Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
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Sean Penn ups fight against COVID-19 with relief expansion
LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn has expanded his fight against the coronavirus beyond his own expectations. The Oscar winner's disaster relief organization CORE has gone from providing 6,500 tests in a couple...
Aug 27, 2020
Artsy Edinburgh, laid low by the virus, hopes for recovery
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Francesca Moody is spending August the way she always does: in darkened rooms in Edinburgh, watching some of the best new theatre and comedy the world has to offer. All that's mi...
Aug 27, 2020
John Lennon's killer denied parole for an 11th time
ALBANY, N.Y. - The man who gunned down John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment in 1980 was denied parole for an 11th time, state corrections officials said Wednesday. Mark David Chapman was denied...
Aug 26, 2020
Kanye West qualifies for Tennessee presidential ballot
NASHVILLE - Rapper and producer Kanye West will be on Tennessee's presidential ballot in November, the state election's office confirmed. The secretary of state's office announced this week that West ...
Aug 26, 2020
Radio station fires worker over role in Yusuf Hawkins death
NEW YORK - A man who was among those charged in the notorious 1989 killing of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black teen set upon by a white mob and shot, was fired from a New York hip-hop radio station after a new ...
Aug 26, 2020
Biden campaign 'flooding the zone' with celebrity backers
WILMINGTON, Del. - Poised over the piano, Carole King was set to play "I Feel the Earth Move" during a recent virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden when the Democratic presidential nominee himself beat her...
Aug 26, 2020
Writer Gail Sheehy, author of ‘Passages,’ dies at 83
NEW YORK - Gail Sheehy, the journalist, commentator and pop sociologist whose bestselling "Passages" helped millions navigate their lives from early adulthood to middle age and beyond, has died. She w...
Aug 25, 2020
20 years later, ‘Bring It On’ still gets the cheers
No one expected "Bring It On" to win its opening weekend. The Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union teen cheerleading comedy was facing off against a $60 million Wesley Snipes action film. But on the week...
Aug 25, 2020
Quebec adaptation of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' faces backlash from actors and Quebecers
MONTREAL - Quebec's French-language adaptation of the popular American police comedy, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," is already taking heat before the first episode airs - from one of the actors...
Aug 25, 2020
Dyson's 'Long Time Coming' addresses history of racism in US
NEW YORK - One of the country's most prominent scholars on race has a new book out in December. Michael Eric Dyson's "Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America" will be released Dec. 1, St. Mar...
Aug 25, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Trudeau's behaviour after leaving office isn't endearing him to the public
Sarah Mills says the former PM has skied with a prince, appeared on Instagram with a backwards cap alongside his popstar...
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On Friday's show, Evan entertains the question of whether Pierre Poilievre should step down as Conservative Party leader...