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Eccaia Sampson, 14, is all about making her dreams come true. The London, Ont., teen has been doing karate since the...

Jay Baruchel has always defined himself by his love for Canada. The Ottawa-born, Montreal-bred actor lives in Toronto now, where...

Andrew Davis, the acclaimed British conductor who led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 13 years, has died. He was 80.Davis...

Mary J. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into...

Unreserved45:38Reclaiming Inuit Throat SingingSisters Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk McKay were children when they first learned the Inuit cultural practice of...

When Noah Kahan wrote the song Growing Sideways off his hit album Stick Season, he had just gotten off Zoloft...

Over the years, 60 Canadian artists have won the honour of showing their work in a small, angular, wood-and-glass pavilion...

It's only April, but it's hard to imagine any album will be heard more this year than Taylor Swift's The...

There is something insufferably satisfying about David and Nathan Zellner's Sasquatch Sunset.From the time the bizarre sasquatch family drama made news...

The hype for Taylor Swift's new album went into overdrive as it appeared to leak online two days ahead of...

Writers Kate Gunn, Miriam Ho Nga Wai, Zilla Jones, Kailash Srinivasan and Carley Thorne have made the 2024 CBC Short...

Canadian translator George McWhirter has made the shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is recognized for Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, which was translated...

Q21:49Deryck Whibley: Why Sum 41 is disbanding after 27 yearsDeryck Whibley had a nagging feeling for the past five years....

Pat Coveney is a lifelong hockey fan, in particular a fan of the new PWHL team in Montreal."They're doing fabulous....

A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec...

Give parents some extra grace today. They've been through the emotional wringer thanks to a cartoon television show for children.The highly anticipated...

The most popular movie on Netflix Canada has resurfaced a dramatic murder-for-hire plot that shook an Ontario city in 2010.The...

On the surface, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer is the perfect target for adaptation.First off, it's a novel — one of the more...

Burton Cummings's latest blow in his legal battle against the current lineup of the Guess Who is tarnishing the legacy...

The highly anticipated film Civil War lands in theatres this week. Acclaimed filmmaker Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina,...

Day 69:34A small business owner resists Momofuku's bid to trademark Chili CrunchCelebrity chef David Chang says he will no longer...

In his filmmaking career, Alex Garland has terrified us with zombies, infectious alien hybrids, murderous men and A.I. run amuck. Civil...

O.J. Simpson, the football star, actor and pitchman whose shocking arrest for double murder and subsequent acquittal at trial shone...

John Kinnear was motivated by a heartfelt desire to help when he sat down in his London, Ont., home to write...

Jazz clarinettist, composer and bandleader Phil Nimmons, known as the "dean of Canadian jazz," has died at the age of 100.A...

Cousins and collaborators Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki have been nominated for the 2024 Doug Wright Award for their YA graphic...

Maud Lewis's simple scenes of rural life are selling for tens — and sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars....

Eleanor Catton is among the five North American authors shortlisted for the second iteration of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The $150,000 USD...

Renowned Prism drummer Gary Wanstall, known as Rocket Norton, passed away last week after a two-year-long battle with cancer.Bill Allman,...

Entertainment·BreakingActor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to probation but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case...

5 days agoNewsDuration 2:53The man known to many as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride is coming to Halifax. Beloved...

Day 68:3041 years after she topped the charts, Bonnie Tyler still loves singing Total Eclipse of the HeartEvery time there's...

Who Carly Simon is singing about in the iconic 1972 song, You're So Vain, is a question that has long...

Some of Canada's most iconic festivals are cancelling or scaling back this year as they weather financial struggles.Festival organizers say...

Musicians are confronting artificial intelligence as digital copycats flood the internet. The Artist Rights Alliance, a non-profit advocacy organization, issued an...

It's something of a miracle that Monkey Man exists. It's an action-drama made by a lesser-known actor when — according to...

Disney's streaming service will start cracking down on password-sharing in June, chief executive Bob Iger said on Thursday, as the...

Vancouver-based costume designer Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh collaborated with Inuit artists to create cultural pieces for Netflix's live-action show Avatar: The Last...

Joe Flaherty, the comedian and writer known for his roles on shows like Freaks and Geeks and SCTV, has died....

Sisters Leanne and Natasha Manikavasagar are no strangers to seeing AI-generated content on TikTok.But an AI-generated deepfake video of Drake...

More than 400 Canadian artists from the worlds of music, film and literature are denouncing what they describe as "alarming...

Actor Chance Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Gen V, has died at age...

There's this webcomic I used to read created by two brothers. Drawn by 28-year old Ethan Nicolle, Axe Cop follows a...

On the surface, Beyoncé and Sacha have little in common.Where Beyoncé was born in Houston, Sacha grew up in the tiny town...

Plains Cree musician Joel Wood cracks up his wife as he describes how he emerged from his mother's womb."I kind...

Famously private about his personal life, acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland is finally ready to let the public in on his...

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by...

Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday.After months...

In the last decade, Ryan Duchoeny has worn many hats — firefighter, police officer, construction worker and even convict. Such is...

A new ballet opening Wednesday is the first work by an Asian choreographer commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada...

3 days agoNewsDuration 5:19Aysanabee, an Oji-Cree musician from Northwestern Ontario, is nominated for three Juno Awards. Ahead of the ceremony,...

On March 21, Joni Mitchell's entire musical catalogue reappeared on Spotify. Two years ago, she removed her music from the...

12:36Amrit Kaur lands her first leading film role in the queer, Bollywood-inspired The Queen of My DreamsFor Fawzia Mirza, making...

EntertainmentNelly Furtado is set to host the 53rd Juno Awards in Halifax on Sunday, as some of the biggest names in...

Nelly Furtado will get the party started this weekend as some of the biggest names in Canadian music gather in...

Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with cancer, a surprise disclosure that follows an extended period of...

There is a scene at the end of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire that is, for the most part, exactly the same...

As It Happens6:21An Oscar changed everything for this public school instrument repair shopSteve Bagmanyan is putting retirement on hold —...

If you've spent one too many hours binge-watching old seasons of Heartland, there's an auction with your name on it. The...

M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unsettling presence to films including Blood Simple and...

It was a night of surprises and upsets at Sunday's Academy Awards — especially for what were arguably the year's two...

A company that owns nearly two dozen newspapers in Atlantic Canada has debts of almost $100 million and is filing for creditor...

Q23:12Denis Villeneuve: Dune 2, his vision for the sci-fi epic, and how the film reflects issues in the world todayDenis...

5 days agoNewsDuration 1:56Indigenous actor Lily Gladstone may not have won an Oscar for her role in Killers of the...

Where many modern romantic comedies falter is a laser-focus on the romance and a weak commitment to the comedy — French...

What was intended as a simple family photo has become a royal headache for Princess Catherine and her family, after...

Canada's independent cinema industry is in crisis, its owners say, as they face mounting challenges from streaming services and restrictive...

Where Love Lies Bleeding ends up — full of psychedelic visions, blood-covered bodies and more than a fair amount of screaming —...

The U.S. Congress has moved a big step closer to a crackdown on a popular platform that could have far-reaching...

The Vancouver Fringe Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary not with a triumphant bow but with a plea for more...

Olivia Munn has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, thanking her doctors and urging...

A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta...

The shortened version of the international broadcast of the 96th Oscars faced harsh criticism in Ukraine for omitting the segment...

This year's Hot Docs Festival could be the last without more support from government funding partners, said the non-profit's president. Marie Nelson said...

Eugene Levy's Hamilton roots were at the forefront of mind as he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of...

What does a reporter need when they cover the Oscars? Eli Glasner takes us on his journey to Los Angeles.

Japanese manga comic creator Akira Toriyama, best known for his Dragon Ball series that spawned widely popular films, video games...

The Canadian actor and comedian, known for co-creating and starring on the award-winning sitcom Schitt’s Creek, was presented with his...

As far as celebrity court battles go, the six-week legal row in 2022 between Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp and his...

Spark53:59The extraordinary power of terrestrial radioIt took a while for Ashley Elzinga to craft her artificial intelligence-powered counterpart."It sounded a...

The 96th Academy Awards are coming up this weekend, and there is no shortage of Canadian nominees.One of the country's...

Succession-style tech drama BlackBerry tops the nomination list for the Canadian Screen Awards' film category — not just for this year,...

Award-winning author Heather O'Neill wins Canada Reads 2024. She championed the novel The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan...

A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by...

The new Netflix movie Code 8 Part II is set in the fictional Lincoln City, but some of the millions of viewers who...

The Montreal company that operates the Just for Laughs comedy festival has cancelled the 2024 edition of the event after filing...

A chaotic comedy about the rise and fall of an era-defining smartphone has won the $50,000 best Canadian feature prize...

Canadian jazz legend Eleanor Collins, who began performing in the 1930s and worked with other greats like Dizzy Gillespie and...

The European Union levelled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion...

The inspiration for Johan Renck's new film Spaceman is more down-to-earth than one might expect.Although the sci-fi flick revolves around...

If you're looking to explode a human head or make blood and guts from scratch, there are people in Hamilton...

Day 613:59Canadian music legend Ron Sexsmith looks back on a remarkable career with a 60th birthday concert at Massey HallCanadian...

The only thing you could fault Denis Villeneuve's 2021 epic Dune for was also, really, the only reason it worked. After all, Frank...

Former talk show host Oprah Winfrey is leaving the WeightWatchers board of directors and donating millions of dollars in the weight...

Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation, changed the landscape of video gaming.Sporting new-at-the-time 3D graphics, cinematic...

Acclaimed comedian Richard Lewis has died. He was 76.Lewis, who revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2023, died...

Cineplex Inc. has made almost $40 million from online booking fees, which are central to a competition bureau lawsuit against...

Two men were convicted of murder Tuesday in the death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, a brazen 2002 shooting...

Joel D. Montgrand is having a banner year. The Saskatchewan actor from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation near Prince Albert said up until recently, he was...

Every year, the release of the Juno Award nominees comes with the excitement of seeing which first-timers made the list....

A Halifax lawyer who has played a behind-the-scenes role in the careers of musicians such as Sloan, Feist, The Rankin Family...

Oppenheimer continued to steamroll through Hollywood's awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for...

This First Person column is written by Pearl Lorentzen, who lives in Slave Lake, Alta. For more information about CBC's...

EntertainmentBeyoncé has made history once again, becoming the first Black woman to top Billboard's country music chart. The Grammy winner achieved...

You might not know Michaela Watkins by name, but you likely know her face — and her voice. She's been reliably funny, sharp,...

Ontario-born filmmaker James Cameron attended a ceremony at Rideau Hall Thursday recognizing his appointment as a companion of the Order...

When taking on the role of Uncle Iroh in the Netflix live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, actor Paul...

A comic with a dream 20 years in the making to create a Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame is hoping...

Fans of crime procedurals take note: Canada's Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, a spinoff of the popular U.S. franchise debuts Feb....

People who present dance, music and theatre arts in Nova Scotia say they are concerned about some extra federal art...

Indigenous actors are having a moment on some of the world's most popular streaming services — even if they never...

4 days agoNewsDuration 1:54Prince Harry and Michael Bublé try their hand at wheelchair curling at the Invictus Games One Year...

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making...

Michael J. Fox made a surprise appearance onstage during Sunday night's BAFTA Film Awards as he presented the prize for best...

Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer won seven prizes — including best picture, director and actor — at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on...

Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer won seven prizes — including best picture, director and actor — at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on...

Bill Cunningham, the Canadian broadcast journalist who covered the Vietnam War for the CBC and helped name its flagship program, has...

A Vancouver non-profit is calling on Canada's competition regulator to launch a greenwashing investigation into Lululemon — saying the athleisure brand is misleading consumers...

An Inuk from Makkovik is showcasing Inuit culture and humour this Valentine's Day after creating her own set of Valentine's...

A stolen Hofner bass guitar belonging to Paul McCartney and used to record The Beatles' first two albums has been...

There are few figures in American history as mythologized as J. Robert Oppenheimer — in no small part due to...

It's a momentary glitch that singers everywhere fear: the dreaded voice crack.So when Alicia Keys belted out the opening notes to her...

This First Person article is the experience of Sarah Gilbert, a writer in Montreal. For more information about CBC's First...

Unreserved53:492SLGBTQ+ Love SongsWhen Melody McKiver came across a collection of Indigenous love songs transcribed by anthropologists in the early 1900s,...

Ziggy Marley's movie is not receiving the love its name calls for.Despite the fact that Bob Marley: One Love was, Ziggy...

Lily Gladstone says there were moments filming Killers of the Flower Moon when panic would set in at the thought of...

Dene filmmaker Kelvin Redvers wants audiences for his latest movie to sit on the edges of their seats.An isolated, snow-covered...

Usher delivered a high-energy Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas on Sunday that featured surprise appearances by some of...

4 days agoNewsDuration 6:59Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman made a rare public appearance at the Grammys, performing her song Fast Car alongside...

A new Canadian reality TV show is mixing Seth Rogen's inherent charm with the explosion in popularity of pottery and...

3 days agoNewsDuration 2:07Karma is the guy at 615 Rothesay Ave. Jeffrey Dugas of Obsidian Barbers in Saint John has...

Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and...

Rêve is reliving her Cinderella moment.The Montreal musician, 28, garnered both her first Juno nomination and first win at last year's...

Seiji Ozawa, the Japanese conductor who amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the...

Much like its plot, the name of Mads Mikkelsen's new stubbornness-saga has had a journey of its own.Originally lifted from...

Musician Paula Toledo recently learned one of her songs had found an audience through an unlikely source — bootleg Russian DVDs. But she...

TorontoCineplex has cancelled screenings of a South Indian film following four drive-by shootings at theatres throughout the Greater Toronto Area...

Mark Ellis was nervous coming aboard another show about police officers.Not least because police procedurals have become an even more crowded...

Singer-songwriter Toby Keith, who twice won the Academy of Country Music's entertainer of the year award, has died. He was...

In an almost exact repeat of her showing in 2022, Montreal artist Charlotte Cardin leads the 2024 Juno nominations with six, with...

The 66th Grammy Awards on Sunday put women in the spotlight, with SZA, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus winning big....

The latest season for one of television's most beloved crime drama series has a Saskatchewan connection.Joel D. Montgrand is playing...

Celebrities took to the red carpet on Sunday in Los Angeles ahead of the 66th Grammy Awards, decked out in metallic...

Ad-free entertainment used to be one of the big selling points of streaming services, but as more services including Amazon's...

This First Person column is written by Dylan Earis, a graduate of the University of Regina's school of journalism. For...

Afrobeats has been soaring in popularity since its inception in the early 2000s. From 2017 to 2022, there was a...

Molly McGlynn never saw herself making this movie. Not only was the idea of putting this story on screen too...

Carl Weathers, a former NFL and CFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo...

Agent Argylle — clad as always in his tightly tailored velour suit, "smell the fart" grimace and vaguely insane Me, Myself &...

Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during...

When Nicole Ariana stepped up to the mic in front of a packed crowd at a downtown Halifax club, she...

Universal Music Group, which represents artists including Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, says that it will...

The songwriters who gave us Your Song, Tiny Dancer and Rocket Man will add to their stuffed awards shelf later this year when Elton...

Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career...

"Did this film direct itself?"When a female-directed film that received critical acclaim and box-office success was nominated in several Oscar categories — including best picture, but...

A bulldozer tears through a modern house in Meaford, Ont., a picturesque community on Georgian Bay. Occupied for just two...

EntertainmentRevered Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is set to make her Grammy Awards performance debut at this year's ceremony next Sunday.Canadian...

Explicit AI-generated photos of one of the world's most famous artists spread rapidly across social media this week, highlighting once...

Lulu Wang originally came to Expats, the new Nicole Kidman miniseries that premiered Friday on Prime Video, as sort of a...

A documentary chronicling the devastating legacy of residential schools in B.C. is among breakout films at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Directors Julian Brave...

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigned Friday from WWE's parent company t he day after a former employee filed a federal...

Band of Brothers, the HBO war miniseries about American paratroopers produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, begins with a sort...

After six years away, the Juno Awards will return to Vancouver in 2025, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS)...

Q20:51Tanya Tagaq: True Detective, the brilliance of Jodie Foster, and creating the series’ scoreMost people who land their very first...

Netflix told investors it has added millions of new customers and has lots of room to grow its revenue — with...

With the Oscars shortlist out this week, most avid movie-goers are probably aware of the front-runners, predicted winners and (Barbie, anyone?) biggest...

With seven nominations, P.E.I.'s East Pointers led the pack as the 2024 East Coast Music Awards kicked off the trip...

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, with Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie emerging as the early leaders.Oppenheimer leads the pack with...

Tegan and Sara's next graphic novel, titled Crush, is set to be published on Oct. 1, 2024.Illustrated by Tillie Walden,...

Atom-bomb epic Oppenheimer leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 13 categories, including best film.Gothic fantasia...

Director Ava DuVernay speaks with the CBC's Eli Glasner about what compelled her to create her latest and perhaps most...

After years of YouTube stardom for his online confessionals and sketches, Jasmeet Raina — the Guelph, Ont.,-born Punjabi Sikh millennial...

A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge Friday in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal...

First published in 1954, Sports Illustrated could be characterized as a part of sports history.But word of mass layoffs at the...

Nerene Virgin, a former actor, public broadcaster, anti-racism advocate and educator also known for her trailblazing work, has died in Burlington, Ont., at...

Matty Matheson never set out to be an actor — let alone deliver one of the most talked about Emmy...

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has received a high honour from France's ministry of culture for her contributions to literature.Atwood was...

Music festival Coachella has announced their 2024 lineup, which includes Canadian acts Nav, AP Dhillon, Grimes and Blond:ish.It's not the...

Eight books written by Canadians are among the 70 longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award, including The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr...

Sum 41 is heading home to play its final show before retirement — but not until 2025.The Grammy-winning rock band...

Monday evening's Emmy Awards brought big wins for Succession, The Bear and Beef, an EGOT for Elton John, and paid tribute to...

After a four month delay, the 2023 Emmy Awards celebrated the best in television Monday night. The show, which was originally slated...

The Prince of Persia series has been stuck in quicksand for a few years.The original 1989 game by Jordan Mechner...

Venus, the first Indigenous winner of Canada’s Drag Race, spoke to CBC News about the country’s drag scene and how...

Australian actor Angourie Rice, who stars in the new Mean Girls movie musical as Cady Heron, tells CBC News about...

EntertainmentThe Weeknd is setting records on Spotify once again with Blinding Lights. The Toronto superstar's 2019 hit single became the...

Hot on the heels of one of the best years for movie and TV releases in recent memory, 2024 is...

As It Happens6:44AI used to create comedy special of dead comedian George CarlinA new comedy special starts with the quote,...

The 2023 Emmy Awards are arriving in 2024.Hollywood's two strikes meant a four-month delay for television's annual celebration of itself...

Canada's Drag Race has crowned its new queen after a glitzy season filled with heated moments thanks to cast members...

Canada Reads is back! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to carry us forward.When we...

6 hours agoNewsDuration 0:58Actor Devery Jacobs from Kahnawà:ke, Que., and Twilight actor Chaske Spencer co-star in Echo, a new Marvel...

The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday heaped nominations on Oppenheimer, Barbie and American Fiction, while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male...

Calgarian Michael Playfair said there was a moment during filming for The Last of Us when microphones were everywhere and...

EntertainmentThe 70-year-old Grammy-winning singer added that he is taking a break from touring while recovering.Grammy-winning singer says surgery was success, he's...

Actor-singer David Soul, a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo Starsky & Hutch and...

Good Grief is a new Netflix release written and directed by Schitt's Creek creator and star Dan Levy. In the...

An Indigenous superhero gets her own Marvel spinoff next week — the first of the company's bets on projects that don't...