2021 in review: December

December may not be over yet, but it sure was eventful as families filled their days with festive cheer.

Winnipeg Christmas Light Map 2021 highlighting festive homes

A Winnipeg Christmas-lover helped families check out the best-decorated homes for another year.

Carol Cassel dedicated another season to creating a brand-new Christmas light map. Helping other people enjoy the holiday season "fills her cup."

Complete list of Christmas movies made in Winnipeg - 2021 edition

Family classics like Beethoven's Christmas Adventure and new Hallmark romances like About a Kiss Before Christmas have something in common.

Christmas movie lovers will notice something familiar about many Christmas films - Winnipeg. Dozens of Christmas movies have been filmed in the prairie city, including new titles for 2021.

WATCH: Man plays praise music on piano in home destroyed by tornado

A video has gone viral of a man playing his piano in the midst of devastation following deadly tornadoes in the U.S. over the weekend.

Jordan Baize of Bremen, Ky. sits at his piano playing in a room without a roof and rubble littered around him. Baize lost his home in the tornadoes that spanned across nine states, and his family was there on Saturday helping him go through belongings.

WATCH: Kidnapped missionaries in Haiti escaped and used the stars to find freedom

Details have emerged on how missionaries being held captive in Haiti made a daring nighttime escape and made it home in time for Christmas.

There were 12 missionaries remaining in captivity after 17 were kidnapped after visiting an orphanage. Five of the missionaries had already been released, when the remaining ones decided to make a daring escape.