Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Columbia University band shuts down, cites troubled history
NEW YORK - The Columbia University Marching Band, which had run-ins with school administration over the years over situations like mocking its own team, has decided to voluntarily shut itself down ove...
Sep 16, 2020
Larry Wilmore is ready to talk politics, culture on new show
LOS ANGELES - Larry Wilmore has been down the road as a talk show host before, with a Comedy Central show that was here and gone in two seasons - taking with it his droll and incisive brand of satire....
Sep 16, 2020
First two longlists announced for National Book Awards
NEW YORK - Stories of voting rights, space exploration and displacement at home are among the young people's literature works that appear on the longlist for the National Book Awards. In the translati...
Sep 16, 2020
Review: Back roads brutality in 'The Devil all the Time'
Say what you will, Antonio Campos' "The Devil all the Time" lives up to its title. Spanning numerous generations and set across a bleak and blood-stained Appalachian landscape, Campos' adaptation of D...
Sep 16, 2020
6 emerging women writers receive $30,000 Rona Jaffe Awards
NEW YORK - Fiction writers Mari Christmas and Yalitza Ferreras and poets Elisa Gonzalez and Charleen McClure are among six winners of Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, $30,000 prizes for emerging...
Sep 16, 2020
Lawsuit: 'Cheer' star Jerry Harris sexually solicited minors
FORT WORTH, Texas - Twin boys in Texas say that beginning when they were 13, "Cheer" star Jerry Harris sent them sexually explicit photos and videos of himself, and at one point cornered one boy in a ...
Sep 16, 2020
Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett tie for top prize at ACMs
NASHVILLE - In surprise twist that fit an unexpected year of firsts, Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett tied for entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, the first time the top p...
Sep 16, 2020
'The Nest' author has new novel scheduled for 2021
NEW YORK - The author of the million-selling debut novel "The Nest" has another story of family drama coming out next year. Ecco announced Wednesday that Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's "Good Company" will ...
Sep 16, 2020
Madonna to direct, co-write biopic about herself
NEW YORK - A biopic about Madonna has found a uniquely qualified director: Madonna, herself. Universal Pictures announced Tuesday that the studio is developing an untitled film about the pop star that...
Sep 16, 2020
Netflix delves into the 'human side' of Challenger disaster
NEW YORK - Many Americans have vivid memories of Jan. 28, 1986. That was the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded over a chilly Florida, just seconds after liftoff. School children across the cou...
Sep 15, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...