Music: February 2026

Sunday, February 1, 2026

{allcanada} Connor Storrie Set As ‘SNL’ Host In February

Connor Storrie

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Connor Storrie will host Saturday Night Live for the first time February 28, the late-night show revealed during tonight's show. Alongside him will be musical guest Mumford & Sons.

The Heated Rivalry star has seen a meteoric rise to fame alongside his co-star Hudson Williams, going from little-known working actor to Golden Globes presenter, Olympic torchbearer and appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers and front row at YSL's Paris Fashion Week show. (He is also the French luxury fashion house's newest ambassador.)

Storrie will be a first-time host, and it seemed inevitable the performer — whose best-known role prior to the breakout Crave Canada hit was in Joker: Folie à deux, where he is credited as Young Inmate — would take the Studio 8H stage. Outside of acting, Storrie, who plays Russian hockey phenom Ilya Rozanov in the Jacob Tierney-created drama, has been vocal about being involved in the clown scene in Los Angeles, and as such, seems primed to take to the sketch show with ease. SNL spoofed Heated Rivalry upon its midseason return, in a sketch that featured host Finn Wolfhard and cast member Ben Marshall as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, respectively, in a sendup called "Heated Wizardry."

If Meyers' statement about the high demand for personal ticket requests for Storrie's appearance — dwarfed only by Taylor Swift's late-night showing — is any indication, 30 Rock will be positively shaking with cheers upon his debut.

SNL will be off air until February 28, and it airs live on NBC and Peacock, Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. The storied late-night show is produced in association with creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video.

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{allcanada} Canadian national Larin set to join Southampton on loan in English Championship

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Cyle Larin's push to secure his spot on Canada's World Cup roster will now happen in the English Championship as multiple sources confirm reports out of Europe that Canada's second all-time leading scorer is set to move to Southampton on loan for the rest of the year, pending a medical this week.

The 30-year-old is under contract with Spain's Mallorca, and was recently on loan with Feyenoord in the Netherlands. Sources with knowledge of the move say Larin had interest from teams in France, Greece, Italy, Major League Soccer, and Spain.

Southampton currently sit 14th in England's second division.

Southampton emerged as a front runner because the team was keen to give Larin major minutes in the team's offensive system, which has the Championship's third highest expected goals, a stat that measures the quality of shots and the probability those shots will become goals.

But whatever Southampton's stats line say, this is a significant moment at this point in Larin's career as he fights for his place on the Canadian men's national team 130 days from the start of the 2026 World Cup.

Although Larin's 30 goals for Canada's men puts him seven goals behind all-time leader Jonathan David, and his 87 national team appearances is tied with Jonathan Osorio for third all-time, the Brampton, Ont. native's unsettled club form has made his immediate future with Canada precarious.

Since scoring 23 goals over 43 appearances in a league- and cup-winning season for Turkey's Beşiktas in 2021, along with his Concacaf-leading 13 goals in 2022 World Cup qualifying, Larin has had an inconsistent, itinerant journey through Europe. Over the last five seasons, through stops in Belgium with Club Brugge and Spain with Valladolid and Mallorca, Larin has 23 goals over 108 combined appearances.

Following his loan move to Feyenoord this past summer, Larin played only 152 minutes in the Dutch league, with no starts and no goals. He added seven more appearances for the Dutch club in the Europa league, starting twice and scoring once.

The decline in his offensive output has affected Larin's Canadian stock: He has one goal in his last 21 appearances for Canada, and is in a fight for a place in Jesse Marsch's World Cup attack against Villareal's Tani Oluwaseyi, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise's Promise David, Preston North End's Daniel Jebbison and Lausanne's Theo Bair.

Canada's men will meet again at the end of March for two international friendlies in Toronto against Iceland and Tunisia.