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Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike
June 12, 2023 - 5:32 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell.
Journalists despair over toll of disinformation on jobs
April 14, 2022 - 11:36 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists are sounding an alarm about the spread of disinformation in society and how it affects their jobs on a daily basis, along with skepticism on whether traditional methods to combat it really work.
Advent calendars have exploded with gift-worthy options
November 22, 2019 - 5:58 AM

NEW YORK - The Advent, to some Christians, is the four Sundays before Christmas. More generally, the variation of the Latin word for “coming” marks the season to prepare for the holiday.
Celebrities launch pot brands as California legalizes drug
February 25, 2017 - 7:43 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Country singer Willie Nelson, the children of the late reggae icon Bob Marley and comedian Whoopi Goldberg are just a few of the growing number of celebrities publicly jumping into the marijuana industry and eyeing the California pot market, which is expected to explode after voters legalized the recreational use of weed.
7 Canadian things about 'Mad Men'
April 02, 2015 - 1:53 PM

TORONTO - While the stylish drama "Mad Men" is larger centred on vintage New York, with occasional sojourns in sunny California, Canadian fans have been delighted by occasional references to the Great White North.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

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Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike

Journalists despair over toll of disinformation on jobs

Advent calendars have exploded with gift-worthy options

Celebrities launch pot brands as California legalizes drug

7 Canadian things about 'Mad Men'

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