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• Significant snowfall expected Friday

  25-12-2025 14:23 via sudbury.com
  
  Environment Canada says heavy snow will likely make travel challenging
  
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• 'Reflecting on our many blessings': Premier Ford shares Christmas message

  25-12-2025 17:45 via sudbury.com
  
  Doug Ford thanks the essential workers who will be working through the holiday
  
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• Sudbury soldier celebrating Christmas far from home

  25-12-2025 17:22 via thesudburystar.com
  Scott Barbe is one of 2,000 Canadian Armed Forces members who are spending Christmas far from friends and family.  “It is a mixed bag,” Sgt. Barbe said in an interview with The Star from Latvia, about his family’s reaction to his overseas deployment. A member of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Regiment of Canada based in Sudbury, Barbe is serving with a larger NATO effort in Latvia, intended to deter Russian aggression.  “We all have the understanding of why I serve. I
  
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• Toronto police probing Christmas Eve storefront collision that left one dead

  25-12-2025 17:20 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — Toronto police have released more information about a Christmas Eve crash into a storefront that's left one dead and others injured.Police say officers responded to the collision just before 2:30 p.m.
  
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• BEYOND LOCAL: Red fox released after being hit by car

  25-12-2025 15:25 via sudbury.com
  
  'I can't bear to see something suffer': Sault Ste. Marie falconer Aleigha McLean helped nurse an injured fox back to health
  
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• STANSFIELD, Mark Stephen

  25-12-2025 13:14 via sudbury.com
  
  Mark Stephen Stansfield, 73 (born August 27th, 1952), passed away peacefully at home on December 15, 2025, in Mattawa, Ontario. Mark was a loyal and loving soul, strong in spirit and musical at heart.
  
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• Group of U.S. distillers complains N.S. and other provinces favouring local alcohol

  25-12-2025 12:20 via sudbury.com
  
  HALIFAX — A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls "discriminatory" markups in Nova Scotia and other provinces.
  
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• Christmas cold for the West, freezing rain in Ontario and winter storms in the East

  25-12-2025 10:20 via sudbury.com
  
  Relentless cold and snow are in the forecast for many areas of Western Canada for Christmas, while northern Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador will see blizzard conditions until Boxing Day.
  
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• 'Act one is over,' says MP who defeated Poilievre in last election

  25-12-2025 10:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy has a square glass case in his office that holds a spray-painted pair of sneakers he wore while campaigning for the federal election.He calls it his "Stanley Cup.
  
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• A Powerball player in Arkansas has won a $1.817 billion lottery jackpot

  25-12-2025 07:05 via sudbury.com
  
  APowerball playerin Arkansas won a $1.817 billion jackpot Wednesday amid the Christmas holiday, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner.
  
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• Saudi Arabia calls on Yemen separatists to leave 2 governorates as anti-Houthi coalition strains

  25-12-2025 06:35 via sudbury.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a confrontation within a fragile coalition t
  
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• Canadian Food Inspection Agency recalls vegan bacon product over undeclared wheat

  25-12-2025 01:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for a vegan bacon product sold in Ontario because it contains wheat, which doesn't appear on the list of ingredients.
  
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• One dead, four injured in serious Toronto collision on Christmas Eve

  24-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — One person died and four more were injured in a serious collision in the north end of Toronto on Christmas Eve, police said.
  
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• At least one dead, several injured in serious Toronto collision on Christmas Eve

  24-12-2025 22:50 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — Toronto police say at least one person is dead and several more are injured after a serious collision in the north end on Christmas Eve.
  
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• Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura declared winner of Honduras' presidential vote

  24-12-2025 22:35 via sudbury.com
  
  TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, the country’s electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central Ame
  
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• Buy a ticket for a local lottery and support a cause close to home

  24-12-2025 21:05 via thesudburystar.com
  It is the season of giving and generosity, and for thousands of Sudburians this year, it is also a time for testing your luck with a purchase of a charitable lottery ticket. Health Sciences North Foundation; the Sudbury branch of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association; Maison McCulloch Hospice; and Sudbury Wolves Sports and Entertainment Play It Forward want to remind Sudburians that when you support local charitable lotteries, you are also supporting causes that live in your community. &ldquo
  
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• Man, 20, dead after shooting near University of Toronto campus: police

  24-12-2025 20:50 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — Toronto police have identified the victim in a fatal shooting near a university campus on Tuesday afternoon as officers continue to investigate the incident.
  
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• Eritrean man accused of people-smuggling is extradited to the Netherlands

  24-12-2025 20:35 via sudbury.com
  AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Eritrean man alleged to be a people-smuggling kingpin was extradited Wednesday to the Netherlands by the United Arab Emirates, paving the way for trial in a Dutch court.
  
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• DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish release of Epstein files despite Dec. 19 deadline

  24-12-2025 20:35 via sudbury.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress. The department said the U.S.
  
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• After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing Epstein files

  24-12-2025 20:35 via sudbury.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress. The department said the U.S.
  
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• Vancouver Island MP Aaron Gunn won't run for leadership of B.C. Conservatives

  24-12-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  VICTORIA — Vancouver Island MP Aaron Gunn says he won't run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C. because he doesn't want to risk giving the federal Liberals a majority government.
  
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• Man arrested, second suspect wanted in Oshawa, Ont., fatal stabbing

  24-12-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  OSHAWA — Police say one man is facing a murder charge and a search is underway for a second suspect wanted in a fatal stabbing in Oshawa, Ont.
  
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• 5 people hospitalized in E. coli outbreak linked to Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops

  24-12-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting a fifth hospitalization in an E. coli outbreak linked to recalled Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops.
  
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• Informants exposed Sudbury fentanyl dealer to city, provincial police 

  24-12-2025 19:00 via thesudburystar.com
  When he came to Sudbury to work in the home renovation field about a decade ago, Puneet Paul was looking to get away from a bad situation in Brampton.
    However, things went south quickly for Paul, who had been introduced to Percocets for pain relief after breaking a hand in a fight with his father. 
    While he beat an addiction to drugs like oxycodone and doda – an opium poppy derivative – Paul had a relapse and began using fentanyl.
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• Rainbow District School Board 2024-25 annual report now available online

  24-12-2025 18:47 via thesudburystar.com
  Rainbow District School Board’s annual report for the 2024-2025 school year is now available online at www.rainbowschools.ca. To view the report, visit www.rainbowschools.ca/about-us/annual-report-2024-2025. The annual report provides a snapshot of how the board’s strategic priorities are being implemented in Rainbow schools. Guided by its vision, mission and values, the board said it is making great strides in mental health and well-being, literacy and numeracy, student success and
  
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• Quebec school cellphone ban has had positive impact, students and administrators say

  24-12-2025 18:20 via sudbury.com
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec's expanded school cellphone ban is getting top marks from some students and administrators who say the measure has improved students' concentration and social interactions.Longueuil, Que.
  
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• Prime Minister Mark Carney's holiday message to Canadians

  24-12-2025 18:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says the holiday season is a time to slow down and reflect and to reconnect with loved ones.
  In a recorded message to Canadians, he says the holidays remind people of all traditions that light follows darkness.
  
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• ST. GEORGES, Marguerite

  24-12-2025 18:13 via sudbury.com
  
  It is with great sadness the family of Marguerite St. Georges announces her passing Monday, December 22, 2025, at Health Sciences North
  
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• Explosion in Moscow kills 3 people. Official says Ukrainian intelligence was behind it

  24-12-2025 18:05 via sudbury.com
  
  An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after acar bomb killed a high-ranking generalnot far away.
  
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• Taste of Sudbury festival on Jan. 15 to support Inner City Home

  24-12-2025 18:03 via thesudburystar.com
  The fourth annual Taste of Sudbury Food and Drink Festival, “a feast of local delights all in support of Inner City Home,” will be held in the Caruso Club’s upper hall on Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. Tickets for the event, organized by the Greater Sudbury Hospitality Association and Jana Hospitality Consulting, cost $85 and give festival-goers an opportunity to sample a variety of local food and drink while enjoying live music, swag bags, mingling a DJ and more. A signature fundraiser fo
  
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