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Articles for category: Entertainment

June 10, 2026

Signal Editorial

The Business of Concert Tourism Is Booming in Canada

A growing number of Canadians are planning entire trips around concerts, and the trend is creating opportunities for businesses far beyond the music industry. Concert tourism is exactly what it sounds like: travelling to another city or province specifically to attend a live performance. While fans have always travelled for major events, the scale of the phenomenon has increased dramatically in recent years. Large tours by artists such as Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Coldplay have demonstrated just how much economic activity can be generated when thousands of fans descend on a city for a weekend. For local businesses, the impact

March 24, 2026

Signal Editorial

Rumblings of Discrimination Lawsuit against Reservoir Media May Have Artists Eyeing the Exits

In the wake of several high-profile scandals taking place across the music industry related to Epstein files, new rumors of discrimination allegations against Golnar Khosrowshahi, the Irani-Canadian founder of Reservoir Media, have raised reputation concerns among artists signed to the label. According to industry insiders with knowledge of the case, Sir Robin Millar, the famed British music producer, has filed suit in the UK alleging that Reservoir discriminated against him on the basis of his disability, Bay Street Signal has learned. Efforts to obtain comment from Reservoir and Millar were unsuccessful. When Sir Robin Millar agreed in August 2019 to

March 21, 2026

Signal Editorial

Why Canada’s Streaming Boom Is Starting to Look Like a Bubble

For the better part of the last five years, Canada’s entertainment sector has ridden the global streaming wave with confidence. Production hubs in Toronto and Vancouver expanded rapidly, tax credits drew in foreign studios, and domestic players leaned into the promise that demand for content would remain insatiable. That assumption is now starting to crack. What’s changed isn’t demand for entertainment itself—it’s the economics behind it. Major global platforms are no longer in growth-at-all-costs mode. Instead, they’re tightening budgets, prioritizing profitability, and cutting back on mid-tier productions. For Canada, which has quietly positioned itself as a cost-effective production engine for