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3 LiquorMarts.ca Gift Ideas for Cannasseurs Gift Cards Available! Stashlogix Silverton 1-827 Dakota St | 204 -224-7391 Monday-Saturday: 10 am-10 pm | Sunday: 10 am-6 pm Citywide Daily Delivery | Order Online at delta9.ca NEW STRAINS ARRIVING WEEKLY! Be organized, safe, secure, and discreet! The Silverton is smell-proof and lockable. Available in-store and online. Available in Small, Medium and Large Have yourself a scary little Christmas. Stephen King's Elevation ($18 at McNally Robinson Booksellers) should get a rise out of horror fans. A mystery illness strikes Castle Rock resident Scott Carey, who is also engaged in a battle over dog poop with the next-door neighbours, a lesbian couple who have their own problems getting a local business off the ground. While you're in the book aisles, a classic ghost story makes a nice Christmas present. A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Books, by Charles Dickens, revisits Scrooge, along with The Chimes (A Goblin Story), The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. Various editions run about $12-$14 at McNally Robinson Booksellers and Chapters Indigo. Superstitious types might have balked at setting out to find the Northwest Passage on the good ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus (named for the Greek god of darkness), both lost during the Franklin expedition in the mid-1800s. Monty Python's globe- trotting storyteller Michael Palin undertakes some major explorations of his own in Erebus ($37 list price), recounting the ship's entire history, right up to its doomed final voyage and the subsequent discovery of its wreck in the Canadian Arctic in 2014. Moose stew and partridge pie may appeal to some home cooks, but DIY recipes for cough drops and soap — and tips for stocking post- apocalypse (or post-blizzard) bunkers with things like canned bread, beef jerky and pickled port butt — are the real draw of cookbook Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse: Another Cookbook of Sorts, by the Montreal restaurant's proprietors, Frederic Morin, David McMillan and Meredith Erickson. List price is $50. By now, all Winnipeg grownups should know the story of Winnie the bear, the little cub adopted by First World War soldier and veterinarian Capt. Harry Colebourn during a train stop in White River, Ont. Named for Winnipeg, the little company mascot grew up at the London Zoo, where she inspired A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Colebourn's great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick and co-author Josh Greenhut recount the tale, with fictional elements, for kids ages 8-12 in Winnie's Great War, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (with whom Mattick collaborated on picture book Finding Winnie). The book includes photos from the Colebourn family archives. List price is $18 and you'll find it at bookstores as well as at the Assiniboine Park Zoo's Wild Things gift shop. BUY THE BOOK

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