Entertainment, Media & Sports

VANCOUVER — If you're looking for a permanent reminder of Taylor Swift's Era's Tour concerts in Vancouver, long after the friendship bracelets have been traded, tattoo artist Jen Van Houten literally has you covered.

TORONTO — A report on the experiences of Black music artists and professionals details myriad racial and financial barriers they've faced in the Canadian industry and calls for mentorship and structural change.

The FIFA World Cup is more than a soccer showcase. It's big business with the 2022 men's tournament in Qatar engaging five billion fans across all media, from linear TV to digital and social media, according to FIFA, soccer's world governing body.

Four B.C. charities combined raised more than one million dollars by auctioning off four suites to see Swift.

OTTAWA — A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system, saying the company breaches copyright by "scraping large swaths of content" from media websites.

VANCOUVER — Ticketless Taylor Swift fans hoping for a "Taylgate" party in Vancouver are out of luck.

VANCOUVER — Taylor Swift will bring an estimated $157-million economic impact to the city next week with the three final concert dates of the record-breaking Eras Tour, Destination Vancouver said.

The trip to Los Angeles will include Spencer Chandra Herbert, minister of tourism, arts, culture and sport, Finance Minister Brenda Bailey and Nina Krieger, the Parliamentary secretary for arts and film.

TORONTO — Rogers Sports and Media has cut a "few dozen" jobs in its audio business amid what it describes as an unpredictable advertising market that has led to declining revenue.

New collective agreement runs from 2025-28