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TORONTO — When "Transplant" creator Joseph Kay conceived the idea for the series, the 2016 U.S. presidential election had just happened and thousands of Syrian refugees were resettling in Canada.

NEW YORK — Lady Gaga cleaned house at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, while The Weeknd took home the top prize — and both pop stars sent important messages to viewers about the current state of the world: “Wear a mask" and “Justice for Jacob Blake a

Winners of the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday night at various locations throughout New York City.

Chris Webber's emotional comments last week in support of NBA players, who boycotted the playoffs after the shooting of Jacob Blake, generated millions of views because they came from the heart and addressed sensitive topics.

NEW YORK — “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, whose death from colon cancer shocked fans, was honoured at the MTV Video Music Awards as a hero in real life, not just on the big screen.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12 Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 84. Country singer David Allan Coe is 81. Singer-bassist Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 77. Actor Swoosie Kurtz is 76. Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 73.

The MTV Video Music Awards got a little creative trying to put on a somewhat live awards show from New York City in the middle of a pandemic.

Telus says it's donating the video-on-demand proceeds from "Black Panther" and more than 60 other films by Black creators to Canada's Black Health Alliance.

GREENVILLE, Miss. — Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. She was 59.

NEW YORK — The first wave of big new movies released since the beginning of the pandemic, including Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller “Tenet” and the long-delayed “X-Men” spinoff “The New Mutants," arrived in theatres over the weekend, testin