Eastern Canada's Christmas blizzard continues. The cops got tired of cars hurtling into each other in the white-out and closed Highway 401 west of London yesterday afternoon, and at midnight all non-emergency vehicles were ordered off all roads in Perth County.

Today's Toronto Star featured front-page coverage of travel misery, including more than 100 vehicles involved in collisions on a particularly busy stretch of the 401, and eight loaded VIA Rail passenger trains stuck on the tracks between Montreal and Toronto. A tree blown over in the high wind fell on the Toronto-bound train from Ottawa, marooning it in the countryside near Cobourg for more than 18 hours.

If the storm doesn't let up, music at church this Christmas will consist of unaccompanied singing. The organist lives in London, and somehow I don't think St. James's Anglican is quite ready for guitars.