Category Archives: Entertainment
Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times
LONDON — Like a spy in the night, writer Mick Herron’s success has been stealthy. It took a while for the world to catch up with him. A decade after he introduced a crew of flawed secret agents caught between sinister
Politics, meet PlayStation: how 2020 ushered in the era of campaign videogaming
WASHINGTON — Call it the age of PlayStation politics. Where Bill Clinton went on MTV and Barack Obama seized on social media, modern-day Democrats see online video gaming as the next high-tech frontier for reaching young voters. And a Canadian compan...
VP’s historic election celebrated in cracked glass portrait
WASHINGTON — Two weeks after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman to be vice-president , her barrier-breaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of
Convicted NXIVM sex cult leader moved to Arizona prison
TUCSON, Ariz. — Disgraced self-improvement guru and cult leader Keith Raniere is now being held at a federal prison in Arizona that specializes in sex offenders. Raniere, 60, was transferred to the United States Penitentiary Tucson in January after bei...
Trump, facing expulsion, resigns from Screen Actors Guild
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol riot in January. In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Trump
Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in U.S. courts over claims that property was taken from Jews during the
China not convinced by Canada’s Wu-Tang Clan explanation
BEIJING — A ruckus brought by China over Canadian T-shirts bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang clan continued Wednesday, with China’s Foreign Ministry saying it didn’t buy Canada’s explanation that the shirts were not an
Obama speechwriter’s memoir ‘Grace’ to come out in 2022
NEW YORK — The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the time a white supremacist murdered
No longer sustainable for social media giants to self-police on content: Facebook
OTTAWA — It's no longer sustainable for social media companies to self-police content and time for governments to step in, the head of public policy for Facebook Canada said Friday. That's why the social media giant is welcoming ongoing work by
Heritage Ministry reviewing workplace harassment probe at Canadian Museum of History
OTTAWA — The Heritage Ministry says it’s reviewing the results of an independent investigation into harassment allegations at the Canadian Museum of History. The ministry revealed no details, citing the Privacy Act in guarding specific complaints and t...
