Tag Archives: Entertainment

NEW YORK - Stacey Abrams, the voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, also has a career in writing novels. Her next one, the Supreme Court thriller "While Justice Sleeps," c...

NEW YORK - Most playwrights want their works to remain relevant for decades to come. Not Heidi Schreck, not with "What the Constitution Means to Me." "I often say that I can't wait until the play is o...

LOS ANGELES - While "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin was gratified to bring an episode of the drama series to life on the stage, he'd rather discuss the bigger return he wants to see. "We're just ...

Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer who became famous during his legal battle with biotech giant Monsanto, has died. John Schmeiser said his father died quietly Tuesday afternoon at the age of 89.&...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says Canadians have been spending more time and money online since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The agency found in a survey conducted last month that 44 pe...

NEW YORK - Broadway theatres may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Mor...

OTTAWA - There is no magic legislative bullet to control objectionable content on social media, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says. LeBlanc told a virtual conference on democracy ...

TOKYO - The Japanese director who shot to stardom with a zombie movie featuring a delightfully long single shot has for his latest project turned to a video tool that's become an everyday part of this...

LOS ANGELES - Some of entertainment's biggest names from Nicole Kidman to John David Washington shared encouraging words for aspiring young creators whose organizations were collectively granted milli...

MONTREAL - A woman told Gilbert Rozon's sex assault trial Tuesday that the founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival raped her 40 years ago in a ski-resort town north of Montreal.  "It was n...