(That gleaming white exterior is sandblasted granite.) The Canada-obsessed police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine premieres. Guillaume Ct releases Lost In Motion on YouTube. As we move out of a decade that has seen immense progress in LGBTQ representation, its important to remember that despite this, the world remains a dangerous place for many LGBTQ people which is why its imperative more celebrities take a page from Page and use their platform in a more aggressive manner. Its one of the finest things Kims Convenience has given us. Just kidding Im not delusional. In the last weeks of 2019, the My Heart Will Go On singer is enjoying the peak of a mid-life renaissance fueled by millennials nostalgia for less complicated times, her Vogueapproved status as a fashion icon and social medias appetite for self-deprecating yet wholesome celebrities. This timeline is loaded with essays, lists, videos and infographics (plus 70-odd reflections on moments big and small from our Anne-iversaries columnist Anne T. Donahue). I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). Artist and educator Jason Baerg discusses the impact abstract artist Alex Janvier has had on the art world in the past 10 years. Shot among a 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators in a football stadium (and a mosh pit made up of Bouchers brother and his friends), the video juxtaposed the tiny Boucher atop the shouting, shoving, shirtless masses and created a playful effect that also addressed themes of traditional masculinity. TORONTO - Catherine O'Hara, Sidney Crosby and Tatiana Maslany are among the stars set to appear at the Canadian Screen Awards. By creating an audience section for the bar, the rest of the patrons will become de facto performers in his slice of life showSmokers Allowed. Created by Canadas Lorne Michaels in 1975, the sketch comedy series wove its way into the fabric of our cultural discourse and went on to tackle everything from political headlines to scandals and gossip to the risk of being eaten by a shark as you answer your front door. The 2010s have been all about fame often vapid, toxic, shallow and undeserved fame, a new kind of parasitic stardom that almost anyone can attain just as long as theyre desperate enough. Andrew DCruz is the executive producer of CBC Arts. On April 16 just weeks after his 17th birthday Calgary-bred pianist Jan Lisiecki released his album of Mozart concertos as a debut for the label Deutsche Grammophon. The roadblocks are even more momentous for Canadian female filmmakers. In Canada, Qubcois filmmakers have a fertile onscreen history of non-conformity, risk-taking and unabashedly high levels of emotions. Love or loathe its smirking meta spin on superhero action, both the original and the 2018 sequel were total hits, ranking among the 10 highest grossing movies worldwide in their respective years. Reeves was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the titular host asked him the ultimate question: What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? Reeves exhaled slowly, paused and looked Colbert in the eyes. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. It also led to the release of her followup, The Sun and Her Flowers, but were not talking about 2017 (yet). At the tail-end of this decade, right when we need it most, Alanis has turned Jagged Little Pill into a musical with a book written by Diablo Cody. For anyone who doubted whether the CBCs Peter Mansbridge (or Uncle Peter, as he deserves to be called) would find his way into the Disney canon: how dare you/I wont forget it. Turns out Keanu Reeves is super respectful to women but thats not really a surprise. In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian . How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? It debuted at No. The show even managed to get our countrys name into an Oscar-nominated song when Blame Canada provided a centerpiece to the 1999 South Park movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Produced by: Peter Knegt and Mercedes Grundy | Editing: Eleanor Knowles, Reiko Milley, Peter Knegt and Samantha Edwards | Design: Mercedes Grundy and Jeff Hume | Website: Jeff Hume | Video: Lucius Dechausay, Mercedes Grundy, March Mercanti, Romeo Candido, Jessica Hayes and Kiah Welsh | Graphics: Camille Charbonneau | Research: Peter Knegt and KC Hoard, (Jeff Bottari/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign), Justin Bieber kicked off a decade of reinvention for Canadian pop music, Following the benefit singles release on March 12, 10 times Keanu Reeves was the internet's boyfriend, Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers, A change.org petition to name Reeves Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year was launched, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway, Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with, Ryan Goslings heartbreaking performance in, Incendies in the 2010s: A decade of Qubcois filmmakers bringing down the arthouse, the debut of her second Las Vegas residency, 10 of the decade's most influential movies (that just happened to shoot in Canada), despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct, would garner 200,000 views in just a few days, 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators, who directed 11 episodes and served as an executive producer. Tatiana Maslany to Star in 6-Episode All-Girls Boarding School Thriller, Marking Return to AMC By Michael Ausiello / August 10 2022, 1:00 PM PDT Getty Images Orphan Black vet Tatiana. ), and its music video spotlights Indigenous hoop dancers. Released in 2002, Hands Clean is Alaniss account and calling out of sexual abuse and manipulation by a music industry figure she was working with in her early pop days and the lyrics still resonate. On November 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the U.S. Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. With Falls Around Her, Darlene Naponse gave Tantoo Cardinal her first starring role in her more than 40-year-long career, which has included over 120 film and television credits. Which, like, obviously: on top of Canadas always-uncanny ability to produce larger-than-life pop stars (need I remind any of us of Cline Dion, especially circa 1997? The score accompanied the story of Joaquin Phoenixs characters evolution from heartbroken man to even more of a heartbroken man after he falls in love with his operating systems virtual assistant (Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) which, in 2019, doesnt seem like a stretch. And to essentially copy/paste the spiel from the opening credits, heres the premise: Nathan Fielder (the shows star and co-creator) graduated from one of Canadas top business schools (University of Victoria) with really good grades (B average). After establishing herself as a queen of quick wit and cutting observations during her 12 years as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Bee drew even more cultural clout as the American election came to a close and attracted her ire. In 2017, I met Sandra Oh when I interviewed her at TIFF, and we hugged after I told her that Greys Anatomy got me through college. Follow every pedantic rule in the social media playbook, and theres still no formula for going viral. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries: softbois with fangs were bloody everywhere and The Twilight Saga started the frenzy. The Handmaids Tale wins big at the Emmys. At the Oscars of fashion (which is a bad comparison because the event is a fundraiser and a vernissage, not an award ceremony, but we digress), Dion easily wins best newcomer with her performance in the celebrity video booth. You can make good money having people smoke here, he tells the owner. Following 15 years of rants, jokes and biting political commentary, the Rick Mercer Report came to a close on April 10 and ended a distinctive era of Canadian television. (I caught the show in Portland, Ore., where the local alt weeklys admiring preview was headlined Whats German for WTF?), Its been the most incredible, profound and powerful experience of my artistic career, Pite said in an interview with La Presse before the tour wrapped up in Montreal last summer. David Ly is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn and the poetry collection Mythical Man. Hop a funicular car, and in less than a minute, a sleek glass cube will drop you in the river valley home to an extremely extensive network of trails. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. Not quite yet, but there is hope. Like the hungry overachievers we are, we then succeeded wildly, all over your face. and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson and Chris Evans, the movie unapologetically pays tribute to city icons like Lees Palace, Casa Loma and Honest Eds (may it rest in peace).
Tatiana Maslany on 'She-Hulk', Joining Marvel, and LGBTQ Advocacy - ELLE James took six months to complete the series, shot inside the mysterious and foreboding walls of Kingston Pen, and he did it in the company of the guards and inmates of the institution. Once upon a time, Cline Dion had one dream: to become an international star. Its fitting that one of Cline Dions biggest songs is called A New Day Has Come because upon the debut of her second Las Vegas residency (called Celine) in 2011, she sparked the Dion renaissance that only seems to be getting stronger even now. We invite you to close out your own decade by taking a little pride in what your fellow Canadians have accomplished in the 2010s. Still, Dion is still more queen of corny than queen of cool. This is the year it happened. (In a 2018 episode of In The Making, Pite says her movements took a cue from a description of PTSD: this feeling of having the accelerator and the brake both to the floor.). Because sometimes life actually is beautiful, Owen Pallett joined forces with Arcade Fires Win Butler to compose the score for Her, the Spike Jonze futuristic drama about love and loneliness. These songs exemplify the power of Canadian artists even if their success was limited to Canadas borders. The woman who arguably put Canadian pop on the map in the aughts, Nelly Furtado came back with a volley of bangers on her 2012 album The Spirit Indestructible, the first of which was Big Hoops. The song hearkens back to Furtados iconic collaborations with Timbaland (Promiscuous, anyone?
As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Remember lip dubs?!) It probably started with a late morning after performing a farewell show on Dec. 31, 1999, in Montral. In October 2013, Clinton, Ont.s Alice Munro earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Canadian and 13th woman to do so. Dutchers victory was historic for a few reasons: a member of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, he was the first East Coast artist ever to take home the Polaris and he recorded the album using 100-year-old wax cylinder recordings of songs in traditional Wolastoq, which is a language spoken by fewer than 100 people. Just look at Sarah Polley, who made the Toronto romance Take This Waltz and NFB documentary Stories We Tell one year apart (2011 and 2012 respectively), and capped off the decade with the brilliant, multivalent CBC miniseries Alias Grace in 2017, tapping American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron to direct it. Everything I know about La La Land, I learned in a crash course of a few hours: 1) it did not win best picture at the Oscars (even though Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced it had) and 2) Canadas boyfriend, Ryan Gosling, lost best actor to Casey Affleck (which Brie Larson reacted appropriately to, IMHO).
Tatiana Maslany - Wikipedia . Patriotism and pride come into play, and inevitably, questions are raised around what it means to be Canadian and make Canadian content. It was a triumphant moment of international recognition for Canadian television so triumphant that its easy to forget that at the same awards show only five years prior, Billy Eichner was screaming TATIANA MASLANY WAS SNUBBED!! Will Munros final show opens at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Will Munro Spider Sex Sling (Paul Petro Contemporary Art), While he was in the last months of a terminal illness, Will Munro was working on his final exhibition for Paul Petro Contemporary Art. And it worked. The Times piece called it a centrepiece of Saskatoons redeveloping riverfront, and that growth has earned the city a more recent mention: Architectural Digest named the city a top travel destination for 2019. Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. As for the piece itself, itll ultimately land in Vancouver, next to Westbanks headquarters. (Sorry.) Guarantee listings that are 100 per cent ghost and demon free. Though delighted by her spooky new bench ads, Sue seems skeptical at first. With the seemingly unstoppable one-two punch of Ghost and Stuttering both pieces of pop perfection in their own right Dobson built an incredible foundation for herself. On Conversation with Alanis Morissette, she gives us access to some of the greatest minds in the worlds of wellness, healing and recovery.
Tatiana Maslany scores Golden Globe nomination | CP24.com By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite her global success, Dion was never cool. A queer anthem for the ages! Following the benefit singles release on March 12, the song topped the Canadian charts for seven weeks. But just because no one outside this country has been hearing our fabulous trees fall in the woods doesnt mean that Canadian drag hasnt been making all sorts of sounds for years. Starting the year off on what seemed like a hopeful note (oh, how wrong we were), Samantha Bee debuted her often-satirical late-night talk show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, in February. And he isn't showing any signs of slowing down: this year, McAnuff garnered a Tony nomination for directing the musical Aint Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Michel Marc Bouchards Tom la ferme debuts at Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui, Playwright Michel Marc Bouchards Tom on the Farm (Tom la ferme) made its debut at the Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui in Montreal in January, which clearly kicked the year off right. There were hugs, claps and plenty of cheers on the set of the sci-fi series "Orphan Black" on Thursday as cast and crew members learned star Tatiana Maslany had scored a Golden Globe nomination. Thats just the basic formula, but from the first episode, NFY was engineering something grander than a five-year troll. ! Naturally, this led anybody who prided themselves on being well-versed in Canadian indie (see: me, nine years ago) to bask in a sense of superiority fuelled by the knowledge that theyd been Arcade Fire fans since Funeral came out back in 2004. Its our topsy-turvy reality that makes any given episode of NFY more confoundingly hilarious. So here goes: heralded as the No. We don't want to seem greedy (that'd go against the Canadian stereotype, right? Fielder is a comedian a dry one. Her look that evening leaves fashion observers shook, but its her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment later that month that confirms to the world that Dion is now a full-time meme. Im kidding, of course. (Book Club, anyone?) When she was putting together the decades inarguably perfect pop album E MO TION, Carly Rae Jepsen decided one of the tracks shed recorded shouldnt make the cut because it felt too cinematic. That track was the equally inarguably perfect pop song Cut to the Feeling, and Jepsen decided to offer it to the soundtrack of animated film Ballerina (or Leap!, as it was titled in the U.S.). It was the most fun. Representation matters and if theres anything we can do even more in the following decade, its ensuring inclusion, equality and the end of old practices that have been holding all of us back. That scene where a doozy of a dirt cloud spoils a baseball game? (That, and the many GIFs circulating on Twitter of Jung either being adorable or taking his shirt off. Outdoor elements are inspired by the neighbouring foothills; inside, wooden beams wrap the atrium, suggesting the shape of a canoe. The solution: spend nearly six hours analyzing late-night interviews and write the perfect story. Women made an impact in other forms of media during the 2010s too like music videos. And anyone who thinks its screenplay is less worthy of an Oscar nomination than Craig Borten and Melisa Wallacks dangerously problematic script for another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named deserves a big slap from Rihanna. By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. Deadmau5 released The Veldt, a retelling of Bradburys story of the same name, in 2012. Her desire and determination to tell these stories is its own subversively political and transformative act: shes taken the characters who, for decades, had been relegated to the best friend in the romantic comedy and readjusted the lens to focus on them. By 2016, we were truly lacking movies based on comic book characters. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. And it was so easy to sing and dance to, and as a result, easier still to defend to naysayers whose problems with the song seemed rooted in cynicism and bitterness. On top of being the first person of Asian descent to host the awards, she was also the first person of Asian descent to win multiple Globes. Spoiler? I love drag. He's good." The Egyptian-Canadian actor worked with director Guy Ritchie to bring new life to an existing classic, and their efforts paid off: the film went on to surpass $1 billion US at the box office worldwide. 1 on the Billboard 200. Ryan Goslings heartbreaking performance in Blue Valentine hits cinemas. Elliot Page is living proof of that. Alas, a star was born. While the #MeToo movement served as a dramatic trigger in the latter portion of the 2010s, highlighting the desperate need women have to tell our own stories, the entire decade was an embarrassment of riches in terms of high-quality work made by Canadian women. Even though her hosting the awards was a big deal, Oh acknowledged something important about representation: that change is excruciatingly slow. Showing Editorial results for tatiana maslany. A quirky, catchy Canadian hit. Its possible.. Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. Hes convinced hell reach a happy ending, erasing a lifetime of misery. It felt like a chance to relive the 90s and the young generation of pop stars it produced (Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys), but under an updated, improved Canadian lens. Six short months after grieving in public in the middle of a Montral winter, Dion emerges at Paris Fashion Week in what is arguably her first break the Internet moment: she is seen waving at the camera, wearing a $885 USD Titanic sweater. Whatever I had done resonated with the entire world and the attention was like sunlight on my soul., The plan: Turn the job of moving into Americas next fitness craze.. But the other treasure these residencies offer is entry into a new community, insight into another place or into the state of our environment. By showing something as little as a flick on the forehead, Kims Convenience has helped the rest of the world understand Asian family dynamics better.
Catherine O'Hara, Tatiana Maslany among stars to appear at Canadian typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. She acted opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Dane DeHaan, and was dubbed The Millennial Meryl Streep. And ultimately, the quality (and quantity) of her work on Orphan Black boosted by the support of critics and Clone Clubbers alike won her an Emmy in 2016, making her the first Canadian actor in a Canadian series ever to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category. Peter Knegt is a writer and producer at CBC Arts, writing the award-winning weekly column Queeries and spearheading projects like Canadas a Drag, Super Queeroes and what youre reading right now. And that vision is, in many cases, true Ive known artists whove lived temporarily in Iceland, explored the ocean on freighters or casked whisky at the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland. (Years later, I would sit on the Avon Theatre steps where Justin used to play his acoustic guitar and fight back the urge to tell anybody who passed me that he was my son.) Though most identify her as a New Zealander, Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and spent the first four years of her life there, so its more than fair that we claim her as our own especially since it allows us to take pride in one of the greatest cinematic performances of the decade: Paquins in Kenneth Lonergans 2011 masterpiece Margaret. I wish I was adding to the canon instead of helping to create it.. Canadas got your back. Wow. But youre going to get out.. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. Baroness von Sketch Shows Aurora Browne talks about how Tanya Talagas investigative book Seven Fallen Feathers opened her eyes to Thunder Bays past and present treatment of Indigenous communities. Whod have thought it would be the start of a career equally as prolific and powerful? We've already heard Tatiana Maslany claim she wasn't She . And theres something extremely 2010s about all of it. Gone were the days where Will & Grace was literally all that there was; in its place, we were blessed with a seemingly endless array of high-quality shows representing all walks of queer life. The waxy ashen faces of nuns, RCMP officers and priests are in ghastly contrast to the pained expressions of the women and children. Alternative drag shows that gender expression isnt a two-dimensional plane its a sphere. The heartwarming show went on to earn seven Tony nominations, winning one for best direction of a musical. And earlier this year, he starred alongside a slew of other queer actors in the Netflix reboot of Tales of the City, developed by lesbian writer Lauren Morelli. The group had spent most of the summer on their Man Machine Poem tour, which kicked off in Victoria in July and ended in their hometown of Kingston, Ont., where the sold-out crowd was joined by more than 11 million fans who tuned in to join them. The teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was only Meghies second feature film, but it made Hollywood and the rest of the world sit up and pay attention to this visionary from the north as she broke barriers for Black Canadian female filmmakers. These can be observed from the filmmakers first features all the way to the largest American studio projects theyve worked on. Shes proved that it is possible to disconnect from greed, the need for validation and the harmful idea that our worth is based on our productivity. Nathan enjoys playing Corey a little too much, and amazingly, the gambit succeeds. Where were you when you first heard Baby when, despite your better judgment and years of ingrained cynicism, it oozed into your psyche and began redefining your relationship with pop as you knew it? The Speed love affair that almost was. More than a decade after the release of Mordecai Richlers Giller Prizewinning novel Barneys Version, the story of a man, his three marriages and the disappearance of his friend Boogie was brought to the big screen on Dec. 24 by director Richard J. Lewis and screenwriter Michael Konyves. Clearly to be filed under this should happen all the time, 2015 saw Canadian Mtis artist Christi Belcourt collaborate with Valentino for the fashion houses 2016 Resort collection. Noah 40 Shebib is nominated for two best rap song Grammys in the same year, Photographer Norman Wong talks about the impact music producer Noah 40 Shebib has had on crafting the Toronto sound., Nathan Fielder opens Dumb Starbucks in Los Angeles. And one of the greatest examples happens on top of a mountain, where a vanload of people desperate for as little as a $10.91 rebate subject themselves to a six-hour hike, an overnight camping trip and Nathans endless riddles. Xavier Dolan is hot off of proving hes no one-hit wonder with his sophomore feature Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), the stylish followup to his sensational debut Jai tu ma mre (I Killed My Mother). In 2015, he produced and starred in Freeheld, a docudrama based on the story of a lesbian police officers fight for relationship recognition after her partner is diagnosed with cancer. Darrel J. McLeods piece Maci Manitowi (Devils) was a precursor to his Governor Generals Literary Award-winning book Mamaskatch. Looking back, I realize that regardless of the set, if theres one time Tat has never said sorry, its between action and cut. Shes always been a fucking savage in the work itself, from her raw performance in 2010s Grown Up Movie Star to beating the shit out of Nicole Kidman in last years Destroyer. The 2010s: How 11 Tatiana Maslanys walked so Schitt's Creek could run | CBC Arts Over the last 10 years, Canadian artists have been storming the world stage like never before in music,. Barbara Hannigan receives Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts. In the next year, well see an Australian offshoot, a celebrity makeover version and, of course, our very own Drag Race Canada. But photogenic as it is, the bridge has had some issues. But it was still a joy when Vancouvers Ryan Reynolds tossed on some Spandex to play Deadpool, the Marvel superhero defined by his DGAF attitude, comedic timing and lust for revenge in the wake of an experiment gone wrong. Even reading the words Wavin Flag is enough to get Knaans 2009 hit remade by Young Artists for Haiti in 2010 stuck in your head. Taking place over the course of 30 years, the story follows a young man named Saul Indian Horse who makes his way into the hockey world and, after a series of racist attacks, confronts his traumatizing history. Drag Race alone has had 11 regular seasons, four All-Stars seasons, two holiday specials and several spinoff series including Drag U (in which former contestants mentored and madeover new candidates every week), the Chilean show The Switch, two seasons of Drag Race Thailand and a newly finished season of Drag Race UK. Not a child actor, not yet a woman, she was a model of Canadian kindness and patience. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. Airing on Comedy Central between 2013 and 17, its a prank show on its surface a spoof of reality makeover series in the vein of, say, The Profit (or because this is CBC, Under New Management). His character, Jason Mendoza, breaks away from another Asian stereotype of being sexless, shy and socially awkward. I was immediately struck by her confidence on set how she took the space she needed to do her work in a firm but friendly way.
'She-Hulk': Tatiana Maslany on Seinfeld, Legally Blonde, Ally - Variety I like the Group of Seven as much as the next guy, and this is an affirmation of Canadian history blah blah blah and lakes and mountains blah blah good for Lawren Harris! Ultimately, they get her address through some old-fashioned library research but in the episodes heartbreaking climax, Bill cant summon the courage to ring the doorbell. And Thompsons seemingly fine with all of it. As I write this, Alanis has just announced the details of her new single and album! No wonder she was exalted accordingly.
Tatiana Maslany - IMDb This freaks me out. Alanis Morissette releases her eighth studio album, Havoc and Bright Lights. Maybe theyre just that spectacular. (Evidently, Jason Wu is your go-to for moments of celebration and mourning. Jennifer Walters, the titular attorney in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, ultimately crushed Maslany's "reticence" about joining the packed Marvel Cinematic Universe. "I. But he is, nevertheless, an imposter playing an imposter: a comedian posing as a business consultantposing as whatever suits his plan. Halfway through 2019, a series of pictures of the actor holding his hand inches away from the backs of women he took pictures with (including Dolly Parton!) When did Justin Bieber, a wee baby maestro, evolve into a national treasure? To all the nerdy girls out there who hide behind their sketchbooks: dont be afraid to tell your stories to the world, she said. Still, few could have anticipated how quickly Atwoods latest instalment would break sales records, selling more print copies in its first week than any other Canadian book has since BookNet Canada began tracking sales in 2005. In her seminal book Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Margaret Atwood theorized that the central symbol in Canada, and therefore Canadian literature, was survival.