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By Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press Posted January 21, 2025 5:27 pm Updated January 21, 2025 5:36 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Netflix is raising its prices in Canada. The streaming giant says the monthly cost of its cheapest offering – the standard plan with ads – is

A staffer gave us notice that we had to vacate the suite. “I did want to ask you,” she said to Raskin, “there is an influencer next door doing special coverage, they said they have 5 million followers. They’d love to talk to you.…” “Can we take three more minutes?” Raskin asked her. In Democratic

Rami Malek claims that he was once racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor recalled an encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during which he was allegedly racially profiled and thrown onto a police car while authorities were trying to locate a

“…and will to the best of my ability…” Yeah, well… “…preserve, protect, and defend…” That time I made a public comment about him in 2018, trying to defend the Court as above politics—what did he tweet? “Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges.’” Won’t make that mistake again. “…the Constitution

Luminate is the watcher of all music consumption in Canada and the U.S. and has just issued its year-end report for Canada after sorting through its 500 verified sources and analyzing more than 20 trillion (yes, trillion) data points. On average, 99,000 new songs are uploaded to streaming music platforms every day (down from an

Chappelle touched on Diddy and his hurt feelings over realizing why he’d never been invited to a Freak Off party: “Oh my gosh, I’m ugly!” Moreover, “If you really study my face, clearly I have snitch energy.” Chappelle knew he was losing the crowd a little when he started riffing about the rap mogul’s baby

The legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues. In response to Baldoni’s new $400-million defamation and extortion lawsuit against the Gossip Girl star, Lively’s legal team said in a statement, “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook.” “This is an

There’s nothing duller than listening to someone else describe their dreams. But David Lynch’s movies found a way to turn his into groundbreaking cinema. Reveries and night terrors aren’t all the late filmmaker explored in his work, either: in cinematic history, there have been few keener observers of white America. While he lived in and

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Pratt, once known for their rise to fame on hit reality series The Hills, are back in the spotlight and taking over the music charts. Montag’s 2010 album Superficial has hit No. 1 on iTunes’ all-genre songs and albums charts — 15 years after its release. Her album beat Bad

Nearly two dozen reporters and spectators settled into a drafty 15th-floor Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday morning expecting to hear Rudy Giuliani testify in a trial that would determine whether he gets to keep his $3.5 million Florida condo and three World Series rings. Except the former New York City mayor never showed up. Giuliani was

By Andrew Dalton The Associated Press Posted January 16, 2025 3:20 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size It Ends With Us actor and director Justin Baldoni has sued his co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds, for defamation on Thursday in the latest step in a bitter

It was just a small news item about a seemingly mundane bureaucratic decision. But some White House reporters perceived deeper import in it last week. As CBS News reported, president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary will start work without one of the traditional trappings of the job: the spacious, high-ceilinged office in the West Wing

Drake has escalated his ongoing legal battle against his record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), by filing defamation lawsuit against the parent record label he and rival Kendrick Lamar are signed to. The Toronto rapper filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, Jan. 15, and referred to the release

“Yes they can control the weather,” she tweeted. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” She’s been at this for a long time: In 2018, amid an earlier spate of California wildfires, and before she was a member of Congress, Greene shared a long-winded theory on her Facebook blaming what

David Spade is calling on the public to keep their “eyes peeled” for arsonists in the Los Angeles area, offering a cash reward to anyone who helps police catch individuals setting fires. The actor took to Instagram over the weekend to announce he would hand over US$5,000 (C$7,200) to citizens who help police catch anyone

Businesses along Lake Avenue destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on January 9, 2025.by ZOE MEYERS/AFP/Getty Images. It’s a lesson you gradually learn, a reality you adjust to—or perhaps, to quote Jim Morrison, “learn to forget.” Occasional tremors remind you that the ground is not trustworthy: you compare earthquake notes on social media

Carrie Underwood has accepted a pretty high-profile gig, agreeing to perform America the Beautiful at Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. But the 41-year-old’s appearance at the event has many taken aback and confused, as the American Idol alum has never endorsed Trump in the past — in fact, she’s never really been one to talk

Steve Bannon, former advisor to President-elect Donald Trump and a podcaster who calls his right-wing audience on “War Room” his “army of the awakened,” is determined to get billionaire and new Trump ally Elon Musk far away from the White House. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Bannon said that he’ll

Bots — automated programs that can perform tasks online exponentially faster than us poor meatbags — have been a plague on the concert ticket-buying public for decades now. A single bot can buy a thousand or more tickets in less than 60 seconds. There are examples of a couple of bots hoovering up 15,000 tickets

The best argument against releasing a sequel to Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick‘s terrific 1028 thriller A Simple Favor is also the reason the movie is so hotly anticipated. How do you top the original film’s jaw-dropping twists and turns (Incest! Pantsuits! A shared Henry Golding!) without selling out its end-carded happy ending? Should director

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as Soul Man and ‘Hold On, I’m Comin,’ has died. He was 89. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery. No additional

Though the fires are still burning, we’re starting to get an understanding of just how devastating the damage is for Los Angeles. In the arts-and-culture community, dozens of people, if not hundreds, have lost their homes, and in some cases decades’ worth of artwork—artists lost their studios and personal holdings, while collectors lost their entire

Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of disgraced mommy blogger and convicted child abuser Ruby Franke, is opening up about the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. Shari Franke’s memoir, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom, was released Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, revealing more about the horrific

Its name is a mouthful, but no one who stops to read the text of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which Congress and President Joe Biden codified as law last year, can have any doubts that its purpose was to give TikTok and its foreign owners an ultimatum: sell the wildly

Out-of-control wildfires are ravaging parts of Los Angeles this week, ripping through neighbourhoods and enclaves many Hollywood stars call home, including the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena. California firefighters are battling wind-whipped fires tearing across the area as the quick-moving flames destroy homes and critical infrastructure. The Pacific Palisades neighbourhood is a hillside area along

One of Hollywood’s busiest weeks is grinding to a halt in light of the horrific wildfires spreading rapidly around Los Angeles county. With Oscar voting kicking off Wednesday morning, studios and strategists had a slew of events planned for contenders going into the weekend—screenings, receptions with Q&As, and general opportunities to boost word of mouth

Leah Remini has shared an emotional and heartfelt tribute to her “closest confidant” Mike Rinder, following his death over the weekend. “On Sunday, we lost a giant, and I lost a man who was more than a friend – he was family,” she wrote about her friend and co-worker, who had joined her on a

Less than a week after Meghan Markle launched her new Instagram account, she used it to share news about a recent loss. On Tuesday, she announced the death of Guy, the rescue beagle she has owned for nearly a decade, in a long caption. “Thank you for so many years of unconditional love, my sweet

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The School of Rock band got back together — albeit briefly — to celebrate the wedding of two of the 2003 comedy’s co-stars. Caitlin Hale and Angelo Massagli, who starred as Marta and Frankie opposite Jack Black when they were just kids, recently tied the knot at

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: The voting groups for the Golden Globes and the Oscars are very different. The former is made up of 300 journalists, many of them based internationally. The latter is made up of 9,905 voters, who work in the industry as executives, actors, crew, filmmakers, and more.