Category Archives: Film
Canadian artists, writers, performers call for national basic income
TORONTO — A group of Canadian artists, writers, technicians and performers is calling on Ottawa to guarantee a basic income for anyone in need. Novellist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, poet George Elliott Clarke and opera singer Adrianne Pie...
Rome renames music hall after Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone
Rome’s city council voted on Friday to rename one of its concert halls after Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, who died last week in the Italian capital. The Music Park Auditorium will now be called the Ennio Morricone Auditorium. Morricone won a...
Toronto launches drive-in entertainment plan including screenings, concerts
Toronto is launching a drive-in entertainment program as the city extends its ban on outdoor festivals and large gatherings until September 30. Announced on Monday, the DriveInTO program will provide movie screenings, concerts and other festivitie...
Film stars Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds support Indigenous women’s program
ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are donating $200,000 to an institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia to help promote Indigenous women's leadership. A release says the donation by the Hollywood couple is to...