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With the holidays right around the corner, the Christmas Cheer Board has announced they have close to 500 left over hampers.

The Cheer Board says when they looked at numbers back in November, they decided to order more than necessary out of an abundance of caution.

Cole Perfetti recorded three points and Connor Hellebuyck made 19 saves for his 41st career shutout in a dominant win over Central Division rivals in Winnipeg on Saturday night.

The Jets were unwelcoming hosts for the Minnesota Wild, putting up two goals in the first period. Nikolaj Ehlers opened up the scoring for the Jets at 6:51 on the power play, with Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey picking up the assists. Ehlers has now logged a goal and an assist over the two games since his return from an injury that sidelined him for nearly a month.

A British Columbia community's "out-of-the-box" plan to ease its family doctor shortage by hiring physicians as city employees is sparking interest from across Canada, says Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi.

The mayor said the community has hired its first family doctor for a city-operated medical clinic, and the Victoria-area city is looking to hire seven more under the first-in-Canada pilot project.

The family doctors will be paid as community employees, receiving full medical benefits, vacation and a pension, he said.

An "overheated" immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview.

The system, he said, needed some discipline to get the country back on track.

Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound. 

There's a hefty bass guitar and a cello made of moose antlers, a baseball bat violin, ukuleles made of cookie tins, and guitars fashioned from pitch forks, a shovel, and a rake.

His personal favourites? A frying pan mandolin and a banjo made of a motorcycle tire rim, covered by stretched deerskin painted by his late wife. 

A residential parking ban put in place earlier this week has been lifted.

Crews worked around the clock since Wednesday evening clearing priority 2 and side streets.

Any missed streets can be reported to 311. Crews will address any missed streets in the coming days.

Now that the plowing operation has been completed, the annual winter route parking ban has resumed. Parking is prohibited on designated snow routes daily from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.

Any parked in violation may be ticketed and towed.

Skating enthusiasts can now enjoy more rinks at The Forks as all of the on-land skating trails and rinks that make up Winter Park at The Forks are now open. 

The rinks under the canopy by The Forks Market and CN Stage have been flooded, groomed, and prepared for visitors, along with over 1km of skating trail. 

While there are different locations that have opened, the Nestaweya River Trail is yet to open. Trained crews have started testing and flooding the Port Rink but The Forks reminds everyone to stay off the rivers until they have been opened to the public. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is adding eight fresh faces to his cabinet in a shuffle today, though they may not have much time in those new roles after all.

Just before Trudeau moved to shore up his front bench Friday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh declared he is finally ready to vote down the government and attempt to trigger a snap election in the new year -- though Parliament won't return for a month and he may not get that chance until March.

The New Democrats will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring down the Liberals in the next sitting of the House of Commons, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Friday.

In the latest blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's struggling Liberal government, Singh wrote a letter address to Canadians in which he doubled down on his call for Trudeau to resign but also said the NDP will vote to bring down the government, regardless of who is at its helm. 

It’s a familiar tale with a Winnipeg twist: evicted from their hut in downtown Winnipeg, two children go off looking for a rich family to live with, all while avoiding their evil landlord. 

That’s the premise of Hansel and Gretel in Portage Place: A Merry Crip-Mas Panto being presented this weekend by Sick and Twisted Theatre. It’s the second annual pantomime production being presented by the company, which aims to provide performance opportunities to local artists with disabilities.