Bass player and songwriter Donald (Duck) Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.

The Toronto International Film Festival group is nurturing teen cinephiles and aspiring directors with a filmmaking contest, part of its new Next Wave Festival. Eli Glasner reports.

Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of the man charged with murdering three of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's family members.

A reality show featuring Whitney Houston's relatives, including daughter Bobbi Kristina and mother Cissy, is in the works.

A mature period Emily Carr canvas, a beach-set Jean Paul Lemieux, coveted mountain sketches by Lawren Harris and a notable Jack Bush work are among the top lots set for sale during the Canadian spring auction season.

Pan Am, the 1960s-era ensemble drama starring Canada's Karine Vanasse, won the best series prize at this year's Rose d'Or television awards in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Four shows by controversial French comic Dieudonné M'bala M'bala booked for Montreal next week have been cancelled after Jewish groups expressed concern over his reputation for performing anti-Semitic material.

A Coal Miner's Daughter musical is in the works, with country legend Loretta Lynn announcing that actress and singer Zooey Deschanel will portray her in the Broadway-bound production.

The architect of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is criticizing the waterpark proposed for a lot across the street at The Forks.

Horst Faas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists, has died.