Eleven-year-old Shahana Datta was hoping to play in the snow in her first Christmas in Canada. Instead, she's been writing to Santa to supply more of the white stuff in time for Dec. 25.

A meteorologist says most parts of B.C. will not have a white Christmas, unless snow is already on the ground. The current mild weather across B.C. — It was 9 C in Vancouver on Thursday and 6 C ...

Canada is one of just a handful of countries that routinely has decent odds of waking up with snow on the ground after Santa’s visit. But what exactly counts as a ‘white Christmas’, anyway?