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Canadian 'Anora' producer Samantha Quan, Vancouver 'Dune' VFX supervisors among Oscar winners
March 02, 2025 - 10:25 PM

Vancouver-born producer Samantha Quan celebrated the “incredible, impossible” journey of "Anora" while accepting the best picture Oscar on a night when the film reigned supreme.
Film 'Bones of Crows' hits small screen with more story as five-part miniseries
September 18, 2023 - 1:00 PM

TORONTO - It was soon apparent to writer and director Marie Clements that a limited miniseries would not be enough to contain the multigenerational tale of an Indigenous family at the heart of her latest project, “Bones of Crows.”
Residential school drama ‘Bones of Crows’ explores ongoing legacy of trauma
June 01, 2023 - 3:00 AM

TORONTO - Reminders of Canada’s shameful treatment of Indigenous Peoples were constant as Marie Clements shot parts of her sweeping drama “Bones of Crows” at a former residential school, where hundreds of suspected graves were discovered two years ago.
New mural painted in memory of LA's famed mountain lion
December 23, 2022 - 1:18 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An artist has devoted a sweeping new street mural to the memory of one of Los Angeles' most famous residents.
Living with cancer, Mi'kmaq author talks last edition of 'We were not the Savages'
December 23, 2022 - 1:01 AM

HALIFAX - He's 84 years old and receiving chemotherapy treatments for liver cancer, but Mi'kmaq elder and author Daniel Paul says his mission of sweeping away the "fairy tales" of colonial history must go on.
Residential school drama 'Bones of Crows' about need for truth, dialogue: director
September 12, 2022 - 12:24 PM

TORONTO - Screenwriter/director Marie Clements says every Indigenous person who worked on her residential school drama “Bones of Crows” has their own family story of residential school and that brought deeper meaning to each day’s shoot.
Census records fewer Indigenous-language speakers, but bump in youngest generation
August 17, 2022 - 10:11 AM

OTTAWA - The number of people who speak an Indigenous language has fallen overall in Canada, but the figure grew for the country’s youngest generation, new census data suggests.
Long in queen's shadow, Charles takes greater public role
May 31, 2022 - 11:31 PM

LONDON (AP) — It’s good to be queen.
Katherena Vermette, Tomson Highway among big winners at Writers' Trust
November 03, 2021 - 2:20 PM

TORONTO - Katherena Vermette was stocking up on supplies at Costco when she got the call informing her that she'd won the $60,000 fiction prize at the Writers' Trust Awards.
Italian firefighters: No victims in 20-story building blaze
August 30, 2021 - 4:21 AM

MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters on Monday were tackling remaining hotspots and continuing to search a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire, but said that there was no indication that anyone was missing inside.
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Entertainment News

Canadian 'Anora' producer Samantha Quan, Vancouver 'Dune' VFX supervisors among Oscar winners

Film 'Bones of Crows' hits small screen with more story as five-part miniseries

Residential school drama ‘Bones of Crows’ explores ongoing legacy of trauma

New mural painted in memory of LA's famed mountain lion

Living with cancer, Mi'kmaq author talks last edition of 'We were not the Savages'

Residential school drama 'Bones of Crows' about need for truth, dialogue: director

Census records fewer Indigenous-language speakers, but bump in youngest generation

Long in queen's shadow, Charles takes greater public role

Katherena Vermette, Tomson Highway among big winners at Writers' Trust

Italian firefighters: No victims in 20-story building blaze

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