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In ‘Tenzing,’ the Everest-scaling Sherpa Tenzing Norgay finally gets the spotlight
TORONTO | The first image ever taken of a human being standing atop Mount Everest was of Tenzing Norgay. When he and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain on May 29, 1953, one of the first things Hillary did was take out his camera and aim it at his fellow climber, […]
Fall movie season has arrived. Here are 5 early Oscar predictions
NEW YORK | Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September, but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first started revving up their Oscar campaigns at the Cannes Film Festival in May. But now that the fall festivals, in Venice, Telluride and soon Toronto, are […]
Martin McDonagh on being scared of John Malkovich, the CIA and ‘Wild Horse Nine’
TORONTO | Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Martin McDonagh has unveiled a dark comedy of mischievous wit and melancholy soulfulness, and it’s immediately been hailed as one of the best movies of the year. Yes, the British-Irish writer-director of “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” has been […]
What’s happening at TIFF: Musical comedy ‘The Debut’ dazzles and ‘I Play Rocky’ scores a knockout
TORONTO | The 51st Toronto International Film Festival is underway, with steady parades of premieres running like traffic jams through downtown Toronto. Here are glimpses of what’s happening on the ground, and what festivalgoers are talking about. ‘The Debut’ dazzles in its debut It takes a certain amount of gumption to declare an arch comedy […]
Carney pitches Canada to global investors as Trump tries to pull investment south
TORONTO | U.S. President Donald Trump wants factories and investment moving south to the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting he can make billions flow north. About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest investment firms will descend on the Four Seasons in Yorkville, a tony Toronto enclave […]
Here’s what to look for at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO | The spotlight at the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will belong to Rocky Balboa, KPop superstar Lisa, late disability rights pioneer Judy Heumann and many more when North America’s largest film festival gets underway Thursday. TIFF is so large and covers such a wide spectrum of movies that the chance […]
US banning dairy products, most alcohol and motorcycles from Canada in growing trade war
TORONTO | The United States is banning the import of some dairy products and motorcycles from Canada along with most alcoholic beverages, the White House said Tuesday, as part of a trade war that shows little sign of cooling off. The ban will take effect Sept. 29 and comes after retaliatory tariffs promised by Canada […]
US and Canada fall deeper into a trade war with new tariffs as talks collapse and blame is spread
TORONTO | The United States and Canada, historic allies along an undefended border, fell deeper into a trade war Saturday marked by angry recriminations and new tariffs that are expected to raise prices for products in both countries. Each side blamed the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington late Friday, leading the U.S. […]
How one gardener’s neighbors shared their land to help her start a flower business
When Marisa Mender-Franklin walks through any of the nine flower farms she runs in Memphis, Tennessee, her first thoughts are of gratitude. Partly for the flowers and the bees, but mostly for the support of her neighbors. That’s because members of her local Facebook Buy Nothing group shared their unused yards and gardens with her, […]
A Chinese dissident recounts his perilous dinghy escape to South Korea and how he got to Canada
HONG KONG | A roughly 40-hour sea journey on a dinghy with a dying phone. Detention in South Korea. That’s just part of what Chinese dissident Dong Guangping endured to escape his native country. He arrived late last week in Canada, a destination he had eyed for more than a decade. Dong had been locked […]