Creatives reflect on why it's important for Canadians to 'sell our stories to the world'
Nominees and winners at the Canadian Screen Awards say the ceremony is an opportunity to reflect on Canadian content in tumultuous political times, and celebrate creativity north of the border. (June 1, 2025)
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What separates a $1,000 iPhone from a $3,500 one? About 7,000 miles.
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social network to condemn Apple's practices of offshoring jobs to China to manufacture the iPhone and other products in its device lineup. After threatening an individual tariff of 25% on all Apple products, some analysts are already putting in predictions for how the President's proposed rate could affect Cupertino's supply chain, and ultimately what the company would need to charge for products like the iPhone, MacBooks, and more if those threats are made real. For starters, here is some context on what it looks like when a country tries to apply individual tariffs to companies or sectors attempting to reshore. What Trump is suggesting, at least broadly, wouldn't be the first time a government has applied tariffs to a single corporation. Throughout history, the U.S. has placed tariffs on everything from Chinese-made solar panels to Canadian lumber to protect and ensure the growth trajectory of domestic competitors. However it is the first time a president has threatened a domestic U.S. company with tariffs for goods it produces overseas. 'I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,' Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday morning. 'If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S.' The fact that no one has ever tried to do something like this before acknowledges just how unprecedented Trump's threats are. Some economists say it is damaging to the U.S. consumer and stock market. As Apple produces nearly 90% of its entire product stack from within China's borders, this clearly presents a problem for the company. In February of this year, Tim Cook made loose promises that Apple plans to restore over $500 billion worth of manufacturing to the US over the next four years. This timeline feels suspiciously convenient on its own, but Trump has decided to put even more pressure on Cupertino to bring jobs back home nonetheless. Ahead of Trump's latest amendment to global trade policy, Dan Ives, global lead of technology research at financial services firm Wedbush Securities, told CNN in April that bringing iPhone manufacturing back to the U.S. wasn't much more than 'a fictional tale.' 'You build that (supply chain) in the U.S. with a fab in West Virginia and New Jersey. They'll be $3,500 iPhones,' he said. Ives also addressed the sheer logistical nightmare, saying it would take more than three years and $30 billion just to get 10% of the supply chain back to US shores. Whether a tariff or the cost of reshoring is applied, the end result is a more expensive iPhone, MacBook, iMac, or Vision Pro for you or someone in your family going forward. If there's one tech story that points to the potential pitfalls of Trump's overall strategy for the U.S. tech industry, it's Intel. Over the past half decade, the company has lost almost 65% of its total value, a decrease driven by AMD's surprise chiplet attack, which threw one of America's most stable blue chip stocks into abrupt, and up to now seemingly unending, chaos. AMD had spent the better part of its history trailing Intel in sales, innovation, performance, and reliability. However, the company's growing partnership with Taiwan's chip fab specialists, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, created a new attack point. One where the engineering, programming, and design of a chip could be handled stateside, while TSMC would shoulder the actual chip fabrication. A split set of duties allows companies like AMD or Nvidia to offshore many of the dirtier, more heavily regulated parts of producing chips to other regions, while hiring talent willing to work in buildings not attached to silicon manufacturing floors in the United States. Meanwhile, Intel continued to expand domestic fabrication in places like Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and others for years before the CHIPS Act was even a thing. Famously, the company stumbled significantly from the 10nm to 7nm production process (to the tune of billions of dollars). AMD eventually seized its opportunity to close the gap between the two chipmakers. AMD's model isn't unique, of course. Nvidia, Apple, and even a modernized Intel all have to rely heavily, if not entirely, on Taiwan and TSMC to manufacture a significant portion of the chips backed by their engineering and design efforts. Designing a product in the U.S. and manufacturing it abroad has become a core component of the NAFTA-driven economic model since Clinton first passed the bill in the 90s. As such, it's almost strange for Apple to be singled out the way it has been, considering how many of its direct competitors do the exact same thing. In all likelihood, Trump, who famously said 'everything's computer," is no expert on technology trade. This lack of awareness likely allows underdogs like AMD, and even more confusing tech prospects like Nvidia, to fly under the 78-year-old's radar in what's become the status quo for any Silicon Valley company that wants to keep the lights on these days. Currently, the only company seemingly capable of usurping Apple's claim to the number one most valuable company is Nvidia, another tech giant that's doing the exact same thing Trump claims to be against. However, one thing Apple doesn't have that Nvidia does is the backing of everyone around them. What's suitable for Nvidia is good for the world (or the U.S.). So even rivals like Meta, Tesla, and Amazon still line up next to one another to sing the hardware maker's praises. At the same time, they also commit to a competing AI arms race of biblical proportions against each other. Whether Apple's 25% tariff is real, enforceable, or something Trump will even care about next week is likely a whim left to the courts and whatever Fox News complained about last night. But if the company does get stuck with a new sticker price, it could face even fiercer competition from rivals like Samsung and lose shares to domestic winners like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia, which are just as complicit in offshoring US manufacturing as Apple but still somehow manage to escape Trump's ire. 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20 of the longest LGBTQ+ relationships in Hollywood
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner In the early '70s, actress Tomlin reached out to writer Wagner to get help with a character she was playing. Their meeting was love at first sight, Tomlin said. "A friend brought her to my hotel room, and I tell you, in two minutes, I fell in love with her," Tomlin told Variety in 2020. "She had on hot pants, stretchy boots that went up to her knee, and a little backpack. I don't know what it was, but I was in love." After their meeting, Tomlin flew to Chicago but then immediately flew back to New York to go on a date with Wagner. Over the next few decades, the two created a romantic and professional partnership that resulted in some of the best comedies of the '80s and '90s, per Variety. It wasn't until 2013 that the pair tied the knot. George Takei and Brad Altman "Star Trek" actor Takei joined a running group in the '80s and met a fellow member, Brad Altman. Together, they trained for 5ks and 10ks before eventually becoming romantically involved, Variety reported. They kept their relationship a secret for 18 years before Takei came out publicly in 2005. In 2008, the couple married. "We truly are a team — me as the actor, writer, activist and Brad as the manager, scheduler and all-around essential guy," Takei told Variety in 2020. "And we love being able to share our lives and our livelihood." Elton John and David Furnish In 1993, John was sober for the first time in a decade, and he looked for a new social circle to support his new lifestyle, per His friend brought Furnish, a Canadian filmmaker, to dinner and the two felt an instant connection. In 2005, the couple said "I do" in a civil partnership. They made it an official marriage in 2014 when same-sex marriage was legalized in England. Today, they have two children. "Every Saturday for 16 years, we've sent each other a card," John told Parade magazine in 2016. "No matter where we are in the world, to say how much we love each other." RuPaul and Georges LeBar In 1994, RuPaul met Georges LeBar, a rancher in Wyoming, on the dance floor of New York's famous nightclub, the Limelight. In 2017, the couple said "I do" on the anniversary of their dance-floor "meet-cute," Marie Claire reported. "He works the ranch, I work Hollywood, and we meet up in fabulous places," RuPaul told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. "You know, he needs breaks from time to time because it's a very different life. So, we plan little getaways once a month, you know? New York or Maui or San Francisco or Vegas. We do that." The two married in 2017. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi DeGeneres and De Rossi met in 2004 and instantly felt a connection, but De Rossi wasn't out to the public yet: The actress told Oprah in 2012 that she hadn't been ready "to date the most famous lesbian in the world." In 2005, she spoke to The Advocate about coming out, and in 2008, the couple married. "Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there," DeGeneres told People magazine in 2016. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka When they met on a street corner in New York City in 2004, Harris thought Burtka was straight but was completely enamored by him. Slowly, they grew closer at other social gatherings. "I initially fell for David harder than he fell for me," Harris told Out magazine in 2012. "I was in love with him before he was comfortable saying it, and I think that speaks to our past experiences. I remember saying, 'I think I love you,' and he was like, 'That's really nice,' which is not necessarily what you want to hear." Still, Burtka — who is also an actor — was the one who proposed first on the same street corner where they met, Out magazine reported. They married in 2014 and now have twins together. Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni Nixon and Marinoni met while advocating for state schools in 2004, a year after Nixon broke it off with her high school sweetheart, the Radio Times reported. "I had never dated a woman before or even kissed a woman or anything, and so when we started seeing each other, Christine kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for me to panic about what this would mean — to my career or to myself — as if somehow I just hadn't noticed that she was a woman. And then she met my mother and that was when she stopped worrying about it," Nixon told the Radio Times in 2017. The two married in 2012 and have one child together, a son named Max. (Nixon also has two children from a previous relationship.) Wanda Sykes and Alex Niedbalski In 2006, Sykes was on a ferry to Fire Island, an island off Long Island, New York, when she saw a woman who instantly caught her attention, The Guardian reported. By sheer coincidence, the comedian was later introduced to the woman, Alex Niedbalski. The two began dating and married in 2008. Sykes came out to the public the same year she tied the knot with Niedbalski. Previously Sykes was married to Dave Hall, a music producer, whom she often joked about hating. "It just speaks to being in a bad relationship with my husband," Sykes told New York Times Magazine in 2018. "I was being honest. I wanted to get away. Like: 'God, there's his stupid face, and he's chewing. Ugh, does he have to breathe? Make him stop breathing.' Now I'm in a great relationship, and I'm happy, so my wife's chewing doesn't annoy me." Tan France and Rob France Tan met his future husband, Rob France, on a dating app over a decade ago. Rob is an illustrator and a Mormon from Wyoming, while Tan is a Muslim from England. Together, they bonded over their religious backgrounds. "It made it easier to date somebody who had similarities to me. I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke," France told the New York Post in 2018. "We practice some of our religions' practices. We don't practice them all. We practice what works for us." Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita In 2009, Mikita, a lawyer, stopped Ferguson in the Equinox locker room to ask him about his new role on the ABC sitcom "Modern Family." A few months later, the pair started dating, and in 2013, they got married. They welcomed their first child together in July 2020, and their second in November 2022. Ferguson told BI in 2023 that fatherhood "did not always feel like an option for me, but it was something I desired." "I didn't know I desired it as much as I did until I met my husband, Justin," he added. Matt Bomer and Simon Halls In 2012, actor Bomer came out during an acceptance speech, revealing he had three sons with publicist Simon Halls. In 2014, he dropped another bombshell, telling the public that he and Halls had actually been married since 2011. Since their relationship is mostly private, it's unclear exactly how or when they met, but their twins were born in 2008. "Well, we have three kids right now, so you've got to fit the romance in when you can," Bomer told People magazine in 2016. "[My grandparents] just celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary, so I always look to them and I see how every day they express their love for each other and I try to follow. They've set a pretty good model for me to follow." Michael Kors and Lance LePere Michael Kors and Lance LePere were introduced in 1990 when LePere was interning for Kors' company, CBS News reported. The pair married in Southampton in August 2011, shortly after the New York State Assembly legalized same-sex marriage in June of that year. "Lance and I are very excited to finally be able to have the opportunity to marry in our home state after many years together," Kors told People. "To marry someone as wonderful and special to me as Lance barefoot on a glorious beach is more than I could have dreamed of," Kors told Womens Wear Daily at the wedding. Brandi Carlile and Catherine Shepherd A year before Brandi Carlile met her now-wife Catherine Shepherd in person, the two connected on the phone. Shepherd had been working for Paul McCartney's charity and was looking to donate Beatles memorabilia to Carlile's Fight the Fear campaign. A year later, they met in person and hit it off. "It was shocking, to say the least," Carlile told People in 2021. "Every time I talked to her over the phone, I thought I was talking to somebody who was like 65 years old.... We met backstage in New York, and we were both like 27." Two years later, in 2012, they got married. Their daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah were born in 2014 and 2018. Robin Roberts and Amber Laign The "Good Morning America" anchor met Laign, a massage therapist and businesswoman, in 2005 after they were set up on a blind date by mutual friends. Since then, the pair have largely kept their relationship out of the spotlight. Roberts first publicly acknowledged both her sexuality and Laign in 2013, when she thanked her "longtime girlfriend Amber" in a Facebook post celebrating her recovery from a life-saving bone-marrow transplant. In January 2023, a year after sharing that Laign had been battling breast cancer — the same disease Roberts herself was diagnosed with in 2007 — Roberts shared her plans to get married within the year. Lance Bass and Michael Turchin After meeting in 2011 at a party in Palm Springs, California, former *NSYNC member Lance Bass connected with artist Michael Turchin on Facebook and struck up a friendship. At first, Turchin kept him in the friend zone. "I am so shy and never would have made the first move," Turchin told People. "I was thinking, 'This is Lance Bass. I grew up watching him on TV and listening to his music.' That just added a whole other layer of intimidation." The two became the first same-sex couple to be married on American television in 2015 when "Lance Loves Michael: The Lance Bass Wedding Special" aired on E!. The couple celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2021 by getting each other a new pair of rings. "Every time I look at my hand, I just get reminded of the 10 blissful years," Bass told People. The couple has twins, born in 2021. Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Daley met the Oscar-winning screenwriter shortly after winning his first Olympic medal at the 2012 London Olympics, when the two connected at a dinner party. In 2015, the couple announced their engagement through a newspaper blurb. In an interview, the couple recalled their engagement when they proposed to each other. "I had the ring box in my underwear, and when he came out of the bathroom, I just went down on my knee and proposed," Daley told Out Magazine. "Then he ran off to the bathroom to get his rings, and he had this whole speech prepared, but he's a writer so his was quite extravagant. But looking back, all I can remember is being completely overwhelmed." The couple married in 2017 and, in June 2018, became parents for the first time. Cheyenne Jackson and Jason Landau The "Glee" actor met Landau at a 12-step group meeting and they announced their engagement in February 2014. The two got married later that year and marked their 10-year anniversary in 2024. "We've both been through a lot in our lives," Jackson told People in 2014. "We got sober together. Now we sing and we dance together. It blows my mind." The two welcomed twins Ethan and Willow in October 2016. Melissa Etheridge and Linda Wallem The "I'm the Only One" singer and Wallem, a showrunner and producer of shows like "That '70s Show," met in the early 2000s when Etheridge auditioned to play a record store owner in a "That '70s Show" spin-off called "That '80s Show," which was never filmed. Staying friends for over 10 years, the two reconnected after the singer separated her former partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, in 2010. In 2014, Etheridge and Wallem tied the knot in California, just days after their shared birthday. "She was my best friend for nine years, so it's an interesting relationship. I've never been friends with someone for that long and then entered into a romantic relationship," Etheridge told the West Michigan magazine Revue in 2011. "She's my friend and it's really pretty amazing. I'm happier than I've ever, ever been." Colman Domingo and Raúl Domingo The "Sing Sing" actor and his husband, Raúl Domingo, crossed paths at a Walgreens parking lot in 2005, although the two didn't talk. A few days later, Colman came across a Missed Connections ad on Craigslist where Raúl was looking to reconnect with Colman after their brief interaction. Two days later, the two went out. "I told him, 'I think you're about to change my life and I love you,'" Colman told Stephen Colbert on " The Late Show" in 2022. "And we've been together ever since." The two tied the knot in 2014. Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak Parsons, who in 2018 was the highest-paid TV actor thanks to his role as Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory," as reported by Forbes, met his graphic designer husband in a November 2002 blind date set up by mutual friends. "I'll never forget that late fall into the holidays when we spent so much time together just falling more in love," Parsons told People in 2022. "Every time there's that smell when the air gets cold in New York, it always reminds me." Ten years later, the two made their relationship public. They married five years after that, in 2017. In 2015, they co-founded That's Wonderful Productions, a production company. Since then, the two have been credited as executive producers on "Young Sheldon."
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The Government of Canada introduces citizenship by descent legislation for Canadians
OTTAWA, ON, June 5, 2025 /CNW/ - Canadian citizenship lies at the heart of what it means to be Canadian, providing a sense of belonging and connection to a diverse, inclusive, and democratic nation. For many newcomers to Canada, citizenship is key to integration and we are committed to making the citizenship process as fair and transparent as possible. As a result of the first-generation limit to citizenship by descent for individuals born abroad, most Canadian citizens who are citizens by descent cannot pass on citizenship to their child born or adopted outside Canada. The current first-generation limit to citizenship no longer reflects how Canadian families live today—here at home and around the world—and the values that define our country. Today, the Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, introduced legislation that would extend citizenship by descent beyond the first generation in a way that is inclusive and protects the value of Canadian citizenship. Bill C-3 would: automatically give Canadian citizenship to any person who would be a citizen today were it not for the first-generation limit or certain outdated provisions of previous citizenship legislation establish a new framework for citizenship by descent going forward that would allow for access to citizenship beyond the first generation based on a Canadian parent's substantial connection to Canada demonstrated by at least 1,095 cumulative days (i.e., three years) of physical presence in Canada prior to their child's birth or adoption. People who may be impacted by the changes proposed in Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025), will no doubt have questions about what this means for them and their families. If the bill passes both Houses of Parliament and receives Royal Assent, we will work as quickly as possible to bring these changes into effect and will provide more information for eligible individuals on our website. Quote: "Citizenship is more than a legal status—it's a profound connection to the values, history, and spirit of Canada. By requiring those who pass citizenship to their children born abroad beyond the first generation to have a substantial connection to our country we are honouring that bond. It reflects our belief that being Canadian means more than just a place of birth; it's about belonging, shared experiences, and a commitment to the inclusive and diverse community we all call home." – The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Quick facts: The first Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 contained several now-outdated provisions that caused many people to either lose their Canadian citizenship or not acquire it in the first place. Legislative changes in 2009 and 2015 restored or gave citizenship to the vast majority of "Lost Canadians" who had lost it or never received it due to outdated legislation. Approximately 20,000 people became citizens and were issued certificates of Canadian citizenship as a result of these changes. Under the former section 8 of the Citizenship Act, some individuals lost citizenship at the age of 28. These were people born beyond the first generation abroad between February 15, 1977, and April 16, 1981, who turned 28 and failed to retain their citizenship before the first-generation limit was introduced in 2009. On December 19, 2023, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared that key provisions of the first-generation limit, which generally limits citizenship by descent to persons who are born abroad to a Canadian parent who was themselves born or naturalized in Canada, are unconstitutional. The Government of Canada did not appeal the ruling because we agree that the current law has unacceptable consequences for Canadians whose children were born outside the country. Related products: Backgrounder – Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act Government of Canada introduces legislation for citizenship by descent Backgrounder - Bill C-71: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024) Canada will not appeal decision that strikes down first-generation limit to Canadian citizenship by descent Follow us: SOURCE Citizenship and Immigration Canada View original content: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
