Here’s a nice new thing we’re doing with SOCAN.

Karan Aujla took home the TikTok Canada fan choice award at The JUNO Awards. Here's how he's among a new wave of Punjabi-Canadian artists making huge moves worldwide: ca.billboard.com/music/punjabi-…

Punjabi-Canadian superstar Karan Aujla, Montreal's Charlotte Cardin, The Beaches, and TALK were the big winners at tonight's #JunoAwards2024 . Read our full report here: ca.billboard.com/music/awards/c… #JUNOS

The #JUNOAwards are on tonight at 8 pm, but the majority of the awards were given out at an awards dinner last night. Here are all 42 of the winners so far: ca.billboard.com/music/awards/j…

For Billboard Canada, I interviewed Nate Ferraro (formerly of the Midway State), one of the three Canadian songwriters credited on Beyoncé’s Hot 100-topping “Texas Hold ‘Em”: ca.billboard.com/music/country/…

Here is the full list of The JUNO Awards nominations for 2024: ca.billboard.com/music/awards/c…

I covered NHL All-Star this weekend, so I guess I’m a sports reporter now.

So, I saw Justin Bieber last night. I might now beliebe. Here’s my review/recap for Billboard.

Here I am on The Big Story podcast talking about one of Canada’s last record store chains and why physical media is still going strong.

Influential music review site Pitchfork is being folded into GQ, and many of its staff are being laid off. What does this mean for Canadian artists? ca.billboard.com/media/pitchfor…

Big news this morning: billboard Power Players is coming to Canada and launching at Canadian Music Week: ca.billboard.com/business/busin…

Light can be found in the most unimaginable darkness, and it can inspire unexpected changes. This is human nature, and it is also the wisdom of the Jewish people, which I turn to now, with a broken heart and with hope for what can be. 7/7

So Hanukkah to me this year is an offered prayer that both Palestinians and Israelis, and the diaspora of all Jewish and Palestinian people, be free to live in safety. It is also an offered prayer for my family in Israel. 6/

I have dedicated much of my life's work to intergenerational healing, and have been unspeakably heartbroken to witness Israel enacting the trauma of the Jewish people onto the Palestinian community with such violence. 4/

I offer my prayers that Israel, a country that is 75% Jewish and containing nearly half the world's Jews, will remember that light must be inspired in the darkness. 3/

Never Again should be our wisdom for all beings, not an excuse to harm others in the way we were harmed. This is trauma reliving itself, survival fear in action, but there is no excuse. 5/

I believe this is a universal capacity of humans to find light in moments when it seems unimaginable, and for that light to carry us further than we expected.

I offer my prayers right now for a ceasefire in Palestine. 2/

Last night I lit candles for the first night of Hanukkah. The story of Hanukkah feels profoundly alive to me this year - a story of light that is found in immeasurable darkness, that miraculously lasts well beyond its expected capacity. 1/

new from me at Billboard Canada: as local venues raise concerns about noise complaints, the city of montreal says a new nightlife policy—with an “agent of change” principle—is in the works for early 2024

ca.billboard.com/montreal-noise…