Новости за 24.11.2016

TORONTO – Home for the holidays. Oh, what a lovely thought. Family and fun – a lot of food on the table, a lot of football on the television. For Americans, there is nothing quite like Thanksgiving. Unless you’re a CFL player. Who didn’t qualify for the Grey Cup. In that case, there’s not enough gravy […]

A potent and profitable drug trade is driving a spike in car thefts in Calgary, with the stolen vehicles frequently being used to commit other crimes. Calgary police say methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl are both addictive and expensive — a dangerous combination driving criminals addicted to drugs or associated with the drug trade to desperate […]

The holiday season is upon us, so it’s time to talk turkey or, more specifically, Toonies for Turkeys. For the past 20 years, during the curtain call for Theatre Calgary’s A Christmas Carol, Stephen Hair has stepped forward and asked the audiences to help fill the Food Bank’s demand for turkeys by donating their change. […]

TORONTO – Pity Antoine Pruneau. Despite being front and centre, he was nearly forgotten. The Ottawa RedBlacks’ young defender, somehow drawing duty as podium partner of Henry Burris, settled for second billing Wednesday afternoon. In a 20-minute press session following practice at Monarch Collegiate, Pruneau fielded a total of four questions, offering three minutes’ worth of bilingual insight. Burris […]

Nick DiLiberto probably wouldn’t think of it this way, but the animator and filmmaker has suffered greatly for his art. We’re talking real, demonstrable pain. The Hamilton, Ont. native gave himself four years to finish Nova Seed, his hour-long animated feature about a lion-man hybrid pitted against the evil Dr. Mindskull in a post-apocalyptic future. […]

It is an impossibility. Go ahead, try it. Google the words “Pup + band” and scroll through all of the interviews that the computing machine reveals with the spiffy-as-hell Toronto punk rock four-piece. Now do it. Try and find one, a single one that doesn’t focus or at least make significant note of their relentless […]