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Mordecai Richler's writing desk has a new home

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 30 November 2013 | 22.19

Concordia University unveiled a new room that features some of the furniture, papers and private items that belonged to Montreal author Mordecai Richler.

The Mordecai Richler Reading Room is lined with floor-to-ceiling shelves that are filled with thousands of his books.

In the middle of the room, one of Richler's many manual typewriters is in the centre of the desk, where Richler wrote some of his most famous novels, including Barney's Version.

Various mementoes are neatly arranged on the desk.

"They didn't clean it though, it still has the original tea stains. But it doesn't have the cigar ash, which is odd," said Jacob Richler, who was at the event to inaugurate the room dedicated to his late father.

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Concordia's new reading room, dedicated to author Mordecai Richler, has some of his belongings from his cottage in the Easter Townships. (Pierre Landry / CBC)

"According to my research, no other university has ever posthumously honoured one of its dropouts," he said.

Richler dropped out of Sir George Williams, in the years before it merged to become Concordia.

Now, the university is home to the contents of Richler's library and office from the family's cottage in the Eastern Townships.

Since his death in July 2001, Richler's books have continued to sell.

Barney's Version was made into a feature film.

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Canadian author Mordecai Richler in 1983. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

Jacob Two-Two has become an animated TV series, and audio books are being done using some of Canada's top actors.

"If we can help preserve Mordecai's legacy, this will set a valuable precedent for other writers," said Michael Levine, lawyer for the Richler literary estate. 

Concordia will use the Reading Room as a gathering place for literary readings and master classes.

The family hopes it will enrich Richler's literary legacy.

"I think certainly his very life would instill interest in them. Mordecai was so adventurous, and if there are a few more iconoclasts around, it wouldn't be a bad thing," his wife Florence Richler said.


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Lady Gaga discusses Artpop, fame, fashion and fans

Lady Gaga is back with Artpop, her third studio album. Known for her outrageous outfits as much as for her music, the singer's flamboyant shows have led some to wonder whether she's more style than substance.

As part of her promotional tour, Gaga sat down with CBC's Wendy Mesley for a feature interview. They discussed Gaga's new album, whether her outrageous performances are for shock value alone, her surprisingly traditional upbringing and more.

Gaga said that her single Applause is about her relationship with fame, what that means to her and what it can mean to others.

"It's about this sort of place that we're in society where we're confused about famous people, we're confused about celebrities.  We think that all celebrities are just taking photos of their ass on Instagram for attention and that this is what art is," she told Mesley.

"It's not [about that], and it's also not what music is. It's not what showbiz is about at all, and I don't have to do all those things to curate my own legacy."

Mesley also spoke with CBC News Now's Andrew Nichols about the unusual experience of sitting down with Gaga, as film crews micromanaged the spotlights illuminating Gaga, while hordes of young fans – Gaga's Little Monsters – screamed loudly just outside.

You can watch the full interview tonight from The National here by clicking on the link at the top of the page.


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Unpublished J.D. Salinger stories leaked online

Three unpublished stories from reclusive U.S. author J.D. Salinger have been leaked online, with the source apparently an unauthorized book that sold on eBay, Internet news source BuzzFeed reported on Thursday.

It was difficult to trace the origin of the collection called Three Stories, with the only known copies of the stories existing in research libraries at the University of Texas and Princeton University, it said.

The stories are The Ocean Full of Bowling BallsPaula, and Birthday Boy.

The book appears to be one of those in a 25-copy compilation of the stories privately printed without Salinger's permission in London in 1999. The stories leaked on the Internet appeared as a .pdf scan of that book, the New York Times said in its online edition.

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A scan of what appears to be the cover of Three Stories, an unauthorized collection of J.D. Salinger works that was sold on ebay in September. (thehungrycaterpillar13/ebay)

BuzzFeed quoted Salinger scholar Kenneth Slawenski as saying the works posted online in a collection called "Three Stories" are from the author, best known for his 1951 novel Catcher in the Rye.

Social media site Reddit said scans of the stories taken from the unauthorized book first appeared on an invitation-only file-sharing site. But they later were available on a handful of sites.

Catcher in the Rye prequel

The story The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls is seen as a prequel to Catcher. It is about Kenneth Caulfield, the younger brother of Catcher protagonist Holden Caulfield and the model for the character Allie in the book.

The story is only available at the Princeton library to scholars who are supervised by library staff. Under terms of the arrangement, it cannot be published until 2060, Salinger scholars have said.

David Ulin, book critic for the Los Angeles Times, vouched for the authenticity of two of the stories. He has not read The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls.

"I have read the other two stories, however, at the University of Texas' Ransom Center, and the versions of them in Three Stories are the real deal," he wrote on the paper's website.

Salinger died in 2010 of natural causes at 91.

Infamous recluse

Catcher has been translated into the world's major languages and sold more than 65 million copies. It is routinely listed among the best novels of the 20th century.

Alarmed by his sudden fame, Salinger had been a recluse since 1953, ferociously protecting his privacy in Cornish, a small town in northwest New Hampshire.

Besides Catcher he published only a few books and collections of short stories, including 9 StoriesFranny and ZooeyRaise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. He published nothing after 1965.

Salinger often turned to the courts to help him guard his privacy. In 1982 he sued to halt the publication of a fictitious interview with a major magazine.

In 2009, he sued to stop the U.S. publication of a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Colting that presents Holden Caulfield as an old man.


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Frozen gives the Disney princess a modern makeover

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Stars Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel as princess sisters Anna and Elsa

CBC News Posted: Nov 29, 2013 1:04 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 29, 2013 6:56 PM ET

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Barenaked Ladies' SeaWorld concert cancelled after fan outcry

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 29 November 2013 | 22.20

The Barenaked Ladies have cancelled a planned concert at SeaWorld in Orlando, after fans raised concerns about the treatment of the animals at the water park.

An unofficial BNL fans' account on Twitter announced on Monday that the band would be playing in Orlando in February. Several fans responded unfavourably, including one user who urged the band to watch the documentary Blackfish. The film focuses on the treatment of animals at SeaWorld, specifically a whale named Tilikum who was involved in the deaths of three people.

"Poor decision. Motivated by money," tweeted a fan with the username Ian Padley. "Watch @blackfishmovie, then cancel the show. Please."

Mike Garrett of St. Catharines, Ont., started a petition on Change.org to drum up fan support. "In light of all the horrific information we're learning about places like SeaWorld and Marineland," the petition asked the band "to reconsider performing there." As of Thursday, it had accumulated more than 11,000 signatures.

Investigations earlier this year reported several allegations of animal mistreatment at Marineland, the Ontario water park similar to Orlando's SeaWorld.

The Ladies' drummer Tyler Stewart replied on Twitter, saying, "Like you, we've seen the movie and were affected. We 're currently looking at options on how to proceed."

The band then said that it has chosen not to perform at SeaWorld on the previously announced date in a diplomatically worded post on its Facebook page.

"This is a complicated issue, and we don't claim to understand all of it, but we don't feel comfortable proceeding with the gig at this time," the band wrote.

"The SeaWorld folks have been gracious, and extended us invitations to the park to learn more about what they do, and how they do it."

The post has generated more than 6,000 Likes, 1,200 comments and 1,100 shares on the social network so far, with many commenters supporting the Ladies' decision.


 


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Violinist virtuoso plays 300-year-old violin for last time

Yi-Jia Susanne Hou performs with $6M violin, which was crafted in 1735

CBC News Posted: Nov 28, 2013 5:46 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 29, 2013 8:36 AM ET

World-renowned Canadian violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou has performed for the last time with a nearly 300-year-old violin worth $6 million in a tribute with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Hou is the daughter of Alec Hou, the first person in 1970's China to be permitted to perform western classical music after it was banned during the Cultural Revolution. The violin was crafted in Italy in 1735, and played by Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler.

Hou chose to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. Major for the recording, which her father also played after the end of the Cultural Revolution before the family emigrated to Canada. Alec Hou also played the piece the night his daughter Susanne was born.

CBC's Margaret Evans spoke with Hou and her parents and attended the recording last night. Watch her report in the video player above.

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Jane Kean, star of Honeymooners revival, dies at 90

Jane Kean, a diverse performer who got her start in musical theatre but was best known as Trixie alongside Jackie Gleason on a TV revival of The Honeymooners, has died. She was 90.

Kean, of Toluca Lake, died Tuesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank where she was taken after a fall that led to a hemorrhagic stroke, her niece, Deirdre Wolpert, said Thursday.

Kean first started working with Jackie Gleason in the 1940s, when they were both on the vaudeville circuit.

Her big break, however, came in 1966 when Gleason and CBS revived the hit show The Honeymooners in Miami Beach, expanding it to an hour and adding musical numbers.

Kean, a talented singer with a belting voice, starred on the show for five years as Ed Norton's beleaguered wife Trixie.

She often spoke about those years and her chance to appear on such a well-known program with Gleason, Wolpert said.

"One day she picked up the phone and he said, 'Are you doing anything right now?' and she said 'No' and he said 'Come on down and be Trixie,"' Wolpert said of Gleason. "Two weeks later she was on the plane to Florida."

Made Broadway debut in 1943

Born in Hartford, Conn., on April 10, 1923, Kean got into show business at an early age along with her sister, Betty, with the encouragement of her mother.

She headlined at the London Palladium before making her debut in a 1943 Broadway production of the Fats Waller musical Early to Bed.

She eventually moved to Los Angeles and appeared in some films for MGM before forming a comedy act in the 1950s with her sister, who is Wolpert's mother. The all-female comedy team, a rarity at the time, played night clubs and rubbed shoulders with comedians like Milton Berle.

The sisterly duo also performed in a comedy called Ankles Aweigh on Broadway in 1955.

After jumping to TV, Kean stayed on The Honeymooners for five years before leaving to pursue other avenues, including guest appearances, performing in Las Vegas and doing voice work. In 1977, she worked on the children's movie Pete's Dragon – behind-the-scenes work that the usually glamorous actress joked she didn't like because she didn't need to wear make-up, her niece said.

Most recently, she provided the voice of Aunt Ida in the new children's film Abner the Pig, said her publicist Alan Eichler.

'A really kicking 90-year-old' 

Last year, Kean put on a one-woman show that was a retrospective of her life's work. She performed it again at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre just months ago and had plans to travel to London after Christmas with her niece. She was also preparing invitations for her annual Christmas party in the days before her death, Wolpert said.

"This was a really kicking 90-year-old. The number of friends that she had, the people who loved her ... she had a wonderful life and a wonderful career," she said.

"She was a glamour girl, but she also had a lot of substance."

In addition to Wolpert, Kean is survived by Wolpert's husband and two children and a stepson from her second marriage, Joseph Hecht Jr., and his family.

Her sister Betty Kean died in 1986. Her second husband, her manager Joe Hecht, died in 2006.


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Emily Carr painting sale sets auction record

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Emily Carr's The Crazy Stair commanded $3,393,000, which is the most ever paid at auction for an Emily Carr painting. (Heffel Fine Art Auction House/Handout/The Canadian Press)

A record amount paid for a painting by Canadian artist Emily Carr helped the Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a sales record in its fall auction Thursday.

Leading the live auction at the Park Hyatt Hotel was The Crazy Stair, which brought in $3.39 million, the most ever paid at auction for a Carr painting.

The pre-auction estimate for the painting, which was sold to an anonymous buyer, was between $1.2 and $1.6 million.

Heffel says it was the highest amount paid for a work by a Canadian female artist and the fourth most valuable piece ever sold in Canadian art auction history.

The large format painting from Carr's mature period is described as "indicative of the artist's lifelong engagement with First Nations culture." The Victoria, B.C., native died in 1945 at the age of 74.

The sale of The Crazy Stair boosted overall sales at the auction to more than $13.5 million, which Heffel says exceeded pre-sale expectations

In all, eight pieces by Carr were sold, including War Canoes, which fetched $339,300. Heffel has now sold 220 of Carr's works, totalling $50.6 million.

Canoe Lake by Tom Thomson was expected to sell for as much as $600,000, but sold well above estimate at nearly $1.7 million. His painting entitled Autumn, Algonquin Park was also sold Thursday for $526,500.

Other highlights included Jean-Paul Riopelle's 1954 work, Sans titre, which sold for $789,750 and his Iceberg IV work fetched $491,400. The five Riopelle pieces sold Thursday brought in $1.8 million.

A 1971 work by William Kurelek called Rink Making more than tripled its pre-auction estimate by selling for $163,800.

Ephraim Kelloway's White Door by artist David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $105,300, more than double the pre-auction estimate.

The auction also included the sale of a painting by Sir Frederick Banting, who is best known as the co-discoverer of insulin.

His work entitled French River sold for $58,500.

All prices include a 17 per cent buyer's premium.


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Bruce Springsteen Born to Run manuscript to be auctioned

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 28 November 2013 | 22.19

A handwritten working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit Born to Run will be offered at auction on Dec. 5, with a presale estimate of $70,000 to $100,000 US, Sotheby's said Wednesday.

The seller was not revealed. The auction house said the document used to be in the collection of Springsteen's former manager, Mike Appel.

Sotheby's said most of the lines in this 1974 version, written in Long Branch, N.J., are apparently unpublished and unrecorded, but the manuscript does include "a nearly perfected chorus."

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This image released by Sotheby's shows a page from a handwritten manuscript of Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit Born to Run. (Sotheby's/Associated Press)

Springsteen's thought process, written in blue ink on an 8 1/2-by-11 sheet of ruled notepaper, looks like this:

"This town'll rip the (out your) bones from yourback / it's a suicide trap (rap) (it's a trap to catchthe young) your dead unless / you get out (we gotto) while your young so (come on! / with) take myhand cause tramps / like us baby we were born to run."

"The imagery and tone are constant from the present manuscript to the final song," the auctioneer said.

There are also some words in the margins: "Wild" and "Angels" and a word that looks like "velocity," with the letter "t" in Springsteen's curlicue cursive.

"Although Springsteen is known to have an intensive drafting process, few manuscripts of `Born to Run' are available, with the present example being one of only two identified that include the most famous lines in the song," Sotheby's said.

The document will be part of a Manhattan sale of fine books and manuscripts.


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Canada Reads finalists, celebrity panellists announced

Host Jian Ghomeshi today announced the final contenders and celebrity panellists who will defend the books in the upcoming 2014 season.of Canada Reads. 

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Samantha Bee, comedian and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will defend Rawi Hage's 'Cockroach' on the 2014 edition of Canada Reads. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Comedy Central)

The list includes:

  • Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey, who will defend Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.
  • Comedian and writer Samantha Bee, who will defend Cockroach by Rawi Hage.
  • Actress Sarah Gadon will defend Annabel by Kathleen Winter.
  • Hip-hop artist, broadcaster and educator Wab Kinew, who will defend The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.
  • Politician, broadcaster and diplomat Stephen Lewis, who will defend The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
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Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey will defend 'Half Blood Blues' by Esi Edugyan. (CBC)

For 2014, Canada Reads asked, "What is the one novel that could change Canada?" to find the book that change readers' hearts, minds and lives, ultimately with the goal of inspiring social change.

Readers responded with thousands of recommendations. Over the last month, they were whittled down to 40, 10 and now the final five.

Last year's champion, Trent McClellan, who won with his defence of Lisa Moore's February, was announced Tuesday as this year's correspondent, and will be blogging on the Canada Reads website through the duration of the competition.

From March 3-6, the panellists will debate the merits of their books during four hour-long live debates in front of audiences.

The debates will air on CBC Radio One, CBC Books, documentary channel and CBC Television.
 


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William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, dies

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Author William Stevenson was perhaps best known for his 1976 book chronicling the life of British spymaster and near-namesake Sir William Stephenson. (Photo courtesy the family of William Stevenson)

William Stevenson, the British-born Canadian journalist and author of A Man Called Intrepid, died Tuesday evening in his Toronto home. He was 89 years old.

A British naval pilot who served during the Second World War, Stevenson was later a foreign correspondent for The Toronto Star.

His 2012 autobiography Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics chronicled his time as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. Posted to Hong Kong for six years, he also took assignments in locations such as India, Kenya and London. He also worked as a producer for the CBC.

It was during his work for the Star that he met another William Stephenson - no relation. This Stephenson was the head of British intelligence operations in the United States, whose code name was Intrepid. Journalist Stevenson immortalized spymaster Stephenson's story in the 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid.

The book became a bestseller in the U.K. and was later adapted into a TV miniseries in 1979. He wrote several other books including 90 Minutes at Entebbe, also in 1976.

In an interview with CBC Radio's The Current in March, Stevenson described working as a correspondent for the Near and Far East News Agency, which was actually a cover for British intelligence - like his near-namesake, Stevenson himself was involved in the spymaster's world.

"By having a cover like that, your telegrams were not regarded as somehow spy telegrams, they were just information," he said, adding that he had a "kind of romanticized vision of what one did in looking at what's going on in the world."


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Filmmaker ponders why gays aren't extinct

If natural selection favours individuals who leave behind lots of descendants, why do homosexuals exist?

Filmmaker Bryce Sage, who describes himself as "openly gay and proudly flamboyant," set out to answer that question in his new documentary, Survival of the Fabulous, which airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on CBC-TV's The Nature of Things.

The film follows Sage on a humorous, personal journey that takes him around the world to talk with scientists who are researching topics ranging from the neuroscience of gay sheep to the effect of birth order on your odds of being gay.

Sage also examines the nature and nurture components of his own life by visiting his family in Port Hope, Ont.

Sage spoke to CBCNews.ca about the experience of making the film and what he learned about the science of homosexuality.

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As part of the film, Sage (second from right) visited his parents and his older brother in Port Hope to learn more about nature and nurture in his formative years. (CBC)

What made you interested in making this film?

Well, I guess, ever since I came out of a closet in a small town where it's not the idealized environment to be different and all that, I've always wondered, "Why is anyone gay?" Because if we're born this way, which I feel like I was, then why would something that makes you so unlikely to reproduce exist to begin with? It doesn't seem to make any natural sense.

That's a very scientific question.

Yes. I've always been obsessed with genetics, even though I ended up choosing a path in film. Ever since I saw Jurassic Park, I wanted to be a genetic engineer so I could make dinosaur; or I particularly wanted to make half-human, half-animals. But a wise guidance counsellor told me that's not very likely, the mad scientist route is not really a career option. So they encouraged me to go into storytelling instead.

But that lingering question of what makes us who we are, that question of nature versus nurture has always been something that fascinated me.

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Sage travelled around the world, talking to researchers such as Anne Perkins of Carroll College in Helena Montana, who studies the brains of homosexual domestic rams. (CBC)

It sounds like you were asking a number of questions in your film. What was the first one you set out to tackle?

I've always felt in my gut, in my heart that I'm born gay. But as science says, you can't just take something for granted. So the first big question is: Are we actually born gay? If, in fact, you are born gay, what is making you gay? Do genes play a role? Is it hormones? Is it a natural part of development in that genes don't even have an influence? Overarching all of this I had very simple questions that I didn't realize were a lot more loaded and a lot more complicated.

What do you mean they were a lot more loaded and complicated?

Well, I still can't say definitively that yes, we are born gay. Most of the evidence seems to indicate that there is a very high degree of likelihood that we are born gay. For example, one of things in the doc is we have our brain bombarded by male and female erotica to see what's going on while we're in an MRI. And the parts of the brain that are activating are parts that — the limbic system, the hypothalamus, things like that that — tend to be  pretty developed by the time you're born. They're not as malleable as other parts of the brain.  But even if that is true, it doesn't necessarily say for certain that one is born gay.

Long story short, I think as a non-scientist, when you have these sets of questions, you very quickly realize that science is just so much more complicated than you thought —  that there's very rarely a case of black and white answer, it's usually a lot more grey.

You had a lot of weird studies in the film. Which one did you think was the strangest?

I guess the one that felt the weirdest was probably the brain MRI. It's beyond my understanding to know that you can tell from looking at four-second images exactly what's going on in the brain. I couldn't feel a remote bit of erotic pleasure whatsoever during the entire experience. But somehow they're able to register that in the brain.

What was it like?

It's like you're in this tube that couldn't be more claustrophobic. You're trapped inside this magnetic thing. You're fearing for your life. The sound is this blaring buzz and kind of ringing sound that you hear the entire time. It's about the most undesirable context you could possibly be in.

And then you see just little flashes of pornographic material. And I can tell just by looking at it OK, yeah, it's a hot guy or it's a  woman. But either way, it's not like I'm even remotely capable of being turned on physically by this. But I guess somehow, just in registering the image, that's enough.

What made it so important for you to make the documentary so personal?

The reason I felt the need to be personal is this subject is so important. If you can prove that sexuality is not a choice, it's as much a part of us as our gender or race is, it's completely unchangeable, there's no doubt in my mind that discrimination would go away. That's almost essential to that happening.

But if you do just the talking head doc, the only people that watch it are the people that already believe. But I feel like you've got to be almost subversive with your politics.

So by putting myself in the story, it makes it a lot more fun, it makes it a journey, it makes it more entertaining. It's almost like, what's that song from Mary Poppins? "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine goes down."

You feature quite a few Canadian researchers in your film. Were you surprised that so many Canadians were studying gay-ness?

Yeah, that was certainly interesting. Where it may not be so much of a surprise is that Canada is one of the most progressive places when it comes to sexuality and the freedom that gay and lesbian people have in comparison to other countries like the States. And from what I've since learned talking to the scientists, it's a lot easier in Canada to get funding for scientific research into this kind of thing than it is in the United States, where it is still quite a controversial subject matter.

What was the most surprising thing you learned over the course of your research?

Probably one of the most surprising things was that a lot of people assume that … genes would code for homosexuality, that they make you gay. But they're actually more a code for attraction for men. And it just so happens when men get these genes, they are gay, but if women have these genes, they actually become more attracted to men, as opposed to making them lesbians.

I guess that's something that's not obvious. You'd assume that gayness in men and women might be kind of the same process.

Yeah, we don't feature lesbians in the documentary at all because, according to the science, what causes and influences sexuality in men is very different from what causes and influences sexuality of women.

We felt like we'd better not to muddy the waters by trying to address both when it's such a complicated subject matter to begin with. That would be the sequel, right?

You mention that everything ended up being a lot more complicated than you thought. In the end, did you feel like you got enough answers?

Can I move on?

[laughs]

Definitely, I  know from all the evidence I gathered, and all the scientists I talked to that all of these things help to explain why homosexuality survived. I'll never know within my lifetime exactly what made me gay. But I certainly feel like I have enough. Even in this greyness, I have enough of an understanding that there is biology to explain who we are and we did not make a choice.

Click here to view the trailer on a mobile device


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    Arnon Milchan, Pretty Woman, Fight Club producer, was Israeli spy

    Stories about Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan's alleged double life have been circulating for years.

    Now, the Israeli businessman behind hits like Pretty WomanFight Club and L.A. Confidential has finally come forth with a stunning admission — for years, he served as an Israeli spy, buying arms on its behalf and boosting its alleged nuclear program.

    In a far-reaching interview aired Monday with Israel's Channel 2 TV's flagship investigative program Uvda, Milchan detailed a series of clandestine affairs in which he was involved and particularly how he helped purchase technologies Israel allegedly needed to operate nuclear bombs.

    "I did it for my country, and I'm proud of it," said Milchan, who ran a successful fertilizer company in Israel before making it big in Hollywood.

    Even there, he says he continued with his clandestine work while maintaining close ties with Israel's leadership.

    According to an unauthorized biography published two years ago, Milchan worked for Israel's now-defunct Bureau of Scientific Relations, known as Lekem, which worked to obtain information for secret defence programs. The bureau was disbanded in 1987 after it was implicated in the spying affair for which Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, was sentenced to life in prison.

    Milchan also says other big Hollywood names were connected to his covert affairs.

    "When I came to Hollywood, I detached myself completely from my physical activities to dedicate myself to what I really wanted — filmmaking," he said. "[But] sometimes, it gets mixed up."

    The 68-year-old Milchan founded the New Regency film company and has produced more than 120 movies since the 1970s, working closely with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone and Oliver Stone. He forged an especially close relationship with Robert De Niro, who along with actors Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, is featured in Uvda's broadcast.

    "I had heard, but I wasn't sure," De Niro said of Milchan's activities. "I did ask him once, and he told me that he was an Israeli and, of course, he would do these things for his country."


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    UK museum finds 'new' John Constable oil sketch

    Sketch of trees most likely painted in 1821 or 1822

    The Associated Press Posted: Nov 26, 2013 4:10 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 26, 2013 4:10 PM ET

    A London museum says it has discovered a previously unknown oil sketch by John Constable tucked beneath the lining of another work by the English romantic painter known for his landscapes.

    The Victoria & Albert Museum said Tuesday that the sketch of trees underneath an unsettled sky was most likely painted in 1821 or 1822.

    The museum said it was discovered when conservators at the museum attempted to remove the lining on the back of Branch Hill Pond: Hampstead while preparing for a 2014 exhibition, Constable: The Making of a Master.

    The previously unrecorded work will be put on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Wednesday.

    Constable died in 1837. His daughter gave the museum the remaining contents of his studio in 1888.

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    Canada Reads finalists, celebrity panellists announced

    Host Jian Ghomeshi today announced the final contenders and celebrity panellists who will defend the books in the upcoming 2014 season.of Canada Reads.

    The list includes:

    • Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey, who will defend Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.
    • Comedian and writer Samantha Bee, who will defend Cockroach by Rawi Hage.
    • Actress Sarah Gadon will defend Annabel by Kathleen Winter.
    • Hip-hop artist, broadcaster and educator Wab Kinew, who will defend The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.
    • Politician, broadcaster and diplomat Stephen Lewis, who will defend The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.

    For 2014, Canada Reads asked, "What is the one novel that could change Canada?" to find the book that change readers' hearts, minds and lives, ultimately with the goal of inspiring social change.

    Readers responded with thousands of recommendations. Over the last month, they were whittled down to 40, 10 and now the final five.

    Last year's champion, Trent McClellan, who won with his defence of Lisa Moore's February, was announced Tuesday as this year's correspondent, and will be blogging on the Canada Reads website through the duration of the competition.

    From March 3-6, the panellists will debate the merits of their books during four hour-long live debates in front of audiences.

    The debates will air on CBC Radio One, CBC Books, documentary channel and CBC Television.
     


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    Canada oil lobby group donating $1M to Ottawa-area museum

    Written By Unknown on Selasa, 26 November 2013 | 22.19

    The lobby group for Canada's oil industry is contributing $1 million over five years to the Canadian Museum of Civilization to sponsor exhibits.

    The museum made the announcement alongside representatives of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Monday morning.

    "It's a major partnership for us," said Mark O'Neill, president and CEO of the museum in Gatineau, Que. "It's the largest corporate sponsorship in our corporation's history."

    It's not the first time the oil industry has given money to a museum in the National Capital Region.

    Imperial sponsored energy exhibition

    In 2011, Imperial Oil sponsored an energy exhibition at the Museum of Science and Technology by contributing $600,000 over six years.

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    The Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., is in the process of rebranding itself as the Canadian Museum of History. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC)

    Emails obtained by CBC News at the time uncovered that Imperial Oil was actively involved in the message presented to the public.

    But the science and technology museum defended its decision, saying it received funding from a number of energy industry sources and that the final decision about what was presented was up to the museum.

    O'Neill said Monday that won't happen again.

    Museum approached lobby group, says CEO

    He said the museum approached CAPP, not the other way around, and that CAPP won't be influencing any content.

    "CAPP knows that it will not in any way be involved in any of the content development of these exhibitions, or developing any of the programs in the museum," he said.

    The sponsorship support will help fund 1867, an exhibition under development that explores how Canada came to be.

    CAPP will also be recognized as an official partner of the museum's special exhibitions and programming between now and the end of 2018.

    The Canadian Museum of Civilization is in the process of rebranding itself as the Canadian Museum of History, and plans to open new sections of the museum dedicated to Canadian history in 2017, when the country celebrates 150 years since Confederation.


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    Taylor Swift wins AMA artist of the year

    Taylor Swift's fans have done it again, voting her the American Music Awards artist of the year for a third time.

    Swift won Sunday night's top honour, giving her a leading four trophies. Justin Timberlake was next with three, taking home soul/R&B album, soul/R&B male artist and pop/rock male artist.

    Swift didn't perform, but she was a constant presence on stage and the camera alighted on her as she danced to stars like Kendrick Lamar and Luke Bryan.

    The 23-year-old pop star also won country album of the year for Red and favourite female country and pop/rock artist.

    "Red is very different than any album I've made before and the reason I was able to do that was because of the fans," Swift said.

    "I cannot believe what you've done in the last year. This album came out almost exactly a year ago and the fact that six million of you went out and bought it is crazy."

    'Rihanna, I love you'

    Earlier in the evening, Rihanna and her mother took centre stage at the awards as the singer received the first Icon Award.

    Monica Fenty presented her pop star daughter with the award midway through Sunday night's show at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

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    Monica Braithwaite, right, presents the Icon award to her daughter Rihanna on stage at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated Press)

    "Can we talk about how cute Rihanna's mom is?" Justin Timberlake asked while accepting one of his three awards, before affecting a Caribbean accent. "She's so proud of the Icon. I am too, Rihanna, I love you."

    Fenty told Rihanna how proud she was of her daughter's success, saying, "I know the journey in your career has not always been an easy one."

    "Just about 20 years ago is when I really started making your life a living hell with my annoying little husky man voice, you would call it," Rihanna said. "And I mean just disrupting the entire neighbourhood. Westbury Road, Barbados, they could tell you that's the truth. I annoyed every one of my neighbours."

    Rihanna also took favourite soul/R&B female artist.

    Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande was named favourite new artist, Florida Georgia Line won single of the year for Cruise with Nelly in something of a surprise, Luke Bryan won favourite male country artist, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis used their rap/hip-hop album acceptance speech to send a message of tolerance.

    Ben Haggerty, the rapper known as Macklemore, accepted the award for favourite rap/hip-hop album, then quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in a live satellite feed from the rap group's latest tour stop.

    "Due to the fact that we are in Florida tonight accepting this award I want to acknowledge Trayvon Martin and the hundreds and hundreds of kids each year that are dying due to racial profiling and the violence that follows it," he said. "This is really happening. These are our friends, our neighbours, our peers and our fans, and it's time that we look out for the youth and fight against racism and the laws that protect it."

    Florida became a focal point after Martin's killer was freed under the state's stand your ground law. It was the first win of the night for Macklemore and Lewis, whose album The Heist has been an unexpected hit and made them the AMA's top nominees with six.

    Elaborate performances

    Katy Perry opened the show looking like a princess out of a classic Japanese painting. Dressed in a traditional Japanese dress, Perry's show-starting performance of Unconditionally included dozens of colourfully clad dancers waved fans, shadow danced in front of rice-paper screens and played the drums.

    2013 American Music Awards - Show

    Katy Perry performs on stage at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated Press)

    Perry was the early focus of the awards show, held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, arriving on the red carpet in a black strapless dress to screams from hundreds of fans. She said before the show she wanted to up her game, given the chance to open, and the whirling stage production was a wash of colours and movements before Perry disappeared in a puff of smoke.

    One Direction was at times drowned out by screams during an understated performance of Story of My Life. The decibel level was that way from the moment the British boy band arrived on the carpet, all smiles and dapper suits. Harry Styles stopped to take a picture with three fans.

    Timberlake strapped on an acoustic guitar and played a soulfully raucous version of Drink You Away. Macklemore crowd surfed on Can't Hold Us. Jennifer Lopez nailed the elaborate dance numbers during her tribute to Salsa queen Celia Cruz, taking two dozen dancers through their paces while wearing a shimmering silver dress.

    She winked at the crowd as she finished the number, the dancers sprawled around her on the floor.

    Lady Gaga and R. Kelly put on an elaborate production for their song Do What U Want, staging a presidential affair. Kelly played the president and Gaga a Marilyn Monroe-like mistress. Kelly gazed upward as Gaga table-danced on his desk, then stormed off the stage as an actor playing a reporter chased him asking about the affair.


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    Fort McMoney lets players decide virtual fate of oilsands territory

    An online documentary about Fort McMurray, Alta., lets viewers visit the city at the heart of Canada's oilsands by taking part in a hybrid film-game project.

    Fort McMoney lets players explore the city and surrounding areas in the frame of economic simulator and point-and-click adventure games.

    Creator David Dufresne wanted to add an interactive dimension to the documentary to make the viewer-slash-player feel more like he or she is taking part in the city's history.

    "The idea behind Fort McMoney is to do SimCity for real," says Defresne, referencing the popular series of city simulation games created by Will Wright.

    He said the dynamic nature of the quickly growing town makes it ideal pair to a city-building game.

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    A screenshot of Fort McMoney, an online game-documentary where players can decide the fate of a virtual version of Fort McMurray, Alta. (fortmcmoney.com)

    "It's time to find new ways to tell these kinds of stories," says Dufresne. "I think people, now, need to be inside the story."

    Players can explore areas in and surrounding the city, and choose to speak to dozens of residents who were interviewed by Dufresne and his team — from industrialists to environmentalists to everything in between.

    Users can also interact with each other, debating topics such as, "Should taxes on petroleum products be higher?"

    By voting on the questions, players will influence the growth of the in-game Fort McMurray.

    The documentary debuted today and will roll out its four chapters over the next four weeks, each with new subjects, personalities and polls called "referendums" to debate and vote on.

    "We knew that the interactive way to tell the story was the right one because there are so many issues, so many subjects, so many stories to tell in Fort McMurray," producer Raphaelle Huysmans told CBC News.

    Fort McMoney, a joint project by the National Film Board and Montreal-based Toxa and Franco-German TV network Arte, is free to play on a computer browser or tablet.

    Players will have to register via their Facebook or Twitter accounts beyond the first segment though, allowing them to take part in shaping the virtual city's ultimate fate.


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    Olivia Wise, teen YouTube star, dies after cancer fight

    The Toronto teenager who stole Katy Perry's heart with her YouTube version of the American singer's Roar to raise awareness of brain cancer has died following her battle with the disease. 

    Olivia Wise, 16, died Monday, according to a statement from her family. 

    Earlier this fall, Wise released on YouTube and iTunes a cover version of Perry's song, with all proceeds going to the Liv Wise Fund supporting children with brain tumours. 

    The video has been viewed over one million times, contributing to some $85,000 for the fund. It is working towards a goal of $150,000. 

    Wise's recording prompted a thumbs-up from Perry herself, who commended the teen's performance and efforts in a brief video statement. 

    "I was very moved and you sounded great," said Perry. 

    The singer noted Wise's passing early Tuesday morning. 

    "I can hear you singing with the angels now," she said via Twitter. 


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    Taylor Swift wins AMA artist of the year

    Written By Unknown on Senin, 25 November 2013 | 22.19

    Taylor Swift's fans have done it again, voting her the American Music Awards artist of the year for a third time.

    Swift won Sunday night's top honour, giving her a leading four trophies. Justin Timberlake was next with three, taking home soul/R&B album, soul/R&B male artist and pop/rock male artist.

    Swift didn't perform, but she was a constant presence on stage and the camera alighted on her as she danced to stars like Kendrick Lamar and Luke Bryan.

    The 23-year-old pop star also won country album of the year for Red and favourite female country and pop/rock artist.

    "Red is very different than any album I've made before and the reason I was able to do that was because of the fans," Swift said.

    "I cannot believe what you've done in the last year. This album came out almost exactly a year ago and the fact that six million of you went out and bought it is crazy."

    'Rihanna, I love you'

    Earlier in the evening, Rihanna and her mother took centre stage at the awards as the singer received the first Icon Award.

    Monica Fenty presented her pop star daughter with the award midway through Sunday night's show at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

    2013 American Music Awards - Show

    Monica Braithwaite, right, presents the Icon award to her daughter Rihanna on stage at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated Press)

    "Can we talk about how cute Rihanna's mom is?" Justin Timberlake asked while accepting one of his three awards, before affecting a Caribbean accent. "She's so proud of the Icon. I am too, Rihanna, I love you."

    Fenty told Rihanna how proud she was of her daughter's success, saying, "I know the journey in your career has not always been an easy one."

    "Just about 20 years ago is when I really started making your life a living hell with my annoying little husky man voice, you would call it," Rihanna said. "And I mean just disrupting the entire neighbourhood. Westbury Road, Barbados, they could tell you that's the truth. I annoyed every one of my neighbours."

    Rihanna also took favourite soul/R&B female artist.

    Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande was named favourite new artist, Florida Georgia Line won single of the year for Cruise with Nelly in something of a surprise, Luke Bryan won favourite male country artist, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis used their rap/hip-hop album acceptance speech to send a message of tolerance.

    Ben Haggerty, the rapper known as Macklemore, accepted the award for favourite rap/hip-hop album, then quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in a live satellite feed from the rap group's latest tour stop.

    "Due to the fact that we are in Florida tonight accepting this award I want to acknowledge Trayvon Martin and the hundreds and hundreds of kids each year that are dying due to racial profiling and the violence that follows it," he said. "This is really happening. These are our friends, our neighbours, our peers and our fans, and it's time that we look out for the youth and fight against racism and the laws that protect it."

    Florida became a focal point after Martin's killer was freed under the state's stand your ground law. It was the first win of the night for Macklemore and Lewis, whose album The Heist has been an unexpected hit and made them the AMA's top nominees with six.

    Elaborate performances

    Katy Perry opened the show looking like a princess out of a classic Japanese painting. Dressed in a traditional Japanese dress, Perry's show-starting performance of Unconditionally included dozens of colourfully clad dancers waved fans, shadow danced in front of rice-paper screens and played the drums.

    2013 American Music Awards - Show

    Katy Perry performs on stage at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday. (John Shearer/Invision/Associated Press)

    Perry was the early focus of the awards show, held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, arriving on the red carpet in a black strapless dress to screams from hundreds of fans. She said before the show she wanted to up her game, given the chance to open, and the whirling stage production was a wash of colours and movements before Perry disappeared in a puff of smoke.

    One Direction was at times drowned out by screams during an understated performance of Story of My Life. The decibel level was that way from the moment the British boy band arrived on the carpet, all smiles and dapper suits. Harry Styles stopped to take a picture with three fans.

    Timberlake strapped on an acoustic guitar and played a soulfully raucous version of Drink You Away. Macklemore crowd surfed on Can't Hold Us. Jennifer Lopez nailed the elaborate dance numbers during her tribute to Salsa queen Celia Cruz, taking two dozen dancers through their paces while wearing a shimmering silver dress.

    She winked at the crowd as she finished the number, the dancers sprawled around her on the floor.

    Lady Gaga and R. Kelly put on an elaborate production for their song Do What U Want, staging a presidential affair. Kelly played the president and Gaga a Marilyn Monroe-like mistress. Kelly gazed upward as Gaga table-danced on his desk, then stormed off the stage as an actor playing a reporter chased him asking about the affair.


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    Rob Ford mocked again on SNL

    The Canadian Press Posted: Nov 24, 2013 11:34 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 24, 2013 6:42 PM ET

    Saturday Night Live couldn`t resist a few more Rob Ford punchlines.

    During last night's "Weekend Update" segment fake news anchor Cecily Strong had fun with the Toronto mayor`s recent admission to City Hall reporters that he had smoked crack.

    She noted Ford said that he would've admitted to smoking crack sooner if they'd asked him 'Have you smoked crack?' rather than 'Do you smoke crack?' — "And much sooner if anyone had simply asked, 'Would you like some crack?"'

    Strong got in another shot about the recent incident where Ford bowled over city councillor Pam McConnell as he ran to confront a heckler.

    She said "During a Toronto city council meeting in which members stripped Rob Ford of most of his powers, the controversial mayor charged the gallery and ran over a female council member — before he was finally brought down by the third dart."

    On the previous Saturday Night Live Ford was the focus of the show's opening sketch as well as some Weekend Update jokes.

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    JFK-Superman comic book art sells for $112K in U.S.

    Cover shows alter-ego Clark Kent, as President John F. Kennedy in disguise

    The Associated Press Posted: Nov 24, 2013 9:25 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 24, 2013 9:25 PM ET

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    Wildlife photo winners on show at ROM, Royal BC Museum

    Written By Unknown on Minggu, 24 November 2013 | 22.19

    In our technology-driven world, wildlife photography can bring us face to face with the natural world and inspire us to pay more attention to the environment, says the Royal Ontario Museum's Dave Ireland.

    Dozens of stunning images from the 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are going on display at the ROM and the Royal British Columbia Museum (beginning Saturday in Toronto and Nov. 29 in Victoria).

    The striking and dramatic winning shots (announced in mid-October) — including selections by young Canadian photographer Connor Stefanison of Vancouver — will be joined by other images from finalists. This year's competitors hailed from more than 90 countries around the globe.

    Overall, the popular annual showcase features more than 100 fascinating photos displayed in sleek, backlit installations with commentary alongside.

    "Wildlife photography has an amazing ability to inspire people to love nature," Ireland, ROM's managing director of biodiversity, told CBC News.

    "If you love and respect nature you're going to go that extra mile to protect it and steward it."

    In Toronto, the ROM's related programming includes workshops and a social media campaign calling on the public to share their best wildlife images — say a close-up snapped in your backyard or a picture from your summer canoe trip — on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #ROMWPY. Submissions will be displayed on special video screens alongside the competition's winners during the exhibit and on the websites of the ROM and Canadian Geographic.

    "It's important to encourage youth to participate in nature conservation and biodiversity inquiry. There's a lot going on in the world these days and there's a lot of stimulus out there...[Young people] have many options they can participate in. Nature, for better or worse, doesn't seem to be a top priority with youth these days," Ireland said.

    However, with exhibitions like the Wildlife Photographer of the Year show and its outreach programming, the goal is "to try and reengage youth in an appreciation of nature and therefore the next generation of nature protectors."


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    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    REVIEW

    CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2013 9:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2013 9:37 AM ET

    Catching Fire — the second installment of post apocalyptic saga The Hunger Games — is faster, sleeker and grander than the original, says CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.

    Resting on returning star Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen and memorable performances from co-stars such as Donald Sutherland, the thriller also features fine performances from new cast additions, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin and Jena Malone.

    Watch Glasner's review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in the attached video.

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    Doctor Who celebrates 50 years today

    Fifty years ago today — one day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated — a science fiction show about an alien doctor who travels through space and time premiered on the BBC.

    At the time, those behind Doctor Who expected dismal ratings because they didn't think audiences would tune in following the news of JFK's death.

    But the show's premiere on Nov. 23, 1963 garnered 10 million viewers in Britain. Today the show's viewership sits at 77 million people worldwide.

    "It was just exciting," Peter Davison, who played the fifth incarnation of The Doctor from 1981 to 1984, told Day 6 host Brent Bambury.

    "I mean, there had never been anything like it that I can remember … It was such a simple idea and just so wonderfully attractive to young boys and girls."

    Doctor Who follows a time-travelling humanoid alien known as The Doctor who voyages through the universe on a ship called TARDIS. When he sustains a fatal injury, he doesn't die — he regenerates, and a new actor steps into the role.

    "The idea that you're given Doctor Who really is that you're cast to be different from your predecessor," Davison said.

    Dalek Doctor Who

    Sophie Sheaf , 12, looks at a Dalek, a character from the popular British BBC science fiction TV series Doctor Who. The Daleks are returning in Saturday's special 50th anniversary episode. (Max Nash/Associated Press)

    Fans of the show will be in for a treat when the special 50th anniversary episode airs on Saturday — the return of the Daleks, a race of evil cyborgs.

    Davison says acting alongside the Daleks was "much scarier" than he'd anticipated.

    "I always imagined they'd be fairly ineffective," he said.

    "In fact, they move just about the quickest of any Doctor Who enemy. They really do race down those corridors and they're much bigger than you imagine, as well."

    Davison's final episode, The Caves of Androzani, was voted best episode in a poll by the official Doctor Who magazine in 2009.

    The 50th anniversary episode's global simulcast airs in Canada on the SPACE channel at 2:50 p.m. ET on Saturday.


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    Atom Egoyan lends hope to West Memphis Three

    A Canadian filmmaker is breathing new hope into the decades-old murder case involving the group known as the West Memphis Three who became a cause célèbre.

    The men, who were teenagers when they were convicted of the brutal murder of three young boys, were released two years ago after serving 20 years in prison for crimes they insist they didn't commit.

    The new movie Devil`s Knot directed by Atom Egoyan, which debuted at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, is one of many documentaries made in an attempt to further understand the murders.

    CBC News reporter Nil Köksal talks to James Baldwin of the West Memphis Three.


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    Singer Ani DiFranco gets honours from U of W, Folk Fest

    Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 23 November 2013 | 22.19

    Folk-rock singer Ani DiFranco received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winnipeg on Friday. She was acknowledged for her deep and creative commitment to social justice, sustainability and the arts.

    "This is exciting for little folk-singing me," she laughed, while accepting the honour.

    "I'm just thrilled to be here. I feel very proud," she continued. "Now I'm 43 and my early career really started in Canada before I was even known in my own country, so it feels really sweet to be in Winnipeg at the U of W accepting this honour."

    "DiFranco helped pioneer the independent music movement and has had a profound impact on the folk music community, including in Winnipeg," states a press release from the university.

    "Feminist activists recognize her as a cultural icon for her unflinching critiques – expressed in song – of sexism, heterosexism, racism, and class-based discrimination."

    DiFranco is also in the city to receive the 2013 Artistic Achievement Award from the Winnipeg Folk Festival at its gala fundraiser, given annually to a performer who has made exceptional contributions to folk music and the community.

    "We are pleased that the University is complementing the presentation of our [award] by recognizing Ani's similarly impressive contribution to social activism," said Lynne Skromeda, executive director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival. 

    DiFranco's career spans more than two decades and includes 20 albums.

    During her early career, she resisted representation by mainstream record labels and instead established her own independent label, Righteous Babe Records.

    Dr. Angela Failler, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Women's and Gender Studies; Ani DiFr

    Dr. Angela Failler, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Women's and Gender Studies; Ani DiFranco; Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor, UWinnipeg. DiFranco receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters. (Cory Aronec Photography)

    Today Righteous Babe Records represents up-and-coming as well as established artists, and advocates for social justice efforts related to media activism, reproductive rights, peace and justice movements, arts and education, and other forms of democratic engagement, states the release from the U of W.

    "I feel as though I did it the right way," she reflected. "I had opportunities early on to go a more commercial route with my career and I chose to stay amongst my people and follow the path that led me to the most interesting, dynamic, giving, creative, active people so I'm very happy with the path that I chose.

    "It's a longer route than the commercial route through music, but along the way I've had so many cool experiences and met so many awesome people that I wouldn't have known otherwise."

    In 2000 she saved a 19th century church in Buffalo, New York from the wrecking ball and turned it into Babeville, an eco-friendly multi-use arts facility.

    "DiFranco has long been an advocate for social justice and environmental sustainability, and she lives those values as both a performer and entrepreneur," said U of W president Lloyd Axworthy.

    "Ani is a strong example of courage, tenacity and compassion – characteristics that our university holds in high esteem. We are pleased to welcome Ani to our university community."

    The Honorary Doctor of Letters is conferred upon those who have made a significant contribution to the Arts and Humanities.

    Past recipients include cellist Zara Nelsova , folk singer Oscar Brand, and conductor Bramwell Tovey.


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    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    REVIEW

    CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2013 9:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2013 9:37 AM ET

    Catching Fire — the second installment of post apocalyptic saga The Hunger Games — is faster, sleeker and grander than the original, says CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.

    Resting on returning star Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen and memorable performances from co-stars such as Donald Sutherland, the thriller also features fine performances from new cast additions, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin and Jena Malone.

    Watch Glasner's review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in the attached video.

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    Wildlife photo winners on show at ROM, Royal BC Museum

    In our technology-driven world, wildlife photography can bring us face to face with the natural world and inspire us to pay more attention to the environment, says the Royal Ontario Museum's Dave Ireland.

    Dozens of stunning images from the 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are going on display at the ROM and the Royal British Columbia Museum (beginning Saturday in Toronto and Nov. 29 in Victoria).

    The striking and dramatic winning shots (announced in mid-October) — including selections by young Canadian photographer Connor Stefanison of Vancouver — will be joined by other images from finalists. This year's competitors hailed from more than 90 countries around the globe.

    Overall, the popular annual showcase features more than 100 fascinating photos displayed in sleek, backlit installations with commentary alongside.

    "Wildlife photography has an amazing ability to inspire people to love nature," Ireland, ROM's managing director of biodiversity, told CBC News.

    "If you love and respect nature you're going to go that extra mile to protect it and steward it."

    In Toronto, the ROM's related programming includes workshops and a social media campaign calling on the public to share their best wildlife images — say a close-up snapped in your backyard or a picture from your summer canoe trip — on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #ROMWPY. Submissions will be displayed on special video screens alongside the competition's winners during the exhibit and on the websites of the ROM and Canadian Geographic.

    "It's important to encourage youth to participate in nature conservation and biodiversity inquiry. There's a lot going on in the world these days and there's a lot of stimulus out there...[Young people] have many options they can participate in. Nature, for better or worse, doesn't seem to be a top priority with youth these days," Ireland said.

    However, with exhibitions like the Wildlife Photographer of the Year show and its outreach programming, the goal is "to try and reengage youth in an appreciation of nature and therefore the next generation of nature protectors."


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    Doctor Who celebrates 50 years today

    Fifty years ago today — one day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated — a science fiction show about an alien doctor who travels through space and time premiered on the BBC.

    At the time, those behind Doctor Who expected dismal ratings because they didn't think audiences would tune in following the news of JFK's death.

    But the show's premiere on Nov. 23, 1963 garnered 10 million viewers in Britain. Today the show's viewership sits at 77 million people worldwide.

    "It was just exciting," Peter Davison, who played the fifth incarnation of The Doctor from 1981 to 1984, told Day 6 host Brent Bambury.

    "I mean, there had never been anything like it that I can remember … It was such a simple idea and just so wonderfully attractive to young boys and girls."

    Doctor Who follows a time-travelling humanoid alien known as The Doctor who voyages through the universe on a ship called TARDIS. When he sustains a fatal injury, he doesn't die — he regenerates, and a new actor steps into the role.

    "The idea that you're given Doctor Who really is that you're cast to be different from your predecessor," Davison said.

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    Sophie Sheaf , 12, looks at a Dalek, a character from the popular British BBC science fiction TV series Doctor Who. The Daleks are returning in Saturday's special 50th anniversary episode. (Max Nash/Associated Press)

    Fans of the show will be in for a treat when the special 50th anniversary episode airs on Saturday — the return of the Daleks, a race of evil cyborgs.

    Davison says acting alongside the Daleks was "much scarier" than he'd anticipated.

    "I always imagined they'd be fairly ineffective," he said.

    "In fact, they move just about the quickest of any Doctor Who enemy. They really do race down those corridors and they're much bigger than you imagine, as well."

    Davison's final episode, The Caves of Androzani, was voted best episode in a poll by the official Doctor Who magazine in 2009.

    The 50th anniversary episode's global simulcast airs in Canada on the SPACE channel at 2:50 p.m. ET on Saturday.


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    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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    REVIEW

    CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2013 9:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2013 9:37 AM ET

    Catching Fire — the second installment of post apocalyptic saga The Hunger Games — is faster, sleeker and grander than the original, says CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.

    Resting on returning star Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen and memorable performances from co-stars such as Donald Sutherland, the thriller also features fine performances from new cast additions, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin and Jena Malone.

    Watch Glasner's review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in the attached video.

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    Monty Python reunion show set for July

    And now for something completely different: A comeback show from the Monty Python gang, reuniting some four decades since they last performed on a British stage.

    The veteran comedy group said Thursday they are staging a one-off show at London's O2 arena in July, which they promised will include "a little comedy, a lot of pathos, some music and a tiny bit of ancient sex."

    Terry Gilliam joked that the five surviving Pythons — Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and himself — decided to do the show "to try to remind ourselves that we are funny and important and famous."

    "The important thing is we are going to be in front of 15,000 people all listening to every word we say, unlike our home life which is lonely and sad," he told The Associated Press.

    "That is the only reason we're doing the show, because we've all become so depressed over the years that our wives don't find us interesting, our children don't even laugh at us anymore."

    Monty Python

    The surviving members of the Monty Python comedy troop, (from left) Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese, confirmed in London on Thursday that they are reuniting for a stage show. ( Jim Ross/Invision/Associated Press)

    The five delighted reporters with gags and jokes, sitting behind the wrong name cards and answering questions addressed to another member. They also made plenty of references to their advanced age, saying medical attendants will be present during the show, which has the working title "One down, five to go."

    That's in reference to the sixth member, Graham Chapman, who died of cancer in 1989.

    The Pythons said the London show will include animation, material that had never been performed live before, and some of their best-loved sketches — including the "dead parrot" and the "crunchy frog" skits from their heyday.

    But Cleese said he wouldn't reprise his "Ministry of Silly Walks" performance, because he now has an artificial knee and hip.

    The group had its first big success with the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show, which ran from 1969 until 1974, winning fans around the world with its bizarre sketches.

    It branched out into movies including Life of Brian in 1979 and Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1975 — both often cited among the funniest movies of all time — and backed theatrical shows such as Monty Python's Spamalot.

    Idle said the London show was planned as a single event, but that further engagements are possible. The show will be filmed for possible distribution.

    The Pythons last performed together in Los Angeles in 1980, and last appeared on a U.K. stage 40 years ago.


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    Delivery Man brings Quebec comedy to wider audience

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    Remake of Quebec hit Starbuck is like a theatrical remount, says Cobie Smulders

    CBC News Posted: Nov 21, 2013 4:04 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 21, 2013 4:04 PM ET

    One of Canada's familiar faces in Hollywood, actress Cobie Smulders recalls watching Quebec comedy hit Starbuck long before she even considered auditioning for its English-language remake, Delivery Man.

    Filmmaker Ken Scott, who co-wrote and directed the original as well as the retelling, "did it so well the first time...I loved it. I thought 'This is great. Why would they redo it?'"

    The creative team behind Delivery Man began thinking of the remake as a theatrical remount.

    "It's just like doing a play. This is the American version of this play and luckily we're able to bring this story to a wider audience," Smulders said.

    "I hope [people] are able to enjoy it as much as they did the first time."

    In the attached video, Smulders talks to Eli Glasner about adapting Starbuck into Delivery Man, whether the How I Met Your Mother, The Avengers and Lego actress has "geek cred" and how she gets help pronouncing unwieldy comic book terms.

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    Hugh Jackman reveals skin cancer treatment via selfie

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    The Associated Press Posted: Nov 22, 2013 9:55 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 22, 2013 9:57 AM ET

    The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman revealed he has been treated for skin cancer and shared a selfie showing his bandaged nose.

    "Deb said to get the mark on my nose checked. Boy, was she right!" he wrote on Instagram, referring to his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.

    Hugh Jackman

    Actor Hugh Jackman posted a self-portrait on Instagram showing his bandaged nose and revealing he has been treated for skin cancer. (Instagram)

    The 45-year-old Oscar-nominated Jackman said he had a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer that is rarely fatal. The note he posted early Friday didn't say when his medical treatment took place.

    "Please don't be foolish like me. Get yourself checked. And USE sunscreen!!!" he wrote.

    Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and two in three Australians will be diagnosed before age 70, according to the national health department.

    Jackman is an advocate for cancer research. He has revealed that when he asked his mother-in-law Fay Duncan — president of the Fight Cancer Foundation in Australia — for her blessing when he proposed to Furness, she told him that supporting the fight against cancer was one of the requirements to get that blessing.

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    Sarah McLachlan collects honorary degree from U of A

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    Canadian superstar Sarah McLachlan received an honorary doctor-of-laws degree Wednesday morning at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.

    McLachlan, who was born in Halifax, has won three Grammy awards throughout her 25-year career as a musician and singer, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide.

    In more recent years, McLachlan has turned her attention towards philanthropic organizations, founding the Sarah McLachlan School of Music which offers free after-school programming for at-risk youth in Vancouver.

    She was also the founder of Lilith Fair, a touring concert featuring an all-female cast of performers, which raised more than $10 million for national and local women's organizations.

    In 1999, McLachlan was made an officer of the Order of Canada.

    Speaking Wednesday with CBC's Tashauna Reid, McLachlan said she still has trouble believing this is her life, calling herself lucky beyond belief.

    "I'm still so amazed every day that this is what I get to do, and that I get to be part of this world that is so much bigger than me."

    Honorary degrees were also given out this week to former Alberta premier Don Getty and U of A alumnus and philanthropist Charles Hantho.

    Click the video below to watch the full interview with McLachlan.


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    N.B. van crash film The Phantoms wins $25K kids TV honour

    The Phantoms, the TV movie inspired by a New Brunswick high school's basketball triumph after a tragic 2008 crash killed some of its players, has won the $25,000 Shaw Rocket Prize celebrating television for young viewers.

    Dream Street Productions in Halifax won in the Youth/Family (ages 13-17) category for The Phantoms, which was based on the real-life incident and aired on CBC.

    In January 2008, seven members of the Bathurst High School boys' varsity basketball team and the coach's wife died when the 15-passenger van they were travelling in (after a game in a nearby town) crashed. The following season, one of the young survivors — Bradd Arseneau — led a rebuilt team through difficulty to a provincial title.

    Filmed in Bathurst by New Brunswick producers, The Phantoms sparked controversy when parents of some of the crash victims criticized the production as exploitative. Meanwhile, others in the community (including parents of other crash victims) backed the film.

    Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood

    Animated series Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood revolves around a shy, four-year-old tiger. (Shaw Rocket Prize)

    With its focus on the newly formed team and the difficult road facing the players after the devastating crash, The Phantoms was a way for the struggling community to heal through an inspirational tale about triumph over adversity, producers said.

    The other Shaw Rocket Prize recipients this year, who each also receive $25,000, are:

    • Preschool category (ages 0-5): Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood, an animated educational series about a shy, four-year-old tiger. Airing on CBC in Canada, it features animation by Toronto's 9 Story Entertainment and was created in partnership with the Fred Rogers Company and Out of the Blue Enterprises.
    • Children (ages 6-12): The Next Step, a tween drama that follows the lives of a group of young competitive dancers. Created by Toronto's Temple Street Productions, it airs in Canada on Family Channel.

    "The overwhelming quality of all the entries we received this year is a true testament to both the high level at which these production teams function and the strength of the Canadian television industry as a whole," Annabel Slaight, chair of the Shaw Rocket Fund, said in a statement.

    Finalists for each category were selected by an international jury of industry experts. After that, a jury of children from across Canada voted online for their favourites. 

    All three winners were celebrated at a gala in Ottawa Wednesday evening.

    Awarded annually, the Shaw Rocket Prize celebrates independently produced Canadian children's, youth and family-oriented TV programming and associated digital content.

    The Next Step

    The Next Step is a tween drama following a group of young competitive dancers. (Shaw Rocket Prize)


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