Lending her voice to Disney’s first African-American princess is pretty huge for an actress, and Anika Noni Rose is all too aware of it.

When Jason Reitman began making Up in the Air, there was no way he could’ve known how completely contemporary it would actually be.

The eclectic Sophie Milman calls jazz and Canada her two constants.

It’s been five years since Melissa Auf der Maur — the Montreal-raised Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist — released any solo music.

Alexander Skarsgård has a tan. That’s what happens when you’re living in Los Angeles, he explains.

WASHINGTON - Oprah and Obama, teamed up again.

OTTAWA - For China, it was not about making a foreign visitor lose face.

MONTREAL - Nobody took Marc Lepine seriously at first, when he walked into a classroom at the Ecole polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, and interrupted an engineering student's presentation on heat transfer.

MOSCOW - Wagging his pen and gazing directly into the camera, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent his strongest signal yet Thursday that he plans to return to Russia's presidency, telling millions of TV viewers that he will consider running in 2012.

WINNIPEG - Sometime in late February 1950, a Canadian photographer pulled a camera out of his parka and into the stabbing Arctic cold, focused as best he could in the flickering lamplight inside an igloo, and pressed the shutter.