Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North

09/25/2025

NEW EPISODE!
What if your middle school English project became a published book? That’s exactly what happened to Gordon Korman. At just 12 years old, he turned a classroom assignment into This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall—the start of a legendary career in children’s literature.

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Featuring insights from cultural historian Ed Conroy of Retrontario and Gordon Korman himself, this episode is a nostalgic, funny, and inspiring look at how a kid from Thornhill, Ontario became a household name in children’s literature.

Thanks to Scholastic for helping with this episode.

08/14/2025

What’s your favourite John Candy film?

This week on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North we’re joined by John Candy - Searching for Candy biographer Tracey J Morgan and Joe Ramoni of Hats Off Entertainment and Almost Cult Classics the podcast. We’re going through every John film (40+) to make a list of the essential 10.

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07/22/2025

Just another home run from .

07/22/2025

Thumbing through Raffi’s autobiography and came across this picture with John Candy. Two Canadian icons ❤️

12/08/2023

11/22/2023

New Podcast! Listen here: https://apple.co/3unJO3n

Fifty years ago the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation (PNIAI) transformed the art world forever. As part of Indigenous activism happening across the Americas in the 1970s, the “Indian Group of 7” (as they were dubbed by the press at the time) asserted First Nations artistic expressions and self-determination in the face of forced assimilation policies. Their goals: encourage other First Nations artists to paint, create space in national and commercial galleries for First Nations art, and inspire youth. From Expo 67 to their groundbreaking exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and beyond, learn more about the lives and artistic practices of the PNIAI and its members, and the Group's on-going influence, today.

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10/18/2023

In our final episode on the life and work of filmmaker David Cronenberg, we're transported with The Fly, and seeing double with Dead Ringers.

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