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Some stories set the world on fire. And these ones are the most popular online stories from the past seven days, clicked on by Sun readers like you.

Here are our top stories:

‘BOTTCHER BOMBSHELL:’ Alberta curling foursome set to move forward without skip

One of Canada’s premier men’s curling teams announced earlier this week that Brier-winning skip Brendan Bottcher was on the market for a new team, just 18 months before the Olympic curling trials.

Team Bottcher just wrapped up its second season as a foursome, and while teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant looked like an absolute powerhouse on paper, that doesn’t always translate into results on the ice, Ted Wyman reported.

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Kennedy, who admitted they aren’t the easiest team to lead, revealed that they had to ask themselves, “Is this the current lineup that’s going to go out there and win some big championships?” and admitted they had some “question marks.”

KINSELLA: Is this, at long last, the result of multiculturalism?

As Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, what was happening in Toronto? The pro-Hamas cabal were firing off smoke grenades downtown and celebrating Iran’s act of war.

Warren Kinsella asked: Is this what multiculturalism has wrought?

There was a time when newcomers to Canada — whether they be immigrants, refugees or the Canadian-born children of immigrants or refugees — were encouraged to preserve their unique cultural traditions here in Canada, wearing a keffiyeh and waving a Palestinian flag, if they wanted to.

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In exchange for supporting multiculturalism, many, like Kinsella, asked for just one thing in exchange: Obey our laws. Be civil.

Embrace that most Canadian of principles: peace, order and good government.

The vast majority did — but that all changed on Oct. 7, 2023.

Canada is a country of immigrants, and that shouldn’t change.

But the ones who come here to spread hate? They need to kick rocks.

CHAUDHRI: Termination of RBC CFO raises questions

In case you missed it, RBC CFO Nadine Ahn was let go last week after an internal investigation uncovered she had been in a relationship with a vice president in the bank’s treasury department.

While that shouldn’t be a big deal, it turned out that Ahn allegedly influenced the VP’s promotions and pay raises.

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Legal analyst Sunira Chaudhri advised in her column that “engaging in a relationship at work is something to be avoided.”

Yet it still happens.

And while some workplaces tolerate and sometimes even celebrate personal relationships, in the case of the RBC CFO, there can be a dark side attributed to office shenanigans.

LILLEY: Gold heist was an inside job with connection to gun smuggling

On April 17, 2023, $20 million worth of gold and roughly $2.5 million in banknotes of various foreign currencies were stolen after being transported on an Air Canada flight from Switzerland destined for TD Bank in downtown Toronto.

On the one-year anniversary, Peel Regional Police revealed that the largest gold heist in Canadian history was an inside job and detailed who was arrested — and who is still on the lam.

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The robbery was only able to happen, according to police, thanks to two Air Canada Cargo employees working with the driver of the getaway truck, Brian Lilley reported.

The driver showed up with a waybill for seafood that had been picked up the day before, a waybill that had been printed off inside the Air Canada Cargo facility — and then, bam.

So far, only $89,000 worth of the $20 million of stolen gold was recovered.

The investigation is ongoing, as is Brink’s’ lawsuit against Air Canada, citing negligence and carelessness on the part of the airline.

LILLEY: Peel District School Board goes political with Nakba Day on calendar

Stephen Lecce has a message for the Peel District School Board: Stop with the divisive politics.

The province’s education minister reached out to officials at the board to tell them to reverse course on including Nakba Day on school calendars of days to commemorate.

The full name of the day in Arabic is Dhikra an-Nakba – meaning Memory of the Catastrophe – which is a day set up to denounce the creation of the State of Israel, to denounce and mourn Israel’s very existence, Lilley reported.

Should a day denouncing a fellow democracy, calling its existence a catastrophe, be recognized in any school system in anyway?

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