“Without them, I wouldn’t have a Christmas,” says Alfred McLean, Montrealer who is receiving holiday baskets filled with food and clothing that the MUHC Foundation staff put together for patients and their families. Pamela Pagano reports.

An anonymous complainant is speaking out for the first time about alleged abuse at the hands of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The person, known only as John Doe, claims he was drugged and sodomized by the embattled music mogul nearly two decades ago.

“Important to reward the organizations working in the field,” said Malado Woury Ka, Communications Advisor for the Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission, about the 36th edition of the Rights and Freedoms Award ceremony. Adriana Gentile reports.

Ahead of the Fall Economic Statement on Monday, the federal Finance Minister declined to talk about how big the deficit will be. Instead, Chrystia Freeland now says the more important figure is Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio.