Marianas Trench (Photo by Frazer Harrison/AMA2011/Getty Images for AMA)

The MuchMusic Video Awards are set to take over downtown Toronto on June 17 with West Coast bands like Marianas Trench and Hedley leading the nominations this year along with Toronto's very own, Drake.

"I'm thinking that Hedley is going to dominate this year," MuchMusic VJ Lauren Toyota exclusively told Yahoo! Canada Music during yesterday's live announcement. "Their album is fantastic and they deserve all of these awards because they put a lot of work and creativity into their videos especially."

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Hedley is currently tied with Drake for five nominations each and appearing in categories like Pop Video of the Year, UR Fave Artist or Group and the coveted, Video of the Year, among others. However, their tally is no match for Marianas Trench's seven nominations.

"They have the most nominations this year, but I don't think that they are going to get all seven," Toyota said. "I think they'll get at least five. My favourite video of

Leonard Cohen acknowledges the audience after receiving the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto on Monday May 14, 2012. …

Last night, beloved Canadian singer and songwriter, Leonard Cohen, was presented with the prestigious Glenn Gould Prize and accepted the honour while donating the $50,000 prize to the Canada Council for the Arts.

"The truth is without the help and encouragement of the Canada Council, I would never have written 'The Favourite Game' or 'The Spice Box of Earth,'" he said. "I am profoundly grateful."

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Over the last week, Toronto has been taken over with events of Cohen fanfare that included an exhibition of his visual art, a film trilogy tribute at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and public performances of his music in 25 city hotspots.

Each presentation demonstrated why this Montréal-born artist means so much to Canada and reinforced his status as the ninth Prize Laureate of what some have called the "Nobel Prize of the Arts," becoming the third Canadian to do so.

Presented by The Glenn Gould Foundation, the

Justin Bieber and 50 Cent aren't the only ones who think that this dancing dog is the coolest canine anyone has ever seen.

Ashleigh Butler, 17, and her dog Pudsey, are the latest winners of "Britain's Got Talent" and have walked away from the competition with an immense amount of public support, about $800,000 and a slew of offers for the talented pooch.

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According to TMZ, Pudsey has received many offers since the show's finale including: "dog food endorsements, television shows, stuffed animals, dog toys and even a children's book revolving around the talented canine."

As The Daily Mail reports, Pudsey, a mix of border collie, Bichon Frise and Chinese Crested who is worth an estimated £10 million (approximately $16 million), will earn approximately half of the money in public appearances and half in endorsements.

Butler received Pudsey as a puppy when she was 11 years old and she spends most of her time training and taking care of the talented

An inspirational music video set to a Kelly Clarkson hit, made by the young leukemia patients at Seattle Children's Hospital, has taken the Internet by storm, thanks to a tweet from Kelly herself. And it's easy to understand why Kelly (and 1.4 million YouTube viewers, as of this writing) have been so emotionally moved by the clip, which manages to be both heartbreaking and joyful at the same time. As the ward's cancer-stricken children lip-synch and dance in their hospital rooms to "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)" in the video, Kelly's lyrics take on poignant new meaning, as the pop song transforms from a simple breakup ode into a triumphant anti-cancer anthem.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Justin Bieber has debuted a new track that he wrote for his own mom, Pattie Malette, called "Turn To You."

"Turn To You" by Justin Bieber

Released on iTunes yesterday, proceeds from the purchase of the song will go towards helping Malette raise money to save a shelter in Ontario dedicated to the support of single mothers called the Bethesda Centre.

For more information about their cause, head here and join us as we countdown our favourite Mother's Day tunes featured below.

4. "The Best Day" by Taylor Swift
In a heart-warming video featuring clips of a young Taylor Swift, we can see that the country superstar gets her eyes and gorgeous smile from her mother, Andrea Swift. The "Love Story" singer wrote the track and created the video herself as a Christmas present for her mom saying, "It's probably one of my favourite songs that I've ever written." "My mom and I have been best friends since I was born. So I'm really glad that I got that down on CD."

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Devon Whitney, a teen born with a rare disease called Oto-Palatal-Digital Syndrome that leaves him in constant pain and according to 9 News, has caused "more than two dozen surgeries since the day he was born," is looking for a date to his high school prom.

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The 19-year-old from Aurora, Colorado, has put off finding a date because he says that he is afraid to ask anyone. However, the shy teen has put his fears aside and decided to ask his "dream girl," Taylor Swift, to be his date to the big dance in the hope that with her on his arm, no one will make fun of him.

"I just think she's the sweetest girl I've ever known," Whitney said in an interview. "Because I saw her live in concert and I was like 'Oh my gosh, she's amazing!'"

By posting a video on message for Swift on YouTube, Whitney hopes to reach the country superstar.

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"My senior prom is coming up and at first I

Ellen DeGeneres announced in January on her talk show that after being inspired by her right hand man, Andy Zenor, and his hilarious video dancing behind employees at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," she would challenge her viewers to do the same.

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"I'm going to start something called 'Ellen's Dance Dare,'" DeGeneres explained. "I want to see you sneak up behind people and dance and it doesn't matter whether you know them or not, its better actually if you don't know them." Adding, "Be as creative as you want, but don't get arrested, don't do anything rude and then post your videos on YouTube."

In April, DeGeneres began announcing the competition's finalists and Canadian Jeffrey Chang has made the cut!

Dancing behind shoppers and employees at Wal-Mart, an elderly gentleman in a mall and while following a lady to her parked car, Chang, from Brossard, Qué., has danced his way into DeGeneres' heart and is one step closer to

This elephant can play the harmonica better than you.

According to the video's description, Shanthi, a 36-year-old Asian female elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has been known to play instruments provided for her in her zoo environment at her own discretion without the coaxing of zoo trainers or keepers.

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"I think what's really amazing about the little ditties that Shanthi comes up with is musically, they really do have a beginning, a middle and an end," elephant keeper Debbie Flinkman says in the clip. "[The songs] have a repetitive part that might have some beat that you could actually follow to it and it has a big crescendo at the end and we all know there is going to be a crescendo. And, we wait and then we applaud and then we go back to work and it's just so enjoyable."

It's rare that you'd find Earth's largest land animal jamming without encouragement from trainers and keepers or with the added incentive