Life

 

 
 
Justin Bieber
 
Seven Citizen writers look back at the surprises of 2010 and track the trends for 2011
 
 
 
 

Food

 
 
If you spent 2010 gobbling gourmet mac and cheese, and popping tiny, perfect macarons in your mouth, I have some bad news for you. Those foods are no longer trendy, and you’re going to have to stop eating them. If you are a dutiful foodie, it’s time to move on.
 
 
 
Mary Clingman really can talk turkey. She's been doing it for 25 years with Butterball's popular Turkey Talk-Line, handling callers' questions during the holiday season.
 
 
 
This Christmas, after enough negotiation to end a small war, my family has decided not to have turkey for dinner.
 
 
 
Canadians have weighed in on the "Christmas" versus "Holiday" label to describe this time of the year and there is a clear winner.
 
 

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Planning ahead for Christmas Eve dinner

An entire Christmas Eve dinner prepared in advance, frozen and reheated just hours before Santa is scheduled to arrive: It sounds like some kind of Mad Men-era ad campaign for Frigidaire, but in fact was a plan I hatched after the gruelling last-minute race I ran to get hot appetizers, a salad, a turkey, several side dishes and a warm apple crisp on the table for Thanksgiving.


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Features

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Alberta lists homosexuality as ‘mental disorder’

Alberta continues to list homosexuality as a “mental disorder” along with bestiality and pedophilia, and doctors used the diagnostic code to bill the province for treating gays and lesbians more than 1,750 times between 1995 and 2004, government records show.


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Dilbert

Dilbert

Office humour that hits a little too close to home.

 

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Solitaire

Solitaire

Our very own online version of an all-time favourite card game.

 

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Tomato Bounce

Tomato Bounce

Help the tomatoes escape the dreaded salad! Bounce them across the kitchen to the table.

 
 
 
 
 

Fashion & Beauty

Renata Morales

Fashion sets the gold standard

Time does not tarnish its allure -- it just makes the price climb higher. Gold is on a roll, having soared a breathtaking 400 per cent to almost $1,400 an ounce since 2001. And fashion has caught the gold bug, in clothing, shoes, bags and, naturally, jewellery.


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Food

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A chef serves up his holiday favourites

Executive chef Jeff Massey of Restaurant 62 in Abbotsford shares recipes for two of his favourite dishes to enjoy during the holidays.


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Parenting

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Last chances to save in 2010

If you take some time now to consider these tax planning ideas for you and your corporation, you could have more to celebrate in the new year


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Life at Home

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A  fireplace setting is the perfect way to reflect comfort and warmth,  with decor that is approachable but with a hint of glitter. For  stockings, an old-fashioned skate with pompoms and an outdoorsy deer  silhouette, both in the same muted tones of the colour palette,  anchor the ends of the mantel.

Matchsticks spark ideas for decorating the fireplace

Christmas can embolden the most hesitant of home decorators, says Sean Everett.


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