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1. Dance Review | George Balanchine's 'The Nutcracker': Reveling in Winter in All Its Warmth

   Watching New York City Ballet’s “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” I marveled anew at its sheer mastery of stagecraft.

2. Dance Review: The Joffrey Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' at the Kennedy Center

   Chocolate from Spain was nobody's candy bar -- when she unfolded a leg into the air in an arabesque as steely as a matador's sword, you could have set a tea tray on it. Valerie Robin's heart-stopping performance in this cameo role in the Joffrey Ballet's "The Nutcracker" Thursday night at the Ken...

3. They think they can dance - The Nutcracker

   The top two contestants of the TV talent show So You Think You Can Dance Canada join the National Ballet of Canada onstage on Saturday in its matinee performance of The Nutcracker in Toronto.

4. Dance Review | 'The Nutcracker': The Crowd at the Traditional Holiday Party, With a Few Guests Taking New Roles

   This performance had eight dancers with debuts in new roles, including corps members and a longtime principal, Darci Kistler, and a retired one, Jock Soto, as Frau and Dr. Stahlbaum.

5. Dance: The Best ‘Nutcracker’? Online Voters Pick a Familiar Dysfunctional Work

   The results are in for Ovation TV’s second annual “Battle of the Nutcrackers.”

6. Dance: At City Ballet, Revolving Casts Show ‘Nutcracker’ in Different Lights

   For balletomanes part of the pleasure of this “Nutcracker” is the company’s habit of occasionally dropping young corps de ballet dancers into leading roles.

7. Arts, Briefly: Canadian Dance Troupe Struggles to Stay Afloat

   Ballet British Columbia has proposed a restructuring plan to its creditors that it hopes will keep it out of bankruptcy.

8. Canadian housing starts held steady in September

   Canadian housing starts held steady in September, but with noticeable weakness in Ontario and worries about national shakiness ahead.

9. Canadian immigrants unprepared for election: poll

   A majority of Canadian immigrants feel they don't have enough information to vote with confidence in the upcoming federal election, a new poll concludes.

10. Late fiddler leads Canadian folk music nominees

    The late fiddler Oliver Schroer, who died this past July of leukemia, leads the field of nominees at this year's Canadian Folk Music Awards.

11. Canadian soldier seriously wounded in Afghanistan

    A Canadian soldier is in serious but stable condition after being struck by small arms fire in southern Afghanistan, the military confirmed. The soldier has not been identified.

12. Big Canadian banks snub BoC interest rate cuts

    Major Canadian banks are not passing along the Bank of Canada's half-point cut to the lending rate and instead are cutting their prime rates by just a quarter of a percentage point.

13. Germans arrest Iranian-Canadian over trade embargo

    German authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian citizen on suspicion of breaking a trade embargo with Iran by selling them technical equipment.

14. Contract problems nixed Canadian GP: F1 boss

    Montreal was dropped from the 2009 Formula One schedule because of contract problems, according to F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone.

15. Canadian coach Mitchell won't reach out to Brennan

    A day after Jim Brennan announced he would no longer play under Dale Mitchell, the Canadian national team coach said he has no intention of reaching out to the veteran defender.

16. Review: Australian Ballet/ Bangarra Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells

    Ismene Brown sees Stravinsky lost in the dust of 40,000 years

17. Seat Ibiza SC makes cinema debut

    The new Seat Ibiza SC has made its big screen debut in an irreverent cinema ad. The advertisement, which is set in the desert, features a host of Seat's top racing drivers pushing, shoving and sprinting in an effort to

18. Canadian banks the soundest in the world: report

    In the midst of a global market crisis, a survey by the World Economic Forum has proclaimed Canada to have the world's soundest banking system.

19. Crisis still threatens Canadian economy: Flaherty

    Canada's finance minister is warning Canadians that they are not immune from the global financial crisis as it threatens to dry up credit.

20. Canadian teen hacker reveals secrets in tell-all book

    A Canadian computer whiz who hacked into some of the world's most prominent websites when he was just 15 years old revealed in a new tell-all book that he was motivated by a so-called "hacker war."

21. Top 20 take the stage by storm on 'Dance'

    After weeks of anticipation, the finalists on 'So You Think You Can Dance Canada' perform before a live audience for the first time.

22. Giant screens are in, spending money on crazy stuff is out

    With the U.S. economy in the toilet and the world facing increasingly uncertain times while we select the next president, it's good to know you can still go out and buy an array of 12 24-inch monitors for 13,000 bucks. On Wednesday, CineMassive announced the OmegaPlex, an "...

23. Icelandic woes, U.S. meltdown pose threats for Canadian seafood companies

    The Canadian seafood industry is battling crises on two fronts, as it copes with Iceland's collapsing banking system in the east and a plummeting restaurant market to the south.

24. Canadian researchers call for end to 'politicization' of science

    A group of Canadian scientists signed another open letter on Thursday, calling on political parties to end to what they see as the "politicization" and "mistreatment" of science.

25. Canadian banks ranked soundest in the world

    Canada has the world's soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found as a financial crisis and bank failures shake world markets.

26. Fortier seeks meeting to save Canadian Grand Prix

    Federal International Trade Minister Michael Fortier says he is seeking a meeting with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone to try and save the Canadian Grand Prix for 2009.

27. Canadian cross-country skiers get Norwegian coach

    The Canadian cross-country ski team has hired Arild Monsen of Norway to coach Olympic medallists Chandra Crawford and Sara Renner and the rest of the squad heading into the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

28. Observations: This is how to dig dance

    Forget swans and tutus, Dance Umbrella are taking contemporary dance where it's never been before, using a really big mechanical digger.

29. SEAT Ibiza SC Cinema Advert Shows a Bird

    Despite the funny imagery of the pompous racers being beat down to the dirt, the clip never comes full circle by revealing the glamorous female driver. Thank goodness for the press release...

30. Canadian soldiers seize Taliban weapons, supplies

    Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan have seized a series of major Taliban supply depots containing everything from winter clothing and medical supplies to bomb-making equipment and anti-tank weapons.