Pro wrestling trailblazer Pat Patterson has died at the age of 79.
Top Story
Recent Headlines
featured sponsored
Ten years ago, Vik Bains wanted to share something with his community that was close to his heart.
NEW YORK - Christmas is still a few weeks away, but Mariah Carey is already orchestrating her dinner menu.
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Toronto poet and children's writer Dennis Lee is among the winners of this year's Writers' Trust career honours.
LOS ANGELES - Native American tribes and advocates are condemning “Big Sky,” a Montana-set ABC drama, for ignoring the history of violence inflicted on Indigenous women and instead making whites the crime victims.
NASHVILLE - From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B's rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances and memes in 60 seconds or less.
LOS ANGELES - People magazine has named George Clooney, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Selena Gomez and Regina King as the “2020 People of the Year.”
NEW YORK - Chuck Rosenberg makes no secret of his admiration for Robert Mueller.
NEW YORK - Authorities on Tuesday announced the indictment of 18 people, including New York City rapper Casanova, in connection to a litany of gang-related crimes including racketeering, murder, drugs, firearms, and fraud offences.
Seven works by late Quebec artist Jean Paul Riopelle are among the big-ticket items on offer at Heffel Fine Art Auction House's virtual live auction tonight.
NEW YORK - “Papa!” screams a hospital worker, covered from head to toe in a Hazmat suit and PPE, in the opening moments of the documentary “76 Days."
TORONTO - The cost of digital services and goods sold by foreign companies like Netflix will go up under a taxation plan the government wants to put in place next year, experts said Tuesday.
TORONTO - The 2021 Juno Awards are moving to May for their 50th anniversary.
PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, h…
NEW YORK - Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno," “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood.
TORONTO - The Oscar-nominated Canadian star of the film "Juno" has come out as transgender.
TORONTO - The Oscar-nominated Canadian star of the film "Juno" has come out as transgender.
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, will spend Christmas at Windsor Castle instead of their Sandringham estate for the first time in decades.
ROME - Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.
TORONTO - Netflix Canada will bid farewell to "Friends" later this month as the hit sitcom moves to Crave.
NEW YORK - The annual publishing convention and trade show known as BookExpo, a decades-old tradition where guest speakers have ranged from Bill Clinton to Margaret Atwood, may be coming to an end.
TORONTO - Awards season is in full swing on streaming services this month, even if the Oscars and Golden Globes have been pushed further into 2021 due to the pandemic.
HARDCOVER FICTION
Director Julia Hart couldn’t stop thinking about Tuesday Weld. She had just watched Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller “Thief” and Weld’s character Jessie had taken over her imagination. Where did she and the baby go? What was going through her mind?
MOSCOW - Irina Antonova, a charismatic art historian who presided over one of Russia's top art museums for more than half a century, has died at 98.
NEW YORK - The year's most played artist on Spotify? Globally speaking: Bad Bunny.
NEW YORK - Painter Guy Stanley Philoche, a star in the New York art world, had wanted to treat himself to a fancy watch after a hugely successful gallery show. Then the pandemic hit, and he feared for all the struggling artists who haven't been so lucky.
TORONTO - The Canadian Opera Company has found its new general director at the Houston Grand Opera.
LONDON - British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”
NEW YORK - On Dec. 31, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin to the World Health Organization. By Jan. 31, WHO declared an outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency. Come March 11, the world was facing down the COVID-19 pandemic.
LONDON - Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85.
LONDON - Britain’s culture minister thinks the Netflix TV series “The Crown” should come with a disclaimer: It’s a work of fiction.
NEW YORK - The co-author of the million-selling “Game Change” has a book of his own coming about the 2020 election.
BRUSSELS - With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country's coronavirus vaccination campaign.
NEW YORK - If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be?
Seven years after the release of the highly successful PlayStation 4, Sony has fired its latest salvo in the war to capture the hearts and minds of big-spending video game enthusiasts.
LOS ANGELES - George Clooney is just like us, maybe. The star said he does his own haircuts with a device famously touted in infomercials.
NEW YORK - “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday.
So you've beat the crowds, cut through the pre-order confusion and managed to get your hands on a PlayStation 5. The question now is: what to play on it?
Seven years after the release of the highly successful PlayStation 4, Sony has fired its latest salvo in the war to capture the hearts and minds of big-spending video game enthusiasts.
NEW YORK - Fans of Bad Bunny are used to expecting something different each time he releases new music.
Sharon Bala knows the power of recognizing yourself in a story, and the pain of seeing your identity smeared across the page.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Walt Disney Co. announced plans to lay off 4,000 more workers in its theme parks division in California and Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on the industry.
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante can now add "author" to her resume with the publication of a graphic novel in which she recounts her entry into politics and takes subtle digs at the sexism she's encountered along the way.
ISLAMABAD - Iconic singer and actress Cher is in Pakistan to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant,” who will soon leave a Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists.
Tara Beagan says receiving the Siminovitch Prize feels like a win for every Indigenous theatremaker who came before her.
VANCOUVER - Indigenous critics of ABC's kidnapping drama "Big Sky" say it fails to acknowledge real-life missing and murdered Indigenous women and are extending their grievance to CTV for airing the series in Canada without added context.
TORONTO - Gabriel Range’s controversial David Bowie drama “Stardust” has angered fans of the pop music icon for many reasons, but the British director thinks much of it comes down to misguided expectations.
NEW YORK - The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s refusal to let the United States replace President Donald Trump as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says he raped her in the 1990s.
MILAN - Somali-American model Halima Aden has announced that she is taking a step back from the fashion industry, saying the pandemic slowdown has allowed her to see instances when her desire to maintain a hijab was not properly respected.
Multimedia
One-third of our food relies on bees for pollination. It's that kind of important role that led the Okanagan's Jennifer Krezan and her husband, Brad, to start Hiveology in 2019. “Without the bees, farmers would face having to hand-pollinate many of our foods, but as this is labour-intensive …
