Soul singer Adele followed up her Grammy Awards triumph with a double win at the U.K.’s Brit music awards Tuesday, for best British female and best British album.

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Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is being inducted into the New York-based Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Pierre Juneau, a former head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. who presided over the creation of CBC Newsworld — now CBC News Network — has died. He was 89

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The Gemini Awards, which celebrate the best in Canadian TV, have changed the rules to put big-budget co-productions such as The Tudors and The Borgias in a separate category.

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Two veteran American fiction writers – Don DeLillo and Russell Banks – are competing for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

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Antonio Banderas will channel cubist master Pablo Picasso in the forthcoming film 33 Days, portraying the iconic painter during the period he produced his legendary Guernica.

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A sneak peek of a statue celebrating Northrop Frye’s centennial birthday was unveiled Monday at Moncton’s Capitol Theatre along with a list of authors and literary critics who will be attending this year’s Frye Festival.

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Bridesmaids and other films featuring partying and drinking may be Hollywood money makers, but a new study suggests alcohol in movies is having a negative social impact: it’s prompting young people to drink.

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British band Queen have confirmed that American Idol contestant Adam Lambert will serve as frontman at a concert this summer at the U.K.’s Sonisphere festival.

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Join CBC reporter and film critic Eli Glasner here on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET as he runs through his predictions for the 2012 Academy Awards

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