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  • Frank Hadesbeck is pictured in Regina, Sask. in a circa 1950 handout photo. Hadesbeck's lengthy tenure as a paid informant for the Mounties' security branch is chronicled in the new book "A Communist for the RCMP" by Dennis Gruending. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Phyllis Pederson via Between the Lines

    Raised in Sask. after his family fled Hungary, this man spent decades spying on communists for the RCMP

    As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books.

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  • The sun was shining but it was cold on the St. Lawrence River when Carlos Hebert Plante took to the water on his boogie board. (Bernard Brault / The Canadian Press)

    Ho! Ho! HOLY that's cold! Montreal boogie boarder in Santa suit hits St. Lawrence waters

    Gerry McAdam, 16, has decided to use his Make-A-Wish Foundation gift to help his local fire station. (CTV News)

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    Vancouver friends Wai Hing Yuen and Tang Mei Deng will be splitting $1 million for Christmas after a December Lotto 6/49 draw win. (Courtesy: BCLC)

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    The definition in Canada of a white Christmas is whether a location has two centimetres of snow on the ground on Dec. 25 -- regardless of when the snow fell.

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    Kristan Tuffin shows her long-lost puppy some love, Dec. 21, 2024. (Hannah Schmidt/CTV News)

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  • Canada forward Gavin McKenna celebrates his first goal during first period IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship tournament action against Finland, Dec. 26, 2024, in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

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