Category Archives: Entertainment
Quebec’s English colleges say they are being targeted by government for their success
MONTREAL — Recent amendments to Quebec's new language bill are targeting English junior colleges because the schools are increasingly popular among non-anglophones, say students and representatives of the college system. The colleges are being scapegoa...
What’s Canadian? Regulator will define what qualifies as a Canadian film
OTTAWA — Try to guess which of these movies is Canadian: Disney’s “Turning Red,” which tells the story of growing up as a Chinese-Canadian teen in Toronto and stars Ottawa-born Sandra Oh, or the Oscar-winning sci-fi epic “Dune” from Montreal
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser; Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House medical adviser. __
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. __
Ex-Goldman Sachs banker convicted in plot to loot 1MDB fund
NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs banker was convicted Friday of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB.
N.S. introduces legislation to enshrine Mi’kmaq as province’s first official language
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s government is introducing legislation to enshrine Mi’kmaq as the province’s first official language. Karla MacFarlane, minister of L’nu affairs, said today the Mi'kmaw Language Act develops a revitalization strategy to promote ...
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to release book on reconciliation
Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is set to publish a book that's being billed as a guide to reconciliation. McClelland & Stewart says "True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change" is slated to hit shelves on Nov. 8. The
CP’s Mike Blanchfield and prof Fen Hampson among finalists for political book prize
Canadian Press international affairs writer Mike Blanchfield and Carleton University professor Fen Hampson have been nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for their book on China's detention of the Canadians known as "the two ...
Jury begins deliberations at US trial sparked by 1MBD fraud
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury began deliberating Tuesday at a U.S. trial stemming from an audacious scheme involving former Goldman Sachs bankers to ransack a Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MBD.
New survey indicates 81 per cent support official bilingualism in New Brunswick
FREDERICTON — A new survey indicates 81 per cent of New Brunswickers support the law that makes French and English official languages in the province — the only such legislation in Canada. The survey, released Monday by the province's commissioner of