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Classic recipes make the holidays extra special ...

Most wrapping paper is not recyclable and many gifts can’t be returned. This is only the start of why many people consider Christmas to be the biggest waste-producing holiday around.  People are becoming more environmentally aware than ...

Christmas has been a bittersweet time for Karena VanKippersluis and her family since her mother and father died just days apart nearly a decade ago. Margaret and Tony had owned and operated the Rocky Mountain Christmas Tree U-Pick farm in ...

Whether you follow table etiquette to the letter or prefer to welcome your guests in a more casual manner, the key to low-stress entertaining is organization. If you want to be able to sit down with your guests instead of panicking in the kitchen, ...

On the Bright Side You either love them or hate them, but fruitcakes are here to stay, especially at Christmastime. I’ve been relatively neutral where fruitcake is concerned and I had never made one, even with my family history of ...

I’d been saying for years that I wanted to create dedicated Christmas scrapbooks. You know, books that only contained a few pages per year and you could flip through every single family Christmas in one swoop. I’d forgotten, apparently, ...

It’s a Christmas tradition Burgeo Academy teacher Jenn Vatcher did not practise herself as a child growing up in Burgeo, but she knew lots of people who did. “We live in my husband’s grandfather’s 100-year-old house,” ...