The virtual train ride that whisks you away to the North Pole.

The 38th Signal Regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces set up its gear in a kindergarten class at St. Margaret School in Thunder Bay, Ont., giving kids a direct line to the Big Guy himself. CBC's Matt Fratpietro was there to take it all in.

Christmas came early for kids in Uranium City, Sask. Santa Claus flew to the most northern part of the province, bringing holiday magic to children in the former mining community.

Around 130 children and their families were treated to a transformed United gate at the airport into a full North Pole experience.

Thomas Müller and the Vancouver Whitecaps are set to battle Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami this weekend for MLS’s top trophy. The final is being billed as a battle of the league’s two top stars, but at the start of the season few expected...

Saskatoon is getting into the Christmas spirit with the annual Santa Claus parade, which will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16.

The Santa Claus parade is returning to Toronto for its 121st year, despite a funding shortfall. The organization says it the funds to make it happen, but is not "out of the woods" just yet.

Friday marked the time-honoured tradition of the Gold Cup Parade in Charlottetown, but what makes the annual Old Home Week event so special? CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin walked the route to find out.

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There’s a lot of social media buzz about teatoxes, but doctors and dietitians say that the need to help your body detoxify is a myth. We boil down the science and find that people using some teatoxes may just be flushing their bowels,...

CBC's Eli Glasner and John Northcott discuss some film classics that fit, sometimes in an oblique way, the Yuletide genre

Christmas Island, N.S., usually only serves a small community, except around Christmas, when people from around the world send in their letters for some extra Christmas spirit

Norad's Santa Tracker is an annual Christmas tradition. But it all started when a straight-laced military man decided to be a good sport in response to a newspaper typo that prompted kids to call his top-secret hotline

CBC's Reg Sherren reports on the Christmas tradition that began in 1955

'Santa's been preparing for this day all year long ... this is his top mission that he must get done today,' says Lt.-Cmdr. Richlyn Ivey

You might meet Santa Doug over the Holidays in Kensington. Few knows he didn't always lived a kind life.

Annual show features school of 20,000 sardines

As part of a viral marketing campaign, WestJet launched a day of "12,000 miracles." Behind the scenes, the day included a chance encounter with Great Big Sea's Alan Doyle.

We take you behind-the-scenes of this year's WestJet Christmas ad and take a closer look at why emotional advertising is so effective.

Rovaniemi, located near the Arctic Circle, is Santa's official hometown and a place where Christmas magic lasts all year. This enchanting city in Lapland, Finland, offers a fairy-tale setting with snow-covered landscapes and pine-clad...

Palestinian church leaders have cancelled public Christmas celebrations

The actor shares memories of the festive celebrations in this exclusive video

The actress shares the most fond memories of Christmas in this exclusive video!