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New COVID-19 model predicts more than one million deaths in China through 2023
A woman gets swabbed for COVID test at a booth in Shanghai on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. China's Cabinet ordered rural areas Friday to prepare for the return of migrant workers this holiday season in hopes of preventing a major surge in COVID-19 cases in communities with limited medical resources. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun)
Two peacekeepers killed, four wounded in Mali attack, UN says
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Jan. 6 defendant, second man charged with conspiring to kill FBI agents
FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Newly unsealed court documents show that a Tennessee man arrested for illegally entering the U.S. Capitol as part of a mob of supporters of Trump, also allegedly conspired with another person to kill dozens of federal agents involved in the investigation. Both men made their appearance in court on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Nobel laureate economist faces sex harassment investigation
FILE - Philip H. Dybvig poses for a photographer at a hotel in Boston after winning the 2022 Nobel Prize for Economics on Oct. 10, 2022. Washington University in St. Louis is investigating Dybvig over sexual harassment allegations that his attorney dismisses as “professional rivalry." (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)
Longtime QMJHL commissioner Gilles Courteau announces retirement
Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon
Heavy snow blankets houses in Kitimat, B.C., on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Environment Canada says Yukon and parts of Northern British Columbia should be prepared for unseasonably cold temperature from now through next week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Robin Rowland
U.S. court rejects maintaining COVID-19 asylum restrictions as limits set to expire
FILE - Migrants wait to cross the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, next to U.S. Border Patrol vehicles in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)
TSA raising fines after finding record guns in carry-ons
FILE - A sign warns travelers not to bring guns through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla, on April 23, 2022. The TSA said Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, it is raising the fine for people caught with a gun in their carry-on bag to a maximum fine to $14,950 after intercepting a record number of firearms at security checkpoints this year. Previously it was $13,910..(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
Peru ministers resign after protest deaths as new government wobbles
Teachers from the Loreto region run while waving the flag of Peru in the national march against the government of Dina Baluarte and the Peruvian congress in Iquitos, Peru on Dec. 15, 2022. Patrick Murayari/TGAM
Priest charged in alleged historical sex assault on boy in Toronto area
Peel Regional Police work the scene around a home in Brampton, Ont. on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. A retired priest has been charged in an alleged historical sexual assault that investigators say occurred in the Toronto area four decades ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Canada works to rescue COP15 biodiversity conference on two fronts
Delegates take souvenir photos during a snowfall outside the convention centre at the COP15 UN conference on biodiversity in Montreal, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Yes and no: Premier David Eby’s climate leadership is a muddle
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during an announcement about the construction of new modular housing projects to house the homeless, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
With Twitter in turmoil since Elon Musk’s takeover, questions mount over his vision
FILE - Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. According to a filing posted late Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock during the week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. Musk has sold nearly $23 billion worth of Tesla stock since April, with much of the money likely going to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear
A man holds a lit cigarette while smoking in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Retail organizations, merchants and tobacco industry officials estimate between 30 and 50 per cent of tobacco sales in B.C. are contraband products, and they are calling on governments and police to crack down on the organized crime groups that sell them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jeff Chiu
New poll finds Canadians not using all their vacation time, working extra hours before holidays
A pedestrian wearing a mask walks under Christmas decorations in an empty downtown Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, after new provincial restrictions were announced amid a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
No ‘rubber stamp’ for online news bill, says Senate
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez responds to a question during question period, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, in Ottawa. Rodriguez accused Facebook on Thursday of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its platform, following the adoption of Bill C-18 in the House of Commons. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Jan. 6 panel’s likely recommendation of criminal charges for Trump would smash another precedent
David Shribman
B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods
A collapsed section of a bridge sits in the water after severe flooding and landslides on the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt, B.C., as seen in an aerial view from a Canadian Forces reconnaissance flight on Monday, November 22, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Manitoba to help with feasibility study to possibly search landfill for slain women
Chief Kyra Wilson of the Long Plain First Nation speaks during a press conference at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. First Nations leaders in Manitoba are calling for the resignation of Winnipeg's police chief after the force decided to not search a landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women. Police chief Danny Smyth said this week that it's believed the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are in a landfill outside the city, but too much time has passed and too much garbage has been disposed of to make the search feasible. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
A stock market gift guide: Picks for the dividend lovers, growth fans and thrill seekers on your shopping list
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Jan. 6 panel eyes recommending three criminal charges for Trump
FILE - Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 13, 2022. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is left. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
TC Energy’s Keystone rupture is bad news. Here’s why investors aren’t concerned
A remediation company deploys a boom on the surface of an oil spill after the Keystone pipeline ruptured at Mill Creek in Washington County, Kansas, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Vacuum trucks, booms and an emergency dam were constructed on the creek to intercept the spill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kyle Bauer/KCLY/KFRM Radio via AP
Federal review of access-to-information law delivers no recommendations
Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick prepares to appear before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding the SNC Lavalin affair, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Jody Wilson-Raybould secretly recorded a conversation with Wernick in which she claims the country's top public servant issued veiled threats that she'd lose her job as justice minister if she didn't intervene to stop the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Cryptocurrency has always bounced back, so don’t write its obituary yet
FILE PHOTO: Representations of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum and DogeCoin are placed on PC motherboard in this illustration taken, June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
We’ll never get back to low inflation, and we shouldn’t even try
John Rapley
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
For Stars and Dogs column in Globe Investor/ROB only.
Wrapping up a mixed year for my dividend portfolio
For Investor Clinic column in Globe Investor/ROB only.
This World Cup has us spellbound with the beauty and elegance of the game
John Doyle
Why the world should be watching Germany as it re-engineers its industrial future
Detail at the Siemens electrolyzers for hydrogen production.
What they won’t tell you about GICs
Ian McGugan
Vital and prolific composer John Beckwith was an authority on Canadian music
Composer John Beckwith. Photo by André Leduc
A winter dip raises $167,000 for mental-health programs
Brainfreeze event in Toronto on December 3, 2022.For Pitching in People of all ages ran into Lake Ontario at Woodbine Beach in Toronto on December 3rd, 2022 to raise funds for non-profit Jack.org at the annual Brainfreeze polar plunge fundraiser. Handout
Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican
One of the three fragments of Parthenon Sculptures housed by the Vatican Museum that Pope Francis decided to return to Athens, is displayed in this undated photo provided by Vatican Museum. Vatican Museum/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
Montreal public health says two children have died from strep A infections
The Montreal skyline as seen from Mount Royal on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
The best part about EV ownership? For me, it’s fun with efficiency
Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services
Bricks of seized opium that were concealed in shipping pallets are displayed at a Canada Border Services Agency facility, in Tsawwassen, B.C., Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. The CBSA says the nearly 2,500 kilograms of opium found within 247 shipping pallets inside marine containers is the largest seizure of opium to date for the agency. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Why take on stock market risk if you can reach your goals with low-risk GICs and bonds?
Rob Carrick
‘If all else fails, we will blockade’: Chiefs call for Saskatchewan First Act to be scrapped
Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron speaks during a Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations event at James Smith Cree Nation, Sask. on Sept. 8, 2022. Chiefs in Saskatchewan sent a message to the provincial government to scrap a controversial bill or the new year could start with blockades. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
Why this money manager bought stock in a scratch ticket business
Illustration of Colin Stewart for The Mover. Dec. 17, 2022. Illustration by Joel Kimmel
U.S. bank stocks falter as recession worries take hold
A sign for a Bank of America office is pictured in Burbank, California August 19, 2011. Bank of America Corp plans to cut 3,500 jobs in the next few weeks as CEO Brian Moynihan tries to come to grips with the bank's $1 trillion pile of problem home mortgages. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Hospitals prepare for the holidays with surge clinics and second ICUs
A healthcare worker dons a protective gown before treating a patient n the Emergency Department at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Ontario judge grants permanent injunction in dispute over proposed development
An Indigenous Mohawk called by the name Wack camps out at a construction site at the centre of an Indigenous land dispute in Caledonia, Ont., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. An Ontario judge has granted a permanent injunction to a home developer barring Indigenous demonstrators who have been occupying the property for more than two years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Evening Update: Russian mass air attack kills civilians, cuts power across Ukraine
Cars drive in the Ukrainian city of Odessa during blackout blackout on December 16, 2022 as a fresh barrage of deadly Russian strikes battered Ukraine, cutting water and electricity in major cities and piling pressure on the grid in sub-zero temperatures. (Photo by Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP) (Photo by OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Alberta wraps up fall legislature sitting dominated by controversial sovereignty act
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference, in Edmonton, on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. Alberta’s Opposition NDP says the first sitting under Smith was a short, chaotic mess with the passage of a sovereignty act that dooms the province to confusion over who follows which laws. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Lawmakers quick to unload FTX founder’s contributions
FILE PHOTO: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building after his arrest in Nassau, Bahamas December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Dante Carrer/File Photo
Can Dean and Astrid achieve their spending goal of $120,000 a year?
John and Deb Gray for Financial Facelift in Calgary, Alberta December 15, 2022. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options
FILE - The Twitter application is seen on a digital device Monday, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Twitter on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2022, suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new owner Elon Musk, among them reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Moldova to temporarily ban six TV channels over broadcasts about Ukraine war
An antigovernment demonstration in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, on Nov. 28, 2022. Moldova, starved of natural gas and electricity because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, is confronting street rallies bankrolled by a pro-Russian politician to target its pro-Western government. (Andreea Campeanu/The New York Times)
Bad Hats Theatre’s reimagining of Alice in Wonderland dares us to lean into childlike curiosity
SPAlice-photobyDahliaKatz-6619 Tess Benger in Alice in Wonderland Bad Hats Theatre with Soulpepper To Jan. 7, 2023
A hard road to adding gentle density to increase Toronto’s housing supply
Gentle density in Toronto. Gentle density in Toronto. Project by Solares Architecture will total four separate units in the main building plus a laneway suite.
UN shelves bid by Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta for representation
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Politics Briefing: Clock ticks to reach new global agreement at COP15 as impasse deepens between developed and developing countries
Delegates attend the opening of the high level segment at the COP15 biodiversity conference, in Montreal, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Pentagon has received ‘several hundreds’ of new UFO reports
FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundreds” of new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life. That's according to the leadership of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Iowa man who joined mom at Capitol riot guilty on 12 counts
FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Two people who live outside Tacoma, Wash., have been charged with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol and engaging in disruptive behavior during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Puyallup residents Holly Christensen and her husband, Scott Christensen, are named in charges unsealed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia last month, The Seattle Times reported. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
People like to talk about politics – until the sports comes on
Cathal Kelly
Ontario auditor general finds Niagara Escarpment protections lacking
Auditor General of Ontario Bonnie Lysyk answers questions during her Annual Report news conference at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Ontario's premier says the province's auditor general should "stay in her lane" after she hired undercover operatives to test money laundering protections at casinos. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
‘I am broken’: Sentencing argument for men convicted of killing Calgary chef
Christophe Herblin is shown in a Calgary Police Service handout photo. A sentencing hearing is underway for two men found guilty of murdering a well-known Calgary chef. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Calgary Police Service, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Canadian union actors say they’ve been locked out of commercial work for months following labour dispute
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists held rallies in front of the Toronto offices of Leo Burnett, Monday July 11, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-ACTRA *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Retirement means a new hobby for this 75-year-old: Olympic-style weightlifting
Retired litigator and competitive weightlifter Laurie Armstrong, 75, works on his clean and jerk using technique plates while at CrossFit Vic City in Victoria, B.C., on Sunday, December 11, 2022. Chad Hipolito/The Globe and Mail
B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry speaks in the press theatre at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. The British Columbia government is extending its COVID-19 wage top-ups for staff at seniors facilities, but the restriction that limited those workers to one work site has been lifted. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Market downturn adds to divorcing couples’ woes
Alyssa Bach, left, an associate with the Toronto-based family law firm of Shulman & Partners LLP.
Ontario and British Columbia headed for a buyer’s market, RBC says
A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, June 12, 2018. A new report says Canada's housing market is still firmly in correction mode, despite having slowed in recent months. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward
U.S. extends tariff exclusions on 352 Chinese import categories for nine months
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 14, 2019 The US (L) and Chinese flags are displayed outside a hotel in Beijing. - American tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports are due to expire in July, but could be extended if enough industries ask for it, US officials said May 3, 2022. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
Court case against ex-CannTrust leaders should prompt OSC ’soul-searching’, experts say
Former CannTrust CEO Peter Aceto, left, leaves the Old City Hall courthouse after being acquitted on all charges in Toronto on Thursday, December 15, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Angelina Jolie leaves role as UN refugee agency envoy
FILE - Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees specialenvoy, address a meeting on U.N. peacekeeping at U.N. headquarters on March 29, 2019. Jolie and the United Nations' refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades. In a joint statement issued Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, the actress and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency's special envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.” (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Vancouver’s real estate outlook isn’t so sunny for sellers
Kerry Gold
Toronto’s housing plan good step but more measures needed on affordability, experts say
Toronto Mayor John Tory speaks during a news conference at a residential housing construction site in Toronto, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Urban planners and experts say Toronto's recently approved housing plan is a good step forward but more efforts are needed to address the city's affordability crisis. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Ottawa mayor, local businesses welcome expected return of federal workers to offices
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe takes part in a new conference, in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Sutcliffe is among those celebrating the return of federal workers to offices.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
EU clears Germany’s plan to take over gas giant Uniper
FILE PHOTO: Logo of Uniper is pictured at the company's headquarters in Duesseldorf, Germany, September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Ukraine to receive $2 billion in loans to help agriculture, fuel import businesses
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the building which was destroyed by a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russian forces launched at least 60 missiles across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, reporting explosions in at least four cities, including Kyiv. At least two people were killed by a strike on a residential building in central Ukraine, where a hunt was on for survivors. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Retail investors turn to ETFs as recession fears knock down meme stocks
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Nov. 28,.
Sports cars have lost touch with reality, but two strange new models offer hope
Matt Bubbers
Canada’s sanctions against Afghanistan do harm, little good
People wait to receive cash at a money distribution organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. With the U.N. warning millions are in near-famine conditions, the WFP has dramatically ramped up direct aid to families. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
‘Money on the table’: Those who don’t file tax returns miss benefits delivered by CRA
A sign outside the Canada Revenue Agency is seen Monday May 10, 2021 in Ottawa. Canadians who don't file their tax returns are sometimes shocked to find out how much money they're owed by the government for years of missed benefits, says the head of a non-profit organization working to build financial literacy among low-income people.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The man in charge of keeping Ukraine from financial collapse
Sergey Marchenko, the Minister of Finances of Ukraine at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine. 15 Dec 2022 Anton Skyba The Globe and Mail
Progress on Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action moving at ‘glacial pace’: Indigenous think tank
Commissioner Justice Murray Sinclair, Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild and Commissioner Marie Wilson (right to left) listen to a speaker as the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation commission is released, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 in Ottawa. Seven years after the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission an Indigenous-led thinktank says that progress is moving at a “glacial pace.”THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
New Brunswick releases report on systemic racism despite criticism from Indigenous leadership
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. New Brunswick's government has proposed a French immersion program for the next academic year with the goal of ensuring all students graduate with at least conversational level of the language. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Catholic nun taught inmates to find freedom through Zen meditation
Sister Elaine MacInnes who taught Zen meditation to prisoners. Photo credit: Ron Csillag
Elon Musk’s Twitter suspension of journalists draws global backlash
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 28, 2022, the Twitter logo outside their headquarters in San Francisco, California. - Twitter suspended December 15, 2022, the accounts of more than a half-dozen journalists who had been writing about the company and its new owner Elon Musk. Some of the journalists had been tweeting about Twitter shutting down an @ElonJet account that tracked flights of the billionaire's private jet and about versions of that account hosted at other social networks. (Photo by Constanza HEVIA / AFP) (Photo by CONSTANZA HEVIA/AFP via Getty Images)
Airbus, Qatar trial to be split as A350 jet dispute rumbles on
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Airbus is picuted at the Airbus facility in Montoir-de-Bretagne near Saint-Nazaire, France, March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Semios founder steps down as CEO after turning Vancouver agtech into global player
SemiosBio CEO and founder Michael Gilbert. Courtesy of SemiosBio
Regulator charges Suncor Energy over 2019 worker injury on Canadian offshore oil site
FILE PHOTO: The Suncor Energy logo is seen at their head office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
Will the COP15 biodiversity conference push business to account for its damage to nature?
People stop and have their picture taken at the COP15 logo during the United the Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on December 16, 2022. - Montreal is expected to have at least 10cm (4 inches) of snow throughout the day. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian couple reunited after nine months despite Russian attacks
A boy with Ukrainian flag stands on the central square of the city of Kherson. 13 Nov 2022 Anton Skyba The Globe and Mail
Brittney Griner prisoner swap AP Sports Story of the Year
FILE PHOTO: U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, is escorted before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia July 27, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/File Photo
Royal aide apologizes to charity boss over race comment
FILE - The Very Reverend John Hall, Dean of Westminster and Susan Hussey, the Queen's Lady-in-Waiting, arrive at Westminster Abbey, London, Sept. 27, 2016. An honorary member of the Buckingham Palace household has resigned Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022 after repeatedly asking a Black woman who runs a charity for survivors of domestic abuse what country she “really came from.’’ The conversation was detailed on Twitter by Ngozi Fulani, chief executive of Sistah Space, an east London refuge that provides specialist support for women of African and Caribbean heritage. (Hannah McKay/PA via AP, file)
Why REITs might be in store for another rough year. Plus, time is running out to lock in a 5% GIC
REIT Real estate investment fund ETF Financial stock market. Business, technology, internet and networking concept. 3d illustration
Varane, Konate among five France players to miss training as illness hits team ahead of World Cup final
AL KHOR, QATAR - DECEMBER 14: Raphael Varane of France during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 semi final match between France and Morocco at Al Bayt Stadium on December 14, 2022 in Al Khor, Qatar. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
How to survive travel through Canada’s airports this holiday
People line up before entering the security zone at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Friday, August 5, 2022. The Federal Court of Appeal says it will uphold all but one of the rules that bolster compensation for air passengers subjected to delayed flights and damaged luggage.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Second act of sabotage suspected after German railway cables cut
FILE PHOTO: People stand on a platform at Berlin Central Station after Deutsche Bahn rail operator and other local transport operators offered a special nine-euro-ticket to be used nationwide for a month, in Berlin, Germany June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse//File Photo
Landslide at Malaysia campground kills 21, leaves 12 missing
People inspect the damage after a landslide in Batang Kali, Selangor on December 16, 2022. - Nearly 20 people, including four children, were killed when a landslide struck a campsite at a Malaysian farm on Friday, officials said, with rescuers scouring the muddy terrain for those still missing. (Photo by Arif Kartono / AFP) (Photo by ARIF KARTONO/AFP via Getty Images)
Defenceman Olen Zellweger looking for more hardware with Canada at world juniors
Olen Zellweger shoots during the Canadian World Junior Hockey Championships selection camp in Moncton, N.B., Friday, December 9, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward
Newly-built home south of Toronto’s Cedarvale Park sells for $2.15-million on first offer
Done Deal, 135 Winnett Ave., Toronto
Downtown Vancouver luxury sub-penthouse condo sells for $8.88-million
Done Deal, 889 Pacific St., No. 3801, Vancouver
Whitby condo sells for just under asking after fall relisting
Done Deal, 712 Rossland Rd., No. 315, Whitby, Ont.
Cannabis company Hexo reports $52.1-million net loss in second quarter, announces share consolidation
A flowering cannabis plant is seen during a tour of the Hexo Corp. facility, Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Masson Angers, Que. Hexo Corp. says its most recent quarter delivered a $52.1 million net loss as the cannabis company purged unprofitable products and streamlined its business. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Prominent Mexican journalist survives shooting attack
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - OCTOBER 30: A Mexico flag flies in the Paddock prior to the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 30, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Goldman to cut thousands of staff as Wall Street layoffs intensify, source says
FILE PHOTO: The Goldman Sachs company logo is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
U.S. Federal Reserve’s John Williams says central bank could raise rates more than it has priced in
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, March 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo
Micrometeoroid strike could be cause of Russian spacecraft leak, official says
This undated handout photo taken by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation shows a Soyuz capsule of the International Space Station (ISS) during its fly. Russian space corporation Roscosmos said that a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station that prompted a pair of Russian cosmonauts to abort a planned spacewalk was likely caused by a micrometeorite. (Sergei Korsakov, Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
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