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CBC proposes Indigenous oversight office as part of new national strategy

CBC proposes Indigenous oversight office as part of new national strategy

WINNIPEG — Canada's public broadcaster promises to increase Indigenous staffing and promote Indigenous languages in its content as part of a sweeping new strategy.
Strike averted as culinary union settles with Las Vegas hotel-casinos before Super Bowl week

Strike averted as culinary union settles with Las Vegas hotel-casinos before Super Bowl week

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A union representing hospitality workers says it has reached a tentative agreement with six more hotel-casinos in downtown Las Vegas and called off a strike deadline for another.

Music Review: New album by Pylon Reenactment Society revives Pylon’s style of funky art punk

In 1980, Vanessa Briscoe Hay began the first tune on Georgia alt-rock band Pylon’s first album by singing, “Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant. Volume is pleasant.
List of top Grammy Award winners

List of top Grammy Award winners

A list of top winners at the 66th annual Grammy Awards.
Judge in Borgata/MGM case rules casinos have no duty to stop compulsive gamblers from betting

Judge in Borgata/MGM case rules casinos have no duty to stop compulsive gamblers from betting

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 11-17

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 11-17

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 11-17: Feb. 11: Singer Jimmy Carter of The Blind Boys of Alabama is 92. Actor Tina Louise (“Gilligan’s Island”) is 90. Musician Sergio Mendes is 83. Actor Philip Anglim (“The Thorn Birds”) is 72.
Disney wants trade secrets kept confidential in lawsuit with DeSantis appointees

Disney wants trade secrets kept confidential in lawsuit with DeSantis appointees

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney wants to keep confidential any proprietary information or trade secrets that comes out of its state court fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees over who controls the governing district at Walt Disney World.
Book Review: George Pelecanos’ 'Owning Up' has elegant prose and well-drawn characters

Book Review: George Pelecanos’ 'Owning Up' has elegant prose and well-drawn characters

Although George Pelecanos has devoted much of his energy toward writing for television in recent years ("The Wire," “The Duce,” “We Own This City”), he has continued to produce first-rate crime novels set in his native Washington, D.C.
Emma Heming Willis, wife of Bruce Willis, has a book on caregiving coming out in 2025

Emma Heming Willis, wife of Bruce Willis, has a book on caregiving coming out in 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Bruce Willis is working on a guide to caregiving that draws upon her experiences tending to the beloved actor, who has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Movie Review: Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' is sublime

Movie Review: Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' is sublime

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho’s face.
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