How Justin Trudeau captured the zeitgeist, and how he lost it
TORONTO -- In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was "cool." In the year that followed his majority...
Nicole Thompson
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Federal government plans to extend deadline for charitable donation tax deductions
The federal government plans to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of...
Premiers urge Trudeau to extend deadline for charitable donations after postal strike
TORONTO -- Canada's premiers are calling on the federal government to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax...
Shoppers strategize how to score the best deals as tax holiday looms
TORONTO -- A tax holiday introduced by the federal government is throwing a bit of a wrench in Andy Thompson's...
Financial uncertainty, singlehood cited as reasons child-free adults delay parenthood
TORONTO -- A new poll suggests half of 18- to 50-year-olds in Canada who plan on having kids have delayed...
Cundill History Prize finalists include books on early North America, post-WWII Japan
Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan...
M.G. Vassanji among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
TORONTO -- Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize...
'Megalopolis' grew more relevant over the decades Coppola worked on it: Esposito
TORONTO -- Giancarlo Esposito first read the script of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" more than two decades ago, and he...
Ukrainian officials call for film following Russian soldiers to be pulled from TIFF
TORONTO -- Ukrainian officials are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to pull a documentary about Russian soldiers from...
Carol Off wants her new book about divisive language to eventually become irrelevant
TORONTO -- Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not.
Musicians and magicians: Avril Lavigne, David Ben among Order of Canada appointees
When David Ben learned he would be appointed to the Order of Canada, his mind immediately went to the great...