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Feb 24 2021 — Canadify — With spring in the air, Netflix Canada unveils a new slew of titles landing on the streaming service throughout the month of March 2021.

Feb 24 2021 — CNN WIre — The rollover car crash that seriously injured Tiger Woods outside Los Angeles on Tuesday was an accident, so investigators won’t pursue any charges against the golf great, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday. “This was purely an accident,” Villanueva said in a Facebook live chat. As of overnight Wednesday, Woods was “awake, responsive, […]

Feb 24 2021 — David Friend, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — CTV says it made an "error" by placing an "offensive image" of actress Delta Burke in blackface among its TV program highlights for Black History Month. A spokesman for the broadcaster says the blackface picture, taken from an episode of 1980s hit "Designing Women," is one that "should not have been used in […]

Feb 23 2021 — Associated Press — Tiger Woods crashed his SUV on sweeping, downhill road in the Los Angels suburbs Tuesday morning, and doctors tried to stabilize “significant” injuries to his right leg with rods and a combination of screws and pins. Woods was driving to a television shoot when his SUV crashed into a median, rolled over and ended up […]

Feb 21 2021 — Global News — Saturday Night Live (SNL) took aim at the wrongdoings of several celebrities and politicians with a new cold-open, this time spoofing a talk show hosted by Britney Spears. The show, titled “Oops, you did it again” as a play on one of Spears’ best known songs, featured Texas Senator Ted Cruz, New York Governor Andrew […]

Feb 17 2021 — Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — From the time Obsidian Theatre artistic director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu was appointed to her position in January 2020 to when she started it in July, the world changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic raged alongside a racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., and Tindyebwa Otu longed to […]

Feb 17 2021 — Associated Press — Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals, foretold the rise of Donald Trump and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right, died Wednesday. He was 70. Limbaugh, an outspoken lover of cigars, had been diagnosed […]

Feb 15 2021 — Lina Dib, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada heard an appeal Monday from comedian Mike Ward, who was found by a lower court to have discriminated against a disabled singer in one of his routines. Ward's lawyer told the nine judges that Canadians don't have a right not to be offended, and making fun of someone […]

Feb 14 2021 — Hamilton Spectator — Frank Orr, who covered the Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup championships of the 1960s and the always eventful Harold Ballard ownership years over more than four decades of award-winning sports writing for the Star, passed away Saturday. He was 84. Born William Frank Orr on May 28, 1936, he became an institution in hockey writing and […]

Feb 14 2021 — Global News — Saturday Night Live (SNL) took a jab at the results of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial with its own spin of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Featuring Alex Moffat as the primetime Fox News’ host, the show began with a “loose collection of scaremongering non sequiturs” — which included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, pronouns for do

Feb 11 2021 — Victoria Ahearn — TORONTO — Netflix plans to open an office in Canada in what the streaming giant calls "a big first step" toward content creation in this country.Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the California-based company is still figuring out the office location.But they're thinking of Toronto and Vancouver, since the company has so […]

Feb 10 2021 — Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Fifteen films are moving forward in the race for best international feature film at the Oscars, but Canada's submission isn't one of them. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the short list for that category and several others, but "14 Days 12 Nights" did not make the cut. The […]

Feb 10 2021 — The Canadian Press — Hsieh Su-Wei beat Bianca Andreescu at her own game Wednesday at the Australian Open. The world No. 71 from Taiwan was creative, effective and in full control of their second-round match at Rod Laver Arena. Hsieh mixed up her shots nicely — normally an Andreescu trademark — and eliminated the Canadian 6-3, 6-2 in a […]

Feb 9 2021 — Associated Press — Paris Hilton testified about abuse she says she suffered years ago at a boarding school in Utah, as she lobbied Monday for a bill seeking to regulate the state’s troubled teen industry. Hilton was sent to Provo Canyon School for 11 months at age 17 where she says she was abused mentally and physically, recalling […]

Feb 9 2021 — CNN WIre — Mary Wilson, a founding member of “The Supremes” has died at the age of 76, her publicist told CNN. Wilson “passed away suddenly this evening,” according to a statement from her longtime friend and publicist, Jay Schwartz. The singer was at her home in Henderson, Nevada. She is survived by her daughter, son, several grandchildren, […]