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Top Headlines
- Sun Media cutting 600 jobs
- Quebecor-owned Sun Media said Tuesday it is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada, citing soft revenues and a shift toward free digital content.
- 1981 murder that inspired America's Most Wanted has been solved: police
- A convicted killer who died more than a decade ago is the person who decapitated the six-year-old son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh in 1981, Florida police said Tuesday.
- Ottawa, Toronto orchestras push plan for Niagara summer festival
- A $76-million plan for a major summer music festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake took one more step forward with the release of a major feasibility study into the project.
- TIFF group names Canada's best movies of 2008
- An eclectic, cross-country mix of Canadian films — from domestic drama to zombie thriller — have been selected as the year's best by the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
- Prominent actors urge union peers to reject strike vote
- There's dissension in the ranks of the Screen Actors Guild, as a host of prominent stars like Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Eva Longoria Parker are objecting to their union's recent decision to call a strike vote.
- Petition seeks to smash Turkish taboo over Armenian massacre
- A group of 200 Turkish intellectuals is tackling one of the great taboos of Turkish society — the 1916 massacres of Armenians in the country.
- Grande Prairie gallery to be rebuilt
- Grande Prairie, Alta., has decided not to tear down its Prairie Art Gallery, which was heavily damaged when the roof collapsed last year.
- Tartan musical about Rob Roy to make Toronto debut
- Rob Roy — The Musical, a new version of the story of the legendary Scottish hero, is to make its Canadian premiere in Toronto this March in a production directed by Len Cariou.
- Soviet film historian, journalist Rashit Yangirov dies at 54
- Rashit Yangirov, a prominent historian of the Soviet cinema whose works saved many pre-Second World War émigré filmmakers from critical oblivion, has died at age 54.
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
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- Soviet film historian, journalist Rashit Yangirov dies at 54
- Rashit Yangirov, a prominent historian of the Soviet cinema whose works saved many pre-Second World War émigré filmmakers from critical oblivion, has died at age 54.
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
- Prominent actors urge union peers to reject strike vote
- There's dissension in the ranks of the Screen Actors Guild, as a host of prominent stars like Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Eva Longoria Parker are objecting to their union's recent decision to call a strike vote.
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Music »
- Ottawa, Toronto orchestras push plan for Niagara summer festival
- A $76-million plan for a major summer music festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake took one more step forward with the release of a major feasibility study into the project.
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
- Blogger changes tune, pleads guilty to posting leaked Guns N' Roses songs
- A U.S. blogger accused of posting leaked tracks from the long-delayed Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to a criminal charge of copyright violation.
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TV »
- 1981 murder that inspired America's Most Wanted has been solved: police
- A convicted killer who died more than a decade ago is the person who decapitated the six-year-old son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh in 1981, Florida police said Tuesday.
- Prominent actors urge union peers to reject strike vote
- There's dissension in the ranks of the Screen Actors Guild, as a host of prominent stars like Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Eva Longoria Parker are objecting to their union's recent decision to call a strike vote.
- So they think they can dance – The Nutcracker
- The top two contestants of the TV talent show So You Think You Can Dance Canada joined the National Ballet of Canada onstage on Saturday in its matinee performance of The Nutcracker.
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Media »
- Petition seeks to smash Turkish taboo over Armenian massacre
- A group of 200 Turkish intellectuals is tackling one of the great taboos of Turkish society — the 1916 massacres of Armenians in the country.
- Sun Media cutting 600 jobs
- Quebecor-owned Sun Media said Tuesday it is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada, citing soft revenues and a shift toward free digital content.
- Madonna, Ritchie divorce settlement to surpass $90M
- Ending her marriage to filmmaker Guy Ritchie will cost pop music diva Madonna upwards of $90 million Cdn.
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Books »
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
- Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers
- Readers can now borrow books from the Ottawa Public Library while in Florida, Thailand, or their own homes. And once they have the book, they won't have to worry about returning the book or whether they'll get a fine for it being overdue.
- Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies at 54
- Australia's arts community is mourning the death of poet Dorothy Parker after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
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Art & Design »
- Grande Prairie gallery to be rebuilt
- Grande Prairie, Alta., has decided not to tear down its Prairie Art Gallery, which was heavily damaged when the roof collapsed last year.
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
- One of Monroe's last photos could set price record
- The Last Sitting by Bert Stern, one of the last photos taken of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death at the age of 36, is estimated to break the record $63,000 US mark set in 1994 for a photo of the late actress, according to Christie's auction house.
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Theatre »
- Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards
- Seven mid-career artists based in cities across Canada have won the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards, the national arts funding body announced on Tuesday.
- Tartan musical about Rob Roy to make Toronto debut
- Rob Roy — The Musical, a new version of the story of the legendary Scottish hero, is to make its Canadian premiere in Toronto this March in a production directed by Len Cariou.
- So they think they can dance – The Nutcracker
- The top two contestants of the TV talent show So You Think You Can Dance Canada joined the National Ballet of Canada onstage on Saturday in its matinee performance of The Nutcracker.
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Features
December 16, 2008
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December 12, 2008
- FilmGreetings, Earthlings
- Keanu Reeves promises a world of hurt in The Day the Earth Stood StillBy Martin Morrow
- FilmJudgment day
- The theological drama Doubt makes a shaky transition from stage to screenBy Greig Dymond
- FilmHaunted by the past
- The Reader is a powerful morality tale about one woman's part in the HolocaustBy Katrina Onstad
- MediaFlashback
- Bettie Page and the legacy of the pin-up girlBy Rachel Giese
- QuizAlien nation
- Test your knowledge of extraterrestrials in pop culture By Sean Monkman
December 11, 2008
December 10, 2008
- MediaStrange days
- The most regrettable moments in pop culture in 2008 By Greig Dymond
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Entertainment news from CP
- Canadian Tenors hitting the beach for rest after 'whirlwind' year
- Oprah cuts ties to ABC and reaches deal with HBO for new projects
- Montag, Pratt 'elope' on 'The Hills' after several shots of tequila
- The 'Twilight' sequel speeds ahead for November 2009 release
- David Cronenberg embracing the productivity only a cold Canadian winter brings
- Florida police close books on 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh
- Front pages of New York Times compiled, elegantly, in new book
- Critic Roger Ebert gets life membership from Directors Guild
- Halle Berry, Tyler Perry to host NAACP Image Awards in February
- Convicted Hollywood private eye has no apologies for those he spied on
Media news from CP
- Oprah cuts ties to ABC and reaches deal with HBO for new projects
- Sun papers publisher to cut 10 per cent of staff, 600 jobs across Canada
- Front pages of New York Times compiled, elegantly, in new book
- China once again begins blocking access to BBC, other websites
- Struggling Detroit papers drop home delivery to three days a week
- Disney launches branded TV channel in Russia in joint venture
- Sarnia Observer editorial staff vote 13-5 to join Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild
- NBC's 'Today' show plans prime-time review of 2008's biggest news
- Former Hollinger executive David Radler granted parole from prison
- More layoffs in publishing with news Macmillan is cutting 64 jobs