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Beyond the backyard (St. Catharines Standard)

Mike Bohonos will light up the Montreal sky next week when he gives crowds a glimpse of the Northern Lights. Or something like it. The owner of Garden City Display Fireworks will emulate the aurora borealis when he competes in the “Olympics of fireworks,” the L’International Des Feux Loto-Quebec, [...]

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Another new addition gets a chance to start (Canada.com)

REGINA - Defensive tackle Marcus (Chunky) Adams jogged off the practice field midway through Thursday’s workout, temporarily leaving his job as a Saskatchewan Roughriders starter in the meaty paws of 6-foot-4, 292-pound Jimmy Verdon.

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Travel Picks: Top 10 best free things for travelers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Whether it’s New York’s Staten Island Ferry or London’s National Gallery, free activities are a welcome bonus for travelers of all ages and incomes.

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'Mandy Lane' Has Trailer, But Still No Firm Release Date - Cinematical

'Mandy Lane' Has Trailer, But Still No Firm Release Date
Cinematical, CA - 1 hour ago
Montreal's amazingly awesome genre festival. They have a good write-up on the film, too, and you'll see James' review quoted on the page.

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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight - Martiniboys.com


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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight
Martiniboys.com, Canada - Jul 17, 2008
Namely that with the exception of the iconoclastic Joker, unnervingly played by Ledger, there’s not a character in this film you really care about.

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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight - Martiniboys.com


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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight
Martiniboys.com, Canada - 23 hours ago
Namely that with the exception of the iconoclastic Joker, unnervingly played by Ledger, there’s not a character in this film you really care about.

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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight - Martiniboys.com


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Montreal movies, movie reviews, The Dark Knight
Martiniboys.com, Canada - 4 hours ago
Namely that with the exception of the iconoclastic Joker, unnervingly played by Ledger, there’s not a character in this film you really care about.

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You don't know Jack (Johnson) - National Post

You don't know Jack (Johnson)
National Post, Canada - 4 hours ago
Flipping through one of Toronto's alt-weeklies, we noticed that the ad for Osheaga lists over 30 bands playing the Montreal urban festival, but there's not

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Afternoon Fix: Celebrity Birthdays, the 'Mamma Mia!' Movie Minute … - MTV News

Afternoon Fix: Celebrity Birthdays, the 'Mamma Mia!' Movie Minute
MTV News, Canada - 1 hour ago
The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine had its premiere at the London Pavilion. In 1972…In Montreal, a bomb destroyed several speaker cones inside an

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Wolf was better as a pack - Guelph Mercury


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Wolf was better as a pack
Guelph Mercury, Canada - 3 hours ago
When the first album by this Montreal band came out in 2005, many headline writers were quick to come up with cheesy tag lines such as Hungry Like the Wolf.

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Wolf was better as a pack (Guelph Mercury)

When the first album by this Montreal band came out in 2005, many headline writers were quick to come up with cheesy tag lines such as Hungry Like the Wolf. Cheesy as that may have been, there was an unmistakable hunger and drive behind the anthems that populated Wolf Parade’s repertoire, where prog rock keyboards collided with classic rock guitars, thundering drums and sci-fi sound-effects in …

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Sadleir Movement film screening scheduled; - Peterborough Examiner

Sadleir Movement film screening scheduled;
Peterborough Examiner, Canada - 2 hours ago
Morritt lives in Montreal. He has been an active member of various arts organizations in Peterborough, was the director of the Trent Film Society in

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Travel Picks: Top 10 best free things for travelers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Whether it’s New York’s Staten Island Ferry or London’s National Gallery, free activities are a welcome bonus for travelers of all ages and incomes.

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Art, film and music abound - Whistler Question

Art, film and music abound
Whistler Question,  Canada - 2 hours ago
The film won the Chlotrudis Award for Best Visual Design, Newport Film Festival Feature Film Award for animation, and the Montreal Festival of New Cinema’s

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Art, film and music abound (Whistler Question)

LUNAFLIKS: It isn’t often that you’ll find an anime film running in Whistler. So, next Wednesday’s (July 23) Lunafliks presentation of the award-winning film Paprika is double the pleasure, as it is also being shown outside and under the stars (hopefully) at Rebagliati Park.

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Movie Preview: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Entertainment Weekly)

Rob Cohen knows how to walk away from a franchise. The director behind such high-octane hits as XXX and The Fast and the Furious wasn’t involved in what he calls the ”lackluster sequels” to his movies that studios churned out without him.

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'Mummy' sequel clears Chinese censors - Malaysia Star

'Mummy' sequel clears Chinese censors
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 8 hours ago
"We now have a certificate giving us permission to release the film in China,'' he said. The distributor runs Hong Kong-based Edko Films, which distributes

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‘Mummy’ sequel clears Chinese censors (The Star)

Earlier news reports said the China release of “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” had been delayed, raising speculation that the Universal Pictures film had been held up because of content.

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FIRST PERSON | A Letter to indieWIRE Readers (indieWIRE)

As you can read today on indieWIRE , we have some big news to share. In the waning hours of our 12th anniversary on Tuesday, we signed a deal to sell iW to SnagFilms , a new company founded by Ted Leonsis and backed by Steve Case and Miles Gilburne . We first sat down with Ted and Snag CEO Rick Allen six months ago, but it was a meeting with the two of them at the Morning Ray Cafe, during this …

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