| | May 6 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | U.S. President Donald Trump wants to impose a 100 per cent tariff on movies produced outside the country, a move that could devastate the Canadian film landscape — but experts are scratching their heads over how such a tax would work, given how intertwined the global film industry is. | Read more | | | | May 6 , 2025 at 12:19:02 p.m. EDT • : | The inaugural Departure Festival gets underway today in Toronto. Formerly known as Canadian Music Week, the six-day event is moving forward with a new name, different owners and a broadened scope. | Read more | | | | May 5 , 2025 at 06:56:05 p.m. EDT • : | Celebrities flooded the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a rainy Monday in New York City to highlight Black fashion and kick off the first Met Gala in more than 20 years with a menswear theme — a night that also featured Rihanna's baby bump and a lot of tailoring. | Read more | | | | | May 2 , 2025 at 08:08:36 a.m. EDT • : | Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the song I Kissed a Girl, died in a house fire Thursday. She was 66. | Read more | | | | May 5 , 2025 at 04:59:28 p.m. EDT • : | Percival Everett's novel James, a radical re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. | Read more | | | |
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