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In 1990, Brian Mulroney's upturned face was sculpted onto the languorous body of a swine, like one of Odysseus's men transforming under Circe's spell. The figurine's gaping maw was carved into a coin slot, ready to gobble up Canadians' hard-earned loonies and toonies. So, director Matthew Rankin says, the former prime minister's family has certainly seen worse than his new...
TORONTO -- In 1990, Brian Mulroney's upturned face was sculpted onto the languorous body of a swine, like one of Odysseus's men transforming under Circe's spell. The figurine's gaping maw was carved into a coin slot, ready to gobble up Canadians' hard-earned loonies.
TORONTO -- Justin Trudeau is officially getting into showbiz.
Justin Trudeau is officially getting into showbiz. The former prime minister is launching a production company with his longtime chief of staff, Katie Telford, called Hope & Hard Work. They're announcing the new venture at the Toronto International Film Festival today. A press release from the company says Hope & Hard Work will create both scripted and unscripted content, and...
Chrystia Freeland is returning to her writing roots with a new book named after a quip she made about the United States on an American talk show. "Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider's View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People" will be published in October. Its title is a reference to a comment she made on "Real...
Chrystia Freeland is returning to her writing roots with a new book named after a quip she made about the United States on an American talk show.
Some parents who have already limited their kids' access to social media say a proposed government ban would make their efforts to protect their children far more effective.
TORONTO -- An organization that campaigns to end child poverty says a growing number of children are living in households that struggle to pay bills and buy food.
The Writers' Trust of Canada says a history professor from the University of Regina has won this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
TORONTO -- A former on-air presenter for CP24 who filed a human rights complaint against Bell Media says she and her former employer have settled the dispute.
Disability advocates say the lack of a minister tasked with representing their interests sidelines millions of Canadians during what Prime Minister Mark Carney promises will be a time of growth and rebuilding.
The way we're talking about motherhood is changing, says Miranda Brady, a professor of communication at Carleton University.
Mark McKinney's impression of Canada's new prime minister may be buttoned-up and intense, but he said the process of portraying Mark Carney on "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" is loose and playful.
TORONTO -- Canada's literary institutions are banding together on the eve of an expected announcement about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books.
TORONTO -- Changing the lyrics of a national anthem is often considered taboo, but Chantal Kreviazuk's tweak to the words of O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off Final in Boston on Thursday night may have struck a different chord, says a musicologist.
In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was "cool." In the year that followed his majority sweep into power, he appeared in the pages of Vogue, on the cover of a Marvel comic book and on "The Daily Show," chatting with an up-and-coming Hasan Minhaj. But the same strategy experts and observers say put him in the public...