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Rita Baga
Rita Baga is the stage name of Jean-François Guevremont (born May 27, 1987), a Canadian drag queen from Montreal, Quebec,Hugo Dumas"La future reine québécoise du Nord?" '' La Presse'', August 19, 2020. who is most noted as a top three finalist in the first season of ''Canada's Drag Race''.Rebecca Alter"Canada’s Drag Race Season Finale Recap: What’s Her Name?" '' Vulture.com'', September 21, 2020. In 2022, it was announced that Rita Baga would be a judge and the main host on ''Drag Race Belgique'', a Belgian version of the franchise. She also returned to compete in '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World'' in 2022. In addition to performing as Rita Baga, Guevremont worked as director of programming for Fierté Montréal.André-Constantin Passiour"Une édition canadienne toute spéciale de Drag Superstars" ''Fugues'', August 9, 2020. Education Guevremont is an alumnus of the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he studied human resources and tourist development.Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boucherville, Quebec
Boucherville is a city in the Montérégie region in Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of Montreal on the South shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Boucherville is part of both the urban agglomeration of Longueuil and Montreal Metropolitan Community regional government. History Early history Boucherville was founded as a seigneurial parish in 1667 by Pierre Boucher, for whom the city was later named. Pierre Boucher came from Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandy, France. After having lived in Quebec City and Trois-Rivières, Boucher moved to the Percées Islands by the southern shores of Saint Lawrence River, where he founded Boucherville. The first Catholic church of the village of Boucherville was built in 1670. This church, made of wood, was eventually replaced in 1712 by a building made of brick. It was replaced in 1801 by the current Sainte-Famille Church. Several families left Boucherville in the 18th century to found the communities of Sainte-Julie and Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guerre Des Clans
''La Guerre des clans'' (''The Clan Wars/The War of the Clans'') is a Canadian French language television game show based on the American series ''Family Feud'' and was hosted by Luc Senay. It was taped at TQS in Montreal and ran from 1992 to 1997. Like ''Family Feud'', ''La Guerre des clans'' pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question. On August 31, 2009, V (formerly TQS) brought back the show with Jean-François Baril as host, taped at the Télé-Québec studios in Montreal, Quebec. Baril has hosted the show until 2017. On February 21, 2018, it was announced that the show would come back after a brief hiatus with Jean-François Breau as the new host. On April 12, 2019; it has been announced that ''La Guerre des Clans'' had been cancelled, with the network stating that low viewership in the 18–49 key demographic was the culprit. Reruns of the show remain in V's daytime lineup. Gameplay ''For main game p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snatch Game
Snatch Game is a challenge on the ''Drag Race'' reality competition television franchise. Beginning with the second season of the original American series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', the challenge has taken place on every season since. It has also occurred on ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' since season 2, both seasons of ''RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race'', and on the Thai, British, Canadian,Joey Nolfi"Canada's Drag Race first look serves Canadian bacon with a side of fish" ''Entertainment Weekly'', May 19, 2020. Dutch, Australian-New Zealand, Spanish, Italian, French, and Filipino international installments. The Snatch Game typically parodies the game show ''Match Game'' (known as ''Blankety Blank'' in the UK and '' Blankety Blanks'' in Australia) and is a test of the contestants' skills at celebrity impersonation and improvisational comedy. Usually occurring about halfway through each ''Drag Race'' season, Snatch Game is commonly perceived as one of the most important and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyanka (drag Queen)
Mark Suknanan (born May 28, 1991) is a Canadian television personality and drag queen. Competing under his drag name, Priyanka, Suknanan won the first season of the reality competition series ''Canada's Drag Race'' in 2020. He was previously a host of the YTV children's series '' The Zone'' and the YTV reality competition series ''The Next Star'', where he went by Mark Suki. His first EP, '' Taste Test'', was released in 2021. Early life Suknanan was born on May 28, 1991, in Whitby, Ontario. He is of Indo-Guyanese descent. Suknanan is an alumnus of Niagara College's broadcasting program. Career Suknanan began his career as a host in children's television, most notably on YTV's '' The Zone'' and as the web host of the YTV reality competition series ''The Next Star''. Suknanan began performing as a drag queen in 2017, initially under the name Priyanka Love, in Toronto clubs. Her first competition in drag was for a local contest at the suggestion of fellow drag queen Xtacy Love, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlett BoBo
Scarlett BoBo is the stage name of Matthew Cameron (born December 1, 1989), a Canadian television personality and drag queen most noted as a finalist in the first season of the reality competition series ''Canada's Drag Race'' in 2020. Career Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Scarlett BoBo began performing as a drag queen in the spring of 2008. Her drag mother is Tenora BoBo, with their surname coming from house mother Ginette BoBo. She moved to Toronto in 2009.Brooke Porter"Absolut wants you to meet the Canadians changing our communities" ''Now'', December 23, 2019. She studied public relations at Humber College, and has also taken classes at circus school, incorporating skills like fire eating and aerial silks into her drag performances. Treating her drag as a form of activism, she has performed at a benefit for the Orlando nightclub shooting, as a host of the city's annual AIDS Walk for HIV/AIDS, and as the creator of the all-gender-inclusive Absolut Empire’s Ball. She has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (). It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories. The virus was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 25, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5. In March 2020, as cases of community transmission were confirmed, all of Canada's provinces and territories declared states of emergency. Provinces and territories have, to varying degrees, implemented school and daycare closures, prohibitions on gatherings, closures of non-essential businesses and restrictions on entry. Canada severely restricted its border access, barring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiara (drag Queen)
Kiara (born July 28, 1998), also sometimes credited as Kiara Schatzi, is the stage name of Dimitri Nana-Côté, a Canadian drag entertainer from Montreal, Quebec who is most noted as a competitor in the first season of ''Canada's Drag Race''. Early life and education The biracial son of a Black Canadian father and a Québécois mother, Nana-Côté grew up in Quebec City, and moved to Montreal to study film at Concordia University. He began performing drag at Cabaret Mado, including as Mel B in a regular Spice Girls tribute show,Brendan Kelly"Montreal's Kiara pumped to be part of Canada's Drag Race drive-in tour" ''Montreal Gazette'', September 28, 2020. choosing the drag name Kiara in reference to the character Kiara from ''The Lion King''. Career Kiara appeared on the first season of ''Canada's Drag Race'', and was eliminated from the competition in the fifth episode after performing a poor impression of Mariah Carey in the Snatch Game challenge; however, her Lip Sync for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Barbada De Barbades
Barbada de Barbades is the stage name of Sébastien Potvin,Samuel Larochelle"Barbada de Barbades, une drag queen haute en couleurs" '' Huffington Post Québec'', August 7, 2017. a Canadian drag queen most noted as one of the drag house mothers in the reality competition series ''Call Me Mother''. Career Potvin, the Black Canadian son of a Barbadian father and a Québécois mother, first began performing in drag when he entered the 2005 Star Search drag competition at Cabaret Mado. Although he was eliminated from the competition, he entered again in 2006 and won. He continued to perform regularly in drag at Cabaret Mado, becoming one of the club's regular headliners and winning Rita Baga's Mx Fierté pageant in 2017. In 2017, Potvin participated in ''Ils de jour, elles de nuit'', an Ici ARTV documentary series about drag queens, alongside Rita Baga, Gaby, Lady Boom Boom, Lady Pounana, and Tracy Trash. Potvin, an elementary school music teacher by profession, has also been pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici ARTV
Ici ARTV (stylized as ICI artv) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). The channel broadcasts the arts and culture including music, dance, theatre, visual arts, films and scripted television series. History Ici ARTV was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as ''la Télé des Arts'' as a joint venture between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Télé-Québec, Bell Globemedia, Arte (through Arte France, a joint venture of France Télévisions, Radio France and INA, both historically and formerly known as the ORTF and the French state) and L'Équipe Spectra. The channel was launched on September 1, 2001 as ARTV. In Fall 2007, L’Équipe Spectra sold its seven percent interest in the service to the CBC. CTVglobemedia also announced that it intended to sell its interest in the service to the CBC. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
The KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (also known as Mumbai International Queer Film Festival and Mumbai International Queer Film Festival) is an annual LGBT event that has been held in Mumbai, India, since 2010. The film festival screens gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer films from India and around the world. It is voted as one of the top five LGBT film festivals in the world. Background 2009 was a historic year for the LGBT movement in India. On 2 July 2009, the Delhi High Court court ruling decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults and judged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be conflicting with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India. This brought a respite to the Indian LGBT community that has been repressed and marginalized. This also led to open celebrations by LGBT persons including pride parades in many of the metros. This was followed by the relaunch of India's first gay magazine, ''Bomba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
