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TORONTO -- In 1990, Brian Mulroney's upturned face was sculpted onto the languorous body of a swine, like one of Odysseus's men transforming under Circe's spell. The figurine's gaping maw was carved into a coin slot, ready to gobble up Canadians' hard-earned loonies.
TORONTO -- Justin Trudeau is officially getting into showbiz.
Chrystia Freeland is returning to her writing roots with a new book named after a quip she made about the United States on an American talk show.
Some parents who have already limited their kids' access to social media say a proposed government ban would make their efforts to protect their children far more effective.
TORONTO -- An organization that campaigns to end child poverty says a growing number of children are living in households that struggle to pay bills and buy food.
The Writers' Trust of Canada says a history professor from the University of Regina has won this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
TORONTO -- A former on-air presenter for CP24 who filed a human rights complaint against Bell Media says she and her former employer have settled the dispute.
Disability advocates say the lack of a minister tasked with representing their interests sidelines millions of Canadians during what Prime Minister Mark Carney promises will be a time of growth and rebuilding.
The way we're talking about motherhood is changing, says Miranda Brady, a professor of communication at Carleton University.
Mark McKinney's impression of Canada's new prime minister may be buttoned-up and intense, but he said the process of portraying Mark Carney on "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" is loose and playful.
TORONTO -- Canada's literary institutions are banding together on the eve of an expected announcement about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books.
TORONTO -- Changing the lyrics of a national anthem is often considered taboo, but Chantal Kreviazuk's tweak to the words of O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off Final in Boston on Thursday night may have struck a different chord, says a musicologist.
TORONTO -- In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was "cool." In the year that followed his majority sweep into power, he appeared in the pages of Vogue, on the cover of a Marvel comic book and on "The Daily Show," chatting with an up-and-coming Hasan Minhaj.
The federal government plans to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of February.
TORONTO -- Canada's premiers are calling on the federal government to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of February.
TORONTO -- A tax holiday introduced by the federal government is throwing a bit of a wrench in Andy Thompson's Christmas shopping plans.
TORONTO -- A new poll suggests half of 18- to 50-year-olds in Canada who plan on having kids have delayed parenthood, with respondents citing reasons that include financial uncertainty, difficulties finding a partner and the cost of child care.
Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.
TORONTO -- Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.
TORONTO -- Giancarlo Esposito first read the script of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" more than two decades ago, and he says it somehow feels more relevant now.
TORONTO -- Ukrainian officials are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to pull a documentary about Russian soldiers from its schedule.
TORONTO -- Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not.
When David Ben learned he would be appointed to the Order of Canada, his mind immediately went to the great magicians who received the honour before him.