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Challenge invites children to go offline for a day

An upcoming challenge is inviting children to go offline for 24 hours. It comes as new evidence links scrolling and 'liking' to a negative impact on children's mental health.

Bella Peretz, 12, spends four to five hours on her cell phone every day and is taking part in the challenge.

Watch her story and learn about the challenge in CTV News Montreal journalist Olivia O'Malley's report above.  

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Here is Canada's unseasonably mild December forecast

December is predicted to be unseasonably mild across Canada, thanks to a "moderate-to-strong" El Nino and human-caused warming. Warming and precipitation trends will be stronger in some parts of the country than others, and severe weather is still possible, meteorologists say.

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