"Last Comic Standing" contender returns home to star in "Mr. D" for pubcaster.

TORONTO -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has handed out a full-season order to Mr. D, a sitcom that stars Toronto school teacher-turned-comic Gerry Dee (Last Comic Standing).

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The "Canadian Oscars" - the Genie Awards - will be handed out Monday night in Toronto.

Because it is the 30th anniversary of the Genies, nominees past and present will be on hand at the Guvernment/Kool Haus entertainment complex.

None of the five most-nominated movies is widely known, but all were critically praised.

Polytechnique leads the way ( Read more... )

A Boy Called NewfoundlandLike much of the newspaper industry, The Romantic Times is not in the best of shape. Readership of this mostly user-generated Maritime publication is down, though whether this is due to an international romance recession or a proliferation of free romantic blogs is left unclear in Graeme Gillis’s new play, A Boy Called ( Read more... )

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A boy struggles with more than just his name in Graeme Gillis’ latest work, A Boy Called Newfoundland
As a Cape Breton expat living in Brooklyn, New York, Graeme Gillis would walk past a storefront for something called The Romantic Times. He suspected it was a trade journal about the romantic-novel industry (it is) but he wasn’t particularly ( Read more... )