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Also from the Department of WTF, the White House has apparently told federal agencies to continue preparing the Trump administration’s budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year, according to the Washington Post, despite the fact that it’s a colossal waste of time since Biden will have already been in office when it would be sent

The third Apple event in the last two months is in the books. Speaking of books, the stars of the show were the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The “One More Thing” Apple Event (November 2020 edition) didn’t deliver on some of the pre-show rumors floating around (like, that Apple would drop new over-ear

Sudbury, Ont. is paying tribute to one of its own. The city has lowered the flags at Tom Davies Square outside of its city hall following the death of Alex Trebek. Trebek was born in Sudbury and spent his early years in the city. Melissa Zanette/Office of Mayor Bigger The city has also started a

After days of suspense, the swirling uncertainty around the 2020 United States presidential election settled in the late morning of November 7 when news outlets reported Joe Biden as the projected winner. The momentous win for the Democratic party meant, of course, that Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris would join him at the White House

With most of the oxygen being sucked out of the room by Donald Trump’s totally normal attempts to overturn the 2020 election—which got a boost Tuesday afternoon from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—you might have forgotten there’s a pandemic still raging in the United States. But surprise! There is, and it’s worse than it was

There’s a reckoning going on in reality TV land. Normally, when viewers meet the cast of reality show participants for the first time, it’s a sea of white faces, or, at the very least, a majority of white faces. It’s discouraging for Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour to see, as they almost

Meena Harris is a lawyer, activist, and the author of “Ambitious Girl,” a children’s book dedicated to girls who’ve been told they’re “too much.” She is also the niece of Kamala Harris, the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian person to become vice president. During Harris’s campaign, the former California senator was

Toronto-based writer Souvankham Thammavongsa is the winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thammavongsa received the $100,000 honour Monday night for her fiction debut, How to Pronounce Knife, published by McClelland and Stewart. Thammavongsa smiled as she showed off the trophy to her two friends at her Toronto home. In her acceptance speech, she thanked

Historically, when presidential administrations are winding down, either because they’re a few months from completing a second term or because they’re not getting one on account of being booted from office by the American people, low- to mid-level noncareer staffers start looking for new jobs. Why? If you’re so far removed from understanding the number

Christmas time is here! Well, Christmas movie time is at least. While we can’t get to theaters any time soon, we can enjoy a huge new crop of Holiday movies at home and enjoy not just the fantasy of small-town Christmases and picturesque winter scenes, but the dreams of gathering in groups of more than

In a year of pandemic, mass murder and military tragedies, a choir on Canada’s East Coast has created a concert that gives singers, a poet and their online audience an outlet for communal lament. The 27-member Halifax Camerata Singers choir has prepared a remembrance-themed live concert before Remembrance Day each year for over a decade.

On November 12, 2016, Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live just days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Many hoped the moment would be a salve: a legendary comedian with a penchant for social critique providing insight, humor, and temporary relief to help reckon with justifiable fear about the future. After

An hour and a half before a triumphant Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took the stage on Saturday evening, Susan Orlean was on the phone, doling out praise. “Good boy! Good boy! Sorry—doing some dog training here, so hang on a second,” the author said, speaking from home in Los Angeles. Buck, the smooth fox

In a normal year, the newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class would have hit the stage and perform the well-known songs that made them famous and helped them enter the prestigious organization. Not in 2020. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s all-star group was inducted Saturday night in a taped HBO

Saturday Night Live (SNL) wasted no time spoofing U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s and vice president-elect Kamala Harris‘ victory speeches. The latest episode aired just hours after the real-life politicians delivered their remarks, and its cold open featured Jim Carrey as Biden, while Maya Rudolph reprised her role as Harris. Read more: President-elect Joe Biden pledges

There was no wreath in his name laid at the Cenotaph in London today, amid reports that the request from Prince Harry was not granted by Buckingham Palace. So instead Harry and Meghan Markle paid tribute to the men and service women who have served on the front line in their own way, by making

Cliff HawkinsGetty Images Kamala Harris made history again, becoming the first woman to ever be elected vice president of the United States, along with the first Black, Indian-American, South Asian, and Asian-American person to ever have the role. Hollywood immediately began congratulating Harris and President-Elect Joe Biden, posting tributes on Instagram and Twitter to celebrate

A Halifax doughnut shop has auctioned a dozen doughnuts to mark Donald Trump losing the 2020 U.S. election, with all proceeds going to an immigration centre in Nova Scotia. Vandal Doughnuts co-owner Ash Sabar told Global News that the doughnuts are a response to what’s going on in the community. “While Trump isn’t in the

As the dust settles in the wake of Joe Biden’s decisive victory over Donald Trump, countless folks are wondering what the future holds for our deeply divided nation. Will Biden be able to bridge this national rift? Will liberals be able to forgive Trump voters for electing a racist, sexist, narcissist sociopath? And will pundits

Leaders from around the world offered statements congratulating President-elect Joe Biden over the weekend, messages acknowledging the results of the election that President Donald Trump refuses to concede. Many foreign officials embraced the outcome as a return to cooperation and stability with the United States—relations that Trump has spent much of his presidency dismantling. “Welcome

Alex Trebek, the host of syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984, passed away from pancreatic cancer Sunday, according to various media outlets. He was 80-years-old. The official Twitter account of ‘Jeopardy!’ posted Sunday afternoon announcing the news, saying Trebek was surrounded by friends and family when he passed away. Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek

After a tortuous five days of methodical vote counting, county-by-county projections, and bizarre protests and conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump, all the major TV networks, cable companies, and print media outlets called the presidential election for Joe Biden late Saturday morning. (Vox’s Decision Desk, to its credit, got there 24 hours earlier.) Biden served

“Once served always serving, no matter what,” Prince Harry said on a podcast recently released to mark Remembrance Sunday. “Even when we can’t all be together, we always remember together.” Barely a week after sending a legal warning to a tabloid that claimed he had been neglecting the British armed forces, Harry gave an interview

Celebrities had strong reactions to the news that Joe Biden is poised to become the next U.S. president. Though U.S President Donald Trump does have a few vocal celebrity supporters, many stars took to social media to celebrate the success of the Biden-Harris ticket Saturday. You can watch special live coverage and analysis of president-elect

After nearly four days of waiting, America finally has its next president: Joe Biden has won the 2020 election. All of that champagne we’ve been waiting to pop for days could finally come out of the cabinets. People took to the streets to celebrate with noisemakers that included but were not limited to tubas, cow

With the exception of James Woods, Scott Baio, and Jon Voight, soon-to-be-former President Donald Trump does not exactly have a great many allies in Hollywood. Indeed, news that Trump is now, officially, a loser, was met with great merriment in most major cities. (This writer can report that in Queens, New York, Trump’s ancestral homeland,