  | | |  | | | | There is still time to give and help families in need in your community. Until Dec. 31, you can make a donation and find ways to help at cbc.ca/kind. | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Kiahna Brennan says that imagination is the most important part of her life. It helps her to be hopeful and see things that she had not been looking for before. | | | | | | | | | |  | When Joy Akinkunmi signed up for a science fair two years ago, she had no idea that something she was seeing at home would serve as the inspiration for her project. The 15-year-old student saw how difficult it was for a family member with Lewy body dementia to take their medication. She hopes to one day commercialize pill dispenser for people with mild or moderate dementia. | | | | | | | |  |
Join Adrienne Arsenault and Ian Hanomansing to count down to 2025 in each timezone across the country. The live CBC News special will highlight New Year’s Eve celebrations from coast to coast to coast along with surprise moments and messages from Canadian personalities. Watch live on NYE, Tuesday, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m. / 9:30 NT on CBC TV, CBC Gem, YouTube or wherever you stream CBC. Just before the Countdown 2025, CBC's New Year's Eve lineup will begin with the hour-long 22 Minutes New Year's Eve Pregame Special at 8 p.m. / 8:30 NT on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
| | | | | | | |  | | | As it gets colder in St. John's, life gets harder for those facing homelessness, food insecurity and economic hardship. That is why Islamic Relief Canada is assembling 450 kits to help people keep warm in St. John's during the frigid winter months as part of their Winter Warmth campaign. | | | | | | | |  | Mementoes and memories are now all that remain, tucked away in the corner of Nora Gill-Peddle’s living room in the eastern Newfoundland town of Clarenville. Her husband died after a workplace explosion. She questions why more employers don’t face criminal charges. | | | | | | | |  | If 13-year-old Kryssa-Lee Yeo was nervous about missing an offside or icing call while working as a linesperson for a girls hockey game in P.E.I. recently, she needn't worry. Her sisters have her back. That's because they were on the ice too — Cassidy, 14, as the other linesperson and Brae-Lynn, 16, as the referee. | | | | | | | |  | A Cirque du Soleil show will be stopping in Saint John from Jan. 2 to 5 featuring one of the province's own renowned figure skaters. Growing up, Edmundston's Shawn Sawyer had two dreams — to compete at the Olympic Games and to be part of Cirque du Soleil. | | | | |  | | | Allan Hawco and Joséphine Jobert star in new drama Saint-Pierre as an unlikely crime-solving pair in the French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland. It premieres Jan. 6. | |  | | | A new shot-and-set-in-Nunavut series, North of North, premieres Jan. 7. It stars Anna Lambe as a young Inuk mother wanting to build a new future for herself in a small Arctic town where everybody knows her business, | | | | | | |  | Oakley Gray and Mel Beaulieu talk about the impact beading has had on their lives after their artwork was added to the Radical Stitch exhibit, which showcases Indigenous beading from across Canada and the U.S., when it opened at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery last month. | | | | | | | |  | Charlottetown's historic Province House is scheduled to reopen in the fall of 2025 after 10 years of renovations that cost more than $138 million. The project team of Parks Canada created a stakeholder advisory committee, as well as a First Nations advisory circle, to help shape the new visitor experience, to include the history of Indigenous, Black and other communities on P.E.I. | | | | |  | | | Sydney's Whale House features a rotating group of international cooks. Organizers hope the downtown dining space will bring newcomers and locals together through a love of food. | |  | | | From a recent episode of The Debaters from St. John’s N.L., comedians Ryan Dillon and Nikki Payne shed light on kitchen parties versus shed parties. | | | | |
