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Cory Bowles
Cory Bowles (born August 27, 1973) is a Canadian actor, director and choreographer. He is best known for his portrayal of Cory in the series ''Trailer Park Boys''. Life and career Bowles was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia. Best known as Cory in ''Trailer Park Boys'', he also is the principal choreographer of Halifax-based Contemporary Dance Company Verve Mwendo, plays in the rock band Aide-De-Camp and voices the children's series Poko. In the mid-1990s Bowles gained some prominence as MC of hip hop act Hip Club Groove, performing under the name "Chek Love". The group released an EP on No Records and later a full length on Murderecords. The group toured Canada, often opening for other Halifax based bands such as Sloan. Bowles later formed a theatre company in 1997 with bandmate Joseph Wynne called The Good Companions. After closing down the company he went on to further his studies as a dancer and choreographer in Alberta. Bowles received a Gemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
North/South
''North/South'' is a Canadian soap opera created by Floyd Kane and produced by the Halifax Film Company, featuring Cory Bowles. The show ran for one season, airing on CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ... between July 4 and July 13, 2006. CBC Television original programming Canadian television soap operas 2006 Canadian television series debuts 2006 Canadian television series endings Television series by WildBrain 2000s Canadian drama television series {{Canada-drama-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Black Cop
''Black Cop'' is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival."Nova Scotia film Black Cop to debut at TIFF" CBC News, August 12, 2017. The full-length directorial debut of actor Cory Bowles, the film is an expansion of his earlier short film of the same name. The film stars Ronnie Rowe (actor), Ronnie Rowe as a Black Canadian police officer who himself becomes the victim of racial profiling and takes revenge on his community. In February 2018, the film was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Films for distribution in the United States. Plot Part 1 The film starts off with a monologue of an African Canadian cop (Ronnie Rowe Jr.) recalling his childhood. When he was young, a little boy calle ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Roaming (film)
''Roaming'' is a Canadian film written and directed by Michael Ray Fox and produced by Richard MacQueen, Michael Melski, and Craig Cameron. The film features Rhys Bevan-John, Cory Bowles, Daniel Lillford, Martha Irving, Josh MacDonald, Sarah D. McCarthy, and Christina Cuffari. ''Roaming'' was the first film to be produced through Telefilm Canada's First Feature Program which paved the way for Telefilm's Talent To Watch program. Release ''Roaming'' opened the 2013 Toronto Independent Film Festival and was the Closing Night Gala film of the Silver Wave Film Festival. The film was distributed in Canada by Multiple Media Entertainment and All Channel Films and was released on Hulu, Indieflix, The Movie Network, Hollywood Suite, Bell TV OnDemand, and the National Film Board of Canada Canada Screens website. An incomplete version of "Roaming" originally screened at the 2012 Atlantic Film Festival. before its 2013 release. Reception ''Roaming'' received generally positive reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Gospel According To The Blues
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Poor Boy's Game
''Poor Boy's Game'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Clement Virgo. Co-written with Nova Scotian writer/director Chaz Thorne ('' Just Buried''), it is the story of class struggle, racial tensions, and boxing, set in the Canadian east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film premiered on February 11, 2007, at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie stars Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland, Greg Bryk, Flex Alexander and Laura Regan. ''Poor Boy's Game'' opened in Halifax cinemas on November 9, 2007. In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that the film was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films. Plot Donnie Rose ( Rossif Sutherland) plays a former boxer who is released from prison after serving time for a vicious assault on a Black teen that left the teen physically and mentally disabled. The beating of the teen sparked outrage and further divided the historically s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (and the 54th episode overall). It first aired on NBC in the United States on January 6, 1993. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry intended to meet his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. However, given the situation, he agrees to skip the movie and reschedule his act to the 11:00 slot. Jerry first heads to the earlier scheduled comedy act, only to learn that the act was scheduled for 9:15, not 9:50 as Jerry thought, and Buckles ended up filling his spot. Jerry then heads to the movie theater to inform his friends that he won't accompany them. Buckles insists on sharing the taxicab with Jerry, and irrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Chronicle Herald
''The Chronicle Herald'' is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, owned by Postmedia Network. History Early years Founded in 1874 as ''The Morning Herald'', the paper quickly became one of Halifax's main newspapers. The same company also owned the ''Evening Mail'', which was published in the afternoon. Its main competitors were the ''Chronicle'' in the morning, and the ''Star'' in the afternoon. By 1949 the papers had merged to become ''The Chronicle-Herald'' and ''Mail-Star'' respectively. Graham Dennis era Graham W. Dennis took over as publisher of the newspaper in 1954, at age 26, after the death of his father, senator William Henry Dennis, who in turn had succeeded senator William Dennis in running the paper. He led the newspaper for the next half century. Dennis was proud of the paper's independence and rebuffed numerous offers to buy it. He was known as a humanistic employer interested in the welfare of his employees, stating that his proudest moment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diggstown (TV Series)
''Diggstown'' is a Canadian legal drama television series created by Floyd Kane. The first Canadian drama series to feature a Black Canadian woman as its lead character, the series stars Vinessa Antoine as Marcie Diggs, a lawyer who leaves her high-powered corporate job to work for a legal aid clinic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, after her aunt commits suicide. The first season premiered on CBC Television on March 6, 2019. A second season was announced in May 2019, following the conclusion of the first season. On June 21, 2020, the series was renewed for a third season which is set to premiere on October 6, 2021. In early 2021, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox picked up the series for distribution. The CBC announced in October 2022 that the show's fourth season would be its last, with the finale scheduled to air on November 16. Plot ''Diggstown'' follows Marcie Diggs (Vinessa Antoine), a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities and moves back home (to the greater Halifax- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pretty Hard Cases
''Pretty Hard Cases'' is a Canadian police procedural crime comedy-drama television series that premiered on CBC Television on February 3, 2021. Originally announced with the working title ''Lady Dicks'', the series was created by Tassie Cameron and Sherry White. In March 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 5, 2022. IMDb TV became official co-producer for the series' second season, with the second season released on IMDb TV on April 22, 2022. In June 2022, at CBC's upfronts announcement event, the show was renewed for a third season, with Amazon Freevee (the renamed IMDb TV) still committed and on board to co-fund, co-produce and broadcast in the United States. Season 3 premiered on January 4, 2023 on CBC and CBC Gem in Canada, and on November 29 on Freevee. The CBC announced in February 2023 that the show will end at the conclusion of the third season on March 8. Premise The series follows two detectives in their early 40s: Sam Wazows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coroner (TV Series)
''Coroner'' is a Canadian police procedural crime drama television series. Developed by Morwyn Brebner, the series is based on the Jenny Cooper crime novels by M. R. Hall. Serinda Swan stars as coroner Jenny Cooper. ''Coroner'' premiered on CBC on 7 January 2019. Overview The series stars Serinda Swan as Jenny Cooper, a recently widowed coroner in Toronto who investigates suspicious deaths. Cast and characters Main * Serinda Swan as Dr. Jenny Cooper, a former ER doctor now working as a coroner in Toronto, Jenny is dealing with PTSD from the abrupt death of her husband, Dr. David Kalighi, from an aneurysm. Several months after his death, she discovers that he had a heavy gambling problem, leaving significant debts that forces Jenny to sell their home and move out of the city. * Roger Cross as Det. Donovan "Mac" McAvoy, a senior homicide detective who works alongside Jenny investigating various suspicious deaths, meeting her for the first time in the premiere episode. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
