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TORONTO — As she prepares for the final season of “Diggstown" to air, star Vinessa Antoine is finding it hard to accept that the show she sees as an "anomaly" on Canadian television is coming to an end.

Calgary's transit authority is temporarily renaming a city bus route in honour of indie pop stars Tegan and Sara and their upcoming television series.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer and composer Anita Kerr, whose vocal group the Anita Kerr Singers provided the lush backdrop to the Nashville Sound, has died. She was 94.

A specialist in plastic waste management, artists, musicians, computer scientists, and a poet-ornithologist who advocates for Black people in nature are among this year's 25 winners of the John D. and Catherine T.

NEW YORK (AP) — Four sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. A new band member and an expanded live set. Momentum from unlikely followers gained while the band was on hiatus.

The 1975, “Being Funny in a Foreign Language” (Dirty Hit/Interscope) There is plenty to like about The 1975's new album until there's something to really admire.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Shelton, the last of the original panel of judges on “The Voice,” will leave the megahit U.S. version of the singing competition show after next season.

“Dinosaurs,” by Lydia Millet (W.W. Norton) Besides moving on from a bad breakup, Gil, the protagonist of Lydia Millet’s “Dinosaurs,” walks from New York to Phoenix because he “wanted to pay for something.

NEW YORK (AP) — A literary honor will now carry the name of a uniquely successful author: the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir.

Sheila Heti and Anne Carson are among the well-known Canadian writers on the short list for the Governor General's Literary Awards.