PHILADELPHIA (AP) — will become principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra next season, succeeding

Alsop, 67, was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007-08 through 2020-21, the first woman to lead a top-level American orchestra. She agreed to a three-year term with the Philadelphia Orchestra starting with a 2024 tour of China, the organization said Tuesday. She will conduct it for two or three weeks per season.

TORONTO — Canadian bank CEOs say high interest rates are delaying business andconsumer spending decisions and will likely lead to more provisions for bad loans this year, but that borrowers overall should manage well.

RBC chief executive Dave McKay, speaking at the RBC Capital Markets Canadian Bank CEO Conference on Tuesday, said he expects to see credit loss provisions peak this year as parts of the commercial lending side remain strained.

Borrowers on the mortgage side are having to adapt to payment increases of roughly 20 per cent, or $400

HALIFAX — The RCMP have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

When the Mass Casualty Commission last March released its final report into the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, complete with 130 recommendations, the Mounties said they planned to release an “implementation strategy” and “action plan” before the end of 2023.

The national police force also said the RCMP commissioner would provide

NEW YORK (AP) — Short fiction by Yiyun Li, Bennett Sims and Paul Yoon are finalists for the 20th annual Story Prize, given for the year’s outstanding short story collection.

Prize officials announced Tuesday that the nominees are Li’s “Wednesday’s Child,” Sims’ “Other Minds and Other Stories” and Yoon’s “The Hive and the Honey.” The Story Prize was founded in 2004 by editor Larry Dark and philanthropist Julie Lindsey, who pick the

Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy, drama and satire comes “The Book of Clarence,” a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told that arrives in theaters appropriately between Christmas and Easter.

It’s a remarkably idiosyncratic approach by , who for this Biblical-era tale is director, producer, writer and composer for only his second feature. You have to kind of hand it to him: Who else would have the audacity to tackle Jesus in your second outing?

” — with a stunning cast that includes

Finally some good news — you’ve landed a major promotion with a huge pay bump, or you’ve finished many years of education and entered a high-paying profession.

Either way, you have some extracash, and perhaps little else, aside from a student loan.

The act of seeking out advice — or even just starting the conversation with yourself — is worthy of praise, says Brian Himmelman, president and financial planner at Himmelman & Associates Financial Advisors in Halifax.

“It’s just so easy to

GARDINOVCI, Serbia (AP) — Serbian authorities on Tuesday started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have been stranded on a river island for weeks and were facing hunger and cold as temperatures dropped.

The cows, calves and horses got stuck on the Krcedinska Ada island in the middle of the Danube river after water levels rose sharply last month, blocking their way back to the shore.

The Danube is Europe’s biggest river, flowing through a number of countries, including Serbia. Krcedinska Ada island is located about 5

NEW YORK (AP) — She doesn’t even go here, but still joined the cast of the new “Mean Girls” at the musical film’s premiere Monday night in New York.

Lohan, the star of the original 2004 film, reunited with — who wrote both the classic film, the it inspired and this new adaptation — and posed with the new Cady Heron, , on the pink carpet.

“It was an amazing movie to work on when I did it, and I

Irish singer-songwriter died from “natural causes” in July, a coroner said Tuesday.

London’s Metropolitan Police had said the singer’s death was not considered suspicious after she was found unresponsive at a home in southeast London on July 26. O’Connor was 56.

The Southwark Coroner’s Court confirmed that O’Connor died of natural causes, which means circumstances when an illness or condition is not linked to external forces. It did not provide details.

The singer, who began her