Curated playlist
Governor General's Award winners
- Neil YoungIn April 2026, Neil Young announced a new studio album called Second Song, and three of its tracks were songs he had written in 1963. They had remained unreleased ever since. That detail suits a man who has spent his career refusing to…
- Joni MitchellAfter a 2015 brain aneurysm, Joni Mitchell relearned guitar at living room jam sessions. Brandi Carlile organized them.
- James CameronJames Cameron dropped alone to the deepest point on Earth in 2012. He stayed more than three hours on the bottom.
- Ryan ReynoldsRyan Reynolds gave up his usual fee so the Deadpool film would get made.
- Rush (band)Rush, the Canadian rock band, collected CA$25 for its first public concert in September 1968. The stage was a youth centre called the Coff-Inn, tucked into the basement of St. Theodore of Canterbury Anglican Church in Toronto. When the…
- Cirque du SoleilCirque du Soleil began with a 56-mile walk on stilts in 1979. Gilles Ste-Croix's stunt won funding for a summer fair.
- Lorne MichaelsLorne Michaels once offered The Beatles $3,000 to reunite on live TV. It came in Saturday Night Live's first season.
- Catherine O'HaraCatherine O'Hara, the Canadian and American actress and comedian, became the first woman to win an individual Actor Awards trophy after her death. The prize honored her work on the Apple TV+ series The Studio, and the show's co-creator,…
- Michael J. FoxMichael J. Fox once worked two months of days that began with rehearsals at 10 a.m. and ended with filming at 2:30 the next morning. Those were the hours of 1985. By day he rehearsed the sitcom Family Ties. By night he rushed to the set of…
- Bryan AdamsIn 1990, Bryan Adams sat down with two collaborators, Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Michael Kamen, and finished a song in a single 45-minute session. The song was "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," and it went on to reach number one in at…