Crummey, Mitchell win Commonwealth book honoursNova Scotia writer Shandi Mitchell and Newfoundland and Labrador's Michael Crummey advance to the finals of the Commonwealth Writers Prize after their books were chosen winners in the Canada and Caribbean category Thursday.
Canadian artists join in Wavin' Flag for HaitiA remixed version of K'naan's anthem Wavin' Flag that will be available for download Thursday at midnight pulls together 57 Canadian artists in a fundraiser for Haiti.
Female reporters feel like 'third sex' abroadCBC journalists Nahlah Ayed and Mellissa Fung say they are sometimes treated like a different sex altogether when reporting from foreign countries and danger zones.
Conan comedy tour has 3 Canadian stopsConan O'Brien is following up his disappearing act on network TV with a standup tour that will take him to 33 cities, including three in Canada.
Debut works dominate B.C. fiction prizeThree debut novels, including the much-lauded The Golden Mean, have scooped nominations for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of seven B.C. book prizes.
McGill grad wins architecture prizeElizabeth Paden, a recent graduate from McGill University in Montreal, has won the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners prize.
NFL great, actor Merlin Olsen diesMerlin Olsen, an inductee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and a former television actor, has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer.
Pink Floyd triumphs in online fight with EMIBritish rockers Pink Floyd have won a lawsuit against their own record company over royalty payments for online sales with the courts ordering EMI to stop selling individual songs over the internet.
Da Vinci gets action film treatmentPainter and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci will be the main character in a new action thriller film produced by Warner Bros.
Film futures contract to allow box office betsBeginning next month, movie lovers will be able to bet on the box office of a film through a futures contract issued by New York broker Cantor Fitzgerald.