Several famous musicians have been slammed with copyright lawsuits recently. Paul Banwatt, a partner at Gilbert's LLP in Toronto and a musician himself, helps explain why.
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It’s impossible to think about Aaron Carter without considering the role childhood fame played in his tragic life and too-early death.
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For many of us, confirmation of Migos rapper Takeoff’s death came via a TMZ post that included photos of his body—and this is not the first time the site has turned Black people's trauma into entertainment.
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From calling out specific companies and products to holding herself accountable for the ways she has helped prop up problematic beauty ideals in the past, writer Jessica DeFino pulls no punches.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in November 2022, including season 5 of The Crown, My Policeman, season 2 of CBC’s Sort Of , Rihanna’s fourth annual Savage x Fenty fashion show and a lot of Christmas content.
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West has faced serious consequences for his antisemitism, and rightly so. But we need to talk about why it took so long for companies to respond to his problematic behaviour.
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I also thought Jason Sudeikis being upset about salad dressing was hilarious—until I realized that this story is actually about labour issues and emotional abuse.
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What do audiences lose when projects like Luckiest Girl Alive and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story use real trauma as a storytelling tool?
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Graphic designer Nicola Hamilton on getting into retail—and why print actually isn’t dead, thankyouverymuch.
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The former CP24 weather specialist and on-air personality says she was exploited and discriminated against at work.
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When the actor tweeted about her unhappiness that Fresh Off the Boat had been renewed back in 2019, many people—including her own community—came for her. Turns out, there was much more to the story.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in October 2022, including Catherine Called Birdy, The White Lotus, Derry Girls, Love is Blind and Big Mouth.
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Louie Dean Valencia chats with Friday Things about his upcoming class, "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity," and why celebrities are such a great lens to explore political ideas.
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True crime was already popular when “Serial” premiered in 2014, but the podcast definitely helped the genre go mainstream. Unfortunately, some of the most notable post-Serial shows and podcasts have many of the same problems as their inspiration.
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TikTok's algorithm recently sent me down a rabbit hole of misogyny disguised as empowerment, and I think we need to talk about it.
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The fashion designer, artist and TikTok star talks to Friday Things about Indigenous TikTok and why she uses it to share her Inuvialuit culture.
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Regular people, governments and (most troubling to me) journalists are telling a story about Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy that just isn't true.
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Over the past couple of weeks, Singh posted a slew of TiKToks celebrating Caribbean culture, and especially chutney music. Here's why that's a problem.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in September 2022, including Hocus Pocus 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 3 of Central Park, American Gigolo and Blonde.
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It tells female journalists we’re all going to age out of this business, journalists with more privilege not to stand up for their peers with less, and all of us that the bottom line matters more than the work we do.
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