When's the cold/snow coming?

It had looked a couple weeks ago that the cold in the west would be migrating here next week and beyond.  However, western/northern Canadian seems to be loving this cold and refusing to let go.  As a side note, Hudson Bay is freezing up the fastest in over 5 years.   So the pattern looks to be continuing a transistory nature over the next 10-15 days, alternating cold and mild periods.   However, the longer term is trending toward colder (more normal) in the east in a stormy pattern in the second half of the month.  So hopefully we all can do some tobogganing with the kids in the Christmas break.