Briefly

A tribute to Burton Cummings will close the Juno Awards. Cummings himself will take part in the performances along with Jann Arden, Shawn Hook, the Tenors and the Carpet Frogs, his longtime backing band. Cummings, a seventime Juno winner, is being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a solo act on Friday. The awards air Sunday on CTV at 7 p.m.

James Noble, a Broadway actor who appeared on soap operas and films such as 10 and Being There, has died after suffering a stroke. He was 94. He was perhaps best known for playing the absent-minded governor to Robert Guillaume’s butler in the 1980s sitcom Benson.

A Los Angeles police captain has sued Elton John, claiming he was repeatedly groped by the singer while working off-duty on John’s security detail. The lawsuit by Capt. Jeffrey Wenninger alleges the groping and sexually suggestive comments occurred in early 2014. A lawyer for John’s Rocket Entertainment Group called the lawsuit baseless.

Books about climate change, Canada’s relations with First Nations, and Lester Pearson are on the short list for this year’s $10,000 John W. Dafoe Book Prize. They include After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians by Gordon Laxer; From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians by Greg Poelzer and Ken S. Coates; The Diplomat: Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis by Antony Anderson; O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition by Norman Hillmer; and Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canadians Need to Know About China in the 21st Century by David Mulroney. Star staff, wire services