Amid the glamour and frenzy of Toronto's just-started film festival, arts supporters and members of the filmmaking community took brief turns in the spotlight to protest the federal government's recent cuts to arts and cultural programs.
Beaufort Books, the New York publisher behind O.J. Simpson's controversial book If I Did It, has announced it will publish Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina.
The Calgary International Film Festival will open with a showing of Canadian co-production Blindness and close with the Canadian premiere of Bart Got a Room, the new comedy from Brian Hecker.
The Iraqi government says it's turning the notorious Abu Ghraib prison into a museum chronicling the crimes committed under former leader Saddam Hussein.