Despite the dearth of replies here on FT
the doodle seems to indicate that there is some interest in this - we're up to seven replies so far. The leading dates were Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, Dec 21/22/23 ... but whoops, I just messed the Doodle up.
The initial Doodle had a default time zone of Afghanistan for some reason ... and although it's not really a big deal, I just changed the meeting time zone to Toronto - and that seems to have reset everyone's entries. Sigh. Sorry y'all ... if you had previously entered a response, please return to the doodle and update it again.
In terms of location for the do ... in previous years the preference has been for a downtown bar, so that's my assumption for now. I can take the lead on making a reservation for somewhere once we have a date nailed down ... but if anyone has any preferences for a specific location then please suggest it below.