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LOS ANGELES — Carol Burnett is so glad we had this time together, as she sang in her signature song. Now, she's added a lot more time, and a lot more songs, to be glad about.

Robin McGee learned in mid-March that the colorectal cancer she started battling a decade earlier had returned for the third time, just as surgeries were being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. McGee, of Port Williams, N.S.

LONDON — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned down by 32 publishers before being picked up.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Law of Innocence” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 2. “A Time for Mercy” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “The Return" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 4. "The Sentinel” by Child/Child (Delacorte) 5.

NEW YORK — The U.S. decline in cigarette smoking could be stalling while the adult vaping rate appears to be rising, according to a government report released Thursday. About 14% of U.

TORONTO — Online shoppers may have recently noticed new options on the checkout pages of their favourite retailers: buy now, pay later.

TORONTO — "Wonder Woman 1984" will make history in the United States when it becomes the first superhero blockbuster to debut simultaneously in theatres and on a streaming platform, but for Canadians, the viewing options won't be so revolutionary.

NEW YORK — Grammy winner Brandi Carlile has a memoir coming in April. Her publisher calls the book an “evocative and piercingly honest” journey through the life that has shaped her “very raw art.

LOS ANGELES — Taraji P. Henson remembered wearing her favourite outfit to a music festival where some of the biggest New Jack Swing tunes were being performed from Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” to Tony! Toni! Tone!’s “Feels Good.

1. “The Law of Innocence” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 2. ”Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Deep End” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 3. “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey (Crown) 4. “I Would Leave Me If I Could” by Halsey (Simon & Schuster) 5.