Curated playlist
Officers of the Order of Canada
- 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…
- Ryan ReynoldsRyan Reynolds gave up his usual fee so the Deadpool film would get made.
- Martin ShortIn March 1972, Martin Short landed his first paid acting job. He played a plastic credit card, tucked inside a woman's purse, in a television commercial for Chargex. It was a speaking part for a piece of plastic, and nobody watching could…
- Yoshua BengioWhy has Yoshua Bengio, who helped build modern AI, spent recent years trying to slow it down?
- William ShatnerWilliam Shatner, the Canadian actor who captained the starship Enterprise as James T. Kirk, once threw a chair out of the Winner's Circle on a television game show. It happened in 1977 on The $10,000 Pyramid. Shatner was trying to steer…
- Steve NashIn grade eight, Steve Nash told his mother he would become an NBA star.
- 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,…
- Shania TwainShania Twain has sold over 100 million records, more than any other woman in country music history. Billboard Boxscore puts the gross from her concert tours at 421.1 million dollars, the highest for any female country touring artist.…
- David FosterDavid Walter Foster was born on the 1st of November 1949 in Victoria, British Columbia. He has won 16 Grammy Awards and has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Songs he composed and produced have reached…
- 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…
- Paul AnkaPaul Anka, the Canadian singer, songwriter and actor born on the 30th of July 1941, made his career-changing trip to Manhattan in 1956 with $100 from his uncle. He carried a verse he had written and a plan to sing it for a record…
- Mark CarneyMark Carney won the leadership of Canada's Liberal Party on the 9th of March 2025, taking over 85.9 percent of the vote on the first ballot. He carried all 343 electoral districts. That result beat the margin Justin Trudeau had posted in…
- Chris HadfieldAt nine, Chris Hadfield watched Apollo 11 and set his mind on space. He later commanded the space station.