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Judge reserves decision on Hoggard bail attempt as singer seeks SCOC leave to appeal
By The Canadian Press on September 10th, 2024
TORONTO – A justice with Ontario’s Appeal Court has reserved her decision on whether Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard should get bail as he tries to appeal his sexual assault conviction at the country’s top court. Justice Jill Copeland heard arguments at a bail hearing for Hoggard this morning, weeks after the Hedley frontman began serving ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poet Li-Young Lee receives $100,000 lifetime achievement prize from Poetry Foundation
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on September 10th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday. The Chicago-based nonprofit also awarded its $10,000 Pegasus award for criticism to Elizabeth Sarah Coles and its $25,000 Pegasus Award for Service in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal Court of Appeal sides with privacy watchdog in long-running Facebook case
By The Canadian Press on September 10th, 2024
OTTAWA – A panel of judges says Facebook broke federal privacy law by failing to adequately inform users of the risks to their data upon signing up to the popular social media platform. In a new ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal says Facebook, now known as Meta, did not obtain the meaningful consent required ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Constantine Orbelian to attempt to revive New York City Opera after drop in money and performances
By Ronald Blum, The Associated Press on September 10th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Constantine Orbelian was promoted Tuesday to executive director of the largely dormant New York City Opera, which hasn’t given a staged performance since 2022 and says it will return with William Grant Still’s “Troubled Island” at City Center in 2025-26. Orbelian, 68, became music director for the 2021-22 season and added ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mel B joins a campaign calling for a new UK law to bar Afro hair discrimination
By Sylvia Hui, The Associated Press on September 10th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination. In an open letter to lawmakers on Tuesday, campaigners including Mel B, singer Beverley Knight and lawmaker Paulette Hamilton called for the U.K. to introduce a law to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Megalopolis’ grew more relevant over the decades Coppola worked on it: Esposito
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on September 10th, 2024
TORONTO – Giancarlo Esposito first read the script of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” more than two decades ago, and he says it somehow feels more relevant now. The actor, who plays corrupt prosecutor-turned-mayor Francis Cicero in Coppola’s self-funded $120-million passion project, says that when he returned to the project decades later he marvelled that something ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hoggard to seek bail pending attempt to appeal sexual assault conviction at top court
By The Canadian Press on September 10th, 2024
TORONTO – Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard is expected to seek bail at a court hearing today, weeks after beginning to serve his sentence for a sexual assault conviction. The Hedley frontman filed an application seeking leave to appeal his case to the Supreme Court of Canada last week. Hoggard was found guilty in June 2022 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A timeline of recent British royal events
By The Associated Press on September 9th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Kate, Princess of Wales, announced Monday that she has completed chemotherapy treatment for cancer and plans to return to some public duties. It comes after a difficult few months for the royals in which both 42-year-old Kate and King Charles III were treated for cancer. Charles, 75, has been easing back into ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kate, the Princess of Wales, has finished chemotherapy and will return to limited public duties
By Danica Kirka, The Associated Press on September 9th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Kate, the Princess of Wales, has completed chemotherapy and will make some public appearances in the coming months, bolstering Britain’s royal family after it was rocked by the twin cancer diagnoses of the princess and King Charles III. The 42-year-old wife of Prince William released a video Monday in which she appeared ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ryan Seacrest debuts as new host of ‘Wheel of Fortune’
By Kaitlyn Huamani, The Associated Press on September 9th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – For the first time in almost 8,000 episodes, “Wheel of Fortune” did not open with a hello from longtime host Pat Sajak. Ryan Seacrest stepped into Sajak’s shoes after his 41-year tenure as host of the famed game show, joining co-host and letter turner Vanna White. Seacrest, a familiar television and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!White Stripes sue Donald Trump over the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ riff in social media post
By The Associated Press on September 9th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – The White Stripes sued former President Donald Trump on Monday in a case that alleges he used their hit song “Seven Nation Army” without permission in a video posted to social media. The band has accused Trump and his presidential campaign of copyright infringement for playing the song’s iconic opening riff ... Read More »
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