Entertainment Concertgoers have gathered once again in the California desert for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, with headliners including Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone. 6-day music festival in Indio, Calif., is spread over 2 consecutive weekends CBC News · Posted: Apr 14, 2025 12:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago Trixie…
The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood says that Saturday Night Live has apologized to her for a sketch that mocked her appearance, which she labelled as “mean and unfunny.” The sketch — a satire of U.S. President Donald Trump, his family and members of his staff dubbed “White Potus” — featured Sarah Sherman playing a version of Wood’s White Lotus character,…
It’s hard to get any further from Australia than downtown Toronto, so for a dual-citizen like Leighton Walters, the quickest way to be transported home is to take a bite of Vegemite on toast. The yeasty spread, made from the byproduct of beer production, is hard to find in Canada, but back in Walters’ home…
Germany handed Hungary a fourth straight loss at the women’s hockey world championship, winning 4-1 on Monday to ensure its opponent will be relegated back to the lower division. Nicola Hadraschek scored twice, Laura Kluge had a goal and two assists and Katarina Jobst-Smith also scored to give Germany a second win in Group B…
Organizers for the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Monday unveiled a sleek and minimalistic metallic design for the torches that will be used in the traditional relay ahead of next year’s Winter Games. The torches will be made primarily out of recycled materials, with a design system that lets the fuel canister be refilled up to 10…
Pop star Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, underwent final preparations this weekend before blasting off into space on a Blue Origin rocket on Monday. The launch window is scheduled to open at 9:30 am ET, according to the Blue Origin website. The rocket will blast off from the company’s West…
A political scientist says Pierre Poilievre’s open resentment toward offshore tax havens and corporate jets likely isn’t enough to sever his Conservative Party’s relationship with business leaders. That’s illustrated with endorsements by more than 30 prominent executives in newspaper advertisements that ran Saturday across the country, Lori Turnbull said. While Poilievre has railed against the excesses of the corporate elite, “I…
Growing recession risks to Canada from the U.S.-led trade war will push the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates at least twice more this year, some economists predict, although a majority of economists said policymakers will leave them unchanged on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement last week to put a 90-day pause on…
Anvi Ahuja noticed a “freaky” new text message from a number she didn’t know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she’d just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend’s place. “I was like ‘who is tapping…
Brenndon Goodman was nine years old when a doctor told him he would be dead by 30 if he couldn’t get his weight under control. “You’re going through all the issues a normal nine-year-old goes through. On top of that, also being told you’re overweight, you’re an aberration. For me, I felt like I was…