5 Things You Need To Know For December 16, 2025

December 16, 2025 5:55 am Published by Chris McLeod

December 16th is the 350th day of the year. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday at the Chatham branch.

Stop by today to see The Man Who Invented Christmas.

Movies start at 2 p.m.

Santa has one more stop in Chatham-Kent before his big trip next week.

The Thamesville Santa Claus Parade is this Friday.

The parade will start from the corner of Wallace and Mary St., at Thamesville Area Central School. It’ll travel Mary St. to Ann St., Ann St. to Jane St., Jane St. to Lemuel St., Lemuel St. to London Road, London Road to Ann St., Ann St. to Sherman St. and Sherman St. to Wallace St.

Canada Post has released their holiday shipping deadlines for 2025 for local, regional, national and international deliveries.

If you want to send packages within Canada for the holidays, Canada Post’s shipping deadlines depend on whether items are going to a local zone, regional zone or national zone and how you’re shipping them.

For local deliveries, here are the deadlines:

Regular Parcel — December 19
Expedited Parcel or flat rate box — December 22
Xpresspost — December 23
Priority — December 23

The deadlines for regional deliveries are:

Regular Parcel — December 16
Expedited Parcel or flat rate box — December 18
Xpresspost — December 23
Priority — December 23

If you’re sending a package nationally, you’re too late if you were sending regular or expidited, these are Canada Post’s holiday deadlines:

Xpresspost — December 22
Priority — December 23

If you’re sending packages to anywhere in the U.S.:

Xpresspost USA — December 1-

When it comes to cards, the holiday deadlines are much simpler; The deadline is December 19 if you’re sending cards locally, December 18 for regional deliveries, and December 17 if you’re sending cards across the country.

Another chance to become a multi-millionaire tonight. Since there was no winning Lotto Max ticket on Saturday, the jackpot stays at $80 million.

This is the fourth time the jackpot has grown to $80 million since early in 2024. The last time someone won the jackpot was on October 28th, when a $40-million ticket was sold in Grey County.

There will be an estimated 21 Maxmillions prizes, worth $1 million each, are also up for grabs. Lotto Max is $5 per play and draws take place every Tuesday and Friday. Tickets are available online or in store until 10:30 p.m. on draw nights.

Last night’s Powerball jackpot was at an estimated $1.1 billion US – and no one won!

Wednesday nights draw will be worth $1.25 billion. It’s just the 12th to cross the $1 billion threshold in the past five years.

Tomorrow nights draw is at 10:59 p.m.

Merriam-Webster has named its 2025 Word of the Year — and it’s “slop.” As in A.I. slop.

They define it as low-quality digital content churned out in bulk by artificial intelligence. And let’s be honest — from sloppy writing with bad facts to those weird videos your dad shares on social media, A.I. slop is everywhere.

Merriam-Webster says they picked the word because it perfectly sums up the problem in just four letters, even adding that it sends a message to A.I.: sometimes, you’re not that intelligent.

Other words that made the shortlist include gerrymander, touch grass, performative, tariff, and Dictionary.com‘s word of the year “six seven”.