Lifestyle

Residents are invited to celebrate the holiday season with free public skating as more than 100 free skating sessions are available at city arenas during the holidays. Greater Sudbury is sponsoring free skating Dec. 24 from 10:00 am to noon.

Tickets are now on sale for the eighth annual IMAX Festival at Science North, featuring Spider Man 2 and Batman Begins on the very big screen.

If you are feeling ill or hungry on Christmas Day, where can you go? Plaza 69 Pharmacy at 1935 Paris St. in the Four Corners of the city's South End is the only pharmacy open Christmas Day. Its hours are noon to 5 pm.

Northern Life's editorial staff must have been more naughty than nice in 2006. The only Christmas card we received from a politician came from Nickel Belt MP Ray Bonin. His card featured the Parliament Buildings.

The CPR Holiday Train, which has been rolling across Canada, and  the Northeastern and Midwestern United States since Dec. 1, ended its run Tuesday (Dec. 19) with final stops in British Columbia.

(CNW) A new study indicates financial pressures coupled with the strain of "doing more" during the holiday season are placing already stressed Canadians under considerably more strain.

Northern Life in co-operation with the Sudbury Heart Health Coalition publishes a monthly column about health matters.

Do you dream in chocolate? Chef Brad LeBoldus does. LeBoldus, 37, has been fascinated by chocolate all his life. "I have been absolutely obsessed by chocolate, I had to have one every day.

Short Fiction BY COLIN HAYWARD At first, Margaret had assumed she was dreaming the sound.

WINNIPEG - Fighter pilots Capt. Forrest Rock and Lieut.-Col. Patrice Laroche, of 3 Wing Bagotville and Capt. Dan Walters and Maj.