TIFF QUIZ: Test your knowledge of the annual film frenzy

Every fall, packs of critics mingle with devoted cinephiles at the Toronto International Film Festival. Red carpets are unfurled for celebrity strutting. Over the past 37 years, the small but ambitious festival has continued to grow and attract...

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Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet, dies

To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 years after he won the Nobel Prize in literature and gained global recognition as Ireland's greatest...

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Joseph Boyden's new book explores Canada's formative years

Giller Award-winning author Joseph Boyden is taking readers to the origins of Canada in his latest novel. The Orenda, due out on Sept. 10, takes place just after Jesuits made first contact with First Nations in what became known as Upper Canada, and...

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Foam finger inventor angered over Miley Cyrus performance

Miley Cyrus perform at the MTV Video Music Awards. (Scott Gries/Invision/AP)Creator of the iconic foam "No. 1 hand" Steve Chmlear won't be cheering in the front row of a Miley Cyrus concert any time soon.Commonly used among sports fans to root for their...

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James Spader to play Ultron in Avengers sequel

Actor James Spader, seen speaking at a panel discussion for The Blacklist, will play Ultron in the sequel to Marvel's The Avengers. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) Emmy Award-winning actor James Spader will take on the mantle of the Avengers' newest...

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TIFF QUIZ: Test your knowledge of the annual film frenzy

Every fall, packs of critics mingle with devoted cinephiles at the Toronto International Film Festival. Red carpets are unfurled for celebrity strutting. Over the past 37 years, the small but ambitious festival has continued to grow and attract...

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Chimp's winning painting no slip of the tongue

Brent, a chimpanzee at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., outpolled chimps across the United States to win the $10,000 prize for his art work, right. (AP photos courtesy of Chimp Haven) A painting by a primate that applies colour with his tongue instead...

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Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet, dies

Seamus Heaney, Ireland's foremost poet who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within the nation's soul. He was 74. Heaney's family and publisher, Faber...

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TIFF films with the biggest buzz

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man and his doppelganger in Enemy, Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Jose Saramago's novel The Double. (Toronto International Film Festival) Cementing the Toronto International Film Festival's place at the top tier of the world's...

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Centuries-old oak tree turns into sculpture

A sculptor is turning a much-loved, centuries-old tree from Old Ottawa South into a masterpiece. The city cut down the Brighton Beach Park oak tree two years ago and now sculptor David Fels is giving the last remaining chunk new life. He has turned...

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'Man of Steel' sequel featuring Batman to film in Michigan

Warner Bros. upcoming Superman and Batman team-up movie is expected to film in Michigan after getting the OK for $35 million US in state incentives. The Detroit Free Press reports the sequel to "Man of Steel" is expected to include $131 million US of...

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Star Wars exhibit extended into October

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is extending its blockbuster run of an exhibit based on the Star Wars movie franchise. Star Wars Identities opened May 10 and was set to run until Sept. 2. On Tuesday, the museum announced that it's extending the...

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Miley Cyrus's raunchy act draws ire from parents' group

The U.S.-based Parents Television Council has made a complaint to MTV after former child star Miley Cyrus's raunchy performance at the Video Music Awards. "This much is absolutely clear: MTV marketed adults-only material to children while falsely manipulating...

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Artifacts unearthed from human rights museum to be unveiled

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is set to release details on hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts that were found at the site where the museum was built. Archeological teams unearthed about 400,000 artifacts between 2008 and 2012,...

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Michael Bublé welcomes son Noah

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Listeners go backstage with Ben Heppner on CBC Radio 2

Renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner will expand CBC Radio 2's operatic range in September with a new program to follow Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. Backstage with Ben Heppner, an hour-long weekly show, will launch on September 7, 2013 at 4 p.m....

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String quartets battle in Banff

Ten of the world's best young string quartets are in Banff for a major competition that begins Monday. Held every three years, the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) is open to string quartets whose members are all under 35 years...

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Miley Cyrus raunch, 'N Sync reunion shine at MTV awards

It may not be a good thing for her, but Miley Cyrus had the most memorable moment at the MTV Video Music Awards, held at the Barclays Center in New York. The provocative pop singer was the hot topic at Sunday night's show: Cyrus eclipsed Lady Gaga's...

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Annie Leibovitz photo exhibit delayed until January

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia of artwork by famed American photographer Annie Leibovitz will be delayed until January because of repairs to the gallery's sprinkler system. Ray Cronin, director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia...

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Former Bolshoi ballerina joins National Ballet of Canada

Related External Links National Ballet of Canada (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) The National Ballet of Canada has announced that a former Bolshoi prima ballerina will join its team...

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Céline Dion launches Twitter account

Related External Links Céline Dion on Twitter (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) A new day has come for Canadian pop superstar Céline Dion on social media. The Quebec chanteuse started...

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Wentworth Miller says he's gay, turns down Russia film festival invite

Actor and screenwriter Wentworth Miller, best known for his leading role in Fox television drama Prison Break, came out as a gay man on Wednesday in a letter declining an invitation to attend a Russian film festival in light of Moscow's recently adopted...

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Ben Affleck to play Batman in Man of Steel sequel

Ben Affleck will don Batman's cape and cowl. Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the 41-year-old actor-director will star as a new incarnation of the Dark Knight in a film bringing Batman and Superman together. The studio said Affleck will star opposite...

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Jazz legend Marian McPartland dies at 95

Marian McPartland, a U.K.-born jazz pianist and host of the National Public Radio show Piano Jazz has died in New York. She was 95. An NPR spokeswoman says she died of natural causes Tuesday night at her home. Her career spanned more than six decades....

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Dr. Oz helps save British tourist hit by runaway taxi

Quick-thinking good Samaritans, including television's Dr. Oz, helped save the life of a British tourist whose leg was severed by a runaway taxi in midtown Manhattan. The 23-year-old victim, Sian Green, was struck in a Rockefeller Center plaza Tuesday....

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Hamilton geeks head to Fan Expo in costume

Whenever a gaggle of nerds gets together, you can always count on one thing — a big chunk of them are going to be in costume. And at this weekend's Fan Expo in Toronto, they'll be out in full force. There'll be more than a few Batmans, a Stormtrooper...

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Former Bolshoi ballerina joins National Ballet of Canada

Related External Links National Ballet of Canada (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) The National Ballet of Canada has announced that a former Bolshoi prima ballerina will join its team...

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Daniel Radcliffe, Keira Knightley among stars bound for TIFF

Movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Keira Knightley, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Keanu Reeves will share the spotlight with filmmakers Robert Lepage, Jason Reitman, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and many more at the upcoming Toronto International Film...

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Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty crime novelist, dies at 87

Acclaimed American crime novelist Elmore Leonard, whose witty, gritty and undeniably cool stories were turned into Hollywood hits such as Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty and TV's Justified, has died at the age of 87. Leonard "passed away this...

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Father, son struggle with addiction: 'a jazz musician's curse'

Both Brian Browne and his son Sean have wrestled with demons so often associated with jazz music. "I was smoking weed at eight years old," the younger Browne told CBC Hamilton. "I was driving my dad down the Don Valley Parkway when I was 11 and he was...

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Chris Brown's Canadian summer shows cancelled

Controversial American R&B singer Chris Brown won't be performing in four Canadian cities later this month after all, after the promoter of the Energy Rush festival announced he has been dropped as the main act. Brown was scheduled to headline the...

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Actor Lee Thompson Young dies in apparent suicide

Lee Thompson Young, who began his acting career as the teenage star of the Disney Channel's The Famous Jett Jackson and was featured in the film Friday Night Lights and the series Rizzoli & Isles, was found dead Monday, police said. He was 29. There...

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Splinter Cell: Blacklist a high-stakes gamble for Ontario video game scene

A group of international terrorists who call themselves The Engineers are launching an escalating series of deadly attacks on the United States. Their ultimatum to the U.S.: pull back your military presence from multiple locations around the world or...

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Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty crime novelist, dies at 87

Acclaimed American crime novelist Elmore Leonard, whose witty, gritty and undeniably cool stories were turned into Hollywood hits such as Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty and TV's Justified, has died at the age of 87. Leonard "passed away this...

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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's Toronto show mixes art, politics

Ai Weiwei's list of accolades includes the Vaclav Havel prize for creative dissent, Man of the Year nods from Time magazine and GQ, and ArtReview magazine has twice included him on its list of the top 100 most powerful artists, but when an exhibit of...

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Mohawk actor August Schellenberg dies at 77

Mohawk actor August Schellenberg died Thursday night in his home at Dallas after a battle with lung cancer. He was 77. The actor's agent, Jamie Levitt, said Schellenberg died Thursday surrounded by his family. She described Schellenberg as a loving...

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Roy Bonisteel, former CBC Man Alive host, dies at 83

Broadcaster and former longtime CBC-TV host Roy Bonisteel has died at the age of 83. Bonisteel's family said he died Friday morning at his home near Trenton, Ont. His family said he was being treated for cancer. Bonisteel hosted the CBC Television...

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