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VANCOUVER — Ministers have wrapped up a meeting in Vancouver with the hope of increasing francophone immigration and addressing the decline of French across Canada.

TORONTO — Zedd and Tiesto will bookend the Veld music festival in Toronto next month for the event's 10th anniversary.

TORONTO — The music video for “Damn Right” by Snotty Nose Rez Kids and director Sterling Larose has won this year’s Prism Prize. The hip hop duo from Kitamaat Village in northwest B.C.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2010, newly anointed as a Grammy winner, Taylor Swift released “Speak Now,” her third studio album and her first without a single songwriting collaboration.

LONDON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen was not going to let concert promoters pull the plug on him like the last time he played Hyde Park 11 years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) — An Asian American-owned bookstore in Manhattan's Chinatown left gutted by a Fourth of July fire is getting flooded with support from the community, writers and celebrities.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio 's posthumous album includes guest appearances from Naughty By Nature's Treach, Da Lench Mob's J-Dee, and Ras Kass on a project that was not intended to be the rapper's last.

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — A woman who was previously warned to stay away from Taylor Swift's home in Rhode Island was arrested this week outside the beachfront property, police said.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The southern Swedish city of Malmo will host the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in the same venue that housed the colorful and eclectic music competition in 2012, the Swedish organizers said Friday.

Taylor Swift’s rerecording of her “Speak Now” and survivalist Bear Grylls taking Bradley Cooper and Rita Ora into the wild are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.