U.S. President Barack Obama defended the U.S. role in bringing down Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, rejecting assessments that the international coalition he helped assemble amounted to “leading from behind.”

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Charles Foran has won the inaugural Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction for his biography of Montreal writer Mordecai Richler.

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A forgotten sketch written by the late British playwright Harold Pinter has been found in archives at the British Library.

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Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company will stage its first full-length original play in the 2012 season, a work about Toronto developed in its own training workshop.

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The film adaptation of Richard Van Camp’s book The Lesser Blessed will be made in northern Ontario after attempts to get funding to shoot in the N.W.T. failed.

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A Montreal art gallery says a funeral will be held Tuesday in New York for Mathieu Lefevre, a promising Canadian painter and sculptor who died last week during a cycling accident in Brooklyn.

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Des McAnuff’s production of Twelfth Night is the latest Stratford Shakespeare Festival play heading to Canadian movie theatres.

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From Then to Now is a book about the big picture, from the time our distant ancestors were hunter-gatherers in Africa to the present day

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The troubled young heroes of Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones uncover a business con and wonder how to profit from it.

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Kenneth Oppel has imagined the life of a young Victor Frankenstein in This Dark Endeavour.

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