NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Young musicians looking for longevity would be wise to follow the sensible word of Willie Nelson: Do what feels right, and if you're lucky enough to have a statue built in your honor in your city, remember that it is just something you've 鈥済ot to go down and clean off the pig…
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BERLIN (AP) 鈥 A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel 鈥淣ineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) 鈥 Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol and left two more badly damaged in the street as they fled the scene of the botched heist, the g…
'Scandal' cast will reunite for online script reading for hurricane relief in western North Carolina
The cast of ABC's hit political drama 鈥淪candal鈥 may need to brush up on their snappy, speedy delivery known as 鈥淪candal-pace," because they're reuniting for a good cause. Its stars including Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young will take part in a live virtual script reading on N…
VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice.
LONDON (AP) 鈥 Collins Dictionary has declared 鈥渂rat鈥 鈥 the album title that became a summer-living ideal 鈥 its 2024 word of the year.
Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war.
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A convict who became Canada 's youngest designated dangerous offender after sexually assaulting a three-month-old baby is seeking escorted leave from prison to attend Indigenous cultural ceremonies in Vancouver.
TORONTO - Canadians engrossed in the drama of the U.S. presidential election expect to gather in bars and living rooms to watch the votes roll in Tuesday, but many say the usual fanfare of watch parties will be muted by anxiety over the especially combative race.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Heidi Klum and Janelle Mon谩e opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this year 鈥 both choosing to dress as the stubby alien E.T. for their parties on opposite coasts.
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's ports may again be disrupted by a labour dispute, as employers say they have received 72-hour strike notice from the union representing foremen.
Police on Vancouver Island say they've arrested a man over gunshots and arson at the home of Indo-Canadian pop star AP Dhillon back in September, and another suspect is believed to have fled to India.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) 鈥 Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the statesa国际传媒 tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
MIAMI (AP) 鈥 Miami-native Orlando Mendez had been an aspiring actor when a pandemic shut down live entertainment in 2020. But the break gave Mendez a chance to embrace his love of county music and reinvent himself as the 鈥淐uban Cowboy.鈥
Thursday night was Halloween and the weather was good in the Okanagan for trick-or-treating. Sherry Campbell dressed as a shark hands out the goodies to a youngsters.
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥 Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta to gang, drug and gun charges and will be released from jail, though he could be put back behind bars if he violates the terms of his sentence.
The day before Ripudaman Singh Malik was murdered in July 2022, a pair of hired hit men showed up at his sa国际传媒 business, "scoping out the scene" for several minutes before driving away.
EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a trio of bills focusing on transgender people and students using preferred pronouns.
Mounties have dismantled what they say is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug "superlab" in Canada that had been acting as a "supermarket" for organized crime.
LAS VEGAS (AP) 鈥 A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls, reviving a sweeping criminal case against the former 鈥淒ances with Wolves鈥 actor.
VICTORIA - Vote counting in the British Columbia provincial election will finally conclude next week with judicial recounts set for two ridings.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Federal prosecutors say lawyers for Sean 鈥楧iddy鈥 Combs are trying to 鈥渉ijack鈥 the music mogul's criminal case from them by asking a judge to force early disclosure of evidence, including his accusers鈥 identities.
This fall, the Regional District of Central Okanagan and WildSafeBC are urging residents to take proactive measures to prevent human-bear conflicts by managing all attractants, including household garbage.
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QUEBEC - The new director of Quebec's youth protection system promised on Thursday to shed light on what's ailing the troubled network and to provide more transparency.
OTTAWA - The M茅tis National Council says its election for a new president will be delayed after the M茅tis Nation of British Columbia withdrew from its annual general assembly, leaving more questions about the future of the body that was a significant force in advocating for M茅tis rights nati…
MONTREAL - More than 45 nations signed a pledge in Montreal on Thursday to repatriate to Ukraine the civilians, prisoners of war and children taken by Russia since it invaded the country nearly three years ago.
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has frozen two major immigration streams that provide a pathway to permanent residency, after complaining for years that the number of newcomers settling in the province is threatening its language and culture.
(RNS) 鈥 An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music. Decked out in black war regalia out of the 13th century, they sing invocations to a Mongolian sky deity and odes to 13th cen…
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, is stepping down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy, In January, she will be heading the pro-democracy Freedom House.
TORONTO - Creditors are set to vote later this year on a proposed settlement that would see three tobacco giants pay out billions to provinces and smokers across Canada, an Ontario court ruled Thursday as one of the companies indicated it opposes the plan in its current form.
OTTAWA - Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A judge has granted bail to a Quebec woman charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly scalded a 10-year-old Black boy with hot water earlier this month.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election a month after appearing at a rally for the candidate.
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No one knew what Quentin Tarantino had in the duffle bag.
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy was flat in August as high interest rates continued to weigh on consumers and businesses, while a preliminary estimate suggests it grew at an annualized rate of one per cent in the third quarter.
TORONTO - Andr茅e McGrath is living "a really wonderful life."
OTTAWA - A million Canadians have received care under the federal dental-care plan six months after the program began, Health Minister Mark Holland said Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Country music has become a dominant force, bleeding into pop music's mainstream. And artists who might not have been previously associated with the genre 鈥 like Beyonc茅 and Post Malone 鈥 have recently released country albums.
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OTTAWA - Israel's ambassador to Canada says the war that started a year ago has profoundly changed Israelis' views on peace in the Middle East 鈥 and strained his country's long-standing strong relationship with Canada.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive miscues and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game…
Some are well-worn warnings as familiar as the changing of seasons. Others are slow burns that end with a bang. Still others are just plain eerie.
MONTREAL - Foreign Affairs Minister M茅lanie Joly says she hopes countries from around the world will support a plan to bring back Ukrainian children who have been deported to Russia since the war in Ukraine began nearly three years ago.
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge has granted an urgent injunction stopping a woman's medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver.
OTTAWA - A former senior official at Canada's foreign ministry says there were fears two decades ago that Montreal man Abousfian Abdelrazik might end up at a prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
VICTORIA - The New Democrat whose 27-vote, come-from-behind election victory is being credited with giving Premier David Eby a razor-thin majority says he's a bridge builder in his diverse community and the party needs to forge similar relationships across British Columbia.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥 United Way Worldwide and Paramount Global on Wednesday announced they will host a benefit to raise funds for those impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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