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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	1	-	$35.4M
The Mule	2	-	$17.21M
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch	3	2	$239.29M
Ralph Breaks the Internet	4	1	$154.46M
Mortal Engines	5	-	$7.5M
Creed II	6	3	$104.88M
Bohemian Rhapsody	7	5	$180.42M
Instant Family	8	6	$60.22M
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	9	4	$151.65M
Green Book	10	7	$24.66M
Once Upon a Deadpool	11	-	$322.38M
The Favourite	12	12	$6.74M
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2018)	13	-	$1.9M

billboard top rock

1	Panic!AtTheDisco:High Hopes
2	Marshmello&Basti:Happier
3	ImagineDragons:Natural
4	lovelytheband:Broken
5	Mumford&Sons:GuidingLight
6	twentyonepilots:MyBlood
7	floracash:You'reSomebodyElse
8	TheRevivalists:AllMyFriends
9	Shinedown:GetUp
10	TheInterrupters:She'sKerosene
11	TheGloriousSons:S.O.S.(SawedOffShotgun)
12	Muse:Pressure
13	Godsmack:WhenLegendsRise
14	Disturbed:AreYouReady
15	Badflower:Ghost
16	lovelytheband:TheseAreMyFriends
17	BadWolvesFeaturingDI:HearMeNow
18	BillieEilish:YouShouldSeeMeInACrown
19	Weezer:Can'tKnockTheHustle
20	YoungTheGiant:Superposition
21	Ghost:DanceMacabre
22	ElleKing:Shame
23	BringMeTheHorizon:Mantra
24	The1975:LoveItIfWeMadeIt
25	DeathCabForCutie:NorthernLights

slashdot

-	Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies
-	Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse
-	Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges
-	The Last Independent Mobile OS
-	Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding

sportsnet

-	Inside Mikko Rantanen’s rise to the top of the NHL scoring list
-	Maple Leafs ‘not making good decisions’ on power play
-	Building Brock: Canucks star Brock Boeser’s journey to the NHL
-	Barkov completes hat trick in OT, Panthers beat Maple Leafs
-	Arsenal’s 22-game unbeaten run ends after loss to Southampton

canoe

-	Jennifer Lawrence: I never had sex with Harvey Weinstein
-	Restaurant in Japan explodes; Dozens injured
-	Almost every part of President Donald Trump’s life is under investigation
-	‘DON’T WANT TO BE ON THIS EARTH’: Police visit ‘SNL’ star after Instagram post
-	1 dead, 44 injured in Switzerland bus crash

cnet

-	Delivery robot catches fire on UC Berkeley campus
-	Fortnite was the most important video game of 2018, whether we like it or not
-	Tech that died in 2018
-	This flexible Ninja coffee maker does so many cafe tasks
-	The iPhone XR in blue looks stellar under a macro lens

reuters

-	Qatar considering increasing its stake in Deutsche Bank: Handelsblatt
-	Regulators need joined up thinking to spot derivatives risks: BIS
-	Canadian regulator to fine Glencore-controlled miner over Congo: WSJ
-	Qatar Petroleum to invest $20 billion in U.S. in major expansion
-	Indonesia, EFTA sign long delayed free trade deal

cbc

-	Most Canadian employees are ready to quit their jobs, survey finds
-	20 years after coming out, Mark Tewksbury reflects on life as a gay Olympian
-	Cameras in a plastic surgeon's office: The Marketplace consumer cheat sheet
-	Cat accidentally shipped to Montreal in parcel reunited with N.S. family
-	Some cauliflower, red and green lettuce sold in Canada recalled after U.S. investigation

space

-	A nuclear-powered 'tunnelbot' to search for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa
-	See a passing comet this Sunday
-	Video: Enjoying the Geminids from above and below
-	Virgin Galactic tourism rocket ship reaches space in test
-	Preparing for discovery with NASA's Parker Solar Probe

science daily

-	Jiggly Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
-	Wiring diagram of the brain provides a clearer picture of brain scan data
-	Treatment shown to improve the odds against bone marrow cancer
-	A damming trend
-	Geneticists make new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined

new scientist

-	Home Futures review – what living spaces teach us about our culture
-	The secret site in England where beavers control the landscape
-	The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators
-	Coal power emissions in the US are even higher than we thought
-	Breathing in moon dust could release toxins in astronauts’ lungs

Sun Dec 16

Mainly cloudy
high: 1 c

Mon Dec 17

Chance of flurries
high: 0 c
pop: 70%

Tue Dec 18

Sunny
high: -6 c

Wed Dec 19

A mix of sun and cloud
high: -1 c

Thu Dec 20

Chance of flurries or rain showers
high: 1 c
pop: 40%

Stocks

TSX	14595.10	-56.10 (0.38)
S&P	2599.95	-29.73 (1.14)
DOW	24100.51	-307.53 (1.28)
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INTC	47.86	-0.03 (0.06%)
AAPL	165.48	-3.52 (2.13%)
CIEN	34.55	+0.10 (0.29%)
NXPI	77.57	+0.12 (0.15%)
QCOM	57.62	+0.06 (0.10%)
TSLA	365.71	-9.29 (2.54%)
AMZN	1591.91	-46.09 (2.90%)
NFLX	266.84	-4.97 (1.86%)

Word of the Day

vitiate

verb (VISH-ee-ayt)

1 : to make faulty or defective : impair

2 : to debase in moral or aesthetic status

3 : to make ineffective

"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." - Tom Nolan

science blog

-	Climate researchers to world: Wake the hell up
-	Hubble finds distant planets are vanishing at record speed
-	Researchers identify pathway that drives sustained pain following injury
-	Scientists pinpoint metabolic pathway behind age-related immunity loss

Born on this day

- Arnold van Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
- George Santayana, Spanish philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
- Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
- Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29)
- Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar
- Arthur C. Clarke, English sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End), born in Minehead, England (d. 2008)
- Anthony Simmons, British writer and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms), born in London (d. 2016)
- Gail Harris, Dewsbury England, actress (Virtual Desire)

Weather fact of the day

On this date in 2000, a band of late-season tornadoes struck several areas in Alabama. Twelve people were killed in a trailer park near Tuscaloosa when the worst of the twisters ripped through the area.

Today in History

- Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - in the final battle of the war Korean navy decisively defeats the Japanese
- German troops evacuate Finland, give over Kiev in the Ukraine to revolutionary forces and pull back from Estonia as Bolshevik forces move in
- Don Bradman makes his cricket 1st-class debut for NSW v South Australia
- Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
- TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
- Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
- Georg Peter Weimar, composer
- John Frederick Hartranft, American politician, 17th Governor of Pennsylvania (1873-1879), and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1889)
- Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia
- Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and director (The Emigrants, Persona), born in Tokyo, Japan