Saturday, June 7, 2025

Celebrity

Drake adds Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance to his lawsuit against record label

Drake has expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more people were duped into believing he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick...

Artists pay tribute to rocker Joel Plaskett on surprise covers album

Some of the biggest names in Canadian music are paying homage to Joel Plaskett on a new tribute album that was made in secret...

Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize-winning novelist, dies at 89

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigour and lyrical prose for five decades and nearly became president of his...

Burlington to give musician Sarah Harmer key to the city as she fights quarry expansion

As singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer prepares to receive the symbolic key to the City of Burlington – in large part for her leadership in a fight...

Soulja Boy found liable for sexual assault of ex-assistant, ordered to pay $4 million US

A jury on Thursday found that rapper Soulja Boy was liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant, awarding the...

Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, known for First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, dead at 94

Canadian Ted Kotcheff, whose six-decade career as film and television director included helming the first instalments of two hit movie franchises in the 1980s,...

5 writers make the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist

Writers Vincent Anioke, Trent Lewin, Dorian McNamara, Emi Sasagawa and Zeina Sleiman have made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist. Their nominated works are: Love...