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If you ever wanted to hear Har Mar Superstar try to pronounce "Degrassi Junior High," or listen to a techno remix of "O Canada," or reinforce your pre-existing feelings for Ellen Page, here's your chance: in the Crappy Holidays team video above, Justin Long, Har Mar Superstar, and Kathryn Aagesen (don't worry, we had to Google her too) prepare a Canadian Thanksgiving feast for—or is it with?—Ellen Page. And her eggo is preggo...with comedy!

SPORTS: The Toronto Maple Leafs take on the St. Louis Blues this afternoon. Ideally, the Leafs will see better results than last Saturday's game, but we're not keeping our hopes up. Air Canada Centre (40 Bay Street), 1 p.m., $44.61–$401.51.

Photo by dviousto from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Global warming revealed its benevolent side yesterday as Toronto recorded the hottest Thanksgiving Day ever. Screw you, polar bears and drought-ravaged farmers—we got patio weather in October!

Here’s hoping you bagged yourself a nice turkey for this Thanksgiving weekend. While we’re talkin’ turkey here, Torontoist is already savouring this hearty holiday meal. Turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, assorted veggies. Just remember to save room for dessert: a slice of pumpkin pie topped with whipped cream.

It was curtains in Orange County last night as FOX’s golden child threw its final punch.

In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving has come to be known as Black Friday, during which retailers offer huge discounts and usher in the Christmas shopping season. Not to be outdone, the chic anti-chic magazine Adbusters introduced its own event on the same day: Buy Nothing Day. And while American Thanksgiving is limited to the United States (for now), Adbusters assures us that Buy Nothing Day should be celebrated globally.

If, like Torontoist, you spent the first third of the fall season desperately clinging to the last brittle twigs of summer, you may have awoken this morning, panicked that the best of autumn has already passed you by. They gave away the pumpkins last week. Thanksgiving is over, and you were too busy pretending to enjoy that last windblown, patio beer to even notice. What of your dignity? Why did you not cling to that instead, you may be asking yourself?

The best places to find gourds and wild corn are harvest-themed events, but they don't usually happen in the centre of the city. Luckily, Harvest Family Fun Day at the Brick Works smack-dab in the middle of a valley in the middle of the city (that's so L.A.). In addition to a farmer's market, there will be sculpture creating, quarry exploring, eating, drinking, music, and yes - free pumpkins*.

This year, the city that moves on Canada Day quite sensibly threw what may be the country's best indie culture fest over Thanksgiving weekend. Now in its fifth year, Pop Montreal took over the indie city from the 4th to the 8th like a clever NXnE that's actually fun for bands and the public to go to.

A hint to the cuisinarily-challenged: the Fairmont Royal York hotel offers a special Turkey to Go for 4, 8, or 12 people on Thanksgiving at extremely reasonable prices ($115-$295). It's Thanksgiving dinner just like mom used to make...if your mom is a mega luxury hotel chain.

As the summer slowly makes way for what seems to be an early fall, pretty soon we'll all spend more time huddled around the fireplace for the... holiday season. That's right... Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa are just around the corner, and the family is coming over to your place for dinner.

What a metaphor: America is bleeding. Or, "Those bleeding Americans!" Either way, it's American Thanksgiving. In the US. On College Street.

Spotted on the street outside The Senator Diner on Victoria Friday night: Publicist Gino Empry's car. Gino may "belong to the stars," but he still gets parking tickets like the rest of us apparently, since there was a sheet of the dreaded yellow paper under his windshield wiper. More distressing than the ticket, however, were the four, count 'em four, bobble-heads on the dashboard. How, you may ask, did Torontoist know that it was G. Empry's car parked there? Do we memorize the makes and models that all Torontonian happiness gurus drive? No, the license plate was a dead giveaway: G. Empry.

Happy Thanksgiving! If you're going to a Thanksgiving Dinner and want to pass off a store bought pie as your own what follows is Torontoist's blind taste test of three pumpkin pies. We asked a lanky librarian with a golden palate to assess pies brought by three different guests to determine which pie was to be served. Here are his findings:

and this promises to be a helluva to-do. Victoria's Immaculate Machine are also on the bill, which has an early start time of 6:30PM.

And it only got more best when TOist performed a cursory search for related small town sponge thefts. Writers have been having a field day with 'a famous actor has been kindnapped' theft stories in Hornell, St. Cloud, and Brainerd. Where is Marge when you need her?

Chalk it up to American Thanksgiving, or maybe the NHL lockout, or even Anna Nicole Smith's 37th birthday (today! all the best, Anna), but this weekend got really big all of a sudden.