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UN climate talks extended as island countries demand action

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CBC News
Weary officials from almost 200 countries faced another day of negotiations at United Nations climate talks to bridge their last remaining differences as small island countries on Friday demanded an ambitious stance against global warming.
The talks in Poland were supposed to end Friday but Michal Kurtyka, a senior Polish official chairing the negotiations, told delegates they would resume talks on a revised draft text at 4 a.m.
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TSX closes at two-year low on concern about slowing Chinese economy

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Category: Economic
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
TORONTO - Canada's main stock index ended another losing week with the market closing at a two-year low on concerns about a slowing Chinese economy that drove oil and natural gas prices lower.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed down about one per cent, losing 155.28 points to 14,595.07, the lowest closing price since November 2016.
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Parents warned after student's drugs tested positive for fentanyl in Delta, B.C.

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
DELTA, B.C. -- Parents in Delta, B.C., have received an urgent notice after a student's drugs tested positive for fentanyl.
The joint message from the Delta School District and police department says the pills were bought illicitly and labelled as Xanax, although the pills are fake and are not the drug that is commonly prescribed for anxiety.
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Think winter means no more ticks? Think again

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
A hunter in the Maritimes was recently walking outside when, unbeknownst to him, he stumbled upon a tick nest. Despite the winter weather, the ticks were alive – and hungry.
“He described having hundreds of ticks on him,” said Dr.
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Mueller: FBI is not to blame for Flynn's false statements

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
WASHINGTON - The special counsel's office is pushing back at the suggestion that the FBI acted improperly in its interview of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Flynn's lawyers said in a sentencing memorandum this week that Flynn was not warned during his interview with the FBI that it was a crime to lie to federal agents.
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Chinese-Canadians have varying reactions to Canada's handling of Huawei case

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
VANCOUVER -- As an international story about a Chinese tech executive wanted by the United States began unfolding from a Vancouver courtroom, the phone lines for a local Mandarin-language radio program began lighting up.
AM1320 host Sunny Chan said calls have doubled to his afternoon program after Meng Wanzhou's arrest Dec.
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EU leaders approve small steps to buttress euro currenc

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Category: Economic
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
FRANKFURT -- European leaders agreed Friday to press ahead with work toward a limited, common eurozone budget and took other steps to strengthen the currency union's resistance to downturns and crises.
The budget proposal leaves its size undefined and it appeared to fall short of more sweeping ideas pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Crown fights to keep government documents secret in Mark Norman trial

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
OTTAWA -- A Crown prosecutor says Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's motive for allegedly leaking government secrets to a Quebec shipyard and the media doesn't matter because doing so to unduly influence the federal cabinet would have been illegal.
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Questions raised over retailers who shame shoplifters with photos

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
A Newfoundland sex store's social-media shaming of an alleged shoplifter has raised ethical questions over retailers who display security footage to catch thieves.
Provincial privacy commissioner Donovan Molloy has reportedly encouraged businesses to take the footage to police, rather than share images of people who have not been found guilty of a crime.
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Vancouver animation team the 'heart' of new 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'

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Category: Entertainment
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
VANCOUVER -- The animation team behind the new movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" knew it had to be different.
"I think we all knew that the first question we'd be asked out of the gate is why are we making another 'Spider-Man?"' said Joshua Beveridge, head of character animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks, with a laugh.
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'Both things are true:' Science, Indigenous wisdom seek common ground

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Category: Tech & Science
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
The berries tasted different. The blueberries and cranberries didn't look the same either.
When elders from Fort McKay near Alberta's oilsands went to their traditional picking areas, things just didn't feel right. They knew something was off.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating Trump inaugural committee: reports

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, December 14, 2018
CTV News
NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the finances of U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and whether foreigners contributed to its events using straw donors.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that prosecutors in New York are investigating whether some of the committee's donors made contributions in exchange for political favours and access to the Trump administration-- a potential violation of federal corruption laws.
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