Hopscotching time on film is never an easy task, but Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa handles it with skill and care in his lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels’ lauded novel about a circumspect writer haunted by his traumatic youth.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint by a Muslim organization against Maclean’s, ruling that the views expressed in one of the magazine’s articles were not “of an extreme nature.”

It should have been a highlight of Anne Hathaway’s increasingly impressive Hollywood career. Her new film, Get Smart, shot to the top of the US box office rankings last weekend.

Taipei - Canadian film The Fight (Le Ring) by director Anais Barbeau-Lavalette won the top prize in the new talent section of the 2008 Taipei Film Festival on Saturday. Barbeau-Lavalette won the Grand Prize of 1 million Taiwan dollars (31,000 US doll…

Arulanantham Suresh Joachim is a Canadian of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry and has broken 33 world records. He does these to benefit underprivileged children of the world.Some of his records include ironing clothes non-stop for 55 hours and 5 minutes. Joachim traveled 225.44 km, up and down escalators at the Westfield Burwood Shopping Centre, Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. Suresh Joachim is …

The Floating World as photo spread: Anna Tsuchiya in “Sakuran,” part of a film festival at the Japan Society.