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For such a jolly fellow, Santa Claus sends a grim message: Get on my bad side and you鈥檙e off the gift list. At best, you鈥檒l get a lump of coal.

A friend recalled the great Jimmy Breslin鈥檚 concept of recounting people for whom he no longer had any time. It strikes me as a healthy, cleansing way to close out the year. So here鈥檚 a 鈥�2013 List of People With Whom I Am No Longer on Speaking Terms.

A friend rings me in December every year and warbles, 鈥淪anta baby, slip a sable under the tree for me.鈥� Her sometime-Eartha Kitt, sometime-Madonna Material Girl imitation morphs into one of a 10-year-old requesting a hippopotamus for Christmas.

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Regardless of our faith tradition, this is a very special season of the year.

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In an abbreviated fall sitting, the House of Commons sat for just 34 days. Every one of them was a bad day for the Conservative government, except for the throne speech opening the new session, when there was no question period.

Over the past several years, the federal government has amended the Criminal Code so as to create a dizzying array of mandatory minimum sentences for offences ranging from marijuana production to firearms possession.

Yesterday, I said that I was going into weigh-in blind, and so I did. It is said that Odin, father of the Norse gods, sacrificed one of his eyes to drink of the Well of Urd whose waters imparted the knowledge of the cosmos.

Auditor general Russ Jones is the first to admit that, for any number of reasons, he couldn鈥檛 get fully to the bottom of the plea deal that saw two corrupt government aides walk away from their $6.4-million legal bill.