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TORONTO — Canadian actor Stephen Amell is seeking to clarify his stance on the Hollywood strike after previous comments suggested he wasn't in favour of it.

CALGARY — All levels of government must hold management of the Calgary Stampede to account over how it handled years of sexual abuse at a performance school it runs, says one of the city's 10 members of Parliament.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film. The New York-based, 57-year-old filmmaker of sharply observed independent films ( "Love Is Strange," “Little Men” ) was compelled to create, as he says, “a film of intimacy.

BOSTON (AP) — A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction.

There are some good gags and clever innovations in the animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," but there is one brilliant idea: casting Ice Cube as the voice of the movie's mutant insect supervillain Super Fly.

LONDON (AP) — A Canadian is among the semifinalists for the Booker Prize, competing with 12 other authors that also include an Irish writer who has received four previous nominations and twice been shortlisted for it.

The organizers of Wacken Open Air, a hard rock and metal festival in northern Germany, have asked visitors to leave their heavy metal at home.

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