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TORONTO STAR Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:32 AM
    
One man was punched while a woman had her headphones stolen Thursday night, police allege.

CTV News - Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:06 AM
     Toronto police have arrested a suspect in connection with two "random attacks" on the subway earlier this week.

CTV News - Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:35 PM
     Some businesses in Little Portugal lost more than 40 per cent in revenue during a three-week closure of a portion of Dundas Street West for sinkhole repairs, the neighbourhood's Business Improvement Area (BIA) chair says.

CTV News - Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:05 PM
     A man has been injured in a stabbing in Brampton, and Peel police are looking for at least three suspects.

CTV News - Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:09 AM
     Friends, family, and supporters of the 30-year-old man who died in custody in an Ontario jail six years ago are holding a rally in downtown Toronto Saturday night to mark the anniversary of his death.

CTV News - Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:25 PM
     Peel Regional Police (PRP) is warning residents of a recurring scam where individuals allegedly pose as food delivery drivers to access your bank account.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:49 PM
     DETROIT (AP) — Drake Batherson had two goals, Claude Giroux snapped a third-period tie and the Ottawa Senators beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-3 on Saturday for their fourth consecutive victory.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:44 PM
     Peel Regional Police said they were called to the area of Avondale Boulevard and Aloma Crescent for reports of a stabbing at around 2:23 p.m.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:39 PM
     The scammers are allegedly using vehicles carrying a "common pizza chain logo" to conceal their trick, Const. Heather Cannon said in a video.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:07 PM
     Elsewhere on Friday night, West Kelowna downed Vernon 5-1 while Salmon Arm fell 5-1 in Cranbrook.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:01 PM
     Abbotsford police officers responded to a call of a vehicle collision around 8 p.m. Friday involving a pedestrian at Bevan Avenue and Gladwin Road.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:55 PM
     Ontario's police watchdog has discontinued its investigation involving London, Ont., police officers and a 33-year-old man in distress.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:29 PM
     Christian Saulsberry, 25, played eight games with the Edmonton Elks during the 2022 season.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:21 PM
     A team of students from a London elementary school has won the Lunar Rover Research Challenge. Team Selene at Lambeth Public School was one of four winners.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:15 PM
     The $26.4 million repair project began in June of 2021 and is expected to work through 2026, with phase two ongoing.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:57 PM
     The fire is considered suspicious in nature and fire investigation crews are looking into the origin.

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:56 PM
     Along the Idaho-Washington border, fear permeates every breath. It is a terror without answers. On Nov. 13, four University of Idaho students were massacred in their beds in tiny Moscow sending shockwaves around the world. One month later, stumbling cops appear no closer to identifying a suspect and making an arrest. The only new movement […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:51 PM
     Hockey Canada has a new board of directors. Now the real work begins. The national sport organization's members elected a slate of candidates to fill nine vacant board seats with a vote Saturday at its annual winter meeting. Hockey Canada's previous board quit in October — the same day embattled president and CEO Scott Smith […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:25 PM
     In one of his final statements before retiring, the city's outgoing police chief says assertions made by the Duchess of Sussex that his officers did little to protect her are royally exaggerated. In fact, Toronto Police Chief James Ramer said claims made by Meghan Markle in a recently-released docuseries are inaccurate. "I was deputy chief […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:19 PM
     ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in the supply room of an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she's alarmed by the space shortages in the province's health system. Karen Totten snapped some images of her mother Irene MacNeill of Barnesville, N.B., lying in the supply room […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:08 PM
     Rihanna has made her debut on TikTok by sharing a behind-the-scenes video of her baby boy. The 34-year-old singer and A$AP Rocky welcomed their son – whose name has not yet been revealed – in May, and she's now shared a video of him on the social media platform. In the video, Rihanna's baby boy […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:01 PM
     Sharon Osbourne has reportedly been rushed to hospital after suffering a medical emergency on the set of a TV show. The 70-year-old star fell ill on the set of the unnamed show at the Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, California, on Friday night, and she was subsequently transported to Santa Paula Hospital. The emergency […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:34 PM
     WASHINGTON – Eight-year-old Auston Matthews saw perhaps Alex Ovechkin's greatest goal live and isn't at all upset he might view the milestone 801st in person as well. "Give him his props, we're witnessing some pretty incredible history," Matthews said Saturday morning before his Maple Leafs took on Ovie and the Capitals. "A lot of things […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:33 PM
     Women and voters in Ontario are shifting in interesting ways that could help the Conservatives if trends continue

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:23 PM
     CAIRO — Iranian authorities arrested one of the country's most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said Saturday. The report by IRNA said Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie "The Salesman," was detained a week after she made a post on Instagram expressing solidarity […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:03 PM
     Margot Robbie feared filmmakers wouldn't get away with an orgy scene in her new film Babylon. The Wolf of Wall Street actress, 32, who plays self-destructive silent film star Nellie LaRoy in the film, said she started to wonder if certain images could be shown on screen – and whether she could carry off her […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:47 PM
     TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians on Saturday voted to elect a new parliament, to the backdrop of a soaring cost-of-living crisis and concerns of democracy backsliding in the North African country — the cradle of Arab Spring protests a decade ago. Opposition parties — including the Salvation Front coalition that the popular Ennahda party is […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:46 PM
     ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she's alarmed by the shortages of space and staff in the province's health facilities. Karen Totten photographed her mother Irene MacNeill of Barnesville, N.B., lying in a supply room […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:43 PM
     BEIRUT (AP) — Morocco's fans in the Arab world took the North African team's 2-1 loss to Croatia in Saturday's World Cup third-place playoff philosophically. The team had already made history, becoming the first Arab and first African team to reach the semifinals in the international soccer tournament. Its loss to France on Wednesday dashed […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:34 PM
     CAIRO (AP) — Around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pick-up trucks arrived at a residential building in a neighborhood of the capital of Tripoli. They stormed the house, bringing out a blindfolded man in his 70s. Their target was former Libyan intelligence agent Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, wanted by the […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:32 PM
     Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues around protecting the world's nature by 2030 and providing tens of billions of dollars to developing countries to fund those efforts. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, is set to wrap up Monday in Montreal and delegates […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:23 PM
     MONTREAL — The federal government, the Northwest Territories and the Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę government are planning to create an Indigenous protected area around Great Bear Lake. The three governments signed agreement today at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal. It is a major development for the First Nation that has fought to have the lake declared […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:13 PM
     BOSTON (AP) — Utility crews raced Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers across New England and New York after a powerful storm dumped 2 feet of snow in some places. More than 160,000 customers in New England were in the dark as of Saturday afternoon and another 20,000 were without power […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:52 PM
     LOS ANGELES (AP) — P-22, the celebrated mountain lion that took up residence in the middle of Los Angeles and became a symbol of urban pressures on wildlife, was euthanized Saturday after dangerous changes in his behavior led to examinations that revealed worsening health and injuries likely caused by a car. Officials with the California […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:46 PM
     WASHINGTON (AP) — In his quest to rise to House speaker, Kevin McCarthy is charging straight into history — potentially becoming the first nominee in 100 years unable to win the job on a first-round floor vote. The increasingly real prospect of a messy fight over the speaker's gavel on Day One of the new […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:46 PM
     CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Saturday set bond at $50,000 for the father of an Illinois man charged with killing seven people at a July 4 parade who is accused of helping his son get a gun license years before the shooting on a suburban Chicago main street. Robert Crimo Jr., 58, looked somber […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:16 PM
     MONTREAL — The draft text of a new agreement to protect nature from destructive human behaviour is still littered with disagreement with less than three days left on the official schedule of the COP15 talks in Montreal. With one million species facing extinction this century and a majority of both land and marine environments already […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:09 PM
     London Knights center Abakar Kazbekov has died, the team and the Ontario Hockey League announced Saturday. He was 18. No other details were provided in the joint statement. Kazbekov, who was from Russia, played in a 5-2 home victory over the Owen Sound Attack on Friday. The Moscow native had been a member of the […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:46 PM
     WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his leading role in World War II's Manhattan Project. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the 1954 decision by the Atomic Energy Commission was made using […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:35 PM
     SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Officials in New Mexico have approved anxiety disorders as a qualifying condition under the state's medical marijuana program. When approving the move last month, the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board cited that up to 25 percent of New Mexico's adult population — roughly 465,000 people — could be experiencing […]

CityNews Toronto Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:32 PM
     CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — The broadcast licenses of six television channels in Moldova have been suspended over accusations of misinformation, inaccurate coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine and "attempts to manipulate public opinion," authorities said. The decision to revoke the licenses of the channels First in Moldova, RTR Moldova, Accent TV, NTV Moldova, TV6 and […]

G-Alt cp24.com Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:21 PM
     Shoplifting has surged to an alarming level across Canada, industry insiders say, with inflation and labour shortages cited as major factors ...

Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:08 PM
     Enviironment Canada has cancelled its snowfall warnings for Ottawa and Gatineau. "Significant snowfall is no longer expected," the agency said at about 2:30 p.m. However, flurries continue to be in the forecast for the next 48 hours. Total official snowfall from Friday's storm to Saturday was 33.2 cm, according to Environment Canada. An estimated six […]

Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:30 PM
     A quick-thinking Ottawa Fire Service rescue team outwitted a panicked deer that had crashed through thick ice on the Ottawa River Saturday morning. The team was called to the Shirley's Bay Park area at about 10 a.m. and attempted to approach the animal from the solid ice side. Their approach caused the animal to panic. […]

Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:27 PM
     There was no way a snowstorm — even the season's first whiteout — was going to keep Santa Claus from his appointed rounds. So there he was Saturday, with about 700 hungry friends in two feedings, celebrating the season at the Agricultural Building at Lansdowne Park. The OSEG Foundation hosts an annual Breakfast with Santa […]

Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:48 AM
     "Our campaign is 'See it. Name it. Change it.' So when you see that kind of violence, you need to be able name it and that's the way we create change in our system."

Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:00 AM
     Ottawa Fire Services were called just before 8 p.m. Friday for hazardous materials concerns at Gamma Dyna Care laboratory on Peter Morand Crescent near Roger Guindon Avenue in the Riverview district. A caller reported five people inside a medical lab could smell a propane-like smell and were experiencing watering eyes. The people were advised to […]

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:46 PM
     The Warriors were outplayed in all facets Friday and fell to 0-3 with a 14-5 setback to Calgary in Vancouver's home opener at Rogers Arena

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:00 PM
     Each Christmas, the MRPM Christmas hamper runs a toy shop and Rudolph's Recycle Gift Shoppe out of the barn used for the area's annual Country Fest.

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:50 AM
     The uncertainty of the lineup against the Jets, the Canucks called up Lane Pederson from AHL Abbotsford

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:35 AM
     Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson uncertain, the Vancouver Canucks have turned to their AHL farm team.

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:00 AM
     The men's World Cup will be coming to North America — and hyper-locally, to Vancouver — in 2026 and there's much work to be done to the development infrastructure in B.C. to improve its representation

The Province Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:00 AM
     The NHL is looking at new iterations of the schedule, in an apparent effort to improve the bottom line.

Ottawa Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:51 PM
     The first of three games in two weeks against the Red Wings went Ottawa's way.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:00 AM
     Judge Sanjeev Anand sentenced him to 14 months in jail and three years on probation after accepting the Crown and defence's joint submission.

Regina Leader-Post Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:18 AM
     Maybe what's needed is politicians as serious about offering workable solutions as they are about making personal, political statements.

Regina Leader-Post Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:10 AM
     Can the Riders please dispense with the unconvincingly happy, conciliatory chatter regarding Cody Fajardo? The niceties are incompatible with the inescapable reality that the CFL team's quarterbacking situation is in disrepair.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:08 PM
     A group of 10 people win $40 million

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:59 PM
     He's got a rare combination of work ethic, toughness and skating ability.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:15 PM
     Major arteries, reserve public transit lanes and bus routes will be given priority, the city says.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:06 AM
     Lightning are on a four-game win streak and are 8-2 in last 10 games, while Canadiens have lost two straight and are 4-5-1 in last 10.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:22 AM
     A half century later, Reid's feel-good radio show about his own family Christmases never gets old with listeners.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:13 AM
     The snow continues to fall today with a further 5 cm expected.

Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:43 AM
     Next week, the days will start getting longer again, and eventually it'll stop feeling like midnight at 4:30 p.m.

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:26 PM
     Calgarians, particularly young men, are being warned to look out for sextortion scams as Alberta's joint police force says hundreds of people in the southern portion of the province have been targeted this year. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams' (ALERT) internet and child exploitation unit issued the warning this week saying they have been […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:00 AM
     During the currently high oil and gas prices, it's easy to ignore Alberta's over-dependence on the resource revenue roller-coaster and the green transition underway.   After decades of deficits and mounting debt, Alberta's credit rating was downgraded. Working across party lines, Premier Jason Kenney recruited Janice MacKinnon, a former NDP treasurer who had balanced Saskatchewan's […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:52 AM
     Readers may recall I have often opined if you want an event to be successful, best put the ladies in charge. There is perhaps no better example of 'girl power' than the Children's Hospital Aid Society (CHAS). Formed in 1908, the invaluable organization has raised millions of dollars for myriad organizations that support the health […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:09 AM
     A fresh dusting of Big White's famous champagne powder blankets "Brookie Cookie," the previously unnamed trail we're tracking our instructor Berne down. My 10-year-old daughter Brooklyn is delighted with Berne's new moniker for the route he created, piecing together the gentler sections of a few longer runs. It's our first ski day of Brooklyn's second […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:00 AM
     I first met Josh Dueck, one of the most courageous athletes on the planet, I'd say, 10 years ago in Panorama. He was flying down an absurdly steep and icy downhill race course on his sit-ski. Paralyzed in a horrific 2004 skiing accident (he badly overshot a jump and injured his spinal cord), Dueck won […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:00 AM
     An event guaranteed to get you into the seasonal spirit is the annual Christmas in Alberta celebration held in Gasoline Alley Museum at Heritage Park. That the event raises funds for not only Heritage Park, but Rosebud Theatre and School of the Arts as well adds to the evening's cache. The brainchild of renowned philanthropists […]

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:00 PM
     Nadia Albano offers up three must-have accessories that will make a great addition to your repertoire this season

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:08 PM
     It's likely going to be a winter wonderland on Sunday, with snow in the forecast even for lower elevations of Metro Vancouver.

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:38 PM
     The fire at a house under construction on Argyle Street spread to two neighbouring homes.

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:23 PM
     The pageant plays a key role in identifying talent for Chinese-language show business.

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:14 PM
     The province says in a statement issued Friday that it is renewing its commitment to "temporarily fund the increases."

Vancouver Sun Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:14 PM
     Homicide investigators have arrested Gurkaran Singh, 20, Abhijeet Singh, 22, and Khushveer Toor, 22. The three men lived in the same house in Surrey at the time of the murders.