Hollywood is locked in a death spiral that it may never be able to reverse, a report claims.
The days of La La Land may be numbered with the pressures of how people consume entertainment continuing to undergo massive shifts. And the legacy studio system is struggling to respond and reinvent itself accordingly, especially in the U.S. as productions of movies and TV shows flee California in droves and even increasingly head to other countries looking for far cheaper costs.
Scores of asylum claimants waiting for their cases to be assessed have in the past few days been warned by the Immigration Department they may imminently face deportation, with many letters sent the day after a bill tightening up asylum rules became law.
Immigration lawyers said the letters have caused panic among clients waiting for their cases to be assessed by the independent Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) and who now face removal from Canada.
President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in a major shakeup to his cabinet.
“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Human rights commission must reconsider case of woman who was refused service in Tagalog
In Saskatchewan, the authorities are currently deciding whether to treat Tagalog like an official language.
It all started at the Starbucks in Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital. Vanessa Casila, a Filipina woman, tried to order in Tagalog. The employee taking her order refused, saying she would receive a formal reprimand from the manager if she went along with it. Casila then filed a human rights complaint, claiming that the “English only” policy amounted to discrimination based on race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, and nationality.
FBI officials recently reached out to members of Congress to alert them to a cyber hack classified as a “major incident.”
Fox News is told that China is the culprit and that the breach could pose a threat to national security.
The FBI made this designation last week when notifying several members of Congress.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to temporarily pause federal taxes on gas and diesel for the remainder of the year.
Poilievre held a news conference at an Ottawa gas station on Thursday to outline his suggestion, which would temporarily lift the GST and excise tax on diesel and gasoline.
The Pope’s sessions in the gym will pay off on Good Friday, when he will carry a large wooden cross around the Colosseum.
Leo, 70, will carry it throughout all 14 Stations of the Cross at the ancient Roman arena, symbolising Jesus’s last hours before his crucifixion.
This Easter, the ponfitt is expected to not only flex his muscles but also his political clout. On Easter Sunday, when the American pope will deliver the traditional Urbi et Orbi address at St Peter’s Square, he is likely to give full vent to his opposition to the Iran war.
Avi Lewis is a truly unconventional politician. He has managed to make himself a champion of young Canadians, which is quite a feat given that he’ll be in his 60th year in May.
They provided a lot of energy to his campaign but also tend to vote less and that could prove a challenge.
Under his leadership, the NDP will cement its role as a safe place for equity-seeking groups, a part of its branding that was a reflection of Jack Layton’s core beliefs.
Avi is on something not on to something. Never underestimate the stupidity of today’s university students or the media’s Avi cheerleaders.
The alleged Bondi gunman has lost his court bid to suppress the names and addresses of his mother, brother and sister due to fears over their safety.
Lawyers for Naveed Akram – who is facing 59 charges over December’s attack on a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach that killed 15 people – argued that his family could be targeted by vigilantes and had already experienced abuse.
Last month, details of Akram’s family were suppressed under an interim order but on Thursday, a Sydney court lifted it after several media outlets opposed the move.
The Auditor General of Canada recently flagged gaps in how student visas are being assessed. In a report tabled in Parliament last week, it said countries with a high risk of fraudulent applications generally saw low approval rates — with “one important exception” in India.
Iran’s president has sent a propaganda letter to Americans claiming his country harbors no enmity to ordinary US citizens, according to state-owned outlets.
Despite years of conflict and state-sponsored terrorism, President Masoud Pezeshkian insisted that the idea that Iran was an enemy of the American people was “neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts.”
“We were only kidding with that Death to America stuff”
To the people of the United States of America pic.twitter.com/3uAL4FZgY7
— Masoud Pezeshkian (@drpezeshkian) April 1, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney is not oblivious.
He knows, as any reasonable person would, that it looks terrible for one of his MPs to try to undermine an expert witness on forced labour in China during a parliamentary committee meeting.
Last week, Liberal MP Michael Ma grilled Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, about whether she has personally seen forced labour practices on the ground in
China. “Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang?” Mr. Ma asked Ms. McCuaig-Johnston, as if foreign nationals are invited to privately interview Uyghurs working on factory floors. “Yes or no? So did you get that from hearsay?”
A black Kansas City businessman has been forced to scrap his plans to open a new nightclub after a local football fan club comprised mainly of liberal white women complained that the name was ‘racist.’
Casio McCombs said this week he was ‘deeply disappointed’ that his plans to open a club named Sundown HiFi were halted due to outcry from KC Blue Crew, a supporters club for women’s soccer team KC Current.
The ‘sundown’ name was deemed by the group to be a reference to a ‘sundown town’, a 19th Century term for all-white communities that would practice racial segregation and terrorize any black people unfortunate enough to find themselves on its streets after dark.
Canada’s emergency doctors are demanding better protection against administrative harassment and bullying for speaking out about dangerous overcrowding and unreported deaths in the country’s emergency rooms.
Among other measures, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians is calling for “effective and enforced” whistleblower protection, arguing they risk personal and professional persecution for calling out unsafe conditions that are putting lives at risk.
It would be the biggest divorce in history. For eight decades, Nato has weathered internal disputes, enemy plots and shooting wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
But if Donald Trump acts on his threat to finally leave, having told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling out after allies failed to join his war on Iran, the transatlantic family will be torn asunder. At which point, the club that calls itself the most successful alliance in history may as well close its doors. And the pain could match that of the most acrimonious breakups.
