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TORONTO — Greater Toronto home sales rose 11.5 per cent last month compared with December 2022 as the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says it expects 2024 to bring a rebound in activity following a year plagued by unaffordability.

MONTREAL — Quebec authorities say the father of a one-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert earlier this week was charged today with abduction.

CALGARY — Defenceman Oliver Kylington has taken a step closer to rejoining the Calgary Flames. The NHL club said Thursday that Kylington has been assigned to the American Hockey League's Calgary Wranglers for conditioning.

VICTORIA — British Columbia is seeking public input on how it helps disaster evacuees, in the wake of the province's worst wildfire season on record.

CALGARY — Police say one person is dead and two others injured after a home invasion in Calgary. They say officers were called Thursday morning to a house in the city's northwest for reports of a home invasion.

Montreal Canadiens centre Christian Dvorak is out for the season with a torn pectoral muscle, the team announced Thursday. The Canadiens say he will undergo surgery on Friday.

VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s founder has criticized the Vancouver-based apparel company's diversity efforts in a new interview.

Inter Miami CF has traded Canadian international defender Kamal Miller to the Portland Timbers in exchange for US$625,000 in general allocation money and a 2024 international roster spot.

REGINA — A Regina court has heard a Saskatchewan legislature member charged with seeking to obtain sexual services plans to proceed through the alternative measures program.

TORONTO — Barclays says it has appointed Ryan Voegeli as its head of investment banking for Canada. Voegeli comes to the bank from CIBC Capital Markets where he was head of global diversified industries in the investment banking group.