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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot in a secretive ceremony at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring a wide array of A-list guests and an unexpected officiant. Plus, a marriage industry insider discusses what this could mean for future wedding trends.
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When it was announced that Canada would be entering the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest — it was music to Matti McLean's ears. A Canadian superfan of the international music competition, co-host of the Think About Eurovision podcast and creator of the Fringe Festival show A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Other Canadians, McLean says he has been...
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Hollywood writer-director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to two-and-half-years in prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million US for a never-finished sci-fi series. Supporters including Keanu Reeves had asked the court to show leniency.
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People are going, shall we say, bananas on social media over TikTok creator Ella Mott's rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on Sunday night during the premiere of Minions & Monsters, the latest installment in Illumination's Despicable Me franchise.
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If your name is Janice and you feel personally victimized by Drake's song Janice STFU, you're in luck — provided you can show government-issued ID. Representatives for the Canadian rapper confirmed he plans to make amends by throwing exclusive Janices-only apology parties in multiple cities, including Toronto.
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Alannah Keyser, 21, has now become the second contestant to be removed from the current season of Love Island USA for using a racial slur in a resurfaced video online. The removal comes less than a week after the college student, who hails from Miami, entered as a bombshell during the Casa Amor episodes in the Peacock reality dating series.
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Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody is heading to Toronto for a limited run starting July 9, debuting just after Pride. Canadian director-producer Alan Kliffer says the show's off-Broadway success started as a fandom-inspired idea to turn the hit Canadian TV series' romance into a musical parody. He hopes Toronto keeps the momentum...
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Over the past few months, Swifties and entertainment news junkies have been trying to figure out the answer to the big question: when and where will Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce hold their rumoured summer blockbuster wedding?It appears The New York Times may have uncovered some major clues.
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CBC/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union on Thursday, which means Canada is now eligible to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, but the country's public broadcaster won't say whether it will participate in the popular competition.
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It's a date likely etched into the minds of many Swifties: Aug. 26, 2025 — the day Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram. Since then, fans have been fixated on uncovering possible details about when and where the wedding may take place.
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The National Hockey League season came to a close this month and with it came the end of an era as longtime partners Rogers and CBC were unable to come to a new agreement for NHL broadcasts. So Canadian fans will only be able to watch games in Canada if they pay for a Sportsnet cable or streaming subscription.
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Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, U2's Bono and the Edge, Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen are among the musicians scheduled to take the stage celebrating the opening of the Obama Presidential Center's Grand Opening Ceremony in Chicago's South Side.
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The academy on Tuesday announced the addition of best Asian pop music performance, best traditional pop vocal performance and best Latin categories, plus changes to the R&B and folk categories. The Grammys will also now allow artists to submit in the best new artist category four times, up from three.
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Netflix announced Monday that it's adapting the bestselling book Icebreaker by English author Hannah Grace into a "college romance drama series." The young adult romance novel, published in 2022, is about an ambitious figure skater, Anastasia Allen, and a hunky hockey team captain, Nate Hawkins, who fall in love after they're forced to share the...
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Toy Story 5 is a surprisingly strong entry in a franchise that two movies ago struggled to justify returning to its plush, plastic and porcelain characters. Though it's undercut by the fact that like virtually every other children's film nowadays, Toy Story is hardly about kids at all.
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Singer Bonnie Tyler is no longer in a coma but remains "very unwell" in intensive care, an update on her official website says.The Grammy-nominated pop star, 75, was hospitalized last month on Faro, Portugal, where she lives, for emergency intestinal surgery. She was later placed in an induced coma.
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Sean (Diddy) Combs is being sued by an unnamed former child actor who alleges Combs sexually assaulted him at a Hollywood networking event in May 2007. The disgraced hip-hop mogul is currently serving a 50-month sentence in federal prison on prostitution-related charges.
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Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defence against charges that he killed them. His lawyer left the case but said in a court filing he would return if the funds become available.'
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The beloved '80s cartoon hero He-Man returns in the live-action Masters of the Universe, starring Nicholas Galitzine, Jared Leto, Alison Brie and Idris Elba. The CBC's Eli Glasner says the big-screen adaptation didn't quite capture what made the original franchise a classic.
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President Donald Trump has cancelled the Freedom 250 concerts that were set to mark the U.S.'s anniversary this summer at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., after many of the original artists dropped out. He now promises to hold "the Greatest Rally, EVER!" according to his Truth Social account.
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The latest bombshell to enter the villa isn't in Fiji. It's in Canada. Season 8 of Love Island USA premiered this week with a fresh cast of singles set to bring the heat and the drama fans love. But Canadians hoping to stream it free are out of luck. Now, they'll need a Crave subscription.
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Optimus Prime and Megatron just became robots in more than one sense. That's because Hasbro, the American toy and games giant, released artificial intelligence versions of 12 popular characters — a move experts say could bring potential risks to kids along with the fun.
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Summer movie season is normally a battle of Hollywood heavyweights — but this year, two of the hottest tickets at the box office come from young YouTubers who brought their built-in audiences with them to the big screen. Industry watchers say their success could influence what projects get made in the future.
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Long before your feed told you what to listen to, Quebec culture had a different tastemaker: MusiquePlus. Well, music fans can rejoice now that the TV channel that helped launch the careers of many Quebec stars is being revived as a new kind of influencer on TikTok.
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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man who she says tried to force his way into her Los Angeles home "unannounced and uninvited,” in incidents she called "deeply alarming." In court documents obtained by CBC News, Carpenter's lawyers say she is seeking a full restraining order against 31-year-old...
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