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Because news with Gavin Crawford. Why hello everyone! Thank you and welcome to Because News Canada's funniest news quiz. I am Gavin Crawford along with a panel that has been approved by both the Prime Minister

and Alberta. Sorry BC, we don't care what you think. In the first chair Doug Ford yelled at him to find a job, so he reluctantly showed up here.

Ready to work the news, it's Chris Siddiqui. Yes! Woo! I got it, John.

Unemployed. And she just found out Campbell Soup is made for poor people, and yet she still can't afford it. From the Girl Historians podcast is Carly Thorne.

No, please. Ice cube soup for me. And finally, they showed up thinking this was a Black Friday sale.

it is not, but they still managed to snag a cheap Roomba. From CBC's bookends, it's Mateo Roach. Yeah! Woo!

Welcome Mateo. Thank you for having me. All right, panel, are you ready to make some games out of the news?

Yes, sir. Yes. Sir, yes, sir. Let's get to it.

Here we go! Yeah! Panel, it's time for a news clue. That's right, this week's clue

comes in the form of a promo for a new holiday special. Have a listen to this clue and see if you can suss out the news story that inspired it. Christmas time.

Wow. Yes, that's right. You've heard the promo for the brand new special Law and Order Christmas Intent. What Christmas crime was making headlines in Canada this week? Well, the Nutcracker has a legal status, so he got taken away by ice.

No, but good guess. Thank you. Carly? that Rudolph was mining for blood diamonds.

Pfft. Mateo, what was the Christmas crime making headlines? It's been a very heist heavy news cycle, right? We had the Louvre heist, the mastermind by Kelly Reichart, great film about an art heist

is also out in theaters. And this, it kind of seems like an accidental heist because I don't know what the resale value of this was. But like the sets of ballet Jorgen's nutcracker production got stolen.

You were correct for the point. Yes, the great Nutcracker set heist happening in Ontario. The Toronto Star headline reads, police crack case of missing Nutcracker sets,

mere hours before showtime. Whoa, just hours, this is like wow. Tense 24 hours earlier this week, thieves stole a rental truck full of sets

belonging to a touring production of the Nutcracker. Uh huh. Which begs the question, on purpose? Yeah, like maybe they opened it

and they were like, we've got something good. And then they're like, damn. Look at all these sugar plum fairies. Get them back to the boss.

Get those candy canes. No, it's very Scooby-Doo. It's very Scooby-Doo. Way more Scooby-Doo.

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The sets are nut free because of the woke mom. Nice. Good guess, no. Matthea?

No, because every production of the Nutcracker always wants to say, but our production is unique. And I'm like, is no one just doing the original Nutcracker? Now I sound like the conservatives,

like, won't somebody stand up for the traditional Nutcracker? You can't even say Nutcracker anymore. But it's like, because the National Ballet also says this. So we're not like the other Nutcracker productions.

I'm like, what other Nutcracker productions are there that you're comparing yourself to? I have no idea. Apparently there's this one that is touring around right now

and the backdrops, the special Nutcracker backdrops are 10 meter reproductions of paintings by the group of seven. Oh, okay.

That's actually really cool. That's awesome. Yeah, I like that. This show is called the Nutcracker,

a Canadian tradition. Aside from the group of seven sets, what else makes this nutcracker super Canadian? The incorporation of ganang chicken bones

into the choreography. Oh. That is a good guess. Chris, what makes it Canadian?

Colin Mockery comes out and does improv with the sugar plum fairies. Ha ha ha ha. Also a good guess.

The production is set in Algonquin Park in 1912, and there is a lot of nature. Here is the ballet director, Bent Jorgen. So we have bears and loons and frogs

and everything that lives in Northern Ontario are in the production. Biker gangs. Yeah.

And sprinkle minerals that need to be exploited to build the Canadian economy. Loons, there's tungsten. The people's party of Canada.

They're up there. Nickel. The big nickel, yeah. Shania Twain.

She and I, Twain, isn't, no. The truck was stolen from a parking lot before the show was to begin its performances in Burlington, Ontario.

The ballet company vowed to dance on, even without sets or props. Oh, yes. The artistic spirit.

One intrepid father of one of the show's woodland creatures even volunteered to step up in a big way. What did this father volunteer to do? Just like a dog the bounty hunter style

track down, track down the thieves. I will find them of a very particular set of skills. I find no tracker sets.