Canada's annual Christmas tree harvest is under way with farmers hoping that people's desire to maintain a holiday tradition will again override their worries about a slowing economy.

Households to cut Christmas gifts spending: survey (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

U.S. households could cut spending on Christmas gifts by about 11.3 percent this year, the Conference Board said on Friday, as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression erodes consumer wealth.

Meet our demands or the Christmas turkey gets it! (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Hundreds of British meat inspectors have voted to strike in a dispute that threatens to disrupt supplies of turkeys and other meat to shops in the run-up to Christmas, their union said on Friday.

PHOTO CALL: Snow Falls on Broadway in White Christmas (Playbill)

Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley, Jeffry Denman and Meredith Patterson star in Irving Berlin's White Christmas, currently playing Broadway's Marquis Theatre.

'A Colbert Christmas' rocks Comedy Central (Deseret Morning News)

Stephen Colbert's Christmas special might not be the weirdest thing you'll see on TV during the upcoming holiday season. But it probably will be.