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Vince Beiser wins Balsillie Prize for Public Policy for book on critical minerals
By Canadian Press on November 26th, 2025
TORONTO — Vince Beiser’s book on critical minerals has won the $70,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. Writers’ Trust of Canada announced “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future” as the winner at a private dinner in Toronto on Tuesday evening. Beiser’s book explores what jurors call an “inescapable paradox” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A foot-tall elephant? ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ on Apple TV reveals surprising creatures
By Canadian Press on November 26th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense systemic changes and was filled with often nightmarish creatures — carnivorous kangaroos, 14-foot-tall bears and armadillos ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal found the emotional power of ‘Hamnet’
By Canadian Press on November 26th, 2025
TORONTO (AP) — During the emotionally wrecking final scene of “Hamnet,” Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue. “There were moments where the camera was obstructing us,” Buckley recalls. “We were like: ‘No, we have to see each other.’” “And then the minute we did see each other, it was like ‘Oh, no,’” Mescal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Church sues after City of Montreal issues $2,500 fine for hosting ‘MAGA superstar’
By Canadian Press on November 26th, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec City is not alone in facing legal action for the way its municipal administration responded to a scheduled concert by Sean Feucht, an American Christian singer known for his ties to U.S. President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. The City of Montreal is also being sued, after it fined a church $2,500 for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Incarcerated writers will be able to connect with literary world through new PEN America site
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other potential contacts. PEN’s Prison and Justice Writing Program on Tuesday announced the launch of the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, an initiative developed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Philadelphia Art Museum court filings accuse former Canadian director of theft
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
The Philadelphia Art Museum is accusing its former Canadian director of stealing funds through unauthorized pay increases, and then lying about it. Court documents filed on behalf of the museum deny claims in Sasha Suda’s wrongful dismissal suit as “meritless” and “delusional” and argue the museum had cause to end the five-year agreement early. It ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian drama ‘La Médiatrice’ wins International Emmy for best short-form series
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
A French-language Canadian drama about a family mediator whose own life implodes has won an International Emmy. “La Médiatrice” (“The Mediator”) took home the award for best short-form series Monday night. Created by Marie-Hélène Lebeau-Taschereau and Marie-Élène Grégoire, the drama stars Mylène Mackay as a Quebec-based mediator who specializes in conscious uncoupling. After her own ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘Zootopia 2’ is a cuddlier, tamer sequel
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, anthropomorphize it and, as a bonus, sneak in a Department of Motor Vehicles sloth gag that the DMV is still wincing from. A sequel coming almost a decade ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Wagner Moura is on the run in Brazil, 1977, in ‘The Secret Agent’
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it was “a time of mischief.” It’s a sly kind of promise of what’s to come over the next 2 1/2 hours, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US-Audiobooks-Top-10
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, narrated by Thérèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman (Random House Audio) 3. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 4. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Barry Hertz’s ‘Fast & Furious’ book pops the hood on power struggles driving the franchise
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
TORONTO — Before “The Fast and the Furious” became one of the world’s most lucrative film franchises, its fate reportedly hinged on an unlikely question: could it survive opening against “Dr. Dolittle 2”? That’s one of the many revelations Globe and Mail editor Barry Hertz uncovered while researching for his new book on the series, ... Read More »
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