Month: November 2019

Actor and model Godfrey Gao, who grew up in British Columbia and was an ambassador for Canadian tourism, collapsed and died while shooting a TV show on Wednesday.  His agency, JetStar Entertainment, confirmed that Gao died in the “early hours of Nov. 27” in a statement posted to microblogging site Weibo and cited by South…

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals say they are appealing a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling on First Nations children because it limits the families that could receive compensation to those affected in the last 13 years. That appeal is underway today in Ottawa, where Justice Department lawyers are asking the Federal Court for a stay of…

TORONTO — The union representing the province’s English Catholic teachers says it is moving closer to a legal strike position. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) requested a “no-board” report on Friday, which can take a few days to be issued. Once that happens, teachers would be in a legal strike position 17 days…

TORONTO — A man who opened fire in the crowded food court of a popular mall in downtown Toronto seven years ago, killing two people, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The ruling was delivered in a courtroom about half a kilometre from the site of the attack, that also left six people…

Don’t be startled if your phone warns you of an emergency Wednesday; it’s likely just a test. Messages will be sent through cell phones, TV and radio at different times across the country as part of a test of Canada’s emergency alert system, Alert Ready. “Test alerts educate Canadians on what an emergency alert will…

Derrière le logo de “Suspiria”, en salles depuis mercredi, se cache Dan Perri, l’un des plus grands créateurs de générique de l’industrie du cinéma. 1. L'Exorciste de William Friedkin (1974) + © Capture d'écran On doit le logo du remake de Suspiria à Dan Perri, un concepteur de génériques et designer dont le nom est inconnu du grand…

Believe it or not, the British helped India become independent! At least that is what Right-wing group Hindu Sena wants us to believe. According to them the British helped Indians by ending the Islamic rule in the country. And what better way to thank them than commemorating one of their greatest rulers. So, on Tuesday…

EuropaCorp vient de passer un accord de distribution avec Pathé. Ce qui garantit une sortie prochaine en salles du nouveau film de Guillaume Canet, “Nous finirons ensemble”. La suite des Petits mouchoirs sortira bien dans les mois prochains. Les 5,2 millions de spectateurs qui avaient vu le film de potes de Guillaume Canet en 2010 peuvent…

In what could be a major breakthrough in the field of gene engineering and medical science, researchers in the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have developed chickens that can lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs. This was made possible after the scientists successfully resisted the DNA of the chickens to add human proteins in their eggs.…

Rencontre avec le réalisateur Jean-François Richet, qui dévoile ce mercredi son ambitieux “Empereur de Paris”, centré sur le personnage de François Vidocq. Avec l’ambitieux long métrage L’Empereur de Paris, ce mercredi en salles, Jean-François Richet retrouve son complice Vincent Cassel pour porter à l’écran le destin hors-du-commun de François Vidocq, seul homme à s’être échappé des plus grands…