AUGUST 7, 2026
The Heat is On
They’re back … while the NHL season is still a couple of months away, two of the world’s biggest hockey stars, Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, have returned to the ice for a new round of episodes filming in and around Toronto. Fans have spotted them during their time off roaming the downtown core in matching jorts and black tees – without any personal security. In need of some home-away-from-home essentials, they popped into Canadian Tire at the Eaton Centre. And when Williams was papped holding the store’s vinyl reusable bag, it immediately sold out across the country – and started popping up on eBay at a $20 markup. Another pic of them leaning against a fox-and-racoon-themed garbage receptacle in the oh-so-touristy Sankofa Square at Yonge and Dundas, has made that spot a fan destination. But the friendly stalking has got producers worried about future faceoffs. After all, if people are willing to trek to a trash can for a brush with HudCon heaven, what’s going to stop them from crashing the show’s sets? “If you happen to come across one of our filming locations, please give our cast and crew the space they need to do what they do best,” creator Jacob Tierney requested on Instagram. “ We promise it’ll be worth the wait!”
AUGUST 5, 2026
Remembering Lloyd Robertson
In the 1990s, Canada’s legendary news anchor Lloyd Robertson, who has died at the age of 92, thought he would try a signoff like his counterparts in the U.S. Walter Cronkite had, “And that’s the way it is.” Robertson’s was: “And that’s the kind of day it’s been.” People started saying it back to him on the street, making him think it was all too much. When he dropped it in 2000, there was an immediate cavalcade of complaints. “So I continued on with it for the rest of my time at the desk,” he said in 2022. Robertson got his start on the radio in his hometown of Stratford, Ont., before moving to the CBC in 1956, eventually taking over The National. He left the public broadcaster, whose union rules didn’t allow him to write his own copy, for CTV in the ’70s and sat at the nightly news desk there until his retirement in 2011. Over his career, he covered the Kennedy assassination, Canada’s 150th birthday, Royal weddings, countless Olympics and September 11th. Besides being “a familiar face in our living rooms, a reassuring voice in moments of uncertainty,” as Prime Minister Mark Carney posted, fellow journalists described him as good-humoured, an encouraging mentor, a champion of women and, according to former Globe and Mail Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife, “kind and considerate with absolutely no ego.” That’s just the kind of man he was. | Getty Images
AUGUST 4, 2026
The Unsinkable Meghan Markle
Happy 45th Birthday to the Duchess of Sussex! What a decade you’ve had. In the summer of 2016, the Canadian-based Suits actress met her prince. And while it’s been happily ever after with Harry, it’s hardly been a fairy tale, and she’s had to prove her resilience time and again: standing her ground against the Royal Family, racism within the British press and all those online haters. Sure, she’s made some questionable decisions along the way, but there’s no denying Meghan is a multihyphenate tour de force, with continued influence and star power. She rarely takes the path of least resistance. She could have returned to acting once she and Harry landed on U.S. soil, or inked a haircare or beauty deal. Instead … she chose jam – and then spreads, teas and candles. Entrepreneurship has had its ups and downs, but her Netflix lifestyle show, Love, Meghan, just received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Her and Harry’s production company Archewell is humming along, with its first theatrical documentary, Cookie Queens, out this week. Plus, as a recent guest judge on MasterChef Australia, Meghan proves she has some cred in the finicky world of foodies. On the home front, Meghan controls the message, posting adorable photos of her, Harry and the kids at play, while using her own experience as a beleaguered Royal to bring to light the effects of social media on mental health. As her longtime friend Serena Williams once said, “I just really think she’s the strongest – literally the strongest – person I know.” | Getty Images
