Horror landed in 2020 both instructing and judging, as well as thriving. It’s a boom time for the genre, which entered its renaissance only a few years ago and is likely to only be helped by a global pandemic.
Nearly 10 months after Alberta’s first presumptive COVID-19 case was confirmed, mothers across the province are giving birth to what some have dubbed “the coronial generation.”
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States.
A little black and white cat was one of 347 rescued from a single, squalid two-bedroom Toronto apartment in 2019. This year, during lockdowns one and two, she’s become the best thing of her owner’s year.
Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon opened the first Indian restaurant in the coastal Newfoundland village of Dildo, tapping into a tourism boom heightened by interest from U.S. talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel. But COVID-19 has stopped the community’s plans cold.