The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) is one of the largest and publicly attended movie festivals. It attracts over 480,000 people annually. It was founded in 1976.
In 2007, the "Time" magazine noted that TIFF had "grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period.
The festival's People's Choice Award has been an indicator of success in the awards season. Past movies include Academy Award winners, such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "The King's Speech", "La La Land", "12 Years a Slave" and "Silver Linings Playbook".
Movies such as "American Beauty", "Ray" and "Black Swan" have premiered at the TIFF.
Fred Hubbell
Fred Hubbell (born April 25, 1951) is an American politician and businessman. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in the 2018 Governors' election.
Before running for office, Hubbell was the chairman of the Younkers department stores in the 1980s. He was also President of Equitable of Iowa.
On July 17, 2017, Hubbell declared his candidacy for the Governor of Iowa. On November 14, 2017, the Iowa Starting Line released a poll showing Fred Hubbell leading the Democratic primary.
Hubbell got 55% of the vote in the Democratic primary to become the party's nominee for Governor of Iowa. However, he lost the general election to Kim Reynolds.
Fred Hubbell was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho
The Late May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho was a weather event in the United States from May 30-31, 1998. It affected the northern half of the country and southern Ontario, from Montana to the Mid-Atlantic states.
The first reports of severe weather were from Montana around 12:30 p.m. MDT. The tornado struck Spencer, South Dakota around 8:37 p.m. CDT. The Spencer tornado was an F4. Six people were killed in this tornado.
The same storm that produced the Spencer, South Dakota tornado turned into a derecho affecting Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and New York. The derecho killed another 6 people.
On May 31, tornadoes broke out across Pennyslvania and New York, this being the most destructive to sweep across the two states since the 1985 United States-Canada tornado outbreak.
Carmen Campagne
Carmen Campagne (September 8, 1959 – July 4, 2018) was a Canadian singer and children's entertainer. She, along with Connie Kaldor, received a Juno Award at the 1989 in the category Best Children's Album for "Lullaby Berceuse". She was born in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan.
In 2013, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions as a singer, songwriter and composer enhancing music for young children and using music in French-language education".
Campagne died of pancreatic cancer at age 58 on July 4, 2018, in Willow Bunch.
Ernst W. Hamburger
Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger (8 June 1933 — 4 July 2018) was a German-born Brazilian physicist. Hamburger was known for his activities regarding public understanding of science. He was the director of Estação Ciência, an interactive science museum in São Paulo. He won the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, the José Reis Award for the Divulgation of Science, the medal of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, and was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Hamburger was born in Berlin and died on 4 July 2018, in São Paulo, of lymphoma at the age of 85.
Adamu Ciroma
Adamu Ciroma (20 November 1934 – 5 July 2018) was a Nigerian politician.
Ciroma served as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He was born in Potiskum, Yobe State. He was a member of the People's Democratic Party.
Ciroma was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He served as Minister of Finance in the government of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2003. His wife Maryam Ciroma holds the position of PDP National Women leader in Nigeria.
Neil McDermott
Neil McDermott (born 15 December 1980) is a English stage and television actor. He is best known for portraying Ryan Malloy in the BBC television soap opera, "EastEnders".
McDermott appeared in the 2008 "Doctor Who" episode "The Next Doctor", as well as "Casualty" and "Rosemary and Thyme", amongst others, the feature movies "Goal!" and "Blooded", and various stage productions including "The Sound of Music" in the West End. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Charles B. Reed
Charles Bass Reed (September 29, 1941 – December 6, 2016) was an American educator. He served as Chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1985 to 1998 and chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system from 1998 to 2012.
Reed died on December 6, 2016 at his home in Tallahassee, Florida at age 75.
New Glarus, Wisconsin
New Glarus is a village in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. It had a population of 2,172 according to the 2010 census. Since 2000, it had a population growth of 2.9 percent.
New Glarus is at the intersection of Wisconsin Highways 69 and 39.
The village, and the town that surrounds it, were named after the canton of Glarus in eastern Switzerland. The community was founded in 1845 by immigrants from that canton and was incorporated in 1901.
Farrah Abraham
Farrah Lynn Abraham (born May 31, 1991) is an American reality television personality and pornography actress. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Austin, Texas.
Abraham is known for starring in "16 and Pregnant" in 2009, which documented the pregnancies and first months of motherhood for several young women. Later that year she was cast in the spin-off series "Teen Mom", and appeared in each of its four seasons until its conclusion in 2012.
In 2012, she wrote her first memoir "My Teenage Dream Ended". The book made it onto "The New York Times" Best Seller List.
Abraham began starring in sex tapes and pornography videos since 2014.
Caitlin McHugh
Caitlin McHugh (born May 13, 1986) is an American actress, writer and model. She is known for her roles in "I Am Legend" and in the TV series "The Vampire Diaries".
McHugh is signed with Wilhelmina Models. In 2016, she appeared in television commercials for Colgate toothpaste.
On October 23, 2017, McHugh announced her engagement to actor John Stamos after a year of dating. Stamos and McHugh married in February 2018.
Rudolf Kirchschläger
Rudolf Kirchschläger (; 20 March 1915 – 30 March 2000) was an Austrian diplomat, politician and judge. From 1974 to 1986 he was the 8th President of Austria.
Kirchschläger died on 30 March 2000 near Vienna, aged 85.
Bulle
Bulle (, ) is a municipality of the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In January 2006 Bulle incorporated the formerly independent municipality of La Tour-de-Trême.
Mehrsa Baradaran
Mehrsa Baradaran (born April 3, 1978) is an Iranian-American law professor. She was born in Orumieh, Iran. She works in banking law at the University of Georgia. Her book "How the Other Half Banks" has received national and international media coverage.
In 2017, Baradaran publicly criticized President Donald Trump and his executive order that allowed an immigration ban.
Novato, California
Novato ( ) is a city in northern Marin County, in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 51,904.
Novato is about northwest of San Rafael and about north of San Francisco on U.S. 101.
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city of Marin County in the state of California, United States.
It is about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. The population was 13,903 at the 2010 census.
Actress and comedian Eve Arden was born there in 1908.
EA Canada
EA Vancouver (formerly known as EA Canada and also known as EA Burnaby) is a video game developer in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Shoko Asahara