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No Holiday Is Complete Without These Songs and Movies

Natasha Koifman | Posted 02.17.2013 | Canada Living
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Natasha Koifman

The holidays are a time for many kinds of traditions. Whether it's the lighting of the menorah or the trimming of the tree or reuniting with friends too long unseen. And, of course, this is a time of year for watching movies and singing songs. And while we spend a lot of the rest of the year chasing the next "new thing," around the holidays, most of us revisit our old favourites... watching movies that take us back to our childhood.

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Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" More Timely Than Ever

Glen Pearson | Posted 02.19.2012 | Canada
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Glen Pearson

As the number of those trapped in poverty swell there will be a growing yearning in society to show that poverty is systemic and not personal and one of their main allies will be Charles Dickens. People who refuse to lift themselves from their circumstances are one thing; those trapped in confining events despite all their best efforts are something else entirely and they make up the critical mass of those increasingly on the margins of society.

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The Timelessness of A Christmas Carol

Mike Morrison | Posted 02.20.2012 | Canada Living
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Mike Morrison

Like Scrooge himself, I need to go back in time in order to understand my appreciation of the story. Long before cell phones, Buffy and fully receded hairlines, I once played Tiny Tim in a touring production of the show with Theatre New Brunswick.

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