Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Arts festivals get tens of millions in federal budget, Hot Docs left out
Canada's beleaguered festival sector is getting an infusion of cash from this year's federal budget, which recipients say provides necessary support as their pandemic recovery efforts drag on. Budget ...
Apr 18, 2024
Nancy Pelosi book, 'The Art of Power,' will reflect on her career in public life
NEW YORK (AP) - Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has completed a book about her years in public life, from legislation she helped enact to such traumatizing moments as the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Ca...
Apr 18, 2024
An NPR editor who wrote a critical essay on the company has resigned after being suspended
NEW YORK (AP) - A National Public Radio editor who wrote an essay criticizing his employer for promoting liberal views resigned on Wednesday, attacking NPR's new CEO on the way out. Uri Berliner, a se...
Apr 17, 2024
Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai producing. An election coming. ‘Suffs’ has timing on its side
NEW YORK (AP) - Shaina Taub was in the audience at "Suffs," her buzzy and timely new musical about women's suffrage, when she spied something that delighted her. It was intermission, and Taub, both cr...
Apr 17, 2024
NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview
NEW YORK (AP) - National Public Radio has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an outside essay criticizing his employer for, in his view, journalism that reflects a liberal viewpoint with little tole...
Apr 16, 2024
International competition for ideas on how to reuse old Montreal Olympic Stadium roof
MONTREAL - The agency that oversees Montreal's Olympic Stadium is looking for ideas to reuse the components of the building's tattered, old roof - including membranes the size of 26 hockey rinks and c...
Apr 16, 2024
News organizations urge Biden and Trump to commit to presidential debates during the 2024 campaign
NEW YORK (AP) - Twelve news organizations on Sunday urged presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates, saying they were a "rich tradition" that have been part of e...
Apr 14, 2024
Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour' nightly newscast, dies at 93
NEW YORK (AP) - Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast "The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decad...
Apr 12, 2024
The board has spoken: Teacher fired after competing on 'Survivor Québec' reality show
MONTREAL - Dborah De Braekeleer knew she would have to face her fear of bugs when she volunteered to be marooned on a remote island in the Philippines. But perhaps her greatest challenge awaited her w...
Apr 11, 2024
Books on artificial intelligence, space law shortlisted for Donner Prize
TORONTO - Books on artificial intelligence, space law and wrongful convictions are among the works shortlisted for the $60,000 Donner Prize, which recognizes the best public policy book by a Canadian....
Apr 11, 2024
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