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MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5-million US grand prize n a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants. The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube’s most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted…
The Bear earned early honors for stars Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Liza Colón-Zayas at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. The 33-year-old Brooklyn native Jeremy took home major honor in the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series category for the second consecutive year. He triumphed over Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Steve Martin, Only Murders in the…
The Current23:52Bob McDonald on overcoming impostor syndrome — and saying yes WARNING: This article contains details of abuse and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. In a new memoir, CBC host Bob McDonald reveals that he was sexually abused as a child. “I was sexually abused by…
“I can’t judge … but that is a little weird.” That’s what Zachary “Ichabod Fame” Knowles’ said when students he was teaching to dance Burlesque recommended he try air guitar competitions — contests in which people mime playing the guitar on stage. “They laughed and said to me, ‘Yes, it is the most ridiculous thing that you can…
Paralympic medallists Nicholas Bennett and Brianna Hennessy will carry the Canadian flag during Sunday’s closing ceremony in Paris. Bennett, a swimmer, won Canada’s first gold medal in Paris — one of three total medals he’s headed home with, also including another gold and a silver. The 20-year-old from Parksville, B.C., who has an intellectual impairment,…
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice arrived with about as much subtlety as its scheduling at the Toronto International Film Festival. Just as the Ali Abassi-directed film was plopped into the festival’s opening night schedule on Thursday as a last-minute surprise, the film barrels into its thesis without much warning or preamble. Documenting the former U.S. president’s beginnings…
The Deaner is making a return to the screen, with a shot-in-Manitoba movie that explores the cult-hero character’s past. Dean Murdoch, a.k.a. The Deaner — the mullet-haired, hard-rocking headbanger who crashed his way into the Canadian comedy firmament with the cult films Fubar (2002) and Fubar 2 (2010) — returns in spectacular form in Deaner…
Joel Goldes is the dialect coach for productions of Come From Away. A native of California, he’s taught actors all over the world how to speak with a proper Newfoundland accent. (Submitted by Joel Goldes) Come From Away has shared the story of Gander’s involvement in the events of Sept. 11 with audiences around the…
