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Kids been bugging you for all the new shiny toys in-store and on tv? Nows the time to get them to finalize their essays on what they’d like and send them off to Santa!
The Santa Letter-writing Program brings joy to children from across Canada and around the world. In addition to giving many children their first introduction to letter writing, this program is also a very important part of the holiday season for thousands of Canada Post employees and retirees.
Currently, more than one million children write to Santa at his ‘NORTH POLE H0H 0H0’ address. Each letter that includes a return address receives a reply from Santa.
More than 11,000 current and retired Canada Post employees, affectionately called Postal Elves, help Santa to ensure that every child’s letter gets an answer in the language in which the letter was written, including Braille (emails are answered in English or French).
Encourage your children and students to write to Santa. It is a fun learning experience that helps teach kids how to write and send a letter. To ensure that children will receive a reply from Santa before Christmas, they should write as early as possible. Remember to include your return address. Teachers are urged to send their classroom letters by December 3.
Although Santa loves to receive letters and drawings, putting cookies and treats in your envelope is not a good idea as they will get crushed and damaged by the time they reach Santa. Santa much prefers to eat his treats on Christmas Eve, so please have your children save them at home for the big day!
Click here for more information at Canada Post.
Just in case you didn’t know, we have a Canadian Stores & Products Reviews Section on SmartCanucks for you to express yourself so that you don’t end up doing like the angry Spartan in the picture above 😉
It’s been updated with new reviews:
Please feel free to submit a review by going to the Reviews Canada Section and filling out the “Submit Your Review” form.
Remembrance day is this Thursday November 11th. I am seeing more and more Christmas displays popping up everyhwere. Now it’s never a surprise that Wal-mart starts decorating the day after Halloween as they are about the mighty dollar.
Here it’s pretty standard not to decorate for Christmas until after Remembrance day out of respect for our fallen heroes, Vets & people that have/are serving for our country. It’s easy enough to understand that Christmas joy (for those that celebrate) shouldn’t outshine Remembrance Day. Interestingly enough I have yet to seee a Timmies Holiday cup, yet Starbucks felt the need to relase theirs ahead of time.
Do you think Starbucks should hold off like Tim Hortons appears to be doing? Do you decorate before Remembrance day? I would love to hear your opinions.
Pic Source: Flickr
So, I’m just wondering. What would you do for a Klondike bar? Myself? Honestly I wouldn’t do much as I am not a fan of thin frozen chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Yes, I’m a freak of nature, this I already know. But theoretically what crazy stuff would you do for one? Swim in freezing water? Go streaking? Let’s have some fun it’s Sunday night and boring.
So pretending that I like Klondike bars I would drink the entire liquid in a 500ml jar of pickles.
I will randomly draw one response tomorrow at midnight and send them a $25 gift card for Loblaws to buy a few boxes of Klondike bars. (Must be Canadian, 18+, valid email yada yada)
Yes spoil sports I know this isn’t a deals post. But Sc, is about fun too!
*Winner is “Shake It” (like a polaroid picture?) post number 68. Please check your email for instructions. Thanks to everyone who participated, I read all of the comments and they were absolutely hilarious. I highly recommend if you haven’t gone through them you do ASAP.
Looks like the Sears.com team has been getting a bit creative with their awesome Halloween Prank! I love it!
Unfortunately Sears.ca’s team probably lacks the creativity to do anything that awesome.
Click here to check out Sears.com Zombies
I think the above ad is brilliant! If you don’t get what Axe are referring to check out the Old Spice commercial.
Let the cologne wars begin 😀
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I was having an argument with my Mom and Grandma over this today. I’m sure this honey jar is in the shape of a dog but Mom argues that it’s a bee: Billybee. Grandma thinks it’s a bear!! 
Which one is it? What do you guys think?
This is so touching 🙁
Hopefully one day soon we’ll find a cure to cancer.
This year I’m in charge of bringing dessert to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. I know that two of the most beloved Thanksgiving desserts are pumpkin pie and apple pie. Here is where the problem lies: I love pie but these are the only two pies that I dislike. What am I gonna do? Bring a dessert that I won’t eat? Another problem: I don’t know how to make pie! Well enough about my personal problems. What I really want to know is, which pie do you prefer? Pumpkin or Apple? Maybe both?
Postscript: I know this is not a post about deals/coupons/freebies etc. I am aware of that and no need to point it out. Thank you and have a Happy Thanksgiving to all!
If you’ve never had a chance to read The Wealthy Barber, you should probably drop everything you’re doing right now and go hunt down a copy. David Chilton’s 1989 book about personal finance is the definitive guide to common sense savings, paying down debt, and everything else the a money-conscious SmartCanucker should know. What’s more, unlike most personal finance books it’s written in a friendly and accessible way.
“Ok Jim, it’s a good book. But why are you bringing it up more than 20 years after publication?” Because The Wealthy Barber is coming back! David Chilton will be publishing a brand new book discussing how best people can tackle in their finances today, and it’s coming out in the Summer of 2011 — The Wealthy Barber Returns: Significantly Older and Marginally Wiser.
Want a taste? The Toronto Star just published an excerpt from the book, and it’s available on their website. There’s also a great recent interview with Chilton here.
GoJays Posted this gem in our Tea Room on the forum the other day. It is one of the funniest virals I’ve come across the net in a while. It’s a You Tube video called “Tipp Experience” It’s about a guy and a bear. Thats all the leaks i’m giving. (Other then try soccer, dancing, sleeping, shoot are cute ones to try.)
Click here to check out this hilarious video.
I hope even for at least a second this put a smile on your face. 🙂
(yes I know its not a deals post)
After almost 2 years of me collecting upc-barcodes cut from the packages of many products, mostly including Pampers and Reach, Futura Rewards has decided to discontinue there mail-in tally sheet and grocery program. I know there is a lot of Smart Canuckers that collect and trade them in the trading section that will be affected but this change. So trade the last of your upc’s fast so that the ones collecting can have there tally sheet mailed in by October 15th for the last time.
Click here to view the discussion thread.
Thanks to loveblue for the post.
Regarding the Tight squeeze, woman cheesed by obese person on Porter Airlines flight post…
SmartCanucks is a consumer oriented blog and this was a very consumer based issue. It’s really sad that people were offended and many asked me to delete the post. We are slowly losing our freedom of speech in this country without even knowing it.
I VERY RESPECTFULLY presented this problem. Having family members who are obese I totally understand that obesity can sometimes be out of our hands and is not always related to poor diet and exercise. I did not once attack obese people in my post. Please read it again.
I’m usually very stressed out during flying because of a terrible experience I’ve had in the past on one of my trips. The psychological stress I go through although not physically apparent, is terrible. The last thing I want to worry about is having to share my seat with anyone. Call me selfish if you will but if I paid for a seat I expect to have my whole seat. The seats are already tiny as it is! So I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Some of the more educated responses in that blog post were actually very enlightening! For instance I really liked Sarah’s response:
As a Woman’s Rights advocate in Canada, I have to say the entire situation is shameful, especially considering the numerous people who posted without considering the larger issue: society; For some, obesity isn’t just due to eating an extra large hamburger, or not exercising, it can be a disease, genetics, or many other issues. Society needs to stop creating things made for a specific womyn and start manufacturing things for all womyn!!!! For instance, at 9 months pregnant right now, I couldn’t use an airplane or bus washroom… Actually, I feel cramped at my 5′1″ 110lbs. body in there prior to being pregnant!!!
If we want either of these ladies to have justice, we would need to look at the larger picture: Why aren’t there seats designed for those who might not fit, or can’t fit into those tiny seats?? It’s an economic thing, the more people the company can squish into the airplane (meaning more tiny seats, less seats that can comfortably hold people) the more money they can make. Of course, if the lady had went to the airport AFTER the fact, the airline probably decided she couldn’t have been THAT uncomfortable to have made the flight, and the company already had made the money…
When put into that perspective, can you blame either lady? I know I can’t!
If we discuss these issues then airlines are more likely to make the seats bigger or add a special service to help out obese people. But if we shut up and pretend nothing is wrong nothing happens!
Once again, I did not try to discriminate against obese people. The fact that some people were offended by my posts offends me. Some people will use the “offended” excuse whenever obese people are mentioned WITHOUT even reading or understanding the argument being presented.
So now is the moment of truth. You guys will decide whether or not the porter airlines blog post will remain on SmartCanucks or get deleted. I’ll let you decide what kind of censorship you want on SmartCanucks. If people don’t want to have these kinds of discussions on SmartCanucks then I won’t post them anymore.
Should I delete my “Tight squeeze, woman cheesed by obese person on Porter Airlines flight” post?
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