Q. Is a newspaper delivered to North York on Shabbos Muktzah?
A. Presumably Gentiles printed the newspaper after the onset of Shabbos. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that it is not considered nolad or something new created on Shabbos, since the paper was already in existence prior to the printing. As it is likely that the printing operation was carried out mostly for Gentiles, within the t'chum of the Larger Toronto area and there is also an Eruv in the city, in principle the non-business and non-financial sections of the newspaper are not muktze. (see Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchoso 31: 24 for a similar ruling). However one should dedicate Shabbos for spiritual purposes and Torah learning.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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