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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadian rapper K’naan (given name Keinan Abdi Warsame), was charged with sexual assault in Quebec on Thursday in connection with an alleged incident from 2010 in the province’s capital city. The province’s Crown prosecutor office confirmed an arrest warrant was issued late last week for 47-year-old Warsame.

It’s generally thought of as the worst traffic fortnight in Manhattan: the weeks-long proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly, which ensnares all travel patterns on the east side of the island. Road closures, idling black cars, and battalions of cops and Secret Service agents make swaths of Midtown impossible-to-transverse hellscapes for a few days

Dame Maggie Smith, best known for her roles in the Harry Potter franchise and Downton Abbey, has died. She was 89 years old. The prolific star’s family issued a statement about Smith’s death through her publicist. Smith died on Friday morning in hospital, though a cause of death has not yet been announced. “It is

The investigations and resignations swirling around New York City mayor Eric Adams have multiplied nearly nonstop for the past year. For that whole time, the disclaimer has been consistent whenever I asked his possible political challengers and their advisers about plans for challenging the mayor in a 2025 campaign: Only if Adams himself is indicted.

Legendary supermodel Naomi Campbell has been banned from serving as a charity trustee for five years following a U.K. watchdog investigation that uncovered evidence of financial misconduct at her charity, Fashion for Relief. Though the group was billed as a charitable organization that provided grants to help fund various environmental and humanitarian causes, officials said

In Philadelphia and Houston, in Milwaukee and Atlanta, adoring crowds of Democrats always answer yes. The call-and-response is a joyful affirmation of the Harris-Walz campaign: that the American dream is still alive, if not well, and a more perfect union is possible—together we can preserve and protect a multiracial liberal democracy in a world full

Police in Spain have arrested five people in connection to an online romance scam centred around A-list actor Brad Pitt, which saw two women conned out of over €350,000 (C$487,800). The arrests were announced by Spain’s Interior Ministry on Monday. The authority said the five accused persons contacted their victims through an online fan page

On stage at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual summit on Tuesday, Prince Harry stood in front of a screen that showed photographs of children on phone screens. During the speech’s most emotional moment, he pulled his phone out of his pocket and mentioned his own children, Archie and Lilibet. “My lock screen is a picture

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants Americans to know Canada has more to offer than just “maple syrup and mountains.” During a Monday night appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Canadian political leader got laughs from the audience as he tried to set Canada apart from the U.S. and boast about what makes the

I guess it’s worth pointing out the obvious—that the very governors and politicians who loudly exalt the values of free speech are among the most aggressive prosecutors of “divisive concepts.” And I guess it should be noted that what these politicians—and even some writers—dubbed “critical race theory” bore little resemblance to that theory’s actual study

The ending of the original Planet of the Apes shook me. When Charlton Heston — SPOILER ALERT! — discovered the ruins of the Statute of Liberty on that beach, he realized that he’d never left Earth. Instead, he was the survivor of an ancient extinct civilization that left almost no trace of its existence. Stories

Cards Against Humanity—a self-described “party game for horrible people”—is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the tune of $15 million dollars, claiming that the company trespassed on and “completely fucked” up their parcel of land on the US-Mexico border. Back in 2017, after then-president Donald Trump had run and won, in part, on promising to “build

By Staff The Associated Press Posted September 22, 2024 10:57 am Updated September 22, 2024 11:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties. Kate and

Even though he’s bowed out of the 2024 race for the White House, the headlines about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. keep coming. The latest scandal involving whale-beheading, bear-dumping, Trump-endorsing RFK, Jr., is an allegedly inappropriate relationship with New York magazine’s Washington, D.C. correspondent Olivia Nuzzi, which has kept Kennedy in the news after the alleged

Sean “Diddy” Combs created a hit-making empire with big name performers, earning his place as a savvy music mogul and becoming a three-time Grammy winner while securing high-profile deals across other industries. But now, Combs’ kingdom is collapsing under charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. He was arrested in New York on Sept. 16 and

With fewer than 50 days until November 5, allies of Donald Trump serving on the election board in Georgia voted for a rule that could gum up the democratic process in a key swing state—requiring counties to hand-count ballots. “Beyond violating settled law, this change reeks of an attempt to undermine Georgia’s ability to conduct free, fair, and accurate

The Tragically Hip, from L-R: Johnny Fay, Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair and Paul Langlois, pictured in front of a tour bus. Gordon Hawkins/Prime Video It’s been almost exactly seven years since Canadians lost The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, and more than eight years since the band played their last-ever show in Kingston,

The recent rise of political violence in the United States is sobering but not surprising to the researchers who study this subject. “We know the factors that put countries at risk of political violence,” says Barbara F. Walter, an expert on violent extremism. “We also know the factors that put countries at risk of election

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Lawyers representing the producers of “Russians at War” say they may pursue legal action against Ontario’s public broadcaster for pulling support for the controversial documentary amid outcry from the Ukrainian community and some Canadian politicians. A letter addressed to TVO’s board and management demands that the network

To this day, the strangest thing about WandaVision is that Marvel never bothered to make anything else like it. Emerging from the anxiety-fueled chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 hit was a surprise even for Marvel skeptics. The superhero factory’s first TV effort delighted early on with its nostalgic trip through the medium’s history,

Get ready, Canada: Corus Entertainment is getting set to launch two all-new, Canadian-owned lifestyle networks, chock-full of everything to satisfy and sate both your design palettes and your culinary palates. Coming this winter, and designed specifically for Canadian audiences, are the Flavour Network and Home Network, each bringing a slate of exclusive content to the

The Pennsylvanians and the Virginians rarely meet. Matthew Mellon, a younger brother of Christopher, was until recently the highest-profile Mellon, given his flashy lifestyle with his first wife, Jimmy Choo cofounder Tamara Yeardye, his cryptocurrency advocacy, and his battles with drug use. Nobody recognized him when he appeared at the funeral service for Eliza, Tim’s

NOTE: The following article contains disturbing content. Please read at your own discretion. Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday night and indicted on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges that accuse him of hitting and abusing women for over a decade and presiding over an empire of sexual crimes. In a federal indictment

When most Americans think of fascism, they picture a Hitlerian hellscape of dramatic action: police raids, violent coups, mass executions. Indeed, such was the savagery of Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Vichy France. But what many people don’t appreciate about tyranny is its “banality,” Timothy Snyder tells me. “We don’t imagine how a regime change

Just days before they were to take the stage in Toronto, Jane’s Addiction have cancelled the remainder of their Imminent Redemption tour. The band, whose members exchanged blows on stage in Boston on Friday, said in a post on Facebook that they had “made the difficult decision to take time some time away as a

Never count out Deborah Vance. In a stunning upset, the Max original comedy Hacks beat out heavy favorite and reigning champion The Bear to win the outstanding-comedy trophy at the Emmys 2024. “I have no thoughts in my brain,” said Hacks cocreator Paul W. Downs when accepting the award. The visibly shocked Downs went on

Josh Ross and his whisky-soaked ballad of heartbreak and hope took home top honours Saturday as k.d. lang got the band back together at the 2024 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Ross, from Burlington, Ont., captured single of the year for “Trouble.” The 28-year-old former college football player turned country star also took home male

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By Aaron Sousa The Canadian Press Posted September 14, 2024 12:46 pm Updated September 14, 2024 12:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The return of k.d. lang and the Reclines is expected to be a highlight as the Canadian Country Music Association hands out its annual hardware tonight

Earlier in the week, Vance spread the claim on X, writing, “Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. Where is our border czar?” In an interview following the debate, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed the Ohio senator about the false claims, asking him,