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Governor General’s award-winning playwright Catherine Banks, seen in this Nov. 14, 2008, photo, wrote her first play at a playwrights colony. The 20th anniversary of the event has been cancelled due to lack of funding. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)

Playwrights colony a no-go
The Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre has cancelled its 20th Anniversary Playwrights’ Colony due to lack of funding. “It’s the... Read More

Average: 5 (1 vote)

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Rio Gray plays the video game Preston at the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children. The game is about Rev. Richard Preston, once a slave, who founded 11 black churches in the province and created the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia. (TIM KROCHAK / Staff)

Pioneer for equality soon to ride online
HE WAS A HERO on horseback, blazing a trail for human rights and the holy. Now, Rev. Richard Preston is a pioneer of another kind. Read More

Average: 5 (3 votes)

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This advertisement provided by Spanx by Sara Blakely, promises tighter abs and more prominent pecs. Everyone wants flawless skin, flat abs and a fab rear. But men don't always admit it. (AP)

Spanx or no Spanx: That is the question for Oscar nominees
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Anyone who knows their Oscars knows that nominees’ fashion plans are strictly top secret until the big day.... Read More

Average: 4 (2 votes)

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A model displays a creation by designer McQ Alexander McQueen during a fashion show at London Fashion Week on Monday. (AP)

Burton’s McQ falls a little flat
LONDON — Sarah Burton, creative director of the Alexander McQueen fashion house, tried to create an enchanted forest in the centre of London... Read More

Average: 2.5 (2 votes)

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Comics, including Batman #8, collected by Ralph Chicorel as a child in Detroit, were expected to bring $500,000 at auction but sold for about seven times that. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Childhood comic book collection sells for $3.5 million

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 5:54pm |

DALLAS — The bulk of a man’s childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for...
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Adele celebrates with the award for the best British Album of the Year during the Brit Awards 2012 at the O2 Arena in London on Tuesday. (JOEL RYAN / AP Photo)

VIDEO: More honours for Adele at Brit Awards

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 12:23pm |

Adele caps a rollercoaster year of Grammy Awards triumph and medical woes with a double win at the U.K.'s Brit music awards.
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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)

Chieftains embrace young talent in 50th jubilee

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

Paddy Moloney, the bagpiper and bandleader of the Chieftains, said that last year he was not sure what he wanted to put on an album to celebrate his...
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Thomas Jane was born in Baltimore on this date in 1969. This birthday guy earned three Golden Globe...
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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)

Bieber brings out Vol. 2

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

NEW YORK (AP) — He’s only 17, but pop sensation Justin Bieber is back with his second book. HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

Improv games for students start tonight in Halifax The Nova Scotia High School Improv Games, running tonight through Saturday at St. Matthew’s Church...
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Sirloin with hearty sauce and light potato crisp will wow family, friends

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

This week, I have got a really easy but elegant menu that you can use to wow the family in the middle of the week or guests on the weekend. This is...
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Canadian sound editor: From tire plant to Oscars

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

TORONTO — David Giammarco has come a long way from working at a rubber tire factory. This weekend, the Welland, Ont.-native will walk the red carpet...
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

CELEBRITIES IN THE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am |

Blur to star at concert marking end of London Olympics LONDON (AP) — Organizers say Britpop icons Blur will headline an outdoor concert to coincide...
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Pierre Juneau spearheaded CBC's all-news netwrork as well as, as head of the CRTC, being the architect of Canadian content regulations. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / File)

Pierre Juneau, ex-boss of CBC and CRTC, dies

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 6:13pm |

OTTAWA — A long-time friend of Pierre Trudeau who had the Juno awards named after him after a career spent championing Canadian performers as...
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Riders in the Mardi Gras parade make their way to their float in the staging area of the parade in New Orleans. (AP)

Mardi Gras celebration rocks New Orleans

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 10:46am |

NEW ORLEANS — Revelers hit the streets Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras, lured to the French Quarter and stately oak-lined avenues by the chance...
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Scientist Jan Andrysek (centre) and prosthetic-orthotic technicians Ron Bartlett and Anna Paige work in the prosthetic fabrication facility at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday. (NATHAN DENETTE / The Canadian Press)

Affordable prosthetic knee joint may be big stride for amputees

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 9:31am |

TORONTO — Jan Andrysek balances a prosthetic leg on the arm of his chair, then applies downward pressure to make the front of the foot push...
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ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am |

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Scout Taylor-Compton was born in Long Beach, Calif., today in 1989. This birthday gal has appeared in...
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Average: 4.8 (4 votes)

Mama Lavallee’s beans: Super fatty, utterly divine

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am |

How does it go? Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you . . . Well, I think you get the gist of it! I have a love for...
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Cook wants to turn up the heat

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am |

TORONTO — If you were lucky enough to be a cast member on the wildly popular British TV series Downton Abbey, written by Oscar winner Julian...
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Average: 5 (1 vote)