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A delightfully bizarre Canadian children’s television show and its puppets are getting a second life on social media, more than 20 years after it first aired.

The prestigious award recognizes the best original novel written in English and published in the U.K. Canadian Sarah Bernstein was on the shortlist for her novel Study for Obedience.

Netflix reality competition Squid Game: The Challenge's unusually large scope and faithfulness to the chilling ambience of the original TV series makes for an unexpectedly compelling watch — if you can ignore that it entirely misses the point of its 2021 namesake.

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On won an International Emmy Award on Monday. The documentary looking at the singer’s career over six decades was directed by Canadian filmmaker Madison Thomas and nominated in the arts programming category.

A lawsuit by R&B singer Cassie containing allegations of beatings and abuse by music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs has been settled, the artists announced Friday, one day after the lawsuit was filed.

Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host of the Academy Awards for the second straight year and fourth time overall, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.

The gala will be broadcast on CBC radio, television and online on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023

Rush lead singer Geddy Lee answers eight rapid-fire questions from The National’s Ian Hanomansing about his musical inspirations and memories.

This year’s Reel Asian festival includes a number of films that explore family relationships and intergenerational dynamics through genre cinema, according to Ariam Collier, artistic director at the Reel Asian festival.

Country singer Shania Twain thanked the people of Indian Head, Sask., for extending hospitality to her crew after a bus and truck that were a part of her “Queen of Me” tour crashed on the Trans-Canada Highway near Wolseley the night before.

The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced Friday morning, with SZA, Phoebe Bridgers and the Barbie movie soundtrack leading the female-dominated pack.

The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced Friday morning, with SZA, Phoebe Bridgers and the Barbie movie soundtrack leading the female-dominated pack.

The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced Friday morning, with SZA, Taylor Swift and the Barbie movie soundtrack leading the female-dominated pack.

The Marvels is not an outright failure — by ditching everything unrelated to this plot and limiting character development, its creators entertain despite the Marvel Cinematic Universe's cultural dominance, not because of it.

Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website founded at the height of blogosphere era, is shutting down after 16 years, its parent company announced Thursday.

Louisiana singer was the undisputed star of the night at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena as she took home five awards, including entertainer of the year and album of the year.

Louisiana singer was the undisputed star of the night at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena as she took home five awards, including entertainer of the year and album of the year.

Wednesday's deal between striking actors and studios and streaming services won't immediately restore filming to its full swing. But the tentative agreement means that more than six months of labour strife in the film and television industries is drawing to a close.

The SAG-AFTRA actors' union reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to resolve the second of two strikes that have rocked the entertainment industry, the union said on Wednesday.

Canadian performer Jade McLeod speaks to CBC News about bringing Alanis Morissette's musical Jagged Little Pill home to Canada, and debuting a non-binary character in a field that lacks similar representation.

Nintendo is developing a live-action film based on its hit video game The Legend of Zelda, the Japanese company behind the Super Mario franchise said Wednesday.

The awards recognize the best in Canadian books across 7 categories in both English and French. Other winners include Kyo Maclear, Hannah Green and Cliff Cardinal.

Jordan Kawchuk had promised his daughters that they’d watch Taylor Swift’s movie together. And they did — even if it wasn’t in the same theatre sitting side-by-side.

Canadian poet Rupi Kaur says she's turned down an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration because she opposes his government's response to the Israel-Gaza war.

A musician died without learning the secret of a lifetime: she’d played with the Beatles. A mystery project involving Paul McCartney became the Fab Four's final song, and Caroline Buckman never learned what she had been working on.

Nelly Furtado will be headed to Halifax to host next year's Juno Awards. 

Donald Shebib, director of Goin' Down the Road, the 1970 best picture winner at the Canadian Film Awards and a movie perennially recognized as one of the country's best, has died. He was 85.

The Juno-nominated star from Calgary will be the musical guest on Nov. 18.

Poncho, who is based in Victoria, says he is looking to make a name for himself in the rapidly-expanding pop music genre produced by artists from West Africa and the diaspora.

While some say that Hasan Minhaj fabricating parts of stories for his standup routine is common practice among comedians, others contend that the way he went about it compromises his integrity and makes him unfit for the role of host of The Daily Show.

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87.

Vivek Shraya wanted to be a pop star when she was younger. That dream never came true, but the Canadian artist, singer and writer got far enough — so she made a TV show about the experience.

Meera Sethi has stitched and painted her feelings on fashion into her new exhibits Outerwhere and Cotton Exchange, on now at the Cambridge Art Galleries.

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has reversed its decision to change a travelling art exhibit about Palestinian-Muslim funerary practices after protests that included an 18-hour sit-in by the women who created it.

Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius and the late George Michael will be inducted into the hall on Friday night in New York City. The ceremony is also streaming live for the first time on Disney+.

The Paul Giamatti-led movie The Holdovers — equal parts funny and tragic — stuns with its performances, tone and message.

The Paul Giamatti-led movie The Holdovers — equal parts funny and tragic — stuns with its performances, tone and message.

A new documentary called 299 Queen Street West tells the story of MuchMusic through the eyes of their video jockeys, also known as VJs. The film will be closing out the Windsor International Film Festival this year with a screening and Q & A on Nov.5. Windsor Morning host Nav Nanwa spoke with director Sean Menard and former MuchMusic VJ Rick Campanelli, also known as Rick The Temp, about the film.

Singer-songwriter megastar Taylor Swift is scheduled to perform Dec. 6-8 at B.C. Place next year.

More than 40 years after John Lennon recorded the vocals for the song Now and Then, the new Beatles record was set to be released Thursday — with the help of his bandmates and a bit of artificial intelligence.

Nearly 50 years after The Guess Who broke up, the band's two best-known members are suing their former bandmates for more than $20 million US, alleging the group currently touring under the name has been passing off a cover band as the real thing.

Canadian icon Céline Dion made a surprise appearance Monday night at a hockey game in Las Vegas to watch her hometown team take on the Golden Knights. It's one of her first public appearances since being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder.

"We were more than just cast mates. We are a family," Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer said in a statement issued Monday.

If you're afraid of the dark, a logical solution is to turn on a light. But some horror aficionados say there might be another approach — face your fears head-on by watching a scary movie.

Indigenous history and love of storytelling makes horror stories a natural genre, says author and editor Shane Hawk.

Two new TV series are giving Indigenous ghost legends the anthology treatment. APTN series Tales from the Rez is based on Blackfoot ghost stories, while the Fibe TV1 series Creepy Cape Breton focuses on Mi’kmaw ghost stories commonly shared on the Nova Scotia island.

The new MastersFX Monster Museum in Burnaby showcases the work that goes into creating movie monsters.

The Emmy-nominated actor who was raised in Ottawa was found dead of an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times and celebrity website TMZ, which was the first to report the news. Both outlets cited unnamed sources confirming Perry's death.

The celebrity memoir is booming. But while such books have become part of entertainers' brand management, the focus on salacious details poses risks.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, a musician known for decades of Indigenous activism, says she's always been honest that she doesn't know the identity of her birth parents ahead of a CBC News report questioning her First Nations ancestry.