NASHVILLE—Phila Hach (FYLAH HA’), a culinary pioneer from Tennessee who had the first televised cooking show in the South, has died. Her son, Joe Hach, said...
TORONTO—Jamie Oliver is the latest international culinary icon to launch a restaurant in Toronto, with the opening of his first North American outpost of Jamie’s Italian...
NEW YORK—Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian and off-Broadway star, will tackle something he knows a lot about in his new one-man show—joke-telling. In “Mike Birbiglia: Thank...
NEW YORK—Sen. Al Franken has a book deal for a memoir that will cover his career from “Saturday Night Live” to his years in Washington. Twelve,...
HALIFAX—A union’s snub of a government ultimatum over a contract vote saw Nova Scotia’s deputy premier adopt a more conciliatory tone Thursday. In a letter sent...
WINNIPEG—Manitoba is promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions by one-third in the next 15 years and bring in a cap-and-trade system for the province’s 20 largest...
TORONTO—The minister who oversees Ontario’s Children’s Aid Societies says she’s disappointed a ministerial directive that caseworkers check the child abuse register isn’t always being followed—so she’ll...
TORONTO—Canada’s six biggest banks saw their profits climb higher over the past year, despite a sluggish economy, a slowdown in consumer borrowing and rock-bottom interest rates,...
TORONTO—Fresh moves by the European Central Bank on its stimulus plans left traders feeling underwhelmed on Thursday and helped pull down North American stock markets. Toronto’s...
EDMONTON—An Edmonton man did not tell his wife for several days that he held the winning Lotto Max ticket for $30 million. Mauro Bagnariol did, however,...