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Canadian MPs condemn Netflix for using Lac-Megantic images in Bird Box
OTTAWA - Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster there in fictional dramas, Canada’s members of Parliament have agreed unanimously. The m...
Jan 30, 2019
Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-sign Canadian-born safety Mike Daly to deal
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed Canadian safety Mike Daly on Wednesday. The native of Kitchener, Ont., was scheduled to become a free agent next month. Daly, 28, appeared in all of Hamilton’s ...
Jan 30, 2019
Plan to buy more fighter jets puts Canada on hook for bigger share of F-35 costs
OTTAWA - Canada is being forced to shoulder a bigger share of the costs of developing F-35 fighter jets even though it has not decided whether it will actually buy any. Canada is one of nine partner c...
Jan 30, 2019
Milo Ventimiglia named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Milo Ventimiglia, who stars as Jack Pearson in the award-winning hit television drama “This is Us,” was named 2019 Man of the Year Wednesday by Harvard University’...
Jan 30, 2019
Mother accused of murdering daughters says she has no memory of day they died
LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec mother on trial for the deaths of her two daughters told a jury she remembers little of what happened the day they died. Adele Sorella was testifying in her own defence Wednesda...
Jan 30, 2019
Health Canada 'dead wrong' to OK weedkiller glyphosate, American lawyers say
OTTAWA - American lawyers who successfully sued the makers of the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup on behalf of a man dying of cancer say Canada is “dead wrong” to allow it to be widely...
Jan 30, 2019
Peter Jackson making new documentary of Beatles' 'Let It Be'
NEW YORK - The Beatles’ farewell documentary “Let It Be” is getting an encore, and a reinvention. “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson announced Wednesday that he i...
Jan 30, 2019
Police: Photos soon of people of interest in attack on actor
CHICAGO - Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two...
Jan 30, 2019
Trapped in Gaza, star of Sundance doc misses film festival
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - A new documentary called “Gaza” is hitting the screens at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival this week, providing a colorful glimpse of life in the blocka...
Jan 30, 2019
Amazon buys 'Brittany Runs a Marathon' at Sundance for $14M
PARK CITY, Utah - In its third major buy of the Sundance Film Festival, Amazon Studios has acquired the world rights for the inspirational comedy “Brittany Runs a Marathon ” for $14 millio...
Jan 30, 2019