Brothel #9 and Blasted are among the top nominees for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards, sharing the spotlight with high-profile shows like Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the modern ballet work Chroma and The Railway Children.

Brothel #9 and Blasted are among the top nominees for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards, sharing the spotlight with high-profile shows like Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the modern ballet work Chroma and The Railway Children.

NBC retained its hold on U.S. Olympic television rights Tuesday in a four-games deal through 2020 worth about $4.4 billion, defeating rival bids from ESPN and Fox, officials with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

The top prize for the Polaris Music Prize, the annual award for best Canadian album, has grown to $30,000.

Lilian Jackson Braun, the U.S. author who wrote 29 books in the The Cat Who… mystery series, has died. She was 97.

American artist Christian Marclay has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Art Biennale for his widely acclaimed work, The Clock.

The hottest ticket around Manitoba may be for NHL hockey but camping passes for the upcoming Winnipeg Folk Festival are also scarce.

Workers at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa are trying to piece together the mystery of how a small bronze statue of General James Wolfe ended up at the hotel over the weekend, some 50 years after it was allegedly stolen from the national archives.

No plugging of Twitter accounts or Facebook pages is allowed on French broadcast airwaves.