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Tonya Williams (Tonya Lee Williams as Olivia-Y&R) is a 2026 recipient of Canada's Governor General's Performing Arts Award. https://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2026/williams,-tonya.aspx Lifetime Artistic Achievement Recognizes artists for their outstanding body of work and enduring contribution to the performing arts in Canada. These national awards are presented in the categories of theatre, dance, classical music, broadcasting, popular music and film. Nominations for this category are open to the public. Tonya Williams 2026 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award (Screens and Voices) In 2000, driven by the lack of racial diversity she observed in the Canadian screen industries, she founded Reelworld. Through the Reelworld Screen Institute, the organization delivers the annual Reelworld Film Festival, the two-day Reelworld Summit, year-round professional development programs, and the hiring database Access Reelworld. The company has grown into a respected national platform supporting emerging talent and challenging systemic barriers affecting Black, Indigenous, Asian, South Asian, and People of Colour in Canada’s screen sector. Tonya Williams is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her numerous honours include the Canadian Screen Awards Changemaker Award, ACTRA’s National Award of Excellence, two NAACP Image Awards, and the Legacy Award Visionary Award. She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2025 and was named one of Afroglobal Television’s 100 Most Influential Black Canadians three years in a row.

soaps.com deleted their tweet (opening post of this thread). Update that Michael Roark exit isn't until April ? ?

from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026 Regarding the funding debate in Congress: A reminder that while the crux of this funding battle is about implementing further guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), federal immigration enforcement has already received a 75 billion dollar cash infusion, thanks to the Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that he signed into law last year. This means those key agencies are likely to be unaffected by the looming shutdown.

More from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026 US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) expects to spend an estimated 38.3 billion dollars on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees, according to documents the agency sent to the governor of New Hampshire. The documents, published on the state’s website yesterday, disclose that the Department of Homeland Security estimates it will spend 158 million dollars retrofitting a new detention facility in Merrimack, plus an additional estimated 146 million dollars to operate the facility in the first three years. More on that from Washington Post archived article here https://archive.is/h1brG

Some of the tv listings websites forget to adjust the episode numbers when there's a preemption or repeat. They just keep listing the next episode numbers sequentially (or randomly). So they can be off by a few episode numbers sometimes. Earlier today, ontvtonight was listing episode 150 for Feb. 16, without further info, so I assumed it was really that, which has original airdate October 14; so I posted info about the Oct. 14 episode. (lesson for me: never assume) But now ontvtonight is listing the original airdate and description for the Sept. 24 episode, but still calling it episode 150. But Sept. 24 is actually episode 136. I'm just going to acknowledge here the obvious -- that I know nothing!

Well, I had posted that Monday Feb. 16 is a repeat, and specified which one it was. I got it from the tvlistings at ontvtonight. But I just noticed that ontvtonight still lists it as a repeat, but gives an entirely different episode. I have now deleted what I wrote upthread. I clearly posted the wrong information. I apologize!

I understand your point, but I don't think a repeat is a spoiler? @Errol please delete my post if I violated the rule. I apologize if I did.

They had the set-up with Liam Selejko being likely related to Ivy Selejko who once dated Mike Horton. Ivy had brothers and her father on the show, too. A theoretically possible scenario where Jeremy and Liam could be half-brothers or cousins? I wonder what happened. Will Michael Roark return later on?

Michael Roark does romance films for "Passionflix". He was on Drew Barrymore Feb. 12 with other Passionflix actors in a segment about dating dos and don'ts. https://www.thedrewbarrymoreshow.com/videos/romantic-film-stars-reveal-their-dating-dos-donts-in-raise-your-rose-challenge

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Sydney Malakeh (nuArianna or nuSydney or another role) has a similar name but is * obviously * a different person than Sydney Mikayla (previous Trina on GH) Just sayin, that google might send you to the other actress if you enter names in a hurry.

From Deidre's instagram November 8, 2025 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQz1nXaEqD0/ Autumn Gedron leaves as Charlotte Feb. 2026. A recast Charlotte will eventually appear. Alice Halsey exited as Rachel because she got cast as Laura Ingalls on reboot of Little House on the Prairie. A recast Rachel will eventually appear. The front row of this photo shows the two recast girls, but I don't know the actresses' names. Nu Arianna Horton is (possibly) played by Sydney Malakeh, but I don't know when she debuts. CLARIFICATION, she might be playing Sydney DiMera instead? I don't know if Sydney DiMera is cast or not. NOTE: Malakeh's casting is UNCONFIRMED in a specific role. There is an actress standing on the far left, in front of Dan and next to Lauren Koslow. That MIGHT BE actress, Vico Escorcia. She is perhaps playing nuArianna (or nuSydney). To clarify, one of these actresses is nuArianna but I'm not sure. NuChad (Conner Floyd) is behind Martha Madison in this photo. (for anyone curious about the woman between Deidre and Ken -- that's Ken's daughter Kimberly Corday. He sometimes brings her to publicity events.)

soaps.com is surprised that Autumn Gedron is leaving as Charlotte? It's been known for a while. nuCharlotte, nunuRachel, and nuArianna were all in a BTS cast photo publicized in early November for the 60th anniversary party cake on set. EDIT: Not sure if it was nuArianna on the set.

Here are two extended videos the show made to promote the train set, one from June 2025 (in reference to the France train) and the other from August 2025. In the first one, the set designer is interviewed. In the second one, Billy Flynn shows details of the set.

ROFL, only on Y&R, yes it's a thing. Ridiculous, but yes. In the years between when Daniel Goddard left the role and Billy Flynn took it over, Cane Ashby was working in some sort of business dealings, and became a gazillionaire. He owns an estate in the hills overlooking Nice, France. In winter/spring 2025 he was going by the name "Aristotle Dumas" and he was this mysterious person nobody had seen. In summer 2025 (under his Aristotle Dumas pseudonym) , he invited some Genoa City residents to his French estate for some big mystery business thing. It seemed the only way up the hill (small mountain) was on his private train. He revealed himself as Cane when they arrived. The train remained parked at his estate. During the weeks the Genoa City characters were at his estate, Cane had his Genoa City guests stay in the train cars as their accommodations on the grounds of his château. He never invited them inside the château during the long summer they were there. They socialized on the train cars, or in a hedge-maze on the grounds. Really. This went on for weeks or months. At the estate, Cane's frustrated servant tried to kill Cane but accidentally killed Chance Chancellor (Phillip IV) instead. Cane announced he was moving to Genoa City. He LITERALLY said "I own a train exactly like this one on every continent". Yes that's what he said. He arranged to have his North American train moved to Genoa City and that's where he lives now. I guess it's parked in town. Yes it's absolutely nuts but that's canon now.

@Errol I can see the video embedded on your SON website article. But in your above messageboard post I see a large blank space.

I read that Dancing with the Stars pros Gleb Savchenko and Marcquet Hill danced at the bridal shower. Why?

Finola Hughes posted this on January 28, 2026 https://www.instagram.com/p/DUEzIs-CQTN/ finolafilona This has always been my most favorite photo of Tris and me. I finally found it buried in my pics, it was part of Anna & Robert’s backstory. We were hiding or something. Anyway, it’s my favorite photo! 💕💕💕

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France. Winter Olympics 2026 - Madonna's Vogue

In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts, which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods. These subpoenas have also been used to demand information about people who have criticized Trump officials or protested government policies. Unlike judicial subpoenas, which are approved by a judge after seeing enough evidence of a crime to authorize a search or seizure of someone’s things, administrative subpoenas are issued by federal agencies, allowing investigators to seek a wealth of information about individuals from tech and phone companies without a judge’s oversight. For example, they have obtained without judicial approval: info from Meta(instagram) and from Google(including passwords and account details) Full article on techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/ More details via washingtonpost without paywall https://archive.is/kmWHG

Sami Brady was sort of a teen vixen; but she was also desperate and she raped Austin. So not really the archetype. As said above, we don't need the type of vixen that turns psychotic, such as Esme/GH, Sophia/DAYS, or Luna/B&B. When was the most recent teen vixen on a soap that was fun to watch? Brittany on Y&R?

Regarding Bill having Hayley's name spelled wrong: My real name has an unusual spelling. I was with one of my exes for over a decade but he often misspelled AND mispronounced my name. I finally told him to call me by my initials, which worked out fine. I have close friends I've known for decades who also misspell my name. (That's not Bill's excuse. Just sayin' it happens) Regarding Chelsea and Madison as lesbians being exhausting to watch, and various posts expressing surprise they haven't ... moved in together quickly... into an RV, with cats, listening to Brandi Carlile: Although my sexuality is not the same as Chadison, I do fit into that relationship patttern: I moved in with my other ex after knowing him for a month, into an RV. Really! When we got an apartment, he brought home a cat. After many years, we split. I'm now happily alone, and just bought a ticket to a Brandi Carlile concert. Sorry to go off topic but all those posts made me laugh about my exes. back on topic to BTG.

https://alabamareflector.com/2026/02/09/how-alabama-gives-us-a-never-ending-lesson-in-black-history/

Non-paywall copy of the obituary in "Nature" https://archive.is/6Z1kT Another obituary via NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5685027/gladys-west-gps-mathematician Tribute from a few years ago via Virginia Tech