19 h. ago Adventures in Streaming: Ghostly viewing just in time for Christmas

The notion of ghosts at Christmas time inevitably compels us to think of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol but the Yuletime ghost story has a rich past that goes well beyond Dickens, certainly in Britain. The tradition of telling “scary ghost stories” — to quote the perennial song It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the […]

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3 d. ago You can rent the Ontario house where a holiday classic movie was filmed

Everyone has a favourite Christmas classic they watch this time of year: Home Alone, The Holiday, Die Hard, the list goes on. If The Santa Clause happens to be your comfort movie, you could spend a few nights at the house it was filmed in.In the 1994 comedy, Tim Allen plays a typical suburban dad whose life gets flipped upside down when he accidentally becomes the new Santa Claus. Although the movie is set in fictional Lakeside, Illinois, filming actually took place in Oakville, Ont. The house used in the movie is located at 17 Chisholm St. Remember that scene where the real Santa fell off the roof to make Tim Allen's character become the new Mr. Claus? That's the house. Not as iconic as the Home Alone house, some would argue, but the Oakville community seems to take pride in this little slice of movie history.For the past six years, homeowners have been listing The Santa Clause house on Airbnb. It's described as a "luxury townhouse" with tw...

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5 d. ago Canucks Live: Expansion cousins Sabres hit town for last game at Rogers before Christmas, more Hughes misery, worst GM of all time?

After this game the team heads out on a five game road trip, known as the Quinn Hughes showcase tour

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1 week ago Brownstein: Christmas Fund comes at critical time for those in need

In 1967, reporter Bob Hayes organized a food and clothing drive that started decades of giving. Now the desperation is "like we haven't seen before."

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1 week ago How to end homelessness 'one person at a time': Help the Christmas Fund help many

Calgary organizations help unhoused to break the cycle of homelessness.

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2 w. ago Adventures in Streaming: A House of Dynamite isn’t the first nuclear annihilation film, but it’s the newest

When it comes to apocalypses, Hollywood has generally been more interested in what happens afterward than the down-and-dirty of the actual event that led to destruction. From George Miller (Mad Max), to George Romero (Dawn of the Dead), movies are fixated on the brutal antics of the human race after the nuclear holocaust/zombie outbreak/pandemic has […]

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