TORONTO — While t. A.T.u’s early-2000s hit “All The Things She Said” now feels synonymous with “Heated Rivalry,” creator Jacob Tierney says he initially “resisted” including it in the hit Crave series.

“That song is shady,” Tierney said during a panel discussion at Toronto’s Departure Festival on Thursday.

“It is deeply complicated. It’s unpleasant in a lot of ways.”

But the writer-director said the track

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s ongoing work to secure the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials shows how Ottawa is trying to work with a range of countries to advance practical, humanitarian goals.

In an interview ahead of a Monday conference in Brussels, Anand said Ottawa is focused on what it can achieve for Ukrainians, rather than whether Russia is currently committing an act of genocide.

“For me, the important question is, what are we doing here and now, what are we doing

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s incoming prime minister, , arrived Saturday at the Parliament building to be sworn into office, ending ‘s autocratic 16-year rule.

Magyar’s center-right Tisza party defeated Orbán’s nationalist-populist Fidesz in last month, gaining more votes and seats in Parliament than any other party in Hungary’s post-Communist history.

The win, which gave Tisza a two-thirds parliamentary majority, will allow it to roll back many of

OTTAWA —

Nunavik, where Gov. Gen. Mary Simon grew up, is a long way from Ottawa and farther still from Buckingham Palace.

That never stopped her mother Nancy May, a unilingual Inuk, from keeping a photo of Queen Elizabeth on prominent display in their family home, or from filling young Mary Simon’s mind with stories about the Queen’s activities and travels.

In 2021, at the age of 73, Simon’s relationship with the Queen became something more personal when she

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Geopolitical tensions spilled over into the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition, which opens its and contested edition in memory Saturday with no Golden Lions after the in protest of Israel’s and participation and outside their pavilions.

The jury limited its action to countries under investigation by the International Criminal Court for human rights abuses, but some say the should have been included. British artist cited “the politics of hate and war and all that that’s been going on now for too long.”

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is sending new signals about how it intends to minister to LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Pope Leo XIV era, with signs of openness and limitations after Pope Francis ushered in a during his 12-year pontificate.

Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates cheered this week when a Vatican working group released a report featuring the testimony of two gay, married Catholics who spoke openly about their sexuality, faith and how the Catholic Church’s negative teaching on homosexuality had hurt them.

Additionally, during a

HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy activist once hoped U.S. President Donald Trump could help stop the imposition of a controversial national security law. The law not only took effect but was also used to in prison.

Ahead of an by Trump to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, Lai’s son said his family is now hoping that Trump can help secure his father’s release.

Lai, a prominent critic of Beijing, founded a that was shut down during a crackdown following

The Toronto Tempo almost had a fairy-tale ending in their first-ever WNBA regular-season game, but coming up short didn’t ruin the night.

Marina Mabrey, arguably the biggest name on the expansion team’s roster, sank two free throws with 32 seconds left to play to put Toronto ahead of the Washington Mystics by a point and bring the sold-out Coca-Cola Coliseum crowd of 8,210 to its feet as Tempo fans anticipated a win in the franchise’s