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Remy Ma has ended rival Nicki Minaj's seven-year winning streak at the 2017 BET Awards, a show highlighted by '90s R&B and groups popular in that decade, as well as five wins for Beyoncé. Ma, who was released from prison in 2014, won best female hip hop artist Sunday in Los Angeles, an award Minaj has won since 2010. Source

The creator of a wizarding empire which has dazzled the world, J.K. Rowling struggled through hardship to become an unrivalled children's author with a global voice. Rowling once told a beaming crowd of Harvard University graduates how she had initially failed "on an epic scale". Source

TORONTO -- The Ontario government plans to clamp down on ticket scalping with a new law that will prohibit the use of automated ticket-buying "bots." The proposed legislation announced this morning will also cap markups on resold tickets at 50 per cent of their face value. Source

The Ontario government plans to introduce new rules this fall that would crack down on scalping tickets for sports, concert and other events at inflated prices. The new legislation would target resellers who used technological and other means to buy the majority of tickets, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi told reporters outside Toronto's Rogers Centre on Monday morning. Source

He was so cute: Blond hair, blue eyes and a killer smile. He was dressed in a black robe with a fake scar on his forehead and regaling our fifth-grade class with his book report on "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Source

TORONTO — When Howie Mandel played a Boston doctor on the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere” it wasn’t the medical jargon he struggled with — it was his Canadian accent. “I can’t tell you how many times they stopped filming on ‘St. Source

Russell Crowe has hit back at “lies” that he’s dating an actress 31 years his junior . The 53-year-old actor has been linked to 22-year-old Love Child star Sophia Forrest, with Australian publication Women’s Day making the claims in its latest issue. Source

NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick is an acclaimed first novel by Cameroon-born author Imbolo Mbue. Mbue's "Behold the Dreamers" was published last year and won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, an honour previously given to Philip Roth and Ann Patchett, among others. Source

World champion vocal group The Bellas are getting back together, but this time they have to compete against bands that write original songs and "actually have instruments." Beca's quit her job, Amy's busking as an Amy Winehouse impersonator, Flo is working a smoothie stand and Chloe's trying to get into vet school. Source

The 2017 BET Awards had stumbles, from technical problems during a performance to going well over its planned three-and-a-half hour time slot during the live show held Sunday in Los Angeles. But the show's performances and special moments made up for having to stay up late on a Sunday. Source