Canada's Greenest Christmas Ever?

It's beginning to look a lot like ... April?

We're just three days away from Christmas, and across this country, there's a decided lack of snow on the ground. Here in Toronto (boo! hiss!), for example, it's a balmy 6 C with nary a flake in sight. According to Environment Canada's venerable David Phillips, though, it's not just soft-palmed, latte-sipping Torontonians missing out on snow, but just about every major city in the country. So-called "white Christmases" mean that there's two or more centimetres of snow on the ground on Christmas morning, and usually, some 85 per cent of the country gets one. Cities that won't be having them this year include Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, all of Southern Ontario, Vancouver, Victoria, and even those cities stuck out in the blisteringly cold Prairies – Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Edmonton. Quebec City will likely have one, and Ottawa has a chance, but beyond that, it's slim pickings for snow angels and snow men on Christmas day. It's shaping up to be the greenest Christmas in the 56 years that Environment Canada has kept track of them, so to all those people heading to Mexico or the Caribbean to enjoy their holidays somewhere warm, you just wasted a boat load of money.