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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83

Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83.
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Aliens, sloths and silliness: Super Bowl ads offer laughs, celebs and surprises to win over viewers

Aliens, sloths and silliness: Super Bowl ads offer laughs, celebs and surprises to win over viewers

NEW YORK (AP) — Eugene Levy's trademark eyebrows fly off for Little Caesars. A tongue dances to Shania Twain to promote Nestle's Coffee Mate Cold Foam. And Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal reunite at Katz's Deli in an ad for Hellmann's.
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RCMP treat deaths of two men, two women on Saskatchewan First Nation as homicides

RCMP treat deaths of two men, two women on Saskatchewan First Nation as homicides

REGINA — RCMP say four deaths on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation in southern Saskatchewan are being treated as homicides. They say the initial investigation suggests the home where the people were found was targeted.
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Canadian shoppers anxious and outraged at Trump tariff threats

Canadian shoppers anxious and outraged at Trump tariff threats

It’s not clear producers will be able to pivot markets and stickhandle disrupted supply chains quickly enough — even if people intend to buy Canadian products — to buffer the hits expected in the U.S. market, says Alberta cattle rancher Laura Laing.
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Displaced Jasper residents can vote and run for office next municipal election: McIver

Displaced Jasper residents can vote and run for office next municipal election: McIver

Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver says all Jasper residents should be able to participate in their local democracy, regardless of circumstance.
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Honolulu records 6th death from massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's

Honolulu records 6th death from massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's

HONOLULU (AP) — A sixth person has died as a result of a massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's in Honolulu, police said Wednesday. A 30-year-old woman died at a local hospital at about 5:59 a.m.
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Movie Review: 'No Other Land' is a shocking look at Palestinian life under occupation

Movie Review: 'No Other Land' is a shocking look at Palestinian life under occupation

The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone that “No Other Land,” a documentary about the systemic demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, cannot find a cinematic home, either with a distributor or a major U.S. streamer.
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Prime Minister Trudeau to host a Canada-U.S. summit in wake of Trump's tariff threats

Prime Minister Trudeau to host a Canada-U.S. summit in wake of Trump's tariff threats

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. economic summit in Toronto on Friday, days after President Donald Trump said he would hold off on deploying his threatened tariffs against Canada for a month.
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Talk of changing Vancouver's supportive housing policy has organizations on edge

Talk of changing Vancouver's supportive housing policy has organizations on edge

VANCOUVER — A proposal by Vancouver's mayor to halt new supportive housing projects in the city has organizations with plans in various stages of completion worried about the projects they've spent years trying to get off the ground.
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Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S.
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