The City Council is slow-walking governance reform proposals, which means charter changes to allow a larger council and ethics reforms may not get on the November ballot. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images) This is what happens when City Hall reform is left to City Hall insiders: Very little meaningful change gets done … Read more
Today is set to be another at least partly sunny day, with persistent wind but mild temperatures. The South Saskatchewan river is starting to freeze on the first day of December, but still no snow on the ground.Photo by Michelle Berg /Saskatoon StarPhoenix It’s -13 C at Saskatoon Diefenbaker International Airport this morning, with 11 … Read more
Bitcoin breached $42,000 on Monday morning — a level the volatile cryptocurrency hasn’t seen since April 2022. Bitcoin peaked at $42,108.59 as of 6:00 a.m. EST on Monday, attributed to traders’ expectations that US regulators will soon approve an exchange-traded bitcoin fund — and bets that the Federal Reserve is done hiking interest rates. Fed … Read more
Fear of God and Adidas launch Athletics After three years in the making, Fear of God Athletics has launched. The sports line hearkens back to late ’90s and early 2000s Adidas football gear — think thick stripes and oversize hoodies — with puffy jackets and track pants in earthy, gray tones. “My heart has always … Read more
Layton Williams will need to break a seven-year curse (Picture: BBC) Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin have a difficult task ahead to win Strictly Come Dancing due to a ‘curse’ that’s plagued contestants for seven series. While initially their perfect score of 40 – the first on the 2023 BBC series – in the quarter-finals … Read more
Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa had never written a song from a character’s point of view, she’d always drawn from personal experience — until “Dance the Night,” from “Barbie.” (Alex Harper / For The Times) Dua Lipa was on tour — she can’t remember where, it was a bit of a blur — when she got the … Read more
“Napoleon” serves as a reunion with Joaquin Phoenix, who earned his first Oscar nomination on Scott’s “Gladiator,” playing the similarly insecure leader Commodus. (Aidan Monaghan / Apple TV+) Ridley Scott wasn’t a great student, although he isn’t going to shoulder all the blame. “The secret of teaching is that a teacher wants to do the … Read more
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A BBC star has stepped down from her post presenting on a news programme after 18 years, bidding her viewers an emotional farewell. Since 2005, Alex Lovell has fronted the broadcaster’s regional news programme BBC Points West. … Read more
“I was happily surprised to see the amount of context Mary had, the emotion of a completed story arc,” the actor says of her “Holdovers” character. (Ethan Benavidez / For The Times) In “The Holdovers,” plays Mary Lamb, the cafeteria manager and head cook at a snooty New England boys’ boarding school in 1970. Mary, … Read more
1 “I can only imagine how scared Joe was,” actor Charles Melton says of his “May December” character, who began an affair with a grown woman and ended up marrying her and raising a family. (Yuri Hasegawa / For The Times) Charles Melton’s father Phil is his hero. “I love him,” the actor says simply. … Read more