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EDMONTON — Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting. "This has become a full-time job.

MONTREAL — The uniquely Quebec version of "The Simpsons" — dubbed in Québécois French and featuring local place names, politicians, current events and popular expressions — has come to an abrupt end, leaving fans without their beloved adaptation.

We are almost face-to-face with Labor Day, but there's still a sliver of summer left. And we should not waste these last days telling each other how quickly the season has flown by.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6: Aug. 31: Singer Van Morrison is 80. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 80. Guitarist Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions is 77. Actor Richard Gere is 76.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney .

Thousands of people will paint a town red with tomato pulp Wednesday, flinging the fruit at one another in the 80th anniversary of Spain’s famous “Tomatina” tomato street fight .

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind the scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, has died at 96.

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of “KPop Demon Hunters.