Tony Wong
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A baby was left motherless by a slaying at a party. Thirty years later, she asked me to help track down the killer
Retired Star reporter who covered a shocking crime gets drawn back into the story as a daughter searches for healing. → Read More
Why it’s time for Canadians to be bolder against anti-Asian racism in the age of COVID-19
“It’s basically shut your mouth and let it slide.” Asians react to Andrew Yang’s comments to be good Americans to combat anti-Asian racism. “Canadians... → Read More
Why it’s time for all of us to be bolder against anti-Asian racism in the age of COVID-19
“It’s basically shut your mouth and let it slide.” Asians react to Andrew Yang’s comments to be good Americans to combat anti-Asian racism. “Canadians... → Read More
Brain Beat Dance combines dance, storytelling and conversation to stimulate brain health in GTA seniors
The program is a fusion of mental and physical exercises set to music with a barrel full of props. → Read More
Netflix, streaming sites must contribute to Canadian content, CBC should be free of advertising, panel says in sweeping review
“The single most important message to convey on behalf of Canadians is one of urgency,” says chair Janet Yale on the pressing need to reform Canada’s digital laws. → Read More
Patrick Stewart talks Brexit, Harry and Meghan, and his new TV show ‘Star Trek: Picard’
‘These are very difficult times,’ says Sir Patrick Stewart, who returns to the character he thought he had abandoned, Jean-Luc Picard, in ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ which debuts Jan. 23. → Read More
Canadian media ‘unimpressed’ by Google news changes
Google’s recent decision to highlight investigative and exclusive journalism in its searches was greeted with cautious praise and some cynicism by the Canadian media industry. → Read More
Funding for Canadian content ‘a major issue’, says panel looking at overhauling digital laws
A federal review panel whose findings will set the course for changing Canada’s digital and regulatory law released a report Wednesday disclosing key themes and issues that will shape their recommendations. → Read More
CRTC chair says foreign online platforms such as Netflix should contribute to Canadian culture. The question is how?
Ian Scott is the single most important voice in determining the future of legacy broadcasters in the age of online streaming. But can the chair of the CRTC save Canadian content? → Read More
Who will win the Game of Thrones? Who will die? Our TV writers on how it’s all going to end
Will the final season of the hit HBO show stay true to the credo that ‘All men must die’? Or will the showrunners leave some characters alive to sell bobbleheads? Star TV critic Tony Wong and TV writer Debra Yeo dicuss their theories. → Read More
Will your favourite Game of Thrones character survive the season? Our TV writers rate their chances
Will Sansa pass? Will Jon move on? Will Daenerys depart? TV writers Tony Wong and Debra Yeo have put together a survival guide for the major characters — and reveal who they think will make it to the end. → Read More
How Game of Thrones got us to root for incest and other debauchery
Over seven seasons, the bar has been pushed so far on the HBO series that every kind of debauchery was seemingly normalized — as long as it was in service to character, writes Tony Wong. → Read More
Damian Marley on the legalization of weed, slave reparations and entering Jamaican politics
The youngest son of reggae icon Bob Marley receives the Luminary Award from University of the West Indies at a Toronto gala on April 6. → Read More
It’s the first day to buy pot at a store in Ontario. Customers are lining up ‘to be part of history’
Friends brave the cold to wait in line to be among first customers in Ontario to buy cannabis at a bricks-and-mortar outlet. Toronto has five shops slated to open but only one was ready to open its doors on Day 1. → Read More
Trudeau wasn’t briefed on conversation between Wilson-Raybould and Wernick due to holidays, lawyer says
“Everybody went on holidays the next day,” said the lawyer for Michael Wernick in a statement about why the prime minister didn’t know about the controversial phone call between Canada’s top civil servant and former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould. → Read More
Cheap beer offers cold comfort for Blue Jays’ fans at home opener
Attendance has been down significantly, and the home opener isn’t the hot ticket it once was. But management had a secret weapon: Discount beer. → Read More
Why are all of Toronto’s legal weed stores downtown?
Five of the legal cannabis retailers slated to open in the city are within walking distance in the downtown core, leaving suburbanites out in the cold → Read More
Arrest made in Markham kidnapping but victim hasn’t been found, police say
Police said that Wanzhen Lu, an international Chinese student, was abducted Saturday shortly before 6 p.m. → Read More
Here’s why Canadian actress Jessica Lucas jumped at starring role in new series The Murders
Vancouver native gets to be a lead, a boss and a Canadian resident once more for new project airing on Citytv starting Monday. → Read More
Robin Tunney is all in on Marcia Clark-created TV revenge fantasy The Fix
‘How many of us wish we could write a revenge story where we could get our life back?’ asks the former Mentalist star. ‘I think the (O.J. Simpson) case broke Marcia Clark’. → Read More