Tag Archives: Arts
Series of costly losses in 2023 contributed to Just for Laughs insolvency: report
MONTREAL - An underachieving comedy festival in England and attempts by Facebook and YouTube to compete with the increasingly popular TikTok are among the factors that led revenue to plummet at the Ju...
Mar 16, 2024
Île-à-la-Crosse Residential School documentary wins award
A new documentary released about the le--la-Crosse Residential School is being called powerful and eye opening. The Indigenous Geographic documentary Waiting for Justice chronicles the lives and strug...
Mar 15, 2024
Documents show more companies, performers owed money by Just for Laughs
MONTREAL - Documents made public by an insolvency trustee show Montreal comedy festival Just for Laughs and affiliated companies owe millions of dollars in unpaid debts beyond what was included in a c...
Mar 14, 2024
New season of Canada's Got Talent to include Saskatchewan flavour
The newest season of Canada's Got Talent (CGT) starts next week and among the four people from Saskatchewan invited to audition, are a comedian and a singer from Prince Albert.Rebecca Strong is schedu...
Mar 13, 2024
'Pure nightmare': Montreal-based musician wins $1.5 million in defamation lawsuit
CALGARY - A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sex...
Mar 12, 2024
'Daylight saving time confuses me:' Canadians prepare to adjust clocks
SASKATOON - The general manager of a movie theatre in Saskatchewan says it'll be an extra early Oscars watch party this weekend as the award show airs after most Canadians wind their clocks ahead an h...
Mar 08, 2024
Local singer-songwriters Koopa and Parke to take the stage for Lloyd Locals Series
Two North-West Saskatchewan singer-songwriters will share their music as part of the Lloyd Locals Series shows coming up.Amanda Koopa and Caroline Parke will each perform a set on March 27 at the Vic ...
Mar 07, 2024
Pre-Cam students involved in international literacy project
Two students from La Ronge's Pre-Cam Community School were part of an international literary project about gender equality, inclusion and overcoming distances.The students, Micah Beatty and Malloreigh...
Mar 06, 2024
New season of Sask. TV show features P.A. fire investigator
A Prince Albert man who responded to some of the biggest fires in northern Saskatchewan is part of the new season of a television show documenting their journey.Guardians of the North, which began its...
Mar 06, 2024
Unity dancer takes stage in Anne of Green Gables
A young girl from Unity is about to pirouette her way back in time to the era of straw hats with green ribbon, gingham dresses and hair the colour of carrots.Eleven-year-old Mikaela Hennings will take...
Mar 06, 2024