For more than 40 years, Canada Post workers have helped Santa Claus deliver up to 1.5 million letters per year. Though this holiday season, the Canada Post labour stoppage has put the decades-long tradition on ice.
It’s a reality that hits hard for a small town like Port Hope, Ont., where celebrating the holiday season is a point of pride. So, they’ve found a way to ensure the children’s letters get to Santa.Inside the Capitol Theatre, production director Katherine Smith admits with a smile that in Port Hope, “we really lean into Christmas.”
As it turns out, the town of Port Hope is determined to ensure that each child in their community has an opportunity to take part in the age-old letter tradition. The mailbox, which has been painted red and white, with glitter and a North Pole sign, will be outside Capital Theatre for the entire holiday season, ready and waiting for children to come far and wide, to slip their wish lists into the box. From Port Hope to the North Pole, the season will go on. The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop.
Armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya's coast, a humanitarian aid group said Friday.Man facing 10 charges after Richmond, B.C., crime spree Gio Petti put together a documentary on OC Transpo, asking how we got here. How did a city that was once lauded as an example of how to do transit right, and that boasted some of the highest per capita transit ridership numbers in the country, become a system that now elicits so much frustration from users?As the Canada Post strike enters it's third week with no end in site, many Canadians are wondering if their Christmas wish lists will get to the North Pole this year.Eliminating $1.
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