Custodians of the French language are reportedly on the verge of enacting a linguistic “revolution” by finally accepting that job titles take the feminine form. For centuries, members of the hallowed Académie Française – created in 1635 to "fix the French language, giving it rules, rendering it pure and comprehensible by all” – had refused…
HBO’s Game of Thrones cast members will appear in a reunion special, but it won’t be shown on HBO, reports Entertainment Weekly. The special will instead be included in a planned Game of Thrones complete series home video box set, the first to package all eight seasons together. Actors like Sean Bean (Ned Stark) who…
Angela DeMontigny knew that the client who ordered a beaded dress was going through a tough divorce. As she made it, spending more than 40 hours sewing colourful beads into the Italian suede by hand, she thought about the person who would wear it. “She’s putting her soul into this garment to care for that…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For the first time this season, all five regions were represented as Danielle Smith (Model Secondary School for the Deaf / Washington, D.C.), Gabbi Jenkins (Floyd Central HS / Floyds Knobs, Ind.), Brentley Armstrong (Straughn HS / Andalusia, Ala.), Montana Fouts (East Carter HS / Grayson, Ky.) and Delaney Marshall (Prescott HS…
TORONTO — Ron Joyce, the co-founder of the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at age 88. The cause of death was not immediately clear. Joyce was born in Tatamagouche, N.S., in 1930 and moved to Hamilton, Ont. as a teenager, where he eventually joined the Hamilton police, serving until 1965. He got into the…
Nintendo has announced that there will be a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct and a Nintendo Treehouse: Live Presentation on Thursday, November 1 at 7am PT/10am ET/2pm BST. Revealed on Nintendo’s Twitter, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct will contain “roughly 40 minutes of new information” and will be the final Direct before the…
A new review has found that alternating prolonged periods of sitting with regular breaks to get up and move around could help offset the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle. The researchers found that taking regular breaks to perform short, repeated bouts of activity lowered concentrations of blood sugar and insulin in the bloodstream for…
MONTREAL — In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers. Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans-Benson & Hedges had appealed a ruling that found the companies chose…
Canadian diplomats who suffered from mysterious health complaints while they were posted to Cuba in 2017 are suing Ottawa for taking too long to evacuate them and provide them treatment. Fourteen people, including current and former diplomats and their families, are seeking Can$28 million (£16 million) in damages from the federal government. All of them have…
Aquaman was screened to members of the press ahead of the film’s release, and those who saw it have now been allowed to post their reactions to social media. Overall, the responses have been extremely positive, with many giving credit to James Wan’s vision and creativity for the film, as well as the “visual spectacle”…