Canadian superhero Johnny Canuck is back in reprint of 1940s comic

A Canadian comic book hero used as a morale booster during the Second World War could soon return to print – if he gets a boost of his own. Johnny Canuck, a Second World War Canadian comic book hero who in one issue fought Adolf Hitler in hand-to-hand...

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Shadeism: Filmmaker looks at discrimination among people of colour

Nayani Thiyagarajah comes from a family taught to flee from the sun. "For centuries we have hidden from it. It makes us darker. And in my culture, dark ain't lovely," says the Tamil filmmaker in her documentary Shadeism, which is currently finishing...

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Aretha Franklin still rewarded by her audience's love of music

Aretha Franklin continues to feel rewarded by her music and the audience reaction, she told the CBC's Sandra Abma in an exclusive interview before her concert in Ottawa Saturday night. The 72-year-old singer brought her soulful performance...

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Nicki Minaj at BET Awards: 'I was about to die'

Nicki Minaj told the crowd at the BET Awards that she was close to death recently — an experience that has helped her be herself. The rapper rambled onstage when accepting her fifth consecutive win for best female hip-hop artist, where she thanked Lil...

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Why artist Peter Doig is so 'very, very expensive'

Artist Peter Doig's painting of Toronto's rainbow tunnel is poised for sale in London Monday, with Country-rock (wing-mirror) potentially leaving auction records in the rear-view mirror. Expected to shatter auction records, the work has whipped the...

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Pick-and-Pay cable would mean changes to local TV funding, say Bell, Rogers

Two of Canada's biggest telecommunications companies, Bell and Rogers, are clashing over the future of local television and who should pay for it. In its submissions to the CRTC, Bell said it believes changes should be made by the regulator to allow...

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Shadeism: Filmmaker looks at discrimination among people of colour

Nayani Thiyagarajah comes from a family taught to flee from the sun. "For centuries we have hidden from it. It makes us darker. And in my culture, dark ain't lovely," says the Tamil filmmaker in her documentary Shadeism, which is currently finishing...

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Designing Women's Meshach Taylor dies

The Associated Press Posted: Jun 29, 2014 10:18 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 29, 2014 10:18 AM ET Meshach Taylor's agent says the actor who appeared in the hit sitcoms Designing Women and Dave's World has died. He was 67. Agent...

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FILM REVIEW: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Video Latest instalment of toy-inspired franchise defies logic and reasoning, says reviewer CBC News Posted: Jun 27, 2014 4:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 27, 2014 4:00 AM ET Take your head, wrap it in the American flag and smash it...

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Laverne Cox on Orange is the New Black and blazing trails

Video CBC News Posted: Jun 27, 2014 2:31 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 27, 2014 10:40 PM ET Laverne Cox on transgender identity 1:07 Laverne Cox on transgender identity 1:07 She is an activist, an advocate and a reality...

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Bobby Womack, soul legend, dead at 70

Thomson Reuters Posted: Jun 27, 2014 8:50 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 27, 2014 9:11 PM ET Bobby Womack, a colourful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who impacted artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, had died....

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Danielle Wade, Over the Rainbow winner, wraps Wizard of Oz tour

After wearing Dorothy's ruby slippers for nearly two years, actress and reality show winner Danielle Wade is wrapping up her turn in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. The young star has performed the musical's lead role more...

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The Ballad of Stompin' Tom musical set to launch in P.E.I.

The Ballad of Stompin' Tom, a musical about the legendary Canadian singer, is set to open at Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside, P.E.I. Harbourfront Theatre is putting the final touches on the musical, which opens Saturday and runs six nights a week...

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Shia LaBeouf, Transformers actor, released after New York arrest

LaBeouf was being 'rather difficult and combative,' a NYPD spokesman said Thomson Reuters Posted: Jun 27, 2014 1:25 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 27, 2014 10:50 AM ET Actor Shia LaBeouf, who starred in the Transformers movies and Nymphomaniac,...

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FILM REVIEW: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Video Latest instalment of toy-inspired franchise defies logic and reasoning, says reviewer CBC News Posted: Jun 27, 2014 4:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 27, 2014 4:00 AM ET Take your head, wrap it in the American flag and smash it...

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Freaky Friday author Mary Rodgers dead at 83

Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress and as the author of the body-shifting book Freaky Friday, has died. She was 83. Rodgers died Thursday at her home...

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Eli Wallach, prolific character actor, dies at 98: report

Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported. Wallach appeared on the big screen well...

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Michael Jackson: sharing memories of the King of Pop

Five years ago today, the music world lost a pop icon when Michael Jackson died suddenly from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol. At the time, the 50-year-old performer and father of three was mired in debt, struggling to shake off an image still...

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North Korea calls new Seth Rogen movie an 'act of war'

North Korea is warning that the release of a new American comedy about a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un would be an "act of war."Jong-un: release this movie and face "merciless" retaliation. If the U.S. government doesn't block the movie's release,...

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Hamilton's beatbox ambassador hits the road

For years, Hamilton beatboxing phenom Jason Hachey has been a one-man show — layering beats and melodies into a wash of sound on Hamilton stages. This July, he's taking that show on the road all on his own. No road crew, no tour van, not even a...

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Queen visits Game of Thrones set

Video CBC News Posted: Jun 24, 2014 9:10 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 24, 2014 9:10 AM ET Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to the set of HBO's Game of Thrones during a visit to Northern Ireland on Tuesday, but didn't sit in the show's famous...

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Deryck Whibley: 'I had pretty much just damaged everything'

Deryck Whibley didn't see it coming. The Canadian rock star and Sum 41 frontman had many years of good times. When he was barely out of high school, Whibley and his pals from Ajax, Ont., catapulted to fame and became a world-famous rock band. They...

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Monet's Water Lilies fetches $57M Cdn at auction

Video CBC News Posted: Jun 24, 2014 9:53 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 24, 2014 9:53 AM ET A painting by Impressionist master Claude Monet netted more than $57 million Cdn at London's Sotheby's auction house Monday. Water Lilies was...

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The Book of Negroes miniseries lands Cannes premiere

The Book of Negroes, the anticipated TV adaptation of the award-winning novel by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, will have its premiere in Cannes on Thanksgiving Day. The miniseries will debut at the Palais de Festivals in Cannes on Monday, October 13...

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Star Wars sequels enlist director Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson is the latest sci-fi filmmaker to join the ever-expanding Star Wars universe. The ambitious filmmaker behind time-travelling hitman tale Looper, conman caper The Brothers Bloom and teen indie noir Brick is slated to write and direct...

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Massive illegal book publishing scam leads to arrests in Spain

The investigation into massive unlawful book publishing follows a complaint from the copyright protection arm of Spain's authors and publishers association. (Albert Gea/Reuters) Spanish police have arrested three people on suspicion of illegally scanning...

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Daytime Emmys 2014: Ellen DeGeneres among big winners

Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey and the soap opera The Young and the Restless were among the 41st annual Daytime Emmy winners. The Ellen DeGeneres Show received its eighth trophy as outstanding entertainment talk show at the awards ceremony...

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Deryck Whibley: 'I had pretty much just damaged everything'

Deryck Whibley didn't see it coming. The Canadian rock star and Sum 41 frontman had many years of good times. When he was barely out of high school, Whibley and his pals from Ajax, Ont., catapulted to fame and became a world-famous rock band. They...

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Kevin Clash, former Elmo puppeteer, sees sex-abuse lawsuit tossed

The Associated Press Posted: Jun 20, 2014 4:24 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 20, 2014 4:24 PM ET A judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed the last of five sex-abuse lawsuits filed against the Emmy-winning puppeteer who voiced the Sesame Street...

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Tatiana Maslany, Orange is the New Black win TV Awards

Tatiana Maslany, Breaking Bad and Orange is the New Black were among the winners at the Critics' Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday evening. Regina-born Maslany, star of sci-fi TV hit Orphan Black, picked up her second consecutive...

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Tracy Morgan moved from hospital to rehab centre

Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has been moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation facility as he recovers from a serious auto accident in New Jersey, his spokesman said Friday. The former star of 30 Rock is showing signs of improvement, but has a long...

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Star Wars sequels enlist director Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson is the latest sci-fi filmmaker to join the ever-expanding Star Wars universe. The ambitious filmmaker behind time-travelling hitman tale Looper, conman caper The Brothers Bloom and teen indie noir Brick is slated to write and direct...

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Tatiana Maslany, Orange is the New Black win TV Awards

Tatiana Maslany, Breaking Bad and Orange is the New Black were among the winners at the Critics' Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday evening. Regina-born Maslany, star of sci-fi TV hit Orphan Black, picked up her second consecutive...

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Tracy Morgan moved from hospital to rehab centre

Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has been moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation facility as he recovers from a serious auto accident in New Jersey, his spokesman said Friday. The former star of 30 Rock is showing signs of improvement, but has a long...

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Kevin Clash, former Elmo puppeteer, sees sex-abuse lawsuit tossed

New The Associated Press Posted: Jun 20, 2014 4:24 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 20, 2014 4:24 PM ET A judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed the last of five sex-abuse lawsuits filed against the Emmy-winning puppeteer who voiced the Sesame...

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Star Wars sequels enlist director Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson is the latest sci-fi filmmaker to join the ever-expanding Star Wars universe. The ambitious filmmaker behind time-travelling hitman tale Looper, conman caper The Brothers Bloom and teen indie noir Brick is slated to write and direct...

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