63 m. ago Canadian Anora producer, Vancouver Dune VFX supervisors Oscar winners

'I don't know how this can be real life. This is really an incredible, impossible journey for the past 10 months,' producer Samantha Quan said before thanking her family

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13 h. ago Vancouver visual effects supervisors among team to win Oscar for Dune: Part Two

Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe, both of DNEG Vancouver, worked as visual effects supervisors on the film

Culture

13 h. ago Big night for Vancouverites at the Oscars with wins for best picture and visual effects

Vancouver producer Samantha Quan won best picture as part of the producing team for Anora, while Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe won as visual effects supervisors for Dune: Part Two

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35 h. ago NLL Roughnecks can't capitalize on milestone debut for goaltender Nick Rose

Veteran goaltender Nick Rose made his debut for the Calgary Roughnecks. And he marked it with a milestone, becoming only the third National Lacrosse League backstop to record 7,000 saves. But it didn’t come with a win both the goalie and his new team went looking for Saturday night in Denver. Instead, it was the […]

Economics

5 d. ago Le Québécois qui a créé les mondes de «Dune» est prêt pour un autre tour de piste aux Oscar

Le directeur artistique Patrice Vermette concourra à nouveau dimanche pour le trophée des meilleurs décors.

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5 d. ago Norman Powell says Toronto Raptors should never have traded him

For longtime fans of the Toronto Raptors, there's often been a lot of second-guessing as to how exactly the team navigated the years following their 2019 NBA title win.And for Norman Powell, who was traded away to the Portland Trail Blazers in 2021 after being a pivotal bench piece of that playoff run, there’s been a lot of “what-if” thinking in the four years since he left the Raptors."The fans still talk about [that era], especially that year after we won the championship," Powell said to the Young Man And The Three podcast, released earlier this month.Powell said he'd received reassurance from his agent in the minutes leading up to the 2021 trade deadline that he’d be staying in Toronto, before he got the sudden shocking news that he'd been sent to Portland in exchange for Gary Trent Jr. and Rodney Hood."I just got off the phone, they said I'm good," Powell recalled. "I didn’t know what to do, I didn't know what call to ...

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6 d. ago Unidentified NFL team proposes banning tush push after Eagles win Super Bowl

INDIANAPOLIS — One NFL team is proposing an end to the tush-push play the Philadelphia Eagles have used so successfully at the goal-line and in short-yardage situations, including during their victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX. According to the NFL Network and Washington Post, league executive Troy Vincent said Monday that […]

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7 d. ago Team Canada hero Jordan Binnington to Edmonton Oilers? NHL insider speculates

All kinds of talk about the Edmonton Oilers being in need of a goalie but the most interesting speculation I’ve hard came from TSN insider Darren Dreger. After goalie Jordan Binnington stole Team Canada a win in overtime, Dreger speculated — and it’s important to note that Dreger himself made clear this was speculation — […]

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8 d. ago Team Canada's win was not just a win, in a game which was not just a game: 9 Things

It wasn’t just a game. Whether it is a giddy nationalism after a huge win on a world stage, or a game well worth grumbling over on a grey February afternoon, hockey is a big part of who we are as Canadians And do not think for a minute that the key Canadian players on […]

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9 d. ago Hockey fans online: ‘I hope Premier Trump of the 11th province was watching that’ game

'You can't take our country — and you can't take our game,' said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a post on X, after Team Canada's win

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1 week ago Trudeau has words for Trump after Canada's 4 Nations championship win over U.S.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ready following Team Canada's OT win over the United States.Following Connor McDavid's electrifying golden goal to secure Canada the 4 Nations championship, Trudeau took to social media with a subtle jab at U.S. President Donald Trump."You can't take our country — and you can't take our game," Trudeau wrote.You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 21, 2025This comes after a relentless series of statements made by Trump referring to Canada as the 51st American state. This strange statement was first made by the 78-year-old president back in December and was initially played off by many as a joke. As he continued to say it, however, it started rubbing some Canadians the wrong way.Notably, he has referred to Trudeau as the "governor" of Canada rather than the prime minister. Trump repeated the statement Thursday in a post...

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1 week ago Sport Notes: Western University men's hockey; London Lightning; Szeryk sisters

A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene The Western men’s hockey team is one win away from its first Ontario university playoff series win in five years. Zach Power scored a decisive third-period tally and goaltender Matteo Drobac turned aside 27 shots in a tight 2-1 victory over the […]

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1 week ago 4 Nations Takeaways: Team Canada finishes off Finland to set up rematch in final with USA

Get ready Canada there will be a cross-border rematch on American soil. Team Canada booked its ticket to the 4 Nations Face-Off final on Thursday against the arch-rival United States with a must-win 5-3 victory over Team Finland at the TD Garden in Boston on Monday afternoon. With their backs to the wall, the Canadians […]

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