The final ballots are in for the 84th Oscars, ending a round of Academy Awards campaigning by powerful producers like Harvey Weinstein and Canada’s Robert Lantos. Deana Sumanac reports on how it’s done.

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Feist, City and Colour, the Sheepdogs and Adele are all on the nomination list for the 2012 Sirius XM Indies, Canadian Music Week announced on Wednesday.

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Chris Reimer, the Calgary-based guitarist and vocalist of the noise-rock-pop band Women, died in his sleep on Tuesday, his family has confirmed.

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The Book of Negroes author has received The Writers’ Union of Canada’s 2012 Freedom to Read Award.

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Montreal filmmaker Anne Émond has won the Claude Jutra Award for best debut director for her rave-set romance Nuit #1.

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Canada’s National Film Board has two titles in contention at this year’s Academy Awards, which brings its lifetime tally of Oscar nominations to 72 and bolsters its reputation as the world’s preeminent producer of short films.

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Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts is cutting five per cent from its $11 million operating budget, but the centre’s CEO says programming won’t be affected.

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Kingston has renamed part of a downtown street Tragically Hip Way.

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Biographies of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

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The East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate blues club on Tuesday night for a concert featuring blues all-stars of the past, present and future — and the president himself.

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