MONTREAL – The Toronto Maple Leafs scored seven unanswered goals to overcome a 3-0 first-period deficit and then skated to a 7-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

Bobby McMann, Nicholas Robertson, William Nylander, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Steven Lorentz, Auston Matthews and David Kampf found the back of the net for Toronto (22-18-4).

Kirby Dach, Patrik Laine, and Josh Anderson scored for Montreal (28-16-2).

Montreal dominated the opening period of the game and struck first on a Kirby Dach goal at 5:08. Patrik Laine, on the power play, and Josh Anderson scored just nine seconds apart, giving Montreal a 3-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

Toronto replied in the second period with goals from Bobby McMann and Nicholas Robertson. Nylander scored 24 seconds into the third period on a breakaway and the epic comeback was underway.

Ekman-Larsson, on the power play, scored at 4:31, Matthews scored a short-handed goal at 7:58, Lorentz scored at 14:45, and Kampf added an empty-net, short-handed goal at 18:26.

TAKEAWAYS

Canadiens: Missed opportunities again made Montreal’s life more difficult than it needed to be. Shots ringing off the post, missing open chances, and excellent saves from Toronto netminder Joseph Woll prevented them from putting the game to bed in the second period.

Maple Leafs: When it rains it pours. Despite an abysmal first period, Toronto was able to regroup and complete their comeback in the blink of an eye, scoring five before Montreal had the chance to regroup.

KEY MOMENT

Halfway through the second period, Montreal’s Christian Dvorak’s sent a shot that rang off the right post and promptly turned into a two-on-one rush that allowed McMann to score eight seconds later, sparking the Toronto comeback.

KEY STAT

Toronto’s five goals in the second and third periods were just 18 minutes apart.

UP NEXT

Maple Leafs: Host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday.

Canadiens: Host the New York Rangers on Sunday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2025.

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The experienced hand who can fix the economy. The tough negotiator who can take on a Donald Trump White House. The millennial long-hauler who can rebuild the party.

That’s how candidates competing for Justin Trudeau’s job as Liberal leader are attempting to define themselves to stand out from the pack.

The race heated up on Saturday as Government House leader Karina Gould became the youngest candidate to throw her hat in the ring, saying the party needs a “new generation of leadership.”

She and rival candidate Chrystia Freeland released duelling campaign videos arguing why they’re best placed to lead the party into the next election.

“Canadians have lost faith in our party and we have to earn back their trust,” the 37-year-old Gould said, adding she’s the best person to rebuild the damaged party brand.

Her video came fast on the heels of one that Freeland’s camp released, where the former finance minister bills herself as the best person to lead Canada’s fight against incoming U.S. president Trump, saying she’s taken him on before — and won.

In the video posted to social media, Freeland said she was a “tough negotiator” in talks to overhaul Canada’s most important trade deal, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and that Trump doesn’t like her “very much” because Canada won that battle.

“Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think they can push us around,” she said over images of Trump on stage at a rally with Elon Musk. “Trump thinks we’re for sale — that he can take what isn’t his. We’re not gonna let him.”

When former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney launched his leadership bid in his hometown of Edmonton on Thursday, he said if there’s one thing to remember about him, it’s that he will be “completely focused on getting our economy back on track.”

Carney has significant private and public sector experience, from investment banking to setting monetary policy for Canada and the U.K., and he can lean on that to buff up his economic bona fides during the campaign. He is also seeking to present himself as an outsider who wasn’t part of the Trudeau government.

But as they try to differentiate themselves, the candidates will face a common challenge. Each is close with Trudeau, who remains deeply unpopular with the voting public.

They have also all backed Trudeau’s controversial carbon pricing regime — at least until recently. And the Opposition Conservatives will make sure Canadians know this well, and have already launched ads.

The candidates also share a common enemy: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who is on track to win the next election and form government if the Liberal leadership candidates can’t rejuvenate their ailing party brand.

Freeland claimed Poilievre will “bow down to Trump and sell us out,” while Carney sought to frame him as a dangerous populist who doesn’t understand how the economy works.

Gould, a member of Trudeau’s cabinet, has a track record of going toe to toe with Poilievre. She did not mention him or Trump by name, but said in her video the party needs someone who can “stand up to bullies” and “won’t back down.”

Freeland is planning her full campaign launch on Sunday in Toronto, while Gould is officially launching her bid the same day in Burlington, Ont.

Ottawa MP Chandra Arya and former Montreal MP Frank Baylis have both also indicated they intend to run, as has Cape Breton MP Jaime Battiste.

Potential candidates only have a matter of days left to declare they will vie for the party’s top job before the cutoff deadline on Thursday and pay a $50,000 deposit.

Candidates must quickly raise and then pony up a total of $350,000 to join the race, although the party has come up with an instalment plan to manage covering such a steep entry price tag in a short time frame.

Candidates will have to pay a $50,000 fee by Jan. 30, then face another two $125,000 payment hurdles to clear on Feb. 7 and Feb. 17.

Arya said on social media on Friday that he has the required number of signatures from party members and pay the first deposit required to enter the race, while Carney posted online that he raised more than $125,000 in the first 24 hours after his campaign launch.

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson declined to run on Friday, saying he thinks he could have raised the funds but ultimately opted against a bid of his own.

He joins a host of other cabinet ministers to bow out early, most notably Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who many in the capital saw as potential front runners.

Securing endorsements from Joly and Champagne will be crucial for any candidate seeking to shore up their Quebec bona fides.

Other candidate endorsements from caucus meantime continue to trickle in. Former northern affairs minister Dan Vandal endorsed Freeland, touting her experience dealing with the Canada-U. S. trade file, while Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan said he’s backing Carney.

Sheila Copps, former deputy prime minister under Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government, has notably advocated for Gould in recent talk TV show interviews.

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There is backlash over an artificial intelligence data centre proposed for northern Alberta.

A First Nation says the plans infringe on treaty rights. It is also raising concerns about Premier Danielle Smith’s relationship with a celebrity investor.

Last month, the Municipal District of Greenview partnered with Dragon’s Den star Kevin O’Leary to build an off-grid natural gas-powered data centre in its region.

The centre would be used to hold computing resources to develop and train artificial intelligence models.

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Chief Sheldon Sunshine told Global News that the site impacts resources on their treaty land and that the First Nation was not consulted.

“With something in this nature, this size that they’re talking, have that open conversation with us. That is in our backyard,” Sunshine said.

In a letter written to Smith, obtained by Global News, the chief raises concerns about whether Smith has given permits to O’Leary for gas or water access.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Technology and Innovation said it is committed to meaningful and thorough consultation with First Nations on projects where rights may be impacted.

“The Municipal District of Greenview has expressed interest in creating the Greenview Industrial Gateway industrial zone,” press secretary Jonathan Gauthier said in a statement. “To support them in their planning, Environment and Protected Areas issued a Preliminary Certificate which will allow a Water Act licence to be issued in future, provided various mandatory conditions are met. These conditions include appropriate consultation with First Nations.”

The statement added that no applications have been submitted to Environment and Protected Areas or provincial areas and no Water Act licence has been issued for the project.

O’Leary Ventures did not respond to a request for comment.

Sunshine also raised concerns about Smith travelling with O’Leary in an effort to get funding for this data centre.

A spokesperson for the premier’s office said Smith is proud to support projects they say will create jobs and grow Alberta’s economy.

“The Premier routinely meets with key investors and businesses to make the case that Alberta is one of the best investment destinations in the world. To characterize the Premier’s conversations with Mr. O’Leary as anything more than that would be inaccurate,” press secretary Sam Blackett said.

Matthew Wildcat, an assistant professor and the director of Indigenous governance and partnership at the University of Alberta, said it’s hard to know what’s taking place behind the scenes.

He said that while the province is following the law, he would like to see the Alberta government follow an international standard called “free, prior and informed consent.”

“The big word here is ‘prior,’ right? If one wanted, they can make a big technical argument that nothing has started here and Indigenous people will be brought on board but I think that is betraying the spirit of what Indigenous people have been asking for, which is an open and transparent relationship,” Wildcat said.

Sunshine agrees. He hopes whatever comes out of this data centre doesn’t use up resources his people depend on.

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Frigid temperatures didn’t deter crowds from coming out for Regina’s ninth annual Women’s March.

Regina joined cities across North America in hosting the event, which is aimed at pressing governments to improve women’s human rights in areas ranging from health-care reform to reproductive rights to LGBTQ2 and racial equality.

Despite extreme cold and forecast lows under -30 C, scores of people joined the march, which walked from Regina’s Cathedral neighbourhood to downtown.

“Since 2017, this iteration of the women’s movement as part of the Women’s March has been active. It started in Washington and then in Regina was active (since) 2018,” Women’s March community volunteer Krystal Kolodziejak told Global News.

“We’ve been one of the more active locations that continues to march every year and bring awareness to the issues that are impacting women and gender-diverse people in Regina and Saskatchewan.”

Kolodziejak said organizers decided to host the march in January again following Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president.

“We wanted to be there in solidarity with the marches in the U.S., to be able to show our support given the changes they are going through and knowing that that can impact Canadians as well,” she said.

Organizers had moved the event to March to coincide with International Women’s Day in recent years.

Crowds also turned out for a Women’s March in Saskatoon on Saturday, walking from the WWCA Saskatoon to City Hospital and back.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for specific batches of six brands of eggs due to possible salmonella contamination.

The recall affects Golden Valley, Compliments, Foremost, IGA, No Name and Western Family eggs of varying sizes and in varying package sizes.

The recall only affects eggs from specific lots. You can find the affected lot codes on the CFIA website.

The CFIA warns that food that is contaminated with salmonella may not look or smell spoiled, but is still capable of making people sick. Young children, pregnant women, older people and those with weakened immune systems are at the greatest risk.

Symptoms of salmonella poisoning include fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea.

The food inspection agency is urging anyone with eggs from the affected brands to check their lot numbers to ensure they aren’t included in the recall.

Eggs from the affected batches should be thrown out or returned to the location they were purchased.

Anyone who believes they have become sick from consuming contaminated eggs should call their health-care provider.

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TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors signed centre Orlando Robinson to a 10-day contract Saturday.

The six-foot-10, 235-pound Robinson averaged 2.1 points, 1.6 rebounds and 6.3 minutes in nine games with the Sacramento Kings this season. He was waived Jan. 7.

Robinson has appeared in 76 games (eight starts) with Sacramento and Miami, averaging 3.1 points, 2.9 rebounds and 10.3 minutes. He signed with the Heat as an undrafted free agent following three seasons at Fresno State (2019-22).

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2025.

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Thousands of people from around the United States were rallying in the nation’s capital Saturday for women’s reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration, reprising the original Women’s March days before President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

Eight years after the first historic Women’s March at the start of Trump’s first term, marchers said they were caught off guard by Trump’s victory and are determined now to show that support remains strong for women’s access to abortion, for transgender people, for combating climate change and other issues.

The march is just one of several protests, rallies and vigils focused on abortion, rights, immigration rights and the Israel-Hamas war planned in advance of inauguration Monday. Around the country, over 350 similar marches are taking place in every state.

Jill Parrish of Austin, Texas, said she initially bought a plane ticket to Washington for what she expected to be Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration. She wound up changing the dates to march in protest ahead of Trump’s swearing-in instead, saying the world should know that half of U.S. voters didn’t support Trump.

“Most importantly, I’m here to demonstrate my fear, about the state of our democracy,” Parrish said.

Demonstrators staged in squares around Washington ahead of the march, pounding drums and yelling chants under a slate-gray sky and in a chilly wind. Protesters then marched to the Lincoln Memorial for larger rally and fair, where organizations at the local, state and national level will host information tables.

They held signs with slogans including, “Save America” and “Against abortions? Then don’t have one” and “Hate won’t win.”

There were brief moments of tension between protesters and Trump supporters. The march paused briefly when a man in a red Make America Great Again hat and a green camo backpack walked into a line of demonstrators at the front. Police intervened and separated him from the group peacefully as marchers chanted “We won’t take the bait.”

As the protesters approached the Washington Monument, a small group of men in MAGA hats walking in the opposite direction appeared to draw the attention of a protest leader with a megaphone. The leader veered closer to the group and began chanting “No Trump, no KKK” through the megaphone. The groups were separated by high black fencing and police officers eventually gathered around.

Rick Glatz, of Manchester, New Hampshire, said he came to Washington for the sake of his four granddaughters: ” I’m a grandpa. And that’s why I’m marching.”

Minnesota high school teacher Anna Bergman wore her original pink pussy hat from her time in the 2017 Women’s March, a moment that captured the shock and anger of progressives and moderates at Trump’s first win.

With Trump coming back now, “I just wanted to be surrounded by likeminded people on a day like today,” Bergman said.

Rebranded and reorganized, the rally has a new name — the People’s March — as a means to broaden support, especially during a reflective moment for progressive organizing after Trump’s decisive win in November. The Republican takes the oath of office Monday.

Women outraged over Trump’s 2016 presidential win flocked to Washington in 2017 and organized large rallies in cities throughout the country, building the base of a grassroots movement that became known as the Women’s March. The Washington rally alone attracted over 500,000 marchers, and millions more participated in local marches around the country, marking one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history.

This year, the crowd was far fewer than the expected 50,000 participants, already just one-tenth the size of the first march. The demonstration comes amid a restrained moment of reflection as many progressive voters navigate feelings of exhaustion, disappointment and despair after Harris’ loss.

“Before we do anything about democracy, we have to fight our own despair,” said one of the event’s first speakers, Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of Women’s March.

The comparative quiet contrasts sharply with the white-knuckled fury of the inaugural rally as massive crowds shouted demands over megaphones and marched in pink pussyhats in response to Trump’s first election win.

“The reality is that it’s just hard to capture lightning in a bottle,” said Tamika Middleton, managing director at the Women’s March. “It was a really particular moment. In 2017, we had not seen a Trump presidency and the kind of vitriol that that represented.”

The movement fractured after that hugely successful day of protests over accusations that it was not diverse enough. This year’s rebrand as a People’s March is the result of an overhaul intended to broaden the group’s appeal. Saturday’s demonstration promoted themes related to feminism, racial justice, anti-militarization and other issues and will end with discussions hosted by various social justice organizations.

The People’s March is unusual in the “vast array of issues brought together under one umbrella,” said Jo Reger, a sociology professor who researches social movements at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Women’s suffrage marches, for example, were focused on a specific goal of voting rights.

For a broad-based social justice movement such as the march, conflicting visions are impossible to avoid and there is “immense pressure” for organizers to meet everyone’s needs, Reger said. But she also said some discord isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“Often what it does is bring change and bring in new perspectives, especially of underrepresented voices,” Reger said.

Middleton, of the Women’s March, said a massive demonstration like the one in 2017 is not the goal of Saturday’s event. Instead, it’s to focus attention on a broader set of issues — women’s and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration, climate and democracy — rather than centering it more narrowly around Trump.

“We’re not thinking about the march as the endgame,” Middleton said. “How do we get those folks who show up into organizations and into their political homes so they can keep fighting in their communities long term?”

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Ontario’s police watchdog says it is investigating after an officer shot a man in Camden East on Friday evening.

The Special Investigations Unit says provincial police were called to a home in the community outside of Napanee at about 5 p.m. for reports of a disturbance.

The agency says officers tried to speak with a man, who came out of the home carrying an “edged weapon.”

They say two officers fired anti-riot weapons at the man, and a third officer shot him with a gun.

The man suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that’s automatically called in to investigate reports of injury, death or allegations of sexual assault involving police.

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Canadian colleges and universities are responding to a cash crunch brought on by Ottawa’s cut to international student permits with layoffs, hiring freezes and service reductions, say people in the post-secondary education sector.

A year ago, the federal government announced a 35 per cent reduction in study permits — bringing the number down to an estimated 360,000 for 2024 — one of the first major reductions in Canada’s permanent and temporary immigration targets.

International students pay much higher tuition fees than their domestic counterparts. Post-secondary institutions across the country are still struggling to fill that hole — and to decide which programs and services they can live without.

Council of Ontario Universities president Steve Orsini said that schools in his organization, which includes 20 of the province’s top universities, expect a combined loss of $330 million this fiscal year and $600 million in the upcoming fiscal year.

“It’s had a profound negative effect on the sector at a time when Ontario universities are facing significant financial challenges,” Orsini said.

“We’re seeing across-the-board cuts in programming and services, layoffs, hiring freezes, deferred capital investments. We have nine student residence projects … that have either been cancelled or delayed.”

British Columbia Federation of Students chair Jessie Niikoi said students are seeing cuts and reductions to services “across the board,” including reductions in library hours and services and reduced access to academic advisers.

“The work that we do is going to continue in terms of advocating for more funding, especially now more than ever, and I think institutions need to take that step in terms of advocating for more funding because we’re seeing the system get worse and worse, one budget cut at a time,” Niikoi said.

Tuition rates vary across the country but international students consistently pay significantly more than domestic students.

Domestic tuition at Toronto Metropolitan University ranges from around $7,200 to $11,000 for undergrads. International students taking the same courses pay roughly $35,000 to $40,000.

At the University of British Columbia, most domestic undergrads pay around $5,900 for their first-year courses. International students in the same programs pay about $47,000.

Roughly 19 per cent of Ontario university students are from outside Canada, said Orsini.

He added that the loss of tuition revenue from international students is being compounded by Ontario’s tuition freeze for domestic students and by operating grants that don’t keep up with the cost of running universities.

“So universities really are facing a perfect storm. All three funding levers have been cut and frozen,” he said.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said the international student system was set up to attract talent to fill key roles in the labour market, but he had to make the cut because the program got “overheated.”

As for the funding challenges facing universities and colleges, Miller said that’s not the federal government’s problem.

“I didn’t tell any university or college to charge international students four or five times what we charge domestic students. That isn’t my role in this,” Miller told The Canadian Press in late December.

Both the B.C. and Ontario governments put more money into post-secondary institutions following the introduction of the international student cap.

B.C. announced a 24 per cent increase for post-secondary institutions in that province’s 2024/25 budget, bringing the total to $3.12 billion.

Ontario launched a three-year sustainability fund for universities and colleges, valued at $903 million, and committed to maintaining the provincial tuition freeze.

The number of international study permits for those two provinces was essentially cut in half with the international student cap.

A report by Higher Education Strategy Associates says tuition from Indian students alone contributed more to funding Ontario’s post-secondary institutions than the provincial government.

Orsini said that with Ontario’s stability funding expiring in a little over two years, and the tuition freeze remaining in place for roughly the same amount of time, more cuts are expected.

Miller acknowledged the international student cap is a “blunt instrument” to address “bad actors” in the education system. The minister said these are primarily for-profit career colleges he compared to puppy mills.

While Miller doesn’t have jurisdiction over funding for post-secondary institutions, he said the business model of many post-secondary institutions needs to change.

“So that’s not a healthy business model, and it’s one that Ontario in particular needs to address quickly,” Miller said.

“They’re feeling it now that their institutions are in a bit of trouble and that’s unfortunate for a sector that prides itself on being one of the best in the world.”

Niikoi said she wants to see the provincial and federal governments boost funding for the post-secondary sector to set up the next generation of workers for success.

“We’ve seen declining enrolments ever since the announcement happened, and I think on the national side Canada is no longer a desirable place because of the announcements,” she said.

“Nothing can happen unless (the provincial and federal) governments work together, and we need the government to act now so we have that reliable funding for public institutions, and we don’t have to rely on international student numbers or their tuition for funding.”

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Liberal member of Parliament Karina Gould is throwing her hat in the ring to be the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Gould, 37, became the latest person to announce their candidacy for Liberal party leadership Saturday afternoon, less than an hour after former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland also announced she was running.

Both Gould and Freeland announced their bids to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader in short social media posts.

In her announcement, Gould acknowledged the need for the Liberal party to earn back the trust of Canadians.

“We need to rebuild our party so that we can keep building our country. We need new leadership to fight for everyday Canadians,” Gould said. “A leader who understands what people are going through and works every day to make their lives better.”

In her video, Gould spoke about the pride of being a Canadian amid comments from the incoming U.S. president that Canada should become an American state.

“We are a strong, hard-working and caring people who do not back down from fighting for what is right. Canada can be the best place in the world to start a family, grow a business and build a future,” she said.

Gould is a three-time member of Parliament for Burlington, Ont., and was first elected in 2015. She has served as leader of the government in the House of Commons since 2023

Before becoming the government’s House leader, Gould served in several ministries, including as president of the Queen’s Privy Council, minister of democratic institutions, minister of international development, and minister of families, children and social development.

Before her election, she worked as a trade and investment specialist for the Mexican Trade Commission in Toronto and as a consultant for the Migration and Development Program at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.

Gould lives in Burlington with her husband and two children.

With the birth of her son, Gould became the first woman federal cabinet minister to give birth while holding office.

Along with Gould and Freeland, the other candidates for the top Liberal job are former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, Ottawa-area MP Chandra Arya and Former Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis.

—with files from Global News’ Uday Rana

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