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A new scholarship named for the late Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson will see $40,000 awarded in September to one aspiring musician entering a music program at Toronto's York University.

Singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk is to perform with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for the first time as part of the 2010-11 season.

The Hurt Locker emerged on top at the Academy Awards, winning best picture and making history, as Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for direction.

Grammy winner Taylor Swift is set to play at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival in P.E.I. in July.

Long-lost colour and detail of Giotto paintings in a Florentine church have become visible to restorers with the aid of ultraviolet light.

Rapper Lil Wayne has finally been sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to a weapons charge and will be serving that time in New York City jails.

Vancouver restaurant owner Emil Malak is suing director James Cameron and his production company over similarities between the story and characters in Avatar and his own movie idea.

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is urging media and worldwide supporters to keep pressuring the Iranian government for the release of his friend, filmmaker Jafar Panahi.

Placido Domingo's surgeons removed a cancerous polyp on his colon when the renowned singer and music director was in hospital last week.

A Newfoundland and Labrador poet has won a $25,000 prize for his book based on the tumultuous life of NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk.

The Canadian Museum of Civilization has expanded its collection of Inuit prints with acquisition of 554 original, limited-edition works of art created over the last 15 years.

The son of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi is to be in court Monday, seeking justice for his slain mother.

Cadence Weapon began his defence of Douglas Coupland's Generation X as Canada Reads began on Monday.

CBC Radio host Michael Enright joins novelists Claire Messud and Ali Smith on the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury, with the winner to be announced in the fall.

Officials in the Japanese town of Taiji, featured in the dolphin kill documentary The Cove, are protesting the film's Oscar win.

Demetrius Lee Stewart, known as Shawty Redd, is being held in a suburban Atlanta jail on a murder charge.

British writer and actor Stephen Fry says he's cutting off his "connections with the outside world" in order to concentrate on finishing his second volume of his autobiography.

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell says defunct Seattle band reuniting for 2010 concerts.

Actress Cate Blanchett and her writer husband Andrew Upton have extended their terms as co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia to 2013.

Sandra Bullock, who starred in three films in 2009 including The Proposal, has been named the No. 1 box-office star by a poll of cinema owners.