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Utility says power back on in Kimmirut after days-long outage
By The Canadian Press on November 3rd, 2024
KIMMIRUT, Nunavut – Power has been restored to a Nunavut hamlet on Baffin Island following a days-long outage that began on Thursday. Quillik Energy Corporation, the utility which serves Kimmirut, stated in a social media update on Sunday afternoon that power is now back on in the community. It says buildings with backup generation will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Utility says power back on in Kimmirut after days-lon outage
By The Canadian Press on November 3rd, 2024
KIMMIRUT, Nunavut – Power has been restored to a Nunavut hamlet on Baffin Island following a days-long outage that began on Thursday. Quillik Energy Corporation, the utility which serves Kimmirut, stated in a social media update on Sunday afternoon that power is now back on in the community. It says buildings with backup generation will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hope for a Gordon Lightfoot museum ‘still very much alive’ in his hometown
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on November 3rd, 2024
TORONTO – Gordon Lightfoot’s folk music legacy could still be honoured with a museum in his Ontario hometown. Pam Carter, president of the Mariposa Folk Festival, says local officials in Orillia, Ont. haven’t given up hope that artifacts from the late singer-songwriter’s life may wind up at a dedicated space in the city. But she ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Venom 3’ tops box office again, while Tom Hanks film struggles
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on November 3rd, 2024
“Venom: The Last Dance” enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American movie theaters leading up to the presidential election. Charts were dominated by big studio holdovers, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harris appears on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as mirror image of Maya Rudolph with election looming
By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long, Zeke Miller And Will Weissert, The Associated Press on November 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in the final days before the presidential election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph’s version of her in the show’s cold open. The first lines the candidate spoke as she sat across from Rudolph, their outfits identical, were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lindsay Ell got lost in country music; with a reset, she’s learning to love herself
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on November 3rd, 2024
TORONTO – Lindsay Ell says in hindsight, she never really fit the country music mould. And that’s why the Calgary-raised singer-songwriter is switching gears more than a decade into her career, leaving Nashville country behind for a new record of confessional alt-pop music. Ell’s recently released EP “Love Myself” sees her going deep into her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘We are scared’: Gen Z may hold the keys to the White House, and the parties know it
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on November 3rd, 2024
WASHINGTON – It felt like his future was at stake when 18-year-old Carter Fay cast an early ballot in the United States election. “The reality is that our democracy, I truly think, is on the line. And so do people in my generation,” said Fay, who’s from the battleground state of Georgia. “To put it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UK prosecutors are mulling whether to charge Russell Brand over sex assault allegations
By The Associated Press on November 3rd, 2024
LONDON (AP) – British prosecutors say they have been given a file of evidence from police about alleged sexual offenses by comedian Russell Brand and are considering whether to charge him. The Crown Prosecution Service said late Saturday that “we have been passed a file by the police to consider a charging decision in this ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!True crime’s popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It’s not all good
By Travis Loller, The Associated Press on November 2nd, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost all subsequent appeals. But today, more than three decades later, they unexpectedly have a chance of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Live from New York: Harris making surprise ‘Saturday Night Live’ appearance with election looming
By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long, Zeke Miller And Will Weissert, The Associated Press on November 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Live from New York, it’s a presidential candidate scrounging for every vote in the final days before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise trip to New York City on Saturday to appear on ” Saturday Night Live,” briefly stepping away from the battleground states where she’s been furiously ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain’s Prado Museum
By Joseph Wilson, The Associated Press on November 1st, 2024
MADRID (AP) – It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours – even though he’s been invited to browse anytime as part of a month-long literary fellowship. ... Read More »
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