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Linden MacIntyre wins Giller Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Linden MacIntyre, co-host of CBC's The Fifth Estate, has won the Giller Prize for his book The Bishop's Man, which deals with the sensitive topic of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. The...

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Abortion could roil Senate health care debate

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:37:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's...

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Enbridge boosts 2009 outlook, expects growth 'well into next decade'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:33:00 +0000

CALGARY — As Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) glides through what it anticipates will be "the strongest growth year in the company's history," the pipeline and gas distribution firm has increased its 2009...

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Prince Charles says Canadians serve with great distinction in Afghanistan

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:00 +0000

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Prince Charles said Monday that Canadians are serving with the "greatest possible distinction" in Afghanistan and that his heart goes out to the family of the latest soldier killed...

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Man accused of attacking MLA appears in court

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:30:00 +0000

A man accused of attacking a Saskatchewan Party MLA while trying to steal his car will spend the weekend in jail as he waits for a bail hearing. Clayton Friday, 45, made a brief appearance in front...

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Michael Jackson set to rule U.S. pop chart

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:13:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Michael Jackson is on track to score his sixth No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart next week with the companion album for his new concert movie "This Is It." Industry...

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Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" get darker reading

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:21:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – New York theater insiders have been wondering for months exactly how Chicago director David Cromer -- currently hotter than hot thanks to the transfers of his...

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Michelle Obama's gripe: President's tennis game

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:08:00 +0000

BURBANK, Calif. - What's President Barack Obama's most annoying habit? Practising his speeches for hours in front of the bathroom mirror? Talking too much foreign policy at the dinner table? ...

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U.S. envoy says 'side letters' on labour and environment may benefit NAFTA

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:31:00 +0000

MONTREAL — The United States has no immediate plans to reopen NAFTA but remains interested in side deals related to labour and the environment, America's new ambassador to Canada affirmed...

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B.C. to deny welfare to alleged criminals

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:57:00 +0000

Critics are raising concerns about a new bill introduced by the B.C. government that would deny social assistance or disability benefits to anyone with an outstanding arrest warrant. The provincial...

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Musical theatre director Lloyd Nicholson dies at 57

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:32:00 +0000

Lloyd Nicholson, a prominent figure on the West Coast theatre scene, died suddenly Wednesday morning in Ottawa, where he has been overseeing a remount of The Drowsy Chaperone. Alberta-born...

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Months after rescue, kidnapped woman shown smiling

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:36:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — Jaycee Dugard is emerging from obscurity after police say she spent 18 years as a captive in a sex offender's yard, releasing the first photos of herself as an adult and her first...

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Acadian music icon Herb Leblanc dies

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:17:00 +0000

Herb Leblanc, a pioneer of Acadian music, died Sunday at his home in Lake Doucette, on the French shore of Nova Scotia. Leblanc, the front man for the now-disbanded Acadian folk band Tymeux de la...

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Moon crash: Public yawns, scientists celebrate

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:27:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday...

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Canada takes US to WTO over cattle, hog labeling

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:19:00 +0000

OTTAWA — Canada is asking the World Trade Organization to intervene in a dispute with the United States over cattle and hog exports. Ottawa announced Wednesday it has asked a WTO trade dispute panel...

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Dalai Lama to meet US Tibet envoy

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:55:00 +0000

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will meet the new US co-ordinator for Tibet in Washington, the US state department has said. The Dalai Lama arrives on Monday and a meeting has been...

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Burma court rejects Suu Kyi's appeal

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:51:00 +0000

A court in Burma turned down opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal of her most recent sentence of house arrest, her lawyer said Friday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was convicted and...

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Indian PM to pay state visit to US: White House

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:51:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay the first state visit to the United States under President Barack Obama, Indian and US sources said Tuesday. But they could not confirm...

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Musicians get their close-ups in cable documentary series

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:26:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Mos Def is in a Tokyo hotel room, wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette. He's holding forth on the differences between Japanese and American culture, revealing how...

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No money left for digital transition: CBC president

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:10:00 +0000

OTTAWA — More than 300,000 Canadians in remote and rural areas could be cut off from CBC TV in two years, because the broadcaster doesn't have the money to convert its signals to digital from...

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Natalie Portman shines in "Impossible" film

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:30:00 +0000

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – Natalie Portman impresses mightily in "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," playing a second wife and grieving first-time mother grappling with the thorny complexity of...

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Erotic schoolgirl drama marks assured debut

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:16:00 +0000

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – Bond girl Eva Green turns up at a British girls boarding school as a free-spirited teacher who isn't all she's cracked up to be in the erotically-laced period drama,...

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Overloading sank N.L. shrimp boat: survivor

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:19:00 +0000

The shrimp fishing boat that sank off the coast of Newfoundland on Saturday was dangerously overloaded, a fisherman who almost died in the incident says. Jimmy Kavanagh, of Cape Broyle, N.L., was...

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Jay-Z more than a rockstar at 9/11 concert

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:55:00 +0000

NEW YORK – Since the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11, many people have helped rebuild New York City in different ways. Rapper Jay-Z did it his own way: headlining a star-studded concert at...

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Mandy Moore lets down her hair for "Rapunzel"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:33:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – After combing the acting landscape, Walt Disney Pictures has chosen Mandy Moore to voice the lead role in its Digital 3D-animated musical action-adventure...

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NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos

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Heather Allin elected president of ACTRA Toronto