National Lifestyle

TORONTO — Media studies researcher Andrea Benoit is the winner of this year's National Business Book Award. The doctoral candidate at Western University received the $30,000 honour for her look at corporate philanthropy in the cosmetics industry.

NEW YORK — Rappers and R&B singers tend to be the most-nominated acts at the Grammys thanks to producing their own hits and collaborating with others — sometimes from different genres — giving them a chance to qualify for more nominations than a

Meagan Duhamel noticed a small sign by a family room door while staying with her baby daughter in a neonatal intensive care unit last fall.

MONTREAL — Bell Media has made a minority investment in Grande Studios in a partnership they say will increase resources for Quebec's French-language content creation and production. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

NEW YORK — Cardi B has only released one major single this year — the hit “WAP" — but it's enough for Billboard to name her Woman of the Year.

NEW YORK — A rapper who said he was making a tribute to a legendary New York City hip-hop group was recorded shooting a flamethrower from the top of an occupied city bus in an unsanctioned stunt a transit agency spokesman called “absurd, dangerous an

NEW YORK — For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of his youth.

GILLSBURG, Miss. — Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band famous for “Sweet Home Alabama" and “Free Bird,” now has highway signs pointing to the site of the Mississippi plane crash that claimed the lives of some of its members.

LOS ANGELES — Actor Michael B. Jordan has been crowned as 2020's Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.

NEW YORK — Lindsey Catarino is the talk of her neighbourhood . She put up her Christmas tree, lights and all, in mid-September. By Oct. 1, her mantel was decorated.