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  • Poilievre's pitch to defund CBC, keep French services would require change in law

    April 13, 2023 - 3:08 PM

    OTTAWA - If Pierre Poilievre wants to "defund the CBC" while maintaining its French-language programming, he'll have to overhaul the country's broadcasting law in order to do it.

  • 'Thunder Bay' series from Ryan McMahon looks at systemic racism, police in the city

    February 18, 2023 - 9:31 AM

    PodcasterRyan McMahon is not interested in leading the conversation around defunding and abolishing the police.

  • Spielberg among donors in $22M Kansas campaign on abortion

    August 19, 2022 - 12:45 PM

    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents and abortion rights advocates together spent more than $22 million on a ballot question this month in Kansas, and famed film director and producer Steven Spielberg contributed to the successful effort to affirm abortion rights.

  • Filipino-Canadian actor Manny Jacinto on rom-coms and representation

    February 10, 2022 - 10:32 AM

    TORONTO - Since NBC's "The Good Place" came to an end in 2020, its Canadian star Manny Jacinto has drawn attention for one feature, especially: his objectively pretty face. But he's out to prove he's much more than that.

  • Black juror: Smollett's reaction to noose makes no sense

    December 14, 2021 - 9:40 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) — The only Black juror on the panel that convicted Jussie Smollett of lying to Chicago police said he couldn't get past what the actor did not do after he claimed attackers looped a noose around his neck: Rip it off and keep it off.

  • Jussie Smollett case in jurors' hands at Chicago trial

    December 08, 2021 - 4:53 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday there is “overwhelming evidence” that Jussie Smollett lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist hate crime, while a defense attorney called the case a “house of cards” built on testimony from two liars.

  • Defense rests after Jussie Smollett repeatedly denies 'hoax'

    December 07, 2021 - 6:04 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett on Tuesday repeatedly denied he staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself for publicity, telling a prosecutor as the trial neared its end that “there was no hoax on my part” and that two brothers who testified against him are “liars.”

  • Jussie Smollett testifies at his trial: 'There was no hoax'

    December 06, 2021 - 4:50 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett denied Monday that he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself, testifying at his trial that “there was no hoax" and that he was the victim of a hate crime in his downtown Chicago neighborhood.

  • State rests case at Smollett trial after star witnesses

    December 02, 2021 - 7:05 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — The state rested its case at Jussie Smollett's trial Thursday after key testimony from two brothers who said the former “Empire" actor plotted a racist and anti-gay attack on himself in downtown Chicago and paid them to carry it out.

  • Man testifies Smollett recruited him, brother to fake attack

    December 01, 2021 - 5:38 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — An aspiring actor testified Wednesday that Jussie Smollett recruited him and his brother to stage a homophobic and racist attack on him in downtown Chicago nearly three years ago, saying the former “Empire” star even instructed them on how to throw fake punches.
  • 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
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. 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

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