Tag Archives: Entertainment

OTTAWA - Ottawa is directing the CRTC to back down on its recent decision to triple streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content, and will instead provide $600 million to the sector, Culture...

MONTREAL - For decades, Dominique Boucher stayed away from the theatre. Boucher avoided being in the audience for shows because he has lived with a visual impairment for the past 40 years. But as more...

OTTAWA - The industry lobby group representing big American streaming services slammed new revenue rules on Friday forcing them to invest in Canadian content while some Canadian industry organizations...

NEW YORK (AP) - Stephen Colbert chatted with Paul McCartney and joined him on stage for a raucous performance of "Hello, Goodbye" on the final broadcast of CBS' "The Late Show" on Thursday night, a bi...

OTTAWA - Large TV streaming services like Netflix must contribute 15 per cent of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content, the federal broadcast regulator said Thursday. That's three times the five...

MONTREAL - The lawyers for nine women who sued Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon for sexual assault say the media mogul has agreed to pay the complainants $930,000. The settlement comes after Queb...

Juno-nominated Indigenous cellist and composer Cris Derksen has died. AIM Booking Agency, which represents Derksen, says in a social media post she died in a car accident but no further information ab...

OTTAWA - Conservatives are questioning why CBC is funding a spoof program that used false pretences to lure high-profile people accused of downplaying the damage caused by residential schools into sit...

MONTREAL - For Thiry Dub, who voices Homer Simpson in the Qubcois version of the animated television series "The Simpsons," news this week that Bell Media reached a deal with Disney Entertainment to s...

TORONTO - The Royal Conservatory of Music will launch an independent investigation into allegations that one of its most prominent teachers sexually abused students in the 1970s and '80s, the organiza...