June 16th, 2025

Entertainment News

Corus Entertainment shakes up management, reverts to single CEO

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

TORONTO — Corus Entertainment Inc. will once again be led by a sole chief executive officer after one of the two men holding that title stepped down. Co-CEO Troy Reeb is moving on from the company after more than 25 years. John Gossling, who had been co-CEO and chief financial officer, is to take on ... Read More »

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Michelle Obama’s ‘The Look’ reflects on her fashion choices

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life, a story not of politics but of fashion. Obama announced on social media Thursday that “The Look” will be released Nov. 4 by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House. ... Read More »

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Eager fans endure long lines for the Nintendo Switch 2 launch

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores in Tokyo hours in advance to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch 2, being released around the world Thursday, is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. Nintendo ... Read More »

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A long wait for the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, and very long lines

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores in Tokyo hours in advance to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch 2, being released around the world Thursday, is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. Nintendo ... Read More »

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Shows from Elliot Page, Tom Green coming to Bell, planned drama ‘Bad Trips’ scrapped

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

New shows from Elliot Page and Tom Green are among the highlights of Bell Media’s 2025/26 programming slate. “Slo Pitch,” a comedy about a scrappy queer softball team trying to make it to the beer league championships, is coming to Crave and CTV. It’s the first project under a co-development deal between Pageboy Productions and ... Read More »

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Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions. A wide-eyed Moses holds the Ten Commandments aloft in righteous fury, ready to shatter the tablets when his followers abandon God for a golden calf. Lightning sizzles and a tornado surges ... Read More »

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What it takes to clean industrial soot and grime from a Pittsburgh church’s murals

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific analysis to seaweed extract to everyday tools — like cosmetic sponges and shish kebab sticks. That was the approach taken by a conservation team as they labored ... Read More »

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Nintendo Switch 2 launch draws eager fans

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores in Tokyo hours in advance to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch 2, being released around the world Thursday, is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. Nintendo ... Read More »

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Nintendo Switch 2 launch, after an 8 year wait, draws big lines

By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025

TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores hours in advance in Tokyo on Thursday to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch2 is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. The new consoles were sold through ... Read More »

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British translator Karen Leeder and German writer Durs Grünbein win Griffin Poetry Prize

By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025

TORONTO — British scholar Karen Leeder’s translation of “Psyche Running” by Durs Grünbein has won the Griffin Poetry Prize. They were awarded the $130,000 literary prize at a ceremony in Toronto. Leeder is a professor of German language and literature at Oxford University, and the Griffin judges praise her translation as being “universal, lyrical, philosophical.” ... Read More »

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Movie Review: Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet in ‘Ballerina,’ a John Wick spinoff

By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025

Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you can get pretty paranoid. You start to think everyone’s an assassin. The guy at the newsstand, the street musician, the subway rider, that nice neighbor in the elevator — ruthless contract killers, all. So perhaps it shouldn’t be too surprising that in ... Read More »

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