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TORONTO — Fifteen films are moving forward in the race for best international feature film at the Oscars, but Canada's submission isn't one of them.

NEW ORLEANS — During last year's Carnival season, tourists at the Elysian Fields Inn gathered over breakfast to talk about parades from the night before. At NOLA Art Bar, they sipped cocktails and watched a parade go by.

U.S. Olympic viewers who have long clamoured to view the opening ceremony live when it hasn't been in North America will finally get their wish. NBC plans to air the opening ceremony from the Tokyo Olympics live on Friday, July 23.

When Hugh Grant accepted his Golden Globe in 1995 for “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” you could say he slayed the room — with the kind of boyishly befuddled, sweetly stammering speech he might have made to Andie MacDowell in that film or to Julia Robe

MADRID — The heir to the Spanish throne, 15-year-old Princess Leonor, is going to study in Wales, the Spanish royal household announced Wednesday.

Deep into this pandemic winter, it can be hard to remember what a refuge gardens were last spring and summer. In those frightening early days of COVID-19, victory gardens and household vegetable plots sprang up all over.

OTTAWA — A brother of one of three women slain by their ex-partner in the Ottawa Valley has recruited Margaret Atwood for a music project about gender-based domestic violence.

In January, I took up a no-spend challenge. That’s right — I refrained from making nonessential purchases for one whole month.

JERUSALEM — Mendy Moskowits, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Belz Hassidic sect in Jerusalem, doesn’t understand the uproar toward believers like him.

VICTORIA — The chief executive officer of the Royal B.C. Museum is resigning. The museum's board of directors says Jack Lohman will step down Friday after nine years as CEO.