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In Canada: Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Now Second Longest No. 1 in Canadian Hot 100 History
Billboard
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August 29, 2025
Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is making history on the Billboard charts in Canada. The rising singer-songwriter’s hit “Ordinary” has spent 20 weeks atop the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, as of the chart dated August 30. That makes Warren’s song the...
Labour Day weekend last chance to use Canada Strong Pass
CJLS - Massachusetts
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RachelD32 / Depositphotos.com Only a few more days left to get into national parks for free, with the Canada Strong Pass initiative winding down. With the pass, the charge to get into any Parks Canada locations was waived, with an extra 25 per...
Challenge Family Racing Expands in Canada
Triathlon Magazine Canada
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August 29, 2025
Founded in 2002, Challenge Family set out to create an athlete-focused and community-driven racing alternative. Over the past two decades, it has grown into a global movement with 35 races in 27 countries, celebrating triathlon through world-class...
Labour Day weekend fireworks in Ontario: Canada’s Wonderland to Niagara Falls — Where to see a show near you
Toronto.com
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The last long weekend of summer has arrived and that means fireworks will be lighting up skies across Ontario for Labour Day weekend. Irelyne Lavery with Toronto.com has a list of where to see firework shows near you. Canada’s Wonderland If you’re...
Alberta introduces new mobile health card, the first of its kind in Canada
Prince George Post
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Breadcrumb Trail Links News In the future, the Alberta Wallet will be able to store additional province-issued documents, such as driver’s licences, hunting permits, marriage certificates, diplomas or transcripts Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and...
Last-minute things to do in Ontario before summer ends: Spectacular Toronto air show, 20th-century caboose, Canada’s largest ribfest and more
Toronto.com
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With a few more sun-soaked days left before the start of school, it looks like you still have a chance to check off those final Ontario bucket list items and squeeze in a last summer hurrah. We’ve rounded up a list of last-minute activities you...
JJ “Dejocular” Okonkwo brings Afrobeats to Canada’s mainstream media
Pulse
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August 29, 2025
JJ “Dejocular” Okonkwo is a Nigerian broadcaster, producer, DJ, and actor with nearly 20 years in media. He has worked with Cool FM and News Central TV, and has featured in Nollywood and Hollywood North productions.Growing up in Lagos in a family...
Canada Wants to Shut Down Pro-Life Groups
LifeNews
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August 29, 2025
The Standing Committee on Finance has recommended to the Canadian government that pro-life organizations lose charitable status, according to Steinbach Online. Don Plett, a former senator from Steinbach who retired in May, provided an analysis to...
Michigan Music Fest Last Chance on Discount Tix and Artist Update
Irish American News - Illinois
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August 29, 2025
MUSKEGON, Mich. - The Michigan Irish Music Festival, presented by Family Financial Credit Union, invites you to join us for another unforgettable year of music, culture, and celebration, happening September 11-14, 2025 at Heritage Landing in...
Canada must choose pragmatism over Sinophobia in trade dispute
Calgary Herald
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August 29, 2025
The alarmist cries painting China’s recent tariff on Canadian canola as an act of “economic coercion” and a “dangerous trap” are dangerously counterproductive. This rhetoric, emanating from ideologues steeped in Sinophobia, ignores the immediate...
Canadian Government Increases Warning To "Avoid All Essential Travel" To This Country For The Fall
The Travel
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August 29, 2025
The Canadian government has continued to issue advisory updates for August. Among its recent changes was an update to the "Avoid All Travel" list of countries. The advisory has just worsened, as cautions regarding polio have been put in place for...
The Social Skinny: Apple Music and Spotify riff off; OpenAI sued for teen death
PR Week
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August 29, 2025
Content warning: This article contains mention of suicide. Apple Music bumps the radio to bump Spotify from No. 1 spot Apple’s market of U.S. digital music subscribers fell from 30% in 2020 to 25% last year while competing music app Spotify’s...
Greek Music Legend Stelios Kazantzidis Biopic Debuts on Digital Platforms in September
Greek Reporter
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August 29, 2025
Greek pop sensation Christos Mastoras performing as Kazantzidis. Credit: Marilena Anastasiadou Photography/Tanweer Productions On August 29, 1931, in Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece, Stelios Kazantzidis was born—a voice that would forever transform...
The Beaches on Breakups, the Power of Fan Culture, and Going to Therapy
Paste
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The Beaches know a thing or two about writing songs surrounding messy relationships—both sapphic and otherwise. “Blame Brett,” their breakout single from their 2023 album Blame My Ex, hit 100 million Spotify streams this June. The song chronicled...
Gaels and Mustangs put a pause on historic rivalry, uniting for weekend music festival
The Queen's University Journal
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August 29, 2025
Queen’s and Western’s student governments unite for a music festival following the cancellation of the annual ORT Mystery Concert. As recently announced on their Instagram, the AMS is working with Western University’s Undergraduate Student Council...
Why music makes sense in the modern workplace
North Shore News
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As more workplaces explore how to keep teams engaged and motivated, music is emerging as a simple but powerful tool, especially when tuned to the right station Music isn’t limited to concerts, car rides or evenings at home. In some Canadian...
Catch the Current episode 32: From Canada’s lobster export challenges to Alaska’s lackluster pink salmon harvest
Undercurrent News
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August 29, 2025
Sound the alarm. Cesium-137-contaminated shrimp has made it onto US secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s radar. Catch the Current hosts Amanda Buckle and Lorin Castiglione recap the big news to hit the seafood industry...
An end to 'woke' dance at the Kennedy Center: L.A. arts and culture this week
Los Angeles Times
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August 29, 2025
Stability is a thing of the past at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which this past week fired its director of dance programming, Jane Raleigh, as well as two other full-time dance programmers, Mallory Miller and Malik Burnett....
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St. Albert Gazette
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August 29, 2025
Today in Music History for Sept. 11: In 1850, soprano Jenny Lind, dubbed "The Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the U.S., at Castle Garden in New York. Her tour was organized by showman P.T. Barnum. Today in Music History for Sept....
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St. Albert Gazette
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August 29, 2025
Today in Music History for Sept. 8: In 1897, Jimmie Rodgers, known variously as "The Singing Brakeman," "America's Blue Yodeler" and "The Father of Country Music," was born in either Meridian, Miss., or Geiger, Ala. Today in Music History for...