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03.04.2023 - 12:21 / etcanada.com
Chris Boucher’s story is as improbable as they come. Born in St. Lucia, the Toronto Raptors power forward immigrated to Canada with his mother when he was 5, and grew up in poverty in Montreal’s north end. He dropped out of school at 16, and faced homelessness while working as a dishwasher at a St-Hubert restaurant. Eventually, he found a way into the NCAA, but went undrafted due to a torn ACL.
Today, despite all those obstacles, he’s an NBA champion.
Now, Boucher wants to do all he can to help other kids beat the odds like he did. So he’s teamed up with G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University to launch a new scholarship aimed at helping five students of Caribbean descent achieve their academic goals.
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The SlimmDuck Scholarship will provide financial assistance to one student each year for the next five years, specifically supporting those who have incomplete admission requirements for a conventional pathway to a university degree.
“Just thinking about how my story went and how lucky and blessed I got, I don’t want to forget and be ungrateful,” Boucher tells ET Canada. “So I felt like it’s my job to give a chance to other people to have similar opportunities and get to do better for [themselves], for their lives and just to get better just in general, because I feel like [they] never got help like that before. This was the first time for me to be in that position to help people. It was something I’ve always wanted to do.”
Boucher’s scholarship — made possible by a donation to the school from his SlimmDuck Foundation (the amount of which wasn’t disclosed) — will be
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Hugh Jackman has promised fans that his return as Wolverine in the upcoming “Deadpool 3” won’t screw with the previous “X-Men” timeline. In other words, Jackman’s Wolverine character arc from 2000’s “X-Men” to 2017’s “Logan” is safe from whatever will go down in Marvel Cinematic Universe tentpole. Neither Reynolds nor Jackman have disclosed much information about the new Wolverine, but Reynolds recently told ET Canada that it diverges greatly from Jackson’s previous Wolverine. “We’ve wanted to this this for decades…it’s weirdly the perfect time,” Reynold said about teaming up with Jackman. “I never stopped [trying to get him to come back as Wolverine]. I was just pestering him like a gnat over the last many years. I believe in timing, as much as hard work and luck and all those intersections that are supposed to meet. Timing’s the big one. I think he was ready. I think he was excited.”
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Chris Evans said this week that he has avoided hosting "Saturday Night Live" "like the plague" for the last several years. "I've avoided hosting ‘SNL’ like the plague for years now just because I'm so scared," the "Captain America" star said to "Entertainment Tonight Canada." "It's terrifying to me.To me, it would just be one of those things that every single night I would wake up in a cold sweat." The 41-year-old said he doesn’t think he has the comedy chops to be a successful host of the sketch show.
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Katie Holmes is back in the director’s chair.
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guest-hosting “SNL” on April 15.The pair spoke to ET Canada recently and the Boston native recently admitted that he’s too nervous to appear on an episode of the sketch comedy show.“Well, now a cameo I can handle,” Evans said, when asked if he would ever appear on the NBC series. “I’ve avoided hosting ‘SNL’ like the plague for years now just because I’m so scared.
Chris Evans has an idea in terms of how his character could maybe rejoin the “Knives Out” franchise.
Sylvester Stallone, his wife Jenn and daughters Sophie, Sistine and Scarlet seem quite comfortable being on camera in the first trailer for the reality series “The Family Stallone,” which premieres May 17 on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Brazil and on Thursday, May 18 in the U.K., Australia and Italy.“I can’t believe you guys are doing a reality show,” the “Tulsa King” star tells his family in in the first trailer, which was released on Tuesday. “It’s quite ironic that he’s the last person who wanted to do this show, but he sees a camera and he’s like, ‘Am I in frame?'” teases daughter Sistine, while Stallone laughingly admits, “That’s the truth.” Al Pacino and Dolph Lundgren also hang out with the action star and share a few laughs.
Chris Evans has a long list of accomplishments to his name: one of the main stars of the Marvel franchise for nearly a decade, lots of movie and TV shows to his name, recent Sexiest Man Alive, and so much more.
Chris Evans has done a lot over the years, but he isn’t interested in adding hosting Global’s “Saturday Night Live” to that list.
Care Failure, lead singer of Toront0-based alt-rock band Die Mannequin, has reportedly died.
The Biebers are enjoying a cute date night by the rink.
Keanu Reeves has a lot of love for Toronto.
Naman Ramachandran Blue Ant Media and World of Wonder have launch free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel Drag Race Universe on Amazon Freevee in the U.S. Programming launch highlights on the Drag Race Universe channel include: “Canada’s Drag Race” seasons 2 and 3 (19 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. vs The World” (6 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.” seasons 2 and 3 (20 x 60’). “Drag Race Holland” (8 x 60’), “Drag Race Espana” (10 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under” seasons 1 and 2 (16 x 60’), the first season of “Drag Race Philippines” (10 x 60’) and “Drag Race Philippines Untucked” (10 x 30’), its companion series that follows the backstage drama.
“The Bachelor”s Kaity Biggar is a proud Canadian, but she doesn’t necessarily want to have her wedding to Zach Shallcross in her home country.
Paramount and Hasbro eOne with the greatest of intentions have created an extremely fun, broad-audience appealing feature take on the classic roleplaying game, entitled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which already is 90% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes –not an easy feat with a genre movie of this caliber– and 94% with moviegoers.
HYBE Labels subsidiary ADOR, home to K-pop girl group NewJeans, have opened online auditions for a potential new boyband.Today (March 28), ADOR unveiled several posters and videos on social media and YouTube announcing its ‘The Real Hype Boys’ audition. The label will be accepting online auditions on ador.world from now until 1pm KST on April 14.An unnamed male trainee as well as the members of NewJeans feature in the promotional video for the auditions, which details the online application period and host countries where in-person auditions will take place.Per ADOR’s guidelines, the auditions are open to boys born between 2004-2012.
Chris Pratt’s son Jack loved seeing his dad in “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”.