in the mining town of Fermont, north-eastern Quebec, Canada. Fermont's major structural feature is popularly known as the Wall, which compri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Byrne
Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film ''Dallas Doll'' (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in ''The Goddess of 1967'' (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the transition to Hollywood in the small role of Dormé in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), followed by larger parts in ''Troy'' (2004), '' 28 Weeks Later'' (2007), and '' Knowing'' (2009). Byrne appeared as Ellen Parsons in the legal thriller series ''Damages'' (2007–2012), which earned her two Golden Globe Awards nominations and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. ''Get Him to the Greek'' (2010) and ''Bridesmaids'' (2011) established her as a comedic actress, in addition to the dramas and thrillers in which she continues to appear. She has since starred in a number of commercially successful comedies and dramas, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jexi
''Jexi'' is a 2019 comedy film written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Peña, Rose Byrne, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Ron Funches, and Charlyne Yi. The plot follows a self-aware smartphone that becomes emotionally attached to its socially awkward owner. ''Jexi'' was released on October 11, 2019 in the United States by CBS Films and Lionsgate. It was the final theatrical film released by CBS Films, which was absorbed into the main CBS Entertainment Group and switched to making films for CBS All Access (now called Paramount+) immediately thereafter. Plot Phil becomes enamored with cell phones at an early age. He works for a BuzzFeed-style website (Chatterbox) run by Kai, who pressures the staff to create inane listicles to go viral. Despite Phil's degree in journalism, Kai refuses to promote him to the real news department. Phil's coworkers Craig and Elaine invite him to play kickball, but the socially inept Phil dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Open (tennis)
The Canadian Open (french: Tournoi de tennis du Canada), also known as the Canada Masters, and currently branded as the National Bank Open presented by Rogers for sponsorship reasons, is an annual tennis tournament held in Ontario and Quebec. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the ATP Tour, and the women's competition is a WTA 1000 tournament on the WTA Tour. The competition is played on outdoor hard courts. Prior to 2011, they were held during separate weeks in the July–August period; now the two competitions are held during the same week in August. The events alternate from year to year between the cities of Montreal and Toronto. Since 2021 in even-numbered years the men's tournament is held in Montreal, while the women's tournament is held in Toronto, and vice versa in odd-numbered years. The Toronto tournament is held at Sobeys Stadium and the Montreal tournament is held at IGA Stadium. The current singles champions as of 2022 are Pablo Carreño Busta (def. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fall Of The American Empire
''The Fall of the American Empire'' (french: La chute de l'empire américain) is a 2018 Canadian crime thriller film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Alexandre Landry, Maxim Roy, Yan England and Rémy Girard. It is about a man (Landry) who, after an armed robbery in Montreal, discovers two bags of money and is unsure what to do with them. Based on a 2010 Old Montreal shooting, it is thematically related, but not a direct sequel, to Arcand's 1986 ''The Decline of the American Empire'' and 2003 ''The Barbarian Invasions''. The film was released in Quebec on 28 June. It subsequently screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and at the Valladolid International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Pierre-Paul Daoust works as a delivery man to pay his bills despite having a PhD in philosophy, believing himself too intelligent to be successful. While working on a delivery in Montreal, he witnesses a robbery that ends in a fatal shootout, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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