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This week: As the end of the year quickly approaches, everyone is rushing to get their retrospectives in. Time announced their pick for Person of the Year, and it might surprise you (not really). Another contender appears for word of the year.
Also this week, Canadian soccer legend Christine Sinclair played her final international game, racking up one last win for her stats, as fans belted out Celine Dion’s The Power of Love.
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a. Soul and Luca. While no official reason was given as to why the three films were returning to theatres, complications owing to the actors’ and writers’ strikes earlier this year have left Pixar with a nearly seven-month window between Wish and Inside Out 2.
c. Taylor Swift. “While her popularity has grown across the decades, this is the year that Swift, 33, achieved a kind of nuclear fusion: shooting art and commerce together to release an energy of historic force,” Time said about its selection. The other options were finalists.
b. 190. She ended her career as the top scorer in history, male or female, in international soccer.
a. Brief and concise. The magazine announced that it will shut down its operations in the new year because of “declining ad sales revenues, increased production and delivery costs and changes in consumer reading habits.”
c. Math. Results show that Canada’s overall scores declined 35 points between 2003 and 2022, which some educators say is a sign we need to rethink how it’s taught in schools.
b. Kangaroo. Nathan the kangaroo escaped from the Oshawa Zoo and roamed free before being caught on Monday – but not before punching a police officer in the face.
b. Jumping off an electricity pole. Reports say Coco was chased up the pole by a dog, and jumped offjumped off on her own just as a Newfoundland Power lineman was climbing up to get her.
c. Mississauga. Crombie was elected to her third term as mayor in 2022, and said she plans to resign to take the reins of the Ontario Liberals sometime next year.
b. Russia, China. Canada’s Communications Security Establishment warned that Chinese and Russian cyberattacks were expected to increase in the next two years, especially with a federal election on the way.
c. Rizz. “It speaks to how younger generations create spaces – online or in person – where they own and define the language they use,” the publisher said.