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Jul 19 2019 — David Friend, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Former Guess Who bandmates Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings reunited on Thursday for a charity concert of warm memories and unforgettable hits that marked their first time performing together in a decade. The on-again, off-again musical partnership reached a high note at Music Under the City Stars, a fundraiser in support of Canada's Walk of Fame at Toronto's landmark Casa […]

Jul 16 2019 — NBC News — The Emmy nominations announced Tuesday included a record-breaking 32 for “Game of Thrones.” Considering just how outstanding the final season of the massive hit was, and how many high-profile shows moved their premieres to June to get out of the way of what was expected to be the show’s victory lap, this is not a […]

Jul 15 2019 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Margaret Trudeau says one of the goals of her one-woman show is to kill the conventional wisdom around what is, and isn't, a play. Trudeau says she may even bring her script on stage to read off of, when she takes "Certain Woman of an Age" to Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival for its three-night run […]

Jul 12 2019 — Paola Loriggio , The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian rock band Hedley, will stand trial on three sex-related charges involving a woman and a teenager, a judge ruled Friday. Ontario Court Justice Mara Greene decided that the case should proceed after prosecutors gave an overview of their evidence and Hoggard's lawyer agreed it met the […]

Jul 11 2019 — Global News — Matt Lauer‘s wife Annette Roque filed for divorce from the former Today Show anchor after 20 years of marriage. According to People, Roque submitted the paperwork for the divorce Tuesday in Suffolk County, New York.

Jul 10 2019 — NBC News — Rip Torn, the hell-raising Texas-born actor who in real life was almost as colorful as the outsize characters he played in a 60-year TV and movie career, died Tuesday at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, his publicist said. He was 88.

Jul 8 2019 — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Pamela Anderson, "Aquaman"'s Jason Momoa, and cast-members from "The Goonies" and "Blade Runner" are among the headliners bound for this year's Fan Expo Canada. The annual pop culture fair is touting blasts-from-the-past including Sean Astin, Corey Feldman and Ke Huy Quan from "The Goonies" and Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Berkley from […]

Jul 6 2019 — The Canadian Press — Less than a month ago, Pascal Siakam was crossing the stage at the NBA awards in Santa Monica, Calif., to accept the league’s Most Improved Player award. Now the self-described “scrawny kid from Cameroon” could find himself centre stage on a Toronto team facing potentially a big rebuild, as a likely cornerstone of Masai Ujiri’s […]

Jul 6 2019 — The Canadian Press — It was a heck of a season, but it appears that’s all the Toronto Raptors are going to get from Kawhi Leonard. Less than a month after leading the Raptors to their first NBA title, the superstar free agent is reportedly leaving Toronto for the Los Angeles Clippers. A person familiar with the negotiations says […]

Jul 5 2019 — AP — BOSTON — A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor. Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer for the man, announced in an email Friday that the suit filed June 26 in Nantucket Superior Court has been voluntarily dismissed. No reason was provided […]

Jul 4 2019 — ABC News — Actor Arte Johnson, who won an Emmy for comedy sketch work on the television show “Laugh-In,” has died early Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 90.

Jul 4 2019 — NBC News — Mad magazine, the satirical publication famous for asking, “What, me worry?” and its gap-toothed, big-eared mascot Alfred E. Neuman, is coming off newsstands and will largely stop publishing new content, its owner DC said an email Wednesday night. DC said that after Issue 10, there will be no new content, except for end-of-year specials, which […]

Jul 3 2019 — Associated Press — A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child.

Jul 3 2019 — CTV News — Paris Fashion Week is underway and Celine Dion has been basking in the limelight with her bold, colourful and unconventional outfits. Harper’s Bazaar called one of her outfits “legendary;” USA Today described some of her looks as “wacky couture;” and CNN’s Marianna Cerini dubbing Dion as the “queen of couture week.” One of those ensembles […]

Jul 3 2019 — Global News — The 52-year-old actress accused the 33-year-old French soccer star of having “crushed” her hands, which led them to “cracking,” in a post on her foundation’s website last week.